Maria Sharapova might not have won a grand slam title since 2008, however the Russian tennis player remains unchallenged because the world's highest paid girl in skilled sports.
For the seventh straight year, Sharapova topped the annual list provided by Forbes magazine, despite failing to feature to her 3 grand slam titles, though she did build the Wimbledon final in July.Sharapova's earnings, largely off-court endorsements, were estimated at $25 million, twice the maximum amount as her nearest rival, Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki, this women's world beloved.
American racing driver Danica Patrick was third with $12 million followed by tennis players Venus Williams, Belgium's Kim Clijsters and Serena Williams.
Seven of the highest 9 feminine earners were tennis players, together with China's Li Na, who created $8 million last year however was expected to soar up the rankings and challenge Sharapova for the highest spot when her breakthrough win at the French Open.
list of Top ten women by earning.
1. Maria Sharapova $25 million -Russia, tennis
2. Caroline Wozniacki $12.5 million- Denmark, tennis
3. Danica Patrick $12 million -US, motor racing
4. Venus Williams $11.5 million -US, tennis
5. Kim Clijsters $11 million (Belgium, tennis
6. Serena Williams $10.5 million -US, tennis
7. Kim Yu-na $10 million -figure skating, South Korea
8. Li Na $8 million- China, tennis
9. Ana Ivanovic $6 million -Serbia, tennis
10. Paula Creamer $5.5 million -US, golf
Friday, 12 August 2011
Thursday, 11 August 2011
Unrest in Britten
Are they Civilized Peoples ???????
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
Pak-china relations: Pakistan seeks berth in spacecraft
BEIJING: Pakistan’s Ambassador to China, Masood Khan asserted that Pakistan aspires that one of its astronauts flies to space in a Chinese spacecraft.
“This is possible because Pakistan and China enjoy amiable relations embedded in trust and confidence,” Masood Khan said in an interview ahead of the launch of Pakistan’s communication satellite, Paksat-1R.
The satellite is due to be launched from Xichang in China in the second week of August. Paksat-1R will replace Paksat-1 which is likely to complete its useful life this year.
“Launching of a communication satellite is going to be a symbolic development in Pakistan-China relations, as this will broaden the horizons of our cooperation,”
LONDON: Three Pakistani men have been killed
Wednesday after being hit by a car during riots in the central English city of Birmingham, officials said, as witnesses said they died while trying to protect their community from looters.
he three Pakistanis have been identified as Haroon Hussain, Shehzad Hussain and Mussavir Ali. Two of the men were from Gujjar Khan, near Jhelum. Two of the men were pronounced dead on the spot and the third died later in hospital.
Witnesses and family members said the victims were Asian men and were part of a group protecting the area from looting after local people had left a local mosque.
“People came out of prayers and they were protecting the area. My friends were targeted, they were standing on the side of the road and the car just came and ran them over,” witness Kabir Khan Isakhel said.
Another witness said the incident happened after a car was set ablaze in a nearby street and youths gathered, prompting local people to defend a local shopping area.
“They lost their lives for other people, doing the job of the police,” Mohammed Shakiel said outside the hospital where the men were taken, prompting around 200 people to gather in support.
“They were protecting the community as a whole.”
Several cars drove past the group as it was guarding the stores and the occupants shouted abuse before one vehicle returned and mounted the pavement at “tremendous speed” and hit the men, throwing them into the air, Shakiel said.
Tariq Jahan, the father of Haroon Jahan, one of the men who died, told the BBC: “I’ve got no words to describe what, why he was taken and why this has happened.”
“He was a very good lad, starting at the beginning of his life. He had his whole life ahead of him. It makes no sense why people are behaving like this and taking the lives of three innocent people.”
Police said a 32-year-old man was being held on suspicion of murder. It said the victims were aged 20, 30 and 31.
“West Midlands Police have launched a murder enquiry, arrested one man in connection with the incident and recovered a vehicle nearby which will be examined by forensics experts,” a police statement said.
Britain has been hit by four nights of violent rioting. London was quieter on Tuesday night but the unrest spread to other cities including Manchester in the northwest and Birmingham.
Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Monday, 8 August 2011
Pakistanis protest against ruling party pro US policies
Saturday, 6 August 2011
Friday, 5 August 2011
Thursday, 4 August 2011
The start of Ramadan
Millions of Muslims around the world celebrate the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan.
Ramadan is the ninth month on the Islamic calendar when millions of Muslims worldwide fast from dawn to sunset. Ramadan, which changes each year depending on the moon, began this year on August 1. The breaking of the fast each day is called the Iftar, when families and communities gather to feast together. The meal starts with the eating of a single date, a tradition that originated with the Prophet Muhammad.
Ramadan is the ninth month on the Islamic calendar when millions of Muslims worldwide fast from dawn to sunset. Ramadan, which changes each year depending on the moon, began this year on August 1. The breaking of the fast each day is called the Iftar, when families and communities gather to feast together. The meal starts with the eating of a single date, a tradition that originated with the Prophet Muhammad.
1) A Muslim man in Indonesia looks at the moon through a telescope on July 31, one day prior to the start of Ramadan |
2) A man at Cairo's al-Azhar mosque attends the evening prayer, named 'Taraweh', which marks the beginning of the month of Ramadan |
3) Palestinians get ready for the month of Ramadan at occupied Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound, one of the world's holiest sites for Muslims |
4) Pakistani farmers carry harvested dates in a palm orchard in Rajankot, near the city of Hyderabad, in preparation for Ramadan. Pakistan is the world's fourth largest producer of dates, which are generally used to break the fast during Ramadan each day |
5) Women in Nigeria prepare food for sale on the first day of Ramadan in the Utako district of the capital Abuja |
6) Saudis buy and sell dates on the eve of Ramadan at a market in Riyadh |
7) Tunisians buy bread on the first day of Ramadan at a market in the capital Tunis |
8) Filipino girls arrive for prayer inside a mosque near the capital Manila |
9) The shadow of a Palestinian boy reading the Quran on a wall at the al-Omari mosque in Gaza City on the first day of Ramadan |
10) Pakistanis pray before their Iftar (fast breaking) at the Dervesh Mosque in Peshawar |
11) Women in Jakarta attend a mass prayer session marking the start of Ramadan at the Istiqlal mosque |
12) A Malaysian boy reads from the Quran inside a mosque in Kuala Lampur |
13) Indonesian men take a rest as they wait for a prayer time on the first day of Ramadan at the Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta |
14) A boy takes part in prayers at Strasbourg's new Grand Mosque |
15) An Afghan man makes sweets in a shop in Kabul in preparation for Ramadan |
16) A shop in Paris sells traditional North African sweets in preparation for Ramadan |
17) A rebel fighter prays before breaking the fast at the front line near the Libyan town of Zlitan on the first day of Ramadan |
18) A Yemeni man fires a cannon to mark the end of the first fasting day of Ramadan in the southern city of Taiz |
19) Anti-government protesters attend the Iftar meal in Sanaa, Yemen, on the first day of Ramadan |
20) People in Turkey break their first day of fasting for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan with free meals distributed by the municipality in downtown Istanbul |
21) A Palestinian boy in Gaza City plays with fireworks to celebrate the beginning of Ramadan |
22) Kashmiris perform ablutions near a fountain at the landmark Jamia Masjid during Ramadan in Srinagar |
23) People buy food for Iftar at Chakbazaar in Dhaka, Bangladesh |
24) Women break fast at King Fahad mosque in Los Angeles |
25) A man enters a mosque for evening prayers in Moscow |
Wednesday, 3 August 2011
Smallest Hand Written Holy Quran, Beirut
Hassan Abed Rabbo posed for photographers inside his home in Beirut with his unabridged version of the Muslim Holy Quran which measures just 2.4 centimeters by 1.9 centimeters.
The smallest handwritten complete version of the Holy Quran ever made. Measuring 2.4cm x 1.9cm,inherited by Abed Rabbo from his great grandmother,dates back to the Ottoman era and contains604 pages decorated with gold ink. He says is the smallest handwritten complete version of the Holy Quran ever made.
Tuesday, 2 August 2011
2012 The End of the World – Say experts, their views
December 21st 2012, the date which is going on our minds as it is reaching nearer and nearer. That we all know that something is going to be happening on December 21st 2012 which might takes us to the end of the world. But, is it really going to be end of the world? If it so, what might be happen on that day? All these questions might be going in the minds of all at one time or the other.
Based on the ancient Mayan calendar which seems to be more accurate in terms of astrology was said that in the year of 2012, the Earth will experience disasters ranging from massive earthquakes and tsunamis to nuclear reactor meltdowns. Even there were great mathematicians, who claimed that they were able to point out the exact day and time that the world will end in the future, and that is on August 13th 2012, the final day of the Mayan calendar.
The Mayan Calendar is above all a prophetic calendar that may help us understand the past and foresee the future. It is a calendar of the Ages that describes how the progression of Heavens and Underworlds condition the human consciousness and thus the frames for our thoughts and actions with in a given Age.
Aztec calendar
What might be the real? Is it on December 21st 2012 or on August 13th 2012? Who ever knows but both the scientific as well as religious beliefs are prevailing in the minds of the people on this issue. The Science, technology and the scientists behind this are saying that the Hyperspace that contain our Universe is also showing signs that something strange is happening in our universe. Even it was said that the global and solar polar reversal peaks are coming with in three weeks of that day, December 21, 2012.But according to some scientists it is possible that another Universe is slowly starting to claim in our physical Universe. And according to religious beliefs they believe the earth will be destroyed or cleansed by the wrong-doers and those that believe in their God will be saved or brought to heaven.
The astronomer Philip Plait has stated very clearly that the Mayan calendar does not end in 2012 at all, that is like the odometer on your car, as each section of the odometer reaches 9 and then clicks over to 0, the next number to it starts a new cycle, so that when all the numbers again reach 0 all the way across the odometer – the last number will change from 1 to 2 and the new cycle starts all over again.
University of Florida anthropologist Susan Gillespie says that the 2012 phenomenon comes “from media and from other people making use of the Maya past to fulfill agendas that are really their own.”
Psychedelic drug booster Daniel Pinchbeck, “My feeling of 2012 is that we don’t know what is going to be .So rather than looking at it as a Doomsday, we can see it as an opportunity to evolve and become more creative and more intelligent as a species on the planet and use the skills and technical capacities we have to engage in a very deep work transformation”.
Evangely Phelps said that 2012, what is all the hype about? Why is 2012 dubbed as the year of when the world and everything on it will cease to exist? I am not sure why or how it started until now. According to the Mayan Calendar the world will come to an end and why would you say? I have done some investigating to hopefully prove the Mayans wrong. I have also discovered how some people of the American society are making this bigger than it really is. Personally, I don’t think anything is going to happen and life will go on but here is what I have found.
Doing some research, I have discovered that there were many different Mayan Calendars. Some were used for social, agricultural, commercial and administrative tasks but had a heavy religious element to them although our calendars today are only for social, agricultural and economic views – the religious part is not a priority in our calendar system.
The Mayans then combined two calendars to make one, The Calendar Round. The Calendar Round was based on thirteen and twenty base units. The purpose of this calendar was to make it a long term calendar that had 365 days in one solar year and would last for only 5126 years. The reason why the Calendar Round is so significant in the year 2012 is because the 5126 years ends on the date of December 21, 2012. This is where all the hype of the world ending is coming from, this one date of the Mayan Calendar Round. Another phenomenon that is making society more conscious of the date December 21, 2012 is the movie 2012.
According to the Hyderabad Computer Model, Magnetic Pole reversal happens which is a process where the North Pole and South Pole reverse their positions. When this happens, at some point of time Earth’s magnetic field reaches zero where the Earth’s Magnetic power will be weaken and Cosmic Radiation from Sun will increase many folds making radiation hazards like cancer and so on unavoidable can cause the serious problems which include immune system of all the creatures on the earth might be going to weak; the earth’s crust will going to see the volcanoes, earthquakes and landslides. However, in a simple word it is said that by 2012 earth may not be suitable for human society to live. If this model is true, the only way for us to survive will be to take our civilization well below the Earth’s crust or move to another planet.
With the growth of conspiracy-theories, the level of suspicion and disbelief has grown too. But if there is a good probability that something could happen in your lifetime, there is nothing wrong in preparing for it. Any natural disorder can be faced with a sharp mind and able body, as long as you get the right information ahead of time. Even though many theories and interpretations said about what they find, the only thing that’s certain about the end of the world is that no one can know and are sure that what will happen in the coming future. It may come just like death which is uncertain and we don’t know the time of it. But people undoubtedly continue to think about when this world will comes to an end.
In 2012, it is Suggested That the Sun and the Earth Will be in Direct Alignment with the Black Hole
Big deal? Yea, kinda. . . maybe. You see, scientists speculate that magnetic shifts could take place as a result. In essence, it is theorized that the poles could reverse. The poles have shifted before and Einstein, himself, had suggested this pole shifting theory in 1955.
I’m sure many of you have heard of Merlin the Magician. Merlin was believed to be a Celtic shaman that many of his day considered a “crazed man of the forest” and during those times he was referred to as “Merlin the Wild.” But what many don’t realize is that Merlin was considered Europe’s greatest oracle or “seer.” This “crazed man of the forest” predicted that the planets will “run riot” through the constellations completely off their normal paths of rotation. Scientists speculate that if this were to happen it would be a result of the earth changing it’s rotation – or the poles shifting.
Merlin predicted that the use of “talking stones” Merlin predicted that the use of “talking stones” would be taking place during this time of planetary rioting. For those of you who don’t already know this – stone is the basis of our modern technology. Quartz stones in particular.
Quartz technology is used in cell phones as well as computers. There’s a little quartz crystal in your cell and the computer you’re reading this on right now. And that little stone is the reason you can retrieve the information stored on your computer.
Quartz stores information that can then be retrieved at a later date.
Thursday, 28 July 2011
Scariest path in the World, El Camino Del Rey
The Scariest path in the World El Camino Del Rey
El Caminito Del Rey (sometimes referred to as El Camino Del Rey) is more than a century old walkway built along the steep walls of Gorge El Chorro situated in the south of Spain. El Caminito Del Rey is one meter in width and is over 100 meters above the River. The walkway has now gone many years without maintenance, and is in a highly deteriorated and dangerous state. Some parts of the concrete walkway have completely collapsed and all that is remaining is the steel beam originally in place to hold it up.
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