“Facebook for android” – integration of WhatsApp and Facebook

After one year of acquiring mobile messaging service WhatsApp, Facebook has begun testing a new feature in its ‘Facebook for Android’ app that includes the first major integration of WhatsApp by adding a “Send” button on he right hand side with the familiar Whatsapp icon as part of the status action buttons that appear when…

North Chile floods : 25 dead, 100 still missing and 2700 homeless

25 people have been killed, 100 still missing,  and over 2,700 people made homeless, by disastrous floods in Atacama Desert (world’s dirtiest desert), Antofagasta and Coquimbo, in the northern regions of Chile after thunderstorms brought the equivalent of 7 years of rain in just 12 hours on March 26.  Heavy rainfall and subsequent river breaking…

South Peru bus accident kills 19 and injures 37

19 died and 37 injured in the Ayacucho, South Peru, bus accident according to Puquio-Lucanas provincial prosecutor’s office, Daniel Sotelo. The bus has fallen to a ravine 500 metres (1640feet) down. ‘It’s an area where these kinds of accidents always happen, as the area had torrential rain’ Saravia said. Rescue teams have been sent to…

Mount Sinabung erupts!

The Mount Sinabung volcano in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province erupted on Thursday 2nd April 2015, afternoon, emitting a column of hot ash 1.5 miles into the sky. Mount Sinabung is one of the 120 active volcanoes in Indonesia, which has seismic cataclysms due to its location on the ‘Pacific Ring of Fire’, where a large…