The big science today...
- Thai tourist officials were left red-face and the Thai sex show owner got arrested after Rihanna tweets about her visit and underscored the bad side of Thailand.
- To fight hackers, they created cyber warriors and hostile activity from hackers spawned a growing number of corporate defenders dedicated to fight back. The US military's Cyber Command is due to quadruple in two years time with 4000 new personnel while UK announced a new Joint Cyber reserve last month. Sadly, demand for specialists has far outpaced the number of those qualified for the job at hand, leading to a staffing crunch as talent is poached by the competition offering huge salaries.
- A comic book dream come into reality? US military developing armor that allows special ops to walk through stream of bullets, see in the dark, heal wounds, and monitor vital signs, similar to the ones they saw from Marvel's Iron Man.
- For the two holidays of October 2013; the celebration of Eidul Adha on the 15th and the barangay elections on October 28, DOLE issues pay rules for two October holidays.
- Iglesia Ni Cristo is conducting a medical and dental mission to extend help to more than a million people but there are some roads have been closed to make way for the mission. Check out the quick guide to Metro Manila traffic today.
- Two million Muslim pilgrims began the annual Hajj today, heading out of the holy city of Mecca towards Mina before moving on to Mt. Arafat tomorrow. Sadly, numbers are reduced due to the fears of the MERS virus.
- Iran rejected the West's demand to ship their uranium abroad. Talks about Iran's nuclear program are due to start in Geneva on Tuesday.
- High alert people! High alert! Typhoon Tino enters PH but it won't make a landfall except cloudy skies and isolated rainshowers. Tino packs sustained winds nearing 170kph today with gusts up to 240kph. That's about as similar as the super cyclone that hit India last weekend. Some say, Tino (world name: Wipha) may hit Japan in the coming days.
- Former tester for the Marussia Formula One team, Maria de Villota, was found dead last Friday in a hotel room in her native Spain, a year after de Villota suffered a horror crash while testing Marussia’s 2012 F1 car that cost her her right eye and ended her racing career.
- The global press had been fallen victim over the hoax Jeane Napoles bathtub pic. It's the one where she's been showering with lots of cash.
- France will send more troops to the Central Republican Republic at the end of the year as part of the UN resolution aimed to end violence in the country.
- Survival drama Genesis airs on GMA-7 today featuring the theme song "Nandiyan Palagi" sung by Asia's songbird, Regine Velasquez.
- Philippine indie film, Transit, won Busan International Film Festival.
- Shocking news that there's a different kind of drug in Russia called Krokodil, a drug that eats the inner parts of the human body. That's worth a fearsome and tell you what, this is as fearsome as some zombie movies and shows you commonly watched.
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