Softbank to Buy 70 Percent of Sprint

Japan based Softbank Corp is moving ahead with plans to buy seventy percent of Sprint.

It will cost them over seventy billion dollars, the largest amount ever spent by a Japanese firm to buy into a foreign one.

Sprint is the third largest mobile carrier, in the US, and Softbank is one of the largest in Japan.

The move is an important one for Softbank, as the Japanese mobile market has stagnated, whilst the US is still growing.

Since the announcement was made, Softbank stock has gone down, but Sprint and that of the companies it owns have gone up, especially that of Clearwire.

Every part of the deal should be completed by mid 2013.

Portugese Protesters Clash With Police

Portuguese austerity protests turned into a half riot Monday night.

Thousands of people in Lisbon had peacefully protested for hours, on Monday.

They were demanding that Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho cancel the newly approved budget.

By Monday evening protesters began setting fires, and then clashed with police when they tried putting them out.

Tear gas was used to clear the crowd from the area outside of the National Assembly.

The government approved the new budget, early Monday, that is one of the harshest in history for the country, and includes heavy tax increases, pension cuts, and other ways the government hopes to save money.

Portugal is working hard to rescue it's failed economy, they've already received over a hundred billion dollars in bailout money from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.

Hurricane Paul to Hit Land Tuesday Afternoon

A low populated area of the Baja peninsula is bracing for the impact of Hurricane Paul.

Paul should strike the west coast of Mexico, Tuesday afternoon.

The category two hurricane has winds over one hundred miles per hour.

It is moving at twenty-one miles per hour, and picking up speed.

Mexico issued a hurricane warning for the area between Santa Fe and Punta Abreojos.

Girl Receives 60 Lashes for Talking to Men

A fifteen year old girl in Timbuktu received sixty lashes for talking to men.

Ansar Dine currently run the city, and they do so with Shariah law.

Charges of talking to men were accompanied by accusations that she refused to stop talking with them, despite multiple warnings.

The Shariah court found her guilty, sentenced her, and had her punishment carried out.

The whipping took place in front of the Islamic police headquarters, which has been placed next to Independence Square.

German Town Evacuated Due to Chemical Accident

A chemical accident at a Kraft chemical plant caused an evacuation of part of Bad Fallingbostel, Germany.

Nearly fifteen hundred people were forced to evacuate the area, on Monday.

Hundreds of firefighters converged on the plant, and broke out biohazard gear and tents.

Focus is still on cooling the container to avoid any explosion.

Plant workers accidentally added acid to a tank of sodium hydroxide.

The resulting chemical reaction created hazardous nitrous gasses.

Cameron and Salmond Agree on Referendum Terms

Salmond, left, Cameron, right

British Prime Minister David Cameron and Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond spent Monday in heavy discussion

By the end, the two came to an agreement on terms for the Scottish independence referendum.

Under the agreement, Scotland will hold a simple yes or no vote, in 2014.

Scots from sixteen on up will be allowed to vote when the time comes.

Scotland has been part of the United Kingdom for three hundred and five years.

Ft. Collins Police Seeking Help Identifying Body

Police in Fort Collins, Colorado are asking the public's help identifying a body that was found Sunday.

It was found in the Cottonwood Hollow Natural Area, by the bank of a pond.

Estimates place it there for a couple of weeks, due to the decomposition level.

He appears to have been white, about five foot seven, between fifty to seventy years old.

The only identifying marks were two tattoos: an animal with fangs and flames on his left shoulder and an unidentifiable design on his right shoulder.


Anyone with information should call Sgt. Paul Wood at 970-224-6132.

Boko Haram Brings New Offensive in Nigeria

Reports out of Maiduguri, Nigeria have at least fifteen explosions going off today.

One of them was at the post office, at least ten people died there alone.

Another explosion hit a grade school, scorching the building, but there was no word of injuries there.

At a busy intersection, a gun wielding man walked up to a traffic officer and shot him.

The violence has caused the military to block streets and install checkpoints.

Boko Haram, an Islamist group that wishes to see the entire country under Shariah law, has claimed responsibility for the attacks, as part of a new offensive.

 Nigerian police are bragging that in Minna they were able to stop and defuse an IED attack.

Florida Eye Identified

A giant eye, which was found on a Florida beach, last Wednesday, has been identified.

Researchers at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission were able to confirm that it belonged to a swordfish.

The news has disappointed many, who hoped that it belonged to some new species.

What is unclear is why the eye had been removed from the rest of the body.

Pennsylvania Becomes Fifteenth State With Meningitis

Pennsylvania became the fifteenth state with a confirmed case of meningitis, on Monday.

The number of cases is now 214, with the death toll staying at fifteen.

Massachusetts based New England Compounding Center produced the tainted anti inflammation steroid vials.

Once the outbreak was known of NECC quickly turned in their operation licenses, recalled all of their other products, and assisted investigators in every way possible.

The CDC has now announced that two other drugs made by NECC may have been contaminated with meningitis, as well.

That means that well more than the fourteen thousand, who took the steroid injections, could be at risk of meningitis.