Liberty Leading the People Defaced in French Museum

A famous French painting from 1830 was defaced, on Friday.

Liberty Leading the People which commemorates the July Revolution of 1830, was on display at the Louvre Lens museum.

A woman walked up to the Delacroix painting and sprayed a graffiti tag on it.

A restorer is going to examine the painting and determine if it can simply be cleaned.

Police have not released the identity of the woman, but said she had a French sounding name, suggesting she might not be French.

Witnesses said that the graffiti referenced a 9-11 conspiracy.

Belgian Airplane Crash Leaves 5 Dead

Five people were killed when their single engine plane crashed at Charleroi Airport, in Belgium.

Officials say that the plane had just taken off and tried to make an emergency landing, but was unsuccessful.

All five people aboard were from the same family.

Saturday's accident closed the international airport for six hours as the crash was investigated and cleared from the runway.

Several flights were canceled and others delayed, by the closure.

Charleroi is Belgium's second busiest airport.

Iranians Attacked in Baghdad

A camp in Baghdad, where dissident Iranians live was attacked, on Saturday.

Early Saturday morning, eighteen rockets struck the camp.

Six people were killed and forty-two were wounded.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.

The target and the use of military rockets makes it likely that this was a strike carried out by Iran's Quds.

Iraqi officials are investigating the attack.

Ennahda Supporters March Through Tunis

Around six thousand supporters of Ennahda marched through Tunis, on Saturday.

Ennahda is the leading Islamist party, in Tunisia, and is basically ruling the country.

They marched to counter Friday's mass rallies held by opposition supporters.

Those rallies numbered in the thousands, except for in Tunis, where fifty thousand marched at a funeral for an assassinated opposition leader.

Saturday's rallies made the support for the ruling faction seem quite little, in comparison.


Numbers not withstanding, the country is quite politically divided.

Prime Minister Hamdi Jebali is threatening to replace the government, if terms can not be agreed upon to see things united again.

14 Killed in Bangladesh Ferry Sinking

Fourteen people were killed when a ferry crashed into a barge, in Bangladesh, on Saturday.

The collision happened along the Meghna River.

Five more people were missing.

The ferry had been carrying fifty people.

It was the second deadly accident in two days.

Egypt Blocks Youtube, Considers Facebook and Twitter

Cairo's administrative court decided that Youtube will be blocked in Egypt, for a minimum of one month.

The judge also ruled that Facebook and Twitter could be on the list, if they fail to meet requirements as well.

This all dates back to September when a video deemed an insult to Islam, was blamed for riots in several Muslim countries.

Judge Hassouna Tawfiq's ruling was that any site, which showed the video, and refused to ban it, could be blocked by the country.

However, the ruling could be met with a great outcry as the political opposition utilize social media.

They could see any attack upon the internet as an attempt to block them from communicating.

Effectiveness could be another issue, as previous attempts to block sites have not been fully successful.

Nemo Kills 7 as 40 Inches of Snow Fall

Nemo froze the north with deadly results.

The massive blizzard left up to forty inches of snow over New England and eastern Canada, by Saturday afternoon, with some areas expecting more.

In some areas, the snow kept plows from getting through, as it was just too much for them to handle.

Seven people were killed between Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, and Ontario.

Massachusetts was forced to evacuate the Salisbury Beach area, due to rising tides.

About a million homes and businesses lost power, over Friday night.

Thousands of flights were cancelled over Friday night and on into Saturday.

Curiosity Spots a Shiny "Arm"

Curiosity Rover has once again spotted an unusual thing.

In pictures, taken by the rover, a shiny object is poking out of the rock.

Some have taken to describing it as a metal arm.

Whatever it is, it's poking about half a centimeter out of rock, just big enough to case a shadow.

It also seems to be of a different kind of material than the surrounding area.

NASA does not know what it is, nor do they seem interested in checking it out, immediately.

So for now it will remain but one more mystery.

Top Gun Out in 3D

Starting Friday you can feel the need for speed, at IMAX theaters.

From February 8-13 Top Gun will be back in theaters.

But to add to it, it's in 3D.

Yes, Top Gun is the latest movie to be re-released specifically for a 3D experience.

As one of the biggest, most iconic movies of the 80s it is perhaps the most deserving.

Those flight scenes could be quite spectacular in 3D.

Bangladeshi Ferry Carrying 100 Sinks

A ferry in Bangladesh sunk, with over one hundred people on board.

The MV Sarosh collided with a barge on the River Meghna, south of Dhaka, on Friday.

About twenty-five people swam to safety and another forty were rescued.

Searchers believe that as many as fifty people are still missing.

Divers have been called in to find the ship, and her victims.