High Profile French Prisoner Blasts His Way Out of Prison

One of France's most high profile criminals escaped from prison Saturday morning.

Somehow he managed to take four guards hostage and then used explosives to blow doors out, to make his escape.

He then escaped via a car, which has since been found, but with no trace of the prisoner.

Officials are unsure how the explosives made their way into the prison.

Redoine Faid was serving an eight year term, for his part in a failed robbery which left a police officer dead in 2010.

Faid, a lifelong criminal, gained acclamation when he wrote a book about his life of crime.

Since then, he has been highly sought after, by news agencies, as an expert on criminal activity.

Twitter Moving Into Music

Twitter is moving into the music world.

That has been confirmed by multiple sources, including celebrity tweets and the existence of music.twitter.com.

Expectations are for a public announcement to come out sometime this next week.

It is unclear how much the site will compete with other music hosts such as Spotify, but it definitely will.

As long as it is well built, it could easily become the top music streaming service, due to Twitter's ever growing popularity.

North Korea Adds Colorado Springs to Target List, but Misses Location

North Korea's latest propaganda video lists four targets that they are threatening to hit with long range nuclear weapons.

The four cities are Washington DC, Honolulu, Los Angeles, and Colorado Springs.

However, they failed their geography class.

Their map shows Colorado Springs to be approximately in the area of Shreveport, Louisiana.

Right location or not, North Korea's missiles are not thought to be able to reach the US.

Earthquake Injures 22 in Japan

Twenty-two people were injured when a 6.3 quake struck the Hyogo Prefecture, Saturday morning.

Fourteen of the injuries happened in Hyogo, while the other eight were spread across four other prefectures.

Damage was also spread across multiple prefectures.

None of Japan's nuclear plants reported any damage from the earthquake.

8 Killed in Pakistani Bus Explosion

Eight people were killed when a bomb exploded on a bus, in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Saturday.

Seven more passengers were injured in the blast.

No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Taliban routinely carries out terrorist activities in the area.

Investigators are trying to determine if it was a suicide bomb, or if someone left the bomb aboard.

Everyone Aboard Survives Airline's Crash Into Sea

A Lion Air 737 missed the runway at Denpasar Airport in Bali, Indonesia, Saturday afternoon.

None of the one hundred and eight aboard were killed, but at least twenty-three were injured.

The plane itself was cracked in half by the impact.

Investigators are working to try and determine the cause of the crash.

Bird Flu Spreads to Beijing

Bird flu has become an even more growing concern for the Chinese.

The H7N9 has now spread from Shanghai to Beijing, a distance of around seven hundred and fifty miles.

A seven year old girl was confirmed to be sick from the strain, on Friday.

Officials are greatly concerned by H7N9 as it does not seem to cause sickness or death in birds, only is carried by them, yet is deadly to humans, if not caught early enough.

This makes it nearly impossible to detect before humans start becoming sick.

EU and IMF Approve Extensions for Ireland and Portugal

The EU and IMF announced that they will agree to allow loan extensions for Ireland and Portugal.

Ireland's loan was set to end this year, while Portugal's was to next year.

Under the new agreement, both countries will have an extra seven years to pay off their loans.

At the meeting they also worked towards a loan for Cyprus.

They are now asking Cyprus to come up with six billion more before they will be given a ten billion euro loan.

Bombs Kill 11 at Iraqi Mosques

Sunni mosques in Baghdad and Kanaan were struck by bombs, on Friday.

Eleven people were killed and at least thirty were wounded when the two bombs exploded.

They went off just as worshipers were leaving prayers.

Al Qaeda is being blamed for the attacks.

The last few weeks have seen an increase in bombings as national elections near.

Sudan and South Sudan Agree on Border Opening

Sudan and South Sudan have come to an agreement that will see the border open.

The border has been closed since the South split off, in 2011.

Under the agreement people and trade will move across at ten points.

Discussions will continue over the Abyei region, a disputed area.

They will also hold more talks to discuss rebel problems.