“Boom Boom Shahid Afridi” v “Bang Bang Boxer Afridi”

Angry Afridi knocks out fan at the Karachi, Pakistan airport , Reportedly, Afridi, who was coming out of the airport after arriving here from Bangladesh, flew off the handle, after cohorts thronged him for autographs. It seemed he was not happy with this fan following and was seen almost running out of the airport with a swarm of his admirers in tow. After repeated gestures of annoyance, which failed to deter the crowd, he swung a mighty right hand at one of the buffs knocking him out then and there, which proved he could be a “Bang Bang Boxer Afridi” as well.

"Twitter" successful sixth year

It was March 21, 2006 when it appeared the first tweet, “just setting up my twttr”, written by the then thirty year old Jack Dorsey, American entrepreneur and computer. Since then, the microblogging site has continued to expand: in six years, Twitter has almost reached the milestone of 500 million users. There are 750 thousand developers around the world and nearly half a million applications and services that rely on the site. Many operators in the field of exploiting Twitter intensely, almost turning it into a kind of agency “personnel.” A year ago, following the devastating earthquake that struck Japan, have been well recorded 6,939 messages per second, while in 2009, the news of the death of Michael Jackson has spread at a rate of 465 tweets per second. During the holidays, tweets far exceed the sms.

Japan will not bear

Threatening to North Korea, the government of Japan has announced that Japan will not bear and let any North Korean missile pass from the aerial limitations of Japan and if it happens, Japan will destroy the missile in air. The defence minister of Japan has stated in the parliament that as soon as they receive the green signal from the prime minister of Japan, they will issue orders to the forces of Japan in order to destroy any missiles, fired from North Korea towards the aerial limitations of Japan. He said it was learned that the North Korea would test new missiles in the month of April and the missiles were expected to pass from the aerial limitations of Japan.

Barcelona's Lionel Messi world’s highest-paid footballer

Argentina’s Lionel Messi is the world’s highest-paid footballer, followed by David Beckham of England and Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo, according to France Football magazine. Barcelona talisman Messi earns some 33 million euros ($43.5 million) a year with a 10.5-million-euro salary, 1.5 million euros in bonuses and 21 million euros in advertising and other contracts. Former Manchester United midfielder Beckham, now at LA Galaxy, takes home 31.5 million euros, largely due to his 26 million euros’ worth of advertising and endorsement contracts. Real Madrid’s Ronaldo earns 29.2 million euros, from a 13-million-euro annual salary and 15.5 million euros from off-the-pitch revenue, France Football said in an article to be published on Tuesday. Ronaldo’s coach at the Camp Nou, Portugal’s Jose Mourinho, topped the list of highest-earning managers with 14.8 million euros a year, followed by Paris Saint-Germain’s Carlo Ancelotti (13.5 million euros).

Al Qaeda militant killed in France

Merah, the main suspect in a wave of shootings that killed seven people, had tried to blast his way out of the siege in the city of Toulouse after members of an elite force known as RAID entered his flat. But Interior Minister Claude Gueant said the 23-year-old had been found dead on the ground in a dramatic end to the lengthy standoff. He jumped out of an apartment window at the end of a 32-hour siege in southern France. Three police were wounded in the assault, one “fairly seriously”, with journalists able to hear sustained gunfire from at least two weapons as police entered the flat in Toulouse where Mohamed Merah was holed up. Around 300 shots were fired in all during the assault and Merah was wearing a backpack with unknown contents when they found him, police sources said, after a siege of over 30 hours. Merah had been holed up since overnight Wednesday after being tracked down by police as the main suspect in a wave of shootings that killed seven people, including three soldiers and three Jewish children, was holed up. Prosecutors said Merah, a Frenchman of Algerian descent, had fought off several police assaults on the flat on Wednesday and bragged to negotiators of having been trained by al Qaeda on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.