A woman stripped naked and climbed on top of a London taxi in front of the Houses of Parliament last week to protest against the war in Afghanistan. According to the Daily Mail, the unnamed woman conducted a five-minute protest against the conflict in a sitting yoga position making while shouting "Troops out of Afghanistan". Witness Carl Backland, 50, said: "I was on my way home from work when I spotted this woman stripping off. "Then she jumped on the top of the cab when it stopped at the lights. The cab driver wasn't very pleased to say the least. There were loads of tourists around they couldn't believe it." He added: "They were all taking pictures on their mobile phones. It stopped the traffic but I thought the police handed it well. "They let her finish the yoga session and then sort of gently cajoled her into coming down."

The 7.2-magnitude earthquake centered near the border city of Mexicali struck Easter Sunday afternoon and rocked all of Southern California and parts of Arizona and Nevada. According to the Tijuana Civil Protection Director Alfredo Escobedo, the powerful earthquake killed a man whose home collapsed in northern Mexico. Escobedo also said that another man was killed when he panicked as the ground shook, ran into the street and was struck by a car. According to reports, Mexicali and adjacent cities are experiencing widespread power outages and buildings are suffering from major structural damage. Escobedo said that at least 100 people were injured, most of them struck by falling objects. Mexicali felt at least 20 aftershocks, and the city is under a virtual blackout without viability to regain power for approximately 14 hours. The quake was one of the strongest to hit Southern California in decades, and high rise buildings in Los Angeles and San Diego rocked back and forth when it hit. There were reports of shattered windows, broken pipes and water main breaks in private buildings in San Diego, but there were no reports of injuries.

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In 1949, American chemist Willard Libby reported the development of a new dating technique, radiocarbon (C-14) dating. However, it would be more than a decade until the scientific community, and the world as a whole would recognize the significance of this new dating technique. Despite this apparent lag in support for radiocarbon dating, the result of these technologically advanced tests would have an enormous impact on science and archaeology in the subsequent years. With radiocarbon dating, archaeologists would be able to directly determine the age of undated sites and artifacts without the complication and confusion of relying on cross-cultural comparisons with areas previously dated through other means, predominately written records, (Renfrew et al., 2006: 37). Almost forty-years later, Libby's radiocarbon dating would come under intense scrutiny with the discovery and dating of the Shroud of Turin.

Feeling jilted after six months of negotiations, German officials reacted angrily Wednesday to General Motors’ decision to keep its European business, Opel, rather than sell a majority stake to a consortium backed by Berlin, The New York Times’s Nelson D. Schwartz, David Jolly and Bill Vlasic reported.

Expressing frustration with the U-turn, the new German economics minister, Rainer Brüderle, vowed to make the Detroit automaker repay the money that had already been lent. “We will get back taxpayers’ money,” he told reporters in Berlin, deeming G.M.’s move “totally unacceptable.”

Klaus Franz, the top labor leader at the company’s headquarters in Rüsselsheim, Germany, called it “a black day.”

“The path back to General Motors is something we won’t sign on to,” he added.

Opel workers, along with the German government, had strongly backed a sale to the Canadian-Austrian auto parts company Magna and Russia’s Sberbank, believing that would protect the most jobs. G.M.’s European operations include the Opel and Vauxhall brands.

Eric Spiegelman posted two incredible time-lapse “test” videos of the “Station Fire” in Los Angeles County that has thus far forced the evacuation of 4,000 homes. Spiegelman’s videos, uploaded within fifteen hours of each other, one at night, seemingly shot from the lookout along Mulholland drive, and the second, from the same vantage point but during the day – reveal an awe-inspiring display of the sheer volume of smoke pushing up into the atmosphere.

After crossing the ground floor lobby towards the turn styles of the Museum, the first collection lies before the visitor.
An ascending, wide glass-floored gallery presents finds from the slopes of the Acropolis. On the left hand side, finds from some of the key sanctuaries of the slopes are exhibited. On the right hand side, finds from the smaller sanctuaries and the settlements that developed on the slopes of the Hill are displayed. Unique vases from the Sanctuary of Nymphe, the relief of Telemachos, theatrical masks and the treasure of Aphrodite amongst many other exhibits, provide a fascinating introduction to the larger sanctuaries and the ceremonies associated with them in antiquity.

Just days before the mysterious crash of Air France Flight 447 in the Atlantic Ocean, Brazilian authorities reportedly delayed a similar Air France flight from Buenos Aires to Paris after the airline received a bomb threat over the phone. Police and officials at Buenos Aires’ Ezeiza Airport spent 90 minutes inspecting the threatened plane for explosives on the evening of May 27, but found nothing, according to a Brazilian news report.During the search, passengers were not evacuated from the jet and later arrived safely at their destination in Paris.