Last Wendesday Warren Buffet donated more than 500,000 Berkshire Hathaway Inc stocks ($1.5 billion) to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and four other small charities.

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The wind farm project which is planned to be about 13 miles off the coast of Rockaway island has made a significant progress as a request for information for its plan was issued. The wind farm is expected to generate 350MW with an option of total of 700MW power supply.

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Johnny Depp was eating with some friends at Gibsons steakhouse in Chicago and after a 3 hours late feast which include some expensive bottles of wine and all kind of appetizers ,he was leaving a $4000 tip to the waiter -  Mohammed Sekhani.

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New cancer treatment shows great hope on its first clinical trial in London. A drug name olaparib was given to 60  patients all of them with advanced breast cancer, ovarian cancer and prostate cancer and all of them had mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes associated with inherited forms of these cancers. The treatment decreases tumors’ size and did not damage healthy cells.

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The blue butterfly, one of the world’s most threatened species,  were declared extinct in UK 30 years ago but as a result of reintroduction efforts, 20,000 of them will be flitting around this summer.

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Air New Zealand published scientific results from a biofuel test flight that was performed several months ago. The results are astonishing and show a decrease of about 60% – 65% in greenhouse gas emissions compared to commonly used fuel. In addition to that, there was also a significant reduction in fuel consumption during the flight.

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17 years old Danielle Galloway, grew up homeless in Atlanta. She attended ten different schools and bounced from one shelter to another. Her goal was to achieve a good education and nothing stoped her. These days she has graduated in the top of her class and won a full scholarship to Boston University.

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2 Great – Grandmothers from Michigan become bowling state champions after winning the Division 2 doubles title at the U.S. Bowling Congress’ Women’s Bowling Association state tournament. The two are 69 and 86 years old and they won this title after acheiving a total score of 1,607.

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A consortium of 20 companies is leading a global scale project to generate electricity by solar power in North Africa and send it to Europe. This international project is estimated at the cost of 400 billion euros.

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For 27 years, Sadahiro Inoue a restaurant owner in Japan, invites students who can not afford to pay their meal to  wash dishes for 30 minutes after eating a full meal in his restaurant.

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Australia will build the largest wind farm in the country with 2GW power supply. The project will cost 2 billion dollars and will include 598 turbines.

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Lillian Miller, A hearing-impaired woman from Florida, thought her dog wanted to go outside when he start barking at 3AM , she took the dog out and saw flames coming out of the window of her mobile house. Since it was early morning, she had removed her  hearing aids and couldn’t hear the fire alarm.

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A gay penguin couple, part of a small gay community at a zoo in Bremerhaven in northern Germany, adopted a rejected egg from a heterosexual penguin  couple and is raising the chick.

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During this summer, on 3 weekends, over 100 national parks in the USA (including Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and Everglades np’s)  will offer fee free entrance. This will be available during the following weekends:  June 20-21, 2009 (Father’s Day weekend), July 18-19, 2009, August 15-16, 2009.

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in comperason to last year, it seems that renewable energy projects are getting more fundings during 2008 than other energy projects such as oil. During 2008 140 billion  dollars were invested in renewable energy projects, only 110 billion dollars were invested in other energy projects.