February 20th 2014

Earthquake stirs the west country –
An earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale strikes the Bristol Channel off the west coast of England the strongest to hit Britain in six years. The last significant earthquake was on February 27, 2008 at Market Rasen in Lincolnshire, measuring 5.2.

Facebook buys WhatsApp for $19 billion –
Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook buys messaging service WhatsApp for around $19 billion. The deal consists of Facebook shares worth $12billion for the purchase and another $3billion of restricted stocks as a windfall for WhatsApp’s co-founders and their 50 employees. About 450m people around the world use the instant messaging service each month.
Mark_ZuckerberMark Zuckerberg

Kiev protesters shot by snipers –
Protesters against the Russian backed government in Ukraine have been killed by police snipers in Maidan Square in Kiev in the deadliest day of the protest so far. At least 77 people have been killed in the last three days, and another 577 were injured.

Ice hazard from above –
Daggers of ice have been falling from the new 1,776 feet high 1 World Trade Center in New York, the USA’s tallest building at 1,776 feet high. Several streets around the nation’s tallest building were closedwhen wind-blown sheets of ice hit the pavement near the building.
One-World-Trade-Center1 World Trade Center

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