Venus Williams defeated Shahar Peer of Israel to reach the quarterfinals of the US Open Tennis tournament for the 10th time. She is number 3 seeded player while Peer is a 16th seeded one. She won the match 7-6, 6-3 on Sunday and she is all set to face French Open champion Francesca Schiavone in the quarter finals.
Venus Williams has won the US Open championship two times and she had been off the court for more than two months as she was suffering from a left kneecap injury. It was …

New Zealand earthquake on Friday night was larger than Haiti earthquake that killed 200,000 people this year. The recorded magnitude of New Zealand earthquake was 7.1 and this not only demolished buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines, but it also opened a new fault line in the earth’s crust.
Minimum 500 buildings were destroyed when this quake hit the South Island city at 4:35am. Luckily, only two serious injuries were reported among 400,000 people. Fortunately, this earthquake occurred before sunrise. If it had occurred just a few hours earlier or …