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Once upon a time, people used plants for healing and it wasn’t referred to as “alternative”. Back then, “traditional” medicine referred to that which had been around the longest, which was healing based on the use of plants and nature. Now, things have changed and we occasionally need a reminder that nature has been providing medicine for millennia and can still be trusted to provide it today. One of those reminders came just a couple years ago when archaeologists discovered a wooden box full of medicine in a 2,000 year-old sunken ship off the coast of Tuscany. The ship was believed to have sank around 130 B.C., well over 2,000 years ago. It was transporting wine, glassware, lams, and ceramics. It isn’t clear where the ship originated or what its final destination was, but we do know there was likely a healer on board. Inside a wooden box, preserved deep under the sea, was a collection of pills. Using DNA sequencing, scientists were able to determine what was inside these pills, and it wasn’t some lab-created, branded pharmaceuticals. The pills contained all natural plants and materials including crushed celery, onions, carrots, cabbage, alfalfa, chestnuts, radish, yarrow, parsley, nasturtium, hibiscus, and clay. Also within the box was a mortar and pestle, likely used to crush the plants and herbs for the medicinal preparations.

A Florida man screamed for help and disappeared as a large sinkhole opened up under the bedroom of a house, his brother said on Friday. The brother told rescue crews he heard a loud crash near midnight on Thursday, then heard his brother screaming. "When he got there, there was no bedroom left," the Hillsborough county fire rescue spokeswoman Jessica Damico said. "There was no furniture. All he saw was a piece of the mattress sticking up." The brother called police and frantically tried to help. An arriving deputy had to pull him from the still-collapsing house. There has been no contact with the man who disappeared since then, and neighbours on both sides of the home have been evacuated. "We put engineering equipment into the sinkhole and didn't see anything compatible with life," Damico said. But she would not say that the man was presumed dead. Damico estimated that the sinkhole was about nine metres (30ft) across. "The entire house is on the sinkhole," she said. Janell Wheeler told the Tampa Bay Times she was inside the house with four other adults and a child when the sinkhole opened. "It sounded like a car hit my house," she said.

On July 19, 2012, an eruption occurred on the sun that produced a moderately powerful solar flare and a dazzling magnetic display known as coronal rain. Hot plasma in the corona cooled and condensed along strong magnetic fields in the region. Magnetic fields, are invisible, but the charged plasma is forced to move along the lines, showing up brightly in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength of 304 Angstroms, and outlining the fields as it slowly falls back to the solar surface. Music: "Thunderbolt" by Lars Leonhard, courtesy of artist. Credit: NASA/SDO/Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio Eruptive events on the sun can be wildly different. Some come just with a solar flare, some with an additional ejection of solar material called a coronal mass ejection (CME), and some with complex moving structures in association with changes in magnetic field lines that loop up into the sun's atmosphere, the corona. On July 19, 2012, an eruption occurred on the sun that produced all three. A moderately powerful solar flare exploded on the sun's lower right limb, sending out light and radiation. Next came a CME, which shot off to the right out into space. And then, the sun treated viewers to one of its dazzling magnetic displays -- a phenomenon known as coronal rain.

Some gymnasts from Travnik gathered to shoot their own version of "Harlem Shake". Students felt good point, but in the end something unexpected happened. Two young men, standing in a container after opening it fell inside. Thus, they will be remembered as "victims" before "Harlem ...".

Cape Town, 25 January – Police in South Africa has joined the search for thousands of crocodiles, which have been removed from a farm during the recent floods in the country. Officials said today that at least 7 thousand crocodiles have escaped from a farm near the border with Zimbabwe and Bocuanën.Deri now occupy about 2 thousand crocodiles, which means that outdoor walk freely and dispose hunting some 5 thousand crocodiles , reported their Rel.Shumica are larger than two feet, so police have alerted people to be careful and not to enter the water.

A Finnish multiplied its revenues, after winning a full 18 million, playing with only 25 cents in an online gambling company. As published in the Spanish daily "AS", the young man placed a bet of 25 cents, in the "slot machine" Company "Paf" TCH broadcasts. In the next rotation, the car not only took three identical numbers, but those numbers appeared to provide bastexhiut big jackpot of 18 million euros. Such a figure automatically turned it in record holder "Guinness", bet with koficientin largest ever won online and the most amount earned 25 cents, with the previous one that was 12 million euro. In an interview to Finnish media, fatlumi explained that long playing with small bets, as his honor was the game and not the victory itself. "When Pasha amount that I had won, I started to cry and laugh at the same time," said Finnish millionaire already.

Until a few decades ago, women were not eligible to vote. Today, they run the world, broadcasts Start. Here are 17 women who have run or continue to govern their countries: 1 - The president of South Korea, Park Geun-Hye, Saenuri party, greets supporters after being declared winner in the presidential elections of 19 December 2012 in Seoul. Park, the daughter of former President Park Chung-Hee, became the first female president in South Korea. 2 - Indira Gandhi served as the first female Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977-n, and 1980-a to 1984. It is women who have held on during prime position to date in the world. Gandhi became famous for its slogan "garibi Hata" or "poverty eradication". But it is also known for "Emergency" (1975), one of the most controversial periods in the history of India. Gandhi was assassinated in 1984. 3 - Golda Meir became the first female Prime Minister of Israel in 1969. She led the country during the war of Yom Kippur it in 1973 and remains the only woman who has led Israel to date. 4 - Maria Izabel Estela Martinez de Peron, known as Isabel Peron, was the first female president of Argentina. She took office in 1974, after the death of her husband, Juan Peron. Its presidency lasted until 1976-en, when it crashed, was arrested and eventually expelled by the military junta. 5 - Benazir Bhutto served twice as prime minister of Pakistan, 1988-1990 and 1993-1996. She was the first woman leading the first in a Muslim state. In addition to allegations of corruption, she spent eight years in exile when the country was in the hands of the military dictatorship. Upon returning to Pakistan, she was killed during a campaign rally for her party on December 27, 2007. 6 - Margaret Thatcher, known as the "Iron Lady", was chosen in 1979 as the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and remained in power until 1990. 7 - Ellen John Sirleaf, a former finance minister of Liberia, was elected as the first female president of the country in 2006. She is the first female Speaker of the state in Africa. 8 - Johanna Sigurdardottr, currently prime minister of Iceland, the first woman in this position, selected in 2009. 9 - Dilma Rusef became the first female president of Brazil in January 2011. She previously served as Minister of Energy in the cabinet of President Lula da Silva, and later became chief of his cabinet. 10 - Prime Minister Yingluck Shinauatra shakes hands with supporters after speaking at a campaign rally on June 29, 2011 in Sisak, Thailand. 11 - Sriramavo Bandaranaike was the world's first female prime minister. She was elected in 1960 in Sri Lanka immediately after the murder of her husband. In the photo, she is the only female among political leaders in the unaligned countries conference, which took place in 1961 in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia. 12 - The President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirçner, after casting vote at a polling station on October 23, 2011. 13 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a press conference at the end of two-day European Union summit on March 2, 2012, at the EU headquarters in Brussels. 14 - Myanmar's democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, along with former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, during a press conference after their meeting in Yangon, Myanmar. The pace of change instead brought Clinton's visit, the first for a senior Western diplomat in more than half a century in Myanmar. 15 - Speaker of the House of India, Sonia Gandhi, father of the Indian nation memorial, Mahatma Gandhi, in New Delhi, in honor of the 143 th anniversary of his birth. 16 - The President of Costa Rica, Laura cincin, speaking to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) on May 30, 2012, during the opening of the 101 th annual ILO United Nations headquarters in Geneva. 17 - From left to right: Former prime minister of Norway, Gro Brundtland, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, founder Self-employed Women's Association in India, Ela Bhat, and former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, after a conference photo joint press conference in New Delhi on February 9, 2012.