“Big Man” Clarence Clemons Dies at 69......

Saxophonist Clarence Clemons, known as the “Big Man” of the Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, has died on the Saturday of problems from a stroke that he suffered earlier in this month.

Clemons was born in the Virginia and has played football at the Maryland State College before becoming injured in an accident. While working as a youth counselor in the New Jersey, he involved in the Jersey Shore music scene; in the year 1971, and he wound up in the bar in Asbury Park:

Google Gives Dads a Doodle Tie on Father’s Day....

It is not an animated neck tie: It does not turn over in style of Dilbert’s. It does not display around the screen, nor does it have any kind of fancy social networking tie-in which drags jointly shots of you and your dad in the pretty Google slideshow.

Robert Gates said there had been contacts between US and Taliban….

"There s been outreach on the part of a number of countries, including the United States. I would say that these contacts are very preliminary at this point," US Defence Secretary.

The comments from the outgoing US defense chief were aired a day after Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced the United States was in contact with the Taliban, a striking public acknowledgment of a peace initiative that has been cloaked with secrecy.

US shutdowns damaged nuclear plant due to flood….

A damaged nuclear power plant has been shut down due to rising flood water.

The Fort Chalhoun Nuclear Station remains shutdown due to rising Missouri River flood waters but officials say there is no water inside the plant itself.

Seven civilians were killed in NATO air strikes .....

At least seven civilians were killed in NATO air strikes in Tripoli on Sunday.

 According to a government spokesman, a residential locality in Arada area of Tripoli was targeted in the NATO raids.

 Reporters were taken by Libyan government officials to the residential area destroyed during the attack.