Finally the time machine has been invented... (or atleast so claims the scientist)....

With the headline “Iranian Scientist Claims to Have Invented ‘Time Machine’,” and a picture of the Delorean from “Back to the Future,” The Telegraph stirred up some controversy earlier this week.

According to the UK paper, there’s been yet another scientist who claims to have invented a Time Machine which does not operate in any way like most think a Time Machine should.

This latest invention, created by Ali Razeghi, doesn’t deliver a human to the past or even displace time in any way at all. Instead, this machine which Razeghi claims can be assembled with only $400 worth of parts, prints off predictions about a persons life several years in the future.

The article has been turned upside down by HuffPost, which has found some oddities in Razeghi’s story.

Razeghi seems to be taking his latest invention very seriously and has registered the name “The Aryayek Time Traveling Machine” with the Iranian Centre for Strategic Inventions.

The 27-year old inventor also has another 179 inventions under his belt but said he has been working on his “time machine” since he was 17 years old.

“My invention easily fits into the size of a personal computer case and can predict details of the next 5-8 years of the life of its users. It will not take you into the future, it will bring the future to you,” said the Iranian inventor in his interview with the Telegraph.

According to other interviews, the Aryayek Time Traveling Machine works by analyzing the user’s touch and then printing off a list of predictions about that person’s life with alleged 98 percent accuracy.

Wielding this kind of power could be tricky, of course, and Razeghi says he plans to only use it selectively, such as letting a couple know the sex of their child. In his interview, the inventor also mentions being able to predict the outcome of a war.

HuffPost isn’t so willing to buy this story and notes that several other news sources feel the same way.

For instance, the Telegraph cites an interview Razeghi gave to the Iranian state news agency Fars. This story has since been deleted by the news agency following the attention the story has received. The news agency’s site also has a science section written in English, a section where this story never appeared.

Razeghi gave another interview with Iranian news site Entekhab. According to the Huffington Post, Razeghi was “coy” and offered few details about the way his alleged time machine works. Furthermore, the inventor said the machine won’t be available for another few years because he’s waiting for “conditions to improve in Iran.” He also mentioned being nervous to release his creation because it could be stolen and copied by China. Since he plans to mass produce this time machine, he would prefer the market not be flooded with cheap knockoffs.

Though he mentions using the device sparingly and only in certain situations, he discusses government use in his interview with the Telegraph.

“Naturally a government that can see five years into the future would be able to prepare itself for challenges that might destabilize it,” said Razeghi. “As such we expect to market this invention among states as well as individuals once we reach a mass production stage.”

As questions for Razeghi mount, it seems he and the Iranian government are mostly keeping quiet about the whole thing.

Report my valuation $9.6 Billion less and you shall be sued: Saudi billionaire

Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has sued Forbes magazine for libel in a British court, alleging its valuation of his wealth at $20 billion was short of the mark by $9.6 billion, Britain's Guardian newspaper reported on Friday.

The prince, a grandson of Saudi Arabia's founder and nephew of King Abdullah, had attacked the U.S. magazine's ranking of world billionaires as flawed and biased against Middle Eastern businesses after he was ranked number 26 in this year's list.

An official at the High Court in London confirmed that Prince Alwaleed had filed a defamation suit against Forbes, its editor Randall Lane, and two of its journalists on April 30. Details of the claim were not immediately available.

Through his Kingdom Holding Company, Prince Alwaleed owns large stakes in Citigroup, News Corp and Apple Inc, among other companies. He is also owner or part-owner of luxury hotels including the Plaza in New York, the Savoy in London and the George V in Paris.

This year's Forbes World Billionaires list was published on March 4, and the following day Kingdom Holding said the valuation process used "incorrect data" and "seemed designed to disadvantage Middle Eastern investors and institutions".

The public spat attracted a lot of comment, but Forbes stuck by its estimate of Prince Alwaleed's wealth and published an in-depth article in its March 25 issue entitled "Prince Alwaleed and the curious case of Kingdom Holding stock".

The article gave details about how Forbes had arrived at the figure of $20 billion and criticized what it described as a lack of transparency by Kingdom Holding in detailing its assets.

The article also described Prince Alwaleed's marble-filled, 420-room Riyadh palace, his private Boeing 747 equipped with a throne, and his 120-acre resort on the edge of the Saudi capital with five homes, five artificial lakes and a mini-Grand Canyon.

The Guardian article quoted the magazine as saying: "We're very surprised at claims that Prince Alwaleed has decided to sue Forbes, particularly if he has done so in the United Kingdom, a jurisdiction that has nothing whatsoever to do with our recent story which raised questions about his claims about his wealth."

Media lawyer Jonathan Coad, of the London firm Lewis Silkin, said London was seen as a more attractive place than New York to bring defamation suits because U.S. libel law made higher requirements of claimants.

"In the U.S., a high-profile claimant has to prove firstly that the article was untrue and secondly that the publisher knew that the article was untrue, which is what we call malice. Those are two hurdles that a UK libel action does not present," said Coad, who is not involved in the Prince Alwaleed case.

Under British libel law, a claimant has only to prove that a publication was defamatory. Then the burden of proof passes to the defendant, who has several possible defenses, including that the publication was true.

Source : Reuters.com

"Penetration" in parliament, causes Israel's education minister to burst into giggles

Shai Piron, who is also a rabbi, could not get past the first sentence of his address, on a proposed law against smuggling cell phones into Israel's prisons, before beginning to chuckle. 

"Mr. Chairman, distinguished Parliament, the aim of this legislation is to deal with a serious phenomenon - the penetration of prohibited objects into prisons," he said during a late night session on Monday broadcast on the official Knesset TV channel.

He briefly recovered but broke down again over the perceived sexual innuendo when the word "penetration" came up in the text for a second time. Legislators in the hall joined in the giggling.

Struggling to continue, Piron wiped tears from his eyes, took a sip of water - and finally went back to his seat, unable to read on.

He later explained to reporters that he had been caught off-guard by the phrasing in the speech, which he delivered at the last minute after a cabinet colleague was called away.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HzRBSxJZRzA

Source: Reuters.com

Royal prank.....in turn cause a Nurse to suicide..... Win a free trip to Los Angeles

 Mel Greig (L) and Michael Christian(R), pose in Sydney
 in this picture obtained by Reuters

Michael Christian, joint winner in one of the categories of an internal competition that recognizes the company's "best in the land", was awarded a trip to Los Angeles as part of his prize.

Christian and his colleague Mel Greig made a prank call to the London hospital treating Prince William's wife, Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, in December 2012.

Nurse Jacintha Saldanha put the call through to a colleague who, despite the DJs' unconvincing accents, disclosed details of the duchess's medical condition.

Saldanha was found hanged in her apartment days after the call.

Christian was in his first week at the Sydney station 2DayFM when the prank was staged.

"Regardless of all that's happened in the past few months, I'm still at the top of my game," Christian said in a statement. "It felt good to see my name at the top of the final leader board."

Following a public backlash, Southern Cross promised to donate advertising revenue to a fund for Saldanha's family with a minimum contribution of A$500,000 ($485,500).

Source : Reuters.com