12 dead in bus crash in Germany

(CNN) -- Twelve people were killed and 19 severely injured Sunday in a bus crash near Berlin, Germany, police told CNN.

The collision occurred on the A10 in Brandenburg when the bus tried to avoid a vehicle coming onto the motorway, police spokesman Jens Quitske said. The bus lost control and collided with the column of a bridge.

Among those severely injured was the driver of the other vehicle. In addition, 20 more suffered minor injuries.

The bus was a Polish holiday bus making its way from Spain back to Poland, Quitske said. He could not confirm whether all those on board were Polish, but said all the fatalities were adults.

"I was shocked to hear of the tragic bus accident near Berlin in which so many Polish nationals lost their lives," German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said. "This accident doesn't just concern our Polish friends, it also affects us. Our deepest sympathies and condolences go out to the family and friends of those who died."

German emergency services were doing everything in their power to save the lives of the injured, he said.

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At least 17 dead in Russian republic after suicide car bombing

Moscow, Russia (CNN) -- A car bomb exploded Thursday in the Russian republic of North Ossetia, killing at least 17 people -- including an 18-month-old baby -- and wounding up to 123 others, local health officials said.

The vehicle blew up near a market in the city of Vladikavkaz, the republic's leader, Taimuraz Mamsurov, told the Interfax news agency.

"Information that I possess indicates that the explosion in Vladikavkaz was organized by a suicide bomber, who drove a Volga 3102 car to near the entrance to the market," Mamsurov said.

The injured included 10 people in critical condition and 90 in serious condition, health officials said.

Investigators said the explosive device contained the equivalent of 40 kilograms of TNT.

The bomb was placed inside a vehicle parked at the entrance to the central market in downtown Vladikavkaz, with a suicide bomber sitting inside the car, said the Investigative Committee of the Russian Prosecutor's Office, which qualified the attack as a "terrorist act." The device detonated at 11:20 a.m. (3:20 a.m. ET).

The committee also said the bomb was stuffed with various pieces of metal to increase the human damage. A natural gas canister, stored in the car's trunk, also detonated, the committee said.

The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry is sending special medical planes to Vladikavkaz to airlift heavily injured patients to Moscow's leading trauma clinics.

Friday was declared a day of national mourning in North Ossetia, according to a local government decree. Flags on all regional buildings will fly at half-staff and all entertainment programs on local TV will be cancelled as well as concerts and theater performances.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, speaking on national TV, pledged that all organizers of the deadly bombing will be identified and punished -- or killed.

"We will do all we can to catch these monsters and animals ... who have committed a terror attack, a barbaric terror attack, against ordinary people. We will do all we can to find and punish them in accordance with the laws of our country, and we will destroy them if they offer resistance or in other circumstances," Medvedev said.

Meanwhile, the owner of the car used in the bomb attack has been identified and arrested, a local police official told the Interfax news agency. The detainee claims that he sold it to an unknown buyer on Wednesday, the policeman said.

The Russian government announced each family of those killed will receive 1 million rubles in compensation (more than $32,000).

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin also condemned the bombing, saying, "The crimes like the one that was committed in the North Caucasus today are aimed at sowing enmity between our citizens. We have no right to allow this."

North Ossetia and the rest of the Caucasus region have been plagued with violence and political instability.

The market has seen other terrorist attacks in the past.

In November 2008, a suicide bomber blew up a bus at a nearby bus station, killing 12 people and wounding more than 40. An explosion killed more than 50 people and wounded 300 in March 1999. source : CNN

13-year-old becomes mom

A 13-year-old dalit girl has given birth to a baby girl at the District Hospital, Tamghas on Saturday A 13-year-old dalit girl has given birth to a baby girl at the District Hospital, Tamghas on Saturday.

Nirmala Nepali, a sixth grader at the Panchayan Higher Secondary School, said she had consensual sex with a brahmin boy studying in the ninth grade in the same school with an understanding of inter-caste marriage in the future.She gave birth to a daughter after being admitted at the hospital in the morning. The hospital said both the mother and the daughter are in good health.

The new mother said she was in love with son of Tamlal Pandey -- Ramchandra, 18 -- of Dhurkot Bastu-3 and entered into physical relationship with understanding of getting into wedlock.

Her teacher had first known about her pregnancy and informed her mother. "I knew only after the teachers came to our home and told me," Nirmala´s mother Sumitra said. A test done in Sandhikharka, Arghakhanchi in May had confirmed her pregnancy. "The family of the boy tried to buy us into going for abortion but we refused," Sumitra added.

The boy has been absconding since May but his family had promised to accept Nirmala as daughter-in-law. But Dhurkot Police Post said the whole family has left the village locking their house since Friday.

Chief District Officer (CDO) Parshuram Aryal said the new mother will be helped by collecting financial assistance from various organizations. news source: www.myrepublica.com

Happy 25th Birthday to the Buckyball!

Carbon is a remarkable little atom. When it’s arranged in sheets, it’s soft as pencil lead. Arrange it in crystals, and it’s hard as diamonds. On September 4, 1985, three scientists trying to figure out the structure of a carbon molecule known as C60 began playing around with toothpicks and jellybeans. One of them began sticking his jellybean atoms together in the shape of alternating pentagons and hexagons. Interestingly, his structure began to curve into a ball.

To the scientists, the sphere created this arrangement of candy and sticks looked an awful lot like the geodesic dome built by visionary architect R. Buckminster Fuller in 1967 for the world’s fair in Montreal. As it turned out, the jellybean model of C60 was correct, and the molecule discovered was named “buckminsterfullerene” after its inspiration.

The exhibit "Molecules That Matter" used dog toys as buckyballs. Image: Kathy Ceceri

This was not some esoteric finding. The advent of the fullerene, which can be round, ellipsoid or tube-shaped, led to the entire nanotech industry. Today fullerenes show up in everything from ultra-light, ultra-strong bicycle frames and tennis rackets to “nanopants” that are soft and breathable yet repeal water and stains. And they make great desk toys, too.

You can still visit Bucky Fuller’s geodesic dome in Montreal, too. Today it houses the Biosphere, a museum about the region’s ecology. There’s an exhibit about Fuller inside.

Thanks to the Tang Museum’s exhibit Molecules That Matter, which introduced my family to Buckyballs. Curator Ray Giguere noted that dog toys made very good models. And thanks to Google, which today has an animated doodle honoring the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the Buckyball.