lemme clarify PaulCowan....to quote myself "we get to hear news long before it hits the newsrooms....clarifications whether further news are mere rumours or reality can be always confirmed later on...."

i meant to say that if u go thru the news threads,most of them will be copy-pasted from reliable news sites or from eye-witness accounts (as i had started a thread asking what's smoking on the corniche a couple of days ago...i could actually see smoke coming out sitting in my office and had also posted a pic i clicked with my mobile)....it's the replies and additional news to that thread that need to be carefully scrutinized for their validity.i hate rumour mongers,mate....and i'd never be one myself.period.

Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor