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A kooky Filipino Cinderella soap opera has smashed all Twitter records Smash hit.  (Gwendy Gayle Delos Santos) SHARE WRITTEN BY Anne Quito October 29, 2015 It wasn’t a Manny Pacquiao fight that broke Twitter in the Philippines. Twitter confirmed this week that a  live concert  about a Cinderella-themed Filipino soap opera is now the most tweeted event in history, calling it “a global event.” The hashtag # AlDubEBTamangPanahon  (translation: AlDubEB  In the Right Time  in Tagalog) garnered 41 million tweets during the period around the Oct. 24 event, which was attended by some 55,000 fans and broadcast throughout the celebrity-crazed country. It eclipsed the previous record of 35.6 million tweets during the Brazil vs. Germany match at the FIFA World Cup in July 2014. The rather long Twitter hashtag only makes sense if you’re Filipino or watch the long-running Philippine noontime television show  Eat Bulaga  (the “EB...

Scientists Reveal a Bit of Good News About Greenland’s Great Melt By Emily J. Gertz | Takepart.com 5 hours ago TakePart.com     . View photo Scientists Reveal a Bit of Good News About Greenland’s Great Melt Climate change is speeding up the  melting of the great sheet of ice  covering  Greenland , a frozen mass the size of Alaska that holds an estimated 10 percent of the world’s ice—and scientists are sure of it. If the entire ice sheet melted, it would raise the level of the sea  by more than 20 feet worldwide . But within that certainty, there are still many open and important questions. How much faster is the ice sheet  melting ? Is that melt affecting the ice sheet in other ways? What does it mean for the pace of rising sea levels? On all these fronts, a glimmer of good news emerged this week. In  a study  published Thursday in the journal  Nature,  a team of scientists...

Dead comet with skull face to hurtle by Earth on Halloween   6 hours ago     . View photo A massive space rock that will shave by Earth on Halloween looks like a dead comet with a skull face, … Related Stories Big, 'Spooky' Asteroid to Fly by Earth on Halloween   SPACE.com Halloween Asteroid Flies By Earth Today: Watch It Live Online   SPACE.com Halloween asteroid to shave past Earth AFP Large asteroid set to shoot by Earth on Halloween   Reuters Boo! Halloween Asteroid Looks Just Like a Creepy Skull   SPACE.com Narrowly Escaping Disaster... Bored Lion   Sponsored   Miami (AFP) - A massive space rock that will shave by Earth on Halloween looks like a dead comet with a skull face, NASA said after gaining a closer look at the spooky space object. Astronomers initially thought the object was an asteroid when they spotted it in early October, and named it Asteroid 2...

Aftermath of Gargantuan Landslide Captured in Space Image   By  Jeanna Bryner 10 hours ago     . View gallery . A huge chunk of rock and ice slid down the flanks of Canada's Mount Steele on Oct. 11, at a dizzying speed — one estimate suggests a whopping 123 mph (nearly 200 km/h). The aftermath of the gargantuan  landslide  — about 50 million tons (45 million metric tons) tumbled down the mountain — was captured in a stunning satellite image, released last week by NASA's Earth Observatory. The fifth tallest mountain in Canada, Mount Steele is a major peak in the Saint Elias Mountains, towering over part of the southwestern Yukon Territory. And it's laced with seismometers meant to capture waves of energy that travel through Earth's crust as a result of earthquakes, landslides and other jolts in Earth. [ Earth from Above: 101 Stunning Images from Orbit ] This month, cascading debris from th...

Analysis: China faces mounting pressure over maritime claims   By  MATTHEW PENNINGTON 19 hours ago     . View photo In this April 8, 2008, file photo, guided missile destroyer USS Lassen arrives at the Shanghai International Passenger Quay in Shanghai, China, for a scheduled port visit. Just two days after the USS Lassen sailed past one of China's artificial islands in the South China Sea in a challenge to Chinese sovereignty claims, Defense Ministry spokesman Col. Yang Yujun said Thursday that China will take "all necessary" measures in response to any future U.S. Navy incursions into what it considers its territorial waters around the islands. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File) WASHINGTON (AP) — Pressure on China over its claims to most of the strategic South China Sea went up a couple of notches this week. First, the U.S. sent a warship in its most direct challenge yet to Beijing's artificial island building. T...