Dubbed as the most realistic screen depiction of the mafia, the movie Gomorrah is a bleak and ruthless look at the all-pervasive organized crime network in Naples. Investigative reporter Roberto Saviano, a lifelong native of Naples, reveals the criminal underbelly of his city in frightening detail.

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan – The spacecraft Soyuz blasted off early this Sunday from Khazakstan. The crew consisting of 6 people namely: Commander E. Michael Fincke, Flight Engineers Yury V. Lonchakov, Gregory E. Chamitoff, Sandra H. Magnus, Koichi Wakata and a spaceflight participant Richard Garriott.
Richard Garriott is a computer game-developer multi-millionaire. He is a private passenger aboard a Soyuz capsule, having paid the Russian space agency $30 million for the privilege and undergone a year’s training.
The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft has penetrated the orbit and will be docking with the ISS in …

Scientists have found 274 new marine species beneath the surface of the ocean near Australia.

According to Billboard.com the Beastie Boys have drafted Sheryl Crow, Norah Jones, Jack Johnson and Ben Harper to join them on the Get Out and Vote tour, which will begin Oct. 28 in Richmond, Virginia. Shows are also set for Nov. 1 in St. Paul Minnesota, and Nov. 2 in Milwaukee.
“This election is too important to stay at home,” adding that it is endorsing Barack Obama for president. “We hope that you can come out, have a nice night, dance, sing, get your freak on, and then wake up the …

Several weeks after the successful launch, GeoEye-1 started collecting new images of the Earth for customers at a higher resolution. The said customers include companies from oil and gas, insurance, risk management, real estate and mining industries, the internet giant Google as well as local and foreign government and military.
With Geo-Eye, objects as small as 16 inches could still be distinguished. However, Google will only access images at half-meter ground resolution because of licensing restrictions. Google will also not be able to show images of some protected places to the …

According to MacNewsWorld, Apple’s doing something with notebooks. There are a lot of rumors that there’s an $800 MacBook on the way. Would a cheaper notebook open more doors for Apple, or would bargain-minded buyers go for even cheaper PCs?
The $800 price point — a $300 drop from the lowest-end existing MacBook — is still a rumor, born out of some alleged price sheets that Apple may or may not have sent to its retailers. However, the secretive Apple guaranteed something relating to laptops will happen when it sent out …

A lot of kids go a little crazy these days, so maybe that’s what’s happening to High School Musical 3 hunk Zac Efron, who is reportedly considering following in Harry Potter’s path in the Broadway production of Equus.

Brazilian forward Ronaldo, has received an offer to join Paris Saint-Germain but has also not ruled out a future partnership with Robinho at Manchester City.
The three-time FIFA World Player of the Year is recovering from a career-threatening knee injury. Ronaldo sustained the injury eight months ago while playing in Serie A for Milan but was released by the Italian club this summer.
“Paris is a city that I love and they have a great project to win the league title,” admitted Ronaldo in an interview with Gazzetta dello Sport.
“However, at …

BUDAPEST, Hungary — NATO defense ministers authorized attacks on Afghanistan’s drug trade, after the United States reached a compromise with its other 25 allies in a major shift in strategy for the alliance.
The United States had been pushing for NATO’s 50,000 troops to take on a counter-narcotics role to hit back at the Taliban, whose increasing attacks have cast doubt on the prospects of a Western military victory in Afghanistan.
However, Germany, Spain and others were wary and their doubts led to NATO imposing conditions on the anti-drug mandate for the …

The U.N. health bureau says it is investigating an unknown disease that killed three people in Johannesburg.

The Swedish Academy granted the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio.