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Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani was sentenced to death due to adultery. The verdict is final: she will be stoned to death. This will be done at any minute.
In stoning, Ashtiani will be buried up to her chest and stones will be hurled at her – enough for her to suffer pain before she is killed. To be given the stoning sentence, there should be at least four witnesses: four men or three men and two women. This is according to the Article 74 of the Iranian penal code. The public is …

Many are wondering if the post office is open today. As the government had previously announced, July 5th was declared as an official holiday. All government offices are closed, and so are most business establishments.

UPDATE: Wikipedia is already up.
When one huge site is down, people wanted to know exactly what was going on. Such was the case with Wikipedia: it had encountered a downtime that lasted more than an hour just a few moments earlier.
There wasn’t an official release as to what reason the Wikipedia downtime happened. Some say it might have been affected by the power outage in California, while another set of people speculated that the site was hacked – intentionally, while people are enjoying the 4th of July celebrations.

During the downtime, …

CGIS has several meanings:

Coast Guard Investigative Service which is part of the United States Coast Guard service whose mission is to carry out internal and external criminal investigations.
Center for Government and International Studies which is part of Harvard University.
CG Industrial Specialties that has to do with the isolation and control valves.
Center for Geographic Information System which is part of the Towson University.

and several other meanings, when one attempts to find the acronym’s meaning online.

The Whiter Shade of Pale is a hit single released late 1960s. The song was sung by Procul Harum. After the song’s release it topped the UK Singles Chart for several weeks, not to mention that this song made it to the US charts as well.
The song was featured in many films. A chart compiled by BBC Radio 2 in 2009 even placed this song as the most played song in public places for the past 75 years.

In 2005 Matthew Fisher, Procul Harum’s organist, started a lawsuit against the lead …