In 2002, Brandon Flowers was abandoned by his first band, a synthpop band known as Blush Response,^[1] after he declined to move with the rest of them to Los Angeles, California. He then met David Keuning after responding to an ad that Keuning had placed in a Vegas newspaper which listed Queen, Oasis, The Cure, U2 (for whom The Killers have since been an opening act), and The Beatles as influences.^[1][2] Ronnie Vannucci Jr. and Mark Stoermer were approached by Flowers and Keuning with an offer to join "The Killers", a name which comes from the bass drum of a fictional band in the music video for the New Order song "Crystal".^[1]

Initially, The Killers played at small clubs in Las Vegas, Nevada, where they often played at drag shows. With the band's lineup stable and its repertoire of songs expanding, the band attracted the attention of Alex Gilbert, a British representative for Warner Bros. Though Warner Bros. did not like the band, he took the demo back with him, showing it to friend Ben Durling, who worked at UK indie label Lizard King. The Killers went on to sign with the British label in July 2003.^[3]

On the 19 August 2003 , "Mr. Brightside" premiered on DJ Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show in the UK^[4]. The Killers then travelled to the UK and began to play shows in bars and clubs , the crowds grew everynight through word of mouth and critical reviews were extremely positive , upon returning to the US they were signed by Island Def Jam (yahoo news)

Dubai police chief plans to ask for the arrest of Prime Minister (PM) Israel Benjamin Netanyahu and the head of Israeli intelligence agency (Mossad) for killing the commander of the Hamas group.

Dahi Khalfan Tamim, Dubai police chief said he would ask prosecutors Dubai to issue an arrest warrant for Netanyahu and the head of the Mossad. Such as reported by Al Jazeera television station and reported by Reuters on Wednesday (3/3/2010).

But Al Jazeera did not give further details.

Tamim had previously said that he was "almost certain" Israeli agents involved in killing the commander of Hamas, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh at a hotel in Dubai in January. Tamim also urged Meir Dagan, the Mossad chief was arrested when the Israeli intelligence services proved to be responsible.

It is said Tamim, the Mossad had "insulted" Dubai and Western countries which used fake passports murder suspects.

A United Arab Emirates daily preaching, Dubai has asked the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to investigate the prepaid credit cards that use the U.S. output of the suspects.

Citing FBI sources, The National newspaper writing, the investigation will seek Israel's involvement in the murder.

"Thirteen of the 27 suspects using prepaid MasterCards issued by MetaBank, a regional U.S. bank, to buy a plane ticket and hotel reservation," the daily writes quoting Dubai police.

Killer team member using a false passport from the UK, Ireland, Germany, France and Australia. Israeli residents of the same name as a suspect, has dual citizenship, claiming their identity seems to have been stolen srael should be responsible for the killings of Hamas leaders, for the creation of justice in the middle east(yahoo news)

In the midst of planning the visit of U.S. President Barack Obama to Indonesia, his government was trying to lift the ban training Kopassus forces (Kopassus). The ban had been imposed by the U.S. government for 12 years.

Government Obama was planning to test the training program for young members of Kopassus. Four members of Kopassus, including his boss, Maj. Gen. Paul Lodewijk, was in Washington to discuss the plan.

"Details are resolved," said embassy spokesman for Indonesia as reported by the Washington Post, Wednesday (3/3/2010).

After meeting with the U.S. Army Command chief, Admiral Robert F Willard in Jakarta in February, Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro has estimated that the collaboration between the U.S. and the Special Forces will return to continue.

Obama's government step shows a desire to improve relations with Indonesia. "This is a very good sign," said Ernie Bower, an expert on Southeast Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies about the arrival of a delegation to Washington the Special Forces.

According to the 1997 decision known as Rule Leahy, the U.S. must not make the training of military units that have a history of foreign human rights violations unless the government takes effective steps to prosecute the perpetrators.

According to sources, to get around the rules, the government will only mentraining Obama and joint exercises with Kopassus soldiers are due to their age, could not be involved in human rights violations before the Special Forces.

But the move was rejected by various parties, including Obama's own party, the Democrats.

"We know there are some who want to continue aid to Kopassus, but U.S. law requires that the Indonesian government took steps to prosecute the members of Kopassus," said Senator Patrick J Leahy who heads the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on State Department.

Facebook does not merely display a fake user profile or the profile owner a dream account. In a recent study, revealed the fact that Facebook profiles actually show the real identity.

The study was conducted by psychologist Mitja Back from Johannes Gutenberg University in Germany. He and his team studied 133 Facebooker and as many as 103 account owners in similar sites in Germany aged between 17-22 years.

First, they were asked to describe their original personalities. Then they also asked to describe the ideal version of what they want and then from there they get a rating behavior.

Having studied and compared with their profile in cyberspace, rating it was most fit the description of their original identity compared with the ideal identity they put it.

How about you, whether Facebook account actuallydraw ur personality(detik com)

Throughout the weekend, residents of a small town in the arid regions of northern Australia have a rare blessing. City of fish they were hit by rain .
City of fish they were hit by rain ..

Page daily The Telegraph revealed, in two consecutive days Lajamanu city in the state of the Northern Territory many fish fall. Along with rain water, the fish comes out of nowhere from the sky.

Most of the fish is still alive. The rain had stopped the fish Monday, March 1, 2010.

The weather experts in Australia believe that the fish Spangled perch, one freshwater fish species in Australia, apparently sucked into the storm. They then brought high winds before finally falling in Lajamanu, a city population of just 669 people.The storm brought the fish up to a height of 40 thousand to 50 thousand feet in the air," said a senior expert at the Bureau of Meteorology of Australia, Mark Kersemakers. "When they come in 'the system' the storm, they were frozen. After some time, they are free from the storms," continued Kersemakers.

This is the third time within a period of more than 30 years in which the rain affected fish Lajamanu. Similar events occurredin 1974-2004.(viva news)