A strong collision with a car caused the coach carrying 55 college students to topple over near Beijing. The bus was returning after a seven-day long holiday that was celebrated all over China.

This is not the end to the road accidents reports, for there have been reports of two other major road accidents throughout the one-week holiday. Foggy weather and reduced visibility resulted in a major road accident that killed 10 people and injured 19 others in a vehicle pile-up in the eastern Anhui province.

Official reports and figures say that at least 65,000 people were killed last year while more than 250,000 were injured due to road accidents. This takes place mainly due to the foggy and low-visibility climate and sometimes also due to the heavy rains that some parts of China are famous for.

It was in July 2009 when Sarah Shourd, with her boyfriend Shane Bauer and friend Josh Fattal, decided to hike the autonomous area of Kurdistan of northern Iran. The route was safe from the then ongoing troubles in Iraq. What followed was not imagined by any of the American hikers. The three were captured by the Iranian authorities and accused of illegally crossing the border of Iraq in to Iran.

They were taken to the Evin Prison of Iran which is famous for its allegations of torture. Sarah was kept in solitary confinement, where she was allowed to make a phone call to her home after seven months. Though she says that the female prison guard was kind to her and would console her when Sarah would break down in to sobs of hopelessness, her male friends were physically harassed to quite an extent. Josh was thrown down the stairs for having taken extra food, while a guard knocked Shane’s head to the wall till his head started bleeding. Sarah recalls that there was a time when they were afraid that they would be executed.

After much trouble and trying from the families of the three hikers, as well as from the US government, Hillary Clinton requesting the Iranian head of the state for a few times to leave the three Americans on “humanitarian” grounds, Sarah was released after 14 months of imprisonment.

Shane and Josh are still in prison.

The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reportedly announced that the two men will be released on “humanitarian” grounds very soon. 26 months, and the wait is still on.

Amy Winehouse’s popular hit “Rehab” perhaps sums up the story of her life pretty well.

I’m gonna, gonna lose my baby,

So I always keep a bottle near.

Winehouse’ continuous struggle with addiction of alcohol and drugs brought her to her untimely end. Even her mother thinks that her death was “only a matter of time” as she was completely given to addiction, and could not recover from it at any time. Though it wont be known till October what was the real cause of her death, it seems to ba a generally accepted belief that it was her unthinking lifestyle coupled with the pressure of showbiz that drowned her in addiction and death.

Amy Winehouse succumbing to drug addiction has raised several important questions. There always remains a thin line between those to stay put and those who give up. But where does that thin line lay? What makes some survivors and others quitters?

Surveys give us some detailed data. While it has been now known that addiction starts mainly in adolescence, it has recently become clear that a 46 percent of Americans have had their tryst with drug. However, only a 8 percent has continued with the use of it. Compared to that, a 51 percent has become addicted to alcohol. These complicated data mean that people get habituated to drugs much less than they get addicted to alcohol.

The ones who become addicted to drug are usually those who have always had some psychiatric illness, like disorders of mood-swings, anxiety problems and personality disorders. National Institute of Mental Health’s Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study reports that those who already have a mental disorder are three times more vulnerable to addiction than those who do not suffer from mental illnesses.

In short, it is a matter of a complex combination of heredity, along with the environment in which a person is growing and the psychology of the person. With all, it is also a simple matter of luck and chance that decides who will be a survivor and who will succumb to the addiction.

With summer shining bright, hot girls from all around the business are stepping out, and how!Blending elegance and a relaxed attitude, Kate Bosworth, Kirsten Dunst and Lauren Santo Domingo hit the streets with style. With oodles of confidence, these three know how to keep their cool.

Camping Style

Those never-ending long legs are best in use when the girls show their assets with elan. When style icons decide to hit the road, that’s always in style.

High-Waist Fever

With girls wearing the pants everywhere, no wonder fashionistas will be seen in trousers as well. keeping it either messed up or simple, these ladies carry pants as if they were made for them since always.

Expensive Girl Next Door

Beauties with brains, these ladies swear by the keep-it-simple policy when it is summer style.

Shocking Sweethearts

If summer is the time for fashion,let the party begin. So seems the mantra of these young beauties. Playing around with electric colors, they play it bold and brave.