Kim Jong Un

Rumours that Kim Jong-un, North Korea's newly anointed supreme leader, had been assassinated originated on Chinese microblogging service Weibo Friday, and spread swiftly on Twitter. Related Kim Jong-un assassination rumours flood Twitter.com.

While users on Chinese microblogging site Weibo are messaging that Kim Jong-Un, son of Kim Jong-Il and new leader of North Korea, was assassinated at the North Korean embassy in Beijing this morning.

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Tesla Model X

Today Tesla unveiled their all new Tesla Model X, their very own SUV prototype. It will go from 0-100 km/h in just 4.4 seconds and features gullwing like doors. It looks like the SUV will have lots of space and furthermore the interior is also looking good. Musk says it's time to look ahead. “The reason for bringing the Model X out now,” Musk said, “is to show that we really can do more than one car.

Tesla's 2014 Model X electric crossover is finally on the loose--digitally, at least--and it's a falcon-winged bubble of awesome. Tesla Model X crossover may actually have a higher top price than the $80000 we initially reported. In all, Tesla plans to sell about 15 thousand new Tesla Model X annually. This machine will be the third model in the line of the company.

The car is based on the Tesla Model S, so expect an identical electric motor and lithium-ion batteries. Recall, depending on the number of batteries Tesla Model S has a cruising range of 250 to 480 km.

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Woolly Mammoth

A hungry woolly mammoth has allegedly been caught on film in Siberia by a government-employed engineer last summer. Thought to be extinct for over 4000 years this woolly mammoth seems to be alive and well. According to a story in The Sun newspaper, a new video has surfaced that seems to show a live woolly mammoth — an animal the scientists say has been extinct for about four millennia.

If you saw a woolly mammoth crossing a river and wanted the world to believe you, wouldn't you get as close as you could for the clearest footage? The debates over the footage are: is it really a woolly mammoth (no) or a bear with a salmon in its mouth.

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Stefon Diggs

Stefon Diggs appears poised to bring his breakaway ability to College Park. He is expected to announce his decision Friday. While Auburn waits for Friday night's decision from 5-star wide receiver Stefon Diggs, the Tigers are already hot on the heels of his teammate from Good Counsel in Olney, Md., junior wide receiver Andre Levrone.

Stefon Diggs will not commit on National Signing Day, instead waiting to take a visit to Maryland this weekend. MaxPreps has learned that Our Lady of Good Counsel (Olney, Md.) wide receiver Stefon Diggs will make his fifth and final visit.

Remember when five-star wide receiver recruit Stefon Diggs decided to make a last-minute visit to College Park over the weekend? Guess who hosted him. We already knew that this was in the works.

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No Child Left Behind

It could be the beginning of the end for the No Child Left Behind law. The goal was lofty: Get all children up to par in math and reading by 2014. Tennessee is one of 10 states to receive a waiver releasing it from the No Child Left Behind law. Chris Caldwell is on Shelby County's unified school board.

Some of the largest states, including Texas, are questioning whether the Obama administration's offer to let them escape certain mandates of the No Child Left Behind law is a helping hand to improve education. President Barack Obama, accompanied by Education Secretary Arne Duncan, speaks about flexibility for states in the No Child Left Behind law, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, in the East Room.

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