Results from Iranian presidential election start to trickle in.

-- The lines extended into the street at times, voters waiting to pick their choice to succeed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Some 70% of some 50 million registered voters -- men and women, young and old -- turned out according to state broadcaster Press TV, to pick a man who'll deal with high-stakes challenges domestically and internationally.

And now the results are starting to trickle in.

Based on two sets of still very early results, centrist candidate Hassan Rouhani had more votes than any other candidate, Interior Ministry officials said early Saturday.

As of about 7:15 a.m. Saturday (10:45 p.m. ET Friday), Rouhani had 834,859 votes; Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf had 320,562; Saeed Jalili had 257,822; Mohsen Rezaei had 214,368; Ali-Akbar Velayati had 106,144; and Mohammad Gharazi had 25,324.

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Re-enforce your purpose

I can’t emphasize strongly enough that knowing your purpose is crucial for your life course. Every young person comes to a time when he or she leaves childhood and enters adulthood. This is the time in which young people are trying to discover who they are and why they are. This is also often the time when we lose them or gain them----lose them to a destructive lifestyle and a wasted life or gain them for a positive, fulfilling future. Purpose, therefore is key to a young person’s effectiveness and happiness in life. 

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becoming a successful doctor

Being a doctor is a very challenging yet fulfilling career choice. But successfully agreed upon as being essentials to becom ng a successful doctor.

Aside from having technical knowledge, a good doctor must be a “people person’’ since the job entails a lot of interaction with patients, families, and other professional in the field. Doctors must effectively communicate with patients. Especially when patients are baffled by the complexity of their conditions. Doctors must also deliver bad news to patient and their families. This is perhaps one of the hardest tasks that a doctor must learn to do, but learning to do so with compassion is critical to a doctor’s success. 

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Dreaming Of A Better Nigeria

It is know that nigeria is turning into something else and we have entrust the leadership into the hands of the government and yet notting has been done. the world is becoming more insecure for the youngstars. and even our fathers and forefathers have not help. and expirience which is also known as the best teacher has not help us either. it is high time our fathers pave the way for the youth at hand to glamoriously lead us into our glaring glory.
           This is my pledge to Nigeria. 


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'Turkish leader set to meet with protesters after day of clashes, chaos.

 
-- They've faced off with police on the streets of Istanbul, breathed in tear gas, braved water cannons, and hoped and prayed the protest camp they set up in a downtown park won't be overtaken.

On Wednesday, some of their leaders are set to sit down face to face with the man they railed against as being too stubborn, too heavy-handed, too dictatorial: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

What began in late May as a demonstration focused on the environment -- opposition to a plan to build a mall in Istanbul's Gezi Park -- has evolved into a crusade against Erdogan that's spread around the country.

The official response has fanned the fury of protesters. Many of them are young professionals who considered themselves apolitical but now feel moved to action given what they see as an unnecessarily harsh, obstinate government.

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Oldest Man in History Dies

 
– Japan's Jiroemon Kimura has died after living longer than any man in recorded history. The 116-year-old was born in 1897, the same year as Amelia Earhart and a time when the average male life expectancy in Japan was just 44, the BBC reports. "He has an amazingly strong will to live," an 80-year-old nephew said in an interview last year. "He is strongly confident that he lives right and well." Kimura had seven children, 14 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren, and 13 great-great-grandchildren.

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Oprah Donates $12M to Black History Museum

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-- Former South African leader Nelson Mandela remained in intensive care Monday

-- Former South African leader Nelson Mandela remained in intensive care Monday, two days after he was hospitalized with a recurring lung infection.

The increasingly frail Mandela was rushed to a hospital in Pretoria on Saturday. Later in the day, the South African president's office said the 94-year-old former leader was in a "serious but stable condition."

He was breathing on his own and his wife was by his side, the office said at the time.

After offering no updates for 48 hours, the government said Monday that Mandela's condition was "unchanged."

Meanwhile, his daughter Zenani Dlamini, who is the South African ambassador to Argentina, has flown back to South Africa to be with her father.

Mandela has been in and out of hospitals in recent years.

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