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Most Shocking is an American reality television series that originally aired on Court TV and later its successor truTV. The series premiered on October 4, 2006 and ended on November 10, 2010, with a total of 89 episodes over the course of 7 seasons.
May. May 1 – 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt: Car bomb fails to go off in Times Square, New York City. May 6 – The "flash crash" occurs at the New York Stock Exchange, temporarily depleting 1,000 points off of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It is the largest intra-day fall ever.
Most Shocking is an American reality television series produced by Nash Entertainment and truTV Original Productions. A spin-off series entitled Top 20 Countdown: Most Shocking aired from 2009 to 2012. [1] The program held a TV-14 rating due to extremely violent situations depicted in the videos.
Disasters The Niger River bursts its banks forcing 5,000 people to lose their homes and crops. (BBC) A 7.6 magnitude earthquake and small tsunami hits the Pacific Ocean nation of Vanuatu. (AFP via Yahoo News Australia), (INO) Rescuers in China's Gansu province continue to search for 1,100 missing people in a recent landslide, as the death toll rises to 702. (BBC) (China Daily) A de Havilland ...
Business and economics Apple Inc. launches Ping. (BBC) A trade agreement between Australia and the European Union comes into effect stopping Australian wine being marketed using terms such as champagne and port. (ABC Online) (BBC) (People's Daily) The U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, upheld an injunction issued by a federal district court in Indiana in 2009, enjoining Teva ...
Business and economy China China's Xinhua launches a global 24-hour English TV news channel. (AP via Yahoo!) (Channel News Asia) The Shanghai–Nanjing High-Speed Railway goes into operation; the journey takes 73 minutes with a top-speed of 350km/h (217 mph). (Shanghai Daily) (Xinhua) Disasters and accidents Hurricane Alex, the first hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season, makes ...
Business and economy American bank Wells Fargo admits it made mistakes in 55,000 real estate foreclosure cases. (AP via Today Online) Disasters and accidents One sailor drowns and 12 are missing after a freighter carrying Chinese crew capsized off Taiwan. (Focus Taiwan News Channel) (Straits Times) Floods in 18 Thai provinces kill 59 people. (Bangkok Post) (UPI) Fatalities caused by the ...
Business and economy India and China help boost Asian shares outside Japan by 1.7%. (Livemint) Ambac Financial Group announces that it may have to declare bankruptcy, though it is still in talks with its senior bondholders about a consensual rescheduling of its debts. Before the 2008 financial crisis, Ambac was one of the two dominant bond insurance companies. (Reuters) An examiner appointed ...