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Warren Buffett has teamed up with a British company to create an animated series called "The Secret Millionaire's Club" to teach children how to invest their money. Storylines will include corporate raiders, crooked politicians, and corrupt accountants. Curt Nickish takes a look.

When Warren Buffet talks, the world listens. Now you can throw children into the legions of people who follow Buffett's advice. CNBC is reporting today that Buffett will appear in an animated web series called, "The Secret Millionaire's Club."

The idea is to get children to grasp basic finance lessons well before they do things like, say, agree to a risky, adjustable rate mortgage. Here's Buffett:

This seemed odd but , its become apparent that the popular free email service Hotmail or aka Windows Live Hotmail went down a few hours ago and a significant large number of users were affected. Users received a shocking message “you don’t have an inbox yet”. As a result, users have been unable to access their Hotmail mail account for hours on end. The lack of customer service and support from Hotmail’s end proved to be a major issue. Take a look at the screenshot of the incident below…

We had a look at the , which is supposedly the official online support page for issues like these and found the following message:

Hotmail and Windows Live ID experienced a service disruption starting at 8:44 PM (PST), which ended at 10:15 PM (PST), and during this disruption you may have been told your inbox did not exist. This was incorrect messaging. Your inbox, contacts and Live ID are all intact. We’re all Hotmail customers, so we appreciate how frustrating this experience was. Thanks for your understanding. If you’re still getting errors, please close out all browsers and sign in again.

It was after midnight that the above official message was posted, therefore according to Microsoft the service disruption should have stopped over 2 hours ago. Is anyone still have errors or problems access their inbox? If so it may be worth a try doing what Microsoft has suggested above.

This “inbox inaccessible” error incident marks the second time within the space of just one month this year, in which two major free mail service providers have left many of its loyal users completely confused as to what they should do without their emails, contacts, calendars. What can anyone do to avoid being struck by another “email crisis” situation in the future?

An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale rocked central Italy on Monday, seriously damanging some houses and causing a few structures to collapse in a mountainous region east of Rome, officials said.

A number of people were reported to have been injured and others trapped under rubble in the area where the city of l'Aquila is situated, but officials had few details on the situation.

Today's earthquake in the Abruzzo region of Italy is likely to have been triggered by the north-south faultline that dissects the length of the country and trails the central and southern Apennines.

The fault is one of two criss-crossing the peninsula. The second, which runs from east to west across the centre of Italy, is typically associated with milder tremors.

Caught between two faultlines at the juncture of tectonic plate movements between Europe and Africa, Italy is prone to regular earthquakes.

However, it is unusual for the country to experience an eathquake as deadly as today's.

In 2002, a quake in the southern town of San Giuliano di Puglia killed more than 25 people – the highest number to die in an Italian earthquake in more than two decades. More than 40,000 people lost their homes.

In 1980, more than 2,700 people were killed and more than several thousand injured in a quake measuring at least 6.9 on the Richter scale.

The epicentre was at Eboli, about 80km (50 miles) south of Naples.

One of Italy's most deadly earthquakes struck a century ago in 1908, destroying the Sicilian town of Messina and, according to some estimates, killed as many as 100,000 people.

And the massive destruction of this quake can be seen here

Here’s the map of Italy Earthquake today. The quake’s depth was only 10 km below the earth’s surface.

Sources:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7984969.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/06/italy-earthquake-abruzzo

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2009fcaf.php for data from USGS