23. desember 2005

P-to-P amendment delays French copyright bill. 9:49:31 PM    comment [] Korean stem cell pioneer walks plank. 'Intentionally fabricated' study results [The Register] 9:48:02 PM    comment [] Ford bails out Jaguar with £1.2bn. US carmaker Ford pumps £1.2bn into its UK subsidiary Jaguar in an effort to keep the luxury car firm afloat. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 9:46:58 PM    comment [] Tennyson great-grandson murdered. Victorian Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson's great-grandson is found stabbed to death. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 9:44:50 PM    comment [] EU-wide warrant over 'CIA kidnap'. Italy issues European arrest warrants for 22 suspected CIA agents for the alleged kidnap of a Muslim cleric. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 9:43:51 PM    comment [] Postman jailed for £20m fraud. A postman is jailed for more than six years for masterminding a cheque fraud thought to have netted £20m. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 9:42:54 PM    comment [] Judge Halts Calif. Violent Video Game Law . SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A federal judge has temporarily blocked a new state law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to minors, saying a lawsuit challenging the measure was likely to prevail on grounds of free speech. By MAY WONG. [washingtonpost.com - Technology - Industry News, Policy, and Reviews] 9:41:42 PM    comment [] Another School Barrier for African Girls: No Toilet. A lack of girls-only latrines in sub-Saharan Africa causes one in 10 girls to skip school during puberty. By SHARON LaFRANIERE. [NYT > Home Page] 9:40:00 PM    comment [] China Moves to Put Jailed Times Researcher on Trial. Zhao Yan, a researcher for The New York Times, was indicted today for revealing state secrets to the newspaper, his lawyer said. By JIM YARDLEY. [NYT > Home Page] 9:38:58 PM    comment [] Lebanon deal on terror suspects. Terror suspects face deportation to Lebanon under a deal announced by the Foreign Office. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 9:37:47 PM    comment [] Killing of Iraq Kurds 'genocide'. A Dutch court rules that the killing of thousands of Kurds in Iraq in the 1980s was an act of genocide. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 9:36:42 PM    comment [] U.S. Plans Slight Force Cut in Iraq, Rumsfeld Says. The decision signals a cautious realignment has begun, one intended to bring troop levels to their lowest point since mid-2004. By THOM SHANKER and ERIC SCHMITT. [NYT > Home Page] 9:35:11 PM    comment [] Government Finds Seesaw View of Housing Market. Sales of new homes fell in November from a record-setting pace, and the number of homes for sale touched a new high. By VIKAS BAJAJ. [NYT > Home Page] 9:32:53 PM    comment [] Rex Hammock: "Another person in my office lost all of her Apple iTunes store purchases when her PowerBook's hard drive crashed. Despite the obvious fact that Apple knows she has purchased these tunes and that her problem was caused by an Apple hardware problem, their response is: You should have backed it up. Huh? To what?" [Scripting News] 9:31:51 PM    comment [] West End rapist in fourth attack. Police hunting a rapist targeting women in London's West End say he has struck for a fourth time. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 9:30:28 PM    comment [] Chad in 'state of war' with Sudan. Chad's government accuses Sudan of being the enemy of the people after a rebel attack on its eastern border. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 9:29:22 PM    comment [] Doherty 'will love Moss forever'. Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty talks about his relationship with model Kate Moss and his fight with drugs. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 9:28:25 PM    comment [] NBC Buys Majority Stake in MSNBC . NEW YORK -- NBC Universal has acquired a controlling interest in MSNBC, the struggling all-news cable channel, from its partner in the venture, Microsoft Corp., the companies said Friday. By AP. [washingtonpost.com - Business] 9:27:17 PM    comment [] Google to hold AOL stake in new company. 9:26:20 PM    comment [] Enraged woman vents by swallowing cell phone. A mobile mouthful [The Register] 9:24:20 PM    comment [] Uzbek interior minister resigns. An Uzbek government minister closely linked to the bloody crackdown in Andijan last May resigns. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 9:23:17 PM    comment []

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