A Brisbane woman who claims to have been drugged and raped by coworkers in Dubai plans to sue the Commonwealth of Australia after she was jailed for adultery.
Alicia Gali, 29, has already been granted leave to sue the Le Meridien Al Aqah Beach Resort in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, alleging her employer breached its workplace obligations by failing to have systems in place to protect workers against assault — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A group of parents here have turned an agitated lot after a primary school threatened to ban their children if they were not sent properly toilet-trained.
Headmistress Patricia Deus warned parents that her teachers were spending hours every week helping children as old as five to go to the loo. Many are still wearing nappies, Daily Express reported Saturday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
British intelligence has hacked into an al-Qaeda online magazine and replaced bomb-making instructions with a recipe for cupcakes.
The cyber-warfare operation was carried out by MI6 and the GCHQ signals intelligence agency to disrupt the terrorists’ attempts to recruit lone-wolf
agents using a new English-language web publication called Inspire — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy went in to bat for the Labor Government’s mandatory internet filter again, reaffirming the commitment to the unpopular policy. Nothing has changed since earlier debates; the filter still has the same problems it has always had -– it’s useless, unworkable and expensive. It still won’t help anybody — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A report has found Tasmania has the potential to triple the size of poppy cultivation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Kayla Raymond’s golden labrador Stormy has brightened the teenager’s life, navigating her through family tragedy.
The 18-year old Para West High student in Adelaide’s north, is part of the “Lab for life” program which links at-risk kids to train specially bred assistance dogs.
The service has been co-opted for a new youth mentoring program which will see 30 young people with disability or mental health issues go through the scheme in July — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Three people have reportedly been killed and seven are injured after an explosion at an Auckland construction site — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Content providers are stepping away from the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT)’s pursuit of ISPs over copyright infringement, and are open to iiNet’s piracy mediator model, according to iiNet’s chief regulatory officer Steve Dalby — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Nigerian police have raided a hospital in the south-eastern city of Aba, rescuing 32 pregnant girls allegedly held by a human-trafficking ring — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Co-founder of daily deals site Spreets has said that the Australia investment community doesn’t adequately support the start-up community down under and doesn’t move fast enough to capitalise on the next big thing
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Hackers in China have compromised personal email accounts of hundreds of top US officials, military personnel and journalists, Google has said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
US linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky has been named as the winner of this year’s Sydney Peace Prize.
He is to travel to Australia in November to give an address and receive the award, which carries a $50,000 purse and handmade glass trophy — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Eleven people stormed into a house in a central Indian village and assaulted a woman whom they accused of witchcraft, blinding her and her husband by stabbing them in the eyes with scissors, police said on Saturday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Some of you will shudder at this next line, and some of you will applaud. I want you to picture an America without government regulations on the private sector. An America where companies of all stripes, from the smallest hardware store to the biggest oil conglomerate, were given completely free reign to run their businesses however they wanted, making up their own rules along the way. I want you to imagine a world where the markets regulated themselves, wholly and fully, without any intervention whatsoever from local, State, or Federal government. If your imagination is struggling to draw a picture here, allow me to paint one for you — via matt-rock.newsvine.com
A bill moving through the US Senate that would grant the government greater power to shutter Web sites that host copyright-infringing content is under fire from security researchers, who say the legislation raises serious technical and security concerns
. Meanwhile, hacktivists protested by attacking the Web site of the industry group that most actively supports the proposal
The federal government has suspended exports of live cattle to a number of killing facilities in Indonesia following last night’s exposure of brutal practices in some of the country’s abattoirs.
Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig said the decision was based on footage collected by Animals Australia that showed cattle being mistreated before slaughter.
I have decided to halt the trade of live animals to the facilities identified by the footage,
he said in a statement today — via redwolf.newsvine.com
His head was swollen, purple and disfigured. His body was a mess of welts, cigarette burns and wounds from bullets fired to injure, not kill. His kneecaps had been smashed, his neck broken, his jaw shattered and his penis cut off.
What finally killed him was not clear, but it appeared painfully, shockingly clear that he had suffered terribly during the month he spent in Syrian custody.
Hamza Ali al-Khateeb was only 13 years old — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google Wallet is currently in a field test in the US only,
a spokesperson from Google Australia said. We don’t have specific dates to announce today but will keep you posted as we make progress.
Now sure, we know this is only a trial, but as we’ve previously noted several times, Google’s continual US focus — and the fact that some of the products and services which it launches never end up coming to Australia, where the search giant has a large presence — has started to grate a bit. And as we’ve been discussing this week, Australia is a very enthusiastic early adopter of both smartphones with nice NFC chips, as well as the Mastercard PayPass system which Google is using for Wallet — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Unemployment is a terrible scourge across much of the Western world. Almost 14 million Americans are jobless, and millions more are stuck with part-time work or jobs that fail to use their skills. Some European countries have it even worse: 21 percent of Spanish workers are unemployed.
Nor is the situation showing rapid improvement. This is a continuing tragedy, and in a rational world bringing an end to this tragedy would be our top economic priority.
Yet a strange thing has happened to policy discussion: on both sides of the Atlantic, a consensus has emerged among movers and shakers that nothing can or should be done about jobs. Instead of a determination to do something about the ongoing suffering and economic waste, one sees a proliferation of excuses for inaction, garbed in the language of wisdom and responsibility.
So someone needs to say the obvious: inventing reasons not to put the unemployed back to work is neither wise nor responsible. It is, instead, a grotesque abdication of responsibility — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A judge in Spain has ordered the arrest of 20 military officers from El Salvador for the 1989 killing of six Jesuit priests and two women.
The priests, their housekeeper and her daughter were shot dead by soldiers during El Salvador’s civil war.
The case was filed using Spain’s universal jurisdiction law, which holds that some crimes are so grave that they can be tried anywhere.
Among those indicted are two former defence ministers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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