Almost half of Zimbabwe’s civil servants are either not qualified or are not working, according to a leaked World Bank report obtained by the BBC — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A pilot has had a lucky escape after his helicopter crashed and burst into flames at Sydney’s Bankstown Airport this afternoon — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australian telcos will soon be required to retain customer traffic data under a new law proposed to allow Australia to accede to the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A 10-year-old Bolivian boy who hid on a truck in an effort to visit his mother in prison ended up in Chile after an unexpected 500-kilometre trek through the Andes mountains, officials said.
The boy, identified as Franklin Villca, ended up in the Chilean city of Iquique, 1,800 kilometres north of Santiago, after a three-day journey without food or water in the compartment of a truck carrying minerals — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Members of the digital communications technology industry are concerned that the government’s set-top box scheme will see a flood of shonky, unqualified operators contracted by the federal government to install digital aerials and antennas.
Technicians are currently expected to complete a certificate 2 and 3 diploma in digital reception technology. But this is not compulsory, and there is no mandatory standard — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Dallas will keep $2,000 found by a teenager in a parking lot last February.
The money will go into the city’s general fund — not back to Plano high school student Ashley Donaldson, who found the cash in an envelope at the Pavillion Shopping Center in North Dallas — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A 10-year-old boy charged with murdering his father at their home in California was being exposed to his father’s extreme neo-Nazi ideology of racism and violence at the time he allegedly turned a gun against him.
Evidence is mounting that Jeff Hall, 32, a white supremacist who led the National Socialist Movement in the south-west of the US, was involving his son in neo-Nazi activities before his death on 1 May.
A possible link between the group’s violent messages and the shooting – an act exceptionally rare for a child as young as 10 – could be an important factor in the boy’s trial — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Surprise! After months in the oven, the soon-to-be-released new version of a major US Internet censorship bill didn’t shrink in scope — it got much broader. Under the new proposal, search engines, Internet providers, credit card companies, and ad networks would all have cut off access to foreign rogue sites
— and such court orders would not be limited to the government. Private rightsholders could go to court and target foreign domains, too.
As for sites which simply change their domain name slightly after being targeted, the new bill will let the government and private parties bring quick action against each new variation.
Get ready for the PROTECT IP Act
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
More and more, people who until only recently had somewhere to live are out on the streets of Portland with their pets, said Amy Sacks, who runs the Pixie Project, a nonprofit pet store and shelter for animals.
She tracks down homeless people in alleys and under bridges and makes her pitch as to why they should make sure their pets get proper care — via redwolf.newsvine.com
WikiLeaks‘ Australian founder Julian Assange, who enraged Washington by publishing thousands of secret US diplomatic cables, has been given a peace award for exceptional courage in pursuit of human rights
.
Assange was awarded the Sydney Peace Foundation’s gold medal on Tuesday at the Frontline Club in London, only the fourth such award to be handed out in its 14-year history. The not-for-profit organisation is associated with the University of Sydney and supported by the City of Sydney — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Samoa looks set to try to change its time zone and move the country’s clocks forward by a day to be in line with Australia and New Zealand — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A man and his dog were stabbed in a vicious attack in Melbourne’s south-east this morning.
The 56-year-old old man was walking his dog – an Australian bulldog named Hank – in Greaves Reserve in the Dandenong Showgrounds Park at the intersection of Cheltenham Road and Bennet Street about 9am when the dog approached a man riding a mountain bike.
Police said the man became agitated before getting off his bike and producing a kitchen knife, which he used to stab the dog in the head.
When the owner went to protect his pet, he was stabbed in the forearm by the man, who then fled on his bike — via redwolf.newsvine.com
One of Premier Ted Baillieu’s newly elected MPs, Geoff Shaw, has deeply offended a young gay man by suggesting that his desire to love who he wanted was as illegitimate as a dangerous driver wanting to speed or a child molester wanting to molest — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In Hebei, China, a teenager named Lui Shi Ching, 16 years old, has carried his friend to school daily for the last 8 years. His friend Lu Shao has a congenital disorder which makes it difficult for him to walk — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It is the spirit that powers the Scottish economy, and now whisky is to be used to create electricity for homes in a new bioenergy venture involving some of Scotland’s best-known distilleries — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Steven and Roger Ham are raising 12 children, all adopted from foster care, in Arizona, one of the most unlikely places for two gay men to piece together a family.
In Arizona, two men can’t be married, nor adopt children together.
Steven and Roger Ham wanted a family. And each of their sons and daughters was desperate for one. But bringing together this family wasn’t easy.
We had to fight to get them,
Roger says.
We had to fight to get them all,
Steven says — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Paul Keating has severed official involvement with the $6 billion Barangaroo development by spectacularly quitting as chairman of its design review panel after a row with the Planning Minister, Brad Hazzard, whom he accused of trying to muzzle
him.
The former prime minister informed Mr Hazzard of his resignation last night after receiving a stinging reprimand over his dismissal of opponents of Barangaroo as sandal-wearing, muesli-chewing, bike-riding pedestrians
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Diamond had to overcome fire, smoke and her breed’s reputation to become a hero.
The 15-month-old dog is a pit bull — the canine of choice in dogfights, the dog most often cited in the news about vicious attacks and the most abandoned and euthanised dog in the country.
But on Wednesday, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles presented Diamond with their 29th annual National Hero Dog award — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Brazil’s Supreme Court has voted overwhelmingly in favour of allowing same-sex couples the same legal rights as married heterosexuals — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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