There are further calls for the competition regulator to investigate the slashing of milk prices by the big supermarkets after the price of fuel jumped significantly over the weekend — via redwolf.newsvine.com
International marriages are on the rise, and subsequently so are cases in which former spouses engage in international custody battles over their children.
To help address this situation, the government set up a senior vice-ministerial council involving related ministries and tasked with discussing the possibility of Japan joining an international convention. The discussions necessary for Japan to join the convention should be expedited.
The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction contains the principle that children from an international marriage who are removed from their country of residence by one of their divorced parents, without the other parent’s consent, must be returned to the country of residence.
Signatory nations are obligated to provide administrative cooperation in such efforts as discovering the whereabouts of such children and restoring them to their country of habitual residence.
Eighty-two countries, mostly in the West and Latin America, have signed the convention, while Japan has not — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Officers from the Australian Federal Police allegedly stole and concealed documents that could have helped a former pilot and businessman fight allegations he had raped a 14-year-old girl in PNG — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Schools, hospitals, churches and other public sites are being systematically rezoned for residential development across the state in what critics say means open slather for land to be sold to developers without safeguards — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A privately owned animal pound in Sydney is to become the first in the state to promise not to put any animals down, and to find homes for every healthy pet that comes through its doors.
The ambitious aim has been achieved by shelters elsewhere, said Tim Vasudeva, the manager of the Sydney Cats and Dogs Home in Carlton — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Vodafone Group has shut down cell phone service in Egypt after being ordered to do so by the government, which is under siege by protesters — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Fancy starting up your own secure ISP in a bomb-proof nuclear bunker, like the ones that hosted The Pirate Bay and whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks? Then we might just have found the premises for you — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Microcredit lifted 10 million Bangladeshis out of poverty between 1990 and 2008, according to a report — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Global software giant CA Technologies yesterday revealed it had acquired a Sydney start-up, Torokina Networks, which specialises in providing fault, several level and performance management technologies and services to support the implementation of next-generation mobile networks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australia’s spam rate has fallen by more than 15 per cent since July 2010, and it’s now 1.3 percentage point below the average 78.6 per cent registered globally, according to a report published today by Symantec’s MessageLabs division — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A man has been arrested for allegedly keeping his wife locked up for eight years in the dark, dank cellar of their home in southeastern Brazil, police say.
Joao Batista Groppo, 64, was arrested after his wife of 40 years, Sebastiana, was found confined in a filthy, dark
cellar, said police inspector Jaqueline Barcelos Coutinho.
Groppo’s girlfriend, Maria Furquim, was arrested as an accomplice by police in Sorocaba, about 80km west of Sao Paulo, the inspector said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
US investigators have been unable to find evidence directly linking WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, the army private suspected of passing on confidential documents to the whistleblowing website, according to a report last night — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Another blow has been delivered to the mass BitTorrent lawsuits that were introduced in the United States last year. The German-based copyright profiteers DigiProtect sued hundreds of alleged BitTorrent users a month ago, but now more than half of the cases have been orally dismissed — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is pressing the Federal Government to give it enough power to prevent price signalling by banks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
US states are facing a new obstacle to enforcing the death penalty after the sole American manufacturer of a drug used in lethal injections announced it was ending production — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A council is proposing to save money – and combat global warming – by heating a leisure centre and swimming pool using heat generated by the crematorium next door — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A 32-year-old man is accused of forcing his girlfriend to watch while he sexually assaulted her 12-year-old daughter three times — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Vodafone has terminated its dealer agreement with Communications Direct after this website on Friday revealed allegations that staff at the dealer were misusing customer information and forwarding detailed call records outside the company — via redwolf.newsvine.com
MI5 and MI6 will argue in a test case before the supreme court tomorrow that in future no intelligence gathered abroad, even if initially obtained through torture, should ever be disclosed in a British ourt.
Last year an appeal court dismissed what it described as an attempt to undermine a fundamental principle of common law: that a litigant must see and hear the evidence used against him or her.
Now the security and intelligence agencies are challenging that ruling in an unprecedented case. The Guardian, the Times, the BBC, and the human rights groups Liberty and Justice will argue before the country’s most senior judges that if the agencies get their way, the right to a fair trial will be eroded, while public confidence in decisions taken by the courts will be diminished — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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