Beset by war against violent extremists, Pakistan is now thrusting itself on to the frontline of a silent battle: the world’s final assault on polio.
Asif Ali Zardari, the country’s president, is launching an emergency drive to immunise 32 million children under the age of five against polio, aiming to reverse an alarming surge in cases last year. — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A founder of the internet has heaped praise on the National Broadband Network but warned it will be difficult to predict its economic benefits — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An Australian soldier has been awarded the country’s highest military honour, the Victoria Cross, for bravery while serving in Afghanistan — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Duane R Clarridge parted company with the Central Intelligence Agency more than two decades ago, but from poolside at his home near San Diego, he still runs a network of spies.
Over the past two years, he has fielded operatives in the mountains of Pakistan and the desert badlands of Afghanistan. Since the United States military cut off his funding in May, he has relied on like-minded private donors to pay his agents to continue gathering information about militant fighters, Taliban leaders and the secrets of Kabul’s ruling class — via supersaiyan.newsvine.com
The Museum for African Art, New York, and Columbia University’s Institute of African Studies, Committee on Global Thought, and Center for African Education have announced the creation of Sightlines: New Perspectives on African Architecture and Urbanism, a lecture series devoted to Africa’s rapidly changing urban environments.
Sightlines will comprise talks by distinguished practitioners of architecture, urban planning, and architectural theory, each of whom will apply his or her particular area of expertise to the exploration of contemporary African cities as unique built environments. The lectures, which will be open to the public free of charge (see schedule below), will examine the architectural, social, physical, and emotional contours of the cities, while also addressing the global relevance and applicability of this emerging field of discourse. Sightlines additionally includes a lecture by Senegalese artist Viye? Diba, whose work is tied to urbanization– via ArchDaily
One of Australia’s biggest banks has raised the prospect that people who have lost everything from flooding in Queensland and Victoria may not need to repay their home loans — via redwolf.newsvine.com
More than 1,000 dogs and 200 teams are preparing to take part in Britain’s biggest husky race, in the forests around Aviemore — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A gay couple has been granted full parenting rights to their daughters who were conceived using an overseas surrogate mother — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Julia Gillard’s bid to censor the internet is not an effective move
, says Vint Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the internet and Google’s chief web evangelist — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The CSIRO has aired tentative plans to expand its datacentre footprint in the nation’s capital, calling for expressions of interest from vendors — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A man on fire, who later died, has been found by emergency crews in a south London wood — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google Earth, the Chrome browser and photo service Picasa will be available for download in Iran for the first time, the search giant has announced — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Audit Bureau of Circulations’ attempt to bring greater transparency to newspaper figures has taken longer than anticipated, with a pre-Christmas deadline missed and the flood emergency creating further delays — via redwolf.newsvine.com
After losing almost everything in the floods, the Butcher family thought they had also said goodbye to their 14-year-old border collie, Rue — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Environment officials from the European Union are preparing to prosecute the Swedish government after it again allowed the hunting of wild and endangered wolves — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The United Commercial (UCO) Bank has opened the country’s first lockless branch at Shani Shinganapur in Maharashtra, even as the Centre has made hi-tech security mandatory for all nationalized and private sector banks. Shani Shinganapur is a small village in Ahmednagar district whose presiding deity is Lord Shani. More than 5,000 devotees visit the temple every day, while on weekends the number crosses the 1 lakh mark.
We took note of the general belief and faith of the people. Ever since the most revered temple came into existence several years ago, the village has not witnessed a single crime. In fact, all houses in the entire village have no doors. We took the risk and started the lockless bank a week ago,
a senior bank official said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian National University in Canberra could soon house artefacts from Washington’s Smithsonian Air and Space Museum after a landmark agreement between the two institutions — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Internal US government reviews have determined that a mass leak of diplomatic cables caused only limited damage to US interests abroad, despite the Obama administration’s public statements to the contrary — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A skilled butcher slit the throat of a man who was in a relationship with his wife, stabbed him six times and left him dead in an alley, a court heard — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Julia Gillard is standing by an exemption from freedom of information laws for NBN Co – the publicly-owned company building Australia’s biggest infrastructure project.
As an incorporated company, NBN Co will avoid FOI scrutiny, unlike Australia Post, the ABC, SBS and Telstra before it was privatised — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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