An Australian-owned security firm operating in Afghanistan has been accused by a US Senate committee of theft and corruption — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A major policy shift on the length of time terror suspects can be held without charge was signalled by Labour today, after the shadow home secretary said he could support cutting the limit to 14 days.
Ed Balls said that the party was ready to abandon backing for the current 28-day limit, which was introduced by the Labour government in 2006, and added that previous plans to raise this to 42 days had been a step too far
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
An American nuclear scientist says he was shown a vast new nuclear facility when he visited North Korea last week.
Dr Siegfried Hecker said he had been shown hundreds of centrifuges for enriching uranium, which can be used for making nuclear weapons — via dungbeetlemania.newsvine.com
Experts dissecting the computer worm suspected of being aimed at Iran’s nuclear program have determined that it was precisely calibrated in a way that could send nuclear centrifuges wildly out of control.
Their conclusion, while not definitive, begins to clear some of the fog around the Stuxnet worm, a malicious program detected earlier this year on computers, primarily in Iran but also India, Indonesia and other countries — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A US senator has vowed to fight attempts to pass a controversial copyright protection bill that would allow the US government to shut down websites suspected of hosting infringing materials.
Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, said late Thursday that he would seek to block the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, or COICA, from passing through the full Senate, unless the legislation is changed. Earlier Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 19-0 to approve the bill and send it to the full Senate — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A friend of mine sent me this about his TSA experience. He, unlike most of us, was coming back into the country from Afghanistan on a military charter — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The bodies of three people who vanished a week ago in the US state of Ohio have been found in rubbish bags stuffed in a hollow tree trunk, police said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A well-known and respected computer security researcher was detained for several hours Wednesday night by border agents who searched his laptop and cell phones before returning them to him.
The researcher, who goes by the hacker handle Moxie Marlinspike, was met by two US Customs and Border Protection agents at the door of his plane when he arrived at JFK airport on a Jet Blue flight from the Dominican Republic. The agents escorted him to a detention room where they held him for four and a half hours, he says. During that time, a forensic investigator arrived and seized Marlinspike’s laptop and two cell phones, and asked for his passwords to access his devices. Marlinspike refused, and the devices were later returned to him — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An Austrian doctor, who says he can cure cancer, has admitted he gave false information to authorities to try to practice in Australia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
When Dave Talley, a Tempe homeless man, found a backpack this month at the light-rail station near Rural Road and University Drive, his first thought was to look through the bag for the owner’s identification or contact information. Instead, he found an envelope containing about $3,300 in cash.
The temptation to keep the money was almost overwhelming, he said. Then, his conscience kicked in.
The reality set in that it wasn’t my money and it needed to be turned over,
he said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
At least seven people have been charged with participating in an international organ-trafficking network based in Kosovo that sold kidneys and other organs from impoverished victims for up to $200,000 to patients from as far away as Israel and Canada, police and senior European Union officials said Monday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
India has lost more than $460bn since Independence because of companies and the rich illegally funnelling their wealth overseas, a new report says — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A dog credited with saving her owner’s life in Afghanistan, by barking at a suicide bomber, has been put down by mistake in Arizona after straying and ending up in a pound — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australia will move on Wednesday to restrict internet tobacco advertising, preventing retailers from promoting cheap or tax free cigarettes, as part of a campaign to cut smoking rates by 10 percent by 2018 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A German court has ruled that tattooing a pony with the Rolling Stones’ famous tongue logo would infringe animal rights law — via redwolf.newsvine.com
For 18 minutes in April, China’s state-controlled telecommunications company hijacked 15 percent of the world’s Internet traffic, including data from US military, civilian organizations and those of other US allies — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Legislation to introduce mandatory ISP filtering has now been deferred to the second half of 2013, according to strategy papers issued by the Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Chinese doctors saved a girl’s hand by sewing it to her leg.
Ming Li’s left hand was severed from her wrist when she was run over by a tractor in July and was too badly damaged to reattach immediately after it.
Medics decided to temporarily attach the hand to her right calf so it could heal.
Surgeons have now successfully transplanted the nine-year-old girl’s hand back on to her arm and are confident she will be able to use it normally with no long-term side-effects — via redwolf.newsvine.com
NSW’s State Records Authority is unable to archive digital records supplied by government departments and agencies due to a lack of infrastructure
, in breach of laws requiring access to public records — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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