A leading Russian journalist has been left with a fractured skull, a shattered jaw and a broken leg after two men beat him close to death on the doorstep of his Moscow home.
Oleg Kashin, 30, a reporter with the influential daily newspaper, Kommersant, was rushed to hospital after the unknown assailants struck him repeatedly with a blunt instrument — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Twelve people, including four children, have been found suffocated and stabbed to death in a suspected mass murder in a house in southern Russia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A US jury has ordered a Minnesota woman to pay $US1.5 million ($1.47m) for illegally downloading 24 songs in a high-profile digital piracy case — via The Sydney Morning Herald
Remember the story about the 11-year-old girl who said someone tried to abduct her this morning? About that…
We just spoke with Tempe police Sergeant Steve Carbajal and it turns out the girl made the whole thing up — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The nation of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, found its access to the Internet severed by a massive denial of service attack, according to a report by Arbor Networks.
The source or motivation of the attack isn’t known, but it is believed that the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have targeted the country’s Ministry of Post and Telecommunication (or PTT), the main conduit for Internet traffic in and out of the authoritarian nation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A record 3,706 organ transplants took place in the UK last year, an increase of 5% on the previous 12 months.
But NHS Blood and Transplant said there was still a long waiting list, with three people a day dying because of a lack of a suitable organ.
The refusal of relatives to allow donation often remains a key obstacle — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In an effort to reduce illicit file-sharing, draft legislation was passed in Finland last week which will require Internet service providers to send letters to customers suspected of unauthorized sharing. The warnings will be initiated by copyright owners, but at no stage will Internet subscribers’ identities be compromised. A three strikes-style regime is not on the agenda — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The authorities in Kenya say game rangers have shot dead three suspected elephant poachers in two separate incidents over the past week — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The UK governments Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, Ed Vaizey, has ominously proposed that broadband ISPs could introduce a new Mediation Service that would allow them the freedom to censor third party content on the internet, without court intervention, in response to little more than a public complaint — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A botnet has been systematically attacking Web sites that post blogs or forums containing content critical of the Vietnamese Communist Party. The botnet, thought to include about 15,000 bots, is launching massive denial-of-service (DOS) attacks to make the content unavailable, according to security firm SecureWorks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The National Broadband Network will give the government an extraordinary opportunity to push its internet censorship agenda on Australians, a cyberspace policy expert says — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Eight new affordable housing projects in Docklands, Cheltenham, Dandenong, Footscray, Frankston and Ringwood are underway thanks to the partnership between the Gillard and Brumby Labor Governments — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The ABC’s network of foreign correspondents was in uproar last night.
The cause was management’s decision to sack some of their translators, researchers and fixers and close down their stand-alone bureaus to save costs — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The ABC will open a News bureau in Afghanistan in 2011.
The decision to establish a presence in Kabul follows a comprehensive review of the ABC’s international bureaux, and a reorganisation of bureau resources. The bureau will operate for at least 12 months as a base for coverage of news in the Afghanistan and Pakistan region.
It also follows the Federal Government recently saying Australia would be involved in the war in Afghanistan for at least
the next decade — via redwolf.newsvine.com
State Labor has stepped up its campaign against the surging Greens, targeting the party’s candidate for Melbourne, prominent barrister Brian Walters, and seeking to smear him as anti-Semitic and an unscrupulous lawyer — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has slammed the Federal Government’s proposed data retention law and called for an inquiry to ensure data is not mishandled if the plan goes ahead — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Greens have thrown their support behind Opposition treasury spokesman Joe Hockey’s push to rein in the banks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Switching Scotland to Central European Time would reduce road casualties, improve health and boost the economy, according to new research — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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