Police in India have arrested a Sri Lankan man with 2,060 diamonds and other precious stones in his stomach — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Thomas Young doesn’t like barking dogs. He hates them so much, in fact, that Stanwood Police say he came home drunk on Wednesday night and killed his roommate’s three mixed-breed puppies. Though Young, 56, is claiming he doesn’t know how the puppies died, the cops say they found him with blood on his hands and shirt and three no-longer-barking-dogs in his living room — via redwolf.newsvine.com
MI6 has declined to pass on information about individuals to foreign countries if it could lead to torture even though terrorist activity
could be the end result, the head of the agency said.
Sir John Sawers, responding to persistent allegations of collusion in torture by the security and intelligence agencies, described the potential to save lives but said the risk of human rights abuse threw up real, constant, operational dilemmas
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
A NSW high school has installed secure
fingerprint scanners for roll call, which savvy kids may be able to circumvent with sweets from their lunch box — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Dot Dawson, the widow of country music legend Smoky Dawson, has died at the age of 104 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
More than 1400 adults and children who were never convicted of a crime were imprisoned last year, some for months, and the time people spend behind bars before being cleared by the courts is getting longer — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Dutch police and net security organisations have teamed up to dismantle many of the command and control servers associated with the Bredolab botnet.
The Bredolab Trojan, which has spyware components that allow criminals to capture bank login details and other sensitive information from compromised machines, has infected an estimated 30 million computers worldwide since its emergence in July 2009.
Infected machines remain pox-ridden but the command system associated with the cybercrime network has been decapitated, following an operation led by hi-tech police in The Netherlands — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Leading members of Germany’s foreign ministry were deeply involved in the Holocaust, according to an official report published yesterday which blew apart decades of diplomats’ denial they had played an important role in the mass murder of European Jews — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The NSW Government has introduced a bill to legally recognise the intended parents of children born through altruistic surrogacy — including same-sex couples — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The animal welfare group, Animals Australia, says unprecedented transport of livestock to eastern states from Western Australia is cruelty on a mass scale — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A telecommunications interception organisation has been created within the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) to provide wiretapping advice to law enforcement agencies — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Sydney police launched a major security operation at an inner-city university today after a student allegedly posted threatening online messages — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian government-owned science organisation CSIRO has described the future of solar technology in the country as having a global impact
after announcing the installation of 450 solar mirrors, or heliostats.
CSIRO will begin the rollout for Australia’s largest solar-thermal tower system at the CSIRO National Solar Energy Centre in Newcastle, New South Wales, according to an Oct. 26 press release by the organisation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Russell Williams — a colonel in the Canadian air force — was found guilty last week of brutally beating, raping and murdering two women, sexually assaulting two others, and committing or attempting 82 fetish home burglaries — via perezstuart.newsvine.com
Suddenly needing a crib, diapers and baby clothes, a new Calgary father was in a rush Wednesday morning to get the essentials for his little boy.
He vows the infant will be well cared for and promises to fight for custody.
In his first interview since the ordeal, the man whose baby was found in a northwest garbage bin Tuesday — by himself without knowing he was looking at his son — said he will do whatever he can for the infant that he and the baby’s mom didn’t know was coming — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A major neutrino observatory set to be built in India cleared a major hurdle this week, when the Ministry of Environment and Forests formally approved the project.
The $250 million underground laboratory, called the Indian Neutrino Observatory (INO), will be built in the Bodi West Hills Reserved Forest in the state of Tamil Nadu — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The dismembered body of a young albino boy has been found in a river on the Burundi-Tanzania border — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The legalisation of gay marriage is an inevitability and should be supported by Labor, according to a meeting of the party’s national Left yesterday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, and Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, lashed out together on Saturday at the Obama administration’s aggressive pursuit of whistle-blowers, including those responsible for the release of secret documents on the Iraq war — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Evidence has been found of a massive asteroid impact near the Queensland-South Australia border more than 300 million years ago.
The asteroid, which produced a shock zone at least 80km wide, could be the second-largest asteroid ever found in Australia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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