The blind will have greater access to the Internet through smart phones, and devices such as iPhones and Blackberrys will have to be hearing aid compatible, under legislation Congress has sent to the president.
Mark Richert of the American Foundation for the Blind said Wednesday that the measure was one of the most comprehensive bills in decades to improve access for the disabled. “It breaks down barriers for all of us,” said Richert, who is blind — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Media Watch last night quietly imploded a major story by Seven News reporter Mike Duffy who claimed last week that he had smuggled a suitcase of explosives into Dehii’s Jawaharlal Nehru stadium.
Duffy claimed that he walked into one of the venue with a case of explosive which could have triggered explosions if fitted with a detonator. He showed footage apparently walking past lax Indian security without being detected — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Drivers on Australia’s busiest train line are voicing their alarm about an unprecedented number of dangerous mud holes along the track that have the potential to cause derailments — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The future of the $2.4 billion Waratah train project has been thrown into doubt, with the state government indicating it is unwilling to cover a potential $357 million funding shortfall prompted by the threatened withdrawal of four banks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An Australian man with criminal convictions for pretending to be a doctor has conned his way into a position at one of the most prestigious medical schools in Britain.
And despite being on a two-year-good behaviour bond, Vitomir Zepinic has continued the deception, telling an international war crimes tribunal he has a medical degree — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Major delays are continuing for passengers travelling with Virgin Blue, after a computer glitch yesterday brought down the airline’s check-in system at airports across the country — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Pentagon has burned 9,500 copies of Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer’s memoir “Operation Dark Heart,” his book about going undercover in Afghanistan.
A Department of Defense official tells Fox News that the department purchased copies of the first printing because they contained information which could cause damage to national security.
The U.S. Army originally cleared the book for release.
The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency attempted to block the book about the tipping point in Afghanistan and a controversial pre-9/11 data mining project called “Able Danger.”
In a letter obtained by Fox News, the DIA says national security could be breached if “Operation Dark Heart” is published in its current form. The agency also attempted to block key portions of the book that claim “Able Danger” successfully identified hijacker Mohammed Atta as a threat to the United States before the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks — via teddri.newsvine.com
China has issued a health alert in its south-western region of Tibet after five people were diagnosed with the plague, an often fatal infectious disease.
One of the five has already died from a severe lung infection attributed to the pneumonic plague, while one other patient was in a critical condition, the Tibet health department said in a statement on its website — via richardfarner.newsvine.com
Google’s Street View programme, which takes photographs of public roads and puts them online as a navigation tool, has an ambitious new project – to capture the archaeological sites of Rome — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The RSPCA have criticised a sick prank
in which a cat had its fur dyed pink and was then thrown over a garden fence in Swindon — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A care firm has apologised after an elderly blind woman was left alone for two days after her carers did not turn up to help her — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Kerry O’Brien, the veteran host of the ABC’s 7.30 Report, has announced he is stepping down from the role — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The US broadcasting regulator has announced it will make unused television airwaves available for new “super wi-fi” technology — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A petition calling for firm action to halt piracy, signed by more than 900,000 seafarers, has been handed over to the United Nations’ International Maritime Organisation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A phone box in a North Yorkshire village which was lying empty has been taken over by residents and is being used as a tiny library — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A fifth child has died in Peru in an outbreak of rabies spread by vampire bats, say health officials — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Parents of children in Scotland who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) could soon be offered special parenting classes — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The former girlfriend of an Indiana teenager who pleaded guilty to murder says he told her he wanted to be just like the TV serial killer Dexter before he strangled his 10-year-old brother — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The European Commission (EC) has told UK telco giant BT that the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) will not force internet service providers (ISPs) to police their networks for copyright infringement — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Queensland Police has warned of a surge in fake Microsoft phone scams targeting home computer users in the state — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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