A California man was sentenced to six years in prison for his role in laundering $2.5m in proceeds from stolen credit card schemes — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Telcos are blaming technology-challenged customers for the surge in complaints about phone and internet services — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Farmer Andrew Thibault has nothing against Labor’s ambitious National Broadband Network. He’d just prefer some of the $43 billion set aside for the project was spent on more pressing infrastructure needs – such as a decent rail line to get his bumper winter harvest to market — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Labor’s plan to privatise its $43 billion National Broadband Network is in jeopardy. The problem has arisen after Greens senator Scott Ludlam pledged to fight for the project to remain in public hands — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Consumer groups want the communications watchdog to regulate the prices charged for so-called ‘free-call’ numbers when they are dialled from mobile phones — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A toddler was among four people killed after a woman armed with a shotgun went on a rampage before being shot dead by police in south-west Germany, police said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A German high-speed train will visit Britain for the first time next month on a dry run for a direct rail service between London and Frankfurt — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In a major victory for the Australian environmental movement, Tasmanian timber company Gunns Limited announced on Thursday that it will no longer engage in native forest logging — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It is an invisible revolution and it is gaining momentum. With many of Sydney’s cafes, libraries and pubs already offering free or low-cost Wi-Fi access, the state government is joining the party, creating wireless hotspots on train stations and even ferries — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Two Mexican newspaper photographers have been attacked by gunmen in Ciudad Juarez, in northern Mexico — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are leading a global decline in new HIV infections, the UN has said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
After seven months of training, Prince William is going to graduate as a fully qualified search-and-rescue helicopter pilot — via redwolf.newsvine.com
One of the biggest donors to the Liberal Democrats has been caught up in a long running Indian police investigation into illegal arms deals, a BBC Newsnight investigation has found — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Village life in Britain is “dying out” because rural pubs are closing at a record rate, a report from the National Housing Federation has said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Five South African doctors have been charged with performing illegal kidney transplants for rich Israelis using organs bought from poor Brazilians and Romanians — via redwolf.newsvine.com
High fructose corn syrup — an ingredient in everything from soda to ketchup to pickles — has such a bad reputation that the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) wants to change the name of the popular sweetener to corn sugar
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Four more former leaders of Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime have been indicted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The latest scandal about the NSW Government disgusts me. It doesn’t disgust me that someone was using public resources to look (or not look) at porn, but rather because that technology was used in exactly the way most citizens don’t want it used — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Harper government has tightened the muzzle on federal scientists, going so far as to control when and what they can say about floods at the end of the last ice age — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian Electoral Commission has confirmed Family First Senator Steve Fielding has lost his Senate seat — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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