A secret group of developed nations conspired to limit the effectiveness of the UN’s first conference on the environment, held in Stockholm in 1972. The existence of this cabal, known as the Brussels group, is revealed in 30-year-old British government records that were kept secret until this week
A Japanese whaling ship that entered Australian waters in the Antarctic was ordered out by the Aurora Australis, an Australian research vessel
AOL Time Warner on Wednesday pledged to close a security hole in its instant messenger application that experts say could provide wiggle room for a widespread and destructive worm
The spectre of smallpox has haunted humanity for more than three millenniums and this year should have marked its final, irrevocable demise. However, a plan to destroy remaining stocks of the virus is about to be abandoned because of fears that one of history’s greatest scourges may now be in the hands of a rogue state
As hundreds protested nearby, the extremely backward Christ Community Church in New Mexico burned Harry Potter and other books
Though able to restore exchanges crippled during New South Wales bushfires last week, Telstra technicians are still unable to repair around 1000 fire-related faults adequately, as emergency services seal access to 17 of 91 exchange regions
It will still be at least a year before DVD recorders become standard in home computers. That’s because of a nasty format war among consumer electronics companies, much like the one that eventually saw VHS win over Betamax in the world of videotapes
The net has shrunk ever so slightly. For only the second time ever, an authoritative monthly survey of the number of sites on the net has found fewer sites online than in the previous month. The fall has been put down to a drop in the number of registered domains. Despite the drop, the net remains hugely popular, and there are now over 36,000,000 sites in cyberspace
Software giant Microsoft has sued computer operating system maker Lindows.com, claiming Lindows.com’s name is too close to that of its own dominant Windows operating system
A US man accused of sending harassing e-mails to an American police department has been told to surrender — via e-mail
Zambian High Court judge Peter Chitengi has barred the government from declaring a winner in the presidential election until he can rule on an opposition appeal after being forced to abandon the Supreme Court in Lusaka because of violent protests outside. Demonstrators and opposition groups are calling for fresh presidential elections, claiming last week’s poll was rigged
Reverend Gabriele Amorth, the Roman Catholic Church’s best-known exorcist, sees ten people a day, give or take, for demonic possessions, obsessions and lower-grade infestations
A plan to turn the Harry Potter train, the Hogwarts Express, into a tourist attraction appears to have been thwarted by the threat of legal action by Warner Brothers
Broadband net users in the UK who are worried that their PCs could be subverted by malicious hackers can now let anti-virus companies keep an eye on their machines for them. Security company McAfee has launched a subscription service that uses the web to protect a PC against viruses and attacks by computer vandals
Dr Laura, the queen of talk-show intolerance, is learning — the hard way — that the internet will hold her accountable, one angry bulletin board posting or e-mail after another
Canadian fisheries officers are catching cross-border crab poachers in Boundary Bay using a high-tech digital camera with the power of a 65-times zoom lens
Hewlett-Packard board member Walter Hewlett and other opponents of the proposed HP-Compaq Computer merger on Thursday filed to the US Securities and Exchange Commission a proxy statement to ask shareholders to vote against the deal at a special HP shareholders meeting next year
Hours after Monster.com parent TMP Worldwide declined to up its bid for recruitment web site HotJobs.com, Yahoo finalised its agreement to buy the job board for approximately US$436 million
The web site which provides News Interactive subscribers with archive searches on News Limited’s publications in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, has been massively effected by a suspected viral outbreak
Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has launched a stern crackdown on Cambodia’s night life, unveiled a new punishment Wednesday for rogue karaoke bars — destruction by tanks
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