A central Florida couple has been convicted in the death of a toddler strangled in her crib by a pet python.
A Sumter County jury found 21-year-old mother Jaren Hare and her live-in boyfriend, 34-year-old Charles Jason
Darnell, guilty Thursday of manslaughter, third-degree murder and child neglect. They each face 35 years in prison. Both previously rejected plea agreements for 10 years in prison — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Médecins Sans Frontières has lashed out at the CIA for using a fake vaccination programme as a cover to spy on Osama bin Laden on Thursday, saying it threatened life-saving immunisation work around the world.
The international medical aid charity said the ploy used by US intelligence, revealed this week in the Guardian, was a grave manipulation of the medical act
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
The FBI has opened an investigation into allegations that News of the World journalists tried to hack into the phones of victims of the 9/11 attacks in New York.
The launch of the FBI inquiry amounts to the first official inquiry within the US into News Corporation activities. The move brings the scandal within Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper division closer to his American home and to News Corporation’s headquarters in Manhattan — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A ninth person has been arrested over phone hacking at the News of the World in London.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said Neil Wallis, 60, was taken in for questioning — after an early-morning raid on a house in west London — on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications.
Mr Wallis is a former deputy editor and executive editor of the News of the World.
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The contagion from the scandal engulfing News International has spread to Australia, being raised while the Prime Minister was answering questions about the scandal and the vitriolic carbon tax debate.
Julia Gillard, addressing the National Press Club in Canberra yesterday, had a simple lesson on media ethics.
Don’t write crap … Can’t be that hard,
she said.
And when you have written complete crap, then I think you should correct it
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
A commission. I love the feel of oil paint, but canvas is a bit bumpy for my taste. Also, the drying time… gaaak. By the time it’s dry enough to continue, I’ve lost my momentum and have to kick-start my interest. Gouache has spoiled me — via CrashOctopus Blog
Jote of Bless Her Heart posted about these amazing-looking ginger cream cookies.
Last month we ran away to the beach with one of my besties and her family for a weekend. While the kids were playing cards she whipped out a bag of cookies that her mother had made for them. They were dark and gingery, but light and spongy rather than a typical crunchy Ginger Snap. Over the course of the next twenty minutes, we devoured them…leaving the kids to pinch the crumbs and fallen icing from the bottom of the bag. These cookies have haunted me since our little trip away.
Read more about the special woman who passed on the recipe for these tasty cookies and get the full recipe over on Bless Her Heart — via CRAFT
A rare Jane Austen manuscript has sold for £850,000 at a London auction, three times more than its estimated price.
Auction house Sotheby’s had originally valued the unfinished novel — entitled The Watsons — at £200,000-300,000.
The manuscript, originally owned privately, was purchased by an institution — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Federal opposition frontbencher Malcolm Turnbull has out-trolled a troll
by publishing on Twitter the name and phone number of a man he says has been sending him abusive text messages.
I don’t mind abusive emails or tweets but why does Thomas Lynch [mobile phone number omitted] think its ok to send me abusive smses about climate change,
the former Liberal leader tweeted today.
The tweet, which has since been removed, also included a mobile phone number — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An eight-year-old boy who got lost while walking home alone was killed and dismembered by a stranger he had asked for directions. His remains were found stuffed in a rubbish bin and the man’s refrigerator, police said on Wednesday.
The gruesome killing of Leiby Kletzky has shocked the Jewish community in Borough Park, Brooklyn, in part because it is one of the safest sections of New York and because the man under arrest is an Orthodox Jew — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Doctors are being warned not to befriend patients on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter because of the risk that this could breach rules on confidentiality.
The British Medical Association said medical staff and students should reject any approaches by current and former patients to avoid the risk of blurring the boundaries of the doctor-patient relationship — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Four days on from Julia Gillard’s policy announcement, and the most striking characteristic of the carbon tax debate is just how closely it resembles a dozen drunken idiots trying to root a doorknob. Really, everyone needs a few deep breaths and a spell in the quiet corner — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Cadence Architects have sent us this commercial building they designed in India — via CONTEMPORIST
In a wide-ranging investigation, Lord Justice Levenson, who will head an independent expert panel, will be able to compel witnesses to appear before him and has been asked to reshape the regulation of newspapers in Britain.
The senior judge has claimed that his task is to ask who guards the guardian?
and he will also be able to look at media ownership and how much of the market is controlled by one proprietor or company — via redwolf.newsvine.com
PepsiCo Inc will soon sell its 7UP soft drink in Canada in bottles made from 100 percent recycled plastic, a move that paves the way for a wider roll-out to other drinks and other regions — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An online entrepreneur says that poor spelling is costing the UK millions of pounds in lost revenue for internet businesses — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The embattled News Corporation is facing more hacking dramas this week, after a News Limited subsidiary today revealed that it had been forced to remove malware that was being transmitted to readers from the websites of the Herald Sun and The Weekly Times — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Minnesota hacker prosecutors described as a depraved criminal
was handed an 18-year prison term Tuesday for unleashing a vendetta of cyberterror that turned his neighbour lives into a living nightmare.
Barry Ardolf, 46, repeatedly hacked into his next-door neighbours’ WiFi network in 2009, and used it to try and frame them for child pornography, sexual harassment, various kinds of professional misconduct and to send threatening e-mail to politicians, including Vice President Joe Biden.
His motive was to get back at his new neighbours after they told the police he’d kissed their 4-year-old son on the lips — via ars technica
Online payments giant PayPal has today revealed that it plans to roll out person-to-person payments with embedded near-field communication (NFC) technology for the Australian market in the next two months — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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