Archive for February, 2012
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U.S. conducting criminal Libor probe:
(Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a criminal probe into whether the world's biggest banks manipulated a global benchmark rate that is at the heart of a wide range of loans and ...
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Ron Paul poll shocker: He beats Obama head-to-head:
At the moment, Ron Paul bests President Obama in a head-to-head matchup by 43 to 41 percent, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll released Tuesday.
How about this for a poll shocker: While everybody in ...
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Anonymous brings down Interpol website in retaliation for 25 arrests.
Supporters of the Anonymous hacker group attacked Interpol's main website after the international police agency conducted a number of hacker arrests across the globe.
The website Interpol.int was unreachable for a half hour on Wednesday. ...
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How the banks make £341 every second from YOU
CUSTOMERS EQUAL CASH
Despite what they insist, the biggest banks raked in ever greater amounts from their High Street customers last year.
The big five — HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, RBS/NatWest, Santander and Barclays — groaned ...
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Watch Angela Merkel get drenched in Beer, Priceless!
Waiter spills beer on German Chancellor Merkel by Zoomin_UK
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has suffered a surprise beer shower thanks to a clumsy waiter.
The waiter was serving glasses of beer to Mrs Merkel's table when ...
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Facebook and YouTube used by illegal pharmacies to target children:
Illegal internet pharmacies are targeting young people online through sites such as Facebook and YouTube, a United Nations drugs chief warned today.
Professor Hamid Ghodse, president of the UN's International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), said ...
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Barclays at centre of tax avoidance clampdown:
(Reuters) - Barclays Plc said it was the bank at the centre of a clampdown by Britain on two tax avoidance schemes that the government said would close loopholes and raise more than 500 ...
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Yahoo threatens Facebook as patent war looms:
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo has demanded licensing fees from Facebook for use of its technology, the companies said on Monday, potentially engulfing social media in the patent battles and lawsuits raging across much ...
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Photo of gay marine leaping into the arms of his boyfriend for first homecoming kiss:
An openly gay marine has caused a stir online after sharing the traditional home-coming first kiss with his boyfriend in Hawaii.
Sgt Brandon Morgan of Oakdale, California, was captured as he jumped into the arms ...
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Countdown to Doomsday: Wyoming wants their own Army and currency:
Stockpiling ammo and building bomb shelters is so Y2K. Preparing for the potential destruction of the United States of America, lawmakers in Wyoming are laying the groundwork for how to handle a doomsday scenario ...
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St Paul’s protest: Occupy London camp evicted
Police and bailiffs have moved in to remove tents from the Occupy London camp at St Paul's Cathedral.
The operation, which began just after midnight, was mostly peaceful but there were 20 arrests.
Occupy London was ...
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HSBC Awards £2.1bn In Bonuses As Profits Rise:
HSBC has posted profits of £13.8bn for 2011, up 15% on the previous year, while its top earning employee has been given a bonus of £8m.
Pre-tax profits at the bank fell short of forecasts ...
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‘India will not tolerate China’s interference in internal affairs,’ New Delhi tells Beijing:
DHARAMSHALA, February 27: India has sharply reacted to statements from Beijing opposing the Indian Defence Minister AK Antony's visit to India’s northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh.
Following Antony's visit to Arunachal last week to mark ...
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The schools crusade that links Michael Gove to Rupert Murdoch:
The education secretary has close ties to Rupert Murdoch and would be a key figure if he attempts to move into the UK schools market
On a freezing November day in 2010, the education secretary, ...
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Trojan virus tricks Apple Mac users to steal passwords:
Apple Mac users have been warned that a new Trojan virus is capable of infecting their computers and stealing passwords to services such as Google, PayPal and online banking.
The new malware is a "particularly ...
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Free apps ‘can spy on texts and calls’:
Companies are using free smartphone apps as ‘fronts’ to allow them to spy on users’ text messages, intercept calls and even track their location, it was claimed yesterday.
By accepting little-read terms and conditions when ...
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A4e and a £200m back-to-work scandal
Accusations of fraud and widespread malpractice have prompted Commons watchdog to take tough action
Catherine Verwaerde had been unemployed for 13 months when she was referred to A4e. A supporter of the Government's drive to ...
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George Osborne: no more IMF money for eurozone:
Chancellor says Britain is not willing to commit extra funds for bailout until eurozone countries do so themselves.
Britain and other leading economies are not ready to fund another eurozone bailout, George Osborne has said.
Speaking ...
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Iran denies Greece major oil shipment – report:
Iran has denied shipment of crude oil to Greece, following similar moves against Britain and France. The moves are pre-emptive to a set of sanctions imposed by the EU, which forbids buying oil from ...
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‘She is survived by her daughter who betrayed her trust and son who broke her heart’:
When 94-year-old Josie Anello died at home, her son put a obituary in the local paper, alongside a happy, smiling photo of his mother.
Describing her as supportive and compassionate,Tampa Tribune readers thought it seemed ...
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New York police orders removal of hunger strike tent, Three Tibetans continue indefinite fast:
DHARAMSHALA, February 25: The New York Police Department has ordered the removal of the tent hosting the three Tibetan hunger strikers in front of the United Nations headquarters.
Tsewang Rigzin, president of the Tibetan Youth ...
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Cancer patient died alone after hospital moved him to hotel:
One of the country's top hospitals is reviewing its policy of putting seriously ill patients in hotel rooms to save money after a cancer patient died alone in a hotel room during chemotherapy treatment.
University ...
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Mandela admitted to hospital in South Africa:
(Reuters) - Former South African president Nelson Mandela was admitted to hospital on Saturday for treatment for a "long-standing abdominal complaint", the government said.
A statement said the 93-year-old anti-apartheid leader needed specialist medical treatment. ...
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Hitler art collection unearthed:
The long-lost Hitler collection was discovered by a Jiri Kuchar, a Czech historian, tucked away in the depository of the convent in the small town of Doskany, which lies north of Prague.
Among the works ...
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Seven members of the same family are shot dead by Syrian soldiers :
Syrian security forces shot dead at least 18 people in a village of central Syria on Friday, activists said, including at least five children.
A video uploaded by activists showed people wrapping the bloodied ...
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FSA orders report from Threadneedle on rogue trade:
Threadneedle, the fund management group at the centre of a $150m (£96m) rogue-trading scandal, has been ordered to carry out an investigation into its systems and controls by the Financial Services Authority.
The Section 166 ...
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Google and Facebook in White House web privacy sights:
The White House has called on internet firms to develop stronger privacy protections for consumers.
The move comes amid worries that browsing information is being tracked and given to advertisers.
State attorneys in 36 states recently ...
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RBS ‘deliberately’ doubled losses to £2bn in ‘Alice in Wonderland’ accounting
Mr Hester said the bank, which is 83pc owned by the state, had been "spooked" by the severity of the eurozone crisis into taking "an extra £1bn" of losses for 2011.
"We got spooked by ...
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Don’t use Twitter so much… says Twitter BOSS as he brands spending hours on site ‘unhealthy’
It's enough to make any PR agent wince.
The co-founder of Twitter has urged its 500million users to get off the micro-blogging website and do something else instead.
Christopher Stone said he did not want anybody ...
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Bradley Manning defers plea in WikiLeaks case:
FORT MEADE, Md. — The Army intelligence analyst accused of the largest leak of classified information in U.S. history, Pfc. Bradley Manning, appeared in a small courtroom here Thursday for the first day of ...
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Three simple steps to delete your Google browsing history… before it’s too late:
There is just a week to go until Google controversially changes its privacy policy to allow it to gather, store and use personal information about its users.
But there is one way to stymie the ...
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US state attorneys write to Larry Page over Google privacy policy changes:
US state attorneys write to Larry Page over Google privacy policy changes (via The Inquirer)
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RBS pays £985 million in bonuses despite 2 billion loss:
(Reuters) - State-owned Royal Bank of Scotland posted a fourth quarter loss of nearly 2 billion pounds, hurt by writedowns on assets and restructuring costs, although it still paid out almost 1 billion pounds ...
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Behind the Google Goggles, Virtual Reality:
SAN FRANCISCO — It wasn’t so long ago that legions of people began walking the streets, talking to themselves.
On closer inspection, many of them turned out to be wearing tiny earpieces that connected wirelessly ...
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Top Tory attacks PM for Murdoch ‘cronyism’
The former shadow Home Secretary David Davis has accused David Cameron of "shamelessly courting" the media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
Mr Davis, the Conservative MP for Haltemprice and Howden, urged the Leveson Inquiry into press standards ...
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Pirate Bay vows to go underground over blocking threat:
File-sharing site The Pirate Bay has said that it will adapt rather than die as it faces legal blocks in the UK.
On Monday the High Court ruled that the site facilitates copyright infringement.
It will ...
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EU suspends ACTA ratification, refers treaty to court:
The EU has suspended the ratification of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and referred the text to the European Court of Justice to investigate possible rights breaches.
The European Commission decided on Wednesday to ask ...
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Kennedy Space Centre boldly goes where Nasa has never gone before: on a ‘to let’ list .
Fifty years after John Glenn ushered in an era of American supremacy in space by orbiting the Earth, Nasa is fishing for tenants to rent disused facilities at its Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
The ...
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Man drowned in shallow lake after firefighters ‘not allowed’ to rescue him:
A man who fell into a lake drowned after firefighters called to the scene said they could not enter the water if it was higher than ankle deep for health and safety reasons, an ...
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Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom granted bail:
The founder of file-sharing site Megaupload has been granted bail by a New Zealand court.
Kim Dotcom, 38, has been in prison since 20 January at the request of the US authorities.
He faces charges in ...
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“Brits” pic graphically shows poverty caused by pirate downloads.
Stars line up in their ragged clothes clearly showing the widespread poverty caused by illegal downloads.
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Nipples are rude but crushed limbs are OK –
Facebook's nudity and violence guidelines are laid bare, a document leak has revealed the social network's attitudes to sex and violence.
Facebook bans images of breastfeeding if nipples are exposed – but allows "graphic images" ...
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Strauss-Kahn ‘a suspect’ in prostitution ring inquiry:
Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn is being questioned by French police as a suspect in a prostitution ring inquiry, a prosecutor says.
Mr Strauss-Kahn, once a front-runner for the French presidency, is being held in ...
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An eyewitness report from Tibet says monks planning hunger strike:
Phayul[Tuesday, February 21, 2012 11:17]
DHARAMSHALA, February 21: “Tibetans are disappearing,” “Tibetan living areas have been enclosed with walls and barbed wires,” “Military drill songs can be heard throughout the day,” “Armored vehicles have machine ...
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Britain’s ‘Mickey Mouse’ border controls let 500,000 into the country without any checks
Report shows thousands of Eurostar passengers were let in unchecked
Millions wasted on schemes that didn't work
Reveals immigration minister Damian Green did downgrade border checks
Wiltshire Police chief to take charge of one part of new ...
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Groupon Is Selling ‘VIP’ Memberships for $29.99:
It’s hard to escape the flood of daily deal offers in pop-up ads and your e-mail in-box. You can’t swing a mouse without hitting a daily deal from Groupon, LivingSocial, or one of hundreds ...
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ISPs kept in dark about UK’s plans to intercept Twitter:
The government has expanded its plans to store and monitor Twitter, Facebook and other personal web communication data, but these are being created without ISP involvement, according to an ISP representative body.
Under the plans, ...
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Syria’s sectarian war goes international as foreign fighters and arms pour into country .
After years of Syrian insurgents and weaponry infiltrating Iraq, now the traffic goes the other way.
The attack at night was sudden and fierce, mortar rounds followed by machine-gun fire. There was panic among some ...
