"San Francisco Department of Technology employee Terry Childs was in a jail cell Friday, accused of illegally locking out fellow authorized network administrators from the city computer network he helped build. But as the case against Childs entered its sixth day, questions...
"Tensions are growing as NATO and a resurgent Russia divide over future of breakaway statelets. By Fred Weir | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor from the June 25, 2008 editionOstIngur, AbkhazGeorgia border - Tensions are again spiking...
I often wonder what is meant by a claim such as "about €250,000 worth of counterfeit CDs and DVDs", surely a market trader would not have stock worth Euro 250,000. I assume that they mean that the items in question, if they were genuine, might have been valued at €...
" A SHOCK new report has revealed that Britain’s prisons have been flooded with illegally held mobile phones. The report by HM Prisons Service claimed that one in every 23 inmates had access to mobiles, which...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorYou know if Ghost Consultants were given 20 year prison sentences this would stop immediately.Certainly scammers will always find a way to grab some cash from the poor,...
Only 300 girls to 1000 boys survive to birth from high-caste wealthy Punjabi backgrounds. In this day and age it's incredible to believe that this is going on. The 'worth' of daughters in some cultures seems less now than ever before. Something must be done by the Indian...
South Africa's Home Affairs Minister has stated that victims of the recent xenophobic attacks, who were then sheltered in ad-hoc camps, will not be deported.""People affected by the violence and who have sought...
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One of the side detriments to this sad case is that this idiot becomes a poster boy for the "build a fence between us and them" argument. "The 29-year-old Kenosha man charged in the West Allis crash that killed a 6-year-old girl Monday could face federal charges for...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorBoy, you know you're in trouble when even Mexico won't let you cross the Border. The United Nations gang, a British Columbia based Gang was busted by RCMP in BC, while it's...
A divided Supreme Court of Texas agreed yesterday that the state had actually illegally seized 468 girls and boys from a West Texas ranch in April, as the claims of physical and sexual abuse were unfounded. This...
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"The women's passports are illegally held while they are made to repay high commission rates for finding jobs for foreign domestic helpers in the wealthy former British colony, the group told DPA.A protest was staged Sunday at the Indonesian consulate by the group which...
Every nerd's personal hero, Tanya Anderson, was awarded $108,000 by an Oregon federal magistrate who succesfully fought a lawsuit filed by the recording industry against her. Accusing the (Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) of using threats and intimidation to...
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Israeli police raided a ministerial building on Tuesday and seized documents belonging to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, in relation to a fraud investigation involving him. " On Monday, police conducted a similar search...
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I know that China is a very large country and that it is difficult for officials to ignore rules and regulations but one would think that they could have allowed a week or two for people to experience the wonderful...
"An Argentine couple have been jailed for illegally adopting a baby girl born 30 years ago to parents who were kidnapped by the military government. The case was brought by the adopted woman, Maria Eugenia Sampallo,...