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Dubai Tennis Championship Fined $300,000
Earlier this week Israeli tennis player Shahar Peer was denied entry into the Dubai Tennis Championship due to problems with her Visa. On Friday the governing body of women's tennis (WTA) fined the Dubai Championship a record $300,000. A total of $44,250... Update Israeli Tennis Pro Shahar Peer denied entry to Dubai
Here is the most recent update on the Peer episode.We have more information on this event."The Tennis Channel will not televise the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships this week to protest the United Arab... Brazil police uncovered global child porn network
"SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - In late 2007, Carlos Miguel Sobral and 14 other Brazilian police investigators were getting ready for another day of fighting Internet crime when one of them suggested looking into peer-to-peer file sharing networks.Sobral said the other federal... Church and police join forces to end binge drinking
A new campaign is being launched in Wales today with the aim of ending binge drinking. People are signing a pledge to stop the practice, which is very common in the UK."PEOPLE across Wales are today urged to pledge to stop binge drinking as an unprecedented coalition of...
created by Dave Keating | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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International Performing Arts Fest Spotlights Liberal Pakistan
The Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop has been holding puppetry, theatre, dance and Sufi music festivals for several years now. Here is a report from an independent journalist and filmmaker, Beena Sarwar, about its...
created by rumana husain | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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421 views | 34 recommendations | 10 comments
Peter Mandelson to return to Cabinet
In a truly stunning move, Peter Mandelson, the EU's Trade Commissioner, has been recalled to London to serve in Gordon Brown's cabinet. Mandelson was a powerful voice in Brussels, and it will be interesting to...
created by Dave Keating | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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Meet "Germany's Dumbest Bankers"
If you thought you've had a bad week at work, consider the plight of Peter Fleischer and Detlef Leinberger, two German bankers who cost their company more than 500 million euros by approving a fund transfer to Lehman Brothers after the investment bank had already declared... The Alarm on Cell Phones Cancer Warning, "premature" says Oncologists
All the Alarm on Cell Phone Cancer is Premature. By Albert N. Milliron The report from the University of Pittsburgh, calling attention to Cancer risks of using cell phone may be a bit Premature. ...
created by Albert Milliron | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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963 views | 48 recommendations | 22 comments
YouTorrent Relaunches with Legal Torrents
In a Napster-like rebirth (minus the downtime), YouTorrent is reinventing itself as an index of legal torrent files. Once the fastest-growing torrent site on the web, YouTorrent began to lose traction once it stopped indexing sites that linked to copyright-violating files...Canadian Court Shuts Down Quebec Torrent Site
In a move many people see as controversial, a Quebec court has ruled that a torrent tracker site based out of Quebec, and hosting mostly french-language content, must shut down. This is a tricky situation, because it could leave the potential open for shutting down any... Do You have to Eat Out Every Day?
"Do You have to Eat Out Every Day? Eating out with friends and colleagues can be truly enjoyable, but is it really necessary? How is it affecting your budget? Is it because of peer pressure? This should be taken seriously, since eating out can become a large monthly... Withdrawn: Govt. to Canadians...
" Update: I apologize for this document and withdraw it. The research needed for this post was not done properly and the resulting material should not have been posted. The media and internet sources that provided... Online Spoof of the Levee Review Causes Controversy
"Advocacy panel says report easy on corps Wednesday, November 14, 2007 By Mark Schleifstein A long-simmering dispute about whether a leading engineering organization whitewashed the role of the Army Corps of Engineers in the failure of the levee system during Hurricane...UK expat denies he is Lord Lucan
"A Briton living in New Zealand in an old car, with a pet possum, has denied he is missing aristocrat Lord Lucan. Neighbours became convinced homeless Roger Woodgate was the vanished peer because of his "upper-class" English accent and "military bearing". But he says he is a...Michael Moore's 'Sicko' Leaked Onto Web
You just knew this was going to happen..."LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) -- Michael Moore's new documentary "Sicko" has been pirated and is now widely available for download on the web on sites like BitTorrent, as well...NowPublic on Facebook
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