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...

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...

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...

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...