Well this is quite interesting. A computer engineer, disgruntled with his job working as a system administrator for San Francisco's brand new computer network, is holding the system hostage, even as he sits in jail.Terry Childs took exclusive control of the system and was...
Protesting against the poor quality food and ill treatment policemen in Nepal have taken their own officers for few days but now they have been released after not getting any response from government."Seven senior policemen who were taken hostage by junior officers in Nepal...
A British woman of Tibetan descent working as an English teacher in Beijing has been deported from China and banned for returning for five years without prior warning for what is being described as 'splittist...
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Parents charge the incident occurred during a class on different religions. Children reportedly were ordered to assume Moslem prayer positions and chant prayers. Those who did not, reports claim, were punished.The suspension comes one day after reports surfaced...
A few years ago the owner of a bridal shop got very excited and annoyed when I took some photographs of her shop window. At the time she claimed that her window display was projected by copyright ... I now wonder if that was the real reason."A BRIDAL shop which won a...
Her lies rather than apple pies take front stage as ex-convict Martha Stewart is refused entry to Britain. I think it's probably the right decision. If she were poorer no one would question the refusal." Martha...
" TOKYO — To most of Japan, the deadly stabbings in Tokyo were an incomprehensible act of sudden and indiscriminate violence.But to readers of an obscure website called “Extreme Exchange, Revised,” the...
We have heard of excesses of loan recovery agents. But in a shocking incident in India's eastern state of West Bengal a man was forced to keep his newly married wife as mortgage after failing to repay loan. "You could call it Bengal’s heart of darkness. Unable to...
"John McCain:The Manchurian Candidate connection:McCain was subjected to 5 ½ years of Soviet driven "brain perversion techniques."Is he fit to bePresident and Commander in Chief of the military?U.S. Veteran...
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"CAIRO: Pope Shenouda III, head of the Coptic Church, called for heavy security presence around the Upper Egyptian Abo Fana monastery during a phone-in on Channel 2’s El Beit Beitak show on Saturday.The Pope also accused the Arab tribes living in the area of stealing LE 1...
"Having been left with no option other than to resign from the Security Department of the Home Office, John Francis Smith soon found another job in the NHS and though not as well paid, he survived comfortably enough....
It's been more than a month since the cyclone that devastated burma hit, and the government has still not allowed the US and French military ships with aid docked just outside to come in. Now the US ship is leaving, and the Myanmar government has arrested yet another...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorPeacocks always seem to have a problem with headspace on airlines. And Honda, just doesn't make a car for the Portly! What is one to do? "Nepali king...
"WICHITA, Kansas (CNN) -- She found her husband on their bed in a pool of his own vomit, dead from an accidental overdose of drugs he received from an online pharmacy....
President Leonel Fernandez has been re-elected in the Dominican Republic as his main opponent concedes defeat."Miguel Vargas Maldonado conceded after early results confirmed exit poll predictions giving the president...
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