Polish Teen Derails Tram After Hacking Train Network

I'm sure it seemed like a good idea at the time, but hacking into the tram system and derailing the trains is probably not the smartest move."A Polish teenager allegedly turned the tram system in the city of Lodz...

Guantanamo: Illegal and Unjust

"Rights-free zones: illegal and unjust Mukul Sharma The Guantanamo model signifies the abandoning of basic principles of human rights. It de-legitimises us. “O Father, this is a prison of injustice. Its iniquity makes the mountains weep. I have committed no crime and am...

Jay Leno May Have Broken Strike Rules

Well, he may have broken strike rules (though one person breaking the rules might be a bit better than Letterman, whose entire team made a deal with the network that doesn't involve the writers guild) but Leno nailed the late night slot, beating out Letterman's audience by...

Top Weird Stories of 2007

"BERLIN (Reuters) - From a Greek nunnery turned into a marijuana farm by two men posing as gardeners to a South African man with a gunshot wound told by a doctor to "walk the pain off," the world was full of weird...

Blue-faced man moves to Cali looking for friends

Odd, but interesting?"Paul Karason puts a whole new spin on "feeling blue.” For more than a decade, the 57-year-old has been living with a blue face.Fourteen years ago, Karason developed a bad case of...

Mitchell takes on baseball's Troubles

"Former US Senator and Special Envoy to Northern Ireland George Mitchell has outed some of the biggest names in baseball in his long awaited report on steroid usage in Major League Baseball. His far-reaching...

Adopted polar bear celebrates first birthday

"Knut, the world-famous polar bear, turned one today and polished off a giant fish cake at a birthday party in Berlin Zoo that was broadcast live on German television. Hundreds of children gathered at the zoo with birthday cards for the bear, who became a tourist magnet after...

Bomb video wasn't supposed to be REAL

The assignment was to make a video.   And Ontario College of Art and Design student Thorarinn Jonsson had a great idea.  He made a video showing a woman walking through the Royal Ontario Museum just as a...

Violence Against Women Is Still a Problem in Saudi Arabia

" Abeer Mishkhas, abeermishkhas@arabnews.com Last Sunday, along with the rest of the world, Saudi Arabia celebrated a day dedicated to Eliminating Violence Against Women. Newspapers carried articles and editorials on the importance of the day and TV naturally gave the day a...

New York Judge Jails Entire Courtroom over Ringing Cellphone

Sometinmes you just can't this stuff up."NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. - A judge who jailed 46 people who were in his courtroom when a cellphone call interrupted proceedings was removed from the bench Tuesday by a state...

Mexico: A year on but still no explanation….

Sadly, there is something new to report nearly everyday on this story. This blog appeared on www.mexicoreporter.com."A year on but still no explanation…. November 20, 2007 · No Comments José Antonio García Apac, editor of the regional weekly Ecos de la Cuenca, based in...

Inmates turned into sex workers: Another day in a Mexican prison

Jeremy Schwarzt, the correspondent for Cox Newspapers here in Mexico City, left this on his blog last night. His comments are an example of the levels of corruption present in Mexico's penal system."Inmates turned into sex workers: Another day in a Mexican prison By Jeremy...

New Mac OS Hits Security Snag

So have they been taking a page out of microsoft's book, or what? I haven't heard much one way or another about the new Mac OS, but this certainly isn't promising. As someone who doesn't do much confidential work on their mac this isn't a big deal, but for companies this...

Detroit voting 'messy' due to ID requirement

"DETROIT -- Officials from the Detroit Branch NAACP monitoring voting this morning say the process is "messy" because of the new photo identification requirement. Melvin "Butch" Hollowell, general counsel to the Detroit NAACP, said there was one report of a voter being turned...

Perverted Justice Takes on Canada.

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorPerverted Justice, also made famous in NBC's Dateline with Chris Hanson took on Canada, resulting in a arrest and conviction of a Winnipeg Pedophile.Perverted Justice,...

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