The body of a 16-year-old girl who police say was buried alive by relatives in an “honor” killing carried out as punishment for talking to boys has been discovered in Kahta, Turkey. Turkish police discovered the body after acting on an anonymous tip. The tipster told police that the girl was killed after a family council [...]
February 8, 2010
When it comes to gadgets, there’s only one hard and fast rule: If it has a wire today, it won’t have that wire tomorrow. Even things you wouldn’t expect — yes, someone actually is working on wireless electricity — will probably one day be wireless. You may think of your wireless router as, well, wireless. But of [...]
Read Full PostFebruary 8, 2010
TOKYO — A body was found inside a wheel well of a Delta Air Lines plane after it landed in Tokyo from New York, and Japanese authorities Monday were trying to identify the man. The body of the apparent stowaway was clad only in a long-sleeved, plaid shirt and jeans, police at Narita International Airport said. A [...]
Read Full PostFebruary 3, 2010
A Downing Street petition is calling for the UK government to drop Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) and move to a more modern browser. The petition says that IE6 has security flaws and uses outdated technology, creating a burden for developers. The petition comes as the Department of Health advised the NHS to move away from the [...]
Read Full PostFebruary 3, 2010
If you aren’t reading WorldNetDaily, you’re really missing out. Today, for instance, the paranoid conservative website ran a big scoop entitled, “MI5 hunting breast implants of death.” WND, which is obsessed with the “Muslim mafia,” claims that Britain’s intelligence service is concerned that British teaching hospitals have churned out Muslim doctors who are now returning to [...]
Read Full PostFebruary 3, 2010
Chinese girl, 9, becomes one of world’s youngest mothers after giving birth to a baby boy The unnamed girl was brought to a hospital in Changchun, which lies in the north-east of the country, when she was eight and a half months pregnant. Two days later, she gave birth to the 6lb boy by Caesarean section, a [...]
Read Full PostFebruary 2, 2010
LOS ANGELES — When a gang member was released from jail soon after his arrest for selling methamphetamine, friends and associates assumed he had cut a deal with authorities and become a police informant. They sent a warning on Twitter that went like this: We have a snitch in our midst. Unbeknownst to them, that tweet and [...]
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