Dalai Lama “If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. ”
Barack Obama “Those who stand up for justice are always on the right side of history.”
China is to delay a controversial plan requiring all new computers sold in the country to be equipped with an internet filtering software, state media says.
The filter, called Green Dam Youth Escort, was to have been required from Wednesday, but the industry ministry said computer makers needed more time.
Its planned rollout sparked widespread disapproval inside [...]
At least 25 people have been killed by a car bomb at a market in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, officials say.
The attack in the Shurja district came as Iraqis celebrated the withdrawal of US troops from towns and cities in Iraq, six years after the invasion.
Iraqi and US troops have been on alert [...]
Swedish software firm snaps up file-sharing site for £5 million
30 June 2009 - The Pirate Bay, the former Swedish-based free file-sharing website has been snapped up by a Swedish software company.
The move comes just two months after four men were sent to jail and ordered to pay £3 million for breaking copyright law.
Global Gaming Factory X AB said on Tuesday it [...]
The most complete terrain map of the Earth’s surface has been published.
The data, comprising 1.3 million images, come from a collaboration between the US space agency Nasa and the Japanese trade ministry.
The images were taken by Japan’s Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (Aster) aboard the Terra satellite.
The resulting Global Digital Elevation Map covers [...]
Taliban fighters in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan say they have pulled out of a peace deal with the Pakistan government.
The fighters in North Waziristan blamed continuing US military assaults and the Pakistani army offensive in the region against them for their decision on Tuesday.
“This accord is being scrapped because of Pakistan’s failure to stop the [...]
The death toll climbed to at least 12 in a gas explosion on a freight train in western Italy, officials said Tuesday.
A child was among those killed, said Antonio Garufi, a local government official. The number of injured had risen to 36, with 16 in critical condition.
Most of the injuries were burns. Two children were [...]
Israel has approved the construction of 50 new homes in a West Bank settlement and announced plans to expropriate more Palestinian land.
The move comes just hours before Israel’s defence minister, Ehud Barak, visits the US in a bid to defuse tensions over Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land.
The land grab and new permits come [...]
The Honduran president ousted by a military coup and forced into exile has said he will return home on Thursday.
Speaking in the Nicaraguan capital, Managua, late on Monday, Manuel Zelaya said: “I go to Tegucigalpa on Thursday. I’m the elected president, I will fulfil my four-year term.”
He said he had accepted an offer by Jose [...]
Four U.S. soldiers were killed in combat on the eve of the pullout by American troops from Baghdad and other Iraqi cities, the U.S. military said.
The military said the four soldiers served with the Multi-National Division-Baghdad and died as a “result of combat related injuries,” but did not provide further details pending notification of their [...]
Airbus 310 crashes off Comoros with 142 passengers, 11 crew; child rescued from crash site.
A five-year-old child has been found alive, hours after a Yemeni airliner crashed in the Indian Ocean with more than 150 people on board.
Some bodies have also been recovered from the wreckage of the plane.
A passenger jet from Yemen with 153 [...]
Troops willing to die to stop Iran unrest, general says
4 killed, 32 wounded as 6 Baghdad churches bombed
Wife held in boxing champ’s killing in Brazil
NASA fuels space shuttle Endeavour for launch
Two injured in Pamplona bull run, day after death
Two U.S. soldiers killed, Afghan war heats up
Cheney hid CIA program from Congress: senator