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Samsung is reportedly installing secret spyware software on its laptops that monitors and records users' activity - including their keystrokes - without their consent.
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Virgin eggs (童子蛋) are chicken eggs cooked in the urine of young boys in China… Apparently the bizarre delicacy has a pretty long history in Dongyang City. But it’s making national headlines recently as it was discovered by some folks that the street food has been listed as one of the city’s cultural heritage.
The administration's inadequate response to the crisis in Libya reveals a lack of courage and principle.
By Christopher Hitchens
After 14 years without, Larissa Dubecki finally succumbed to the temptation of meat.
A former Tasmanian dairy farmer has admitted cutting the tails off cows using a cruel and painful method.
Not as easy as rights holders think.
Copyright owners may have celebrated too soon a series of steps laid out by judges in the iiTrial appeal that could force ISPs to address piracy allegations, according to Baker & McKenzie special counsel Anne Flahvin.
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The British Humanist Assocation's census campaign adverts were rejected by billboard companies. Why?
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The Gospels that made it into the Bible pretty much skip from the birth of Jesus Christ to his adulthood, but there are other documents that chronicle the adventures of Jesus Christ: Boy Wonder. They're part of something called the New Testament Apocrypha, a series of books deemed unfit for inclusion due to concerns over the message they'd send or, in some cases, the number of faces they'd melt with their sheer awesomeness. Most of the stories are pretty normal fare -- healing lepers and raising the dead -- but some are so insane that we learn that the answer to, What would Jesus do? is Whatever the hell he wants.
Under Global Free Trade Capitalist Theory, Christchurch has competed on a Level Playing Field and lost the game, and should be asset-stripped and consigned to oblivion like Lehman Brothers or One.Tel. It has no future in the market place. ...Under Katterite Protectionism, the system I believe in, and most of New Zealand believes in by now, the approach is different. We dig out the wounded, we rebuild the shops and cathedrals, we borrow tax dollars and give the traumatised a short sabbatical, we redirect the economy, in time of catastrophe, around this new priority of rescue and restoration. We get a great tourist city back on its feet again. We help where needed. This is what Socialism, sorry, Protectionism, means.
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A 1998 study that unleashed a major health scare by linking childhood autism to a triple vaccine was "an elaborate fraud," the British Medical Journal (BMJ) said.
...For another of his projects, Mr. Ward over the past 18 months has visited 160 London convenience stores and made careful notes about a popular chocolate bar called Twirl, including the product's availability, price and storage conditions. He publishes the details online.
The WikiLeaks cables keep on coming, as do the leaks from Sweden about Julian Assange's alleged encounters with Ms A and Ms W. But today, in the season of peace and good will, some memories are brought back by perusing just a few of those hundreds of thousands of cables - those that deal with Pakistan's growing nuclear arsenal.
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A right-wing internet radio host has been sentenced to 33 months in prison for threatening the lives of three Chicago federal appeals court judges after they upheld a local gun control law.
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A school teacher in Western Australia has been sentenced to more than two years jail for having sex with boys in her care
Nice....
A new exhibit – politicized, manipulative, and inaccurate – argues that the West’s Dark Ages were a Golden Age for Islam. Edward Rothstein isn’t buying it.
It took the erotica industry a decade to turn the sex toy from seedy gadget to sassy lady's accessory, from vibrating rubber ducks to dolphin-shaped dildos. But men were largely left out of the fun - until now that is.
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A dispute over the existence of God between four Russians, drunk on a litre of pure alcohol, resulted in two of them being killed, news agencies reported
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Editor's note: There’s no doubt that WikiLeaks and its figurehead-on-the-run Julian Assange are among the hottest items for discussion on the planet right now
The Federal Government has announced it will support a push for an adults-only classification for video games.
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Australian scientists fear the planet is on the brink of another mass extinction as ocean dead zones continue to grow in size and numbers.
"War..
War never changes..
Since the dawn of human kind, when our ancestors first discovered the killing path with rock and bone, blood has been spilled in the name of everything, from God, to justice, to simple psychotic rage.
In the year 2010, after millennia of armed conflict, destructive nature of man, could sustain itself, no longer. The world was plunged into an abyss of nuclear fire, and radiation.
But it was not, as some had predicted, the end of the world. Instead, the apocalypse was just the prologue to another bloody chapter of human history. For man, had succeeded in destroying the world..
But war..
War never changes.."
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North Korea has warned of "unpredictable consequences" if the US and South Korea go ahead with today's planned naval exercises in the Yellow Sea.
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Second-hand tobacco smoke kills upward of 600,000 people every year, nearly a third of them children, according to the first global assessment released Friday.
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There are reports that North Korean artillery shells have landed on a South Korean border island, damaging homes and causing injuries. Oh it's on bitches!
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The World Health Organisation says around a billion people cannot afford any health services, and paying for healthcare pushes about 100 million people a year into poverty.
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The book, five years in the writing, ultimately concludes that much of the world’s scepticism on climate change is fuelled by a paranoid ideological fear of socialism and an unbending faith and belief in free-markets.
Ever since I was felled in mid-book tour this summer, I have adored and seized all chances to play catch-up and to keep as many engagements as I can. Debating and lecturing are part of the breath of life to me, and I take deep drafts whenever and wherever possible. I also truly enjoy the face time with you, dear reader, whether or not you bring a receipt for a shiny new copy of my memoirs. But here is what happened while I was waiting to sign copies at an event in Manhattan a few weeks ago. Picture, if you will, me sitting at my table, approached by a motherly-looking woman (a key constituent of my demographic):
