Forum: World News

Like them or loathe them, Google are such a part of our lives that they have entered the language ("Google it", etc). But are they being too...

His first offical Act declare a Crusade to regain the Falklands :) Though I dunno why all the fuss over the fact hes Argentinian. Hes not the first...

So Syria (like Libya) is killing its own civilians that oppose their government, America it seems said No - were not going in. Not heard much from...

Touchdown is due at 6.31am BST Monday morning. <iframe src="http://www.ustream.tv/embed/6540154" style="border: 0px none transparent;"...

If you've seen the news today, you might have heard about the dozens of children killed in Syria, and then read past the headline. They weren't just...

The State of Israel may launch a military strike on the Islamic Republic of Iran any time now, reports Israeli television network Channel 10 News....

Saw that on Al Jazeera this evening. OK, so that's another service that I'm going to unsubscribe from.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2399105,00.asp One day after an extensive Internet blackout in protest of two pending anti-piracy bills, the...

I find this a bit arrogant on behalf of wikipaedia. There success has always been by the millions of people around the world who contribute and to...

Sources: Daily News Today's Zaman

So-called ‘Dreamboxes’, the STBs that can illegally access scrambled pay-TV signals, have been banned in Brazil. The country’s Federal Justice...

The Pilot made a perfect landing today and saved all 230 people on board after the landing gear didn't come down. <iframe width="420"...

Libya's former leader Col Muammar Gaddafi has been killed after an assault on his home town of Sirte, officials from the transitional authorities...

Italian appeal hearing clears Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito of the murder of UK student Meredith Kercher. The DNS evidence was not...

Surprise surprise, looks like Putin will be back as President after he has acceptedorganised to run for the presidency of Russia again. Nice when...

What does everyone think of the situation? The first BBC report listed the likely reasons for the attack as: 1 Al Quaeda (essentially just doing...

dead link .

Who would have thought you could die from eating organic vegetables? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13592765

Oh dear, this is going to be sad :( Starting at 3:35 UTC today (6:35am local time), approximately two-thirds of all Syrian networks became...

British intelligence has hacked into an al-Qaeda online magazine and replaced bomb-making instructions with a recipe for cupcakes.

Turkey's internet is already subject to all kinds of censorship, such as YouTube which is periodically blocked, and only this week the prime minister...

It seems our EU masters have decided we are going to war / placing a No Fly Zone in Libya. Good/Bad? To Late/None of our Business? ...

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/14/10-drug-becomes-1500.html It makes you proud! No?

haha, That must be extremely boring thing to do, to raid a "book shop". It would be hard to destroy the evidence, one little fire and the whole book...

Google Maps + Twitter Feeds: Showing up the latest Twitter feeds from protest-engulfed Libya, Egypt, Bahrain & Iran Developer Virender Ajmani has...

Egypt appears to have cut off almost all access to the internet from inside and outside the country from late on Thursday night, in a move that has...

The Wall Street Journal, has a strange article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704307404576080222812076888.html In summary its...

I do not know whether to applaud her bravery or call it stupid as going by Germany's history this is a very very dangerous path for them to lead. ...

Anyone any idea what this is all about? http://www.apple.com/?ref=apple.com/startpage/&sr=st_page

Amazing ! http://vimeo.com/11673745

Picture under copyright so click link to see it, damn cool really. Ash and Lightning Above an Icelandic Volcano LINK

Very interesting article (although won't be a surprise to a lot of us) about roaming charges on mobile phones at the bbc today ...

I use a German networking product and got this email from them today. Sorry for the google translation, but I think it's understandable. It...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7330986/Apple-admits-using-child-labour-in-China.html

Well I sort of hope this happens I mostly hope it does not http://news.cnet.com

We have all done it, many still do, and yet it still makes headlines Australia appears to have joined the USA in imposing crazy punitive measures...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8449319.stm Woah!

I know there has been a lot of talk about Holocaust denial and so on, and the subject isn't a happy one, but I stumbled across an extremely...

Bone with bullet hole found by Russians in 1946 came from an unknown woman, not the German leader. Uki Goñi The Observer Sunday 27 September...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/10/mass_web_attack/ Scary stuff, seems a big attack based on old application vulnerabilities.

.........U.S. leader pledged to bring the conflict to a 'successful conclusion'......yeh......for whom? What do they intend to do with the next...

Can someone delete this pls? :)

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20091120/twl-police-in-peru-claim-to-bust-human-f-41f21e0.html $15000 a litre!!!! I have an idea... If human fat is...