JUN
8
2011

Brazil´s chief minister Antonio Palocci resigns

The Brazilian president´s chief of staff Antonio Palocci has resigned over corruption allegations.

JUN
8
2011

$100k car wrecked after ´brain explosion´

A Hastings motorist has written off his $100,000 sports car after a "brain explosion" while fleeing police at 130km/h.

JUN
8
2011

Woman denies using dogs in assaults

An 18-year-old woman is denying setting her three dogs on a Japanese woman.

JUN
7
2011

EU proposes compensation package for farmers hit by E. coli outbreak

The European agriculture commissioner has proposed a 150-million-euro compensation fund for farmer hit by the E. coli outbreak.

JUN
7
2011

Iceland´s former leader to be charged in bank collapse

Iceland´s former prime minister Geir Haarde is due in court to be formally charged for his role in the nation´s banking collapse.

JUN
7
2011

Ex-IMF chief Strauss-Kahn pleads not guilty in sex assault

Attorneys for Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the Manhattan hotel maid he´s accused of sexually attacking gave clashing accounts of the incident Monday after the former International Monetary Fund chief pleaded not guilty at a court arraignment.

JUN
7
2011

New Solicitor General is confirmed

The Senate on Monday voted 72 to 16 to confirm a White House lawyer, Donald Verrilli Jr., as solicitor general.

JUN
7
2011

Facebook becomes tool to serve legal papers on those who exist only online

Two years after an Australian lawyer caused a stir by sending a foreclosure notice via Facebook, the practice of online legal service is spreading as a means for courts to keep their dockets moving.

JUN
6
2011

Internet insecurity: Once more unto the breach

Defence companies have been left defenceless. A prominent internet giant has found itself the target of an online plot that allowed outsiders to read some of its users’ emails. And a media organisation has hit the headlines after its own website was vandalised by digital intruders.

JUN
6
2011

U2´s Glastonbury gig targeted by tax protesters

First it was Vodafone stores, then Philip Green´s Topshop, Boots and grocers to the Queen Fortnum & Mason. Now direct action tax protesters are turning their sights on the Glastonbury festival, promising to use U2´s headline performance to throw a spotlight on the group´s convoluted tax affairs.

JUN
6
2011

German cabinet approves 2022 nuclear shutdown

Germany´s top politicians have approved plans for the country to stop using nuclear power completely in 2022. The legislation, marking an energy U-turn by Chancellor Merkel´s government, can now be debated in parliament.

JUN
6
2011

E-waste law reaches a milestone: 1 billion pounds of computer junk recycled in California

Mountains of broken TV sets, obsolete computer monitors and outdated laptops that once piled up in California´s garages, attics and basements have achieved a milestone.

JUN
6
2011

U.N. report declares Internet access a human right

A United Nations report said Friday that disconnecting people from the internet is a human rights violation and against international law.

JUN
3
2011

Brazil eyes public-private airport revamp for Cup

Brazil plans to form public-private consortiums to revamp three of the country´s main airports as part of a broader effort to speed up preparations for the 2014 soccer World Cup, the government said on Tuesday.

JUN
3
2011

Congo bans plastic bags to fight pollution

The Republic of Congo has banned the production, import, sale and use of plastic bags in a move to fight environmental pollution in the Central African nation, government spokesman Bienvenu Okiemy said on Thursday.

JUN
3
2011

Phillip Garrido jailed for 431 years to life for kidnapping and sexual assault charges

Phillip Garrido was, according to those who knew him, always a strange man, at times even frightening - known locally as "creepy Phil".

JUN
3
2011

Russia bans meat imports from 89 Brazilian firms

Russia is banning meat and other livestock product imports from 89 manufacturers in three Brazilian states for not meeting Russian standards on June 15, Alexei Alexeyenko, spokesman for Russian food safety watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor, told Interfax.

JUN
3
2011

Tennessee is about to make sharing your Netflix password illegal

Tennessee lawmakers have passed a new measure that would make it a crime to use a friend´s login—even with permission!—to share Netflix, Rhapsody or any other services amongst friends.

JUN
2
2011

Google says hackers in China stole Gmail passwords

Google said Wednesday that hundreds of users of Gmail, its e-mail service, had been the targets of clandestine attacks apparently originating in China that were aimed at stealing their passwords and monitoring their e-mail.

JUN
2
2011

Iran´s parliament votes to take Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to court

Iran´s parliament voted on Wednesday to take Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to court over his takeover of the country´s vital oil ministry, escalating the power struggle between the president and the hard-line establishment that has turned against him.

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