ROMAN Polanski is a free man today after Swiss authorities rejected a request to extradite the film director to the United States to answer for a child sex case dating back to 1977.
via Switzerland set Roman Polanski free by refusing US extradition bid | News.com.au.
TECHIES have quickly cracked a secret code embedded in the Pentagon’s new US Cyber Command logo – but the resulting bureaucratic message may be even more difficult to decipher.
via US Cyber Command logo code cracked in hours | The Australian.
Rarefied ruminations, and an augury of omens and mollusc musings have inflamed the poisonous passions of the World Football proletariat.
“Paul should clam up before his clairvoyance lands him in the soup”, one bystander was heard to say of the prognosticating, multi limbed hunch miester.
The Spanish government has called for the soccer soothsayer to be placed under protection after German threats to eat him.
via Oracle octopus Paul to predict final … if not too tired.
PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber killed up to 45 people and wounded dozens in an attack outside the office of a senior government official in Pakistan’s northwest, government and hospital officials said.
via DAWN.COM | Pakistan | At least 45 killed in Mohmand suicide attack.
“This court has determined that it is clearly within the authority of the Commonwealth to recognize same-sex marriages among its residents, and to afford those individuals in same-sex marriages any benefits, rights, and privileges to which they are entitled by virtue of their marital status,” Tauro wrote.
The oil spill has also made me realize how fragile this freedom is — as the Associated Press reported, “journalists covering the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have been yelled at, kicked off public beaches and islands and threatened with arrest …”
via Support the First Amendment with 1 for All — Blog — WordPress.com.
MULTAN: Federal minister for religious affairs Hamid Saeed Kazmi on Sunday said that a majority of ulema do not favour suicide attacks but some of them are reluctant to condemn them unconditionally.
via DAWN.COM | Pakistan | ‘Some ulema reluctant to condemn suicide attacks’.
Iran has moved radar to Syria that could provide early-warning against a possible surprise Israeli air attack against Tehran’s nuclear sites, a US defense official said on Friday.
The radar transfer was first reported in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday and prompted the State Department to voice concerns about cooperation between Syria and Iran.
The sophisticated radar were deployed in Syria last year, the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.
MARK COLVIN: Rupert Murdoch’s plan to charge for online news became reality today. The Times newspaper in London placed its website behind a pay wall.
For the last month would be readers of the Times and Sunday Times have been required to register before seeing the paper’s content. From today they have to get out their credit cards and pay.
With newspaper hardcopy sales falling around the world, it’s a key test of whether in the new media environment people will still pay for news stories.
via PM – Murdoch pay for view online content revolution begins 02/07/2010.
NEW YORK – New York City’s famous Naked Cowboy wants a bikini-clad woman who calls herself The Naked Cowgirl to stop ripping off his trademark.
via Naked Cowboy to Naked Cowgirl: Stop copying – News- msnbc.com.
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