Topic: - on September 20, 2003 at 10:32:39 PM CEST
Drunk U.S. soldier shoots rare tiger in Baghdad zoo
A U.S. soldier shot and killed an endangered tiger at the Baghdad zoo after it bit another soldier who had drunkenly reached through the bars of its cage to feed it, a security guard said Saturday.
The soldiers had been drinking beer when they entered the zoo Thursday night after it closed, said the guard, Zuhair Abdul-Majeed. After the man was bit, the other American shot the tiger three times in the head and killed it, he said.
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Topic: DOPE HEAD - on September 20, 2003 at 8:50:14 PM CEST
Arab 'tried to open jet door at 30,000ft'
An Arab who allegedly tried to open the door of an Airbus A321 carrying 105 passengers and crew as it flew at 30,000ft over the North Sea has been charged with endangering an aircraft.
Brahim Sbaoui, 33, was held by cabin crew after the pilot alerted them to alleged tampering with a rear door.
Sbaoui was a passenger on the Airbus on a flight from Heathrow to Norway. Fearing for the safety of his passengers the Scandinavian Airlines captain immediately diverted back to Heathrow for an emergency landing.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 20, 2003 at 6:51:43 PM CEST
Ten years of therapy in one night
Could a single trip on a piece of African rootbark help a junkie kick the habit? That was the claim in the 1960s, and now iboga is back in the spotlight. But is it a miracle cure? Daniel Pinchbeck decided to give it a go. And life, he says, will never be the same again...
In 1962, Howard Lotsof, a 19-year-old heroin addict in New York, ordered from a chemist iboga, a plant used in West African rituals, and tried it for extra kicks. After consuming the bitter rootbark powder, he experienced a visionary tour of his early memories. Thirty hours later, when the effects had subsided, he found that he had lost all craving for heroin, without withdrawal symptoms of any kind. He said he then gave iboga to seven other addicts and five stopped taking drugs immediately afterwards.
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Topic: - on September 20, 2003 at 6:48:02 PM CEST
Beer drinkers march to Oktoberfest
Thousands of beer drinkers from around the world, many in traditional Bavarian lederhosen, have flocked to Munich on for the largest and most famous beer festival on earth, the Oktoberfest.
Munich mayor Christian Ude opened the two-week festival at midday on Saturday, cracking open the first 200-litre keg with the customary shout of "O'zapft is" - the keg is tapped.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on September 20, 2003 at 6:38:06 PM CEST
Document extends secrecy on Area 51 in southern Nevada
Invoking national security, President Bush has renewed an exemption allowing the Air Force to keep mum about top-secret operations at a southern Nevada base.
Bush's memorandum said it was of "paramount interest" to exempt the Groom Lake base about 90 miles north of Las Vegas from disclosing classified information.
Also known as Area 51, the mysterious base sits on a dry lake bed and is heavily patrolled. The area is in a no-fly zone.
The secrecy has fueled speculation about UFOs, aliens and other strange occurrences around Area 51. Residents of the nearby town of Rachel say the UFO talk began years ago when a Nevada Test Site worker claimed he saw alien ships there.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on September 20, 2003 at 5:34:08 PM CEST
Fernseh-Handy kommt noch in diesem Jahr
Jedoch voerst nur in Japan | Drittgrößter Mobilfunkbetreiber J-Phone bringt TV-Handy von NEC in den Handel.
Japans drittgrößter Mobilfunkbetreiber J-Phone, der zur britischen Vodafone-Gruppe gehört, will noch in diesem Jahr erste Mobiltelefone mit eingebautem Fernsehempfänger auf den Markt bringen.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 20, 2003 at 5:27:46 PM CEST
Russians lost in mushroom heaven
A bumper mushroom crop in Russia this year has pleased everyone except officials of the Emergencies Ministry in St Petersburg.
They are the ones that have to go looking for mushroom hunters who get lost in the forests near the city - a total of 121 people since 1 August.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 20, 2003 at 2:39:32 PM CEST
Virus sender helped FBI bust hackers
Federal prosecutors credited the man responsible for transmitting the Melissa virus -- a computer bug that did more than $80 million in damage in 1999 -- with helping the FBI bring down several major international hackers.
Court documents unsealed Wednesday at the request of The Associated Press show that David Smith began working with the FBI within weeks of his 1999 arrest, primarily using a fake identity to communicate with and track hackers from around the world.
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Topic: - on September 20, 2003 at 12:44:13 PM CEST
Navy Shocks Blamed for Giant Squid Deaths
Shockwaves from scientific tests carried out by the Spanish navy have killed four giant squid -- one the length of a bus -- off Spain's coast in recent days, the head of a marine protection agency says.
"The navy ship the Hesperides is working in the area...and the shock waves (are the cause of death)," Luis Laria, president of marine protection agency CEPESMA, said Thursday.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 20, 2003 at 12:25:26 PM CEST
Pot seized at Forces munition centre
The Canadian Forces said Friday they have seized nearly 1,000 cannabis plants at a Forces munitions centre northeast of Montreal.
The plants were found earlier this week after provincial police advised the Forces marijuana may have been growing on their territory.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 20, 2003 at 12:21:39 PM CEST
Stupid people still think Microsoft sends out patches in email, execute email attachments
Less than 24 hours after first being detected, the Swen blended-threat worm picked up steam Friday, gained a foothold in the United States and the United Kingdom, and accounted for more than 35,000 interceptions by E-mail filtering firm MessageLabs.
Swen, also called W32/Swen@MM, Gibe, and W32/Gibe-F, masquerades as E-mail from Microsoft and purports to carry a security update as its file attachment. The worm can also propagate over Internet Relay Chat and peer-to-peer files sharing networks such as Kazaa, as well as over network shares within the firewall if a machine inside a company is infected.
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Topic: BOARD NEWS - on September 20, 2003 at 11:10:46 AM CEST
Schönheitsfehler in der heilen Hörfunkwelt
Perfekt geschulte Sprecher, perfekt gefahrene Sendungen - perfekt erlogenes Radio?
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