Topic: NEWS english - on June 10, 2004 at 10:30:00 PM CEST
10M Kids In Slave-Like Labor
An estimated 10 million children worldwide work in slave-like conditions in other people's homes, but the problem is largely ignored in many countries, the United Nations' labor agency said Thursday.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 10, 2004 at 10:07:00 PM CEST
Druids chant to help vandal hunt
Druids have held chanting ceremonies in a bid to catch vandals who defaced an ancient stone circle.
They are confident their efforts will help reveal the identity of the culprits who painted the Rollright Stones on the Oxfordshire/Warwickshire border.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 10, 2004 at 9:57:00 PM CEST
ARRESTS MADE IN RELATION TO HALF-LIFE 2 THEFT
Arrests have been made in several countries related to the break-in to Valve's network, theft of the Half-Life 2 source code, and release of the source code on the Internet.
"Within a few days of the announcement of the break-in, the online gaming community had tracked down those involved," said Gabe Newell, Valve's CEO. "It was extraordinary to watch how quickly and how cleverly gamers were able to unravel what are traditionally unsolvable problems for law enforcement related to this kind of cyber-crime."
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 10, 2004 at 9:49:00 PM CEST
Music Legend Ray Charles Dies
Ray Charles, the Grammy-winning crooner who blended gospel and blues in such crowd-pleasers as "What'd I Say" and heartfelt ballads like "Georgia on My Mind," died Thursday, a spokesman said. He was 73.
Charles died at his Beverly Hills home surrounded by family and friends, said spokesman Jerry Digney.
Charles last public appearance was alongside Clint Eastwood on April 30, when the city of Los Angeles designated the singer's studios, built 40 years ago in central Los Angeles, as a historic landmark.
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Topic: Terror - on June 10, 2004 at 9:29:00 PM CEST
Interpol IDs piracy link to funding of terrorism
There is new evidence that terrorist organizations around the world are getting at least some of their funding from the sale of illegally copied intellectual property, including pirated DVDs and CDs, according to Interpol and copyright trade groups.
According to an Interpol report prepared for the House Committee on International Relations, intellectual property crimes are a growing resource for terrorist groups from Northern Ireland to the Arab world, including al-Qaida and Hizbullah, and the RIAA has evidence that a pair of illegal CD plants in Pakistan is financed by Dawood Ibrahim, an Indian Muslim the Treasury Department named a "specially designated global terrorist" in October.
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Topic: MDA - on June 10, 2004 at 8:55:00 PM CEST
Mobile porn is a 'time bomb'
European mobile phone firms must act to ensure that adult content reaches only adults, a research company warns. Mobile operators face a backlash over adult content if they are unable to balance lucrative revenues with legitimate parental anxieties, according to a report from research company Current Analysis. The warning comes as visual advances in mobile handset technology have led to the widespread introduction of mobile devices capable of taking pictures, videos and watching short video clips and films.
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Topic: CARS - on June 10, 2004 at 8:51:00 PM CEST
Paris bid to ban designer jeeps
Bulky, gas-guzzling sports utility vehicles (SUVs) could be banned from the chic but traffic-clogged streets of Paris within 18 months following a resolution passed by the city council.
Denis Baupin, a leading Green party councilor who tabled the resolution, says the designer jeeps are "not suited to towns" and he could not understand why people drove the fashionable "off-roaders.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 10, 2004 at 7:56:00 PM CEST
Murder Victim Flushed Down Toilet
Blood seeping out of a bathtub and toilet led police to a grisly murder last Thursday. They arrested two men in an upstairs apartment on suspicion of killing a woman during a drunken argument, dismembering her body and flushing the remains down a toilet.
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Topic: EU - on June 10, 2004 at 7:48:00 PM CEST
You Know You Have Been In Finland Too Long, When...
This old chestnut has been doing the rounds of the Net for some time and in places it is showing its age. We have taken the liberty of adding a few glosses (for which we asked a furriner who's been here over 20 years and is therefore probably guilty of most of the behaviour being lampooned).
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Topic: CARS - on June 10, 2004 at 7:47:00 PM CEST
UK to Use RFID-Enabled License Plates
The battery powered license plates are able to last a year without a recharge and are able to withstand rain, mud, snow, or other normal road conditions. RFID readers will be able to read the new license plates at speeds up to 200MPH and up to 300 feet away. Have a very large network of readers, they could potentially track everywhere your vehicle goes.
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Topic: Terror - on June 10, 2004 at 7:23:00 PM CEST
Israel can now spot, destroy roadside bombs from air
Israel's military has succeeded in detecting and neutralizing improvised explosive devices from the air.
Israeli officials said the Israel Defense Forces have combined air and ground forces to detect IEDs during military operations in the Gaza Strip.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on June 10, 2004 at 7:22:00 PM CEST
Danish pastor who refused to believe in God suspended
A pastor in Denmark's state Lutheran Protestant Church who caused a stir last year by saying he did not believe in God has been suspended from his duties for a second time, Bishop Lise-Lotte Rebel revealed.
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