Topic: Glaubensfragen - on January 29, 2010 at 2:17:00 PM CET
Scientologists 'heal' Haiti quake victims using touch
Amid the mass of aid agencies piling in to help Haiti quake victims is a batch of Church of Scientology "volunteer ministers", claiming to use the power of touch to reconnect nervous systems.
Clad in yellow T-shirts emblazoned with the logo of the controversial US-based group, smiling volunteers fan out among the injured lying under makeshift shelters in the courtyard of Port-au-Prince's General Hospital.
A wealthy private donor provided his airplane to fly in 80 volunteers from Los Angeles, along with 50 Haitian-American-doctors, in a gesture worth 400,000 dollars, said a Parisian volunteer who gave her name as Sylvie.
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Topic: SPORT - on January 29, 2010 at 2:15:00 PM CET
Swiss court upholds basketball headscarf ban
A Muslim woman has failed to overturn a ban stopping her from wearing a headscarf during league basketball matches in Switzerland.
Sura al-Shawk, 19, was told she could not wear a headscarf by the basketball association (ProBasket) in August 2009.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on January 29, 2010 at 2:13:00 PM CET
Porsche thief 'drove to court in stolen Lexus'
A US man found guilty of stealing a Porsche was re-arrested after police learned he had driven to court in a stolen Lexus.
Tony Van, 37, a hairstylist from San Francisco, was caught out after seven tiny Yorkshire terrier puppies escaped from the Lexus 4WD.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on January 29, 2010 at 2:09:00 PM CET
Man smuggled 44 lizards in his underpants
A man who tried to smuggle 44 lizards out of New Zealand in his underwear has been jailed for 14 weeks, fined, and will be deported from the country - minus his pants-lizards.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on January 27, 2010 at 12:52:00 PM CET
Google Toolbar caught tracking users when 'disabled'
Google has updated its browser toolbar after the application was caught tracking urls even when specifically "disabled" by the user.
In a Monday blog post, Harvard professor and noted Google critic Ben Edelmen provided video evidence of the Google toolbar transmitting data back to the Mountain View Chocolate Factory after he chose to disable the application in the browser window he was currently using.
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Topic: logisch - on January 27, 2010 at 12:47:00 PM CET
Prolific hacker releases PlayStation exploit
On Monday, when we reported that the prolific hacker geohot had successfully penetrated the previously impervious PlayStation 3 gaming console, readers were understandably skeptical.
After all, the 20-year-old readily admitted his hack wasn't reliable, and he provided no evidence he was able to do some of the things modders love to do most, such as run arbitrary code or peel open the device's synergistic processing elements to take a peak at its most prized internal elements.
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Topic: STRANGE - on January 27, 2010 at 12:43:00 PM CET
Winter
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on January 27, 2010 at 12:42:00 PM CET
Götz Kauffmann 61-jährig gestorben
Der Wiener Schauspieler wurde durch TV-Serien wie "Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter" und "Kaisermühlen-Blues" bekannt
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Topic: TV - on January 27, 2010 at 12:39:00 PM CET
Test pattern puzzle
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on January 27, 2010 at 12:36:00 PM CET
Three Madrid policemen suspended for six months for letting the air out of patrol cars
Three local policemen in Madrid have been suspended without pay for six months by Madrid City Hall, after being found guilty of a serious fault which could have seen them expelled from the force or suspended for upto three years.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on January 27, 2010 at 12:34:00 PM CET
Wife mistakes burglar for husband, tries to have sex
The woman, Qiu, told police she was sleeping in her Changsha home in the Hunan province last week when she heard someone enter her bedroom, China Daily reports. Believing the burglar to be her husband, Qiu threw herself on the man to make love to him.
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Topic: SEX - on January 26, 2010 at 2:09:00 PM CET
US school officials remove dictionary over term 'oral sex'
After a parent complained about an elementary school student stumbling across "oral sex" in a classroom dictionary, Menifee Union School District officials decided to pull Merriam Webster's 10th edition from all school shelves earlier this week.
School officials will review the dictionary to decide if it should be permanently banned because of the "sexually graphic" entry, said district spokeswoman Betti Cadmus. The dictionaries were initially purchased a few years ago for fourth- and fifth-grade classrooms districtwide, according to a memo to the superintendent.
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