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Lashkar behind killing of Kashmir sisters, Omar says shame

Omar AbdullahLashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) guerrillas gunned down two teenaged sisters after forcing them out of their home in the Jammu and Kashmir town of Sopore, triggering panic in the area, police said Tuesday as Chief Minister Omar Abdullah condemned the incident in a strongly worded statement. Altaf Khan, superintendent of police, Sopore, said: “Two of the killers [...]

RGV shocked at gangster-politician Suri’s killing

ram gopal varma1Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma is shocked at the killing of gangster-politician Gangula Suryanarayana Reddy alias Maddelachervu Suri, who was a key inspiration for his film “Rakta Charitra”. Suri was shot dead by a close aide in Hyderabad Monday. “By the time I finished ‘Rakta Charitra’, the reality became a film for me and now this [...]

Apple iPad Killing Newspaper Subscriptions: Survey

Apple iPad users are likely to kill their print newspaper subscriptions, according to a new survey. Will that encourage iPad-only publications? – Apple’s iPad is killing print newspaper subscriptions, according to a new
survey by the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University
of Missouri. However, its data also
suggests the iPad is becoming a new channel for people’s daily news, offering
hope that at least some of the iPad-…


Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: White House Cabinet Member Suggested Killing an American Service Man to Justify War

On Monday, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Hugh Shelton told told Jon Stewart that a Clinton cabinet member proposed letting Saddam kill an American pilot as a pretext for war in Iraq:(And see this; and this excerpt from General S…

Interior minister on Kosovo killing

Interior Minister Ivica Dačić says two Bosniaks attacked in northern Kosovo – one of whom died – had criminal records. Å efko Salković, 30, was killed and Edin Islamović, 25, was injured in an armed assault in the village of Postenje on Wednesday.

Prodigy’s ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ voted ‘Most Controversial Song Of All Time’

A track by British dance act The Prodigy has topped a new poll of ‘Most Controversial Songs Of All Time’. The band”s 1997 offering, ‘Smack My Bitch Up’, was banned by the UK”s BBC network, which refused to show the sex and drug-filled video or play the song as part of chart rundowns, and attracted [...]

Six dead after killing spree in Kentucky

A U.S. man has killed himself after shooting dead five people, including his wife and stepdaughter, in an argument about his breakfast. Stanley Neace, 47, went on the killing spree in a trailer park in Jackson, rural Breathitt County, Kentucky.

Will BP Skip the Relief Well, Declare Mission Accomplished, and Abandon Ship Without Permanently Killing the Oil Leak?

Yesterday, I pointed out that – while everyone is claiming that the oil well has been capped – it hasn’t really been capped.AP reported last night:BP, U.S. mull whether to skip ‘bottom kill’***The federal government and BP have recently raised the poss…

No Wonder the Outlook for the Economy is “Unusually Uncertain” … the Fed is Killing It

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke testified today that the outlook for the economy is “unusually uncertain”.That’s not surprising.Nothing has changed since I made the following points last December.High-Level Fed Officials Slam BernankeFed Vice Chairman Donal…

Brazilian keeper accused of killing lover

The goalkeeper and captain of Brazil’s most popular football club, Flamengo, has been arrested over the disappearance and suspected murder of his ex-lover. In a case that’s gripped the soccer and soap loving nation, Bruno Fernandes de Souza is accused of having planned the kidnap and death of model Eliza Samudio, who’s been missing for a month.

Is Internet TV Killing Cable? Posted By : Paddy Chang

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Are Content Providers Slowly Killing Hulu? Posted By : Paddy Chang

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Oil Coating Seafloor and Killing Fish, Crabs … and the American Dream

Irish-Canadian journalist Alex Kearns, who now lives in St. Mary’s Georgia posted this image on her website today, along with the following description:A researcher captured this image. A discarded flag (or one that has fallen from one of the many ves…

Irish to expel Israeli diplomat over Hamas killing

The Irish Republic is to expel an Israeli diplomat over the use of fake passports in the killing of a Hamas official in Dubai. Foreign Minister Micheal Martin said an investigation had proved that eight Irish passports used in the operation were forgeries.

‘Pakistan satisfied with UN report on Benazir killing’

Pakistan has expressed satisfaction at a UN probe report, which blames the laxity of then president Pervez Musharraf’s government for the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
In his initial reaction, presidential spokesperson Farhatullah Babar expressed satisfaction over the report and said a response would be given after a detailed study of the report, Online [...]

Friends: Producer Accused of Killing Wife

Bruce Beresford-Redman, an Emmy-nominated former producer of a popular reality show Survivor and Pimp My Ride, might have never thought of this day. When his marriage was on the rocks he found his wife dead in Mexico..!!
He was temporarily detained by the Mexican authorities and was asked to stay in the country till the investigation [...]

NATO admits killing five Afghan civilians

NATO admitted that its troops had killed five civilians, including three women, during a botched nighttime attack in February in south-eastern Afghanistan. Shortly after NATO troops who were conducting a joint patrol with Afghan forces raided a house February 12 in Gardez, the capital of Paktia province, the alliance said its forces killed two armed insurgents and found three women who were dead before its forces entered the house. It had said the women were bound and gagged.

ETA blamed for French police killing

Basque separatists from ETA are suspected after a French policeman was shot and killed in a suburb south-east of Paris. The 52 year-old was part of a patrol which came under fire it’s thought after stumbling across a theft at a second hand car depot south east of the capital.

Microsoft’s Week Included Federal Cloud, Botnet Killing, Patents Galore

Microsoft’s week focused in large part on government and legal initiatives. These included the announcement of Business Productivity Online Suite Federal, likely an attempt to help head off the threat of Googles planned federal cloud-computing system, and a legal attack against the Waledac botnet. Microsoft also tried to prevent an internal document from appearing on watchdog site Cryptome. In more benign news, Microsoft also entered into intellectual property-sharing agreements with both Panasonic and Amazon.com.
– Microsoft had a big week on the government and legal fronts, ranging
from lawyer-driven attempts to shut down a botnet and a watchdog site
that posted its internal documents, to the announcement of an
online-services cloud for the federal government.

On Feb. 24, Microsoft announced security an…


NATO acknowledges killing 12 civilians

NATO has acknowledged responsibility for killing 12 Afghan civilians during a major U.S.-led offensive against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan. NATO says the civilians were killed when two rockets fired at insurgents missed their intended target. Afghan President Hamid Karzai expressed sadness at the incident. He has ordered an investigation into the deaths in the Nad Ali district.