You just know this is going to get nasty in the near future: TEHRAN (Reuters) – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday Western countries were vulnerable and would suffer more than Iran if they continued to try to impede its attempts to develop nuclear technology, local media reported. Speaking a day after it became clear […]
I agree that abuse of people in Iraq is not acceptable. Thing is though with this case they have not disclosed what (if anything) was going on before the beatings took place. For all we know they could have been stoning the patrol, threatened the patrol with a weapon or made verbal threats. Before condemming […]
Now this is a suprise…. better watch your back choir boys: The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland has revealed 102 priests working in Dublin are suspected of abusing children since 1940. At least 350 children are believed to have been sexually or physically assaulted over the past 66 years. The Irish government is expected to […]
So the police over here in the UK seem to be doing their job well: Two teenage students have been charged in connection with an investigation into suspected terrorist activity overseas, police said. The 18-year-olds have been charged under section 58 of the Terrorism Act and will appear in court on Thursday, Scotland Yard said. […]
Looks like Iran is up for a fight: A defiant Iran has warned it is capable of inflicting “harm and pain” if action is taken to prevent their nuclear programme. The United States warned Iran to expect “consequences” from the United Nations if it failed to halt nuclear research. Tehran has vowed to continue with […]
Theres an interesyting debate opened up here in the UK (see report from Yahoo News below). It is over guidelines and proposed changes to the law regarding rape. The guidelines say that a man must get consent from a woman prior to having sex. This is due to the increase in cases where women have […]
Two British men are thought to have burned to death in a car after police opened fire in Basra, it has been reported. Security officials claimed the victims were UK citizens. A third person in the car, also believed to be a British, was wounded and rushed away by police, said Iraqi police Captain Mushtaq […]
Yahoo has banned the name Allah from appearhing in any of the usernames on its servers. Funny that Allah is banned yet God and Jesus are allowed. Here is a nice list of words that are allowed and banned from Yahoo. Pretty shameful coming from a company who for years turned their backs to child […]
Yahoo! Alerts Yahoo! News WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush, in his State of the Union, will say that “America is addicted to oil,” and that the nation must use technology to break its dependence. OK that was a breaking news alert from Yahoo. Of course they left off the final part of “as soon as I […]
Just as a computer warning to all my readers, someone is sending out mass emails across the net today in order to spread a nasty little virus/worm called Sober.Y. The email are addressed as coming from numerous sources including: Yahoo AOL CIA FBI They all contain different messages but all have the same attachment. If […]