Monday, May 29, 2006

Unrest grips Kabul after US truck crash, 13 dead


Unrest grips Kabul after US truck crash, 13 dead
Dose.ca - 1 hour agoBy Yousuf Azimy. KABUL (Reuters) - Security forces opened fire on protestors on Monday after a fatal crash involving a US army truck triggered the worst riots in the Afghan capital since the fall of the Taliban. ...

Scientists shed new light on invisibility
Boston Globe - 13 hours agoBy Gareth Cook, Globe Staff | May 29, 2006. Fans of JK Rowling will recall that everyone's favorite boy magician can vanish at will. Potter just ducks under his magic cloak and swoosh . . . he is gone. Last ...

Experts: Leading antivirus software exposes computers
Telecom Asia Daily / Wireless Asia - 13 hours ago(Associated Press via NewsEdge) Symantec's leading antivirus software, which protects some of the world's largest corporations and US government agencies, suffers from a flaw that lets hackers seize control of computers to steal sensitive data, delete ...

Honour for tale of Irish revolution
Daily Telegraph - 2 hours agoCANNES: Veteran British filmmaker Ken Loach yesterday won the coveted Palme d'Or as the jury honoured films dealing with war. It was eighth-time lucky for Loach, 70, with The Wind That Shakes The Barley, about ...

Record numbers looking at Internet porn in UK
Independent Online - 8 hours agoBy Anthony Barnes and Sophie Goodchild. London - Record numbers of men and women are downloading pornography from the Internet, making Britain the fastest growing market in the world for the booming 20-billion adult website industry. ...

Why Google makes everyone else nervous
Boston Globe - 10 hours agoBy Robert Weisman, Globe Staff | May 29, 2006. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Google Inc. first gained notice early in the decade, as a small and quirky start-up with a disarmingly simple Internet search engine and an idealistic slogan, ``Don't Be Evil.". ...