A new video of kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston shows him wearing an explosives vest and warning he will be blown up if Hamas continues to surround the area where he is being held, the US-based Intel Center said Sunday in an e-mail to news organizations.
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Iran is in the throes of one of its most ferocious crackdowns on dissent in years, with the government focusing on labor leaders, universities, the press, women’s rights advocates, a former nuclear negotiator and Iranian-Americans, three of whom have been in prison for more than six weeks.
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The media started referring to all insurgents killed in Iraq as al-Qaida.
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The Office is being made into a video game.
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If President Bush and Vice President Cheney can blurt out vulgar language, then the government cannot punish broadcast television stations for broadcasting the same words in similarly fleeting contexts, a federal appeals panel ruled
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A team of physicists has teleported data over a distance of 89 miles from the Canary Island of La Palma to the neighbouring island of Tenerife, which is 10 times further than the previous attempt at teleportation through free space.
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YouTube’s co-founders on Thursday challenged the Pentagon’s assertion that soldiers overseas were sapping too much bandwidth by watching online videos, the military’s principal rationale for blocking popular Web sites from Defense Department computers.
“They said it might be a bandwidth issue, but they created the Internet, so I don’t know what the problem is,”
Chief Executive Chad Hurley said.
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US Soldiers can’t use Myspace or Youtube anymore.
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is trying to pass a bill which makes “attempting” to infringe copyright punishable by up to 10 years in jail.
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CBS dismissed an Iraq war veteran over his involvement in an ad campaign criticizing the war. General John Batiste appears in an ad from the group VoteVets dot org. Batiste has been working as a CBS News consultant.
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Hamas’s television station defied the Hamas-led Palestinian government on Friday by airing a show featuring a Mickey Mouse lookalike that urges children to support armed resistance against Israel. During one of the skits, Farfur told young viewers that he aspired to be like the slain spiritual leaders of Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood.
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The US Treasury Department asked Michael Moore to explain himself.
[get ready]
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Two retired Army major generals with experience in Iraq will appear in television commercials critical of President George W. Bush’s handling of the war. The ads, to begin airing Wednesday, take aim at key Republicans in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
The commercials are timed to coincide with congressional debate over the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
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18,000 people got naked together to get their picture taken.
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Afghanistan decided to start censoring the media.
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The US extradited an Australian for pirating US software. He is facing up to ten years in prison.
“Our agents and prosecutors are working tirelessly to nab intellectual property thieves, even where their crimes transcend international borders,”
US Attorney Chuck Rosenberg said.
[not creepy or scary looking]
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The US government started using Wikipedia as an intelligence source.
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China’s national state-run television networkbanned all images of pigs from advertisements to avoid offending Muslims.
[not cool]
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The body of an Associated Press employee was found shot in the back of the head Friday, six days after he was last seen by his family leaving for work. Ahmed Hadi Naji, 28, was the fourth AP staffer to die violently in the Iraq war and the second AP employee killed in less than a month.
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The prime minister on Tuesday ordered an investigation into the conduct of Saddam Hussein’s execution in a bid to learn who among the witnesses taunted the former Iraqi leader in the last minutes of his life, then leaked a cell phone video.
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