Hacking into the mind of the CRU climate change hacker The Guardian | Analysis suggests the hacker was in east coast of America and operated over a number of days, but much remains unknown | Hacker in staged photograph surrounded by computers. Photograph: Corbis | Figuring out who was behind the hack of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Angl...
Ingrate! Wall Street Journal By JAMES TARANTO | Poor Harry Reid. The sulky Senate majority leader hails from a swing state and is up for re-election this November. It looks to be a bad year for Democrats in general, but as the man who pushed ObamaCare through the upper chamber, Reid is probably the year's second most vulnerable...
Top Canadian defense official charged with murder The News & Observer | TORONTO -- The commander of a major military base in Canada has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of two women and in the sexual assaults of two other women. | Ontario Provincial Police Det. Insp. Chris Nicholas said Monday that C...
Debate on nationalising the mines in South Africa Metals Place | A storm erupted in policy circles in South Africa after Julius Malema the leader of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) boldly proclaimed the need for the mining industry in South Africa to be nationalized. The demand was predicated ...
Piracy: Veil of secrecy behind moves for crackdown Deccan Herald By Eric Pfanner, International Herald Tribune | The deal targeted at internet use, could affect hundreds of millions of people around the world | Behind a veil of secrecy, the United States, the European Union, Japan and other countries are forging a...
Power vs. the people National Post By Adam McDowell, National PostFebruary 8, 2010 4:08 AM | At about dinnertime on Feb. 6, 2008, a knock at the door at the Rawdon, Que., home of Steve Solo set the dogs barking. It was a pair of Surete du Quebec police officers, on hand to usher...
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Cool reception is the idea at ice hotel Canada Dot Com An interior view of the Ice Hotel. | Photograph by: Handout photo, (c) Xdachez.com | There's no coat room at this hotel and it's for a good reason: you'll want to kee...
Right out of nowhere Canada Dot Com | I t is more than eight months before the municipal election and, not surprisingly, Rocco Rossi's campaign office on Avenue Road is bare. There are no Rossi for Mayor signs up yet, no trappings of the campaign machinery that dissects a city a...
Right out of nowhere National Post By Natalie Alcoba, National PostFebruary 6, 2010 3:03 AM | I t is more than eight months before the municipal election and, not surprisingly, Rocco Rossi's campaign office on Avenue Road is bare. There are no Rossi for Mayor signs up yet, no tr...
A plan for Haiti National Post By Conrad Black, National PostFebruary 6, 2010 3:03 AM Haitians queue at an aid distribution point outside the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince on Jan. 22. | Photograph by: Roberto Schmidt, AFP, Getty Images, National Post | The conti...
Dollar in lower 89 yen in Tokyo, euro seen pressured by financial woes+ Breitbart woes+ (AP) - TOKYO, Feb. 8 (Kyodo)—The U.S. dollar mostly moved in a tight range in the lower 89 yen range Monday in Tokyo after mixed U.S. employment data, while the euro remained weak on continued jitters over financial conditions in some European countries. | At 5 p.m., the dollar fetched 89.39-40 yen against 89.30-40 yen in New York and 89...
LEAD: Kan, Geithner to meet in Iqaluit ahead of G-7 finance meeting+ Breitbart IQALUIT, Canada, Feb. 5 (AP) - (Kyodo)—(EDS: ADDING DETAILS) | Japanese Finance Minister Naoto Kan will hold talks with U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Friday in the Canadian Arctic town of Iqaluit ahead of a two-day meeting of the Group of Seven industrial powers, the U.S. Treasury Department said. | The announcement was made Frid...
