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File - A Japanese journalist holds up a copy of the British Sunday newspaper News of the World outside the offices of its parent company News International in London, Thursday, July 7, 2011.
Crime   Phone Hacking   Photos   UK   Wikipedia: News International phone hacking scandal   		 Digital Spy 
Phone hacking: Met Police failed to warn victims, says review
The Metropolitan Police failed to warn people that they had been the victims of possible phone hacking by the News of the World, a judicial review has said. | Ex-deputy prime minister Lord Prescott, L... (photo: AP / Matt Dunham)
A homeless man sleeps near a shuttered store as a pedestrian looks on, near Athens' main Syntagma Square, on Monday, Feb. 6, 2012.
Economy   Greece   Photos   Protest   Wikipedia: Greek government debt crisis   		 Al Jazeera 
Greek workers strike over public job cuts
| Workers in Greece are staging a 24-hour general strike in protest over new government austerity measures which would see 15,000 civil service employees lose their jobs this year. | Tuesday's strike ... (photo: AP / Dimitri Messinis)
In this Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012 photo, the Maldives Police special force officers detain an opposition supporter during a protest in Male, Maldives.  The Guardian 
Maldives president quits after weeks of protest
| MALE, Maldives (AP) — The president of the island nation of Maldives, who became the country's first democratically elected leader in three decades, resigned Tuesday following weeks of sometimes v... (photo: AP / Sinan Hussain)
Democracy   Maldives   Photos   Protest   Wikipedia: Mohamed Nasheed  
Police officers guard the court entrance in Oslo, Norway, Monday, July 25, 2011. Judge Kim Heger denied Anders Behring Breivik the public stage he wanted to air his anti-Muslim rants and call for revolution.  Zeenews 
Victims weep, ridicule Norway killer's speech
Oslo: Survivors and relatives of those killed in a Norwegian mass-murder rampage wept and ridiculed the smiling attacker in court on Monday as he defended his acts by issuing a tirade against immigrat... (photo: AP / Frank Augstein)
Jail   Norway   Oslo   Photos   Wikipedia: 2011 Norway attacks  
Top Stories
File - An MQ-1 Predator unmanned aircraft prepares for takeoff in support of operations in Southwest Asia. The Examiner
The horror of Obama's Predator drone program
| Glenn Greenwald's recent piece for Salon details how US Predator drones are deliberately targeting those who show up at the scene of an attack and t... (photo: USAF / Senior Airman Julianne Showalter)
Defence   Pakistan   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Drone attacks in Pakistan  
Opposition supporters confront police as they protest against the arrest of Criminal Court Chief Justice Abdulla Mohamed in Male, Maldives, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. The Maldives asked the United Nations on Sunday to send a group of international jurists to resolve what it calls a judicial system failure that has resulted in the military's detention of the senior judge. (AP Photo/Sinan Hussain) The Guardian
Maldives soldiers fire rubber bullets at police
| MALE, Maldives (AP) — Maldives soldiers on Tuesday fired rubber bullets and clashed with police officers who were defying a presidential order to end a protest agains... (photo: AP / Sinan Hussain)
Maldives   Photos   Police   Protest   Wikipedia: Maldives  
Egyptian fans clash with riot police following Al-Ahly club soccer match against Al-Masry club at the soccer stadium in Port Said, Egypt Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. Al Jazeera
Interview: Bob Bradley on Port Said deaths
| Al Jazeera's Paul Rhys speaks to the Egyptian national football team's American coach, Bob Bradley, about the tragedy at a match in Port Said on February 1 that left 74... (photo: AP)
Egypt   Photos   Soccer   Sport   Wikipedia: Port Said Stadium clashes  
Men chant slogans during an anti-Syrian regime protest in front of the Chinese embassy in Tripoli, Libya, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. Russia and China have vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at ending Syria's bloodshed, despite international outrage over a devastating bombardment of the city of Homs by President Bashar Assad's forces. The veto and the show of support by Russia last Saturday raised concerns that Assad's regime could now unleash even greater violence to crush the revolt against his rule, assured that his ally would prevent international action while continuing its weapons sales to Damascus. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid al-Fergany) Al Jazeera
Syria steps up assault on Homs
| A Syrian military assault on Homs has killed dozens of people, as world powers scramble for a diplomatic strategy to end the violence in the country after the defeat of... (photo: AP / Abdel Magid al-Fergany)
Military   Photos   Syria   Unrest   Wikipedia: 20112012 Syrian uprising  
A Sumatran tiger at the Toronto Zoo in Canada. The Daily Telegraph Australia
Men caught butchering tiger
| POLICE have busted a wildlife slaughterhouse in Bangkok, catching four men in the act of chopping up a tiger. | Thai police busted the grisly, exotic wildlife slaughter... (photo: Creative Commons / Wuffyz)
Bangkok   Environment   Photos   Wikipedia: Tiger   Wildlife  
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and Donald Trump, arrive for a news in Las Vegas, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, where Trump endorsed Romney. WorldNews.com
Romney Should be Concerned about Poverty, Especially His Own
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. | "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?", asked Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Jesus answ... (photo: AP / Gerald Herbert)
Election   Photos   Politics   US   Wikipedia: Mitt Romney presidential campaign, 2012  
A protester reacts while Brazilian Army soldiers try to control the situation during a police strike, in Salvador, Brazil, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. Murder rates in the northeastern city of Salvador have more than doubled since the start of a police strike, media reports said Sunday. Salvador is renown for its Carnival celebrations, and some commentators have voiced fears that this week's violence could scare away tourists _ a major source of income(AP Photo/Lucio Tavora-Agencia A Tarde) Newsday
Brazil: Standoff between striking police, soldiers
Photos | SAO PAULO - (AP) -- Soldiers clashed with supporters of striking police in Brazil's third-largest city on Monday, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at the feet ... (photo: AP / Lucio Tavora-Agencia A Tarde)
Brazil   Photos   Police   Strike   Wikipedia: Brazil  
Media Crimes
Men chant slogans during an anti-Syrian regime protest in front of the Chinese embassy in Tripoli, Libya, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. Russia and China have vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at ending Syria's bloodshed, despite international outrage over a devastating bombardment of the city of Homs by President Bashar Assad's forces. The veto and the show of support by Russia last Saturday raised concerns that Assad's regime could now unleash even greater violence to crush the revolt against his rule, assured that his ally would prevent international action while continuing its weapons sales to Damascus. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid al-Fergany) Syria steps up assault on Homs Al Jazeera
File - A Syrian army defector stand guards in front of closed shops at the mountain resort town of Zabadani, Syria, near the Lebanese border, on Friday Jan. 20, 2012. Syrian army 'steps up Homs offensive' Al Jazeera
Brazil's poor seem left behind in growth spurt, observers say Brazil's poor seem left behind in growth spurt, observers say The Los Angeles Times
Backdropped by Egyptian riot police, two men ask protestors not to throw stones during clashes near the Interior Ministry in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. Was football riot orchestrated to inflame Egypt? The Independent
War Crimes
Members of the United Nations Security Council speak with the media at the end of their second day in Khartoum, Sudan. From left Susan Rice (United States), Gerard Araud (France), Vitaly Churkin (Russian Federation). Russia, China veto U.N. plan for Syria The Star
Pro-Syrian regime protesters hold a rally in support of President Bashar Assad, pictured in the large banner, in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 9, 2011. Syrian forces killed at least six people - including two children - as they fired on anti-government demonstrations across the country on Friday Syria "massacre" puts pressure on Moscow to back U.N. The Star
Opposition demonstrators carry a banner reading "Dissenters' march" during an anti-Kremlin protest in Moscow, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008. Police thwarted an anti-Kremlin protest organized by chess great Garry Kasparov's opposition group Sunday, seizing demonstrators and shoving them into trucks. Later About 50 protesters, one with a banner of Kasparov's group United Civil Front, which is part of Other Russia, gathered at another site in central Moscow and marched about 1 kilometer (half a mile) along a major street, shouting slogans such as "Russia without Putin!" before they disper Rival Putin rallies hold protests in Moscow Al Jazeera
A foreign journalist takes a photo of former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, on a screen at a court press center during the U.N.-backed tribunal Monday, April 6, 2009, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Khmer Rouge chief jailer gets life in prison Zeenews
Technology Crimes
Facebook - Social networking Facebook, Google remove content after court warning The Star
File - Occupy Wall Street protestors wearing Guy Fawkes masks commonly associated with the hacker group Anonymous wait for their turn to step off at the 39th annual Village Halloween Parade, Monday, Oct. 31st, 2011, in New York. Anonymous 'intercepts FBI, Scotland Yard call' Digital Spy
Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos holds a copy of "Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies" by Douglas Hofstadter -- the first book sold on-line by Amazon.com -- as he stands Friday, June 17, 2005 at the company's headquarters in Seattle next to a table that shows only a small sampling of non-book items currently available on Amazon.com including boxing gloves, a heart defibrillator, kitchen and electronics equipment, and clothing items. Amazon.com launched on the web ten years ago on July 16th, Amazon Has Tried Everything to Make Shopping Easier. Except This. The New York Times
Google EU: Google should ‘pause’ privacy changes The Daily Telegraph
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