MI5 faced an unprecedented and damaging crisis tonight after one of the country's most senior judges found that the Security Service had failed to respect human rights, deliberately misled parliament, and had a "culture of suppression" that undermined government assurances about its conduct.
Read more »British judges: MI5 complicit in torture
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China Closes Hacker Training School, Arrests 3
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China officials have shut down Black Hawk Safety Net, the country's biggest hacker training Website, and arrested three people for making hacker tools available online.
Read more »Portugal parliament votes to permit gay marriage
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LISBON, Portugal – Portugal's parliament passed a bill Friday that would make the predominantly Catholic nation the sixth in Europe to permit gay marriage.
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Tank Man - In Memory of those who fought or fight for Freedom
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Arthur Tsang Hin Wah of Reuters took several shots, but the one shot of Tank Man climbing the tank was chosen from his batch of photos.
"Tank Man", second from left, prepares to face down the row of oncoming tanks. Photo by Terril Jones (Associated Press).
Afghan Politics: Let's Be Real
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How US promoted corruption while locking out true democracy.The outpouring of Western anger and shock earlier this month over a new Afghan law that legalizes marital rape and confines women to their homes demonstrates how out of touch Western countries are with the monster they have created in that benighted country.
Read more »Pirate Bay Owners: 1 Yr Prison, $3.6 m fines
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Founders Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, along with two other employees Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundström, were sentenced to a year in jail after being found guilty in a Swedish court of making 33 copyright-protected files accessible for illegal downloading on the website Piratebay.org.
Read more »Susan Boyle - Singer - Britains Got Talent 2009
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47 Year old Susan Boyle wows the judges with her performance in the auditions for Britain's Got Talent, singing I dreamed a dream from Les Miserables.
Read more »Japan gives citizens the green light for gay marriage abroad
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Japanese nationals can now wed their same-sex foreign partners in countries where same-sex marriage is permitted.
Read more »Swiss banks ban top executive travel
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Switzerland’s private banks have started to ban their top executives from traveling abroad, even to neighbouring France and Germany, because of fears they will be detained as part of a global crackdown on bank secrecy.
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