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Joanna Geary, web development editor for The Times and one of the most thoughtful of journalistic bloggers, has an interesting take on Twitter storm controversies.Stimulated by Stephen Fry's defence of his own so-called influence during the Jan Moir episode, Geary raises a couple of pertinent points.Her second is about lib (Read More)
Reuters:
China's government appears increasingly to be piercing U.S. government and defense industry computer networks to gather useful data for its military, a congressional advisory panel said on Thursday. (Read More)
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Bloody deaths of CGI polar bears in Plane Stupid ad designed to highlight carbon impact of air travelAirline pollution activists Plane Stupid are on a collision course with the advertising regulator after launching a graphic cinema campaign that sees CGI polar bears falling to bloody deaths to highlight the impact of carbon (Read More)
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In a country where brutal civil war raged just two decades ago, surprisingly little anger remains todayIt's hard to imagine a more tranquil place than Gaza: farmers taking their produce to market, women and children standing patiently at bus stops, towns crowded with shoppers, and along the almost empty sandy beaches no sou (Read More)
The Guardian:
Great animation dominates this week's web videos – including what happens when pigeons get the bombGet ready for amazing animations this week on the viral video chart. In fact, with Spacious Thought, Pigeon:Impossible and Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No, there are three real beauties in our top 10 – and honestly I don't know whi (Read More)
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Orphans of Burma's Cyclone and Saving Africa's Witch Children honoured at awards for freelance cameramenTwo films shown on Channel 4's Dispatches won recognition at the Rory Peck awards last night.Orphans of Burma's Cyclone, made by two anonymous journalists who risked 30-year jail terms to film the lives of children left w (Read More)
The Guardian:
Major overhaul at news channel includes appointment of BBC's Salah Negm as director of newsAl-Jazeera's English-language news channel has embarked on an overhaul of operations including an executive shakeup.Tony Burman, the al-Jazeera English managing director, has written to staff outlining an initiative called AJE: The Ne (Read More)
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Why does a bill to incorporate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into UK law stand little chance of being passed?All political parties say they want to improve life for children in this country. Conservatives say they want to make the UK the most "family-friendly country in the world", while Gordon Brown says, "O (Read More)
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Tensions raised between two countries as troops dynamite rural walkways Venezuela claims are used by smugglers and militiaVenezuela has blown up two pedestrian bridges on its border with Colombia in the latest sign of deteriorating relations between the Andean neighbours.Soldiers destroyed the walkways because they were bei (Read More)
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Thirteen killed and 30 wounded including children after suicide bomber detonated explosives in crowded square in city of FarahA suicide bomber riding a motorcycle killed 13 people, including a police officer, and wounded 30 others today in a busy city square in western Afghanistan.Several children were among those wounded i (Read More)
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Officer unaccounted for after bridges collapse as Workington riverbanks burst amid torrential rainA search is under way for a male police officer who is missing after a bridge collapsed in Workington during flooding, Cumbria police said today.A spokesman said the bridge collapsed at around 4.40am.Two bridges have collapsed (Read More)
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Eleven people are unaccounted for in Cumbria after severe flooding caused bridges to collapse and hundreds of homes to be evacuated, as RAF helicopters winch stranded people to safety. Follow live updates and share your experiences of the floods.8.25am: Here are the latest developments:• Cumbria police say 10 residents are (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
British peer says she will show she is the best person for the job of European foreign minister over the next few months and yearsEurope's eight-year quest to establish a simpler and more democratic regime came to a dramatic climax last night when the Belgian prime minister, Herman Van Rompuy, and British peer Cathy Ashton (Read More)