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/ 29 November 2007
A ”cyber cold war” waged over the world’s computers may become one of the biggest threats to security in the next decade, according to a report published on Thursday. About 120 countries are developing ways to use the internet as a weapon to target financial markets, government computer systems and utilities, internet security company McAfee said in an annual report.
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/ 28 November 2007
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown faces a grilling in Parliament on Wednesday over the funding row that has engulfed the Labour party. Despite pledging to return the donations, Brown will face calls to explain what he knew about the £600 000 that property developer David Abrahams donated through intermediaries.
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/ 15 November 2007
How do you persuade people to reuse their hotel towels, recycle more rubbish and protect the countryside when they go for a walk? Rather than relying on dire environmental warnings, one author and academic thinks the answer lies in understanding the subtle social pressures that influence behaviour.
Billed as the biggest change in the way viewers watch television in 40 years, the BBC launched an online service on Friday that allows people to download many programmes from the last week. BBC director general Mark Thompson says the arrival of the ”on-demand” iPlayer is as important as the first colour broadcasts in the 1960s.
Thousands of Harry Potter fans have signed a petition urging JK Rowling to keep writing novels about the boy wizard after she admitted she could ”never say never” to more books. The ”Save Harry!” petition calls on Rowling to reverse her decision to end the best-selling series with the seventh and final instalment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
The Cutty Sark, a London landmark and the world’s last surviving 19th century tea clipper, was severely damaged in a blaze on Monday. Flames and black smoke shot high into the sky above the dry dock on the banks of the River Thames where the boat has stood as a major tourist attraction for more than 50 years.
British fire crews are battling a blaze on the Cutty Sark, the famous 19th-century tea clipper moored as a tourist attraction in south-east London, a fire service spokesperson said on Monday. Television pictures showed the ship well ablaze with flames leaping high into the air.
The parents of missing Madeleine McCann say they are trying to stay positive as they enter the seventh day since their three-year-old daughter disappeared from a resort in southern Portugal. Doctors Kate and Gerry McCann thanked the hundreds of police and volunteers searching for the girl, who detectives fear may have been abducted.
Politicians are lost deep in cyberspace, struggling to reach a new generation of tech-savvy voters through blogs, social networking sites and video-sharing. In the United States, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama used their websites to launch their 2008 presidential campaigns.
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/ 13 February 2007
Be careful who you fall for this Valentine’s Day — they may just splash your most intimate secrets across the internet. Thousands of people around the world have started blogs which expose the sort of details of their sex lives that would make Bridget Jones blush.