Apple Corps is like a doting parent when it comes to The Beatles, looking after their interests and promoting their recordings, but it also makes sure no one tries to bully the Fab Four — and straightens out anyone who messes with the band’s legacy. The company is in court again this week with Apple Computer.
When Microsoft researchers learned recently that a software flaw had been made public and could prompt internet attacks, the company ordered a team to fix the flaw and make the repair work with other products. But some security experts complained that the software company wouldn’t help people fast enough.
Oil prices appear headed back toward a barrel, a level not seen since Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast, and sporadic shortages have raised gasoline prices in the United States — but the US economy seems capable of absorbing uncomfortably high prices.
Somali pirates seized an oil tanker soon after it had offloaded its cargo of fuel at a southern Somalia port, an official and witness said on Friday. The pirates so far have made no demands since hijacking the United Arab Emirates-registered MT Lombigo on Tuesday near Adale, about 150km north of the capital, Mogadishu.
At least 13 children were killed and several injured when a fire razed the dormitory of a school in western Uganda, police said on Friday. The overnight Thursday blaze is suspected to have started after candle flames caught bedsheets and then spread throughout the dormitory of the Islamic Kabarole East Primary School.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Friday vowed to crush opposition protests as he hit back at a call for ”democratic resistance” in the Southern African country. It will never happen. ”We will not allow it,” he said, adding: ”If they [the opposition] are looking for death, let them go ahead and follow that route.”
The human rights organisation Amnesty International said on Friday a dissident general is recruiting large numbers of children to fight in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) conflicted North Kivu province, affecting programmes to reunify children formerly associated with armed groups with their families.
"There’s too much space. I put the last piece of luggage in and even though there’s five of us, there are vast areas of nothing just waiting to be filled. Something’s missing. It has to be. Then it hits me. There’s no cooler box, no Weber, no bedding, pillows, no trolley-loads of food, no kitchen sink …," writes Sharon van Wyk.
The foul-smelling white substance cakes lamp posts, covers sidewalks and park benches and stains the bushes and trees. Parked cars become spattered in a matter of minutes along ”bird poop alley”. Thousands of cormorants are making a stinking mess around Florida’s Lake Eola, a recreation area in downtown Orlando.
The United States has offered aid to Iran after a devastating earthquake but also kept up pressure over Tehran’s disputed nuclear programme. The powerful earthquake struck western Iran, leaving at least 70 dead and 1 265 injured. The area of Brujerd was hit hardest.