Private Bradley Manning is under investigation over WikiLeaks data on the Afghan war. Photograph: AP A US army private under investigation for allegedly leaking classified material to the WikiLeaks website has been transferred from Kuwait to the US amid growing White House and Pentagon anger over this week’s revelations about the war in Afghanistan. Bradley [...]
The regional ban was made because YouTube hosted Russia for Russians, an ultra-nationalist video. Photograph: The Guardian Russia’s blogosphere reacted with anger today after a regional court banned YouTube because it carried a single video containing “extremist” content. The court in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in Khabarovsk region in the Russian far east ordered Rosnet, a local internet [...]
The latest Amazon Kindle e-reader Amazon unveiled two lighter, more advanced versions of the Kindle e-reader today, alongside a new UK ebook store that it claimed will send sales of the device soaring in Britain. Faced with growing competition in the e-reader market, Amazon has redesigned the device and has made it available directly from [...]
Matthew Broderick sets out on a promising cyber-security career in War Games (1983). Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive As the world’s military forces become increasingly vulnerable to attacks from cyberspace, a growth area is opening up in digital employment. China has set up its first military cyber-crime department just months after the United States announced the [...]
The Church of Scientology Centre in London. Photograph: Sarah Lee A councillor is facing a disciplinary hearing after calling the Church of Scientology “stupid” on Twitter, it emerged today. The Welsh public standards watchdog investigated Cardiff councillor John Dixon’s short message and decided it was “likely” to have breached the code of conduct for local [...]
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Bob Dudley suggested recovery operations could be scaled down, but did not try to suggest the spill was anything other than a disaster. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters As the visible oil in the Gulf of Mexico dwindles, the incoming boss of BP has said...
AP Anna Chapman, along with 10 others, was arrested on charges of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. attorney general. Of all the spies that have been in the headlines lately, flame-haired Russian beauty Anna Chapman...
Andrew Lansley, the health secretary. Photograph: David Graeme-Baker/PA Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, has launched a stinging attack on health secretary Andrew Lansley’s “U-turn” over his promises to reconsider the possible...
Phillips Idowu celebrates after winning the triple jump gold medal at the European Championships in Barcelona. Photograph: Ian Walton/Getty Images Phillips Idowu, whoever doubted you were the man to win European gold? All season long the spotlight had...
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Former US president Bill Clinton walking in downtown Rhinebeck, New York, a day before his daughter Chelsea Clinton’s wedding. Photograph: Andrew Gombert/EPA The entrance to the town of Rhinebeck, a tiny rural idyll about 100 miles north of New York, is marked by a sign reading “Mulch for Sale”. The local paper, the Hudson Valley [...]
AP Photo/Isaac Brekken A man passes a logo of the Black Hat technology conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. LAS VEGAS — Researchers have uncovered new ways that criminals can spy on Internet users even if they’re using secure connections to banks, online retailers or other sensitive Web sites. The attacks demonstrated [...]
Hospital is told not to resume surgery. Photograph: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images Surgery at the smallest children’s heart unit in England should remain “suspended until or unless the service can safely be expanded”, an independent review into the deaths of four babies at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford has concluded. The unit has been shut [...]
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