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- FOR American farmers needing to plant a lot of corn and plant it fast, here is the answer - monstrous machines that can sow 300 acres in a day. |
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- ATTACKERS slit the throats of three people, including a German, at a Turkish Bible publishing house yesterday, in the latest attack on minorities in mainly Muslim Turkey. |
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- ONE of Scotland's best-known vegetarian and wholefood restaurants is at the centre of a salmonella scare, it emerged last night. |
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- A TEENAGER who raped a care worker at knifepoint may never be released from jail after a judge imposed a lifelong restriction order on him. |
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- A GP who killed a grandmother after injecting her with six times the correct dose of morphine was yesterday spared jail. |
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- A DIVIDED US Supreme Court yesterday upheld the first nationwide ban on a specific abortion procedure, restricting abortion rights in a ruling on one of the nation's most politically charged issues. |
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- A GAMBLER who was £16,000 in debt bludgeoned two women to death after going to a massage parlour intent on robbing it. |
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- TWO cups of a tea day may slash the risk of skin cancer, according to new research. |
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- MANY women who wait for up to 24 weeks before having an abortion do so because they do not realise they are pregnant, a report claims. |
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- THE naked rambler's refusal to wear clothes has cost the taxpayer more than £100,000, his lawyer revealed yesterday. |
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- A MAN held a homemade flame-thrower to his girlfriend's face while threatening to kill her and her child, a court heard yesterday. |
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- A CROSS-PARTY bid to set up a "lifeboat fund" to help 125,000 workers who lost their pensions in failed schemes was sunk by the government last night. |
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- AN IRANIAN court has given prison sentences to two female activists for attending a banned rally last June to demand greater women's rights. |
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- MEDICAL advances in treating heart disease are being undermined by stresses of everyday life, a report warned yesterday. |
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- PADDY Ashdown, the former Lib Dem leader, is to head a review of parading in Northern Ireland. |
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- Marko Karppinen & Co.: Turning a feature into a flaw. As much as I dislike it, I think the dumbening of networking pretty much requires incoming connections to be blocked by default; for years people been told "just install a 'router' and nothing will come in" and now they want that behavior to be preserved for IPv6. |
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- At least breaking the AirPort Extreme shouldn't prevent people from (ahem) enjoying The Great IPv6 Experiment. |
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- Meanwhile Geoff Huston's scripts continue to track "peak IPv4". Projected RIR Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion: 02-Jun-2012. |
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- Don MacAskill: Sun Honeymoon Update: Servers. |
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- Ben Rockwood: Getting Fed Up With Sun: Can't Get Systems, Breaking Existing Ones. |
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- Business and government officials from Miami-Dade County, Florida arrive in South Africa, Monday for a trade and business development mission. |
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- One year after setting the course record, Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot made a repeat performance in winning his third Boston Marathon in 2:14:13 - the slowest time since 1977 - and affirmed his grip on top of the World Marathon Majors series. |
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- It is said Kenyans abroad remit home close to $1 billion (Sh70 billion) annually. |
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- History has always proven that before a nation comes of age the struggle for leadership is usually a major pre-occupation of the elite. |
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- Narc Kenya has launched a branch in the United States to popularise it ahead of the General Election. |
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- In a move which will see Terry Snow phoning his buddies in the NCA quick smart the SMH reports that Sydney Seaplanes is looking at setting up a service operating between Sydney's Rose Bay and the pontoons in front of the National Gallery here in Canberra. "Mr Shaw wants to start flying a 12-seat Cessna Caravan [...] |
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- Hercules: The World's Biggest Dog Ever According to Guinness World Records Hercules was recently awarded the honorable distinction of Worlds Biggest Dog by Guinness World Records. Hercules is an English Mastiff and who has a 38 inch neck and weighs 282 pounds. With "paws the size of softballs"... |
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