Facebook stops hoarding your deleted photos

Facebook stops hoarding your deleted photos:
About three years ago, the folks at tech blog Ars Technica called attention to the fact that Facebook keeps your deleted photos on its servers long after you believe them to be gone. Now, this rather unnerving issue appears to be a concern of the past.

University offers made 'in error'

University offers made 'in error': Students told they were getting a place at the University of Ulster have had their unconditional offers withdrawn because they were made in error.

Nestlé’s Nespresso – caffeine kick

Nestlé’s Nespresso – caffeine kick: Following a German court ruling, Nestlé faces more competition from generic manufacturers of its Nespresso coffee pods

Immigration in Germany: Young Turks Increasingly Favor Integration and Religion

Immigration in Germany: Young Turks Increasingly Favor Integration and Religion: Hardly a year goes by in Germany without a shrill debate on immigration and Islam. Despite the public hand-wringing, however, those in the country with a Turkish background are increasingly eager to integrate, according to a new survey. But younger Turks are also becoming more religious.

Polícia da África do Sul mata 34 em protesto mais violento desde fim do apartheid

Polícia da África do Sul mata 34 em protesto mais violento desde fim do apartheid: Agentes policiais alegaram autodefesa em confronto com mineiros grevistas em Marikana, noroeste do país. Outras 78 pessoas ficaram feridas e 259 foram detidas no pior incidente das últimas décadas na África do Sul.

Young Tory MPs blame 'lazy' baby boomers for Britain's economic decline

Young Tory MPs blame 'lazy' baby boomers for Britain's economic decline: Rising young Tory MPs claim 'idle' British workers are damaging economy by failing to compete with 'grafting' Asian countries.

Dreamliner arrives in Ethiopia

Dreamliner arrives in Ethiopia: Ethiopia becomes the second country after Japan to take delivery of Boeing's flagship plane, the 787 Dreamliner.

Hezbollah says can kill tens of thousands of Israelis

Hezbollah says can kill tens of thousands of Israelis: BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah said on Friday it could kill tens of thousands of Israelis by striking specific targets in Israel with what it described as precision-guided rockets.

Gene patents upheld in US court

Gene patents upheld in US court: A court in the US has again backed a US biotech company's right to patent genes which have been isolated from the human body.

Hepatitis C rising among young drug users

Hepatitis C rising among young drug users: The HIV epidemic in the 1980s led to serious efforts made by healthcare and social services - both in treating the disease and in raising awareness about how it is spread. The result was a significant drop in HIV cases among needle users in Sweden. But serious diseases are still a problem for Swedish drug users. Hepatitis C is rising among young users.

Holandês oferece serviço de procriação ao domicílio

Holandês oferece serviço de procriação ao domicílio: Mulher procura homem para engravidar. Se este é o seu caso, Ed Houben pode ser a solução. Este holandês de 42 anos oferece um serviço gratuito de procriação e garante uma taxa de sucesso de 80%. A prova...

Rains come too late to revive drought-stricken U.S. crops

Rains come too late to revive drought-stricken U.S. crops: CHICAGO (Reuters) - Dry weather will return to the drought-stricken U.S. Midwest crop region, with corn and soybeans ending their growing season on a negative note after this week's rains proved to be too little too late, an agricultural meteorologist said Friday.

Aquaculture Feeding World's Insatiable Appetite for Seafood

Aquaculture Feeding World's Insatiable Appetite for Seafood: Total global fish production, including both wild capture fish and aquaculture, reached an all-time high of 154 million tons in 2011, and aquaculture is set to top 60 percent of production by 2020, according to new research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute (www.worldwatch.org) for its Vital Signs Online service. Wild capture was 90.4 million tons in 2011, up 2 percent from 2010. Aquaculture, in contrast, has been expanding steadily for the last 25 years and saw a rise of 6.2 percent in 2011, write report authors Danielle Nierenberg and Katie Spoden. "Growth in fish farming can be a double-edged sword," said Nierenberg, co-author of the report and Director of Worldwatch's Nourishing the Planet project. "Despite its potential to affordably feed an ever-growing global population, it can also contribute to problems of habitat destruction, waste disposal, invasions of exotic species and pathogens, and depletion of wild fish stock." Humans ate 130.8 million tons of fish in 2011. The remaining 23.2 million tons of fish went to non-food uses such as fishmeal, fish oil, culture, bait, and pharmaceuticals. The human consumption figure has increased 14.4 percent over the last five years. And consumption of farmed fish has risen tenfold since 1970, at an annual average of 6.6 percent per year. Asia consumes two thirds of the fish caught or grown for consumption.

Trouble Having Kids? Eat Some Walnuts

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New virus targets energy sector

New virus targets energy sector: A targeted attack forces Saudi Aramco's computer network offline as experts share details of a new threat to the energy sector.

Twitter API outrage: Break our rules and we'll break app kneecaps

Twitter API outrage: Break our rules and we'll break app kneecaps:
New limits on tweet software likened to North Korean regime. Twitter is tightening the rules for building applications that use its messaging platform, sparking outrage from twits and developers.…

Russia's Pussy Riot protesters sentenced to two years

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Platinum Prices Surge After South African Mining Massacre

Platinum Prices Surge After South African Mining Massacre:
We've been following the aftermath of a massacre at a South African platinum mine.
Now according to police (via Bloomberg), 34 workers have died and another 78 have been injured after police opened fire on strikers.
One market impact: Surging platinum prices. Clearly the market is anticipating some significant disruption to supply.
Here's a 30 day look at spot platinum, via Kitco:


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Exército alemão autorizado a intervir internamente

Exército alemão autorizado a intervir internamente: O Tribunal Constitucional alemão autorizou o exército alemão a utilizar meios militares no território nacional contra eventuais ameaças terroristas, sob condições rigorosas, quebrando um tabu do pós-guerra...

Brain key to karate punch power

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The European Way of Life: German Foreign Ministers Make a Plea for the Euro

 
With skepticism over the euro growing in Germany, five of the country's six living foreign ministers are planning an appearance to express their clear support for the common currency. The unusual nonpartisan move comes as Germans become increasingly skeptical of efforts to save the euro.

West Nile virus

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News Analysis: Destroying Nature Unleashes Infectious Diseases

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Blogger Exposes Sexual Abuse in Orthodox Jewish Community

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Teenager's Invention Saves Fuel for School Buses

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Fuel economy is hardly the most popular subject among teenagers, but it's a passion for 17-year-old Jonny Cohen, who's found a way to save schools money and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by increasing school bus fuel efficiency.

Ebola-Like Disease Has Snakes Tied Up In Knots

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In 2009, some of the snakes at the California Academy of Sciences’ Steinhart Aquarium were acting sort of s-s-s-s-strange. Scientists suspected a sickness whose cause was mysterious. Now researchers think they ve found an unlikely origin, as they watch the disease play out in strange and terrible fashion.
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Pregnancy Changes Mom's Gut Bacteria

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Having a kid changes everything, from your sleep schedule to the status of that formerly spare room. The stable of bacteria that live in a woman’s gut is also transformed when their host becomes pregnant. So finds research in the journal Cell . [Omry Koren et al, Host Remodeling of the Gut Microbiome and Metabolic Changes during Pregnancy ]
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Global landslides toll 'higher'

Global landslides toll 'higher': Landslides are responsible for the deaths of up to 10 times as many people worldwide than previously thought, research by a UK university suggests.

Why Did Google Flip-Flop On Cracking Down On "Rogue" Websites? Some Troubling Possibilities

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Google upgrades Android maps; Apple battle looms

Google upgrades Android maps; Apple battle looms:
Google is upgrading the maps designed for mobile devices running on its Android software as it braces for new competition from Apple. The improvements in the latest version of mobile maps for Android center on listings for public transportation options in nearly 500 cities around the world.

Ecuador Says Britain Threatened to Enter Embassy to Get Assange

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SAT asegura más de 32 mil cartuchos en Mexicali

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L'armée américaine teste un engin qui vole à plus de 7300 km/h

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After Google's Purchase Of Frommer's, Could A Google Travel Be Coming?

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Apple to Announce Biggest Product Launch in History?

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SurfTheChannel owner gets four-year sentence

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How Many of Your Twitter Followers are Fake? How About Obama's?

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5 Easy Ways to Kick the Plastic Habit

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Astronomers Detect Dark Matter Near The Sun

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Flash Player exits Android store

Flash Player exits Android store: The Flash Player plug-in is being pulled from the Google Play store after Adobe stopped developing it for Android.

Microsoft stops publishing new mobile apps amidst download issues

Microsoft stops publishing new mobile apps amidst download issues: Microsoft has decided to stop publishing new apps for Windows Phone on Marketplace, while it addresses an issue that led to users experiencing problems with application downloads this week, the company said in blog post on Tuesday.

Sweden's tallest mountain defies global warming

Sweden's tallest mountain defies global warming: Reversing the recent trend, the summit of Sweden’s tallest mountain has grown by two meters in the past year.

China updates ancient morality text to encourage respect for parents

Fourteenth-century 24 Filial Exemplars reworked to include helping elders to use the internet and attend medical checks
Out goes strangling tigers and selling yourself into slavery for the sake of your parents. In comes teaching them how to use the internet.
Chinese authorities have updated an ancient morality text, as they seek to encourage a new generation to show suitable gratitude and respect to their mothers and fathers.
The original 24 Filial Exemplars date from around the 14th century, when Yuan dynasty scholar Guo Jujing collected the tales of obedient children. They were endlessly reprinted in the centuries that followed, until the Communist party banned them as it sought to eradicate backwards thinking.
The heroes of the work include the son who strangled a tiger to save his father and Dong Yong, a Han dynasty figure who sold himself to pay for his father's funeral rites.
Another story, about Wang Xiang of the Jin dynasty, describes how he was mistreated by his stepmother. Undeterred in his filial duty, he lay naked on a frozen lake until the ice melted, so that she could eat carp as desired.
The new list, promoted by the All China Women's Federation and the China National Committee on Ageing, appears rather more prosaic. It urges people to ensure their parents have sufficient health insurance, to take them for medical checks and to give them enough spending money.
It urges people to listen to their parents' reminiscences and take them to see old movies, support their hobbies and call them at least once a week. They should not oppose the remarriage of divorced or widowed parents. It also suggests children can help to make their parents feel included by spending festivals with them, inviting them to visit workplaces and teaching them to use the internet.
Changing social mores, the embryonic state of the social safety net and the demographic "timebomb" of a fast-aging population have made officials keener than ever to promote filial piety.
Wu Yushao, vice-president of the committee on ageing, told China Daily that it was not about blind obedience. "It is about showing respect and love to aged parents and seniors, as ageing is an accelerating trend in China," he said. "We urge adult children to provide financial support and sufficient care to their old parents."
An employee of the community care campaign which drew up the modern version, who would not give her name, told the Guardian: "The essence of the new guidance has not changed. The spirit of being filial is part of our culture. We've just added the features of modern society."