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Anonymous tweetbomb: Hacktivists round on CISPA

Published: 20 April, 2012, 15:27       Edited: 20 April, 2012, 23:37

Hacktivist group Anonymous has slammed SOPA’s successor-bill CISPA, due to go before the US House of Representatives. They claim it will allow companies unprecedented access to…

Fifty arrested on second day of protests in Canada

Published: 22 April, 2012, 01:31

At least 50 protesters have been arrested in Montreal as police clamped down on a demonstration against plans to develop northern Quebec. This comes after students clashed with police over proposed hikes in tuition fees a day…

'I did it for Norway': Mass killer Breivik boasts of committing 'most spectacular attack on Europe since World War II' and tells court he would do it all again

• Lay judge Thomas Indreboe dismissed from bench after online comments in aftermath of slaughter that said Breivik should face death penalty
• Breivik read from prepared statement in Oslo court to explain his…

Euro currency could collapse and trigger another Great Depression, IMF warns for the first time

By Hugo Duncan

PUBLISHED: 17:45 GMT, 17 April 2012 | UPDATED: 17:49 GMT, 17 April…

Pentagon wants spies sneaking through offices around the globe

Published: 21 April, 2012, 00:03

The Pentagon is pushing for more power when it comes to international spying. The US military is now making a case to open up an undercover operation aimed at the overseas civilian sector.

The  US Department of Defense has asked…

VICTORIA — Horrified nature-lovers at Goldstream Provincial Park watched as the Goldstream River turned bright green late Wednesday afternoon.…

Published: 21 April, 2012, 01:13

A protestor is arrested by police after a student demonstration against tuition hikes in Montreal on April 20, 2012(Reuters / Christinne Muschi)

Law enforcement officers in…

NEW YORK - Sales of prescription painkillers are exploding in new areas, and experts are worried that's creating a wave of addiction.

Pharmacies, hospitals and physicians dispensed the equivalent of 69 tons of pure oxycodone and 42 tons of pure hydrocodone in 2010. That's enough to give 40 5-mg Percocets and 24 5-mg Vicodins to every man, woman and child in the United States.

An analysis by The Associated Press shows distribution of the two drugs is booming from New York's Staten…

Originally published April 17, 2012 at 2:21 PM | Page modified April 18, 2012 at 5:53 AM

Warren Buffett says he has been diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer but the 81-year-old chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is giving no indication he plans on retiring any time soon.

By JOSH FUNK

AP Business Writer…

U.S. Army National Guardsman Pfc. Philip Moore, 28, rests during a "down time" shift near the border fence with Mexico in Nogales, Ariz. (John Moore / Getty Images / June 22, 2011)

Halliburton Co. drilling a well using hydraulic fracturing in 2004. The company reported record revenue in North America even as natural gas production drops. (Los Angeles Times / April 18, 2012)

State representative Derrick Smith is shown leaving the Federal Building last month after he was charged with one count of accepting a bribe. | TOM CRUZE~Sun-Times

SPRINGFIELD — Defying calls for his resignation, indicted state Rep. Derrick Smith finally showed up for work Tuesday in the Illinois House, where he strode onto the House floor, was greeted…

By Shomari Stone and Joel Moreno Published: May 29, 2010 at 3:07 PM…

Dozens more phone-hacking legal claims launched

News Group Newspapers is facing 46 new claims in the phone-hacking civil litigation, including from footballer Wayne Rooney and Sir John Major's former daughter-in-law Emma Noble.

Lawyers said they also included Cherie Blair and politician Nigel Farage.

At the High Court, Mr Justice Vos is deciding issues concerned with a…

Monday, April 09, 2012 by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer

NY Times

By MICHAEL BARBARO

The two young men had woefully little in common: one was a wealthy Mormon from Michigan, the other a middle-class Jew from Israel.…

by Stephen Lendman

Gaza’s attacked regularly. Dozens of West Bank incursions occur weekly. Police state harshness and arrests follow.

In the week ending April 5, one Palestinian was killed and dozens injured, including 18 children. They were nonviolently commemorating Land Day.

Many others, including an international human rights defender,…

By Rick Steves …