Author: arkique
Date: January 10, 2010
Tags:
blacklist,
censorship,
china,
Facebook,
google+,
imdb,
news,
the BBC,
Wikipedia,
wired,
youtubeChinese authorities have begun blocking Chinese internet users from reading Wired.com, according to a report from the Examiner. Internet users from Beijing to Shanghai found the site inaccessible starting Friday, reports Glenn Loveland, the Examiner’s Beijing correspondent. The block adds Wired.com to a long list of sites that are or have been considered too dangerous … Read More
Author: arkique
Date: November 15, 2009
Police in Russia have arrested three homeless men suspected of killing a man, eating part of the body and selling other parts to a kebab shop. The men were held in the city of Perm, some 1,400km (870 miles) east of Moscow, local investigators said. Their statement said that the suspects had targeted the 25-year-old … Read More
Author: arkique
Date: October 28, 2009
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) – A Vancouver-area man has learned that if driving erratically in a clown suit is not enough to signal intoxication, then crashing into a police car certainly is. A police officer in suburban West Vancouver was searching for suspects involved in a reported fight early on Sunday when he spotted a … Read More
Author: arkique
Date: October 24, 2009
THE Church of Scientology refused to provide records demanded by a coroner investigating the death of a soldier who committed suicide two days after finishing one of the church’s intensive courses. It emerged yesterday that the American headquarters of the church instructed its Australian branch to send the soldier’s “audit file” to the US — … Read More
Author: arkique
Date: October 1, 2009
wow more quakes… WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A moderate 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck close to the earth’s surface in Central California early on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey reported. The quake struck in a sparsely populated area eight miles south of Keeler, California, and 148 miles west of Las Vegas, Nevada, the USGS said on … Read More