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- Unlicensed London taxi driver jailed for raping passenger
- Kenyan court jails seven pirates for 2009 attempted hijack of Maltese ship
- American Samoa received eight minutes warning before 2009 tsunami
- New Zealand man goes on trial in Cambodia over sex with underage girls
- Research in Motion to launch new tablet device
- 'Poetry lost': rude rhyme rediscovered, attributed to John Milton
| Unlicensed London taxi driver jailed for raping passenger Posted: Saturday, September 25, 2010 A judge in London's Old Bailey has sentenced unlicensed taxi driver Astor Murray, 49, to eight years in prison for the rape and indecent assault of a passenger of his illegal taxi business in 2003. He forced the 22-year-old student, who cannot be named, to perform oral sex on him before raping her in the back of his car and was linked to the crime when he was arrested for unrelated offences last year. Murray's DNA was taken in late 2009 when he was arrested for touting unlicensed taxi services and assault; he was convicted of touting in October and admits running an illegal taxi business for two years. A check against unsolved crimes revealed his DNA matched that from the unsolved sex attack in November 2003. More...   |
| Kenyan court jails seven pirates for 2009 attempted hijack of Maltese ship Posted: Friday, September 24, 2010 A court in Mombasa, Kenya has sentenced a group of seven Somali pirates to five years each in jail, according to a statement by the European Union. Anti-piracy mission EU Navfor said the septet were arrested by Spanish navy sailors after attacking Malta-registered cargo vessel Anny Petrakis. More... |
| American Samoa received eight minutes warning before 2009 tsunami Posted: Friday, September 24, 2010 People in American Samoa were given only eight minutes warning that a tsunami, which killed 32 people in the unincorporated territory, resulting from the 2009 Samoa earthquake, was approaching. A report published by the United States Congress admits that the warning was issued sixteen minutes after the 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck Samoa. The tsunami killed nearly 200 people in American Samoa, Samoa and Tonga. The report, written by the National Research Council, describes the length of time between the earthquake and the initial tsunami warning being issued as "relatively long", and states that the standard time for such a warning to be issued to be around two minutes. The study also revealed that one third of tsunami sensors are not working at any given time. More... |
| New Zealand man goes on trial in Cambodia over sex with underage girls Posted: Friday, September 24, 2010 A man from New Zealand has gone on trial in Cambodia over alleged sex with two young girls. 53-year-old Michael John Lines was arrested at a hotel in the province of Preah Sihanouk in March. Lines holds dual citizenship from New Zealand and Australia. More... |
| Research in Motion to launch new tablet device Posted: Friday, September 24, 2010 Canadian technology company Research in Motion (RIM) is expected to unveil a new tablet device early next week at a developers conference. The device, which unnamed sources claim is called the BlackPad, will be launched by the end of this year, according to The Wall Street Journal. If the device is rolled out, it will compete with Apple Inc.'s iPad and also Samsung's GalaxyTab, which runs on the Android operating system. RIM is most famous for making their line of BlackBerry smartphones. According to InformationWeek, the BlackPad will run a new operating system developed by QNX, which RIM bought earlier in 2010. Future BlackBerry smartphones might also use this new operating system. If RIM uses the QNX operating system, the company's new Blackberry 6 operating system will be retired early. The device is also expected to have a camera and a seven inch touch screen. More... |
| 'Poetry lost': rude rhyme rediscovered, attributed to John Milton Posted: Friday, September 24, 2010 A researcher at the University of Oxford has found a saucy poem attributed to John Milton, the 17th-century poet who wrote Paradise Lost and other religious verse. "An Extempore Upon a Faggot", discovered in an 18th-century anthology of poetry, is not thought by modern scholars to be by Milton, however, and may in fact have been written by one of his rivals in an attempt to disgrace him. More... |
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