Illegal tobacco costing $600m a year Newsvine | THE illegal tobacco industry, increasingly moving from locally produced tobacco to smuggled cigarettes, is costing the nation $600 million a year in lost revenue, a new study says. | The study, commissioned by British American Tobacco and conducted by consultants PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC), says...
Laws and issues facing Hawaii politicians to stop animal cruelty The Examiner | Here are some of the bills for animal rights that are currently being looked at and voted on by your legislators. | Non-Economic Damages | Allows recovery for negligent infliction of serious emotional distress or disturbance by the owner of a pet for negligent injuries to the pet, not to exceed $2...
Lacson’s arresting judge seeks CA justice post The Daily Tribune | By Angie M. Rosales | 02/08/2010 | The judge who issued the warrant of arrest against Sen. Panfilo Lacson over the alleged murder of the late publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and his driver Emmanuel Corbito in Nov. 2000, has applied to become a jus...
Thackeray to judge if Aussies can play IPL IBN Live Mumbai: Shiv Sena chief Balasaheb Thackeray has asked the Indian cricket board to give him a “presentation” before he decides on letting Australian cricketers play at the Indian Premier League (IPL) in Mumbai. | Union Agriculture Minister Sharad ...
Judge rules Men at Work song copies classic tune Ohio | Associated Press | SYDNEY: Australian band Men at Work copied a well-known children's campfire song for the flute melody in its 1980s hit Down Under and owes the owner years of royalties, a court ruled Thursday. | Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tre...
Law caps off comeback with gold Newsvine | 7th February 2010,Darren Andrews,Adelaide Australia,Newsvine-14 months ago Woollongong teenager, Scott Law, was lying on the road with a shattered knee after being knocked off his bike by a car but today he was on top of the world as he capped off ...
Roddick trips over line judge but OK in Melbourne The Miami Herald | MELBOURNE, Australia -- Andy Roddick took a tumble on his way to a first-round win Monday, tripping over the foot of a line judge. | Roddick rolled to the ground and angrily repr...
Gov't says court can dismiss Uighur detainee case The Boston Globe | WASHINGTON-The Obama administration is suggesting the Supreme Court dismiss a case that tests whether a federal judge can order Guantanamo Bay detainees released in the United States. | The move follows Switzerland's decision to accept two detained...
Gov't says court can dismiss Uighur detainee case Kansas City Star Related: | More News | The Obama administration is suggesting the Supreme Court dismiss a case that tests whether a federal judge can order Guantanamo Bay detainees released in the United States. | The move follows Switzerland's decision to accept tw...
Gov't says court can dismiss Uighur detainee case The Miami Herald | WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is suggesting the Supreme Court dismiss a case that tests whether a federal judge can order Guantanamo Bay detainees released in the United States. | The move follows Switzerland's decision to accept two detai...
Support down for Australia's Rudd, CO2 scheme - poll The Star | CANBERRA (Reuters) - Support for Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his government's carbon emissions trading plan is slipping ahead of elections this year, but Rudd's Labor remains clearly ahead, a poll showed on Monday. | The result adds political pressure on Rudd to change his centrepiece carbon trade plan, which faces near certain defe...
Hacking into the mind of the CRU climate change hacker The Guardian | Analysis suggests the hacker was in east coast of America and operated over a number of days, but much remains unknown | Hacker in staged photograph surrounded by computers. Photograph: Corbis | Figuring out who was behind the hack of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia requires some digital forensic skills – and a...
