The UK Guardian reports that only 3% of London street robberies were solved with closed-circuit TV.
Use of CCTV images for court evidence has so far been very poor, according to Detective Chief Inspector Mick Neville, the officer in charge of the Metropolitan police unit. “CCTV was originally seen as a preventative measure,” Neville told the [...]
Reuters reports that one of Italy’s electricity producers is shifting its power plant from oil to coal. The move is sparking protests, even though Enel has promised to use clean coal technologies.
Enel, like many electricity companies, says it has little choice but to build coal plants to replace aging infrastructure, particularly in countries like Italy, [...]
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The Times Online of the UK reports:
A UN official who held a pivotal post in the Oil-for-Food programme for Iraq has been exposed by a defector as a Russian spy who diverted almost half a billion dollars to top Russian officials in “one of the richest heists in world history”.
Read the whole [...]
When Dutch legislator Geert Wilders announced he was going to publish a film about Islam, his Internet provider, Network Solutions, asked to see the film first. He said no, and they denied it access. The movie was copied to www.liveleak.com and hosted from there. Liveleak has since shut it down, having been threatened [...]
The AP reported Sunday that the Pope baptized Magdi Allam, a former Muslim who wrote against Islamic extremism. This morning the AP reported that a Jordanian Islamic Center condemned the act.
In an act of diplomacy, the Vatican’s newspaper announced: “There are no hostile intentions toward a great religion like that of Islam.” There may be [...]
ABC News reports that the United Kingdom is taking up legislation that would make it illegal for IVF couples to choose which child among their embryos will be carried to term, depending on the results of the embryos’ genetic screening.
Discussion of the ban has brought up an interesting fact: deaf parents have been deliberately selecting [...]
The discovery and publication of the whereabouts of Prince Harry of Wales involves interesting ethical issues on the part of the media and the military.
BBC reports that the British army will likely move Prince Harry out of Afghanistan for fear that he would become a prized target for the Taliban.
A famous personality in the military [...]
It’s a start.
The Washington Times reports that the Grand Ayatollah for Iraq, Ali Sistani, has issued a fatwa:
“Muslims have undertaken to obey the laws of the country of their residence and thus they must be faithful to that undertaking,” the fatwa said.
It condemned all acts of violence and encouraged imams to keep a watchful eye [...]
