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US Control Over Core Internet Systems Called Into Question – Gizmodo.Com
Next week, in Rio, an international meeting will get underway concerning the Internet and its current status. The itinerary for the discussion includes spam, free speech and Internet access costs. However, American dominance in the governing of the Internet is more likely to be the unofficial topic for debate.
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Beyond cute and cuddly – TheAustralian.News.Com.Au
HOW is this for a new conservation mantra? Eat the panda. Let the tiger die out. And let’s admit that species such as the condor have had their day and let them quietly fade away instead of spending limited conservation resources.
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Petrol £1 a litre: blame City’s oil kings – TimesOnline.Co.Uk
The “super-spike†in oil prices has delighted the big banks and hedge fund traders, but has meant misery at the petrol pumps. “There is definitely no shortage of crude oil. The market is well supplied.†At some stations, the price is £1.09 a litre.
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Burning the daylights out of energy – JapanTimes.Co.Jp
A walkway lined with sunny windows, left and right, leading from the station to the shopping center has nine overhead, energy-sucking lamps of 300 watts each running its length, burning day and night. That’s another 2,700 watts of waste.
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Canadian TV pulls Falun Gong program hours before airtime – TaipeiTimes.Com
Jeff Keay, a spokesman for CBC Television, rejected any connection between the Olympics, which generate substantial ad revenue, and the decision to withdraw Beyond the Red Wall: The Persecution of Falun Gong.
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Forget Jonathan Ross, the BBC’s REAL star is a veteran business reporter who’s king of the podcasts – DailyMail.Co.uk
A chart of the BBC’s most downloaded podcasts reveals that Peter Day’s World of Business programme is more popular than highly paid household names such as Terry Wogan, Jonathan Ross, Chris Moyles and Chris Evans.
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Sales of Apple phone slower than expected as customers smart at £900 cost – DailyMail.Co.Uk
It was supposed to be the must-have gadget of 2007. But just hours after going on sale in the UK, the new Apple iPhone was met with disappointment by buyers struggling to get to grips with its shortcomings and its hefty £900 cost.
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Dozens admit aiding relatives commit suicide – TimesOnline.Co.Uk
MORE than 30 Britons have written statements confessing to helping friends or relatives to die at a Swiss euthanasia clinic as part of a test case to change the law.
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Farmers and road hauliers are threatening to mount “rolling road†protests over the rise in petrol prices – TimesOnline.Co.Uk
David Handley, chairman of the Farmers for Action group, which was central to the 2000 fuel protests, said: “We have been inundated with calls demanding we take action.†Fuel costs for a 500 acres has risen by £10,000 in 2 years.
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Barclays bankrolls Mugabe’s brutal regime – TimesOnline.Co.Uk
The British bank lent £750m to the country’s new landowning elite in the first half of this year. Five of Mugabe’s ministers, named in European Union sanctions have received cash for their farms under the scheme.
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Lights dim on Broadway as a second strike hits US entertainment – AFP.com
The strike will have an economic impact of $17 million per day in direct and indirect costs. The league and the union have been negotiating since June but have not reached a contract deal. Ticket sales were up 8.9% in the 2006-2007 season.
