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A recent study shows that ISPs – which long maintained that data was their biggest expense – are grossly overcharging for data. The price increases to our mobile or land-based internet appear to be based on greed, not need. For years, internet service providers have been raising the costs of...

Jobs' death highlights China's creative fight http://www.globaltimes.cn/NEWS/tabid/99/ID/678284/Jobs-death-highlights-Chinas-creative-fight.aspx The death of Apple legend Steve Jobs was followed by world-wide mourning, including people in China. His stories of success were reviewed by a...

Girl electrocuted in 'honour killing' Pakistan Elders and the family of Saima Bibi, 17, decided after a meeting of a village council, or panchayat, that her punishment for shaming the family should be death, police said. "There are signs of torture and burns on her neck, back and hands...

All those spectacular economic growth and shine has no meaning....because finally it all fly away to countries that instill confidence and have intangible rights and values. --------------------------------------------------- Asia Tops Illegal Money Flows Into First World January 21...

Mom presents 'virgin' daughter to husband A mother sent her 17-year-old daughter for a hymen-repair operation before arranging for her husband to rape the girl. She also allegedly asked the girl to pose nude for the 37-year-old man. The teenager said this in a court hearing in Hong...

It is almost hilarious the way some people here dish out infractions ! Is Sam aware of this ?

Destined to make obsolete the new entrants of aircraft manufacturers ! Lockheed Martin Design NASA unveils extraordinary ideas for the aircraft of 2025 In what may become the face of modern aviation, NASA has unveiled three concept designs for quiet, energy efficient aircraft which it says...

Magnitude 7.2 Earthquake Strikes Pakistan Jan 19, 2011 A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Southwestern Pakistan near the South Asian country's border with Afghanistan at 1:23 a.m. local time on Wednesday, Jan. 19 (3:23 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Jan. 18), the U.S. Geological Survey reported...

Man axes wife for 'lucky' foetus ABC News 11 hours 36 minutes ago. He wanted to ask ghosts for lucky lottery numbers. A Laotian man has told police he murdered his pregnant wife with an axe because he wanted the foetus to make a lucky charm which might help him win the lottery, a report...

Tuesday January 18, 2011 12-year-old raped by brother on mum’s orders Compiled by SHAUN HO, ANN TAN AFTER being raped by her brother on her mother’s orders, a 12-year-old girl was given over to a loan shark to settle her mother’s debts. Since the incident 14 years ago, the victim, who...

Indonesian Maid Survives Horror Fall in Singapore January 16, 2011 An Indonesian maid working in Singapore has survived after falling from her employer’s ninth-storey flat, a local report said on Sunday. The maid, 23, was found Friday afternoon at the foot of the building with bamboo...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - – Those first few puffs on a cigarette can within minutes cause genetic damage linked to cancer, US scientists said in a study released. In fact, researchers said the "effect is so fast that it's equivalent to injecting the substance directly into the bloodstream," in...

Man brought back from the dead A man in the United Kingdom was literally brought back from the dead. According to The Daily Mail, his heart had stopped for three and a half hours. But a miracle machine that performed 20,000 compressions saved him from that great gig in the sky. Arun...

Brit girl speaks out against Pakistani sex gang predator Saturday 15th January, 2011 (ANI) A British girl has come forward to reveal the ordeal she went through at the hands of her ex-lover, a British-born man of Pakistani origin, who orchestrated the biggest sex-abuse ring ever in UK...

Warning signs 'The floods are a foretaste of things to come.' Several countries are reeling under the devastating impact of floods. Relentless rain and floods have left large swathes of Brazil, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Australia looking more like part of the sea rather than land...

Fresh rain may add to Brisbane's water woes REUTERS, Jan 14, 2011, 04.47am BRISBANE: Flood water in Australia's third-biggest city peaked below feared catastrophic levels on Thursday but Brisbane and other devastated regions faced years of rebuilding, while fresh flood threats loom with a...

Tunisian president toppled after 23 years in power AFP, Jan 15, 2011, 05.19am TUNIS: Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled the country on Friday amid a wave of deadly social protests in a dramatic end to his 23 years in power that is wholly unprecedented for the Arab world. In a...

Thursday January 13, 2011 Woman’s reputation smeared by Facebook friend By RACHEL LAW [email protected] KUALA LUMPUR: A woman was shocked when she learned a mutual friend on Facebook had uploaded photographs of her on the social network site and accused her of spending all his money...

Australia floods inundate Brisbane, 67 missing Reuters Reuters - 29 minutes ago By Ed Davies BRISBANE, Australia - Thousands of residents of Australia's third-largest city evacuated homes on Wednesday as massive floods began to inundate the financial district, sparked panic buying of...

Italian man shot in head 'sneezes out bullet' London, Jan 11, Believe it or not, an Italian man, who was hit in the temple by a bullet during New Year's eve celebrations, has reportedly sneezed it out of his nose. 28-year-old Darco Sangermano was hit in his head by the stray .22 calibre...