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A Turkish passenger jet Atlasjet crashed in the mountains of western Turkey early today, killing all 56 people on board, Turkish authorities said.The cause was not immediately known.
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Faith plays an important role in an open society. Exactly because our understanding is imperfect, we cannot base our decisions on knowledge alone. We need to rely on beliefs, religious or otherwise, to help us make decisions. But we must remain open to the possibility that we may be wrong so that we can correct [...]

We’ve been targeting malware for over a year and a half, and these efforts are paying off. We are now able to display warnings in search results when a site is known to be malicious, which can help you avoid drive-by downloads and other computer compromises. We are already distributing this data through the Safe [...]

A court in Sudan has convicted a British teacher 54-year-old Gillian Gibbons of inciting religious hatred by letting her class of seven-year-olds name a teddy bear Muhammad to 15 days in prison, followed by deportation from Sudan.54-year-old Gillian Gibbons, was arrested Sunday after she asked her young students to write an imaginary diary for a [...]

Google launched a location service for mobile users, Google Maps with My Location, currently in beta, locates users who don’t have GPS-enabled phones based on their location to nearby cell towers on Wednesday.
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The winner of a $1 million lottery scratch ticket may not be so lucky after all: He’s a convicted bank robber who isn’t supposed to gamble. Timothy Elliott faces a Dec. 7 court hearing over whether he violated his probation when he bought the $10 ticket for the $800 Million Spectacular game at a supermarket [...]

A teenage serial burglar,18-year-old Lloyd Edwards,battered a mother,Laila Rezk, 51, to death in her home after being freed early from prison with an electronic tag.

A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return. ~ Sarah Orne Jewett

A group of Filipino renegade officers and soldiers,Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, a former navy officer who led a shortlived mutiny in 2003 in the same city, and an army officer who was involved in a coup plot last year,who staged a stand off with the government in the country’s financial hub Makati City, surrendered to [...]

Personally I do not resort to force — not even the force of law — to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example — of fashion. ~ Rutherford B. Hayes

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it. ~ Jacques Barzun

There’s never been a true war that wasn’t fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous. ~ [...]

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru

Information gathered by National Statistics (ONS) for September show that nine out of 10 UK net users are connecting via broadband services.

Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly. … Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of [...]

Two teenage girls Yetunde Diya and Yasemin Vatansever, from Islington, north London, were arrested in July at Kotoka airport in Accra as they waited to board a British Airways flight to London with 6.5kg of cocaine inside two laptop bags are facing up to three years in a Ghanaian jail after they were found guilty [...]