FBI brags of the 'dismantlement' of Anonymous

FBI brags of the 'dismantlement' of Anonymous

A FBI agent in charge of the cyber division in New York recently claimed due to the 'dismantlement' of the key players of the hacktivist group, Anonymous, the movement is no longer coming forward with "large breaches." Pete Pachal [...]

Wall Street sues California city looking to bail out homeowners

Wall Street sues California city looking to bail out homeowners

A city in California has become ground zero in a battle with mortgage lenders and now the federal government in its push to implement a radical new plan to assist homeowners who cannot meet the terms of their loans. [...]

Windows Watching? Germany fears OS provides NSA with remote access

Windows Watching? Germany fears OS provides NSA with remote access

Leaked German security documents have shown the country doesn't trust the new Windows 8 system - fearing it provides the NSA with remote access. That's according to one of the country's newspapers - although the German government [...]

Brushing Brussels Off: Iceland may drop bid for EU membership

Brushing Brussels Off: Iceland may drop bid for EU membership

Iceland is thinking of dropping its bid for membership of the EU. The country's foreign ministry will consider dissolving the special committee which is working on the negotiations. Iceland suspended talks ahead of parliamentary e [...]

Regulator says Fukushima operator careless

Regulator says Fukushima operator careless

The operator of Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant was "careless" in monitoring tanks containing dangerously radioactive water, the country's nuclear regulator has said.The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) also fail [...]

Koreas agree on talks to reunite families

Koreas agree on talks to reunite families

North and South Korea are about to hold talks on reuniting families separated by the Korean War.The meetings were suspended three years ago.Since then, ties between Seoul and Pyongyang have become worse.But Friday's talks are seen [...]

Лесные пожары в Португалии: один человек погиб

Лесные пожары в Португалии: один человек погиб

Один спасатель погиб, еще 7 пострадали во время тушения сильных лесных пожаров в гористой северной части Португалии. Местные жители пытались самостоятельно бороться с огнем до приезда пожарных, но им не удалось остановить его расп [...]

Чрезывчайное положение введено в Калифорни из-за пожаров

Чрезывчайное положение введено в Калифорни из-за пожаров

В американском штате Калифорнии из-за крупнейшего в истории США пожара, охватившего более 20 тысяч гектаров леса, введено чрезвычайное положение. [...]

Израиль нанес ответный ракетный удар по Ливану

Израиль нанес ответный ракетный удар по Ливану

Военно-воздушные силы Израиля нанесли в пятницу утром удар по цели к югу от Бейрута. Палестинская вооруженная группировка в Ливане сообщает, что ракеты попали в военную базу, жертв и серьезных разрушений нет. [...]

Israeli police accused of child torture

Israeli police accused of child torture

Israeli police have launched an investigation into allegations that Palestinian children were tortured by officers in at least one police station.The children are accusing the police of being subjected to violence while being held [...]

101 East - Contagion

101 East - Contagion

Tuberculosis (TB) is a centuries-old disease that many believe is now relegated to the slums of impoverished countries in Africa and Asia. But while developing countries bear the brunt of new infections, TB is still one of the wor [...]

Anita McNaught reports from Hirono about Fukushima leak

Anita McNaught reports from Hirono about Fukushima leak

Japan's nuclear watchdog says the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant is failing to properly monitor the storage tanks containing radioactive water. There's now fears the contaminated water is slowly seeping towards the pacifi [...]

Немецкие спецслужбы передавали данные о своих гражданах США

Немецкие спецслужбы передавали данные о своих гражданах США

Каждый месяц американские спецслужбы отслеживают примерно 500 миллионов информационных соединений в Германии, причём немецкие власти сами способствуют этому. Отслеживаются телефонные звонки, электронная почта, смс-сообщения и пере [...]

Эксперт: Слежка АНБ отрицательно сказалась на доверии людей к властям США

Эксперт: Слежка АНБ отрицательно сказалась на доверии людей к властям США

Независимые сайты, на которых можно обмениваться личными сообщениями, попали под давление со стороны Агентства национальной безопасности США, которое хочет получать у них информацию о пользователях. Один из основателей таких сайто [...]

НАСА готовится отправить к Луне исследовательский аппарат размером с автомобиль

НАСА готовится отправить к Луне исследовательский аппарат размером с автомобиль

Американское космическое агентство сообщает, что готово отправить к Луне исследовательский аппарат LANDEE. Лаборатория отправится на орбиту в сентябре и поможет ученым больше узнать не только о спутнике Земли, но и о других планет [...]

Брэдли Мэннинга приговорили к 35 годам тюрьмы

Брэдли Мэннинга приговорили к 35 годам тюрьмы

Суд в Форд-Миде, штат Мэриленд, приговорил рядового Брэдли Мэннинга, организатора самой крупной в США утечки секретной информации, приговорили к 35 годам тюрьмы. [...]

The Stream - Fair Beauty

The Stream - Fair Beauty

Why is light skin so desirable in many cultures around the world? [...]

Witness - The Bag on my Back

Witness - The Bag on my Back

Newly-liberated with productive farms and an education system that was the envy of its neighbours, Zimbabwe in the early 1980s was a land of plenty. Within one person's childhood all that changed. Filmmaker Tapiwa Chipfupa returns [...]

Глава Lavabit: Когда вы говорите «нет» правительству, оно может забрать у вас все

Глава Lavabit: Когда вы говорите «нет» правительству, оно может забрать у вас все

После того как стало известно, что бывший сотрудник Агентства национальной безопасности США Эдвард Сноуден пользовался электронной почтой Lavabit, власти США потребовали от интернет-сервиса предоставить информацию о клиентах. Одна [...]

Manning going to prison while torturers go free

Manning going to prison while torturers go free

This morning - Bradley Manning received his sentence for leaking classified documents to Wikileaks. But what about the people behind the atrocities that Manning brought to light? Where's their punishment? Shouldn't we be throwing [...]

Lone Liberal - How much worse does the situation in Fukushima need to get?

Lone Liberal - How much worse does the situation in Fukushima need to get?

Neil Munro, The Daily Caller & Jessie Jane Duff, Gunnery Sgt, U.S. Marine Corps (ret) join Thom Hartmann. [...]

Journalism is Like Porn... You Know It When You See It...

Journalism is Like Porn... You Know It When You See It...

Journalism is not a job or career - it's an act - and we need to continue to protect that act by upholding the First Amendment. [...]

Australia ski resort feels pinch of carbon tax

Australia ski resort feels pinch of carbon tax

Australian government says a new "carbon tax" helps reduce emission whereas the main opposition party says the hit has been to economy. A ski resort gets to the nub of the issue. It's energy intensive to run Hotham Alpine resort, [...]

'Surveillance can't be tolerated' - Correa exclusively to RT

'Surveillance can't be tolerated' - Correa exclusively to RT

Just how much of the net is being watched by the NSA - may have previously been underestimated. A new report says the government's powers to intercept communications, including those of Americans - may be far more sweeping than pr [...]

Uruguayans celebrate same-sex marriage

Uruguayans celebrate same-sex marriage

City hall in Uruguay has started accept gay couples. This month, Uruguay became the second Latin American country after Argentina to allow same-sex marriage. Sergio Miranda and Rodrigo Borda are the first couple to register their [...]

Mass Murder or Mass Media? Reports of chemical attack in Syria as UN observers arrive

Mass Murder or Mass Media? Reports of chemical attack in Syria as UN observers arrive

Damascus is denying media claims about an unprecedented chemical weapons massacre outside Damascus. The Saudi-owned media network al-Arabiya, citing a Syrian rebel group, is reporting that hundreds of people have been killed in th [...]

WikiLeaks: Война против журналистики началась

WikiLeaks: Война против журналистики началась

Правозащитники призывают полицию Великобритании дать объяснения в связи с задержанием Давида Миранды -- партнера журналиста из The Guardian, работавшего с материалами Сноудена. Эксперты заявляют, что это задержание могло выходить [...]

New app eases lives of Kenyan farmers

New app eases lives of Kenyan farmers

A farmer in Kenya has built an application for mobile phones that could revolutionise agriculture.'I-cow' application is designed to give small-scale farmers information on their livestock that in the past has been available to on [...]

Inside Story - Is the UK intimidating journalists?

Inside Story - Is the UK intimidating journalists?

As the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald is questioned by police, we ask if the UK's Terrorism Act is being misused. [...]

Aid organisation withdraws from Somali

Aid organisation withdraws from Somali

The French aid organisation Doctors without Borders has ended all its operations in Somalia because of increasing violence. It has been in the country for more than two decades despite wars and the murder of sixteen of its workers [...]

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