By Rob Liddle BBC News Family skeletons have been toppling out of closets since the searchable details of more than 200 years of Old Bailey trails went online last month. So how does it feel to idly type a name into a search box and be presented with more than you bargained for Tracy Lowe [...]
A school turned around by a “superhead” is being investigated over attendancefigure “irregularities”, police said. Dame Maureen Brennan was credited with taking Hillcrest School, in Netherton, Dudley, out of special measures. However, allegations are now being investigated into whether registers were altered to show pupils were in lessons when they were not. Dame Maureen’s husband [...]
A British resident facing a military trial in Guantanamo Bay has launched a legal attempt to make the UK government release evidence for his defence. Lawyers acting for Binyam Mohamed, who was detained in Pakistan in 2002, say the government has proof that his testimony was obtained under torture. They are also seeking evidence he [...]
By Mark Urban BBC News, Afganistan When we arranged to meet a suicide bomber, we did not expect one wearing his bomb vest, all set to blow himself up outside the building in Kabul where we were filming. But that is what happened. He was not the one we had arranged to meet. He was [...]
Interpol has publicly released images from the internet of a man it suspects of sexually abusing young boys. The international police agency is launching the worldwide appeal because two years of investigations have failed to identify the man. Pictures showing the man sexually abusing at least three boys were found on the internet, police say. [...]
AC Milan have completed the signing of Mathieu Flamini from Arsenal on a four-year deal. The French international, whose deal at the Emirates ran out this summer, has passed a medical and agreed terms to stay at the San Siro until 2012. The departure will come as a blow to Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, who [...]
Chinese President Hu Jintao is set to begin a five-day state visit to Japan, the first such trip in a decade. He is expected to discuss trade,security and a dispute over undersea gas fields with Japanese PM Yasuo Fukuda – and play him at ping-pong. Mr Hu said before he left Beijing on Monday he [...]
Swiss bank UBS, which has suffered the biggest losses of any bank due to the US sub-prime mortgage crisis and credit turmoil, is cutting up to 5,500 jobs. The bank also unveiled losses for the first quarter of 2008 of 11.5bn Swiss francs ($11bn:£5.5bn). UBS said it expected current “tough trading conditions” to remain, forcing [...]
We’ve covered the bizarre love/hate affair that NBC Universal has had with YouTube. It actually helped get YouTube its first burst of serious publicity in demanding the SNL “Lazy Sunday” clip be taken down off the site. It then went back (setting up its own YouTube channel) and forth (blaming YouTube for company problems) on [...]
While the RIAA has been sending threatening notices to colleges about student file sharing for a while now, it seems to have recently stepped up the attack. Various colleges are reporting a rather massive increase in these notices, despite no discernible change in file sharing activity. In some cases, they’re suddenly getting as many notices [...]
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