Muslim youth claims stoning girl to death was justified...

"Muslim youth claims stoning girl to death was justified...



A teenage boy has allegedly claimed the stoning to death of a Muslim girl who participated in a beauty contest was justified under Islam.

Police in the Ukraine have launched a murder investigation after the battered body of Katya Koren was found in a village in the Crimea region near her home, the Daily Mail reports.

The 19-year-old had come seventh in a beauty contest and officers are looking into whether she was killed under Sharia law, a controversial religious code which is interpreted to different extremes across the Islamic faith.

Three Muslim youths are being investigated and one of the group, a 16-year-old boy, is under arrest. He allegedly told police Ms Koren had "violated the laws of Sharia" and he had no regrets about her death.

Friends of Ms Koren said she liked wearing fashionable clothes and had entered the regional heats of the Miss Ukraine beauty pageant.

The Telegraph reports police allege the teen suspect has a long history of mental health problems and he had developed an unhealthy and unrequited obsession with Ms Koren.

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Smoking banned in Kiwi prisons - try a carrot stick instead...

Smoking banned in Kiwi prisons - try a carrot stick instead...

Smoking to be banned in Kiwi prisons after July 1 2011.



KIWI inmates are being told to swap cigarettes for carrot sticks before they are forced to kick their tobacco habit altogether.



New Zealand jails will go completely smoke-free in July as part of radical new laws designed to make prisons safer and healthier.



To prepare addicted prisoners in the lead-up, the Department of Corrections is trialling a bizarre national directive to supply inmates with two carrot sticks a day.



A memo leaked to the Southland Times provides costings, stating that one jumbo carrot provides 16 carrot sticks which are to be cut into uniform sizes "to the best of our ability".



It suggests a good way of distributing the carrots is by reusing bread bags, the newspaper reported.



Corrections Association of New Zealand president Beven Hanlon has admitted that when he first heard about the "alternative therapy" he thought it was a joke.

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PayPal sues Google over mobile wallet technology...

PayPal sues Google over mobile wallet technology...



Google is being sued by PayPal, which claims that the internet search giant stole its technology for turning smartphones into digital wallets.

PayPal alleges that Google obtained trade secrets from Osama Bedier, a former PayPal executive who is now Google's vice president of payments.

The lawsuit came hours after Google unveiled its plans to allow people to pay for shopping with their mobiles.

Google and Mr Bedier have yet to make any comment.

Google intends to launch its system in the US in the summer.

It plans to offer the service on mobile phones that use its Android operating system.

Payment processor PayPal, which owned by online auction site eBay, also claims in its lawsuit that Mr Bedier was in job talks with Google at the same time as he was leading negotiations to make PayPal a payment option on Android.

The technology that allows mobile phone users to pay with their handsets in shops is called near field communications or NFC.

It is already used in Japan, and is predicted to become popular around the world.

PayPal says it spent three years trying to secure a deal under which it would create an NFC system for Android, only for Google to end the talks.

In its court filing, PayPal said: "By hiring Bedier, with his trade secret knowledge of PayPal's plans and understanding of Google's weaknesses as viewed by the industry leader, Google bought the most comprehensive and sophisticated critique of its own problems available."

"Google put Bedier in charge of its mobile payment business, virtually ensuring that Bedier would misappropriate PayPal's trade secrets concerning planning and competitive assessments in mobile payment."

Mr Bedier was hired by Google in January of this year
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Falling flat on his prophetic face...

Falling flat on his prophetic face...

American preacher, Harold Camping, from California fell flat on hs prophetic face with his false judgement that the world would end on May 21 2011 - it was off by five months according to him. He has made some new calculations and things would actually end on October 21, 2011, this year. Yeah right, Mr Camping!



Harold was so upset that 200 million Christians would not be joining him on Judgement Day, that he fled to a motel with his wife. Camping in a motel, perhaps?



His independent ministry, Family Radio International, allegedly spent millions of dollars -some donations - on more than 5,000 billboards plastered with Judgement Day messages. One follower personally spent $140,000 in savings on this religious crackpot's inane claims.



It's not the first time he has failed in his apolyptic predictions - the first in 1994.



Every person with even a shred of grey brain matter knows that 2012 is the most popular year that many seers from the Hopi Indians to Nostrodamus have predicted as "judgement day" - but most state it is more about a time of great human change, rather than some cataclysmic and apolyptic disaster.



The real jugement day is known only by the creator - there is no code to be deciphered in the Bible

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The world ends today...

"We do not have a Plan B at all. There is no possibility that it will not happen because all of our information comes from the Bible."
American Harold Camping, who says the world will end today.

Maybe not! The only being who would know, is the Creator.

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Facebook is allegedly red-faced after a dirty tricks campaign against Google.

The war between the two internet giants reportedly exploded into the open recently after it was revealed that Facebook had paid a leading public relations company to run a dirty tricks campaign against Google.

The social networking site admitted it hired global agency Burson-Marsteller to place negative stories about Google in newspapers, magazines and online.

Claims and counter-claims spread across the internet recently, and the rivalry between the two companies was fully revealed for all and sundry to see.

Burson- Marsteller, who is owned by British group WPP, said it regretted working for Facebook on those terms and had terminated its contract.

Facebook obviously sees Google as its biggest future threat. Google has reportedly built up a big team in recent months to develop rival social networking products.

The scandal came to light after a blogger published an email exchange showing how BM touted stories on behalf of an unnamed client about a Google service, known as Google Circles.

The PR company allegedly said it could help the blogger write opinion pieces criticising  Googles system. and then help it place the stories with the media, including the Washington Post, Politico.com and the Huffington Post. Nothing was offered to the Kiwi Riverman Post, however.

The blogger who I won't name here, did not want to pursue the story, apparently describing it as "making a mountain out of a molehill". Probably a good decision. He did post the emails online.

The controversy continues. Google has declined comment and probably won't take legal action against those involved.

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Missing UK girl's parents wrote to newspaper...

Missing UK girl's parents wrote to newspaper...



The parents of missing UK girl Madeleine McCann have urged British Prime Minister David Cameron to order a "comprehensive review" of the information surrounding their daughter's disappearance.
Kate and Gerry McCann wrote in a letter to British newspaper The Sun that it was "not right that a young, vulnerable British citizen has essentially been given up on".

"One call might be all that is needed to lead to Madeleine and her abductor," the couple's message said.
"To this end we are seeking a joint independent, transparent and comprehensive review of all information held in relation to Madeleine's disappearance," continued the letter.

A spokesman for the British leader said the government would do "all it can to help them".
A new book written by Kate McCann is being serialised in The Sun, with proceeds going towards boosting dwindling search funds.

The book, Madeleine, is released in the UK on Thursday - the missing toddler's eighth birthday - and is expected to be a best-seller.

In the 384-page account, Kate McCann, 43, admitted she contemplated suicide in the aftermath of the abduction and revealed she was haunted by "a macabre slideshow of vivid pictures".

"The pictures I saw of our Madeleine no sane human being would want in her head, but they were in mine," McCann wrote.

"I had an overwhelming urge to swim out across the ocean, as hard and as fast as I could... until I was so far out and so exhausted I could just allow the water to pull me under and relieve me of this torment," she added.

Madeleine went missing in the Portugese resort of Praia da Luz on May 3, 2007, a few days before her fourth birthday, as her parents and their friends ate at a nearby restaurant.

Five months after Madeleine's disappearance, Portuguese police made Kate and Gerry McCann formal suspects in the case but they were later cleared.

The couple, from Leicestershire in central England, warned that a search fund which they set up to find their daughter was running dry after once standing at £2 million ($4.14 million).

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