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A blind woman in Australia is suing an online shopping website because she finds the site unusable. Blind woman Gisele Mesnage sues Coles over online shopping website Apparently, there is precedent. A blind woman won a lawsuit in 2000 against the Sydney Olympic Committee's website. Many...

There's a lesson in here for those who care to learn... Nauru’s downfall from rich nation to poverty 6 HOURS AGO SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 5:12PM The island of Nauru. Picture: Bradley Hunter Source: News Limited IT’S a deeply troubled nation that has been plunged into a nightmare scenario...

Reckless move by the inexperienced Australian administration. What happens if Aussie soldiers get killed by the Russian-armed rebels? Will Australia get dragged deeper into the conflict? Will it invoke the ANZUS treaty, dragging the US into Ukraine? Australia risks inflaming Ukraine conflict...

No Cookies | dailytelegraph.com.au PAUL TOOHEY NEWS CORP AUSTRALIA JULY 05, 2014 12:00AM Moving on ... Google Earth sometimes feels like an interesting but pointless toy. The images are dated and once you’ve checked out your own roof or neighbourhood, you may exit the site with an empty...

Perhaps her best known poem: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings The free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wings in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his...

Streets of Shame By Mohammed Naqvi and Jamie Doran Monday 12th May 2014 Pakistan is a strategically important Muslim nation. It's a democracy and a nuclear power, that's allied to the West in the war against terror. But Pakistan is also a country in denial, turning a blind eye to the sexual...

Now you see it: the reality of invisibility April 23, 2014 - 10:00PM Iain Gillespie Invisibility is one of the most startling technological wonders we will see in the future. The idea of a Harry Potter-style cloak of invisibility may be mind-bendingly hard to believe, but scientists say they...

In Egypt a cry of outrage is met with death No.309 on a list of 529 people condemned to die – a lawyer jailed alongside the people he had spent months trying to help, caught up in the relentless crackdown against anyone who dares to challenge Egypt’s military-backed government. But as a son of...

Whatever happened to Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson and Anthony Michael Hall from the Breakfast Club? | News.com.au The Breakfast Club was a seminal teen flick of the 1980s. Source: New York Post THIRTY years ago this week, a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a...

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace is a 2011 BBCdocumentary series by filmmaker Adam Curtis.[1] The series argues that computers have failed to liberate humanity and instead have "distorted and...

Over on his Deviant Art profile, Martin Vargic has imagined such a place with "The Map of the internet," an exhaustively detailed map featuring places like the Spam Ocean and an island country known as BitTorrent. Vargic, a student and amateur graphic designer from Slovakia, told The Huffington...

Marlboro man dies of smoking disease Global figure: The Marlboro men were featured in billboards around the world, including in Albania. Photo: Reuters Los Angeles: Eric Lawson, who portrayed the rugged Marlboro man in cigarette ads during the late 1970s, has died. He was 72. Lawson died on...

Without an alarm clock, Chinese boy walks to school at night | News.com.au WHEN a Chinese villager found a young boy wandering the streets of his small town on the morning of November 26, he immediately feared the worst. Had the boy's parents driven him out of the house? Was he a...

Sarah Jones sues gossip website thedirty.com for defamation in a case that has internet giants worried | News.com.au FROM Twitter and Facebook to Amazon and Google, the biggest names of the internet are blasting a federal judge's decision allowing an Arizona-based gossip website to be sued...

Do people in the region refer to it as "Middle East" (the colonial, Euro-centric term) or as "South West Asia" (the post-colonial, neutral term)? The terms are not 100% interchangeable since Egypt is included in the Middle East, but would not belong in SW Asia. Many countries, including India...

Sweet revenge! Gillard and her supporters had ousted Kevin Rudd from a sitting Prime Ministership three years ago, so now it's payback time. Labor has a much better chance of winning the election in August with Rudd instead of Gillard (still may not be enough, though). Kevin Rudd...

It's a year old interview, but still worth reading. Very matter-of-fact, no nonsense, to the point answers. I think he has nailed the reason why the US continues to lead innovation and what others must do to compete. Q&A: Kanwal Rekhi, Inventus Capital | Business Standard Entrepreneur...

BBC News - Bhutto murder-case prosecutor shot dead in Islamabad Gunmen have shot dead the prosecutor investigating the murder of Pakistan's ex-leader Benazir Bhutto who was assassinated in 2007. Police said Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali was ambushed as he was driving from his Islamabad home to a...

Are Humans Getting Dumber? - Science News - redOrbit The Descent of Man: Why One Scientist Thinks The Human Race May Be Getting Dumber November 20, 2012 Jedidiah Becker for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Take a glance at the arc of human civilization. As just a few notable...