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Quake effort resumes after panic - Rescue efforts resume in quake-stricken Beichuan, China, after fears of a flash flood spark panic.
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 7:02pm
Burma 'guilty of inhuman action' - UK PM Gordon Brown accuses Burma's rulers of neglecting their own people by blocking aid to cyclone survivors.
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 8:27pm
Edward Kennedy taken to hospital - US Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy is in hospital after suffering what his office says was a "seizure".
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 7:25pm
'Plot' delays Tsvangirai return - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai halts a return to Zimbabwe due to fears about an alleged plot to kill him.
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 12:55pm
Bush meets Palestinian president - US President George W Bush meets Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at talks with Arab leaders in Egypt.
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 8:36pm
Kuwaitis wait for polls results - Kuwait elects a parliament for the second time in two years with women hoping to take seats for the first time.
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 9:49pm
Spain arrests 'prolific' hackers - Spanish police arrest five hackers they describe as being among the most active on the internet.
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 12:26pm
Lebanese factions at Qatar talks - Lebanon's rival leaders hold talks in Qatar aimed at pulling the country back from the brink of civil war.
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 2:02pm
Royal marries in Windsor wedding - The Queen's eldest grandson, Peter Phillips, marries Canadian management consultant Autumn Kelly at Windsor Castle.
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 7:34pm
A cat-and-mouse chase causes 72-hour blackout in Albania - Albania's main electricity provider blames a cat chasing a mouse for a 72-hour blackout.
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 7:31pm
Kanu leads Pompey to FA Cup glory - Portsmouth win the FA Cup as Kanu's 37th-minute strike gives them a 1-0 win over Cardiff at Wembley.
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 4:59pm
England frustrated at wet Lord's - England and New Zealand lose almost the whole of day three of the first Test to rain.
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 5:42pm
Shatila people - Meet key figures in a 60-year-old Palestinian camp
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 7:30am
Lost generation - Tragedy of China's one-child families hit by earthquake
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 12:09pm
Cannes diary - Gearing up for Indiana Jones at the film festival
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 5:32pm
Down in one - Did US rivals really have a Tallinn vodka contest?
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 10:01am
Striking drama - Film on IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands hits Cannes
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 6:38pm
Week in pictures - Some of the most striking images around the world
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 3:18pm
Kabbah ends honeymoon for trial - Sierra Leone's ex-president cuts short his honeymoon to testify at the trial of former rebel leader Issa Sesay.
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 6:17pm
Dominican leader wins third term - President Leonel Fernandez wins re-election in the Dominican Republic as his main opponent concedes.
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 5:26am
US resumes North Korea food aid - The US announces a resumption of food aid to North Korea, thought to be facing famine this summer.
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 6:28pm
Italy pledges to bolster security - Italy's interior minister says firm measures are needed to meet the country's 'security emergency'.
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 11:51pm
Saudis 'resist Bush oil pressure' - Saudi Arabia rejects a US appeal to raise oil production saying there is no new demand, US officials say.
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 6:50pm
Pakistan Afghan ambassador freed - Pakistan's envoy to Afghanistan, abducted by suspected Taleban militants in February, is released.
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 7:44am
Hundreds gather for Jimmy tribute - Hundreds attend a memorial service for a 16-year-old who was killed in a bakery in south-east London.
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 2:40pm
British Airways profits soar 45% - British Airways reports a sharp jump in annual profits to £883m but its boss says he will not accept a bonus.
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 5:17pm
Cord blood cancer therapy boost - Immune cells grown from umbilical cord blood may one day be used to improve leukaemia treatment, say researchers.
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 12:54am
Ancestors had leg-up to trees - A new study explains how the tiny ancestors of humans, apes and monkeys may have taken to the trees.
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 1:03pm
TV's Ellen to wed actress partner - TV show host Ellen DeGeneres is to marry Portia de Rossi after California lifted its ban on same-sex ceremonies.
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 12:00pm
'0 laptop' platform moves on - An independent effort to develop the software originally designed for the 0 laptop is launched.
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 4:59pm
Have you got a good story? What do you want to talk about? - Are there topics you want to get the world to talk about? What do you want to comment on or find out what others think about? Set the agenda for global conversations and have your say.
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 9:38am
The Register
PayPal meltdown wreaks havoc on some ecommerce websites
'Bring me the head of the IPN admins!'
A glitch in PayPal's payment verification system is wreaking havoc on some ecommerce sites that depend on the service. For more than 48 hours, the bug in PayPal's instant payment notification has made it impossible for them to process orders, owners of these businesses complain.?
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 7:35pmLegal experts wary of MySpace hacking charges
'We are all felons if this flies'
On October 16, 2006, 13-year-old Megan Meier fled from her family's computer, distraught over the cutting comments of her supposed "friends" on MySpace. Twenty minutes later, the troubled teen was dead; she had hung herself in her closet.?
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 7:30pmCan't decide how to vote? Publicwhip.org will tell you
Machines show you how to vote - you know how this ends
As New Labour prepares itself for electoral meltdown in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election, here's a site that might, as Peter Snow would have put it, be "just a bit of fun".?
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 9:02am'Secure' PayPal page is... you guessed it
Extended SSL no match for the power of XSS
A serious scripting error has been discovered on PayPal that could enable attackers to create convincing spoof pages that steal users' authentication credentials..?
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 9:57pmUS Congress questions legality of Phorm and the Phormettes
'Talk to us first'
After telling the world it will soon pimp customer data to NebuAd - a behavioral ad targeting firm along the lines of Phorm and Front Porch - Charter Communications has received a letter from Congress questioning the legality of such pimping.?
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 9:48pmW3C 'clarifies' HTML 5 v XHTML
Vendors moving too fast on RIA
Potential conflicts and overlap between the first update to HTML in a decade by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and XHTML has been addressed by the standards body.?
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 9:02pmSANS sounds alarm on Debian OpenSSL flaw
Lockpicking script prompts alarm
The SANS Institute yesterday took the highly unusual step of issuing a yellow alert over a vulnerability in the cryptographic functions of Debian, the Linux distro that underpins Ubuntu.?
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 7:33pmAMD cries foul over Intel's 'river of cash' flowing to Dell
Shows Intel Chairman begging for forgiveness
AMD vs Intel It's document season in the ongoing anti-trust lawsuit between AMD and Intel. Last week, the companies fought over witness testimony and earlier this week a judge told Intel to fork over some documents related to interviews done as the company tried to deal with its deletion of e-mails possibly related to the case at hand. Now, we've received AMD's response to Intel's filing around the witness testimony, and a couple of tidbits fell out of the heavily censored document.?
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 6:08pmWorld economy group gives IPv6 big push
Warns about depletion of IPv4 addresses
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) sounded an alarm bell yesterday over the rapid depletion of IPv4 internet addresses and gave the IPv6 protocol another push.?
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 5:09pmJihadis: We turned hacked killbots against US troops
ROTM fever spreads to mujahideen press office
In a strange twist of fate it has emerged that gutter hacks, writing for a well known publication offering tasty mechanically recovered news-like media product, have handed a stunning propaganda coup to jihadi terrorism. We're obviously very sorry*.?
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 4:58pmP2P soars, licensed music flatlines
Today is a good day to die download
Freeloading music is more habit-forming than paying for legal downloads, according to polling in the UK.?
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 4:36pmDNS gaffe leaves spy agency totally under cover
Big website knickers round ankles
The unavailability of the US National Security Agency website on Thursday has been linked to misconfigured DNS (Domain Name System) servers.?
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 4:22pmOLPC and Microsoft punt Windows-only XO laptop
Odd couple shack up
Microsoft and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) foundation have confirmed that the XO laptop will soon be available as Windows-loaded machines.?
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 4:13pmDeparting software chief stings Negroponte
The former security director of the One Laptop Per Child non-profit has blasted the project for losing sight of its goals, accusing chairman Nicholas Negroponte of deceiving the public. It's all about shipping kit, says Ivan Krsti? in an incendiary essay.?
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 3:38pmQualcomm splurges on UK spectrum
Just bag up the whole lot for me, please
US technology company Qualcomm has scooped all 17 chunks of UK-L-Band spectrum, auctioned over the last week, for a total of £8,334,000 - so you can expect MediaFLO announcements from UK operators any day now.?
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 3:31pmBeast of a box
People have covered themselves and their possessions in animal skins since the dawn of time, but one gamer has taken things to another level by crafting an alligator-themed Xbox 360.?
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 3:22pm
