Sally Bercow learns the social media rules the hard way in McAlpine case | Joshua Rozen...
The Speaker’s wife has learned the hard way that while her husband and his fellow MPs make the law, it is the judges who interpret and apply it.
The outcome of Lord McAlpine‘s libel case against Sally Bercow is likely to have provided her with an expensive lesson on the British constitution.
While it’s possible that she was represented on a no win, no fee basis by her solicitors Carter-Ruck and the two barristers who appeared for her at the high court earlier in the month, she will certainly have to pay Lord McAlpineR [...]
Obama: Sex assaults harm military
24 May 2013
Last updated at 12:14 ET
US presidents often address graduating military classes
President Barack Obama has told US Navy graduates they must help end a culture of sexual assault in the military.
He told 841 men and 206 women at the Naval Academy commissioning ceremony in Annapolis, Maryland, the effects of misconduct “ripple far and wide”.
A Pentagon report released in May said 26,000 military personnel may have been sexually assaulted in 2012, with scores of them unwilling to come forward.
The num [...]
No Green-Whyte link over Rangers
By Chris McLaughlin
Senior Football Reporter, BBC Scotland
Former chief executive Charles Green will be cleared of having close links with former Rangers owner Craig Whyte, BBC Scotland understands.
An internal investigation, lasting more than a month, commissioned by Rangers into their business relationship has reached a conclusion.
It followed allegations by Whyte that he colluded with then chief executive Green to purchase the club’ [...]
Parents Underestimate Influence Over Teens’ Substance Abuse: Survey
FRIDAY, May 24 (HealthDay News) — About one in five parents think they have little control over whether their teens take up smoking, drinking or illicit drug use, a new U.S. government survey finds.
That’s too bad, say experts at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), since new research shows that parents are actually one of the most influential forces helping to shape their child’s views on these issues.
“Surveys of teens repeatedly show that parents can make an e [...]
Obama forgets Marine One salute
President Barack Obama skipped a presidential tradition Friday, by not saluting the Marine standing guard outside of Marine One.
CNN reported Obama did not salute before climbing the stairs to Marine One on Friday. However, before Obama was even onboard the presidential helicopter, he turned, shook hands and chatted with the Marine.
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Shortly after, he took off from Washington to nearby Annapolis, Md., to partake in another tradition in which he spoke to graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy at c commissioning cerem [...]
Bridge Collapse in Washington State Sends Two Cars Plunging Into The Skagit River
It’s been a rough week for bridges around the U.S. At about 7 p.m. local time in Washington state yesterday a bridge spanning the Skagit river north of Seattle (part of Interstate 5) collapsed after a truck carrying a tall load collided with one of the spans, sending two cars plunging into the river below. The three people in those cars all survived with non-life-threatening injuries, but it should probably come as a surprise to no one that the bridge–which services about 71,000 crossings of the Skagit river every day–is r [...]
Kim Dotcom: Two-Step Authentication Patent Is Mine
Kim Dotcom, founder of the seized file-sharing site Megaupload, hinted via Twitter that he might sue the slew of companies using two-step authentication, for which Dotcom claims to own the patent.
Dotcom provided a
link to a patent that deals with two layers of identification, corroborating his purported ownership. That said, it is hard to know if the patent, which was filed for in 1998 and granted in 2000, would cover the two-step authentication that has become all the rage on the Web.
By requiring a password plus an additional nugget of [...]
Extra police heading for Stockholm
24 May 2013
Last updated at 12:07 ET
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The BBC’s Steven Evans in Stockholm: “The whole policy of immigration and integration is being questioned”
Reinforcements of specially trained police are being sent to Stockholm after five nights of unprecedented rioting in the capital’s suburbs.
Police officers are being sent from the cities of Gothenburg and Malmo, both of w [...]
Did Holder mislead Congress about targeting reporters like James Rosen?
In his speech at the National Defense University Thursday, President Obama said, “Journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs. Our focus must be on those who break the law.”
Maybe it’s time for the president to have a heart-to-heart with his attorney general, Eric Holder.
NBC News is reporting that Mr. Holder “signed off on a controversial search warrant that identified Fox News reporter James Rosen as a ‘possible co-conspirator’ in violations of the Espionage Act and authorized seizure of his private emails,” per NBC co [...]
Hedge fund guru says moms and trading don’t mix
Leaning in may work for women in the world of tech. But if you’re a woman who wants to balance trading and a family, one hedge fund manager says that’s not possible.
“You will never see as many great women investors or traders as men. Period. End of story,” said billionaire Paul Tudor Jones at the University of Virginia’s spring investing symposium last month.
The video of the event, which was off the record, was obtained by The Washington Post through a Freedom of Information Act request. The newspaper re [...]
Carl Froch against Mikkel Kessler sparks memories of Benn v McClellan | Kevin Mitchell
Carl Froch and Mikkel Kessler are alike in many ways, each blessed with iron fists, jaws and wills, and they are vocal in their mutual admiration, but a fundamental difference between them has become manifest in the buildup to their world title rematch in London on Saturday night.
For a man who earns his living in the ring, the Dane, who has a WBC version of the 12-stone title, seems to be in the grip of a permanent and disarming smile, as if he knows something the rest of us do not. Kessler, the most courteous of men, is either very happ [...]
Sharp Rise in ICU Admissions From U.S. Emergency Rooms
FRIDAY, May 24 (HealthDay News) — The number of U.S. patients admitted to hospitals’ intensive care units after spending time in an emergency room has increased by nearly 50 percent, according to new research.
The study, conducted by researchers at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services in Washington, D.C., found that patients wait five hours in the emergency room on average before being admitted to the ICU. The researchers said improved coordination between ER and ICU sta [...]