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Apple Updates iPad 2 Smart Cover Offerings with Color Tweaks

susan — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:39:35 +0000

Alongside today's quiet MacBook Pro refresh, Apple has also updated its iPad 2 Smart Cover offerings, perhaps most notably discontinuing the orange polyurethane cover and replacing it with a new dark gray cover. New dark gray Smart Cover Other ch...

Apple Retail Stores to Offer In-Store Pickup of Online Orders

susan — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:21:33 +0000

Apple is making plans to roll out a new pilot program that will allow customers to pickup orders placed through the company's online store at one of their local retail stores. The program, reportedly known as Sherwood, will include any product availab...

Joanna Yeates’s neighbour ‘heard nothing unusual’ on night she died

jessica — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:20:36 +0000

Vincent Tabak's defence case ends with a statement from a neighbour at the building where he and Yeates lived in BristolThe defence case in the trial of Vincent Tabak has closed with a neighbour telling the jury that he did not hear anything unusual on...

Zuma ontslaat twee ministers wegens corruptie – politiechef op non-actief

jessica — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:17:04 +0000

De Zuid-Afrikaanse president Jacob Zuma heeft twee ministers uit zijn kabinet ontslagen wegens corruptie en mismanagement. Zuma probeert daarmee de kritiek weg te nemen dat hij niet optreedt tegen corruptie binnen de regering.

Phone hacking: Les Hinton faces MPs – live

jessica — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:12:52 +0000

Live coverage as Rupert Murdoch's former right-hand man is questioned for a second time by the culture select committee2.12pm: Les Hinton has completed his third appearance before the Commons committee investigating phone hacking at the News of the Wor...

WikiLeaks suspends publishing to fight financial blockade

jessica — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:08:41 +0000

Julian Assange says banking bans have destroyed 95% of whistleblowing site's revenuesJulian Assange, co-founder of WikiLeaks, has announced that the whistleblowing website is suspending publishing operations in order to focus on fighting a financial bl...

UK university applicants drop by 12% before tuition fee rise

jessica — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:01:04 +0000

Ucas reveals 52,321 UK-born students have applied for university next year, when fees will rise to up to £9,000 a yearThe number of UK-born university applicants for next September – when fees rise to up to £9,000 a year – has plummeted by almost...

Overstroming in Bangkok.

susan — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:32:21 +0000

Flood warnings issued for Devon, Cornwall, Wales and Yorkshire

jessica — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:28:56 +0000

Heavy rain, high winds and flash floods expected as agency issues alerts for south-west, Welsh rivers and Yorkshire coastSouth-west England and Wales have been warned of the risk of flash floods as heavy rain is driven in from the Atlantic by strong wi...

WikiLeaks stopt met publiceren, alle aandacht op geld binnenhalen

jessica — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:28:34 +0000

Een van de meest geruchtmakende klokkenluiders snoert zichzelf de mond. WikiLeaks staakt het publiceren van geheime informatie om zo alle tijd en aandacht te besteden aan geld binnenhalen.