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De fyra representanter för Internationella brottmålsdomstolen (ICC) som gripits i Libyen väntas släppas i morgon, uppgav en talesperson för ICC.

vu1986 writes "Boston won the opportunity to pick the brains of six IBM engineers — including one from Tokyo — who flew in to check out its traffic situation and figure out a way to consolidate, analyze and use existing traffic data feeds as well as new data sources including (of course) Twitter feeds, to ease the city's notorious traffic jams."

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State media and opposition groups criticise UN-brokered plan for unity government, as violence continues across country.

Olafur Ragnar Grimsson beats main challenger, a well-known television personality, to win another four-year mandate.

Hundreds of armed protesters enter local election commission to demand more seats for eastern city in July 7 elections.

Iran kommer inom kort att provskjuta missiler meddelade iranska Revolutionsgardet i dag - samma dag som de av EU införda sanktionerna mot iransk olja trädde i kraft.

An anonymous reader writes in with a Wired story about the problems caused by the leap second last night. "Reddit, Mozilla, and possibly many other web outfits experienced brief technical problems on Saturday evening, when software underpinning their online operations choked on the “leap second” that was added to the world’s atomic clocks. On Saturday, at midnight Greenwich Mean Time, as June turned into July, the Earth’s official time keepers held their clocks back by a single second in order to keep them in sync with the planet’s daily rotation, and according to reports from across the web, some of the net’s fundamental software platforms — including the Linux operating system and the Java application platform — were unable to cope with the extra second."