Minst 26 människor omkom i en explosion i en kolgruva i sydvästra Kina i går.

Forskare: Häpnadsväckande upptäckt.

colinneagle writes "Earlier this week I installed the final version of Windows 8. And it is awesome. That's not a joke. Windows 8 is absolutely, unequivocally stellar. And yet, at the end of the day, I am right back to using Linux. Why is that? What is it about Linux that makes me so excited to use it — even while enjoying another operating system that I view as, in all seriousness, a work of art? Why do I not simply install Windows 8 on every machine I own and be happy with it? For me, it's the ability to slowly chip away and remove items from your user interface until you are left with only want you want, and nothing more. The option of looking at an item on the screen, right clicking on it, and declaring to said item 'Listen up, mister Thing-On-My-Screen. I don't want you anymore. Be gone!' Panels, bars, docks, launchers, widgets, gadgets – whatever is on your screen, there is probably a way to send it to whatever form of the afterlife is reserved for unwanted Desktop Crud. And, I'll tell you this right now – as great as it is, you don't find a whole lot of 'Right click, Remove Panel' in Windows 8."

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New submitter curtwoodward writes "Microsoft won't become a hardware company — unless you count mice and keyboards, former Microsoftie Charlie Kindel argues — because that would mean competing with Apple on its terms. But Kindel says Microsoft may be embarking on a totally new business model by seeding its connected software services across all platforms. You saw more evidence this week with the release of SkyDrive for Android. 'For that to work, it can't just be Windows,' he says. 'As a matter of fact, to beat Apple, it has to work really well on Apple devices.'"

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Bildt: ”Viktigt att oppositionen kan styra”.

En grekiskägd oljetanker som kapades utanför västafrikanska Togos kust i tisdags har övergetts av piraterna i dag.

60 000 människor evakueras.

Dagen efter att ett fartyg med omkring 150 migranter kapsejsat i Sundasundet i Indonesien, har 55 människor kunnat räddas ur havets vågor.

Iran har fördubblat sin produktionskapacitet vid en ifrågasatt kärnenergianläggning, uppger FN:s atomenergiorgan IAEA i en rapport.

En 78-årig kvinna och hennes 38-åriga dotter har hittats mördade i den ryska republiken Tatarstan.

Arbetare vid Marikana-gruvan i Sydafrika som suttit häktade åtalades i dag för mord på 34 arbetskamrater, som sköts till döds av polis den 16 augusti under en strejkvåg.

De globala matpriserna ökade med 10 procent under juli månad.