Talibanerna drog in 400 miljoner dollar, motsvarande runt 2,6 miljarder kronor, förra året i skatter, donationer och utpressning av företag och droghandlare, enligt en ny rapport från FN.

Linnea Shibbye om makens tid i fängelset

Vid två tillfällen har en bil försökt köra på flyktingbarnen vid ett boende för ensamkommande barn i Älvdalen, rapporterar Dalarnas Tidningar.

An amateur film deemed offensive to Prophet Muhammad provokes angry demonstrations in the Egyptian and Libyan capitals.

New UN-Arab League envoy warns to not "expect miracles" this week as bombardment resumes in rebel Aleppo districts.

More than a million people swamp Barcelona, accusing Spanish government of dragging them into economic trouble.

New submitter stacey7165 writes "VMware shared the application architecture story of how they worked with the Ocean Observatory Initiative to build a 'Hubble Telescope' of the ocean. It's comprised of a massive network of global, regional, and coastal sensors that send information to a common framework called the Common Operating Infrastructure (COI). The COI resides in a hybrid cloud powered by VMware and Amazon. To cope with a total of 49 classes and over 700 instruments deployed off of 6 coastlines, and a variety of consumption use cases, the Ocean Observatory Initiative built out the system using a variety of sub-systems loosely coupled through a messaging system powered by RabbitMQ called an 'Exchange.' Organized into a system where message clients pubsub from 'Exchange Points' and 'Exchange Spaces', the system is easier to maintain, extend, and scale. According to the OOI's documentation on release 1, the Integrated Observatory Network uses AMQP 0.9.1 and RabbitMQ-Server v. 2.3.1 on CentOS 5.5."

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Efter en månadslång resa genom USA har en mexikansk fredskaravan, under ledning av poeten Javier Sicilia, anlänt till Washington.

olau writes "Michael Meeks, who's worked on GNOME and LibreOffice integration for many years, now for SuSE, has some really interesting thoughts on the recent Linux desktop debate and suggestions for possible strategies. He points out that regarding independent software vendors (ISVs), the real issue isn't actually the quality of the tools but the size and attractiveness of the market, and perhaps that a solution could be lower barriers for paying or donating. Regarding OEMs selling hardware with software preinstalled, he points out that while a free OS + software sounds good for consumers, it's actually a problem for OEMs on razor-thin margins, since they lose the cut they get from the preinstallations. A possible countermove could be nailing robustness and hardware diagnostics for good, lowering OEM support costs."

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