Jean-Francois Cope vann ledarstriden i det franska konservativa oppositionspartiet UMP.

EU:s utrikesministrar manar till omedelbar vapenvila mellan Israel och Hamasstyrda Gazaremsan.

garymortimer writes "Photos provided by the animal rights group show the multicopter smoking on the ground, with its lithium polymer battery supply smoldering. Another photo shows the drone's video camera smashed. The drone, dubbed 'Angel,' was a Cinestar 8 octocopter estimated at $4,000. This wasn't the first time SHARK has been shot out of the sky. This is the fourth drone that the group has lost while investigating pigeon shootings. One drone landed on club property, and is the subject of an ongoing lawsuit.

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UMP still counting votes as both contestants allege fraud in election underlining conflict within party.

Demonstranter drabbade samman med polis i Kairo i dag, den första årsdagen efter gatustriderna som krävde 45 demonstranters liv.

En kvinna i 40-årsåldern knivskars i eftermiddags i sin bostad i Hofors.

CowboyRobot writes "While many mobile payments startups are using both traditional and nontraditional authentication methods, regulatory uncertainty still exists around liability for fraud attacks on customers using mobile payments. Although there haven't been any public attacks from fraudsters on alternative mobile payments providers such as Square, LevelUp or Dwolla, anecdotal stories are already circulating among security experts and regulators of such attacks. One thing that still has to be worked out in this area is regulatory oversight. 'The regulators are not yet clear who owns the regulatory oversight for these environments. These technologies tend to fall through the cracks even in terms of card-present or card-not-present.'"

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Congratulations to my friends at Black Pixel for getting out the Kaleidoscope 2 beta.

And a spiffy new company website. Looks good.

(Kaleidoscope, you may recall, was formerly a Sofa app.)

EU foreign ministers say they view the National Coalition to be the "legitimate representatives" of the Syrian people.

Investigators looking into whether the former French president took part in illegal campaign financing.