Larmoperatörer överhopades av olycksanrop från vägarna i Västra Götaland under eftermiddagen.

Elva personer, varav ett barn, omkom i en bussolycka i Carvalhal i centrala Portugal på söndagen.

theodp writes "That his 28-year-old whip-smart, well-educated CS grad friend could be unaware of MacWrite and MacPaint took Dave Winer by surprise. 'They don't, for some reason,' notes Winer, 'study these [types of seminal] products in computer science. They fall between the cracks of "serious" study of algorithms and data structures, and user interface and user experience (which still is not much-studied, but at least is starting). This is more the history of software. Much like the history of film, or the history of rock and roll.' So, Dave asks, what early software was influential and worthy of a Software Hall of Fame?"

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Israels förre premiärminister Ariel Sharon, i koma sedan 2006 efter hjärnblödning, har undersökts av israeliska och amerikanska specialister.

En kvinna omkom i en brand i ett lägenhetshus på Limhamnsvägen i Malmö på söndagskvällen.

En stor manifestation hölls i dag i Paris till stöd för homosexuellas rätt att gifta sig och adoptera barn.

Utfärdar utegångsförbud i 30 dagar.

Gjorde uttalande i anslutning till minnesdagen för Förintelsens offer.

Argentina och Iran har kommit överens om att upprätta en sanningskommission i ett försök att en gång för alla reda ut bombdådet mot judiska församlingen i Buenos Aires 1994.

En buss körde av vägen i Ödåkra utanför Helsingborg i kväll vid 21-tiden.

jones_supa writes "Another report from Apple regarding Chinese labor practices surfaces. After conducting its 2011 audits to 339 sites, the company found that cases of underage labor had jumped from 6 to 74 in one year. It was concentrated in a single circuit board manufacturer, which Apple says was willfully conspiring with families to forge age-verification documents. According to a new report, Apple didn't find any cases of underage workers at its final assembly suppliers in 2012, but it plans to continue going deeper into the supply chain to ferret out violators. We are talking about Guangdong Real Faith Pingzhou Electronics Co., with which Apple has now terminated its relationship."

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Get elevation data from the USGS

A base class for Alien:: modules

easy access to any pastebin

provides Moose-like method modifiers