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Den läkare i USA som dömts för mord på tre spädbarn drev en abortklinik i Philadelphia som amerikanska medier beskriver som ett ”skräckhus”.

Världspolitikens storspelare lägger i en högre växel och trappar upp diplomatin i ett nytt försök att stoppa våldet i Syrien.

Ny forskning exalterar svenska forskare.

En man i Trollhättan åtalas för grov kvinnofridskränkning, grov fridskränkning och misshandel efter att i flera år ha utövat fysisk och psykisk terror mot sin fru och döttrar.

itwbennett writes "We've all had a chuckle over Google's autocomplete results for various search queries. But one German businessman had a less funny experience when he searched for his name on Google.de: The autocomplete suggested search terms where his name was tied with 'Scientology' and 'fraud' (in German, of course). This was back in 2010. In 2012, a German court ruled that the autocomplete terms did not infringe the plaintiff's privacy. Now, a year later, the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe has overturned that ruling and ordered that Google remove offensive search suggestions when notified."

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The Sun has unleashed a massive solar flare - the most powerful of 2013 so far.

Gunmen travelling in four vehicles attacked at least nine shops in West Baghdad, killing at least 12.

Officials for the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board have recommended a nationwide lowering of the blood-alcohol level considered safe for operating a car. The threshold is currently 0.08% — the NTSB wants to cut that to 0.05%. "That's about one drink for a woman weighing less than 120 lbs., two for a 160 lb. man. More than 100 countries have adopted the .05 alcohol content standard or lower, according to a report by the board's staff. In Europe, the share of traffic deaths attributable to drunken driving was reduced by more than half within 10 years after the standard was dropped, the report said. NTSB officials said it wasn't their intention to prevent drivers from having a glass of wine with dinner, but they acknowledged that under a threshold as low as .05 the safest thing for people who have only one or two drinks is not to drive at all. ... Alcohol concentration levels as low as .01 have been associated with driving-related performance impairment, and levels as low as .05 have been associated with significantly increased risk of fatal crashes, the board said."