Miljöorganisationen Greenpeace anklagar Spanien för att överexploatera kustlinjen och varnar för att problemet växer med en ny lag.

Polisen utreder en misstänkt kidnappning i Avesta.

Dorianny writes "New research which takes advantage of the increase in cell phone use after 9pm due to the popularity of 'free nights and weekends' plans showed no corresponding increase in crash rates (PDF). Additionally, the researchers analyzed the effects of legislation banning cellphone use, enacted in several states, and similarly found that the legislation had no effect on the crash rate. 'One thought is that drivers may compensate for the distraction of cellphone use by selectively deciding when to make a call or consciously driving more carefully during a call.' Score this a -1 for common sense."

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En ecuadoriansk soldat och fem medlemmar av en beväpnad colombiansk grupp dödades i dag i strider i ett gränsområde mellan länderna.

Polisen uppger att kroppen som hittades utomhus i Grästorpstrakten i Västergötland tillhör den försvunna 23-åriga småbarnsmamman från Trollhättan.

clorkster writes to note the following explanation posted to the front page of encrypted email provider Lavabit: "'I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit. After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations. I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision. I cannot. I feel you deserve to know what's going on--the first amendment is supposed to guarantee me the freedom to speak out in situations like this. Unfortunately, Congress has passed laws that say otherwise. As things currently stand, I cannot share my experiences over the last six weeks, even though I have twice made the appropriate requests.' No doubt this has much to do with Snowden's use of the provider."

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reifman writes "Nothing sucks more than finding an 'Error establishing database connection' on your blog hours after the fact, but it's not easy to find inexpensive, simple monitoring solutions which support smartphone notifications. I wrote MonitorApp, a free, open source software applet which sends notifications to your iPhone (or Android) if anything goes wrong with your web site or services. This tutorial describes how to install and configure MonitorApp for your own purposes. The only cost is a $4.99 mobile application called Pushover — which links MonitorApp to your phone. Pushover also links with Nagios, a more complex open source option — but ironically, Nagios' website was down when I looked for it last month."

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En fallskärmshoppare som fastnat i ett träd orsakade huvudbry för räddningsverket i finska Björneborg i kväll.

Det avsnitt av järnvägen där det spanska tåget spårade ur utanför Santiago de Compostela skulle ursprungligen få ett säkerhetssystem installerat, som automatiskt bromsar ner fortkörande tåg.

Brittiska arkeologer har hittat en av de största begravningsplatserna som påträffats i London med omkring 20 000 skelett, rapporterar brittiska medier.

USA och EU vill skicka vapen, men till vem?