An anonymous reader writes "According to scientists we can look forward to more devastating wildfires like the ones scorching Southern California because of global warming. "The fires in California and here in Arizona are a clear example of what happens as the Earth warms, particularly as the West warms, and the warming caused by humans is making fire season longer and longer with each decade," said University of Arizona geoscientist Jonathan Overpeck. "It's certainly an example of what we'll see more of in the future.""

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African leaders agree to join forces and declare war on the armed group in Nigeria.

African leaders agree to join forces and declare war on the armed group in Nigeria.

Kaoset i Libyen förvärras. Ett 80-tal människor har dödats i strider i Benghazi och parlamentet har stormats i Tripoli - igen.

Police chief warns Jewish extremists over attempts to disrupt Pope Francis visit as church leaders raise security fears.

sfcrazy (1542989) writes "Chromecast is a great device, and concept, however it is more or less limited to Google's Chrome browser and supported apps. That seems to be changing: Mozilla is working on bringing Chromecast support to its Firefox browser. Mozilla meeting notes from 14 May clearly mention Chromecast support for the browser: 'Work week in SF, making good progress. Hoping to have Netcast and Chromecast support landed by the end of the week.'"

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JimLynch (684194) writes "Mozilla has been in the news quite a lot over the last few months. This time the organization is being hammered by open source advocates for adding Adobe DRM to Firefox. But did the folks at Mozilla really have a choice when it comes adding DRM? An open source project like Mozilla is not immune to market pressures. And with so many competing browsers such as Chrome adding DRM for Netflix, etc. how could Firefox avoid adding it? Is it realistic to think that Firefox can simply ignore such things? I don't think so and the reason why is in Firefox's usage numbers over the last few years."

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Officials say disaster has killed at least 44 people and completely cut off some towns in Serbia and Bosnia.

Familjens katt blev en hjälte när den räddade den fyraårige sonen från grannens hund. Nu är katten inbjuden att göra det första kastet vid en baseballmatch.

Marita Ulvskog (S) och Gunnar Hökmark (M), partiernas toppkandidater i valet till Europaparlamentet, möts i en debatt i söndagens Agenda på SVT.  

Flexible non-blocking Redis client with reconnect

a rapid active commotion (framework for web projects on Mojolicious)

Check B & B of your package for CPAN inclusion.

Emulate file interface for a code reference

De över 120 personer, som tidigare i dag togs som gisslan av fångar på ett fängelse i staden Aracaju i nordöstra Brasilien, har nu släppts.