En polis dödades och en annan skadades svårt i stadsdelen Brooklyn i New York i USA efter att de på lördagskvällen blivit skjutna sittandes i sin tjänstebil, rapporterar New York Times.

ideonexus writes: Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has called for a "time out" in his perpetual fight with Google in response to the company filing a lawsuit against him for conspiring with the movie industry to persecute the search giant. Leaked Sony Pictures Entertainment emails and documents obtained under FOIA requests this week have exposed how the Motion Picture Association of America was colluding with and lobbying state prosecutors to go after Google, even going so far as to "assigned a team of lawyers to prepare draft subpoenas and legal briefs for the attorneys general" to make it easier for them to persecute the company. Here's the full complaint (PDF).

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ideonexus writes: Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has called for a "time out" in his perpetual fight with Google in response to the company filing a lawsuit against him for conspiring with the movie industry to persecute the search giant. Leaked Sony Pictures Entertainment emails and documents obtained under FOIA requests this week have exposed how the Motion Picture Association of America was colluding with and lobbying state prosecutors to go after Google, even going so far as to "assigned a team of lawyers to prepare draft subpoenas and legal briefs for the attorneys general" to make it easier for them to persecute the company. Here's the full complaint (PDF).

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En serie mindre jordskalv i trakterna runt Florens i Italien har börjat oroa försvararna av stadens rika kulturarv.

En serie mindre jordskalv i trakterna runt Florens i Italien har börjat oroa försvararna av stadens rika kulturarv.

Pakistan befinner sig fortfarande i sorg efter attacken mot skolan i Peshawar – vakor och minneshögtider hålls i skolor, parker och på marknadsplatser. Ljus tänds och folk ber böner för ”de små änglarna” som offren nu kallas. Många människor uttrycker också en djup ilska gentemot dem som de anser vara ”talibanernas vänner”.

Pakistan befinner sig fortfarande i sorg efter attacken mot skolan i Peshawar – vakor och minneshögtider hålls i skolor, parker och på marknadsplatser. Ljus tänds och folk ber böner för ”de små änglarna” som offren nu kallas. Många människor uttrycker också en djup ilska gentemot dem som de anser vara ”talibanernas vänner”.

Lördagseftermiddagen och kvällen blev hal på många håll i landet. Jönköpingspolisen hade under fyra timmar 13 trafikolyckor.

mpicpp tips news that oceanographers have discovered a creature that sets the record for the most deeply dwelling fish on Earth. It was found in the Mariana Trench, some 8,145 meters below the surface. The 30-day voyage took place from the Schmidt Ocean Institute's research vessel, Falkor, and is the most comprehensive survey of world's deepest place ever undertaken. The Hadal Ecosystem Studies (Hades) team deployed unmanned landers more than 90 times to depths that ranged between 5,000m and 10,600m. They studied both steep walls of the undersea canyon. ... Dr. Jamieson said: "We think it is a snailfish, but it's so weird-looking; it's up in the air in terms of what it is. "It is unbelievably fragile, and when it swims, it looks like it has wet tissue paper floating behind it. And it has a weird snout — it looks like a cartoon dog snout."

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mpicpp tips news that oceanographers have discovered a creature that sets the record for the most deeply dwelling fish on Earth. It was found in the Mariana Trench, some 8,145 meters below the surface. The 30-day voyage took place from the Schmidt Ocean Institute's research vessel, Falkor, and is the most comprehensive survey of world's deepest place ever undertaken. The Hadal Ecosystem Studies (Hades) team deployed unmanned landers more than 90 times to depths that ranged between 5,000m and 10,600m. They studied both steep walls of the undersea canyon. ... Dr. Jamieson said: "We think it is a snailfish, but it's so weird-looking; it's up in the air in terms of what it is. "It is unbelievably fragile, and when it swims, it looks like it has wet tissue paper floating behind it. And it has a weird snout — it looks like a cartoon dog snout."

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Kvinnoorganisationen Terrafem tvingas lägga ner sitt skyddande boende. Det berättade SvD om i går.”Verksamheten är tyvärr inte tillräckligt efterfrågad. Det saknas 1,2 miljoner kronor per år”, berättar Denise Melin, avdelningschef i Stockholms stad.

A Module to create locale objects with localisation data from the CLDR

Easy Insert, Update, Load and Delete of a DB (DBI) Stored Hash

Easy Insert, Update, Load and Delete of a DB (DBI) Stored Hash