Irak och Turkiet har lovat att samarbeta mot extremiströrelsen Islamiska staten (IS), tidigare känd som Isis, som tagit kontroll över stora delar av Irak och Syrien.

Irak och Turkiet har lovat att samarbeta mot extremiströrelsen Islamiska staten (IS), tidigare känd som Isis, som tagit kontroll över stora delar av Irak och Syrien.

theodp writes In addition to The Ghost of Steve Jobs, The Codecracker, a remix of 'The Nutcracker' performed by Silicon Valley's all-girl Castilleja School during Computer Science Education Week earlier this month featured a Bubble Sort Dance. Bubble Sort dancing, it turns out, is more popular than one might imagine. Search YouTube, for example, and you'll find students from the University of Rochester to Osmania University dancing to sort algorithms. Are you a fan of Hungarian folk-dancing? Well there's a very professionally-done Bubble Sort Dance for you! Indeed, well-meaning CS teachers are pushing kids to Bubble Sort Dance to hits like Beauty and a Beat, Roar, Gentleman, Heartbeat, Under the Sea, as well as other music.

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Över 2 000 bybor har flytt sina hem i delstaten Assam i Indien efter att separatistrebeller dödat dussintals bybor, uppger myndigheter. Invånarna har sökt skydd i läger som upprättats efter att en serie koordinerade attacker i tisdags dödade minst 69 personer, 18 av dem barn. Ytterligare tre personer dödades i onsdags när polis sköt mot bybor som tagit sig till en polisstation för att kräva rättvisa för attackerna.

Över 2 000 bybor har flytt sina hem i delstaten Assam i Indien efter att separatistrebeller dödat dussintals bybor, uppger myndigheter. Invånarna har sökt skydd i läger som upprättats efter att en serie koordinerade attacker i tisdags dödade minst 69 personer, 18 av dem barn. Ytterligare tre personer dödades i onsdags när polis sköt mot bybor som tagit sig till en polisstation för att kräva rättvisa för attackerna.

mrspoonsi writes Both Xbox Live and PlayStation Network [were] down this morning, apparently due to a denial-of-service attack. The notorious hacking group Lizard Squad — which already carried out earlier attacks on Microsoft and Sony — has claimed responsibility on Twitter for these latest outages. While the group's role in all of this remains unconfirmed, it's worth noting that the group threatened last week to take down Xbox Live and PSN, according to Business Insider. And again, Lizard Squad has already proven it can successfully pull off such attacks, not to mention other malicious pranks. Whatever the cause, the timing is obviously terrible: Plenty of people surely received one of the two consoles as Christmas presents today, while many more gamers would have happily spent the afternoon in front of the TV. In the meantime, both Sony and Microsoft have acknowledged the problem, with Sony issuing a tweet and Microsoft posting a message on its support website: "We're working to address this as quickly as we possibly can," reads its status website. "Thanks for your patience, Xbox members." In an email, a Microsoft spokesperson declined to comment further or say when the company expects to restore service. We've also asked Sony to comment and will update this post if and when it does. The Xbox Live status page says service remains "limited," and the Playstation Network is listed as offline.

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Israelisk polis har gripit över två dussin nuvarande och tidigare tjänstemän, inklusive flera medlemmar i utrikesministern Avigdor Liebermans parti Yisrael Beiteinu, enligt en talesperson för polisen.

Israelisk polis har gripit över två dussin nuvarande och tidigare tjänstemän, inklusive flera medlemmar i utrikesministern Avigdor Liebermans parti Yisrael Beiteinu, enligt en talesperson för polisen.

Det dröjde bara några minuter innan moskén i Eskilstuna var fullständigt eldhärjad. Som tur var befann sig samtliga besökare i bönelokalen, dit elden spred sig sist. Det berättar Yuusuf Abdirashiid, som var den som först upptäckte branden. – Jag var inne i bönen när jag kände brandlukten, säger han till SvD.

Det dröjde bara några minuter innan moskén i Eskilstuna var fullständigt eldhärjad. Som tur var befann sig samtliga besökare i bönelokalen, dit elden spred sig sist. Det berättar Yuusuf Abdirashiid, som var den som först upptäckte branden. – Jag var inne i bönen när jag kände brandlukten, säger han till SvD.

En man hittades skadad i Sofielunds industriområde i Malmö på juldagskvällen. Han fördes till sjukhus med ambulans.

En man hittades skadad i Sofielunds industriområde i Malmö på juldagskvällen. Han fördes till sjukhus med ambulans.

HughPickens.com writes Kitsap Sun reports at Military.com that the USS Ranger, a 1,050-foot-long, 56,000-ton Forrestal-class aircraft carrier, is being towed from the inactive ship maintenance facility at Puget Sound for a 3,400-mile, around-Cape Horn voyage to a Texas dismantler who acquired the Vietnam-era warship for a penny for scrap metal. "Under the contract, the company will be paid $0.01. The price reflects the net price proposed by International Shipbreaking, which considered the estimated proceeds from the sale of the scrap metal to be generated from dismantling," said officials for NAVSEA. "[One cent] is the lowest price the Navy could possibly have paid the contractor for towing and dismantling the ship." The Ranger was commissioned Aug. 10, 1957, at Norfolk Naval Shipyard and decommissioned July 10, 1993, after more than 35 years of service. It was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on March 8, 2004, and redesignated for donation. After eight years on donation hold, the USS Ranger Foundation was unable to raise the funds to convert the ship into a museum or to overcome the physical obstacles of transporting the ship up the Columbia River to Fairview, Oregon. As a result, the Ranger was removed from the list of ships available for donation and designated for dismantling. The Navy, which can't retain inactive ships indefinitely, can't donate a vessel unless the application fully meets the Navy's minimum requirements. The Ranger had been in pristine condition, but for a week in August volunteers from other naval museums were allowed to remove items to improve their ships. The Ranger was in a slew of movies and television shows, including "The Six Million Dollar Man," "Flight of the Intruder" and "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" where it stood in for the USS Enterprise carrier. But the Ranger's most famous role was in the 1980's Tom Cruise hit, "Top Gun." "We would have liked to have seen it become a museum, but it just wasn't in the cards," Navy spokesman Chris Johnson told Fox. "But unfortunately, it is a difficult proposition to raise funds. The group that was going to collect donations had a $35 million budget plan but was only able to raise $100,000."

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