Anonymous online group 'Against the Current' exposed PA government salary hikes despite desperate financial shortfalls.

The first wave of girls are being trained at the West African country's first female football academy.

Rights groups, analysts express concern over US decision to send DHS agents to Guatemala to curb migration.

An anonymous reader shares a report: The German Federal Office for Information Security (or the Bundesamt fur Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik -- BSI) has issued security alerts today warning about dangerous backdoor malware found embedded in the firmware of at least four smartphone models sold in the country. Impacted models include the Doogee BL7000, the M-Horse Pure 1, the Keecoo P11, and the VKworld Mix Plus (malware present in the firmware, but inactive). All four are low-end Android smartphones. The BSI said the phones' firmware contained a backdoor trojan named Andr/Xgen2-CY.

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Thailand has a new civilian government headed by the man who led a military coup in 2014.

US President Donald Trump said he believes Iran wants to engage in negotiations and he is ready for talks.

Amazon's home surveillance company Ring is using video captured by its doorbell cameras in Facebook advertisements that ask users to identify and call the cops on a woman whom local police say is a suspected thief. From a report: In the video, the woman's face is clearly visible and there is no obvious criminal activity taking place. The Facebook post shows her passing between two cars. She pulls the door handle of one of the cars, but it is locked. The video freezes on a still of the woman's face from two different angles: "If you recognize this woman, please contact the Mountain View Police Department ... please share with your neighbors," text superimposed on the video says. In a post alongside the video, Ring urges residents of Mountain View, California to contact the police department if they recognize her.

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Purity is at its highest in years, as competition between dealers leads to innovations in cocaine trade, EU agency says.

Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals announced this week that the company expects to pay $15.4 million in a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department after allegations that Questcor Pharmaceuticals, which Mallinckrodt acquired in 2014, had bribed doctors and their staff to prescribe an incredibly expensive drug. From a report: Two whistleblowers came forward in April to accuse Questcor of trying to boost profits for Acthar, a medication primarily for infants with seizures. Questcor raised the price of the medication by almost 100,000 percent (not a typo) from just $40 in 2000 to $38,892 today, despite the fact that Acthar has been on the market since 1952. Mallinckrodt currently rakes in about $1 billion per year from Acthar, according to CNN.

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Dissident activist Nguyen Ngoc Anh is sentenced to six years in prison for online posts as the EU calls for his release.

The presidents of France and the United States paid tribute to American soldiers.

The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup will see fierce competition, but there is still a gap to bridge to the men's game, whose winners receive ten times more prize money.

Richard Neal says he'll introduce legislation aimed at blocking tariffs on Mexico goods if Trump acts on his threat.

GNOME MPV (now known as Celluloid) will be the default media player in Ubuntu MATE 19.10. From a report: The app supplants the versatile VLC meda player, which the MATE desktop-toting distro has shipped with following the results of a community poll back in 2017. So why the change now? Better desktop integration. That's according to Ubuntu MATE's Martin Wimpress who revealed news of the swap in the latest Ubuntu MATE monthly update on Patreon: "We will be dropping VLC from the pre-installed applications and shipping GNOME MPV instead. GNOME MPV will soon be renamed to Celluloid. The reasons for switching to GNOME MPV are similar to swapping out Thunderbird for Evolution; better desktop integration." Size is another factor. GNOME MPV takes up a comparatively svelte 27MB on the ISO image, whereas Qt5-based VLC requires closer to 70MB.

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Social Democrats adopt anti-immigrant rhetoric from the far-right to secure national election victory in Denmark.