Chen Fuchao, a man heavily in debt, had been contemplating suicide on a bridge in southern China for hours when a passer-by came up, shook his hand — and pushed him off the ledge.  

In a shift of policy, the United States State Department is to offer equal benefits and protections to same-sex partners of American diplomats. The New York Times reports that the change has been been spelled out in an internal memorandum from the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, sent last week to an association of gay [...]

  The FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service were forced to shut down parts of their computer networks after a mystery virus struck the law-enforcement agencies Thursday.

Actually Rembert G Weakland said We all considered sexual abuse of minors as a moral evil, but had no understanding of its criminal nature. … Accepted naively the common view that it was not necessary to worry about the effects on the youngsters: either they would not remember or they would ‘grow out of it’. [...]

And damn thats a hard thing to do NO! Oh god no! It’s gotten to the point where distopian films or novels (1984, Minotity Report) have become blatant guide books for what the higher eschelon is aiming for. For more information read here.

A Darwin man has been fined $1400 and had his licence disqualified for six months after being caught drink-driving while having sex. The Darwin Magistrates Court heard that a ute being driven by 33-year-old builder Bradley Dean Milne was seen by another driver veering onto the wrong side of a busy Darwin road one afternoon [...]

The US Air Force has shot down fears that the space-based Global Positioning System (GPS) is going to crash. A possible disruption in GPS service, relied upon by the US military as well as millions of drivers around the world as a navigation device, was raised in a recent report by the Government Accountability Office [...]

Human warriors have long spoken of the bonds forged in combat and of becoming a “band of brothers.” The fact that some of those fellow soldiers are made of metal has not discouraged human feelings toward them. Thousands of robots now fight with humans on modern battlefields that resemble scenes from science fiction movies such [...]