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U.S. Wins Dubious 'Big Brother' Award
Privacy International named a U.S. program to fingerprint foreign visitors as the year’s most menacing project, which has been undertaken “with little or no debate or scrutiny.”
Toddlers Exposed to Daily Pesticide Threat
Research published by Friends of the Earth suggests young children could be exposed to potentially dangerous levels of pesticides from eating a single apple or pear.
Anti-terror law fails at first hurdle.
A controversial clause of the government's tough anti-terror laws passed after 9/11 was condemned yesterday after a jury acquitted the first person tried under it.
Britain facing no migrant flood
The Commons International Development Select Committee reports that the idea that Britain is facing a "tidal wave" of immigrants is a myth.
Finally an ICT Minister for Kenya.
The Kenyan government has finally appointed a information and communications minister - moving from the tradition where the ICT sector was managed under different ministries.
Global week of action against guns comes to an end.
Amnesty, Oxfam and UK gun control campaigners are taking part in the fourth annual Week of Action Against Small Arms.
Christian Aid Garden wins top prize!
The 'Seeds of Hope' garden won the Tudor Rose for best garden at the Hampton Court Flower Show. It is especially unusual for a garden featuring vegetables and raising political issues to win first prize.
"Bware, SMS unda ctrl".
Reporters Without Borders condemns China's new real-time surveillance system for SMS (mobile phone text) messages.
DRC (Disability Rights Commission) reports on how disabled people access the Internet
The report is the result of a formal investigation of 1000 websites.
European Court upholds Turkish headscarf ban.
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Turkish state universities have the right to ban the Muslim headscarf to uphold the principle of the division of religion and state.