George Clooney knows how to win over a lady's heart, and apparently he's also a master at how to earn a dog's love as well.
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Saturday, 17 December 2011
Comet defies death, brushes up to sun and lives (AP)
WASHINGTON ? A small comet survived what astronomers figured would be a sure death when it danced uncomfortably close to the broiling sun Thursday night.
Comet Lovejoy was only discovered a couple of weeks ago. It was supposed to melt as it came so close to the sun that the temperatures would hit several million degrees.
But astronomers watching live with NASA telescopes were shocked when a bright spot emerged on the sun's other side. Lovejoy lived.
The comet came within 75,000 miles of the sun. For a small object often described as a dirty snowball, that brush with the sun should have been fatal.
Astronomers say it probably wasn't deadly because the comet was larger than they thought.
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Friday, 16 December 2011
Stolen iPhone? Your iMessages May Still Be Going To The Wrong Place
Some unlucky iPhone owners are beginning to discover that, despite their best efforts to remove all information from their stolen phones, thieves and unsuspecting buyers are still able to send and receive iMessages as the original owner ? even after the device is registered under a new account.
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French ex-president Chirac convicted in graft trial (Reuters)
PARIS (Reuters) ? A judge found former French president Jacques Chirac guilty on Thursday of misusing public funds, making him the country's first head of state to be convicted since Nazi collaborator Marshal Philippe Petain in 1945.
Chirac, 79, was absent from the court as the judge declared him guilty of knowingly operating a system that diverted about 1.4 million euros of Paris City Hall funds for political purposes when he was mayor of the French capital.
The judge handed down a suspended two-year jail sentence on Chirac, who was president from 1995 until 2007 and suffers from neurological problems, according to his doctors.
Lawyers who had sought a conviction said the verdict on Chirac served as a reminder to France's ruling class that politicians could not abuse their position with impunity.
Chirac was tried on charges of channeling public money into phantom jobs for political cronies when he was mayor of Paris between 1977 and 1995, a time when he built a new centre-right Gaullist party that launched his bid to become president.
Chirac, excused from much of the proceedings on the grounds of a failing memory, could in theory have been sent to jail for 10 years, the maximum sentence for the charges against him.
Chirac's lawyer, Georges Kiejman, told reporters that he would talk to his client before deciding later in the day whether to make an appeal.
"The verdict may look severe but it is worth noting that the court acted with a large measure of moderation, highlighting the personal qualities of president Chirac, how old the events in question were and the role he played in reorganizing how political parties are funded," Kiijman said.
Jerome Karsenti, a lawyer for an anti-corruption association that sought a conviction, said Thursday's ruling was "historic and exemplary."
"We've seen a strong message delivered today: politicians can no longer do as they please when in charge of public administrations," he told reporters outside the court.
The case came to a head after 13 years of wrangling over allegations that 28 of Chirac's cronies were on the Paris payroll from 1992 to 1995 but did not work for the city.
END OF IMMUNITY
Chirac benefited from immunity from prosecution while head of state, and for some time afterwards it was unclear whether he would be hauled before a court, let alone convicted.
Paris City Hall pulled out as a plaintiff earlier this year after Chirac agreed to a compensation deal worth 2.2 million euros, with 500,000 euros to be paid by himself and the rest by France's ruling UMP party on his behalf.
The public prosecution service, which answers to the justice ministry, had recommended an acquittal, and many people believed
the verdict read out by judge Dominique Pauthe would follow that advice.
Seven of nine other people tried along with Chirac were also found guilty, among them Jean de Gaulle, grandson of President Charles de Gaulle, and Marc Blondel, a former trade union leader famous for his love of giant cigars.
Less than five months before a presidential election, the opposition Socialist Party said the verdict vindicated its call for repeal of the rule giving heads of state judicial immunity while they are in office.
Close to tears at the courthouse, Chirac's adopted daughter Anh Dao Traxel said the verdict was overly harsh, adding: "For the family, this brings great sorrow."
(Reporting by Thierry Leveque and; Brian Love, editing by David Stamp)
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Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Gulf spill evidence 'destroyed'
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Gulf spill evidence 'destroyed'Oil giant BP accuses services firm Halliburton of destroying evidence relating to the oil well blast that caused America's worst offshore oil spill.
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Android Market App reviews now include permalinks and device details
Let's face it, while app reviews in the Android Market might be helpful to developers and potential customers for finding out some of the best and worst features of the current release of an app, they haven't been altogether too informative, and could be skewed to show the app as being worst/better than it really is. Old reviews can still weigh heavily on the user's choice, especially if those reviews mention glaring bugs that had been fixed in recent updates or that were only present on older Android phones. Also frustrating is when developers see a review with good feedback that they would like to save/share later, only for it to get lost in the thousands of other reviews for that same app - going back in to find it later is like trying to find a specific needle in a pile of other similarly formatted needles.
The web version (not on your devices yet) of Android Market has solved those two concerns with a simple and effective update. Users can now see the type of device that the reviewer was using the app on (such as the LG Optimus 2X in Juan's review above) and the version number of the app that they were reviewing (version 2.9, again, in the screenshot above).
On top of that, developers (and anyone for that matter) can now grab the permalink to individual reviews for sharing or reading later. To the right of every reviewer's nametag and device info you will see the universal symbol for "link". Click that icon and the page will reload with that review on top and a fresh URL that you can send anywhere.
In the future it would be nice to sort reviews by specific devices or app versions being used, rather than asking us to browse through or link them all individually (it would also be great if they reproduced this in the mobile app soon), but for now this update is a welcome change.
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