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www.businessweek.com Promontory Financial Group will conduct a forensic review and screen the Vatican Bank's client relationships—which some say might be "irreformable"
www.gov.uk Rothschild will provide expert financial advice on the case for transferring some of RBS’s troubled assets into a so-called ‘bad bank’
aje.me US State Department budgets $630,000 for Facebook likes.
www.aljazeera.com A hidden microphone is found in the ambassador's office, during routine security search, Ecuador foreign minister says.
laughingsquid.com Yelp has launched Yelp Wordmap, which displays the prevalence of certain Yelp review keywords as heat map overlays on 14 cities around the world.
www.independent.co.uk The word “s***storm” has officially been entered into Duden, the German standard lexicon and their equivalent of the Oxford English Dictionary.
rt.com After departing from Russia the plane of Bolivian President Evo Morales was forced to landing in Austria Wednesday morning over suspicions that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was on board, a claim Bolivian authorities denied.
www.bbc.co.uk Some 500 tonnes of fish wash up on the banks of a Mexican reservoir, reportedly killed after a factory poured molasses into the water.
www.huffingtonpost.com Philippine slum dwellers hurling rocks, improvised explosives and human excrement fought running battles with riot police Monday around a sprawling Manila shanty town that is set for redevelopment, an AFP photographer saw.Police...
www.bbc.co.uk The director and deputy director of the Vatican bank resign following the arrest of a senior Italian cleric over corruption and fraud allegations.
en.aswatmasriya.com CAIRO, July 1 (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces arrested 15 armed bodyguards of senior Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat El-Shater on Monday after an exchange of fire in which no one was injured, security sources said.
www.ijreview.com Should the FBI be tracking potential five-year old shooters?
online.wsj.com Ally Financial Inc.'s mortgage subsidiary, Residential Capital LLC, received court approval to set aside $230 million to be distributed to borrowers who may have been improperly foreclosed upon under a tentative settlement reached with...
worldnews.nbcnews.com CAIRO - Egypt’s military ordered President Mohammed Morsi's government to meet with opposition leaders within 48 hours on Monday after 16 people were killed during mass protests demanding the Islamist politician's resignation. In...
www.kob.com "How to kill somebody"--that's the search term a forensic computer analyst said he found on a laptop owned by former Albuquerque police officer Levi Chavez and his dead wife, Tera.
grist.org It makes at least as much sense as burying a person in the ground and putting a stone on top.
www.nytimes.com CAIRO — Egypt’s armed forces threatened on Monday to intervene in the country’s increasingly violent political crisis, warning President Mohamed Morsi and other politicians that they had 48 hours to respond to an outpouring of popular...
www.theonion.com ATLANTA—One year into its founding as the purported “bold next step in education reform,” administrators on Monday sang the praises of Forest Gates Academy, a progressive new charter school that practices an innovative philosophy of not...
www.social-engineer.org This year the Social-Engineer Team has invited Apollo Robbins in to the SECTF room to do a little show and be part of our podcast. Ok, are you as excited as us?
www.guardian.co.uk Newly published top-secret documents detail how NSA interfaces with tech giants such as Google, Apple and Microsoft
www.independent.co.uk Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s office said it was preparing to bring charges against British and US intelligence today amid fresh allegations that the services spied far more extensively than thought on German phone and internet...
web.mit.edu New self-assembling photovoltaic technology can keep repairing itself to avoid any loss in performance.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk A convicted paedophile priest has claimed an underage prostitution ring has been operating within the Catholic Church, with clergymen hiring rent-boys for sex inside holy buildings.
www.geekosystem.com On Wednesday last week, June 19th, a well-known Japanese prep school fell siege to devastating amounts of negative psychic energy. No, that's not the plot of a Mahou Shoujo manga -- that's a thing that actually happened at Kamigori...
www.npr.org Ecuador issued extradition requests for two bankers they allege embezzled money from a government bailout. They keep referring to that request in relation the Edward Snowden case.
