 An attempt by four men to become the first RAF team to walk unassisted to the South Pole has been abandoned after two members suffered injuries. Warrant officer Al Sylvester, from Grimsby and based at RAF High Wycombe, and Corporal Phil Mainprize, from Scarborough, of RAF Halton, took part. Corporal Iain Kirk of RAF Kinloss in Moray and Lt Kev Scully of MOD Boscombe Down in Wiltshire also joined them. The team were 101 miles (162km) from the pole when the trek was called off. It has not yet been confirmed what the two men's injuries were or how badly they were hurt. The group had aimed to complete the mammoth 670-mile (1078km) Southern Reach expedition by Boxing Day but were forced to call it off on 23 December. ...
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 Spam surge drives net crime spree |
The tussle between computer security companies trying to protect your PC and the bad guys that try to compromise it is often characterised as an arms race. Sometimes the security companies have the upper hand as they develop and deploy novel techniques to spot and stop malicious software of all stripes. And sometimes, such as in 2006, the bad guys are on top. And nowhere has this been more apparent than in the realm of that old favourite - spam. In the closing months of 2006 spam volumes jumped enormously. According to e-mail filtering firm Postini, spam volumes increased by 73% in the three months to December. "92.6% of all e-mail messages are spam," said Dan Druker, spokesman for Postini. "That's the highest it's ever been." Other e-mail security specialists have not reported such big leaps in junk mail volumes, but all say that they are seeing more spam than ever before. ...
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| Pakistan plans border minefield |
Pakistan plans to fence and plant landmines along sections of its border with Afghanistan to stop militants, a foreign office official has said. Speaking at a press conference, Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan said the move would stop "militant activity from Pakistan inside Afghanistan". Afghanistan rejected the plan saying both countries need to tackle "terrorists in a real manner". It has long blamed Pakistan for cross-border attacks by the Taleban. Islamabad denies the charges. 'Not practical' "In keeping with our policy to prevent any militant activity from Pakistan inside Afghanistan, the Pakistan army has been tasked to work out modalities for selectively fencing and mining the Pakistan-Afghanistan border," Mr Khan said. ...
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| Parents of slain U.S. soldiers travel to Iraq |
After her son Justin was killed serving in Iraq, a grieving Jan Johnson resolved to see the place where he died and to better understand why it happened.Johnson and her husband, Joe, who also served in Iraq, were among a group of seven parents who lost children in the war who were picked to travel to northern Iraq in November as a scout team for a bigger trip next year."I wanted to go see where my son died," she said. "You hear in the news how bad Iraq is, that it isn't worth saving. ... I wanted to go find out for myself."Family members of U.S. casualties of war have made pilgrimages in the past to Vietnam and other war zones where their sons and daughters died.But the fighting in Iraq was far from over, so a similar journey seemed unlikely until a nonprofit organization called Move America Forward decided to organize a trip....
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| Cops: Man Kills Girlfriend, Her Son, Self Wishes Neighbor 'Merry Christmas' Shortly Before Calling 911 To Report 3 Dead Bodies |
Neighbors say a man who killed his girlfriend and her son before killing himself was pleasant and easygoing. Neighbors in Butler, about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh, say they didn't see it coming from 60-year-old Joel Bodley. A short time after wishing his neighbor a merry Christmas, he killed 55-year-old Debby Chuba and her 17-year-old son, Andrew. Then he called 911 and told police there were three dead bodies in his home. By the time police arrived, he'd shot himself. Autopsies are planned for all three bodies from the Christmas double murder-suicide, but police recovered a .25-caliber semiautomatic handgun they believe was the murder weapon. "It's just unbelievable," the neighbor, Kathy Kovach, told the Pittsburgh Tribune. "This is a horrible way to spend Christmas." ...
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| At Least 36 Iraqis Killed in Bombings At least 36 Iraqis killed in bombings, including 25 in coordinated Baghdad strike |
At least 36 Iraqis died Tuesday in bombings, officials said, including a coordinated strike that killed 25 in western Baghdad. Separately, the deaths of six U.S. soldiers pushed the American toll beyond the number of victims in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.The three coordinated car bombs in western Baghdad injured at least 55 people, a doctor at Yarmouk hospital, where the victims were taken, said on condition of anonymity because of safety concerns. The attacks occurred in a mixed Sunni and Shiite neighborhood.In separate attacks, a bomb exploded in a central Baghdad market, killing four people and wounding 15 others, police said. Two roadside bombs targeted an Iraqi police patrol in an eastern neighborhood of the capital, killing four policemen and injuring 12 people.In Kirkuk, 180 miles north of the Iraqi capital, another roadside bomb killed three civilians _ including an 8-year-old girl _ and wounded six other people, police said....
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