 A suicide car bomber rammed into a crowded market in northern Iraq moments after a booby-trapped vehicle exploded Saturday, killing at least nine people and injuring 60, police said.The back-to-back blasts in the oil hub of Kirkuk contrasted with a lull in major violence in Baghdad as U.S. and Iraqi forces try to regain control from gangs and militias in the capital.Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced stop in Baghdad before heading for scheduled talks in Israel. She is the highest-level Washington official to visit Iraq since last month's announcement of the coordinated sweep against militant factions."If in fact militias decide to stand down and stop killing innocent Iraqis ... that can't be a bad thing," Rice told reporters traveling with her....
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 Home network security scrutinised |
Home computer users who leave default passwords on network hardware unchanged could be at risk from attack say security experts. Researchers created an attack that surreptitiously redirects a user to nefarious sites once they have visited a booby-trapped webpage. The attack works by re-writing the address book in network hardware to point victims to the scam sites. About 50% of users leave default passwords unchanged, suggests research. The theoretical attack was explored in a paper written by researchers from the University of Indiana and security firm Symantec. In the paper the authors detail how to compromise the routers many people use to share broadband connections between machines in their home. ...
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| Security high for Rio revellers |
The self-proclaimed "greatest party on Earth" has begun in Brazil as the country celebrates its annual carnival. Tens of thousands of people took to the street of Rio de Janeiro on Friday night as the revelry got under way. However security was tight after some shocking examples of violent crime recently, a BBC correspondent says. Thousands of extra police officers are on duty in Rio, some occupying hillside favellas or shanty towns, others patrolling tourist areas. The city has seen some horrific violence in recent weeks, including the killing on Tuesday of a leading member of one of the city's samba schools. Mayor Cesar Maia kicked off the celebrations by handing the key of the city to the carnival king, known as Rei Momo, at a ceremony outside the city hall. Asked if he thought the recent violence would spoil the carnival atmosphere, Mr Maia said: ...
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| Car bomb blast kills nine as Rice visits Iraq |
A suicide car bomber rammed into a crowded market in northern Iraq moments after a booby-trapped vehicle exploded Saturday, killing at least nine people and injuring 60, police said. The back-to-back blasts in the oil hub of Kirkuk broke a brief lull in major violence around the country as U.S. and Iraqi forces try to regain control of Baghdad and other key areas from gangs and militias. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced stop in Baghdad before heading for scheduled talks in Israel. She is the highest-level Washington official to visit Iraq since last month’s announcement of a coordinated sweep against militant factions. “If in fact militias decide to stand down and stop killing innocent Iraqis ... that can’t be a bad thing,” Rice told reporters traveling with her. “But how the Iraqis use the breathing space that that might provide is what’s really important” she said before meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki....
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Editor - 08:10:00 02-17-07
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| Pennsylvania House Fire Kills Six Children, 26-Year-Old |
Fire swept through a house in southwestern Pennsylvania early Saturday, killing six young children and a woman and injuring one other person, state police said.The fire broke out shortly before 3:30 a.m. and several people in the house were able to escape, state Trooper Brian Burden said. Police said the young victims were four girls ages 4, 9, 7 and 10, and two boys ages 2 and 3. Authorities had not determined the relationship between the children and the woman, who was 26.Another adult was flown to a Pittsburgh hospital, Burden said.Police found multiple heating sources inside the home, but could not immediately determine what caused the blaze, he said....
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,252579,00.html
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| Airborne planes' windshields crack in blustery cold |
Airlines were investigating why windshields on at least 13 planes cracked at Denver International Airport as winds of up to 100 mph whipped through the foothills in Colorado. eanwhile, at least three people in Iowa died Friday night when a Cessna twin-engine airplane crashed during a snow storm in a field southeast of the Council Bluffs airport, officials said. The names of the victims have not been released, and it's possible there is a fourth victim, said Tony Molinaro, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Chicago. According to the National Weather Service, a fast-moving winter storm was pushing through the area when the plane went down, bringing wind gusts of up to 53 mph, snow and poor visibility. Officials could not say what caused the crash and did not know if weather was a factor....
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