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Google to index information to aid police to track extremist websites

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said that even despicable but legal information on Google's search engine will be indexed to help track terrorism- promoting websites. Schmidt had been asked to remove extremist websites from Google's search engines during the Hay festival, The Guardian reports. According to the report, Labour politician Paul Flynn, called on Google to prevent searches listing sites ...
Kapil Sibal highlights need for anti-fixing law

Union Law and Justice Minister Kapil Sibal on Saturday highlighted the need for a stringent anti-fixing law to tackle dishonest practices in sports. "The law ministry is in consultation with the Attorney General. The new law will not be applicable to cricket alone, but to other sports as well. The bill is still in its draft stage. I have also met Leader of Opposition Arun Jaitley and IPL chief ...
Facial recognition technology quickly identifies Boston Marathon bombing suspect

Researchers at Michigan State University including an Indian professor were able to quickly identify one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects from law enforcement video, using the latest in automatic facial recognition technology. In the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing laboratory, Anil Jain, MSU Distinguished Professor of computer science and engineering, and Josh Klontz, a research ...
Construction legal disputes most costly in Middle East

The global built asset consultancy said it has found that construction disputes in the Middle East are taking, on average, 14.6 months to be settled compared to just nine months in the previous year, an increase of 62 ...
Syrian Judges to Hold Unity Conference in Turkey

Defected Members of the Judiciary Will Plan Comprehensive Law Code For Liberated Areas Istanbul, Turkey - On May 1 and 2, 2013, the Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies (SCPSS) hosted the Syrian Expert House, a gathering of Syrian academics, human rights activists, members of the political opposition, and professionals in Istanbul, Turkey to conduct a workshop on Constitutional ...

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City Island [Blu-Ray]

The title of writer/director Raymond De Felittas City Island is taken from the name of the one-and-a-half-mile-wide island at the western end of Long Island Sound. It is officially part of the Bronx, but is very much its own insulated community, replete with names for born-there lo ... ...

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Arizona Sheriff Arpaio illegally used racial profiling judge rules

TUCSON - A federal judge has ruled that the immigration enforcement policies of the man who calls himself "America's toughest sheriff" violated the Constitution by using racial ...
Women using rape laws for vengeance Delhi high court

The government asked the Delhi High Court to initiate contempt proceedings against Idea Cellular, the chairman of the telco's parent company Kumar Mangalam Birla and five other top ...
Zimmermans lawyers say Trayvon Martin argued with friend was angry on night of shooting

George Zimmerman, defendant in the killing of Trayvon Martin, stands in the Seminole Circuit Court with his attorney Mark O'Mara for a pre-trial hearing on April 30, 2013 in Sanford, ...
1 woman dead 1 missing in San Antonio flash floods

Flash floods fueled by 10 inches of rain left one woman dead and one presumed drowned in San Antonio Saturday, and authorities urged evacuations in some areas. The San Antonio Express-News reported witnesses told police a 29-year-old woman died when she was swept away by the current after getting out of her car when it was carried off a road by a rain-swollen creek. Police Sgt. Marcial Luevano ...
Misdeeds of fired assistant city attorney included sex in La Crosse City Hall report says

A fired La Crosse assistant city attorney flubbed prosecutions, neglected cases, frittered away work time on personal business and had sex in City Hall with another employee, according to a ...

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19 injured in New Orleans Mother's Day parade shooting

Gunmen fired shots during an informal Mother's Day afternoon parade in New Orleans in Louisiana state injuring 19 people, two of them children, according to police.

The wounded in Sunday afternoon's shooting in the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana, governed by Indian-American Bobby Jindal, included 10 men and seven women as well as a boy and a girl, both 10.

Local Nola.com citing police said both the 10-year-old victims had graze wounds to the body and were in good condition. A man and a woman were reported to be in surgery Sunday evening.

Immediately after the shooting on Frenchmen Street police reported seeing three suspects running from the scene.

Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas said the three gunmen likely worked together, and at least two different weapons were used. One of the suspects is described as a man between 18 and 22 years old with short hair and wearing a white shirt and blue jeans, Serpas said.

Many of the victims were grazed, some by bullets that ricocheted. "At this point, there are no fatalities, and most of the wounds are not life-threatening," Nola.com cited spokesperson Remi Braden as saying in an email.

"But all medical conditions are not known at this time as victims were rushed to nearby hospitals," Braden said. ...