Saturday 9 November 2013

British banking director, Mason Robert Alford, fined $4,000 for hitting cabby


Younger buyers spice up Bentley’s cars

They prefer two-door Continental coupes and convertibles in bold, bright colours

Hackers expose Asia’s weak cyber defences

A rash of website hackings in the Asia-Pacific has exposed weak cyber defences which must be improved to help the region deal with more sophisticated and sinister threats, particularly from criminal organisations, analysts said.

Friday 8 November 2013

Thursday 7 November 2013

Wednesday 6 November 2013

CIA compelled medics to torture terror suspects: independent report

Military trumped medics’ oath to be ethical and made them complicit in abuses, independent report says; CIA and Pentagon reject findings

Tuesday 5 November 2013

China's Forbidden City Built with Giant 'Sliding Stones'

The Forbidden City, the palace once home to the emperors of China, was built by workers sliding giant stones for miles on slippery paths of wet ice, researchers have found.
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