The Indian government will shut down the country's 160-year old telegraph service in mid-July. The decision risks leaving lawyers, soldiers and government officials without a trusty communication tool. BSNL, a government-run company, will deliver its last telegram on July 14, according to a company letter sent by Shameem Akhtar, senior general manager of telegraph services. The telegraph system p...
The Republican-controlled House passed legislation Tuesday that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, offering social conservatives a symbolic victory even as the bill is all but certain not to become law.The vote was 228-196, with six Democrats and all but six Republicans voting for the measure.But the legislation, sponsored by Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona, has virtually no chance of b...
The American Medical Association officially designated obesity as a disease on Tuesday a disease that requires medical treatment and prevention.The organization doesnt have any kind of official say in the matter, but its influential nonetheless, and the vote of the AMAs policy-making House of Delegates is one more step in the evolution of social attitudes towards obesity.Recognizing obesity ...
A man was arraigned on indictment for murder on Monday by a California grand jury for throwing his ex-wife over the side of a cruise ship, according to the Orange County District Attorney.The indictment against Lonnie Loren Kocontes, 55, includes one felony count of murder for financial gain.Prosecutors said that that Kocontes and his ex-wife, Micki Kanesaki, divorced in 2001 but lived together on...
FORT MEADE, Md. - The court-martial of the U.S. soldier accused of providing reams of classified documents to WikiLeaks in a case illustrating the challenge of keeping secrets in the digital age must decide whether tweets and Web pages can be admitted as evidence.Lawyers for Private First Class Bradley Manning, 25, who is accused of providing more than 700,000 files to the anti-secrecy websit...
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