| FBI and UK police planning global suspect database
British police are in talks with the FBI about setting up an international database with details of irises, palms and fingerprints to help catch criminals and terrorists, it has been revealed. The project, known as Server in the Sky, would enable biometric details and measurements as well as personal information of suspects to be swapped between countries. It is being coordinated by America but discussions are being held with the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand all of which have formed a working group, the International Information Consortium, to plan their strategy. .
United Kingdom: Queen's New Year Honours List 2008
ASHWORTH, Dr. John Michael. For public service. BELL, Professor John Irving, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford and President, Academy of Medical Sciences. For services to Medicine. GOOD, John James Griffen, C.B.E., Chair, Edrington Group. For services to Industry in Scotland. HAREN, Dr. Patrick Hugh, Deputy Chairman, Viridian Group Ltd. For services to the Electricity Industry in Northern Ireland. HARRIS, Michael Frank, lately President, Social Security and Child Support Appeals Tribunal and Circuit Judge. For public service. JOWELL, Professor Roger Mark, C.B.E., Co-Founder and Director, European Social Survey and Research Professor, City University. For services to Social Science. KENYON, Nicholas Roger, C.B.E., Managing Director, Barbican Centre and lately Director, BBC Proms.
Zune.net Visits Jump 299 Percent on Christmas Day(Graphic: Business ...
Amazon.com was the most visited website within the Retail Index last week, receiving 12 percent of U.S. visits. Walmart.com received the second-most visits with eight percent. Shopping.com, Dell.com and Macy's.com were the biggest gainers for the week, as their website's traffic increased 34, 18 and 18 percent respectively, compared to the previous week. -- The Nintendo Nintendo Wii Console with Wii Sports
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Stevens Partners with Alcatel-Lucent in University Innovations Program
HOBOKEN, N.J., Oct. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Stevens Institute of Technology has partnered with Alcatel-Lucent in its creation of a program to team with leading American universities on the research, development and testing of new ultra-high bandwidth applications for fixed and mobile networks. Alcatel-Lucent on Wednesday, at the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment trade show in San Francisco, announced the creation of a program to team with leading American universities on the research, development and testing of new ultra-high bandwidth applications for fixed and mobile networks. The Alcatel-Lucent University Innovations Program is intended to help build a vision of future advanced applications and services for consumers, educational and non-profit institutions, and businesses.
Obama's mom: Not just a girl from Kansas
The lure was the high school that had just opened and the opportunity it offered for their daughter, who was then 13.
Stanley Dunham died in 1992, and the Obama campaign declined to make Madelyn Dunham, 84, available.
But interviews with their friends from Kansas, now in their mid-to-late 80s, and interviews with their daughter's former classmates and teachers, now in their mid-60s or older, paint a vivid portrait of Barack Obama's mother as a self-assured, iconoclastic young teen seemingly hell-bent to resist Eisenhower-era conformity.
Boyish-looking, Stanley Ann was prone to rolling her eyes when she heard something she didn't agree with. She didn't like her nose, she worried about her weight, she complained about her parents -- especially her domineering father.
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