15:38:03 EDT Aug 7, 2006
Canadian Press LONDON (AP) - Katy Tanner's cellphone beeped with a startling message: you're fired.
Tanner, 21, had a migraine headache and took a sick day last week from her job at Blue Banana, a chain body-piercing studio in Cardiff, Wales, she said Monday. She turned on her cellphone the next day to discover she'd been terminated from her sales position. "We've reviewed your sales figures and they're not really up to the level we need," shop manager Alex Barlett wrote in the message. "As a result, we will not require your services any more. Thank you for your time with us." |
SEOUL, Aug 7, 2006 (AFP)
South Korean police said Monday they wanted to interview a French woman following the discovery of two dead babies inside a freezer here.
The woman's 40-year-old French businessman husband found the bodies in a freezer at home on July 23, when he temporarily returned alone from a month-long family vacation in France, police said. |
By RIA Novosti
Aug 8, 2006 MOSCOW, August 5 -- Russia's Defense Ministry said Saturday U.S. sanctions against two Russian state-owned companies were linked with their contracts with Venezuela.
The U.S. State Department announced Friday the introduction of sanctions against Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport and state-owned aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi over their cooperation with Iran. A high-ranking official in the Defense Ministry said, "Obviously, this decision is a reaction to recent successes of our companies in concluding beneficial contracts on arms supplies to Venezuela." |
Created: 07.08.2006 15:50 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 16:24 MSK
MosNews The newly imposed U.S. sanctions against Rosoboronexport will not affect the company's work, the general director of the Russian state arms exporter is quoted by RIA Novosti news agency as saying Monday.
The U.S. State Department announced Friday the introduction of two-year sanctions against Rosoboronexport and state-owned aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi over their cooperation with Iran. "The sanctions will affect Rosoboronexport in no way as we have no contracts with the U.S. on arms supplies or purchases of any weapons by the United States," Sergei Chemezov said. |
BBC News
08/08/06 Internet giant AOL has apologised for releasing the search queries of more than 650,000 of its US subscribers.
The company admitted the release to researchers was "a screw up" and had breached the privacy of its users. AOL said it was an "innocent attempt to reach out to the academic community with research tools". Although users' names were not associated with the search terms, fears were raised that the queries may contain personally identifiable data. |
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