Police forces across the UK are rolling out mobile fingerprint scanners to speed up the identification of criminal suspects.
The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) said that an initial trial of the MobileID Lantern devices by 28 forces had proved highly successful by reducing the time officers spend in the station.
Twenty-five forces are rolling out the devices at present, including the Metropolitan Police, Greater Manchester Police, Thames Valley Police and the Serious and Organised Crime Agency, and more are expected to get onboard over time.
A spokesperson for the NPIA told V3 that the devices are supplied by Cogent as part of a three-year contract worth £5.7m, and that 250 units will be rolled out initially followed by a further 250 in two weeks' time.
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The decision has been made over fears that the 80-year-old tycoon would not be able to ward off attacks over avalanche of revelations about phone hacking within his UK newspaper empire.
According to the Bloomberg business news agency in the US, chief operating officer Chase Carey could take over from Murdoch at the helm of the troubled media giant, leaving Murdoch as just chairman.
Family friends said Murdoch is struggling to cope with the revelations about the phone hacking scandal.
Mechanical, without conscience and murderous: Made in the USA
A member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Iranian Majlis (Parliament), Ali Aqazadeh Dafsari, said on Tuesday that the unmanned spy plane was flying near the Fordo nuclear enrichment plant in Qom province when the IRGC's Air Defense units brought it down, Javanoline.ir reported.
The official stated that the US drone was on a mission to identify the location of the Fordo nuclear enrichment plant and gather information about the nuclear facility for the CIA, Dafsari stated.
Earlier in the day, Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast had said that the country is installing a new generation of uranium enrichment centrifuges in the country's nuclear facilities to enhance the Islamic Republic's peaceful nuclear program.
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When Rupert Murdoch appears before the parliamentary committee on 19 July 2011, here are ten questions the MPs certainly will not ask about the relationship he had with Tony Blair during the run up to the Iraq war, when Murdoch was, in the words of Blair's former press officer Lance Price, "the third most powerful figure in the Labour government", after Blair himself and Gordon Brown.
New Zealand press raises suspicions that Israeli travelers killed in Christchurch earthquake last February were secret service agents. Israeli ambassador dismisses claims as 'science fiction'.
New Zealand media outlets are reporting of claims that the Israeli travelers killed in the Christchurch earthquake last February were in fact Mossad agents. According to The Southland Times, Israeli ambassador Shemi Tzur dismissed the claims as "science fiction."
Tzur said he was "shocked and upset" that such suspicions would even arise.
Ofer Mizrahi was killed after a block of concrete collapsed on his car. Foreign reports suggest that a parcel of his effects contained several passports, possibly five or six. Ambassador Tzur confirmed that Mizrahi, 23, had more than one passport but was not aware of reports of as many as five or six.
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Ofer Mizrahi's car after quake
Ofer Mizrahi's car after quake
Tzur said he was "shocked and upset" that such suspicions would even arise.
Ofer Mizrahi was killed after a block of concrete collapsed on his car. Foreign reports suggest that a parcel of his effects contained several passports, possibly five or six. Ambassador Tzur confirmed that Mizrahi, 23, had more than one passport but was not aware of reports of as many as five or six.
With News of the World gone and BSkyB out of reach, all Rupert Murdoch has to comfort him are a few media companies..
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Bill Gates calls the vaccine-autism link "an absolute lie" and in a February CNN interview said, "the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts - you know, they, they kill children." But as we can see from the recent actions from governments who partner with his foundation to forcefully implement vaccine programs, it could very well be the other way around.
Malawi Voice recently reported that about 131 children from Nsanje were vaccinated with anti-measles at gunpoint last week. They had fled from previous vaccine mandates into nearby towns, but after officials learned they had returned, medics along with police escorts tracked the children and forced them to vaccinate.
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The Dignitי - Al Karama (Dignity - Al Karama) ship sailing off the coast of the French Mediterranean island of Corsica on June 25, 2011 to join the new pro-Palestinian aid flotilla.
The Dignitי - Al Karama (Dignity - Al Karama) ship sailing off the coast of the French Mediterranean island of Corsica on June 25, 2011 to join the new pro-Palestinian aid flotilla.
Israel Radio broadcast the military's warning to the ship, which is trying to breach Israel's blockade of the coastal strip.
This is a breaking news update. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
The Israeli military said Tuesday it has made initial contact with a ship attempting to break Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip and warned the vessel it is approaching an off-limits naval zone.
It did not say what response, if any, the activists aboard the ship gave. Activists could not be contacted.
The Israeli military has said it will stop any attempt to break the sea blockade of Gaza.
A security study, not a scandal
Here's a surprise: according to a recent sample of WiFi networks around Sydney, only 2.6 percent were operating without a password.
The Sydney Morning Herald, having seen what happens when unsecured home WiFi networks become vectors for viruses and pornography, decided to test how well householders in its home city secure their WiFi networks.
The methodology the Fairfax newspaper reports is a little vague: it says it tested networks in 20 residential locations (we don't know whether it meant apartment blocks, streets, suburbs or something else) and found unsecured networks in ten of them.
Here's a surprise: according to a recent sample of WiFi networks around Sydney, only 2.6 percent were operating without a password.
The Sydney Morning Herald, having seen what happens when unsecured home WiFi networks become vectors for viruses and pornography, decided to test how well householders in its home city secure their WiFi networks.
The methodology the Fairfax newspaper reports is a little vague: it says it tested networks in 20 residential locations (we don't know whether it meant apartment blocks, streets, suburbs or something else) and found unsecured networks in ten of them.
