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A suspect is in custody after five young people - four males and one female in their teens to 20s - died following early-morning stabbings in northwest Calgary.
The stabbings happened around 1:20 a.m. MT on Tuesday at an address in the 100 block of Butler Crescent N.W., police said.
Five people - four males and one female - are dead after a house party in Calgary's northwest. A neighbour says the university-aged people had a BBQ earlier in the day to celebrate the last day of classes.
But instead of disciplining the bullies, school officials called police on him, threatening to have him arrested for felony wiretapping.
By the time the cops arrived at South Fayette High School in McDonald, school administrators had already forced the 15-year-old boy to delete the audio clip.
So police charged him with disorderly conduct instead, a charge he was convicted of last month.
Meanwhile, the bullies and the teacher who allowed the bullying - not to mention the administrators who intimidated him into deleting the audio - have yet to be disciplined.
Here's hoping karma catches up to all of them, including Judge Maureen McGraw-Desmet, who convicted the child because, she said, he went to the "extreme" of recording the bullying rather than "let the school handle it."
Czech police have contacted the mystery man's parents a day after Norwegian officers released his photograph to the public.
"We were informed ... through Interpol that the Czech police had identified the man," said Oeyvind Torgersen from Oslo police.
"The Czech police went to his parents ... We know his identity."
Police have been referring to the man - who is aged in his early 20s - as "John Smith".
Despite the positive identification, Mr Torgersen did not reveal the man's real name.
The man, who speaks five languages, was discovered in last December and told police he had no memory of his identity.
He claims to have no idea how he came to be in Oslo. Nor does he know how he learned to speak five languages, including English with a heavy Slavic accent.
The court temporarily adjourned late in the morning after the double-amputee runner started to sob while testifying about the moments before he killed Steenkamp in his home in the early hours of Feb. 14, 2013. Chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel had asked him what exactly he shouted as he moved toward the bathroom where he shot Steenkamp, who was behind a closed door in the toilet cubicle.
Pistorius said he thought there was an intruder in the house. After a long pause after the question, he said he screamed, using an expletive, for the purported intruder to get out of his house. As he testified, Pistorius began to wail and Judge Thokozile Masipa called an adjournment. Just over an hour later and after court resumed, Pistorius again broke down when replying to a question on why he had opened fire, causing a second adjournment.
The prosecution has said Pistorius' account of a mistaken shooting is a lie. Nel opened the fourth day of cross-examination by alleging that Pistorius had "concocted" his account of the shooting.
© AFP PHOTO , XAVIER LEOTYThe departemental director of public safety, Olivier Le Gouestre, shows the DNA kit during a press conference at La Rochelle tribunal, western France, on April 14, 2014
Testing began Monday at Fenelon-Notre Dame high school in western France. All those who received summonses last week were warned that any refusal could land them in police custody, and no one rejected the sweeping request to test the high school's male population.
The testing of students, faculty and staff at the school is expected to last through Wednesday, with 40 DNA swabs recovered inside two large study halls. Prosecutor Isabelle Pagenelle said investigators had exhausted all other leads in the Sept. 30 rape of the girl in a dark bathroom at the school.
"The choice is simple for me," she said. "Either I file it away and wait for a match in what could be several years, or I go looking for the match myself."
© Oslo Police36-year-old Mihal
"I'm waiting for my passport and I'm booking the flights," the father identified only as 74-year-old Vladislav P. told the tabloid daily Blesk.
"A legal expert and interpreter will go with us," he added.
The amnesiac, whose first name is Michal according to Blesk, was found half-unconscious in the snow near a carwash on December 14th in the Norwegian capital.
Dubbed "John Smith" at the time, he said he did not remember who he was or how he ended up in Norway, but that he did not think he travelled there by choice and was not prepared to return to his country.
© Photograph: AFP/Getty ImagesThe Guardian revealed the NSA's bulk collection of phone records 10 months ago based on Edward Snowden's leaks
The award, announced in New York on Monday, comes 10 months after the Guardian published the first report based on the leaks from Snowden, revealing the agency's bulk collection of US citizens' phone records.
In the series of articles that ensued, teams of journalists at the Guardian and the Washington Post published the most substantial disclosures of US government secrets since the Pentagon Papers on the Vietnam war in 1971.
© tsarov.com.uaOleg Tsarev
Oleg Tsarev was attacked by radicals after being trapped inside the ICTV media building following his appearance on the show, according to the statement released by Tsarev's office.
"It was with great difficulty that government's security forces were able to recapture Oleg Tsarev from the angry mob. He was severely beaten and is in serious condition," the press office said.
The video embedded below shows the scene of the alleged mob attack, although Tsarev himself is not visible through the crowd.
Earlier, there were reports of the entire building being surrounded by unidentified gunmen with Tsarev trapped inside and his car attacked, including slashed tires.
Comment: That the West keeps silent about the fascist attacks and violence in Ukraine and the role that the Nazis have in the illegitimate government of Ukraine is tantamount to tacit support for these groups.
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More than a thousand Swedish shoppers have signed up to make payments with a swipe of their hand, paying at machines in Lund that scan the unique pattern of their veins.
Hand scanning has become an alternative payment method for people in a city in southern Sweden, researchers at Lund University said Monday.
Vein scanning terminals have been installed in 15 shops and restaurants in Lund thanks to an engineering student who came up with the idea two years ago while waiting in line to pay. Some 1,600 people have signed up already for the system, which its creator says is not only faster but also safer than traditional payment methods.
"Every individual's vein pattern is completely unique, so there really is no way of committing fraud with this system," researcher Fredrik Leifland said in a statement. "You always need your hand scanned for a payment to go through."
While vein scanning technology existed previously, it has not been used as a form of payment before.
Comment: Last week 14 people were hurt in a Texas college stabbing spree. Two days ago there was another mass shooting. Back in 2010 there was a very odd rash of stabbings Things are heating up, the social and psychological pressure in a world severely out of balance because of the influence of psychopaths in power is proving too much for some people. Things can only get worse.