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Malaysian golfer attacked by crocodile. Golf is not often seen as a dangerous pastime.  But 42-year-old company director Terry Hong Kee Siong needed 38 stitches after a crocodile grabbed his leg as he was playing at Malaysia's A Famosa Resort.  Mr Hong is now suing the resort for

Websites 'failing' disabled users An investigation by the Disability Rights Commission people.  This means that many everyday activities carried out on the internet - booking a holiday, managing a bank account, buying theatre tickets or finding a cheaper credit card - are difficult or impossible for many disabled

Radar clocks Mini at Mach 3 speed A Belgium motorist was left stunned after authorities sent him a speeding ticket for travelling in his Mini at three times the speed of sound.  The ticket claimed the man had been caught driving at 3380 kph (2,100 mph) - or Mach

The BBC has some interesting figures on immigration in their Migrant World, which includes several personal stories of migration, and a decent glossary of terms .  Every once in a while it hits home that I'm not from round here, when I have to say "no tom-AY-doe please&

Top net villains and heroes named.  Verisign got the villain of the year award. Britain's net industry has named internet domain giant Verisign as its villain of the year.  It won the accolade for a system it set up that hijacked mistyped web queries and sent people to

Big Brother in Britain: Does more surveillance work?  Link from FuturePundit, who has some excellent analysis, links, and quotes about CCTV and crime.  These quotes are from the original article in the Christian Science Monitor: [Closed Circuit TV] has become popular and widespread, with the result that Britons are by

Turn off, log out, shut down. A tech veteran is boldly going where few of his friends and colleagues dare follow - he has cut his links to cyberspace and hit the road to find out more about life on the other side of the Digital Divide.  For the past

Harold Shipman is dead, he hanged himself in his cell. [Shipman] was jailed for life in January 2000 for murdering 15 patients while working in Hyde, Greater Manchester.  An official report later concluded he killed between 215 and 260 people over a 23-year period in Hyde and Todmorden, West Yorkshire.

Go Italy!  Italians urged to switch off TVs .  This is a great idea.  Could you go without TV for a weekend? Television networks in Italy are facing a nationwide weekend walkout - not by staff, but by unhappy viewers.  Instead of spending Friday, Saturday and Sunday glued to primetime TV,

Good Telegraph story about a change in UK credit card advertising: