Fatal clashes at Ukrainian military base
At least one dead and 15 injured at Mariupol base as opposing factions offer conflicting accounts of events
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At least one pro-Russian protester was killed and 15 injured during clashes at a Ukrainian military base in Mariupol on Wednesday night, raising the fatality count in eastern Ukraine to at least three.
Around 500 protesters – many of them wearing the St George's ribbons used by a symbol of the anti-Kiev movement – reportedly attempted to storm a national guard base starting at 8.30pm, the Mariupol information website 0629 reported. Ukrainian soldiers inside the besieged base fired warning shots in response to explosives hurled inside the compound by the militia. Periodic shooting continued late into the night.
Earlier this week, pro-Russian protesters seized the administration building in Mariupol, an industrial city on the Azov Sea, and named a "people's mayor".
Size matters: 'Crucial' ancient Roman city Ostia was 40% bigger than previously thought, after British team uncovers new ruins
Curse of Cybersex: The Lost Children of Cebu
Cybersex is a big business in a city on the Filipino island of Cebu. To escape poverty, parents force their children to strip in front of webcams. City officials are fighting back in an attempt to prevent sexual exploitation from destroying a generation.
Behind the closed door of her office, Angeles Gairanod is sitting in front of her laptop, replaying the video that changed everything in her small city. The clip shows three girls lying naked on a bed in their hut. The girls are 11, 9 and three. What ensues is sexual abuse. Three minutes into it, their mother appears in the picture and also engages in acts of sexual abuse with her children. The video, shot in Gairanod's city, not far from her office, is three years old.
Gairanod, 53, is a petite woman with a bob hairstyle and pearl earrings, the deputy mayor of Cordova, a sleepy city on the eastern coast of the Filipino island of Cebu. The densely populated municipality of 53,000 also includes large numbers of children.
South Korean ferry: 'I think I'm going to die,' student told grandmother in phone call
April 17, 2014 - 12:01PM
Heesu Lee
Park Ji Yoon had not wanted to go on her high school's trip to the South Korean resort island of Jeju. She hated riding on ferries.
When she called the grandmother who had raised her, more than 12 hours after the ferry had departed with her and more than 300 classmates on it, the girl's voice was shaking.
The two had spoken 90 minutes earlier, said Kim Ok Young, 74. Ji Yoon said then that the ferry had not yet reached Jeju.
Internet makes global economy vulnerable to Lehman-like crash, study says
The global economy is becoming so intertwined with the Internet, and the Internet has so many interlinked vulnerabilities, that one failure could cascade into a crash, a new study suggests.
The global economy is entering phase of heightened vulnerability to digital disruption – a threat likened to the US mortgage crisis, which was largely hidden until its dramatic collapse in 2008, a new report warns.
The report suggests larger dangers are lurking beyond headlines of cyber-espionage, crime, and cyber-weapons development. For one, the fast-rising dependence on outsourcing key operations to cloud Internet Service Providers could result in cascading problems that cause a far broader or longer-lasting crash.
“The internet is highly interconnected and tightly coupled with society, meaning that (as in other such systems) a small failure or series of them in one place can cascade, producing an outsized impact elsewhere,” according to the study by the Atlantic Council, a national security think tank, and Zurich Insurance Company. “While our society’s reliance on the internet grows exponentially, our control of it only grows linearly.”
#BBCtrending: Iran execution stopped at the last minute
A series of dramatic images of a public execution in Iran, which was stopped at the last minute, are being widely shared and discussed in the country.
First the empty chair, then the crowd of assembled onlookers, and the noose hanging listlessly. The accused man, Balal, is hauled out, blindfolded, screaming for his life. As he stands beside the noose, the victim's mother slaps him on the cheek. Then she pardons him, sparing his life. Seven years earlier, Balal had killed the woman's son Abdollah in a fight. They were both 17 at the time.
This sequence of Tuesday's dramatic scenes of a last-minute pardon was captured in a photo essay (you can see the images here) and by onlookers at the scene. And it's spread like wildfire among Iranians on both Facebook and Twitter. After China, Iran has the highest number of executions of any country in the world, according to Amnesty International. Most are done by hanging, and in many cases, the execution is in public. For murder, Iran uses the qisas system within Islamic law, which roughly equates to an "eye for an eye". Only the family of the victim have the authority to issue a pardon.
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