It’s all over for Iron Mike?! The BBC reports: Former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson said he will quit boxing after losing to Irish journeyman Kevin McBride in Washington on Saturday. Tyson looked far from comfortable during his fight which many expected him to win, and referee Joe Cortez stopped the fight before round seven. McBride, from Monaghan, was awarded the bout on a technical knockout. "I’m not going to fight again. I haven’t got the fighting guts or the heart any more," said the 38-year-old. Tyson, who has a record of 50 wins, including 44...

Contractors say they were treated like insurgents Jamie Wilson in WashingtonThursday June 9, 2005The Guardian [ here ] A group of American security guards in Iraq have alleged they were beaten, stripped and threatened with a snarling dog by US marines when they were detained after an alleged shooting incident outside Falluja last month.    If they’re not beating up Iraqi’s – they’re beating up everyone else. Pathetic abuse of power which they don’t deserve!

Yahoo! News  Get ready to toast your Flaming Moes to some excellent news. The Simpsons movie is off the drawing board and in preproduction. "You know what? We’ve just done the table read for The Simpsons movie, so although we’ve been promoting that we’re going to do it, now we’re actually doing it and are in production," Nancy Cartwright, who gives voice to Bart Simpson, told BBC Radio 1 this week. Cartwright, in London doing publicity for her one-woman show, My Life as a Ten-Year-Old Boy, indicated that the movie is still in the preliminary script...

Japan has taken a step into the science-fiction world with the release of a "robot suit" that can help workers lift heavy loads or assist people with disabilities climb stairs. "Humans may be able to mutate into supermen in the near future," said Yoshiyuki Sankai, professor and engineer at Tsukuba University who led the project. The 15-kilogram (33-pound) battery-powered suit, code-named HAL-5, detects muscle movements through electrical-signal flows on the skin surface and then amplifies them. It can also move on its own accord, enabling it to help elderly or handicapped...

Just found this article on the BBC news site: A Shanghai online gamer has been given a suspended death sentence for killing a fellow gamer. Qui Chengwei stabbed Zhu Caoyuan in the chest when he found out he had sold his virtual sword for 7,200 Yuan (£473). The sword, which Mr Qui had lent to Mr Zhu, was won in the popular online game Legend of Mir 3. Attempts to take the dispute to the police failed because there is currently no law in China to protect virtual property. Appeal plea Buying and selling gaming artefacts such as imaginary weapons is a booming business on the web. ...

Earlier this week, Rambus filed suit manufacturers it has originally filed suit against, claiming that Samsung’s SDRAM, against one of its oldest partners, Samsung, who was one of the first licensees of the company’s RDRAM. Rambus has essentially added Samsung to the list of memoryDDR RAM, GDDR2, and GDDR3 memory products violate Rambus patents. The weird part is that Samsung originally had a license from Rambus to produce these products: Under the terms of that agreement, the company was obliged to pay Rambus royalties unless a court invalidated the patents, according to now former...

Do the people of Iraq have the right to defend themselves against violent foreign invasion and occupation by any means at their disposal against an aggressive and rapacious enemy enjoying overwhelming military superiority?  This is a right Americans unquestionably would invoke were their country invaded and occupied by a foreign power. They would take whatever measures were necessary to defeat the enemy and force it to withdraw.  The United States government supports this position and recognizes its validity in relation to all other nations invaded by foreign aggressors–except...

Amnesty International USA urged foreign governments Wednesday to use international law to investigate Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other alleged American "architects of torture" at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and other prisons where detainees suspected of ties to terrorist groups have been interrogated. Watch the video here or read the transcript here: (more…)