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The latest Internet hoax has Volkswagen officials threatening legal action against a pair of British ad men. Volkswagen denies it sanctioned a video circulating on the Internet that depicts a suicide bomber in one of their cars. The video shows a man dressed in camouflage and a black and white checkered kaffiyeh, like the one worn by Yassar Arafat, leaving a building and getting into a VW Polo. The polo is a much-smaller version of the VW Golf sold in the United States. The man parks the car in front of an outdoor cafe packed with people. The ad then shows the man pushing what appears to be a detonator....

Five Palestinians were killed Wedneday in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Israeli occupation soldiers on Wednesday shot and killed a three-year-old girl inside her home in central Gaza Strip, eyewitnesses and medical sources said. Rahma Ibrahim Abu Shamas reportedly was inside her home in Deir al Balah in central Gaza Strip when a bullet struck her in the head, killing her instantly. Palestinian woman Palestinian sources said Israeli soldiers manning an army watchtower at the nearby settlement of Kfar Dorom opened machinegun fire randomly on Palestinian homes around sunrise Wednesday. PA security...

Ted Turner called Fox a propaganda tool of the Bush administration and indirectly compared Fox News Channel’s popularity to Adolf Hitler’s popular election to run Germany before World War II. Turner made those fiery comments in his first address at the National Association for Television Programming Executives’ conference since he was ousted from Time Warner Inc. five years ago. The 66-year-old billionaire, who leveraged a television station in Atlanta into a media empire, made the comment before a standing-room-only crowd at NATPE’s opening session Tuesday. His no-nonsense,...

Despite Bush’s endless hypocritical assertions about how we have brought freedom to Iraq, the truth is that almost all of the people in that country who have managed to survive the military attacks, have lost loved ones and had their lives ruined. Iraqis have been telling us to leave ever since we arrived. They want to run their own country and they want an end to the torture and killing. They’re willing to take the risk of believing their lives will be better without the involvement of the US. An anonymous Iraqi woman edits the blog “Baghdad Burning,” subtitled “Girl...

“HP has received a patent on technology that would allow anyone who didn’t want their picture taken to remotely instruct cameras to blur their face. While this is being promoted as a privacy measure, does anyone else see the serious rights issues here? What’s to prevent this being used by police to block their images when they’re beating or otherwise mistreating people? If this tech can be used to blur faces, it can be quite easily adapted to turn cameras off altogether, with deeply troubling implications. And even without these ‘what if’ scenarios, isn’t...

The Chinese government on Wednesday issued a list of 50 banned video and computer games, according to government news agency Xinhua. The list is roughly split between pirated games and games banned based on content. Pirated games cited by the news agency included “The Sims 2,” the top-selling PC game in North America last year, and soccer game “FIFA 2005.” The remainder of the games were termed by Xinhua “illegally distributed foreign games,” presumably for content. The list includes several games based on the Vietnam War, including “Conflict Vietnam”...

Sometimes going undercover in Texas means no cover at all. Houston police, long thwarted in their campaign against prostitution by an internal policy that barred officers from removing their clothes, have reaped results by shedding that unwritten rule. The change in tactics that allows vice squad officers to undress in pursuit of evidence is part of a crackdown on suspected brothels that advertise themselves as day spas, lingerie modeling studios, massage parlors and “stress relief clinics.” Two investigations using the new rules have resulted in organized crime charges against six...