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Main StoriesCurrent BBC Headlines Pakistan kidnap father returns to UK  The father of a British boy kidnapped in Pakistan returns to the UK against the wishes of the country's police, the BBC learns. Economic storm not over, says PM Gordon Brown warns of economic storms ahead but vows not to "let you down" as the date of the Budget is announced. Berezovsky wins poison libel case Russian Oligarch Boris Berezovsky wins a libel case over claims he was behind the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. Rapist father review findings due The results of a serious case review into how a man could father nine children by raping his daughters are being released. US 'hid terror suspect treatment' A former head of MI5 says she did not know US intelligence services were mistreating terror suspects until after she retired. The Register Headlines Saviour likely for titsup training firm h4>Advent students still waiting for a saviour/h4>p>Administrators for Advent Computer Training, and its sister school for plumbers, believe they have found buyers for the company.…/p> Government spends £11k on ID card 'branding' h4>£1m spent on advertising, no public relations/h4>p>The government still seems to be shying away from spending too much money advertising its ID card and National ID Register schemes.…/p>p>a href="http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/697/wp01-webthreats-080303-uk.pdf?td=rss">Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work/a>/p> 'Phantom Eye' hydrogen strato-spy drone starts building h4>Cruises 12 miles up on pair of Ford car engines/h4>p>Global arms'n'aerospace behemoth Boeing says it will now begin work in earnest on its "Phantom Eye" high-altitude hydrogen spy drone, powered by apair of modified Ford car engines.…/p>p>a href="http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/814/oracle-814.pdf?td=rss">What is your recession sales strategy?/a>/p> UK plastic fraud losses fall for first time in 3 years h4>Online banking losses up though/h4>p>A rise in online banking fraud losses took some of the shine off the overall fall in debit and credit fraud in the UK last year.…/p>p>a href="http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/859/atth0s1n.pdf?td=rss">The power of collaboration within unified communications/a>/p> Mozilla Jetpack flies out of laboratory into loving arms of Firefox h4>SDK lands with a bump/h4>p>Mozilla has promoted its web extensions prototype package - Jetpack - by pushing it upstairs and readying it for production with its Firefox browser.…/p>p>a href="http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/814/oracle-814.pdf?td=rss">What is your recession sales strategy?/a>/p> space news from spacetoday.net SpaceX test firing aborted A planned test firing of the first stage engines on the first Falcon 9 was... White House planning April space conference The White House announced Sunday that President Barack Obama will host a conference in April... Orbital buys General Dynamics satellite unit Orbital Sciences Corporation announced this week that it agreed to acquire the satellite division of... Delta 4 launches weather satellite A Delta 4 launch successfully placed a weather satellite into orbit Thursday night. The Delta... China launches imaging satellite China launched a remote sensing satellite Friday, the latest in a series of satellites thought... news from nova science now NOVA scienceNOW: Phoenix Mars Lander NASA's latest robot has already found frozen water and is looking for more signs that the Red Planet could support life. NOVA scienceNOW: Brain Trauma Even so-called "mild" head injuries turn out to be anything but. NOVA scienceNOW: Mammoth Mystery A pair of mammoth skeletons is found locked together by their tusks. What happened? NOVA scienceNOW: Profile: Judah Folkman Once scorned for his ideas about how cancer grows, the late Judah Folkman is now hailed as a visionary. NOVA scienceNOW: Dispatch: Asking Big Questions In this excerpt from a 2002 commencement address at Oberlin College, the late cancer researcher Judah Folkman describes how he learned to think outside the box when he was in high school. Listen in. |
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