Conservative MP calls Olympics ceremony ‘multi-cultural crap’
David Cameron will face pressure to remove the Tory whip from the Conservative MP Aidan Burley after he tweeted that the Olympics opening ceremony was “multi-cultural crap”. Burley was sacked as a ministerial aide last year after he took part in a Nazi-themed stag party,
Google seeks dismissal of lawsuit against massive book-scanning project
Google asked a US court Friday to dismiss a lawsuit over the Internet giant’s massive book-scanning project, saying the effort is “not a substitute” for books themselves.
Batman shooter was seeing specialist in schizophrenia
The suspected Batman movie premiere gunman was seeing a university psychiatrist specializing in schizophrenia before the shooting that killed 12, court documents showed Friday.
NSA director shows up at hacker conference to recruit talent
US spy master Keith Alexander courted hackers at an infamous Def Con gathering rife with software tricksters wary of police and ferociously protective of privacy. Alexander was the latest, and perhaps the most controversial, federal official to attend the annual hacker conference.
Americans not allowed to watch Olympics opening ceremonies live
A billion people across the globe turned on their TVs to watch the opening ceremony of the London Olympics live Friday, but very few of them were in United States.
White Baptist church in Mississippi bans black wedding
A black couple in Crystal Springs, Missouri says that a predominantly white Baptist church refused to let them get married because of their race.
