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A Sussex vicar found guilty of carrying out hundreds of sham marriages is jailed for four years.

US Muslims are free but that's not enough, argues Michael Goldfarb

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman vows his party will block any attempt to extend the partial freeze on settlements in the West Bank.

They put their right foots in, they put their right foots out and broke the world hokey cokey record.

The ornamental duck island which sank the career of a Tory MP at the height of the expenses scandal is sold for charity.

Kilrah_il writes "The fine-structure constant, a coupling constant characterizing the strength of the electromagnetic interaction, has been measured lately by scientists from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia and has been found to change slightly in light sent from quasars in galaxies as far back as 12 billion years ago. Although the results look promising, caution is advised: 'This would be sensational if it were real, but I'm still not completely convinced that it's not simply systematic errors' in the data, comments cosmologist Max Tegmark of MIT. Craig Hogan of the University of Chicago and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., acknowledges that 'it's a competent team and a thorough analysis.' But because the work has such profound implications for physics and requires such a high level of precision measurements, 'it needs more proof before we'll believe it.'"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F05%2F212252%2FFine-Structure-Constant-Maybe-Not-So-Constant" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Fine-Structure+Constant+Maybe+Not+So+Constant%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9rLTRs" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/09/05/212252/Fine-Structure-Constant-Maybe-Not-So-Constant?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1777892amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d741503/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ziu2GyweAso19wYJY18aNtFr0eQ/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ziu2GyweAso19wYJY18aNtFr0eQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ziu2GyweAso19wYJY18aNtFr0eQ/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ziu2GyweAso19wYJY18aNtFr0eQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/7Um7CTrM4SQ" height="1" width="1"/

If Nevada gubernatorial candidate Eugene "Gino" DiSimone gets his way, $25 will buy you the right to drive up to 90mph for a day. DiSimone estimates his "free limit plan" will raise $1 billion a year for Nevada. From the article: "First, vehicles would have to pass a safety inspection. Then vehicle information would be loaded into a database, and motorists would purchase a transponder. After setting up an account, anyone in a hurry could dial in, and for $25 charged to a credit card, be free to speed for 24 hours."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F05%2F1823204%2FGubernatorial-Candidate-Wants-to-Sell-Speeding-Passes-for-25" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Gubernatorial+Candidate+Wants+to+Sell+Speeding+Passes+for+%2425%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9NFZVK" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/05/1823204/Gubernatorial-Candidate-Wants-to-Sell-Speeding-Passes-for-25?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1777842amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d73551e/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ibAGU9OYNsrLxP-y5m3cDPiaspc/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ibAGU9OYNsrLxP-y5m3cDPiaspc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ibAGU9OYNsrLxP-y5m3cDPiaspc/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ibAGU9OYNsrLxP-y5m3cDPiaspc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/JX-umwxsgM4" height="1" width="1"/

Au moins 38 personnes sont mortes, emportées par des coulées de boue provoquées par des pluies torrentielles. Des dizaines d'autres corps se trouveraient encore sous les boues.

A major fire at a tyre storage centre on the south side of Glasgow leads to disruption on roads in the area.

pickens writes "The LA Times reports that 84-year-old Cuban ex-President Fidel Castro consumes 200 to 300 news items a day on the World Wide Web. In a recent interview he called Web communication 'the most powerful weapon that has existed' and extolled its power to break a stranglehold on the media by 'the empire' and 'ambitious private groups that have abused it' adding that the Internet 'has put an end to secrets.... We are seeing a high level of investigative journalism, as the New York Times calls it, that is within reach of the whole world.' Well, not the whole world. Cuba has the lowest level of Internet penetration in the Western Hemisphere (lower than Haiti), plus severe government restrictions and censorship affecting those who do have access. In addition Cuban law bans using the Internet to spread information that is against what the government considers to be the social interest, norms of good behavior, the integrity of the people or national security."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitics.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F05%2F1841240%2FFidel-Castro-Internet-News-Junkie" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Fidel+Castro%2C+Internet+News+Junkie%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FcmMq7T" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/09/05/1841240/Fidel-Castro-Internet-News-Junkie?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1777848amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d793a29/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kMaYD7_CcbTTP1TsXsIHTz7YNYo/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kMaYD7_CcbTTP1TsXsIHTz7YNYo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kMaYD7_CcbTTP1TsXsIHTz7YNYo/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kMaYD7_CcbTTP1TsXsIHTz7YNYo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/osn4lfHtWl0" height="1" width="1"/

La décision de démolir l'hôpital de Baie-Saint-Paul crée une onde de choc dans la population. Pour rassurer la population, le gouvernement a demandé à la Sécurité civile d'étudier la résistance sismique d'autres édifices.

The role of the gambling syndicates that can make millions from the outcome of a single game has been highlighted by the allegation that three Pakistani cricket players were involved in a betting scam.

Tiffin carriers in the Indian city of Mumbai learn English and basic computer skills to improve their business prospects.

Police in Mozambique arrest 142 people over last week's riots which led to 10 deaths in the capital, Maputo.

Carbon-rich organic molecules, which serve as the building blocks of life, may be present on Mars after all, say scientists.

A former boarding school head teacher is jailed for 21 years for sexually abusing and beating pupils.

The Brit Awards are to move to the O2 Arena in east London from Earl's Court in the west of the city.

The suspicious object was left in the playground of St Comgall's Primary School and picked up by an eight -year-old pupil.

Children as young as seven are stealing and driving cars on the streets of Oxford, the city's priority crime team reveals.

Michael Gove says demand for new free schools has exceeded expectations but Labour says plans for 16 new institutions next year are "laughable".