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Muslim and Christian shoulder-to-shoulder in Tahrir Square Just weeks after a New Year's Day church bombing rocked the port city of Alexandria, Egypt's religious tensions have been set aside as the country's Muslims and Christians join forces at anti-government protests. Making my way to Tahrir Square during the anti-Mubarak protests, a striking piece of graffiti caught my eye. Scrawled on the concrete pillar of a flyover was the symbol of a Muslim crescent embracing the Christian cross and the words: "We are all against the regime".
BBC News - Egypt's Muslims and Christians join hands in protest
BBC News - Hackers target Microsoft Windows XP support system
The bug affects well-established Windows XP operating system Microsoft revealed the upturn in attacks in a blog post saying that it had been monitoring activity around the loophole since it was first revealed on 10 June. Found by Google engineer Travis Ormandy, the loophole revolves around the Help and Support system built into XP. Mr Ormandy found that it was possible to exploit its ability to give remote aid and apply fixes to ailing machines.
31 January 2011 Last updated at 08:18 GMT Look up into the night sky where you live, and the chances are that your view of the stars will be affected in some way by light pollution. To see how much artificial lighting blocks out the cosmos - and find the starriest skies - the British public are being asked to take part in a national experiment. The Campaign to Protect Rural England and The Campaign for Dark Skies want people to look up at Orion - one of the most recognisable constellations in the winter night sky - and count the stars they see. One of the organisers, astronomer Darren Baskill from the University of Sussex, explains.
BBC News - Audio slideshow: Dark sky stargazers
With support from the Walmart Foundation, we now provide free tools and trainings specifically for organizations that involve volunteers in the fight against hunger.
VolunteerMatch - Where Volunteering Begins
Violent clashes between protesters and police outside the Houses of Parliament marred a protest by thousands of people against higher university tuition fees.
BBC News - Protest over higher university tuition fees
Another chapter in the Facebook vs. Lamebook , errmm, book: the social networking giant has confirmed to us that it has moved to diligently block all outgoing links to Lamebook.com , shut down the two-person company’s Facebook Page (previously at facebook.com/thelamebook ), and blocks visitors of the funny site from ‘liking’ posts to boot. For your background: Facebook wants the Austin startup to quit using the name Lamebook, deeming its activities under that name an “improper attempt to build a brand that trades off Facebook’s popularity and fame”, and filed a trademark infringement lawsuit last week.
Facebook Tries To Silence Lamebook: Removes Its Page, Blocks Links And Likes
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This plugin gets to be the only plugin ever made that will connect OkCupid's online messenger to the Pidgin Instant Messaging program ( http://pidgin.im ). It requires json-glib from the Pidgin-FacebookChat project to work sop please make sure to download it.
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In the lead-up to Rio+20 , the 2012 World Water Day emphasized the importance of universal access to water to all to end famine, drought and political instability. It also marked the achievement of MDG target 7.c (halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water) making it amongst the first MDG targets to be met, well in advance of the 2015 deadline. On the occasion of International Women’s Day UN officials such as UN Secretary-General , or Michelle Bachelet , head of UN Women , stressed that women’s participation in all aspects of society was more important than ever, as witnessed last year in the context of the global economic crisis, political transitions in the Arab world and elsewhere, and environmental disasters.
ited Nations Millennium Development Goals
A collaboration between Wikispecies and ZooKeys has been announced. PhytoKeys also joined the collaboration in November 2010. Images of species from ZooKeys and PhytoKeys will be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and used in Wikispecies. A Portuguese zoologist and politician. He was the curator of Zoology at the Museum of Natural History in Lisbon. His work at the Museum consisted in acquiring, describing and coordinating collections, many of which arrived from the Portuguese colonies in Africa, such as Angola, Mozambique, etc.
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