News

So it seems several news stories broke all at once in the U.K. News of the World were email and phone hacking dozens of celebrities, sports personalities, royalty and famous victims of crimes.  Most notably, it has come out that they deleted voicemail messages from the phone of a family who was the victim of a child murder.  Comprehensive list ...

Its been nearly a year since we had the disappointing FIFA World Cup 2010 and six months since Qatar won a corruption-riddled World Cup bidding process to host the 2022 World Cup, of which 14 out of the 24 judges on the panel have now been accused of taking bribes.  Although FIFA President Sepp Blatter has always had the stink ...

Osama bin Laden, the criminal mastermind behind al-Qaida and the world’s most sought-after terrorist since the attacks of 11 September 2001, has been killed by a US operation, President Barack Obama has announced. – The Guardian, May 2nd 2011. Its been nearly ten years since the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and the subsequent global manhunt for Osama Bin Laden that ...

Man, I don’t know what the deal is with the weather in Australia at the moment but I think this diagram summed up the situation in January quite succinctly. And just as Queensland started its recovery from the Floods, now we’ve got this stupidly large cyclone coming our way.  Seriously, it’s like the size of several European countries.  Just look ...

This story broke late last night: “KEVIN Rudd this morning looks certain to lose his prime ministership in a caucus ballot after he and Julia Gillard last night spent a desperate 2 1/2 hours in failed talks. Key Labor powerbrokers yesterday moved on Mr Rudd, telling the Deputy Prime Minister she had the numbers to win. But Mr Rudd made ...

(Disclaimer:  The FATwebsite had some unusual down-time through the earlier parts of this year, therefore this post was pushed further to the bottom of my to-do list, but I feel that it references an important day in this year’s history for not only Britain but also for the world.) The first day of April 2009 was the day in which ...