European consumers spend now more time online than reading newspapers

From The Financial Times: 
The time European consumers spend online has, for the first time, overtaken the hours they devote to newspapers and magazines, a study revealed. [this is not rare: I mean, the level most newspapers and magazines -ugghhh- have here is totally disgusting. Most of them have large sections of "cotilleo", that is, of [...]

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Mass march against Chávez

From BBC (HT: NoisyRoom.Net):
Tens of thousands of people have marched through the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, in support of the main opposition candidate, Manuel Rosales.
Mr Rosales will face President Hugo Chavez in December’s presidential poll.
The march, which filled the main avenues of the city centre, was the biggest opposition rally Venezuela has seen since early 2004.
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Russian Reporter critical of Putin and of his protegé Kadyrov, murdered (UPDATED)

From AOL News:

A journalist shot to death in an apparent contract killing was about to publish a story about torture and abductions in Chechnya when she was slain, her editor said Sunday, as Russia’s top prosecutor took charge of the case.
Anna Politkovskaya, famed for her unsparing coverage of abuses against civilians in Chechnya in [...]

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Even the dead are not let in peace

There are two very worrying news about people desecrating cemeteries. In the first one, Juan de Dios Ramos, a Socialist Major from Teror, has been accused by a gravedigger of the cementary of a “continous crime of lack of respect to the dead” (HT: Ajopringue). According to the accusation, he made the gravedigger take out [...]

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