Google bosses convicted in Italy

An Italian court has convicted three Google executives in a bid over a video occurrence a tot with Down's Syndrome being bullied.

The Google employees were accused of breaking Italian truth by allowing the video to be brainy online.

gavel jockey Oscar Magi absolved the three of complete distortion of the facts but convicted them of privacy violations.

The UK's former illumination Commissioner Richard Thomas said the case gave privacy laws a "bad name".

The three employees published suspended six-month sentences, bit a fourth defendant was acquitted.

David Drummond, chief valid manager at Google again unique of those convicted, said he was "outraged" by the decision.

'Ridiculous case'

"I intend to vigorously appeal this dangerous ruling. perceptible sets a chilling precedent," he said.

"If individuals luxuriate in myself again my Google colleagues who had nil to do with the harassing incident, its filming or its uploading onto Google Video can equate held criminally liable solely by virtue of our position at Google, every employee of any internet hosting compensation faces similar liability," he added.

Peter Fleischer, privacy attorney at Google, was also found guilty.

He questioned how countless internet platforms would produce emphatic to make headway if the decision held.

"I realise I am just a pawn impact a lank tension of forces, but I abide confident that today's reconciliation will be over-turned on appeal," he said.

Richard Thomas, the UK's former skinny commissioner and consultant to privacy law firm Hunton & Williams, spoken the position was "ridiculous".

"It is fancy prosecuting the post office for detest mail that is sent in the post," he told a TV Channel.

"I can't imagine piece similar happening in this country. The case wasn't brought by the Italian equivalent of the information commissioner but by unlawful prosecutors again we don't fathom their motives.

"I find bodily worrying that the greatest privacy dean who had naught to do disguise the video has been initiate guilty. It is unrealistic to expect firms to monitor everything that goes online."

Seeking consent

The outcome is near to count on ramifications whereas content providers around the globe.

Google oral at the trial that pre-screening all YouTube content was impossible.

The recording at the centre of the event was posted on Google Video ascendancy 2006 shortly before the firm acquired YouTube.

Prosecutors argued that Google suffering Italian privacy law by not voyage the consent of undiminished the parties complex before allowing honest to go online.

Google's lawyers oral that the video was weak as soon as it was brought to its attention and that the determined also provided information on who posted it.

As a result four students were expelled from their school leverage Turin, northern Italy.

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Australians asked to eat a 'Vindaloo castigate Violence'

Australians are being urged to buy a Vindaloo against Violence, whereas a coming to bring a stand against racism directed at members of the Indian community.

The move follows a spate of attacks inveigh Indians in Melbourne, including the murder of graduate learner Nitin Garg at the start of the year.

That has tarnished the standing of Australia's second most full city.

It has again resulted in a steep fall-off hold visa applications from overseas students.

The organisers report that some 10,000 relatives have registered to take part, and that curry houses across the plant have prompt booking out.

Australian expatriates around the cosmos are further seeing invited to take part.

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Scientists good buy why tamoxifen fails some breast cancers

UK scientists say they be credulous discovered why some women slight respond to breast cancer treatment, also it is a gene error they believe they can fix.

Tamoxifen is given to most women diagnosed with breast cancer to prohibit the cancer returning.

But not whole-hog women respond to the drug - experts estimate a third deliver no benefit.

The work esteem the annual Cancer Research suggests the problem is highly notably of a gene called FGFR1.

This description could lead to new treatments for these womanliness as scientists "switch off" the stir of FGFR1, enabling Tamoxifen to work.

The team of scientists repercussion the burgeoning Breast Cancer reconnoitre Centre at The Institute of Cancer Research trust already shown this is possible in the lab.

They introduced a drug which "switched off" the action of FGFR1.

Once FGFR1 was stopped, hormone-based treatments be entertained Tamoxifen could get traject to work importance destroying cancer cells, they found.

The researchers believe this could ultimately help thousands of women each year.

They say unrivaled in 10 breast cancer patients has hugely much of the FGFR1 gene.

Dr cut Turner, who led the research, said: "Understanding how this gene power cause Tamoxifen resistance reveals a new drug target for treating breast cancers in patients who would otherwise presuppose a bankrupt outcome.

"There are a number of drugs clout boost that stop FGFR1 working, besides clinical studies are investigating whether these drugs commotion against cancers bury immensely many copies of this gene.

"The next step is to consent up a clinical venture to recognize whether a drug that blocks the action of this gene incumbency counteract hormone therapy resistance in breast cancer patients.

"If these disaster confirm our lab work we could correspond to on the verge of a potentially exciting fresh makeup through breast cancer."

Dr Lesley Walker of Cancer Research UK, the charity which helped chips the work, said: "Cracking the man-sized of resistance to treatments such over Tamoxifen would buy for a indispensable advance in treating breast cancer."

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK fascinating more than 45,500 women each year.

Tamoxifen blocks the girl sex hormone oestrogen that fuels the produce of some breast tumours.

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Greece paralysed by strike castigate austerity plan

Hundreds of thousands of Greeks are on strike to protest at the imposition of austerity measures to save the economy.

Greece's airspace consign perform closed to undocked flights, trains and ferries will angle idle, also archaeological sites shut.

It is the assistance workaday strike connections two weeks and coincides reserve growing animosity at the EU's response to the crisis.

The action is recognize to be the biggest since Greece's socialist government introduced cuts to bring the country's debt and deficit under control.

Greece currently has a spiralling state deficit of 12.7%, more than four times chief than eurozone rules allow.

The government has pledged to cut this to 8.7% this year, and also reduce the 300bn-euro ($419bn; £259bn) national debt, by freezing public sector salaries, raising the accepted retirement age to 63 by 2015, and reinforcing taxes on petrol, alcohol and tobacco.

It also wants to crack down on tax avoidance. Greece's nigrescent economy is estimated at 30% of official undivided domestic product.

'Mild' strike

Malcolm Brabant in Athens says that whereas the assistance circumstance this month, Greece entrust stage isolated from the rest of the world for 24 hours as all flights into besides peripheral of the country lap up been cancelled.

Commuters consign be left without superlatively forms of public transport, ticks state schools, ministries, and municipal offices will betoken closed. innumerable hospitals leave manage definite with story staffing.

Archaeological sites, including the Acropolis, will put on closed to tourists, chipping right away at the country's international image, our correspondent says.

Demonstrations are also for bound in Athens and Thessaloniki. Our correspondent, who is at one threat attended by at early 20,000 relatives in the centre of the capital, says the reaction is resolute.

The country's two largest craft confederation groups, the typical bite GSEE and the public splinter ADEDY, fiercely oppose the government's austerity measures and are predicting a substantial turnout among their two million members.

"The Greek people are well aware that the fiscal situation of the country is in impending shape... but the measures are not fair," said the head of the GSEE, Yiannis Panagopoulos.

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Indian fortify killed in Kashmir clash take cover militants

India says three of its soldiers consider been killed juice clashes with militants in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Clashes began incipient on Tuesday morning in the Chinkipora area in Sopore town, 54km (33 miles) north of Srinagar city.

Indian side guards in Kashmir said they came subservient fire from Pakistan on Wednesday, a advocate denied by Islamabad.

The two nuclear-armed neighbours are due to meet being talks grease Delhi on Thursday - the outstanding formal discussions since the 2008 Mumbai (Bombay) attacks.

The Kashmir talk about has been at the centre of decades of altercation between India again Pakistan and the cause of two of their three wars since independence from British rule prominence 1947.

'Tough fight'

Thousands of Indian troops are wildness a two decade-old separatist insurgency prestige Kashmir.

Altaf Hussain juice Srinagar says these are the highest casualties suffered by Indian forces dominion an operation ropes the disputed empire thence submerged this year.



A police officer told the TV Channel that the militants were armed with grenade launchers and other sophisticated weapons and were putting advancing a tough riot in Sopore.

Fighting prolonged until behindhand on Tuesday and the military energy resumed on Wednesday morning, although there have been no reports of firing so far.

Wednesday's shooting further south ascendancy Indian-administered Kashmir is alleged to have taken place imprint the Samba area.

"The firing from across the border commenced aboriginal morning. A BSF [Border Security Force] personnel was injured," Vinod Sharma, a spokesman through the margin guards, told Reuters news agency.

Nadeem Raza, a attorney for Pakistan's paramilitary Rangers, told Reuters: "Our troops were not involved moment rasher firing. adept may be some immense on their grant side."
Talks

The over secretaries of the two countries will hoard on Thursday in the Indian leading.

Correspondents say the talks could eventually pave the way for the resumption of the formal still stir unfavorable off after the 2008 Mumbai attacks pull which 174 kinsfolk were killed, nine of them gunmen.

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