Britain’s media regulator said on Monday it had launched an investigation into Sky News, the influential news channel of Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB, which has admitted twice hacking into emails to generate a story.
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UK Regulator Investigating Sky News Over Email Hacking
Time unveiled the magazine’s perennial Person of the Year on Wednesday, opting to go with “The Protester” as the influential synecdoche of the past 12 months instead of a single individual who made big news this year. In a run-up to its big reveal, the magazine took a reader poll asking who the general public thought should be the person of the year and — perhaps unsurprising, given the outpouring of grief over his death — Steve Jobs was on the public’s short list. Read full article > >
Mayor Vincent C. Gray has nominated a former utility consumer advocate to sit on the influential Public Service Commission, setting up a potential confrontation with powerful Pepco , which opposes the choice. For 18 years, attorney Elizabeth Noel was the People’s Counsel, a $155,653 city position in which she represented consumers’ interests against local utilities. In recent years, Noel opposed Pepco’s rate-hike proposals and questioned the utility’s objections to burying power lines when the practice could result in safer, more reliable service. Read full article > >
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Gray taps former consumer advocate for Public Service Commission
Gil Scott-Heron – the influential US musician, poet and author known as the “godfather of rap” – dies in a New York hospital at the age of 62.
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US musician Gil Scott-Heron dies
TRIPOLI, Libya — Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the influential second son of Moammar Gaddafi who was once seen as the great hope for reform in Libya, is clear on two points: He and his government have done nothing wrong, and they are not going to back down.
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Gaddafi’s son: We will deal with terrorists first and then talk reform
The way the decision was taken to award the contract to supply Tasers to police in England and Wales is questioned by the influential Commons Home Affairs Committee.
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MPs’ concern over Taser contract
Gray taps former consumer advocate for Public Service Commission
Saturday, September 17th, 2011Gaddafi’s son: We will deal with terrorists first and then talk reform
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