+0 +0 BBC News - Iceland plans vote on bank payout
Iceland plans vote on bank payout. Iceland's president has announced plans to hold a referendum on the payment of compensation resulting from the collapse of the country's banks. Olafur Ragnar Grimmson said he would not sign a controversial bill to repay $5bn lost by UK and Dutch savers in Icesave accounts.
+0 +0 UPDATE 2-Iceland faces crisis after Icesave rejection
Only once in the republic's 65-year history has a president, whose post is largely symbolic, refused to sign a bill into law. It has steadily become more apparent that the people must be convinced that they themselves determine the future course," Grimsson told a news conference.
+0 +0 Autistic boy found in N.S. woods dies in hospital | Canada |News | Toronto Sun
CapeBreton on Monday has died in hospital. Delorey was found by a search and rescue team, sufferingfrom hypothermia and found with a weak pulse after almost 48 hourslost in the woods in blizzard conditions near his home north ofSydney, N.S.
+4 +0 CBC News - Nova Scotia - Rescuers fly Cape Breton boy tohospital
James Delorey disappeared on Saturday afternoon. Cape Breton Regional Police)A seven-year-old autistic boy who disappeared from his CapeBreton home two days ago was found alive, unconscious, sufferingfrom hypothermia and huddled in an area of thick brush and snow onMonday.
+0 +0 Potent malware link infects almost 300,000 webpages• The Register
Gumblar also uploads exploits directly to infected sites, whichgreatly complicates white hat efforts to clean up the mess. Ratherthan shutting down a single site that's hosting the malware,thousands of mom and pop sites must be disinfected one at atime.
+0 +0 Attorney: Fort Hood suspect to be held in hospital - CNN.com
Killeen, Texas (CNN) -- Prosecutors have requested a pretrial confinement hearing for accused Fort Hood shooter Maj.
+0 +0 BBC - Mark Mardell's America: How Carolinians see the race row
Columbia, South Carolina: On the face of it, the president is more of a "Piggy Park" sort of guy than a "Mac's on Main Street" man, which is rather odd. The two restaurants in South Carolina's capital have similar menus of Southern fare - hush puppies and BBQ ribs.
+0 +114 Pressemitteilung
Walking in circles. Scientists from Tbingen, Germany, show that people really walk in circles when lost Tübingen (Germany), August 20, 2009. It is a common theme in many books and films: when people get lost in a desert or a jungle, they end up walking in circles. No matter how hard they try, at some point they will cross their own tracks and despair, because they realize that they will never make it back to civilization.