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The next version of Microsoft Corp.’s Web browser makes it easier for people to surf the Internet without leaving a trace.

Microsoft’s latest Internet browser includes a piece of software that allows Internet users to hide the audit trail of websites they have visited.

The InPrivate feature on Internet Explorer 8, nicknamed “porn mode”, allows users to conceal the sites they have viewed at the click of a button.

Once the setting is chosen, others using the same computer will not be able to see which sites have been accessed. Other browsers have similar functions, but this one is far more prominent. Although casual users cannot see the previous user’s search history, authorities such as the police will be able to access it if necessary.

The software may be hailed as a victory for privacy campaigners, but it represents a serious threat to Microsoft’s bigger rival, Google. In allowing surfers to access websites but conceal their browsing behaviour, Microsoft prevents Internet sites from collecting information about their users — data that is then used to sell targeted Read more »

GENEVA - A “toxic combination” of poverty and social injustice is killing people on a grand scale, a World Health Organization report said Thursday, urging states to fund healthcare to cut inequalities.

The Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, a report commissioned by the WHO and chaired by Sir Michael Marmot of University College London, said these health inequalities were avoidable but only if concerted efforts were made by governments and civil society.

“Reducing health inequities is an ethical imperative. Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale,” the report said.
Marmot told journalists that a girl born in Zambia can expect to live 43 years, Read more »

A number of European nations think sanctions are a suitbale way of punishing Russia

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner on Thursday, Aug. 28 said European nations were considering imposing sanctions against Russia while Germany called for an investigation into alleged abuses in Georgia.

Addressing journalists three days before an emergency EU summit in Brussels, Kouchner said “sanctions were being considered, as well as other means” to address the issue, but he did not specify.

“I, myself, would not anticipate sanctions (being imposed), while the meeting has not yet taken place,” said Kouchner. France is currently president of the Union and has been at the forefront of the EU’s attempts to resolve the crisis.

It was the first time France has brought up the possibility of sanctions against Read more »

Russia recognised two rebel regions of Georgia as independent states, driving up tension in the volatile Caucasus and putting Moscow on a collision course with the West.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tbilisi’s desire to seize back Abkhazia and South Ossetia by force had killed all hopes for their peaceful co-existence in one state with Georgia.

But, leading a chorus of Western condemnation of the move, US President George W Bush said the two regions were part of Georgia and “they must remain so”.

“Russia’s action only exacerbates tensions and complicates diplomatic negotiations,” Read more »

KABUL, Afghanistan: A United Nations human rights team has found “convincing evidence” that some 90 civilians — among them 60 children — were killed in air strikes on a village in western Afghanistan on Thursday night, a statement issued by the United Nations mission in Kabul said, making it almost certainly the deadliest case of civilian casualties caused by any United States military operation in Afghanistan since 2001.

The United Nations the team visited the scene and interviewed survivors and local officials and elders, getting a name, age and gender of each person reported killed. The team reported that 15 people had been injured Read more »

South Ossetia and Abkhazia have had de facto independence for years US President George W Bush has urged Russia not to recognise Georgia’s two breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states. Mr Bush’s comments came after Russia’s parliament passed a non-binding motion calling on President Dmitry Medvedev to support the enclaves’ independence bid. Meanwhile, the US says its warships will deliver aid to Georgia’s port of Poti, which is under Russian control. The move could mean US and Russian forces coming face-to-face. Although most of Russia’s forces pulled out of Georgia last Friday, some troops continue to operate near the Black Sea port of Poti, south of Abkhazia, where Russia says it will carry out regular inspections of cargo. Georgia has accused Moscow of trying to impose an economic stranglehold on Georgia. Until now American aid has been delivered to the Georgian port of Batumi, further south. But the US embassy said that “at the request of the Georgian government”, two US ships would dock in Poti on Wednesday. Georgians ‘moved out’ Russia and Georgia fought a brief war this month over Georgia’s two breakaway provinces. They are clearly trying to empty southern Ossetia [of] Georgians Alexander Stubb, OSCE S Ossetia ‘emptied of Georgians’ Moscow launched a counter-attack after Tbilisi tried to retake South Ossetia from rebels by military force. The US and a number of Western governments have backed Georgia,

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HARARE - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was jeered on Tuesday as he opened parliament in defiance of opposition objections, but voiced optimism for a power-sharing deal to end political turmoil.

Heckling by parliamentarians from the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) drowned out Mugabe’s speech, underscoring the bitterness of the divide. It said reconvening parliament could undermine deadlocked talks.

“Landmark agreements have been concluded, with every expectation that everyone will sign up,” said Mugabe, 84, whose ZANU-PF party goes into the new parliament without a majority for the first time since independence from Britain in 1980.
“The elections are now behind us, what is upon us is a challenge of vision and common Read more »