Supermarket asks man, 87, for ID An 87-year-old man was asked to prove he was over 21 when he tried to buy a bottle of sherry in a York supermarket.
The former Lord Mayor of York, Jack Archer, said he was shocked - but flattered - when asked the question by staff at Morrisons in Acomb.
He said: "I don't look my age but I certainly don't look young enough to be in trouble for underage drinking."
Morrisons said staff had to ask anyone buying alcohol to confirm the... (more)
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For the First Time, Americans Oppose Afghan WarMany adults in the United States express dissatisfaction with the war on terrorism, according to a poll by Opinion Research Corporation released by CNN. 52 per cent of respondents oppose the U.S. conflict in Afghanistan, up four points since September.
Afghanistan has been the main battleground in the war on terrorism. The conflict began in October 2001, after the Taliban regime refused to hand over Osama bin Laden, prime suspect in the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Was... (more)
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Nanny state propaganda: Changing minds about junk foodIt may be radical for government to tax chips, loaded with salt and fat, and sugar-laden soft drinks and candy like it does cigarettes but that may be what it will take to make the point these products can impair health.
Kids especially are vulnerable to marketing and their parents are vulnerable to whining. Making these products less appealing by slapping some taxes on them might be one way to keep them out of the hands of children at risk of developing poor eating habits.
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Big Brother storms the playground State-of-the-art technology maps children’s vein patterns using near-infrared to confirm their identity
Children in Britain are having their fingerprints taken at what some parents believe is an alarming rate.
Over the past four years, more than 700,000 schoolchildren aged three to 11 have been fingerprinted and photographed as part of the Junior Librarian scheme. More than 3,500 schools have signed up and new schools are joining at... (more)
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Putin Slams U.S. Plans to Put Weapons in SpaceRussian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday criticized U.S. plans for space-based weapons, saying they were the reason behind a recent Chinese anti-satellite weapons test, the Associated Press news agency reports.
Asked about the Chinese test at a news conference in New Delhi after a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Putin avoided directly criticizing the Chinese, saying only that Russia was against putting any weapons in space.
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9/11 police hero dies awaiting lung transplant A retired New York police officer, who was recognized as a hero for his service in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, has passed away while awaiting a lung transplant.
Ceasar Borja, Sr., who was known for pulling 16 hour shifts in the vicinity of the World Trade Center, developed the "WTC cough" shortly after his retirement from the police force. He died on Tuesday night, just before his son, Ceasar, Jr., was a guest of Senat... (more)
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NY Times: 'Bizarre' secrecy in domestic wiretap lawsuitsSecrecy is at issue in lawsuits opposing domestic wiretapping, The New York Times will report on its front page Friday.
"The Bush administration has employed extraordinary secrecy in defending the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program from civil lawsuits," writes Adam Liptak for the Times. "Now, though, the procedures used to enforce that secrecy have started to meet significant resistance."
Judges who are soon to hear an appeal in one of the case... (more)
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Kuwait May Abandon Dollar Peg to Protect its EconomyJan. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Kuwait, the third-largest Arab oil producer, may abandon the dinar's peg against the dollar in favor of a basket of currencies to help minimize economic harm after the dollar declined.
``We might go to a basket for an interim period,'' Bader al- Humaidhi, Kuwait's finance minister, told reporters today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. ``The dollar fell a lot against the euro last year, but if we'd been linked to a basket we wouldn't hav... (more)
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Russia: Federation Council approves ban on dual citizenship for govt ministersMOSCOW. Jan 24 (Interfax) - The Federation Council has passed a bill prohibiting persons that hold dual citizenship from serving as Russian government ministers, which were earlier passed in the State Duma, at a meeting on Wednesday.
Under the bill, which amends the law on the Russian government, deputy prime ministers and ministers must not possess dual citizenship. Only a Russian citizen, who "does not have the citizenship of another state, as well as a residence permit or any o... (more)
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The Empire Turns Its Guns on the CitizenryIn recent years American police forces have called out SWAT teams 40,000 or more times annually. Last year did you read in your newspaper or hear on TV news of 110 hostage or terrorist events each day? No. What then were the SWAT teams doing? They were serving routine warrants to people who posed no danger to the police or to the public.
Occasionally Washington think tanks produce reports that are not special pleading for donors. One such report is Radley Balko's "Overkill: The Ri... (more) 
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Flint City Council passes daytime curfew for childrenFLINT, Mich. (AP) - Flint children under the age of 17 will be banned from public places during daytime hours under a new ordinance approved by the City Council.
The curfew will be in effect from 9:00 to 2:00 on school days. It goes into effect in about a month.
Councilman Sheldon Neeley says statistics show that more than 60 percent of Flint ninth graders will not graduate.
The ordinance allows police to arrest a child who is supposed to be in school... (more)
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FOX News Reporter Claims That Democrats and Republicans Have Joined With Al Qaeda to Protest the Bush Surge PlanPresident George Bush is set to deliver the State of the Union speech tonight. In light of mounting opposition from both sides of the aisle, he will try to justify his arguments for escalating the war in Iraq. Bush is going into this speech with virtually no support from Democrats and growing dissatisfaction from Republicans. He really needed an eleventh hour save, something to make the American people believe that he is right and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Iraq Study... (more)
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Texas court bans deep linkingA court in Dallas, Texas has found a website operator liable for copyright infringement because his site linked to an 'audio webcast' without permission. Observers have criticised the judge for failing to understand the internet.
Robert Davis runs Supercrosslive.com and put direct links on his site to audio streams of motorcycle racing. Those streams were created, owned and hosted by SFX Motor Sports, which is behind some of the events covered.
A preliminary injunct... (more)
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'CIA and Mossad are Behind the Hrant Dink Murder'DIYARBAKIR - Sevket Kazan, Deputy of the Saadet Party (SP) of Turkey, argued that the CIA and Mossad planned and organised the murder against the Armenian Turkish journalist Hrant Dink.
"The boys were used in Trabzon and in Sisli attacks and murders, but the real murderer are the CIA and the Mossad" Mr. Kazan said. Sevket Kazan further continued in his Diyarbakir speech:
"Armenian journalist Hrant Dink is a victim of an assasination. Of course, it is an event to be ... (more)
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American students attack Palestinian students on US soilA hostile encounter at a Guilford College residence hall between students reputed to be members of the football team and three Palestinian students preparing for a night on the town escalated into a flurry of ethnic slurs that ended in the three being hospitalized with concussions.
The assaults took place in the courtyard of Bryan Hall early in the morning hours of Jan. 20 at Guilford, a Quaker college in Greensboro that holds a national reputation for its emphasis on social justi... (more)
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Off the Rails: Big Oil, Big Brother Win Big in the State of the UnionThere was that tongue again. When the President lies he’s got this weird nervous tick: He sticks the tip of his tongue out between his lips. Like a little boy who knows he’s fibbing. Like a snake licking a rat.
In his State of the Union tonight the President did his tongue thing 124 times — my kids kept count.
But it wasn’t all rat-licking lies.
Most pundits concentrated on Iraq and wacky health insurance stuff. But that&rsqu... (more)
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