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The identity of the tweeter Gidi Traffic, who informs motorists in Nigeria's largest city Lagos of traffic jams, is revealed to the BBC.

Ofcom is looking into ways to free more radio spectrum to satisfy Britain's vast appetite for mobile broadband.

BEIRUT (AP) -- Syria's main opposition group on Sunday picked a secular Kurd as its new leader after criticism that the former head was too autocratic and the group was becoming dominated by Islamists....

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) -- Turkmenistan's authoritarian president is calling it a week of celebrations, but for some it might seem more like basic training, especially the march up the 5-mile (8-kilometer) concrete staircase....

Two people are seriously ill in Italy after being given chemicals from an Antrim company at the centre of an investigation following the death of a woman.

As the International Olympic Committee visits London, Gordon Farquhar takes a look at whether London is ready to deliver the Games.

Two men are each jailed for eight years for killing a man and then dumping his semi-naked body in a lift in Edinburgh.

An Afghan police officer shot and killed nine other officers in southeast Afghanistan on Thursday night, authorities said.

A 3,000-year-old piece of gold jewellery found in a bog in Fermanagh is declared an item of treasure.

An artist for Aardman film The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists says his success has been accidental.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- A world-record $540 million Mega Millions jackpot has lottery players lining up for tickets early Friday and many wondering if there's any way to guarantee becoming an overnight multimillionaire....

Research suggests make-believe games and number activities can help poor children succeed "against the odds".

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden says he's confident the Supreme Court will uphold the constitutionality of the health care law....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden says he's confident the Supreme Court will uphold the constitutionality of the health care law....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden says he's confident the Supreme Court will uphold the constitutionality of the health care law....

Thirty-eight girls could have been implicated in an inquiry into child exploitation in Oxford, a court hears.

Plaintiff was a part of the Bradley Manning/Wikileaks support network, and his computer was seized in Chicago by DHS after he passed through Customs and was waiting for a flight to Boston and he was questioned about his connection to Manning. The court concludes the seizure was valid, but the 49 day detention stated a claim for unreasonableness of the seizure. Also, his First Amendment claim survives a motion to dismiss. House v. Napolitano, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 42297 (D. Mass. March 28, 2012):

Considering these factors in light of Supreme Court precedent, it cannot be said that the search and seizure of House's laptop and other electronic devices was so intrusive as to require any particularized suspicion. House contends that the search of a laptop and electronic devices implicates one's "dignity and privacy interests," not because there was any disrobing, physical search of his person, force used or exposure to pain or danger, but because such devices contain information concerning one's thoughts, ideas and communications and associations with others. However, such a search of a laptop computer or other electronic devices does not involve the same "dignity and privacy interests" as the "highly intrusive searches of the person" found to require some level of suspicion such as strip searches or body cavity searches. Flores-Montano, 541 U.S. at 152. The Supreme Court has not explicitly held that all property searches are routine or that such searches are categorically incapable of implicating the "dignity and privacy interests of the person being searched," Id., but the search of one's personal information on a laptop computer, a container that stores information, even personal information, does not invade one's dignity and privacy in the same way as an involuntary x-ray, body cavity or strip search of person's body or the type of search that have been held to be non-routine and require the government to assert some level of suspicion.

ACLU’s page on case; ACLU press release on order.

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If the purpose here is to turn Trayvon Martin's death into a national black-white face-off, instead of a mutual search for truth and justice, it is succeeding marvelously well.

Bringing pet dogs to work can reduce stress and make the job more satisfying for other employees, a study suggests.