CHINA has started scanning text messages in the latest move to step up censorship.

SMH | Jan 18, 2010
by Malcolm Moore and Peter Foster
Customers of China’s two largest mobile phone networks, China Mobile and China Unicom, have had their texting service blocked after sending risque messages, state media says.
The disclosure comes as China is embroiled in [...]

Photo shock … the FBI said it used ‘‘cutting edge’’ technology to update its composite image of Osama bin Laden, left. But it turned out to be little more than cutting and pasting features of a Spanish politician, Gaspar Llamazares, right.
”It’s almost like out of a comedy…”
SMH | Jan 18, 2010
by FIONA GOVAN
MADRID: The FBI [...]

An Iraqi woman looks at a blood-splattered car where two women were allegedly shot dead by private guards in Baghdad
AFP | Nov 10, 2009
WASHINGTON — Executives at US security firm Blackwater approved secret payments of about one million dollars to Iraqi officials to “silence their criticism” after company guards killed 17 civilians in Baghdad in [...]