MFS -The Other News

                         Afternoon Posting.

• Jakarta, wave of fatwas against transsexuals, temporary marriages, gossip and sperm bank.

• Ship lost for more than 150 years is recovered.Canadian archeologists have found a ship abandoned more than 150 years ago in the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage and which was lost in the search for the doomed expedition of Sir John Franklin, the head of the team said Wednesday.Marc-Andre Bernier, Parks Canada's head of underwater archaeology, said the HMS Investigator, abandoned in the ice in 1853, was found in shallow water in Mercy Bay along the northern coast of Banks Island in Canada's western Arctic,more here.

• Details of 100m Facebook users collected and published.Personal details of 100m Facebook users have been harvested and published on the net by a security consultant.

• French police find eight dead newborn babies.French police have arrested a couple after finding the bodies of eight newborn babies in a village, officials said.

• Durable goods orders fall as growth picture dims."The number was weaker than expected and it could add to the idea that the economy is slipping into a double dip recession," said Bruce Bittles.

• Caught in police sting: Airport staff filmed rifling through passengers' suitcases and stealing valuables.They were captured by covert police cameras over a period of six weeks helping themselves to cigarettes, jewellery and electrical goods.

• Seven People Have Been Entrusted With The Keys To The Internet.These smart cards are the actual keys to the Internet. There are seven of them and they hold the power to restarting the world wide web "in the event of a catastrophic event."

• Rare 3D film shows Warsaw devastated after WWII.Polish historians have created an unusual 3D film that documents the shocking sea of rubble that Warsaw was reduced to during World War II. Jan Oldakowski, the director of the Warsaw Uprising Museum, said the film "City of Ruins" is mainly meant for young people who do not realize the degree to which Poland's capital was destroyed from 1939-45.

• Snapshot of global internet speeds revealed.The fastest broadband city in the world is Masan in South Korea.

• U.S. Long-Term Debt Situation Is One of the World’s Worst.By 2030, the CBO projects that debt will more than double to 146 percent of GDP.If second term for Obama make that 2014.

• Saudi Arabia: Medical Clinic Specializes in Treating People Possessed by Demons…MAKKAH: A clinic in the Eastern Province that provides treatment to people possessed by jinns has volunteered to help Turki, a 29-year-old Saudi from Makkah who according to his father is possessed by a female jinn and has, as a result, been chained to a bed for more than six years.Welcome to A.D. 613.Windigo's-Mummies and Trolls not covered!

• Israel: Palestinians have set 'impossible' conditions for direct peace talks.Vice PM Shalom slams Palestinian terms for direct talks, AFP reports; Abbas expected to tell Arab League that indirect talks with Israel have not progressed enough to justify face-to-face negotiations.

• Oil tanker damaged by freak wave, not 'terrorist attack'.Ship's owners originally reported an explosion in the Strait of Hormuz.

• Ex-Nazi charged in deaths of 430,000 Jews.88-year-old German 3rd on most-wanted Nazis list.Samuel Kunz, 88, was informed last week of his indictment on charges including participation in the murder of 430,000 Jews at the Belzec death camp in occupied Poland, prosecutor Christoph Goeke said Wednesday. Kunz is believed to have served as a guard there from January 1942 to July 1943.

• Is Fighting for Smaller Government Racist?When the NAACP allowed itself to be used by the Democratic party to try and smear a grass roots movement for smaller government as racist, the resulting controversy shone a light on more than just racism by individuals associated with the NAACP, but with the organization's inability to delink class warfare from racism.

• Say argh! Prisoners forced to have teeth pulled out with no anaesthetic.With the pain etched across their faces, these inmates are forced to have their teeth extracted with no anaesthetic.It is part of a medical services programme which offers free dental care to prisoners with financial difficulties in Manila, Philippines.

• Weep for Britain: 1940 this is not.Today’s truly shocking and quite astoundingly stupid speech in Turkey has now laid bare the fathomless shallowness and frightening ignorance and idiocy of Britain’s new Prime Minister.I would call it a political Gallipoli.

• DEVELOPING: Coast Guard mishandling of emergency may have led to sinking of BP oil rig.An inquiry into the cause of the Deepwater Horizon rig's sinking on April 20 has revealed that the Coast Guard may have contributed to, rather than lessened, the chaos on board the rig following the explosion.

• Lucky escape for grizzly bear who comes face-to-face with Sarah Palin... she's only got a fishing rod in her hand!A gathering of "Mama bears?"

• YouTube signs local TV news deal.Partnership lets people living in San Francisco area upload photo or video reports for use by ABC7 News.