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Revision Note: V1.1 (March 11, 2011): Revised Executive Summary to reflect investigation of limited, targeted attacks. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation into public reports of this vulnerability. We have issued MS11-026 to address this issue. For more information about...

The routine op should have been a snip - but Veronika Cruz, 35, was left in agony for three years after surgeons left a huge pair of scissors inside her. Bungling medics had left the eight-inch long scissors behind during an operation to remove her ovaries in Sao Paulo, Brazil. But...

The Marin Humane Society is investigating allegations that a dog was fatally poisoned by alcohol and marijuana during an unsupervised juvenile party in Mill Valley. Tamalpais High School contacted authorities this week after picking up campus rumors about the dog's death at a large party in...

Police on Friday arrested a man in connection with a string of burglaries near Campolindo High School in January. Joran Taylor Furst, a 24-year-old parolee from Pacheco, has been charged by the district attorney's office with three counts of first-degree burglary and one count each of petty...

Microsoft plans to file a formal complaint with the European Commission Thursday, accusing Google of abusing its position as the region's dominant search engine. The software giant -- once subject to its own landmark antitrust investigation in the United States and Link Removed -- claimed in...

Link Removed due to 404 Error The FBI is investigating what might be a bullet hole, discovered in the side of a US Airways Group Inc plane this week, the airline said Wednesday. The small hole in the Boeing 737-400 was found by a pilot Monday at the Charlotte/Douglas International...

Two City workers Sebastian Marsh and Harry Fildes have been suspended after being caught up in an email sex scandal. Marsh asked friend Fildes if it was OK to ‘have a go’ at his ‘hot’ ex-girlfriend and flatmate Miss Palmer, and he received replies insulting her. Fildes went as far as...

DETROIT (Reuters) – A package found by a security guard at a U.S. federal office building in Detroit sat three for weeks before someone thought to screen it and found it was a bomb, an official who represents unionized guards said on Wednesday. A private contract guard, since suspended...

Police say that package exploded next to Egged bus 74 opposite Binyanei Ha'uma in central Jerusalem; Netanyahu delaying departure for Moscow. An explosion took place on or near a bus in central Jerusalem Wednesday afternoon. Police said that a bomb exploded outside Egged bus number 74 at...

Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) claimed credit on Thursday for taking down one of the biggest producers of spam e-mail in a joint effort with federal authorities across the United States. The world's biggest software company said its legal action against the operator of the Rustock 'botnet' -- or...

Police hope a man in Florida will think long and hard before he prank calls 911 again. Investigators in Broward County say 28-year-old Matthew Wade Douglas Jr. is responsible for two obscene 911 calls in which a man graphically described symptoms -- and raunchy home remedies -- following an...

For many shoppers, a trip to Walmart can be a way to save money. But for Douglas Brian Osborne, it was allegedly a way to make money -- using a printer to counterfeit $600 in funny money. Investigators in Gainesville, Fla., say Osborne purchased a printer from the Lake City megastore on March...

Maybe the price of gas was just too high for this suspected car thief. A woman was arrested Friday morning after the car she allegedly stole from a Seattle dealership ran out of gas. An officer spotted the car being driven erratically around 105th Street and Aurora Avenue North around 7...

An officer was walking in to the Stoughton bank as an alleged robber was running out, and he chased him down. It only took 90 seconds for the robber to walk in the front doors of the bank until he was in handcuffs. As he was walking out with the cash he walked by a police officer, who was...

A Malaysian landlord received a rather unpleasant surprise when he went to collect rent from some tenants and found his property had disappeared. All that remained of Zuria Ali's house, which he had inherited from his parents, were 24 concrete pillar holders, a smashed TV and pieces of...

A rocket carrying a satellite designed to help scientists study the Earth's climate suffered a technical failure and may have crashed into the southern Pacific Ocean. Now NASA, which attempted to launch the rocket early Friday morning, has convened an investigative committee to figure out...

IDG News Service - A Nevada student who gave the opening address at his high school graduation last year has been charged with breaking into his school district's computer system and bumping up his classmates' grades for a fee. Police say Tyler Coyner, 19, was the ringleader in a group of 13...

A ' sex toy show' at Northwestern University in Chicago featured a woman being brought to orgasm by a machine-powered saw that had a dildo where the blade would normally be. As a group of around 100 students looked on, the naked woman was penetrated by the phallic object in a human...

Candles arranged on the floor for a voodoo ceremony caused a five-alarm fire that ripped through a Brooklyn apartment building last week, killing a 64-year-old woman and injuring 20 firefighters, the FDNY said Friday. Fire marshals said the fire began around 6:40 p.m. on Feb. 20, when a...

Link Removed - Invalid URL Guangfu Zhoa allegedly strangled his girlfriend at the Stamford Town Center February 23, 2011. She retaliated by stabbing him the back. A Stamford couple are facing charges after a dispute over a phone bill lead to a stabbing. The incident started Wednesday...