"LONDON (AFP) — Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Wednesday won a narrow victory in a parliamentary vote over widely-opposed anti-terrorism plans, after last-minute bids to woo rebels.

The knife-edge vote on proposals to increase the maximum pre-charge detention period for suspected extremists from 28 days to 42 was passed by 315 to 306 after intense debate in the lower House of Commons."

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hj7Sy7eaNLImOrt45CBFMgImSqFQ

"An Australian drugs trial lasting more than three months and costing taxpayers over A$1 million ($947,000) has been aborted after a number of jurors were found to have spent up to half the time playing Sudoku puzzles.

Sydney District Court Judge Peter Zahra cancelled the trial of two men on drugs conspiracy charges after the jury foreperson admitted that four to five jurors had been playing the addictive number sequence game, local media reported. The judge was alerted after some of the jurors were observed writing their notes vertically, rather than horizontally. "

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080611/od_nm/sudoku_dc

"Belgian brewer InBev is offering a big payday to shareholders of Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc., but its bid to create the world's largest beer company is already facing a major obstacle — U.S. election-year politics."

""Shareholders should resist choosing dollars over American jobs," Martin said in a statement Wednesday night. "Selling out to the Belgians is not worth it — because this is about more than beer: it's about our jobs and our nation.""

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080612/ap_on_bi_ge/anheuser_busch_inbev

"Ira Isaacs readily admits he produced and sold movies depicting bestiality and sexual activity involving feces and urine. The judge warned potential jurors that the hours of fetish videos included violence against women, and many of them said they don't want to serve because watching would make them sick to their stomachs."

""There's no question the stuff is disgusting," said Diamond, who has spent much of his career representing pornographers. "The question is should we throw people in jail for it?""

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080610/ap_on_re_us/obscenity_or_art

>>

Chief Judge in Obscenity Case Caught Posting Porn Junior Field Reporter 08/06/11(Wed)15:18 No.6977   File: 1213222724074.jpg -(26111 B, 350x226) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. >>6963 A top federal judge who is presiding over an obscenity trial in Los Angeles has been caught posting explicit photos and videos to his web site. The judge told the Los Angeles Times that he didn't think the site was publicly accessible. Alex Kozinski (at right), a conservative appointee of former president Ronald Reagan who is chief of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, posted a photo of naked women standing on all fours and painted to look like cows, as well as a video of a half-naked man with a farm animal. A step-by-step pictorial depicted a woman shaving her pubic hair and other images showed masturbation and what the Times called "contortionist sex." http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/chief-judge-in.html

"France is joining at least five other countries where Internet service providers block access to child pornography and to content linked to terrorism and racial hatred, the French interior minister said Tuesday.

The agreement will take effect in September. A blacklist will be compiled based on input from Internet users who flag sites containing offensive material"

""We can no longer tolerate the sexual exploitation of children in the form of child pornography," Alliot-Marie said."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080610/ap_on_hi_te/france_child_pornography

"A 39-year-old Frenchman is to attempt a world first Tuesday by crossing the Channel on board a pedal-powered airship.

Weather permitting, Stephane Rousson will leave Dungeness beach in southeastern England at 3:30 am (0230 GMT) and hopes to reach northern France, 55 kilometres (33 miles) away five hours later."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080609/od_afp/francebritainsportoffbeat_080609195646

http://rawstory.com/news08/2008/06/10/social-security-debit-cards-debut/

“No bank account? No problem. Now you can have your Social Security benefits loaded directly onto an electronic debit card that works like a gift card from Uncle Sam,” the Washington Post’s Lori Montgomery writes Tuesday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7442644.stm

Six suitcases packed with suspected gold dust and about £30m in cash have been found during searches of safety deposit centres in London, police say.

Detectives also found heroin and cocaine, evidence linked to child sex abuse and forged passports.

"Nearly two weeks after its historic landing, scientists operating the U.S. Mars probe Phoenix are still trying to deliver a soil sample into one of the instruments, mission scientists said Monday."

"Though images relayed back to Earth showed the dirt sitting on top of TEGA, detectors inside the instrument indicated that none of the soil particles had fallen through the screen at the entrance to the oven.

According to scientists, the soil could be clumping together for several reasons, including the presence of salts that bind the material together or moisture in the soil that developed during landing and cemented the particles together. These factors, combined with the large amount of dirt delivered to the instrument, seem to be keeping the sample from getting in the oven for heating."

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7011221168

Turn on C-SPAN, Kucinich has introduced articles to impeach Bush.

Image unrelated.