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Jumper kills 5-year-old : As the Tragic event took place in when a man Jump off building to Suicide. Reports suggests that a 5-year-old South Korean girl was killed when a man who jumped from his 11th floor apartment and landed on top of her, police said. The incident took place Wednesday in Busan, a port city in the southern part of the country. A police official said the 39-year-old man died immediately after he jumped Wednesday from the 11th floor of the building in the southeastern port city of Busan. The girl died later from brain damage and broken bones. The official who spoke Friday declined to be named because the case is still under investigation. The official says it’s unclear why the man jumped. He says witnesses saw the man jumping but there was no suicide note. South Korea has one of the highest suicide rates among economically advanced countries.

0 shares 31 View comments One sunny day, a Google camera car drove past my house in West Sussex, taking photos for its Street View project. It snapped my garden wall, my front gate, my garden and several angles of the house itself. Those clever people at Google didn’t ask me if I wanted them to do this. They didn’t ask anybody. They’re Google. They do whatever they like. When the pictures went online, they provided any would-be burglar with a handy guide to the best ways into my home. What I did not realise until very recently, however, is that the first ‘burglar’ to benefit could have been Google itself. Taking more than pictures: A Google street-mapping car in Bristol Many civil rights campaigners have warned that people are in the dark about how Google's new privacy policy could affect them For the very same system that collected all the photographic data was also acting as a high-tech bugging device, potentially harvesting data from my family’s comp

9 View comments We have more ways to communicate than ever - but wouldn't it be simpler just to talk? Just out of curiosity, when did speech cease to be an acceptable means of communication between one human being and another? I’ve lost count of the times that one or other of my children – aged from 14-24 – has moaned at me that their boyfriend won’t answer a Facebook message, or their landlord hasn’t replied to a text, or that they don’t know when they’ve got to hand in their History homework. I, being a million years old, naturally reply, ‘Well why don’t you call and find out if he still loves you/if the broadband’s going to be fixed/if anyone else in the class knows what’s happening?’ They look at me as if I’m mad. What? TALK to someone? Who does anything as old-fashioned as that any more? No one, apparently. According to the latest research, we all now text one another more often than we speak, either by phone or face-to-face. That’s before you add

0 shares 40 View comments Killing interpersonal interaction? Britons send over 3 billion texts a week Exactly 20 years ago on December 3, 1992, Neil Papworth, a 22-year-old technician was sitting at a computer terminal in Vodafone’s Newbury HQ, where the company were having their Christmas party. Imbued with festive spirit, Papworth sent the telenote message ‘Merry Christmas’ from his computer to technical director Richard Jarvis’s Orbitel 901 phone. Little did he know that two decades later, telenotes would be called texts; the trillions sent around the world would generate an annual £73.5 billion; 3 billion texts a week would be sent in the UK alone ... and absolutely nobody would text ‘Christmas’ when ‘Xmas’ would do. Texts have changed the way we write, obliterating conventional punctuations and replacing properly spelled words with abbreviations, initials and ‘emoticon’ smiley symbols. Last year the word ‘sexting’ (sending explicit images of yourself with a t

0 shares 575 View comments So, if you thought you had heard the last of Tony Blair as a major political player, think again. In the past few weeks, speculation has been growing that the man who ran Britain for ten years after 1997, invaded Iraq and departed office in virtual disgrace, is on the comeback trail. In Brussels, bureaucrats swap rumours about his eagerness to become president of the European Union. In the German press, Mr Blair has been waxing lyrical about his commitment to the EU. And in interviews for British newspapers, he has pointedly remarked that he wishes that he had been offered the presidency when it came up in 2009. Comeback king: Blair, seen here at The Olympic Stadium, has, all summer long, been orchestrating a comeback, arranging meetings and organising interviews in sympathetic newspapers To most sane observers, of course, the most striking thing about all this is the former prime minister’s extraordinary lack of self-knowledge. Perhaps

0 shares 83 View comments There were two big winners from this week’s Labour Party conference. One was Ed Miliband, whose set-piece speech, delivered fluently and without notes, passed off better than even his admirers could have imagined. The other was a man who has been dead for more than a century, but still casts a shadow over British politics. By any standards, Benjamin Disraeli, whose spirit the Labour leader invoked with such fervour, was an extraordinary figure. 'One Nation': Miliband claimed that Tories have 'One rule for those at the top, another rule for everybody else. Two nations, not one.' He was Britain’s only Jewish Prime Minister and one of the founders of the modern Conservative Party. In his two spells in office in the 1860s and 1870s, he invaded Afghanistan and made Queen Victoria Empress of India. He was a brilliant speaker, an accomplished novelist and a flamboyant showman. But not even someone with Disraeli’s gargantuan self

34 View comments For those of us who care about the survival of Britain’s great institutions, the decline of Royal Mail has been one of the saddest stories of recent times. The Royal Mail was once a vital artery of our national infrastructure, playing a central role in building a modern, industrial society. Cheap, reliable and efficient, it was the envy of the world. Doomed? A book of first class stamps may soon be a collectors item if plans by Ofcom to scrap them go ahead How times have changed. Indeed, nothing better captures its decline than yesterday’s shameful news that Ofcom, the industry regulator, is pressing for the abolition of first-class post. Under Ofcom’s proposals, the first-class stamp, which usually means next-day delivery, would simply disappear. Instead, there would be just one class of stamps — and letters would take two days to arrive. Tragedy It may sound like a small change, but I think Ofcom’s proposal sums up the tragedy of one of the venerabl

0 shares 444 View comments The population of Britain will rocket to nearly 80 million by 2050 — an increase of a third — according to an authoritative new projection by the Population Reference Bureau. It’s a chilling prospect and has sparked renewed debate about mass immigration. Last week, the Economist magazine called the Tories’ attempts to limit immigration their ‘barmiest policy’, and complained Britain ‘has, in effect, installed a “keep out” sign over the white cliffs of Dover’. But is it wrong to want tighter controls over our borders? Here, a leading historian imagines what life could be like 38 years from now . . . Dawn is breaking over London. As the pale sunlight filters weakly through the smog, the streets are already teeming with grey-suited commuters, trudging in line towards the city’s call centres. The baby boom: What will Britain look like in 2050 when experts predict the population will have reached 80 million Overhead, the air is thick with th

0 shares 105 View comments After a week dominated by the terrible effects of Superstorm Sandy, the increasingly bitter struggle between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney and the continuing fallout from the Jimmy Savile scandal, it was easy to overlook a little story about an obscure Greek journalist called Kostas Vaxevanis. In its way, though, the ordeal of Mr Vaxevanis, the editor of an Athens magazine, who narrowly escaped prison for publishing the names of suspected tax evaders, is the biggest story of all. Its themes — the freedom of the Press, the corruption of the establishment, the arrogance of the elite and the terrifying storm engulfing the economies of Europe — go to the heart of a crisis that threatens to tear the Continent apart. Assault on free speech: Greek editor Kostas Vaxevanis was arrested for naming individuals evading tax But the Vaxevanis scandal is merely the tip of the iceberg. From the Leveson Inquiry in London to the attempted comeback of form