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RBS investment chief John Hourican to resign and waive £4m bonus

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The Telegraph - 2/06/13, By Helia Ebrahimi, and Harry Wilson

The head of Royal Bank of Scotland’s investment banking arm is set to give up a bonus pot worth £4m as he resigns from the lender over its involvement in Libor-rigging.

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John Hourican is expected to leave the bank at the end of the month, with a successor to be announced in due course Photo: Getty Images
 

John Hourican, chief executive of markets and international banking, will leave the bank with the minimum pay-off to which he is entitled – a year’s basic salary of £700,000 – as he becomes the most senior executive at the taxpayer-backed lender to leave his job in the wake of the rate-rigging scandal.

Bangladesh politician jailed for war crimes

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Aljazeera.com - 2/05/13

Abdul Qader Molla, senior Jamaat-e-Islami party leader, sentenced to life for crimes against humanity during 1971 war.

Activists from Mollah's party clashed with police in the capital Dhaka following the announcement of the verdict
 

A Bangladesh war-crimes tribunal has sentenced a senior leader of the country's biggest Islamist party to life in prison, the second verdict in trials that have reopened wounds about the country's independence war and sparked riots.

 Abdul Qader Mollah, 64, was found guilty on Tuesday of charges including murder, rape, torture and arson during Bangladesh's war to break away from Pakistan in 1971.

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Peregrine’s Wasendorf Gets 50 Years for Theft of Millions

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Bloomberg.com - 1/31/13, By Karen Gullo & Edvard Pettersson

Russell Wasendorf Sr., the founder of the bankrupt commodities firm Peregrine Financial Group Inc., was sentenced to 50 years in prison for what prosecutors said was a theft of more than $215 million from customers.

Wasendorf, 64, was sentenced today in federal court in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Acting U.S. Attorney Sean Berry said in a statement. The financier used a printer, software and a post office box to create false bank statements and other documents and hide his 20-year embezzlement starting in the early 1990s, prosecutors said.

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Secret Door, Chambers, Discovered at Machu Picchu

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Red Ice Creations By Elizabeth Leafloor 2013 02 05

Machu Picchu - Many brave the reaching altitudes and rugged, mountainous terrain to experience the wondrous ancient city of Machu Picchu.
Some however aren’t there for tourism, but because they’ve made exploration and archaeology their life’s work.

It’s been announced that a team of French, Peruvian and Spanish researchers have located a secret door and chambers hidden within the depths of the mysterious site.

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Federal Reserve hacked

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The Guardian - 2/06/13, Reuters in Washington and Boston

US central bank confirms intrusion after hacktivist group Anonymous was claimed to have stolen 4,000 bankers' details

The US Federal Reserve has admitted its computer systems were hacked.

The US Federal Reserve has admitted its computer systems were hacked. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty
 

The US Federal Reserve bank has confirmed one of its internal websites was broken into by hackers after the hacktivist group Anonymous was claimed to have stolen details of more than 4,000 bank executives.

Deep Impact Images Spectacular incoming Comet ISON – Curiosity & NASA Armada Will Try

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UniverseToday.com - Ken Kremer, 2/06/13

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Image Caption: This image of comet ISON (C/2012 S1) ) from NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft clearly shows the coma and nucleus on Jan. 17/18, 2013 beyond the orbit of Jupiter. See the dramatic movie sequence below. It combines all 146 80-second clear filter exposures for a total integration time of 11680 seconds (about 3.25 hours). Individual frames were shifted to align the comet at the center before coadding. By keeping the comet centered and adding all of the images together, the stars effectively get smeared so the long streaks are the trails of background stars. Some have called it the “Comet of the Century.” Credit: NASA

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