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Aarushi Talwar Murder: The Inside Story of India's Most
Controversial Trial
Shree Paradkar • The
Toronto Star
On the killing of a
13-year-old girl and how her parents came to be charged with murder.
Sex. Illicit affairs. Murder. Indian media, which combines British tabloid sensibility with U.S. cable's cutthroat competitiveness, snapped it up and fed it to a gossip-hungry audience, catapulting the crime to the top of the news cycle and making Aarushi a household name.
"India's JonBenet Ramsey case??" asked a Time magazine headline.
Four-and-a-half years, one state police force, two federal investigative teams, two sets of suspects, five arrests and countless fumbles later, Aarushi's murder remains unsolved.
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Hackers in China Attacked the Times for Last 4 Months
Nicole Perlroth • New
York Times
The paper of record reports on a
battle of its own.
The mounting number of attacks that have been traced back to China suggest that hackers there are behind a far-reaching spying campaign aimed at an expanding set of targets including corporations, government agencies, activist groups and media organizations inside the United States. The intelligence-gathering campaign, foreign policy experts and computer security researchers say, is as much about trying to control China's public image, domestically and abroad, as it is about stealing trade secrets.
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