New York Times: Greek Debt Rating Cut to 'Junk' Status

FRANKFURT — Greece’s credit rating was lowered to junk status Tuesday by a leading credit agency, a decision that rocked financial markets and deepened fears that a debt crisis in Europe could spiral out of control.
The ratings agency, Standard & Poor’s, downgraded Greece’s long-term and short-term debt to non-investment status and cautioned that investors who bought Greek bonds faced dwindling odds of getting their money back if Greece defaulted or went through a debt restructuring. The move came shortly after S.&P. reduced Portugal’s credit rating and warned that more downgrades were possible. more...

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CNET: Lost iPhone prototype spurs police probe

CNET by Greg Sandoval and Declan McCullagh 


Silicon Valley police are investigating what appears to be a lost Apple iPhone prototype purchased by a gadget blog, a transaction that may have violated criminal laws, a law enforcement official told CNET on Friday.Apple has spoken to local police about the incident and the investigation is believed to be headed by a computer crime task force led by the Santa Clara County district attorney's office, the source said. Apple's Cupertino headquarters is in Santa Clara County, about 40 miles south of San Francisco. more...
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Times Online: "Don’t talk to aliens " warns Stephen Hawking

by Jonathan Leake 

The aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at least according to Stephen Hawking. He has suggested that extraterrestrials are almost certain to exist — but that instead of seeking them out, humanity should be doing all it that can to avoid any contact.
The suggestions come in a new documentary series in which Hawking, one of the world’s leading scientists, will set out his latest thinking on some of the universe’s greatest mysteries.
Alien life, he will suggest, is almost certain to exist in many other parts of the universe: not just in planets, but perhaps in the centre of stars or even floating in interplanetary space. [more...]

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ZDF-Frontal21: Sittenwidrig im öffentlichen Auftrag: Busfahrten mit Dumpinglöhnen

von H.- C. Schultze und Gregor Witt
Nach 35 Jahren verlor Klaus-Werner Stücken seinen Job. Weil er nichts anderes fand, heuerte er als Busfahrer an, fuhr für staatliche Auftraggeber – weit unter Tariflohn. Solche Dumpinglöhne aus öffentlicher Hand nehmen nicht nur bei Bustransporten immer mehr zu, kritisiert die Gewerkschaft Ver.di. mehr…

Handelsbatt: „Stunde des IWF schlägt“ – Athen stellt Hilfsantrag

Der Antrag Griechenlands auf Finanzhilfe steht unmittelbar bevor. Laut Medienberichten will Athen noch im Lauf des Vormittags formal um Unterstützung der EU-Staaten und des Internationalen Währungsfonds (IWF) bitten. Konkret geht es wohl zunächst um Hilfen in Höhe von bis zu 45 Mrd. Euro allein für dieses Jahr. mehr...

NASA: "Here comes the sun..." New Space Telescope Delivers First Mind-Blowing Video of the Sun - Neues Weltraumteleskop "SDO" sendet einzigartige Bilder von der Sonne

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