British government will not intervene to prevent extradition of computer hacker to US

November 25th, 2009 Man wanted in US on fraud charges denied UK bailLONDON — A former security consultant wanted in the U.S. on charges of defrauding a client of more than $2 million was refused bail in a British court Wednesday.

November 18th, 2009 British judge: Gitmo evidence can be kept secretLONDON — A judge says British spies have the right to keep evidence secret from a group of former Guantanamo prisoners suing the government for allegedly being complicit in their detention. The seven men allege they were tortured or abused at the U.S.

November 12th, 2009 LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, besieged by immigration issues six months ahead of elections, Thursday whittled down a list of jobs that are open to highly-skilled migrants, declaring: "Immigration will fall." Hospital consultants, civil engineers, aircraft engineers and ship's officers are to be removed from a tightly-regulated list of skills which Britain needs to recruit from abroad because it cannot meet its needs from its own population. Indians are among the top applicants for a limited number of jobs that are only open to highly-skilled workers from outside Europe under a Points Based System, but Brown's Labour government has been attacked by opposition parties for allowing in too many immigrants.

November 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Friday issued notice to the government and the Delhi Police over underworld gangster Abu Salem's plea that charges under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crimes Act (MCOCA) against him be dropped. Justice V.K.

October 29th, 2009 Fugitive banker extradited to ThailandVANCOUVER, British Columbia — Fugitive Thai banker Rakesh Saxena has been handed over to Thai authorities and is en route to Thailand after the Supreme Court of Canada turned down his request to hear his case, ending one of the longest extradition fights in Canadian history. Saxena has been fighting for 13 years to avoid being returned to Thailand to face charges he embezzled $88 million from a Bangkok bank.

October 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Underworld gangster Abu Salem Tuesday approached the Delhi High Court seeking to upturn the lower court's rejection of Delhi Police's plea to drop charges against him under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crimes Act (MCOCA) in a 2002 extortion case. In his petition through his counsel Arvind Shukla, Salem contended that he can only be charged under those sections that are in the extradition order.

October 12th, 2009 LONDON - The British government Monday criticised the global mining group Vedanta Resources, owned by Indian-born billionaire Anil Agarwal, for failing to consult tribal populations in Orissa before launching operations to mine bauxite. The government upheld complaints made by the NGO Survival International that Vedanta's operations in the sacred Nyamgiri Hills of Orissa breached guidelines drawn up by the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) - a grouping of the world's most industrialized nations.

October 9th, 2009 UK hacker's latest extradition appeal fails LONDON — A British man accused of hacking into U.S. military computers has failed in his latest bid to avoid extradition to the United States.

September 26th, 2009 Italian jury hears last testimonies in Knox trialROME — A computer expert testified Saturday in the murder trial of an American student and her former Italian boyfriend that someone had used the young man's computer, which the defense said might have erased data that could prove his innocence. Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito have denied killing Knox's British roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007, while Knox and Kercher were studying Italian in the northern city of Perugia.

September 26th, 2009 Italian jury hears last witnesses in Knox trialROME — The jury in the trial of an American college student and her former boyfriend accused of murdering her roommate has finished hearing evidence from witnesses. Among the last to testify Saturday before the court in Perugia was a computer expert who appeared as a defense witness.

September 25th, 2009 Man pleads gulity in Vt. in border child porn caseBURLINGTON, Vt.

September 25th, 2009 Man pleads guilty in Vt. in border child porn caseBURLINGTON, Vt.

September 18th, 2009 British woman on Texas death row loses appealHOUSTON — A British woman on Texas death row has lost a federal appeal, moving her closer to execution for the abduction and death of a woman whose child she also had snatched eight years ago in Houston. The court, in a ruling late Thursday, rejected arguments from Linda Carty that her trial lawyers were deficient and she still had appeals issues she should be able to raise in state courts.

September 16th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - A 23-year-old British student has alleged she was being humiliated in a city court that was holding a trial after she was allegedly molested. The woman has written to Gujarat High Court Chief Justice K.S.

September 11th, 2009 Hacker pleads guilty to huge theft of card numbersBOSTON — A computer hacker who was once a federal informant and was a driving force behind one of the largest cases of identity theft in U.S. history pleaded guilty Friday in a deal with prosecutors that will send him to prison for up to 25 years.