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The commander of the Navy's Carrier Strike Group 15, based in San Diego, has been fired due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command amid allegations that he used his government computer to watch pornography. Rear Admiral Rick Williams was removed from his position on Friday, a Navy release stated. Williams was relieved of his duties by 3rd Fleet boss Vice Adm. Nora Tyson after just six months in the position "based on the initial findings of an ongoing investigation into the alleged misuse of government computer equipment." Williams was found to have looked at pornographic images on his government computer during a routine inspection, according to The Navy Times source. While this violated Navy rules, the misuse of the computer did not involve any classified material and the investigation is ongoing, the source added. "They have enough information to say it wasn't just a mistake," the source said. "It was extensive enough that they knew it was not just an error." Williams had been the head of Carrier Strike Group 15 since June. Its mission is to train Pacific Fleet Carrier Strike Groups, Amphibious Ready Groups, and independently deploy surface ships prior to deployment. Prior to this he commanded Navy Region Hawaii and Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific from 2013 through 2015. Captain Chris Barnes will serve as a temporary replacement at CSG 15 until a permanent replacement is named. Williams, who has 16 military awards, is the first senior commander fired since 2013 when Stennis strike group commander Rear Adm. Chuck Gaouette was ousted on deployment in the Middle East. He was accused of misconduct including foul language, flipping off lieutenants, speculation that black admirals were chosen because of their race and sending fellow officers a racially-charged email about a black sailor. Source https://www.rt.com/usa/328412-navy-officer-fired-porn/ -
A sheepish driver has apologised to a petrol station after he sparked a large blaze when trying to kill a spider with his lighter as he filled up. The motorist can be heard on surveillance video at the garage in suburban Detroit looking at the car and asking: "Is that a spider in there?" Flames are then seen erupting along the car's side, the pump and the pavement as the man darts to safety. Petrol station attendant Susan Adams hit the stop button on the pump and called firefighters, but the man had used a fire extinguisher to put out the flames by the time they arrived. He escaped injury and his vehicle suffered little damage, but the petrol pump was destroyed. Ms Adams said the man returned to say sorry the next day. "He was sorry, he said he didn't know," she told WJBK TV. "It is just one of those things that happen - stupidity." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSrwQ-d090g Source http://news.sky.com/
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Jenna Coleman, who plays Doctor Who's assistant Clara Oswald, has announced that she is leaving the show. There were rumours earlier this week that Coleman was preparing to exit the BBC's long-running sci-fi adventure series, but she has now confirmed the news. "It’s been in the works for a very long time," she said during an interview on Nick Grimshaw’s Radio 1 show. "Steven [showrunner Stephen Moffat] and I sat down a year and a half ago and tried to work out the best place to do it, and the best place to tell a really good story. Hopefully that's what we've done. "I think it's really cool. Obviously we're not going to give away any details, but it will happen at some point this season." "There's not a lot of jobs where you get to go to work and have a spaceship, and an alien is your best mate, and also run away from monsters," she told Grimshaw. "You kind of think this job is only going to happen once. It's been so much fun." Coleman joined the show in 2012, when Matt Smith was playing the Doctor. She remained by the Timelord's side when he regenerated in 2014 into current star Peter Capaldi. Her decision to quit the show coincides with the announcement that she is to play Queen Victoria in an eight-part mini-series for British channel ITV. Source http://www.gamespot.com/
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A truck was left hanging off the edge of a US highway after a bridge collapsed over the weekend. Footage shows the vehicle hanging off the buckled section of the bridge and sitting in fast-flowing waters. The bridge slumped in floodwaters caused by a severe storm. Reports say that a passenger inside the truck was able to escape but the driver, who has moderate head injuries, had to be rescued by firefighters. The Interstate 10, which connects southern California and Phoenix, is a vital road used by 27,000 vehicles on an average day. Source http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
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Paul Pelton, who filmed two injured teens. What would you do if you witnessed a crashed car? Would you try to help the victims? Or would you merely take out your phone, enter the crashed car, film the injured and then put the video on Facebook? The latter describes the accusations leveled at 41-year-old Paul Pelton of Lorain, Ohio. As the Northeast Ohio Media Group reports, a Honda sedan was traveling quickly toward a level crossing. The driver lost control, and the car went off the road and crashed into a house. It caught fire, and local residents rushed to help. Police say that Pelton took out his cell phone, began filming the teens as they lay injured, and then entered the crashed vehicle through the back door to film some more. Lorain Police Det. Buddy Sivert told the Northeast Ohio Media Group: "He went right in after the crash, before the rescuers or police arrived." In a Facebook post, the police said: "While others were rendering aid to these boys, a male took the opportunity to video this horrible scene with his cell phone. In the video, the male makes comments that the boys were 'idiots,' and holds his cell phone so that he can film these two boys who were in medical crisis. The male then opens the back door of this vehicle and leans in to continue capturing video." One of the teens, 17-year-old Cameron Friend, died of his injuries. Police say that Pelton posted his video to Facebook under the name Paul Santucci. It has now been taken down. He also is said to have offered it to various news groups, in exchange for money. The tricky part with respect to the law is that the police could only charge him with vehicle trespass. This is a fourth-degree misdemeanor. ABC 13 reported that Pelton said in a video of apology also posted to Facebook: "I just wanted to educate people to slow down. I didn't do that to have some type of gore video." Of course not. The Lorain Police, on the other hand, added this on Facebook: "The Lorain Police Department would like to remind citizens that they are allowed and encouraged to help one another in emergencies if they can do so safely, and that rendering aid or comfort to a dying young man and his severely injured friend is a commendable and kindly act. Persons are not, however, allowed to trespass into a person's vehicle criminally and without permission for the seemingly singular cause of filming, a young man's dying moments, for profit." Source http://www.cnet.com/
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A cyberattack on the US government's personnel office compromised the data of up to 4 million current and former federal employees, officials said Thursday. The FBI said it is investigating a hack of network security at the Office of Personnel Management. Federal officials suspect Chinese hackers are behind the data breach, believed to be the largest in a recent wave of attacks targeting federal agencies, according to The Wall Street Journal. "The FBI is working with our interagency partners to investigate this matter," the FBI said in a statement. "We take all potential threats to public and private sector systems seriously, and will continue to investigate and hold accountable those who pose a threat in cyberspace." The Chinese consulate in San Francisco did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Investigators told the Journal that the hack, detected in April, is believed to be separate from an attack detected last year. The New York Times reported last year that Chinese hackers worked their way into US government servers in March 2014 in an attempt to steal information on thousands of federal employees with top-secret clearance. Computer hacking is a sore subject between the US and China. Both countries have publicly accused each other of breaking in to servers to steal information. In May 2014, the US Justice Department filed charges against five alleged Chinese military hackers. They are charged with hacking American corporations and stealing information. China has denied the allegations. The security breach is the latest in a recent wave of cyberattacks that have targeted government agencies and that are suspected of originating overseas. After a security breach of an unclassified network used by White House advisers was revealed last year, suspicion immediately fell on hackers thought to be working for the Russian government. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which includes the National Weather Service, also revealed last year that four of its websites were compromised by an "Internet-sourced attack." Chinese government hackers were suspected in that attack, as well as one on the US Postal Service, in which data for more than 800,000 employees was compromised. The Office of Personnel Management is the federal government's human resources department, responsible for conducting the majority of the government's background checks for security clearances, among other responsibilities. The agency said it detected the intrusion in April and has since added additional security defenses to its network. "The intrusion predated the adoption of the tougher security controls," the OPM said in a statement. The OPM also said it plans to notify approximately 4 million individuals whose personally identifiable information may have been compromised in the breach. The agency also warned that additional exposure of personal information may still come to light. "We take very seriously our responsibility to secure the information stored in our systems, and in coordination with our agency partners, our experienced team is constantly identifying opportunities to further protect the data with which we are entrusted," OPM Director Katherine Archuleta said in a statement. Source http://www.cnet.com/
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In his final years hiding in a compound in Pakistan, Osama bin Laden was a man who at once showed great love and interest in his own family while he coldly drew up quixotic plans for mass casualty attacks on Americans, according to documents seized by Navy SEALs the night he was killed. On Wednesday morning, the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an unprecedented number of documents from what U.S. officials have described as the treasure-trove picked up by the SEALs at bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2, 2011. Totaling 103 documents, they include the largest repository of correspondence ever released between members of bin Laden's immediate family and significant communications between bin Laden and other leaders of al Qaeda as well as al Qaeda's communications with terrorist groups around the Muslim world. Also released was a list of bin Laden's massive digital collection of English-language books, think tank reports and U.S. government documents, numbering 266 in total. To the end bin Laden remained obsessed with attacking Americans. In an undated letter he told jihadist militants in North Africa that they should stop "insisting on the formation of an Islamic state" and instead attack U.S. embassies in Sierra Leone and Togo and American oil companies. Bin Laden offered similar advice to the al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen, telling it to avoid targeting Yemeni police and military targets and instead prioritize attacks on American targets. Much of bin Laden's advice either didn't make it to these groups or was simply ignored because al Qaeda affiliates in Yemen and North Africa continued to attack local targets. ISIS, of course, didn't exist at the time bin Laden was writing. The group, which now controls a large swath of territory in the Middle East, grew out of al Qaeda in Iraq and has charted a different path, seeking to create an Islamic state and not prioritizing attacks on the United States and its citizens. Taken together, these documents and reading materials paint a complex, nuanced portrait of the world's most wanted man in the years before he was killed in the raid on his compound. In the letters that bin Laden exchanged with his many sons and daughters, he emerges as a much-loved and admired father who doted on his children. And in a letter he sent to one of his wives, he even comes off as a lovelorn swain. That's in sharp contrast to the letters bin Laden sent to al Qaeda leaders that demanded mass casualty attacks against American targets and insisted that al Qaeda affiliates in the Middle East stop wasting their time on attacks against local government targets. "The focus should be on killing and fighting the American people," bin Laden emphasized. Bin Laden watches TV at his Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound in a frame grab from an undated video from the Pentagon. Source http://edition.cnn.com/
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Security camera footage shows would-be robber Michael Meadows fleeing a noxious cloud after trying to hold up a chemists Michael Kevin Meadows accidentally pepper sprays himself foiling a robbery attempt A hapless would-be robber accidentally pepper sprayed himself while attempting to hold up a pharmacy. Michael Kevin Meadows, 43, entered the Bypass Pharmacy in Beaver, West Virginia wearing full camouflage, a paintball mask, and wide-brimmed hat. According to police he released pepper spray in an attempt to subdue employees who were working in the business at the time. He then moved forward to the counter and into the cloud of pepper spray meaning he breathed it in. Video footage from security cameras showed him being overcome by the spray at which point he had to turn and flee. Meadows was seen staggering outside and was then driven away in a car, a 2005 GMC Denali, by an accomplice. The driver of the car was later tracked down by police and told them all the details of the failed robbery. He identified Meadows as the would-be robber in the attack on Tuesday, police said. Meadows was then arrested and has been charged with attempted robbery. He is in Southern Regional Jail and a judge set bail at $100,000. A spokesman for the Bypass Pharmacy said the business was open and safe for customers. Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
