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| Apple says celebrity attacks were targeted, did not stem from systems breach | |  Apple Inc said on Tuesday the attacks that emerged over the Labor Day weekend on celebrities' iCloud accounts were individually targeted, and that none of the cases it investigated had resulted from a breach of its systems. "We have discovered that certain celebrity accounts were compromised by a very targeted attack on user names, passwords and security questions, a practice that has become all too common on the Internet," Apple said in a statement. "None of the cases we have investigated has resulted from any breach in any of Apple`s systems including iCloud or Find my iPhone." The company said it is working with law enforcement and continues to investigate the source of the attacks, in which photos of "Hunger Games" star Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities were posted on an image-sharing forum.
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| Islamic state issues video of beheading of US hostage | | | The Islamic State released a video purporting to show the beheading of American hostage Steven Sotloff, a monitoring service said on Tuesday, as the militant group raised the stakes in its confrontation with Washington over U.S. A masked figure in the video also issued a threat against a British hostage, a man the group named as David Haines, and warned governments to back off "this evil alliance of America against the Islamic State", the SITE monitoring service said. The purported executioner appeared to be the same British-accented man who appeared in an Aug. 19 video showing the killing of American journalist James Foley, and it showed a similar desert setting. |
| Video purporting to show beheading of U.S. hostage likely authentic - U.S. sources | | | A video released on Tuesday by the Islamic State militant group purporting to show the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff appears to be authentic although U.S. American officials said U.S. The video follows a similar incident last month with the beheading of U.S. |
| Singer Chris Brown pleads guilty to punching fan, says sorry | |  By Tom Ramstack WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown pleaded guilty on Tuesday to misdemeanor assault and told a court he was sorry for breaking the nose of a fan when the man tried to thrust himself into a picture with the R&B star last year. The "Turn Up the Music" singer was sentenced in District of Columbia Superior Court to time served in jail, or two days, and was ordered to pay $150 in court costs. As part of the plea agreement, Brown admitted to punching Parker Adams, 20, when he tried to put himself into other fans' photo outside Washington's W Hotel in October 2013. Brown's bodyguard Christopher Hollosy, 36, was convicted in April on an assault charge for the same incident.
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| Justin Bieber charged with assault, dangerous driving in Canada | |  By Allison Martell TORONTO (Reuters) - Pop star Justin Bieber was arrested and charged with assault and dangerous driving over the weekend after an incident near the small Canadian town where he grew up, local police said on Tuesday. The charges came after two drivers got into a "physical altercation" on Friday, the Perth County Ontario Provincial Police said in a release. Bieber was visiting the Canadian province with Selena Gomez, a pop singer and former Disney TV star. "Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez' peaceful retreat in Stratford this weekend was unfortunately disrupted by the unwelcome presence of paparazzi," said Bieber's lawyer, Brian Greenspan, in an emailed statement.
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| Saudi Arabia says it arrests 88 for preparing "terrorist" raids | | | By Angus McDowall RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has detained 88 people, more than half of them Saudis, on suspicion of plotting "terrorist" attacks at home and abroad, the interior ministry said on Tuesday. A ministry statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency said the ministry had been following a number of suspects in view of what it called the spread of "strife and sick ideas" that lured members of the community to "places of strife". Some of the suspects had links to the Islamic State group operating in Syria and Iraq, to the Nusra Front group in Syria or to the al Qaeda branch in Yemen, Ministry spokesman Major General Mansour Turki told Reuters after a news conference. "They showed their support to the organisations in Syria and Iraq and also in Yemen, and they wanted to get involved in their activities. |
| Celebrity lawyer tells clients to avoid using iCloud, smart devices | |  A leading celebrity lawyer has advised his clients not to use smartphones and the iCloud after intimate photos of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence and female entertainers and models were posted online following an apparent mass hacking. Martin Garbus, a New York trial lawyer who over the years has represented actors Al Pacino, Sean Connery, Robert Redford and others, said on Tuesday worried clients have approached him about security issues. "Everything on your iPhone, whether it be phone calls, message texts, pictures, is all available." Garbus said clients started to contact him after intimate photos of Lawrence, a star of "The Hunger Games" movie franchise and a best actress Academy Award winner for "Silver Linings Playbook," and other high-profile women began appearing on Sunday. Personal photos of Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Kate Upton and American actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead were also posted on the image-sharing forum 4chan.
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| Malaysia's Maxis denies wrongdoing after police charges | | | Malaysia's Maxis Communications Bhd, charged by Indian police in a telecoms scandal, denied any wrongdoing and said it would "vigorously" pursue all available legal remedies to defend itself and one of its directors. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed charges on Friday against a former minister, his media mogul brother and Malaysian tycoon T. Ananda Krishnan over alleged graft to help Maxis take control of an Indian mobile phone carrier in 2006. Krishnan's Usaha Tegas Sdn. Bhd. is the biggest shareholder in Maxis Communications (MCB). |
| Victims of Nazi "euthanasia" killings commemorated in Berlin | | | By Helen Cahill BERLIN (Reuters) - Some 300,000 people with physical or mental disabilities who were killed under Nazi Germany's "euthanasia" programme because their lives were deemed unworthy were commemorated on Tuesday with the opening of a memorial in Berlin. Relatives of the victims joined Mayor Klaus Wowereit and members of the public to lay wreaths and white roses in front of the 30-metre-(100-foot)-long, blue glass wall of the open-air memorial and permanent exhibition. The scheme was coordinated from offices next to Berlin's Tiergarten, where information about the forced sterilisations and murders is now presented on plaques. In the euthanasia programme's headquarters, doctors and administrators listed physically and mentally disabled patients to be killed, decided how it should be done, and devised ways to keep the murders secret. |
| Relatives of captured Iraqi soldiers storm parliament - witnesses | | | More than 100 relatives of Iraqi soldiers captured by Islamic State fighters broke into parliament armed with sticks, metal bars and stones on Tuesday to demand news of them, witnesses said. The crowd, mostly from Iraq's Shi'ite majority, smashed equipment, assaulted at least two staff members they mistook for lawmakers and refused to leave the building, said officials inside. A special forces unit came to remove them from the parliament," the employee said. Islamic State captured the soldiers in June at the start of its lightening advance through northern and central Iraq, where it declared an Islamic Caliphate and threatened to march on Baghdad. |
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