| Oakland shooting fuels anger over police brutality (AP) [15 mins][Piedmont, CA] AP - The videotaped killing of an unarmed black man by a transit police officer here has inflamed long-running tensions between police and many African-American residents. | Face scanners to be introduced in British schools in new 'Big Brother' row [1 hr][Sunderland] Laura Bailey, 11, uses what is thought to be Europe's first Iris scanner in the canteen of Sunderland's Venerable Bede School, Wednesday July 9, 2003. The school is the first to use the new system, to allow pupils to buy their school meals without using any cash. The technology will secretly pick out poorer pupils who are entitled to free meals from those who have to pay, who will be charged in a separate account which is hoped will save less well-off students from embarrassment and lead to greater equality among classmates. See PA Story SCIENCE Scanner. PA Photo: Owen Humphreys. |