Apple's iCloud exposes iPhone thief

iPhone user Katy McCaffrey was on board a Disney cruise last month when her smartphone was stolen. But Apple's iCloud service helped her get it back. She did not recover the phone but apparently after the theft, new photos from the thief kept appearing in her iCloud account. The thief was actually taking photos with her iPhone. The iCloud service automatically uploads photos taken on the iPhone onto the cloud, which can then be viewed on other Apple devices. McCaffrey then decided to upload the photos to her Facebook account. The album was named "Stolen iPhone Adventures". According to reports, the Facebook album has gone viral and has attracted news coverage. For now, McCaffrey will get her iPhone back when the ship returns to shore. Source: digitalone

Official arrested for raping over 10 girls

Police in central China detained a former Communist Party official on suspicion of raping underage girls. Li Xingong, who was the party's deputy head in Yongcheng city of Henan province, is accused of sexually assaulting more than ten girls during police interrogations, the official Xinhua news agency reported. City authorities have "ordered swift and severe punishment on the suspect in accordance with relevant laws", the report added. The case has been widely discussed on China's wildly popular Twitter-like microblogging site Weibo, after reports about the rapes naming him as the perpetrator began circulating online over the past week. "Officials these days are all like this. It's really terrible," wrote one netizen. "These dog officials are everywhere. Only execution will sate the public's anger," wrote another. Source and image: Reuters

Aliens won't enslave humans

Will aliens endanger Earth like in movies? One alien hunter says not likely. Extraterrestrial intelligence that is evolved enough to reach Earth probably will not want to enslave or attack humans, according to renowned astronomer Jill Tarter. Tarter, outgoing director of Center for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute, said such alien species would have technology so advanced that they would not need slaves, food, or other planets, Space.com reported. Tarter said she disagree with famous British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking who said in 2010 that extraterrestrial life is likely to be predatory and could try to exploit Earth’s resources. “If aliens were to come here, it would be simply to explore. Considering the age of the universe, we probably wouldn’t be their first extraterrestrial encounter, either.” Source: Korea Herald

Burning protest in Tibet

Two men set themselves on fire outside a temple that is a popular tourist destination in Lhasa, marking the first time a recent wave of self-immolations to protest Chinese rule has reached the tightly guarded Tibetan capital. The official Xinhua News Agency said one of the men died and the other was hospitalised after they set themselves ablaze on Sunday outside the Jokhang Temple. The report quoted a local Communist Party official as blaming the incident on separatist forces. Xinhua said the men were swifty removed by authorities within two minutes of burning themselves. There have been at least 34 immolations since March of last year to draw attention to China's restrictions on Buddhism and to call for the return from exile of the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Most have taken place in heavily Tibetan areas of China, but only one had occurred in Tibet itself and none in the capital. Chinese authorities have confirmed some of the self-immolations over the past year but not all. Most of the recent immolations have taken place in Aba, home to Kirti monastery, which has seen numerous protests against the Chinese government over the past several years. Xiahe is home to the large and influential Labrang monastery and the Tibetan community there has had sporadic clashes with local authorities. Source: AP