YouTube technology to blur faces on uploaded videos – rioters could hide identities

New technology is being introduced by the Google-owned YouTube video website that will blur faces automatically.

And, according to the Telegraph, it could mean rioters who upload clips could hide their indentities.

Several clips were posted on the site during the London riots last summer, including footage of men robbing Malaysian student Ashraf Rossli when they were pretending to help him. His attackers were identified and jailed.

Google says the technology will help to protect human rights in countries such as Libya and Syria.

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Fantastic pictures from the Sony World Photography awards 2012

Fantastic pictures in the Sony World Photography awards 2012. The winners have just been announced and the images will go on display at Somerset House, London, from today (April 27, 2012) until May 20, 2012.

Selection of winning photos: GUARDIAN PICTURE STORY

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Queen reopens Cutty Sark – £50m restoration of the Greenwich tea clipper after a fire in 2007

The Cutty Sark has been reopened by the Queen in Greenwich.

The tea clipper has been closed for six years for renovations costing £50 million after a fire.

Her Majesty had opened an exhibition at the 19-century tall ship in 1957.

According to the BBC, the Cutty Sark Trust wants to 'present the tea clipper as it would have looked when it was launched in 1872'.

The Cutty Sark opens to the public on Thursday.

So, time for another look around.

BBC CUTTY SARK STORY


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007's new car – a double-decker bus on the streets of London for the new James Bond film

James Bond's car for his next film, Skyfall, will be a big, red London bus, according to the Sun. Scenes being filmed around London involve a new Routemaster, brought back to the streets of the capital by mayor Boris Johnson after the double-deckers were scrapped by previous mayor Ken Livingstone.

The plot of the 007 film, starring Daniel Craig, is a secret, but the bus involves action in Trafalgar Square.

Good publicity for Boris, who hopes to be re-elected on May 3.

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Asylum seeker housed in £2m townhouse in London

An asylum seeker and his family have been housed in a London townhouse worth £2 million because they said their old six-bedroom house was too far away from their relatives, according to the Sun.

Saeed Khaliif, his wife and eight children were living in Coventry with their £1,000 a week rent paid by the state.

But after claiming the home was too far from relatives, they were re-housed in one of London's upmarket areas where rent can be up to £8,000 a month.

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Men die in riots - run over by car while 'protecting neighbourhood', claim

Three men have died in Birmingham after they were hit by a car during another night of unrest in British cities. Locals claim the men were protecting their neighbourhood from rioters and police have launched a murder inquiry.

Another man has died in hospital after he was found shot in a car amid riots in south London this week.

There was violence in several English cities last night, although London was quite as thousands of extra police were drafted in.

DETAILS ON THE BBC

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Gangster Ronnie Kray was bisexual - confession on secret recordings

Ronnie Kray, the notorious East End gangster, confessed to an author that he was bisexual, according to a Sun story.

He had kept his sex life secret from his brother Reggie until he was 25.

Ronnie, who died in 1995 aged 61, shot dead George Cornell in a pub in London's East End after being called a "fat poof".

When he was in Broadmoor Hospital, the high-security psychiatric institution, he told author Robin McGibbon: "I'm bisexual, not gay. Bisexual."

SUN

THE KRAY TWINS (WIKI): gangsters in the East End of London

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Aerial pictures of London released for Olympics

New aerial photos have been released to mark the one year before the London 2012 Olympics start.

SEE THE PICTURES HERE: TELEGRAPH

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Road painters' funny spelling - where to catch a sus in London

We all do it - type the wrong letter, create a howler and, with a little bit of luck get saved by the spellchecker - or not as the spellchecker has a mend of its one.

But spellcheckers are a bit scarce when you are painting signs on the road and a mistake sticks out like a saw thum.

There's a great howler featured in the Sun… "Sus Stop" painted in big yellow letters just yards from a town hall in London.

SUN PICTURE STORY

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Olympics website crashes again as second-chance tickets go on sale

The London Oympics 2012 website crashed again within minutes of people trying to book second-chance tickets.

It's not the first time - the website crashed on deadline day during the first round of this ticketing farce.

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Time-lapse video of Royal Wedding - Nikon

Nikon has released a time-lapse video of the Royal Wedding, captured from the roof of the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre, London, opposite Westminster Abbey.

Report in Amateur Photographer magazine

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