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Latest update: 22/03/2009
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France 24 journalists review highlights from the world's papers.
Ireland’s newspapers are all celebrating the country's first Grand Slam win in 61 years. The daily’s Internet site features “Ireland’s historic journey” in pictures.
The Mail on Sunday (UK)
On Thursday, Google Launched Street View in Britain: 180 degree pictures taken from the city streets… And already hundreds of complaints have been lodged, the tool being seen as an invasion of privacy (some people are clearly recognisable in the pictures).
Some pictures have already been removed, including those of a man walking out of a sex shop, another throwing up outside a pub, N. 10 Downing street, the home street of Google’s UK boss, and the Blairs' London home - all of which have been replaced by black screens.
Why are those protected, asks the Mail, picking up on the “delicious irony” of a government that gave tax officials “the right to enter your home” but worries about people seeing the outside of theirs!
The Observer (UK)
Honestly, Google, I was only out to lunch
Honestly, Google, I was only out to lunch
A firsthand account of sudden Google celebrity. The papers’ Comment editor was snapped by Street View while he was out with a woman (not his wife) outside, on a work day… Yes, he says, Google’s tool could create paranoia and even destroy lives. But it’s simply the latest product of a big brother lifestyle.
Le Journal du Dimanche (France)
According to a poll, 43% of the French would like to see Pope Benedict go.
The pope’s positions on contraception, abortion, Islam and the holocaust - to name but a few - are disquieting the public in general and followers in particular.
One senior British Catholic hits out at the papal PR team. The scandal, he says, is the result of a misunderstanding, and the bad Vatican advisers “need to get their act together”. The pope has good and important things to say, but he’s not getting his message across because of these slip-ups.
An asexual life, that’s what these young and healthy men and women have chosen. There are thousands of them, Andy is one: at 21 he’s never experienced physical desire. Asexuality isn’t abstinence for religious or moral reasons, it’s an orientation in itself. One 22-year-old explains you’re “born to it”. These people do have a sex drive but their libido is dissociated from sexual attraction. A really surprising and interesting read…
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