French minister asks Google, Facebook, Twitter to investigate, remove terrorist propaganda content from the web

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French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve asked the tech giants to cooperate during investigations and immediately remove terrorist propaganda.

San Francisco: The French interior minister said he asked Google, Facebook and Twitter to work directly with French officials during investigations and to immediately remove terrorist propaganda when authorities alert them to it.

"We emphasized that when an investigation is underway we don't want to go through the usual government to government channels, which can take so long," French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said after a meeting Friday with representatives from the US tech giants. "It's important to have full cooperation and quick reaction" he added.

Cazeneuve's one-day visit to San Francisco and Silicon Valley comes weeks after terrorist attacks in Paris left 20 people dead, including three gunmen.

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On Jan. 7, two gunmen killed 12 people and injured 11 more during an attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. A third gunman killed a policewoman Jan. 8 and then killed four more people a day later after taking hostages at a kosher supermarket in Paris. Police killed the three gunmen.

Cazeneuve said he called on the tech companies to join in the fight against terrorist propaganda disseminated on the Internet and to block terrorists' ability to use websites and videos to recruit and indoctrinate new followers.

Twitter and Facebook spokespeople said they do everything they can to stop material that incites violence but didn't say whether they would heed the minister's request for direct cooperation with French authorities.

"We regularly host ministers and other governmental officials from across the world at Facebook, and were happy to welcome Mr. Cazeneuve today," a Facebook spokesperson said. "We work aggressively to ensure that we do not have terrorists or terror groups using the site, and we also remove any content that praises or supports terrorism."

When asked whether Twitter would work closely with French investigators, a spokesperson said their website outlines the guidelines for law enforcement to request information.

"We review all reported content against our rules, which prohibit direct, specific threats of violence against others," the spokesperson wrote in an email.

An email to Google requesting comment was not immediately answered.

The pace of foreign fighters joining the Islamic State and other extremist groups has not slowed and at least 3,400 come from Western nations among 20,000 from around the world, US intelligence officials say.

"I told them we can figure this out together, we can come up with counter-terrorism speech and block these sites that are enticing the most vulnerable members of our society to commit terrorist acts," he said.

France also is pushing to treat jihadi material on the Internet like child porn, a task that before the attacks in Paris was getting scant traction but now seems to have caught the attention of Europe's top security officials.

Cazeneuve said the meeting Friday is a first step in building a strong relationship between the tech companies and the French government. He said he invited them to go to Paris in April to continue the conversation

Obama, Modi cite breakthrough on India civil nuclear program

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Boko Haram leader says God ordered him to carry out massacre, 'this is just the beginning'

The leader of the terror group Boko Haram says God commanded him to massacre hundreds of people in northeastern Nigeria, an attack described by human rights groups as the worst so far by the militia.

More than 7500 people fled the assault that began January 3 on the town of Baga on Lake Chad, according to the United Nations. Survivors described Boko Haram gunmen shooting people on sight, or dragging them from their homes and killing them.

Google releases list of 68 best Android apps of 2014; 61 free, 7 paid

With the year-end approaching, Google has published a list of the best Android apps of 2014 available on the Play Store. The list includes total of 68 apps - with 61 of them free and 7 paid. Popular apps including Swiftkey Keyboard, IFTTT, Groupon, CNN, Bitmoji, and Google Fitfeature in the list.

Apple Versus Samsung Case Goes to California Jury

After listening to a month's worth of testimony from expert witnesses hired by Apple and Samsung as well as executives from each company, a Silicon Valley jury of four men and four women were tasked with sorting out the latest legal dispute over technology between the world's two largest smartphone makers.

Apple is demanding Samsung pay it $2.2 billion after accusing the South Korean company of infringing five software patents related to smartphones. Samsung denies the claims and counters that Apple owes it a little more than $6 million for infringing two of its patents.

The jury began deliberating late Tuesday and left at 4:30 p.m. PDT without reaching a verdict. The jurors are scheduled to resume deliberations Wednesday morning in San Jose.

A lawyer for Apple on Tuesday accused Samsung of copying key features of its iPhone and iPad products and demanded $2.2 billion in damages.

An attorney for Samsung denied the allegations and argued that its Google-developed softwarediffers from Apple's operating system.

In his closing argument, lawyer William Price referred to an email from Apple founder Steve Jobsindicating that he had ordered employees to wage a "holy war" against Google and its Android system, believing it was a rip-off of Apple's operating system.

Price said that was the sole reason Apple filed the lawsuit against Samsung.

"We don't think we owe Apple a nickel," added John Quinn, one of four Samsung lawyers involved in the company's closing argument.

Quinn also said Apple wants to monopolize the industry.

"They want to attack Google and Android by attacking the most successful Android maker," he said.

Apple lawyer Harold McElhinny told jurors that Samsung's "illegal strategy has been wildly successful" and insisted that Google had nothing to do with the case.

"Despite all the times Samsung mentioned it, you will not find a single question about Google in your jury form," McElhinny said. "Google is not a defendant in this case."

Google spokesman Matt Kallman declined comment on the proceedings.

The four men and four women on the jury began deliberating later in the day.

The case marks the latest legal fight between Samsung and Apple as each tries to dominate the $330 billion annual market for smartphones.

Samsung has captured about 31 percent of the smartphone market while Apple retains a 15 percent share.

A different jury in San Jose presiding over a previous trial regarding older technology ordered Samsung to pay Apple $930 million. Samsung has appealed that ruling.

Google may not be a defendant in the current trial, but evidence introduced by Apple attorneys showed the Internet search giant has agreed to reimburse Samsung if the South Korean company is ordered to pay damages on two of the five patents at issue.

In addition, Samsung lawyers called three Google engineers to the witness stand to testify.

The trial involves five Apple patents that the company accuses Samsung of using to create nine newer smartphones and a tablet. The features in question include slide-to-lock, universal searching, quick linking, background syncing and automatic word correction.

Samsung, meanwhile, has alleged that Apple infringed two of its patents related to camera use and video transmission. Samsung is seeking $6.2 million in damages.

Jobs, who died in 2011, is a Silicon Valley legend revered for launching Apple in his family's garage in 1976. The Cupertino headquarters of the tech giant is a 15-mile (25-kilometer) drive from the San Jose federal courthouse where the patent case is playing.

Prospective jurors were closely questioned before the trial about connections and views about Apple, which employs about 80,000 workers worldwide.

Acoding to abc News.

PICHA 2 WALIOJUMUIKA KATIKA IBADA YA KUMKUMBUKA NA KUMUOMBEA MAREHEMU GOLDIE, PREZZO NAE YUPO PIA.

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Posted: 22nd February 2013 

Walikusanyika watu mbalimbali akiwemo rafiki wa Goldie Denrele Edun, Prezzo, Karen Igho, Ola wa big brother na wengine.

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Obama calls incoming Japan PM, close ties stressed

Tuesday, 18 December 2012 

TOKYO: US President Barack Obama spoke to Japan's incoming prime minister Shinzo Abe, with both sides stressing the importance of close ties, the White House said.

Abe, a former prime minister who is the head of the conservative opposition Liberal Democratic Party, and Obama "reaffirmed the importance of the US-Japan alliance as the cornerstone of peace and security in the region", it said.

"The president and Mr Abe discussed ongoing efforts to enhance bilateral security cooperation as well as deepening economic ties," White House spokesman Jay Carney said in a statement.

"They also agreed on the importance of close US-Japan cooperation on pressing regional and global issues."

Abe's LDP crushed the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, led by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, in Sunday's polls, promising that he would improve Tokyo's alliance with Washington in a bid to ensure stability in Asia Pacific.

In a face of a confident China, Abe said a closer link with the United States would serve as a foundation for Tokyo to gain stronger diplomatic influence.

After speaking with Obama, Abe Tuesday told officials at Japan's business lobby Keidanren that he would deepen Japan's only alliance, Jiji Press reported.

"I plan to tackle regional and global challenges together with the United States," he told them, according to Jiji.

Abe said Monday he wanted to go to the United States in late January, after Obama's new cabinet members start work, for his first foreign visit after taking office, expected on December 26.

Abe went to China for his first foreign visit during his 2006-2007 tenure as prime minister.

VURUGU HUKO CHUNYA.

CHADEMA WAVUNJA MASANDUKU NA KUIBA FEDHA ZA UCHAGUZI.

Vurugu Chunya

WATU 13 akiwemo diwani wa viti maalumu kupitia Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo(Chadema) kata ya saza Benadetha Zacharia(38) wanashikiliwa na jershi la polisi kwa kufanya vurugu zilizosababisha uharibifu wa mali ya umma yakiwemo masanduku ya kupigia kura.

Wengine ni katibu wa Chadema kata ya Saza wilayani Chunya Braison Mwasimba(34),John Mponzayo(52),Seleman Tanganyika(24),Ambokile Francis(23),Amos Joseph(24),Abdul Mwandeule(20),Christopher Mwanjayo(37), Baraka Saul(19),Musa Mnyonga(32),Essa Pius(18),Marco Gibson(25) wote wakazi wa kata ya Saza na Paradiso Emanuel(26) mkazi wa kijiji cha Njenjele wilayani Mbeya. Kamanda wa polisi mkoani hapa Diwan Athuman alisema kuwa mnamo desemba 8 mwaka huu majira ya saa 11:15 katika ofisi ya afisa mtendaji wa kata ya Saza baadhi ya wananchi wakiongozwa na watuhumiwa waliamua kujichukulia sheria mikononi na kusababisha uharibifu wa mali za umma. Kamanda Athuman alitaja uharibifu uliofanyika kuwa ni kuvunjwa kwa kioo cha mbele cha gari yenye namba SM 3830 Toyota Landcruiser mali ya halmashauri ya wilaya ya Chunya,kuvunja mlango na dirisha la ofisi ya afisa mtendaji kata. Alisema hbaada ya uharibifu huyo watuhumiwa waliingia ndani ya ofisi hiyo na kuharibu masanduku 24 ya kupigia kura ambapo thamani ya mali zote bado haujafahamika. Alisema chanzo cha vurugu hizo ilikuwa kushinikiza kuzuia kufanyika kwa uchaguzi mdogo wa kujaza nafasi ya mwenyekiti wa kijiji na vitongoji uliokuwa ufanyike siku ya jumapili. Kufuatia vurugu hizo uchaguzi huo ililazimu kusogezwa mbele siku moja na kufanyika jana(Disemba 10) huktaratibu za kisheria zikiendelea ikiwemo kufikishwa jana mahakamani katioka mahakama ya wilaya ya Chumnuya watuhumiwa 12 na kusomewa mashitaka. Ukiachilia mbali shitaka la uharibifu wa mali za umma linalowakabili washitakiwa wote mahakamani hapo washitakiwa Amos Joseph,Braison Mwasimba na Paradiso Emanuel wanakabiliwa na shitaka jingine la unyang’anyi. Alisema washitakiwa hao walifanya unyang’anyi wa fedha kiasi cha shilingi 2,150,000 zilizokuwa sehemu ya gharama za uchaguzi,simu ya kiganjani na saa ya mkononi

NIGERIA KWENYE NEXT LEVEL KUTENGENEZA UMEME.

 

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Wakati nchi nyingi za Africa bado zipo kwenye kitendawili ya kupata umeme wa uhakika ikiwemo Tanzania, serikali ya mji wa Lagos Nigeria imetangaza kuanza kuufanyia kazi mpango wa kutengeneza umeme kutokana na takataka.
Managing Director wa mpango huo Ola Oresanya amesema umeme utaanza kufanya kazi 2013.

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MTOTO WA MUAMARY GADDAFI KUONDOKA NCHINI NIGER

Mtoto wa Muammar Gaddafi kuondoka nchini Niger.

Niamey, Niger - 09/09/2012. Mtoto wa aliyekuwa rais wa Libya Muammar Gaddafi anatarajiwa ,kuondoka nchini Niger.
Saadi Gaddafi mtoto ambaye alikimbilia nchini Niger baada ya serikali ya baba yake Muammar Gaddafi kuangushwa na baadaye kuuwawa.
Kwa mujibu wa habari zinasema " Waziri wa mambo ya nje wa Bazoum Mohamed ameshatoa rukhusa kwa Saadi Gaddafi kuondoka nchini Niger."
Habari zilizo patikana zimedai ya kuwa huenda Saadi akaamia nchini Afrika ya Kusini, japo hadi sasa hakuna  habari za huakika kutoka katika serikali ya Afrika ya Kusini.


Moscow yaonya mashabulizi zidi ya Iran.

Moscow, Urusi - 09/09/2012. Waziri wa mambo ya nje wa Urusi ametoa onyo ya kuwa kitendo chochote cha kuishambulia Iran kijeshi kitaleta madhara makubwa.
Akiongela swala hilo makamu wa waziri wa mambo ya ndani y Urusi  Sergey Ryabkov alisema "tunapenda kuonya ya kuwa mashambulizi ya kijeshi zidi ya Iran yataleta maafa makubwa ambayo yatavuka mipaka ya nchi za Mashariki ya Kati,  na napenda kusisitiza suala la Iran na nguvu zakinyuklia nivizuri kujadiliwa katika meza kuliko kutumia nguvu za kijeshi."
Mazungumzo hayo yamekuja huku nchi za Ulaya na Marekani zikiwa zimezidisha jitihada za kutaka Iran iwekewe vikwazo vya kiuchumi ambavyo vitaifanya nchi hiyo kuachana na mradi wake wa kinyuklia.

HUKUMU YA SILIVIO YAANIKWA

 Silvio Berluscon haukumiwa kwenda jela.

 Milan, Itali - 26/07/2012. Aliyekuwa waziri mkuu wa Itali amehukumiwa  kwenda jela na kuzuiliwa  kushiriki katika maswala ya kiofisi baada ya kukutwa na hatia ya kukiuka kodi za malipo.
Hukumu hiyo imetolewa baada ya kukutwa kuhusika katika biashara kinyume na sheria.
Silvio Berlusconi ambaye alikuwa waziri mkuu wa Itali, amehukumiwa kwa mara ya kwanza, japo hapo awali alishafunguliwa kesi tofauti zidi yake.
Baada ya hukumu hiyo, Berlusconi alisema "hukumu haina maana na haikufuata haki"
Hata hivyo Silvio Berlusconi  amekata rufaa baada ya hukumu hiyo.

Rais wa Marekani apiga kura mapema.
 

Chicago, Marekani - 26/10/2012. Rais wa Marekani amepiga katika mji wake Chicago ikiwa ni moja ya kampeni za kutaka wapiga kura wajitokeze kwa wingi.
Rais  Baraka Obama, alipiga kura huku kura za maoni zikiwa zimesimama katikati baada ya mpinzani wake  Mitt Romney kujivuta juu katika kura za maoni zilizo tolewa hivi karibuni.
Upigwaji wa kura hizo ni moja ya mpangilio ya uchaguzi uliyopo nchini Marekani.
Mara baada ya kumaliza kupiga kura Baraka Obama, aliendelea na ziara ya kampeni ya kutaka raia wa Marekani kumpigia kura hasa katika  miji ya Ohio Virginia  na Florida.

rint The Inuit sitting on billions of barrels of oil

29 November 2012 Last updated at 12:37 GMT

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After a decade of legal wrangling and spending $4.5bn (£2.8bn), this year Shell Oil was given permission to begin exploratory drilling off the coast of Alaska. But many in the local Inuit community are concerned it could have a devastating impact on one of their main sources of food - the bowhead whale.

Marie Casados shows me the contents on her freezer. Inside there's whale meat, muktuk - frozen whale skin and blubber - a selection of fish and a polar bear foot, which looks like a human hand. She describes it as a real delicacy. But it's more than that - this is her food supply for the winter.
Fishing and hunting are central to the Inupiat way of life - archaeologists have found evidence of humans hunting whales in the area dating back to as early as 800BC.

Marie Casados and her prized polar bear foot

"We are the oldest continuous inhabitants of North America," says Point Hope's Mayor Steve Oomituk. "We've been here thousands of years."
Oomituk shares the fear of many in the small community - population 800 - that offshore drilling by Shell could destroy the food chain that they rely on for survival. Over 80% of the food eaten in Point Hope is caught by the people themselves.
They worry that it will disrupt the migration routes of the marine mammals, driving them away from the coastal waters where they can be reached by hunters.
"Their proposed Arctic drilling is right in the path of the animals' migration routes," says Oomituk.
"We live in a cycle of life that hasn't changed for thousands of years. We know where the animals are coming. We know when they are going north, when they are going south, this is our home, our land, our identity as a people."

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But Oomituk recognises that, like every other American citizen, he is dependent on fossil fuels. He heats his house with diesel, he drives a vehicle that needs petrol.

Jobs are also a major concern in this poor community. As mayor, Oomituk appreciates that many people would benefit from a new local employer.
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Mayor Steve Oomituk is passionate about preserving Inupiat tradition

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The community stillOomituk says he worries about the "Western ways" that children in the community are adopting.

."They want hamburgers, hot dogs, they drink pop all the time," he says. gets most of its food from hunting and fishing in the coastal waters

Whale bones litter the site of the "feasting ground", where they gather to share out the whale meat

Many parts of the animals are used by the Inupiat

Imported food - like these New Zealand apples - is incredibly expensive

Locals fear an accidental oil spill could destroy their local food chain and way of life

A third of Point Hope's population are school-aged - how will offshore drilling change their future?

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"You want jobs for the people, you want the economy to come up, but do you want to sacrifice your way of life to have that happen? To endanger a way of life that's been here for time immemorial?"

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Pickled flippers

The Inupiat - north-Alaskan Inuit - are allowed to catch 10 bowhead whales a year. The first nine boats to harpoon the whale receive shares. The lead whaling crew divide the head between them. The butchered skull is returned to the sea. The Inupiat believe the skull will "dress itself again" and become another whale. The flipper is pickled and offered to the elders.

So the proposed drilling poses a real dilemma for the Inupiat.

In Point Hope, some people simply don't have enough to eat. Queuing up at a soup kitchen, where chunks of deep-fried king salmon and caribou stew are dished out to hungry locals, Patrick Jobstone says he'd be grateful to get any kind of job.
He has been looking for work ever since he came out of prison for drink and drug-related offences, and is struggling to support his wife and child.

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'Drill, baby, drill'

The US Congress imposed a moratorium on offshore oil or gas drilling in 1981. In the run-up to the 2008 presidential election, Republicans such as vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin called for an end to the ban, with the slogan "Drill, baby, drill". At the time, Barack Obama opposed it. But once elected, he allowed drilling in some offshore areas, including the Chukchi and Beaufort seas north of Alaska.

For Jobstone, a job with Shell would be an answer his prayers. He is already being trained in clearing toxic waste in anticipation of any new job opportunities and hopes to be taken on as one of Shell's spill response team.

"If they have jobs I will work for them no problem," he says. But he too is concerned about pollution.
"If an oil rig spilled and made a mess of the ocean, how am I ever going to eat a whale that's not contaminated? Crude oil stays on the bottom of the ocean," he says.
Pete Slaiby, vice-president of Shell in Alaska, accepts that oil spills are a concern.

The orange areas show Shell's leases to explore for and extract oil. Shell estimates that the Arctic holds some 30% of the world's undiscovered natural gas and 13% of its yet-to-find oil - the equivalent, overall, of 400bn barrels of oil.

"There's no sugar-coating this, I imagine there would be spills, and no spill is OK. But will there be a spill large enough to impact people's subsistence? My view is no, I don't believe that would happen."

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Do multinationals always win?

Surprisingly, indigenous people can influence huge corporations, if they recruit allies and harness the power of the media.
The Dongria Kondh, for example, a small tribe living in eastern India, has waged a successful campaign to prevent their hills being mined for iron ore.
In Peru, farmers successfully battled a copper mine plan, despite the arrest and torture of protesters.
Australia's Martu Aborigines fought for decades against the loss of their land and a proposed uranium mine. They recently allowed the mine to go ahead - after securing their sacred sites, and a striking a deal on jobs and royalties.
Natural resource exploitation and indigenous and local peoples' rights can go together. But before they start, oil and mining companies must get the consent of the communities where they operate.
Jonathan Mazower, Survival International

On the other hand, he argues that oil extracted off the coast of Point Hope could make a big difference to America as a whole.

"It could mean a significant step in the journey to energy independence of the United States," he says.
Slaiby says that the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline, which has supplied the United States with oil extracted on land for 40 years, is beginning to run low.
"We're seeing a decline, year-on-year of 6%. For us, keeping the Trans-Alaskan pipeline going is in our national goals."
It's a familiar dilemma that has been played out time and time again across the world - should a community prioritise economic development over environmental protection?
This summer for the first time, the Point Hope tribal council met representatives from Shell, including Pete Slaiby, in the Point Hope town hall - a dilapidated wooden geodesic dome fashioned to look like an igloo.

Afterward the locals were emotional, but resigned to the onset of the drilling.

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Project Chariot

In 1958, H-bomb inventor Edward Teller visited Point Hope to promote a plan to use a bomb to create a deep harbour, 30 miles (48km) south of the village.
Villagers were told the explosion would form a harbour in the shape of a polar bear. The firepower would have been 160 times larger than Hiroshima.
But the community refused to move out of their homes for a blast during the whaling season. Many of the older Inupiat still refuse to shake hands with white people because of the offence caused.

We need to get all the information and make sure it's done properly, said Peggy Frankeson, executive director of the tribal council who was at the meeting.

"We're the caretakers of the animals and the land and we need to make sure that our culture is able to carry on for the next 10-20,000 years," she says.
In the event, Shell was unable to extract any off-shore oil this year. Firstly, drilling was stalled when a massive chunk of ice - 30 miles (48km) long and 12 miles (19km) wide - appeared to be heading towards their ship.
Later, Shell began drilling on two sites but was prohibited from extending wells into petroleum reservoirs by the US Coastguard after a huge dome designed to contain any spill broke down under trials.
The area is now iced over until next year, and the people of Point Hope have been granted a stay of execution, or a frustrating delay, depending on your point of view. Next year, Shell will be back to start drilling again.
 

Source: Oil Spill Intelligence Report

photo by Bbc news.

Boyle's Olympic ceremony honoured

27 November 2012 Last updated  

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Danny Boyle's Olympic opening ceremony has been honoured at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards.

The Oscar-winning director and his team got huge cheers when they picked up the Beyond Theatre award from gold medal-winning Team GB cyclist Victoria Pendleton.
"We hoped to prove that culture runs through all of us and binds us all together," Boyle said.
The awards, hosted by James Corden, were held at the Savoy Hotel on Sunday.
Picking up his award, Boyle urged the audience to lobby for the inclusion of arts subjects in the English Baccalaureate.
Other winners took the opportunity to speak out against theatre funding cuts.
Theatre passion Dame Judi Dench was honoured with the Moscow Art Theatre's Golden Seagull award for her contribution to world theatre.
The veteran stage and screen actress, who plays M in James Bond film Skyfall, said she loved making movies "but my absolute passion is the theatre".
Dame Judi will be seen on the stage in London next year in a new play, Peter and Alice, by Skyfall co-writer John Logan, opposite her Bond co-star Ben Wishaw, who plays Q.
The award for best new play went to Nick Payne's Constellations, which has just transferred to the West End from the Royal Court.

Sally Hawkins as Marianne and Rafe Spall as Roland in Constellations

Starring Rafe Spall and Sally Hawkins, the story explores a couple's relationship in a series of alternative universes.
At 29, Payne is the youngest playwright to have received the award.
The best actor prize went to Simon Russell Beale for his portrayal of Stalin in the black comedy, Collaborators, at the National Theatre.
'Gloriously screwed up' Hattie Morahan took the best actress prize for her portrayal of trapped housewife, Nora, in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Young Vic.

Morahan won for her moving performance of Nora

She had been up against Australian actress Cate Blanchett for Big and Small, Dame Eileen Atkins for All That Fall and Laurie Metcalf for Long Day's Journey Into Night.
Morahan was presented with the award by Homeland star Damian Lewis.
The tearful actress thanked Ibsen for creating such a "gloriously screwed up heroine".
The prize for best musical went to Sweeney Todd, directed by Jonathan Kent and starring Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton, which transferred from the Chichester Festival to the West End.
The award was presented by rapper Tinie Tempah, who has tweeted about his love of Stephen Sondheim's blood-splattered musical.
Cuts protest Among the other guests at the event were Colin Firth, Sir Ian McKellen, Ruth Wilson, Bill Nighy and Ralph Fiennes.
Film and theatre director Stephen Daldry, the creative director of the Olympic ceremonies, was presented with a special award at the end of the evening by Stephen Fry.
Both Fry and Daldry were among those who spoke out against cuts in arts budgets.
Meanwhile, National Theatre artistic director Sir Nicholas Hytner, who won two awards - for best director and a special award for his leadership at the NT - said further cuts to theatre budgets made "no economic sense whatsoever".
He called on Culture Secretary Maria Miller to fund all theatres to the level enjoyed by the National Theatre in order to stimulate philanthropic giving.
"Philanthropy is not an alternative to public money - it is a consequence of public funding," he said.
WINNERS OF LONDON EVENING STANDARD 58TH THEATRE AWARDS 2012
Best play - Constellations - Nick Payne (Royal Court Upstairs)
Best director - Nicholas Hytner - Timon of Athens (National's Olivier)
Best actor - Simon Russell Beale - Collaborators (National's Cottesloe)
Natasha Richardson award for best actress - Hattie Morahan - A Doll's House (Young Vic)
Ned Sherrin award for best musical - Sweeney Todd - Chichester Festival and Adelphi
Best design - Soutra Gilmour - Inadmissible Evidence (Donmar Warehouse ) & Antigone (National's Olivier)
Charles Wintour award for most promising playwright - Lolita Chakrabarti - Red Velvet (Tricycle)
Milton Shulman award for outstanding newcomer - Matthew Tennyson - Making Noise Quietly (Donmar Warehouse)
Lebedev special award - Nicholas Hytner - For his dynamic directorship of the National Theatre
Editor's award - David Hare - For his contribution to theatre
Beyond theatre - Danny Boyle and his team - For the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics
Burberry award for emerging director - Simon Godwin
Moscow Art Theatre's Golden Seagull - Judi Dench

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Dhaka Bangladesh clothes factory fire kills more than 100

Firefighters took several hours to bring the fire under control

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More than 100 people are now known to have died in a fire that swept through a clothes factory in Bangladesh, local officials say.

The blaze broke out late on Saturday in the multi-floor Tazreen Fashion factory in the Ashulia district on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka.
Some people died after jumping from the building to escape the flames.
It is unclear what caused the fire, which started on the ground floor trapping many victims in the factory.
Officials suspect an electrical short circuit might have caused the disaster.
Firefighters managed to contain the blaze on Sunday morning.
Fatal fires are common in Bangladesh's large garment manufacturing sector, and the BBC's Anbarasan Ethirajan in Dhaka says Western companies are likely to renew pressure on the local businesses to improve safety.
In a separate development, at least 13 people died when a flyover under construction collapsed late on Saturday in the south-eastern city of Chittagong, police said.
The authorities are investigating both accidents.
Anxious wait Initial reports said eight people had been killed in the factory fire, but the scale of the disaster became clear when rescue workers entered the building on Sunday.

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Ethirajan Anbarasan BBC News, Ashulia, near Dhaka

Thousands of people flocked to the factory frantically looking for their relatives.
The factory is situated deep inside a small lane and fire service vehicles struggled to get through. All the windows are smeared with black smoke. Many workers jumped to their deaths as the fire raged on.
The incident has shocked the entire neighbourhood, which is home to hundreds of factories making clothes for major Western brands and retailers like Walmart, Gap, Tesco and Sainsburys.
Fire accidents in Bangladesh's garment factories are not uncommon - dozens of people get killed every year. But this incident will once again put a spotlight on safety standards - even though they have improved considerably in recent years.

"We resumed our search this morning and found the bodies lying on different floors of the factory building," Brigadier General Abu Nayeem Mohammad Shahidullah of the Dhaka fire brigade told AFP news agency.

Later reports said that 120 people had died, but the number of fatalities was then lowered to at least 112. A number of people are believed to be missing.
The fire started on the ground floor - which was reportedly used as a warehouse - and quickly spread through the building.
Senior fire department official Mohammad Mahbub told the Associated Press news agency that the factory had no fire exit on the outside of the building.
"Had there been at least one emergency exit through outside the factory, the casualties would have been much lower," he said.
The factory owner denied the allegations that the building was unsafe to work in.
"It is a huge loss for my staff and my factory. This is the first time we have ever had a fire at one of my seven factories," Delwar Hossain told AFP.
Police and soldiers were deployed to keep the situation under control as thousands of anxious relatives of factory employees gathered at the scene.
"Where's my son?" cried Sabina Yasmine. She said she saw the body of her daughter-in-law, who died in the fire, but her son was missing, AP reports.

Relatives of the factory's workers gathered at the scene - desperate for news about their loved ones

She expressed fury at the factory owners, who she blamed for the fire.
Fatal fires are common in Bangladesh's large garment manufacturing sector.
Lax safety standards, poor wiring and overcrowding are blamed for causing several deadly factory fires every year.
In December 2010, a wiring problem led to a fire in another clothes factory in the same industrial zone, leaving at least 25 people dead.
There are around 4,500 factories in Bangladesh, employing more than two million people.
Clothes account for up to 80% of Bangladesh's $24bn (£15bn) annual exports.
UK Foreign Office Minister Baroness Warsi said she was "shocked and saddened to learn of the tragic loss of life".

26 November 2012 Last updated at 06:41 GMT

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Second fire breaks out at Bangladesh clothes factory

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• Deadly slum fire in Bangladesh

A fire has broken out in a multi-storey building housing clothes-making factories in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, reports say.

A police spokesman said Monday's blaze started on the third floor of a 12-floor building, AFP reported.
There are no details on casualties and police say they do not know how many people are inside the building.
It comes two days after a blaze in another clothes factory outside the capital killed more than 100 people.
Thousands of garment workers from the Tazreen Fashion factory on Monday staged protests, demanding better protection.
They said that many people were trapped after the fire broke out late on Saturday in the building, which reportedly lacked fire exits.
Poor safety Monday's fire broke out at the Euro-Bangla Garment factory at about 10:05 local time (04:05 GMT), officials said.
"It looks like a huge fire. Our teams have just arrived and are working to douse it," senior fire official told AFP.
Reports say that at least eight workers suffered injuries.
The cause of the fire was not immediately known.
Fatal fires are common in Bangladesh's large garment manufacturing sector.
Lax safety standards, poor wiring and overcrowding are blamed for causing several deadly factory fires every year.
There are around 4,500 factories in Bangladesh, employing more than two million people.
Clothes account for up to 80% of Bangladesh's $24bn (£15bn) annual exports.

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