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Albino Africans live in fear after witch-doctor butchery

Murders of albinos in Tanzania shock the nation as children killed for body parts believed to bring good luck

Mancienne gets shock England call

Chelsea defender Michael Mancienne is handed a surprise call-up to the England squad to face Germany in Berlin on Wednesday.

After Shock: earthquake alternate reality game

Today, Jason Tester, my colleague at Institute for the Future, and Art Center College of Design launched a fascinating new alternate reality game that simulates public response to a massive earthquake. After Shock asks the key question: What will you do when the big one hits? The game runs for three weeks. Jump in anytime! From Wired News: Aftershock, run by the Institute for the Future and Art Center College of Design, is based on a 300-page U.S. Geological Survey scenario report that details the extensive damage that Southern California could experience in the aftermath of a 7.8-magnitude quake on the San Andreas Fault. The game began on Thursday and will run for three weeks, prompting users to complete real-world missions ? and submit content based on them to the gaming community. "Disaster preparedness was at the point where the messaging had hit the limit. You can give people this really elegantly designed flyer, and they stick it in a drawer and it hits them in the head during the earthquake," said Jason Tester, the lead game designer at the IFTF. "[The game] says, 'You are experiencing a real earthquake.' We're trying to make it feel visceral." Play After Shock (aftershock.net), "LA Preps for the Big One With Massively Multiplayer Earthquake" (Wired) Previously on BB: ? Jason Tester: Case for Human-Future Interaction ? Aftifacts from the Future at IFTF...

'State of shock'

BT workers tell of their concerns for their future

Brocade jacks up expectations

Surprisingly strong last quarter shock Storage networking supplier Brocade is parting company from its downbeat and depressed competitors by saying it hopes to report sparkling results for its fourth quarter.?

Labour wins shock victory in Glenrothes byelection

Labour has defied predictions to win a surprise victory in the Glenrothes byelection as Gordon Brown's political fightback gathers pace.

Guardian Daily podcast: Brown?s byelection bounce; plus shock 1.5% interest rate cut

Gordon Brown is celebrating victory in the Glenrothes byelection. Labour saw off a challenge from the Scottish Nationalists, providing the first signs of a recovery in Gordon Brown's electoral fortunes after his widely praised handling of the global banking crisis. Andrew Sparrow reports from the election count.The Bank of England's monetary policy committee yesterday announced a 1.5% cut in the cost of borrowing, from 4.5% to 3%. Economics correspondent Ashley Seager applauds the decision - and says there'll be more to come.Washington correspondent Ewen MacAskill looks at the transition from George Bush's presidency to Barack Obama, and considers the challenges now facing the defeated Republicans.Luke Harding reports from Kaliningrad, where Russian President Dmitry Medvedev plans to site missiles to counter American arms bases in former Soviet states.As the EU's drugs agency's annual report reveals a potential heroin crisis in the UK, fuelled by a record opium harvest in Afghanistan. Andrew Horne, from the drugs charity AddAction, gives his response.

'08 SHOCK: Drudge still smearing, distorting quotes, and touting fake allegations

In the past few weeks, media critics have postulated that Matt Drudge's influence in setting the media's agenda -- which the Politico's John F. Harris and Time's Mark Halperin argue in The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008 has been great -- has waned this election cycle. In his continuing efforts to drive media coverage, this election season, Drudge has posted a long series of items that were false on their face, misrepresented reports he linked to, or were subsequently exposed as false. As reporter and blogger Greg Sargent wrote in an October 31 post at Talking Points Memo, "Multiple times this cycle, Drudge has pushed stories that have gone belly-up." Whether or not Drudge's influence is in fact waning, these items, examples of which Media Matters for America has compiled below, make a strong case that it should be. October 29 -- World Series

Shock road tactics for children

Secondary school pupils are being shown "haunting" images as part of a road safety campaign.

Town is 'shocked' by alley death

The County Antrim town of Larne is in shock at the death of a father-of-two, a local councillor says.