Oracle, ICANN, Rambo, Katherine Knight, Dog Boy & Dead Sea Scrolls

Oracle's top executive told computer hackers on Monday night that his software is so secure they would never be able to break into Oracle's Web site, a boast that may be taken by many as a challenge.

The annual meeting of ICANN began this week with a warning from a US congress member that unless domain registrars can verify their customers, Congress may step in and force them to do it.

Sylvester Stallone may bring, Rambo, his one-man army out of retirement and send him back into Afghanistan 13 years after his last mission.

Katherine Knight, who murdered her de facto — and, in a nightmarish ritual of death, skinned him, cut off his head and cooked parts of his body — received no mercy for her horrifying crime. The 46-year-old former abattoir worker now has the dubious distinction of becoming the first woman in Australia to be jailed for the term of her natural life.

A homeless boy who shocked Chile in June when he was found living with a pack of dogs has run away from a children's home where he was being looked after.

The modern technology of e-mail and laser printing speeded up the publication of complete volumes of the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls, one of the archaeological finds of the 20th century.