Berlin, Germany – A German court has ordered a British, Roman-Catholic priest to pay €10 thousand ($13,489) after the priest made false comments about the Holocaust. The priest, in an interview broadcast in Sweden last year, said it was “[a] lie” that Jews were killed in gas chambers and that just “200,000 to 300,000 Jews died in concentration camps.” It is illegal in both Germany and Austria to deny the Holocaust. A court in Regensburg took up the case because the TV interview was filmed there.
Read more at timesonline.co.uk.
Washington, D.C. – As part of an effort to acquire digital media in its collections, the Library of Congress will archive all tweets from the popular social networking site Twitter. The site receives 55 million messages, with 140 characters or less each, every day. The Library of Congress has already archived 167 terabytes of various digital media, equal to the capacity of 5,344 iPods with a 32GB capacity.
Read more at nytimes.com.
New York, New York – After an exhibit featuring live, nude models opened on March 14, several of the models at the New York exhibit have complained of being groped by visitors. The Museum of Modern Art will not speak about any specific incidents, but says they have recognized the problems. The museum says that any visitor who improperly touches or disturbs one of the live models will be escorted out by security. The exhibit features an area where visitors squeeze through two nude models facing each other.
Read more at foxnews.com.
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