Former Baywatch star Anderson, a longstanding animal rights activist, wrote an open letter to the ALS Association, saying she could not support its record on animal experimentation.
The first academic casualty of the Boston College-Jean McConville furore has been a parallel project which was to involve a London-based historian and an ex-RUC officer as well as retired members of the Garda Siochana in the Irish Republic, all with long records in fighting terrorism.
At the Sea Life aquarium in Auckland, New Zealand, Sony technicians working with the aquarium's animal trainers taught Rambo, a female octopus, to press the shutter on a special camera and take pictures of the visiting public (each photo sells for $NZ2 to support the aquarium's conservation programmes).
The US Senate on Tuesday passed a bill to end the bulk collection of millions of Americans' phone records, ushering in the country's most significant surveillance reform since 1978 two years after NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's revelations to the Guardian.
Blair's A Journey sold 92,060 copies in its first four days on sale last week, according to Nielsen BookScan – the best ever opening week sale for an autobiography since the book sales monitor's records began, in 1998, and well ahead of Mandelson's The Third Man's performance, which sold 14,960 copies in three days when it was published in July.
About 90m tonnes of animal waste is also produced in the UK each year, only a tiny portion of which is used for energy production.
Aphex Twin (real name Richard D James) has recently released an EP on Warp records and has also uploaded more than 150 demo tracks on his Soundcloud account.
Using secret court orders, the US was already bulk-collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers.
The institute's chief executive, Ian Tudor, told Guardian Australia the confidentiality of student records was of "paramount importance to the institute, and given the magnitude of the breach of confidentiality we were obliged to report it to the police".
The margin between the cash rate and the average credit card rate is now the widest since records began in 1990, according to RBA statistics.
Yet the widely expected passage of the the USA Freedom Act later this week will mark a more permanent victory for advocates of surveillance reform: a ban on the NSA hoovering up the telephone records of American citizens.
