I WAS walking down one of this city's largest thoroughfares on Thursday with my eldest son, 17-year old Hyyan, after the news — at that point, still unconfirmed — broke that Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi had been killed.
As Izvestia put it wryly on Wednesday, when the then-unconfirmed news broke, the story could be taken seriously because the Russian government had reported Maskhadov dead far less often than it had his fellow rebel leader Shamil Basayev, who remains alive.
Other additions include reminders about the safety implications of sharing location data, about the impression given by those we follow or befriend on social networks, and about the impact of spreading unconfirmed rumours, especially in breaking news situations.
Unconfirmed accounts told of disturbances breaking out between Ferdowsi Square and Valiasr crossroads and between Choobi Bridge and Shahmirzadi Hosseinieh.
The announcement comes after a police spokesman dismissed an unconfirmed report suggesting an automatic breaking system was switched off to allow one of the trains to make up time as "pure speculation", the BBC reports.
Unconfirmed reports say violence has broken out in the Damascus suburb of Douma, also being visited by monitors.
Roads leading out of the city were mined, and there were unconfirmed reports that cholera had broken out among the refugees.
11.49am BST There is an unconfirmed report that Israel has also broken today's humanitarian truce by shelling eastern Rafah.
Last month, clashes broke out in Sisco after unconfirmed witness accounts said a Muslim woman was wearing a full-body outfit on a local beach.
In addition to the launch of the N.F.L. season and all the talk about the Green Bay Packers, conversation about Mr. Obama's speech was competing with breaking news about a specific, credible but unconfirmed terror threat for Washington, D.C., and New York, and then the massive power outage in San Diego.
It is unconfirmed whether or not the Gunners would be willing to break the bank and spend the supposed £17m that M'vila would command.
