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Combatting hacking and cheating in online games has taken a serious turn for PlayerUknown’s Battlegrounds developer Bluehole/PubgCorp. Over the weekend it was revealed that Chinese authorities arrested some 15 people for their roles in making and selling cheats for the online shooter, and the offending parties have been fined over $ 4.5 million (30m yuan). […]
An online pharmacy that bills itself as Canada’s largest is expected to be fined $ 34 million US Friday for importing counterfeit cancer drugs and other unapproved pharmaceuticals into the United States, a sentence that one advocacy group called too light.
A woman was fined over £1,000 after her car leaked oil while parked. Lisa Holmes, from Chiselhurst, was prosecuted for the damage the oil caused while parked. Council workers addressed Ms Holmes’ after the ‘enforcement team’ spotted that the car parked outside her home was found to be leaking. Bromley Council wrote to Ms Holmes […]
Holidays during term-time are frowned upon in a number of schools across the UK, due to the disruption it causes to the classroom. In recent years, parents have been fined if deciding to take their children out of class during the school period. A BBC investigation has found that in the past three years, British […]
TRAINERS Mark Kavanagh and Danny O’Brien have been fined $ 4000 and $ 8000 respectively at the end of the long-running cobalt case. Justice Garde of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal delivered his decision on penalty on Tuesday after the two were originally disqualified by racing authorities for the administration of cobalt to horses […]
Flights are beginning to restrict hand luggage on planes for a number of reasons. With a rising number of passengers taking suitcases into the cabin, it can cause huge delays when there is not enough room for them all to be taken onboard, something which has seen Ryanair change their free baggage policy this year. […]
A Moncton pharmacist has been fined and reprimanded by the New Brunswick College of Pharmacists after someone on his staff made a dispensing error that led to the death of a patient in long-term care.
Mike Segar/Reuters The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will reportedly fine UBS, HSBC, and Deutsche Bank millions of dollars each for “spoofing” and manipulation in the U.S. futures market. For the first time, the CFTC launched a multi-agency investigation with the Justice Department and the FBI. Spokesmen for HSBC, Deutsche Bank and UBS declined to […]
Unsplash/Federico Beccari A restaurant in Venice charged four tourists €1,100 ($ 1,350/£970) for four steaks, fried fish, and water. The news garnered some bad publicity for Venice. Osteria da Luca has since received visits from the police and health and building inspectors, who fined it €14,000. The Venetian Hoteliers Association also offered the tourists a free […]
A man in France was fined by police after making his ride a little too comfortable. The motorist was eating a plate of foie gras while watching a film on his laptop, which was perched on his dashboard. His elaborate set-up landed him a fine of €750 (US$ 919), with police in the town of […]
