In an effort to reduce traffic and improve accountability, Venice is requiring the installation of GPS devices in 5,000 of the city's gondolas and water taxis.
Armed with a knife, a man attempted to force his way into Buckingham Palace today through the North Gate, the main everyday entrance to the palace to the right of the ornate central gates, according to The Daily Beast.
The Central Intelligence Agency will begin recalling furloughed civilian workers needed to carry out the spy agency’s core missions today, according to CIA Director John Brennan. He also remarked that keeping staffing at its current dramatically reduced level “would pose a threat to the safety of human life and the protection of property.”
Visitors to the upcoming Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, will be able to access the Internet faster and in more places than any previous Olympics, all for free to guests. However Russia’s FSB security service is reportedly installing a sweeping and invasive surveillance service to ensure that they will be able to intercept, read and even filter every digital communication passing through the city’s telephone and Internet networks during the game, leading to many security experts suggesting that visitors leave their devices at home.