cows point to the north

"New weird news related to cows: Researchers discovered that cattle have a good sense of direction and tend to point in a northerly direction. It has long been observed that cows appear to have a talent for weather forecasting and are able to predict when rain is on the way,...

Burj Dubai

"This is the latest available in images from the Burj Dubai, already the tallest building in the world with just a year to go to completion. Nothing demonstrates the amazing ambition of this city better than this iconic building which is the centre piece of the new Downtown...

Vicar jailed over child porn crimes

The Reverend Richard Hart, who became notorious in the UK after 56,000 images of child pornography were discovered on his computer, has today started his prison sentence. On the same day, a charity has used the opportunity to warn that child pornography is currently growing...

OneWebDay Promotes Political Participation Online

If there was one day to give your two cents about politics, whether your opinion was focused on the local or global political environment, today would be that day.  One Web Day is like an Earth Day for the web,...

Orbiting satellite to help count California rats

"Orbiting satellite to help count California rats" FRESNO, California (AP) -- Scientists plan to use satellite photos to count Giant Kangaroo Rats, the first-ever monitoring of an endangered species from outer space. ...

Parkinson drugs turned headmaster into paedophile

A headmaster with thousands of indecent pictures of children on his computer has been aquited after a judge ruled that the drugs he was taking to combat Parkinson's disease turned him into a paedophile."A former headmaster who amassed thousands of indecent images of children...

911 2.0: NYC's Multimedia Emergency Line

So maybe New York City's subway stations flood during a spring rain, and the streets smell like a wastebin, but the Big Apple's emergency hotline is next-level, becoming the first system to be able to process photo and video imagery from mobiel phone cameras."Tipsters in New...

Harrowing Video Backs Afghan Villagers' Claims of Carnage

UPDATE: As the US State Department and Pentagon continue to attempt damage control in the face of mounting evidence of almost a hundred Afghan civilians killed by a C-130 'Specter' Gunship, a grisly eight minute...

France shocked by images of war

"Staring out from a glossy eight-page spread in the latest edition of the magazine Paris Match, several Taleban fighters show off their trophies of war. The loss of the 10 soldiers in Afghanistan shocked France Guns, walkie-talkies...

Alexander Keith's and Kiddie Porn

The shocking thing here is that he was charged in 2006 and yet Alexander Keith's continued to use him in their advertising campaigns.  That is disgusting.   " Beer actor sentenced on child porn...

BOLT By Name and BOLT by Nature "Didn't Even Try": Comparisons to Ben Johnson...

Jamaica's Usain Bolt's astonishing 9.69 second world record, in the Olympics "King of Sports", the Men's 100 metres, which smashed the record set by...Usain Bolt, was not even an effort for the new world sprint...

Lewd teacher's Facebook shocks schoolchildren

" DOZENS of students as young as 11 stumbled across steamy images of their male teacher during an innocent web search. The teacher's Facebook site carried an image of a hand down the front of one man's pants and a...

Two Nebraska wrestlers kicked off team over nude Internet photos

"LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Two Nebraska wrestlers, including one who won an NCAA championship in 2007, have been dismissed from the team after posing naked for videos and photographs on an Internet pornography site. Paul Donahoe and Kenny Jordan were let go Tuesday, three days...

The bionic eye: Light-curving camera that may help the blind to see

"For years, scientists have set their sights on creating bionic eye transplants to help the blind see. Yesterday they came a step closer after announcing they had made a camera that can reproduce human...

The secret preview of the Olympic opening ceremony China didn't want you to see

"Security and secrecy have surrounded the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games - until now.More than 10,000 performers have been working on the 50-minute show for three years and all were sworn to secrecy...

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