Gayatri Devi: A maharani and a beauty

Gayatri Devi, once described as one of the most beautiful women in the world, has died at the age of 90.The fashion icon broke with tradition by winning election to parliament in 1962. She was re-elected twice.She...

Church to make posthumous apology to Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin created a big controversy with his evolutionary theory and powerful church leaders castigated him. Now after 126 long years Church of England has realised their mistake and agreed to issue an an apology. Darwin in his theory had said that man descended from the...

700-Pound Man Takes Outing ... With Forklift

Manuel Uribe, better known as "Meme", who once tipped the scales at 560kg, was hauled from his home  on a forklift and loaded onto a platform truck for the weekend day trip. " Manuel Uribe traveled to...

St Paul's Cathedral opens new South Churchyard

The magnificent St. Paul's Cathedral in London opened its new South Churchyard to the public today. This new peaceful space in the grounds took three years to complete at a cost of 3.8 million pounds." The...

Elderly Americans to double - 71 million by 2030

"Medical schools prepare for "silver tsunami" By Richard C. LewisMon Jan 28, 4:24 PM ET Just a few years ago, a graduate from Brown University medical school had just an inkling about how to care for the elderly. Now, Brown and other U.S. medical schools are plugging...

Myst for Nintendo DS

"Immersive Experience Will Draw Adventure-seekers of All Ages into a Surreal Dimension of Alternative Reality Empire Interactive today announced that MYST, the popular adventure-based video game, will immerse North American fans in a new experience created specially for the...

Vatican vows to fight Devil

"The Catholic Church has vowed to "fight the Devil head-on" by training hundreds of priests as exorcists. Father Gabriele Amorth (82), the Vatican's Exorcist-in-Chief, announced the initiative amid the Church's...

The Trees Are Alive With The Sound Of Music!

"Dalby Forest is playing host to three top acts on 22, 23 and 24 June. James Morrison, Travis and M People will perform on consecutive nights as part of the Forestry Commission's Forest Tour 2007. The sound of music will replace birdsong in Dalby Forest later this month as...

London's Historic Views 'Under Threat'

One of the best views in London is to be minimized in a bid to build more skyscrapers, create more traffic, more pollution, and collect more council tax. "Through the carefully trimmed foliage, St Paul's majestic dome appears no larger than a thumbnail. Seen from 10 miles...

Home Search in Vicky Murder Probe

"A search of the former home of killer Peter Tobin has begun as part of the police inquiry into the disappearance of Vicky Hamilton 16 years ago. The 15-year-old was last seen waiting for a bus in Bathgate, West Lothian. Tobin, who is serving 21 years for the murder of Polish...

Harry Potter Fans Stage Convention in New Orleans

The Phoenix Rising Convention in New Orleans, May 17-21, 2007One of the latest events planned by the Harry Potter fans while they wait impatiently for the last (sigh) book in the series to come out this...

MEMS for Viewing Faraway Galaxies

"Efforts to peer deep into the early universe are important to understanding its formation, but this requires the gathering of very faint infrared light--which is difficult because nearer, brighter objects overwhelm the signals of darker objects that are farther away. Now...

Sun Java JRE GIF Image Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

"Secunia: A vulnerability has been reported in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE), which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing GIF images and can be exploited to cause a heap-based...

Inkless Pen Will Last Forever

"A stainless steel pen, 8cm long. However when you unscrew the top, the 'nib' is a solid piece of metal. There is no ink, yet this pen will write on virtually any type of paper. How does it work? In the Medieval period, artists and scribes often used a metal stylus in order...

10 Tech Concepts You Need to Know for 2007

"Bendable Concrete The nickname for Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC) is self-explanatory: bendable concrete. Specially coated microscopic polymer fibers slide past each other instead of snapping under stress, so ECC bends without breaking. The material has been used...

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