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An 89-year-old war veteran has been found covered in ***** after mice chewed his head at an Australian nursing home...

RICKY HATTON V MANNY PACQUIAO Venue: MGM Grand, Las Vegas, USA Date: Sunday 3 May Ricky Hatton admits he is the underdog for Saturday's light-welterweight super-fight against Manny Pacquiao, but insists he can still cause an upset. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/8024026.stm

A violent but evolutionarily effective mating strategy has been spotted in spiders from Israel. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8023413.stm

Scientists have rendered objects invisible under near-infrared light. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8025886.stm

A car has crashed into a crowd watching a parade involving Dutch Queen Beatrix and her ******, ******* four people and seriously injuring several others. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8026807.stm

Astronomers have discovered a strange Jupiter-sized world circling a star similar to our own Sun. The planet has a highly unusual, elliptical orbit around its parent star. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8020594.stm

Scientists say they have clinical proof that a face cream available on the high street does reduce wrinkles http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8022644.stm hope for you chaps yet

The cataclysmic explosion of a giant star early in the history of the Universe is the most distant single object ever detected by telescopes. The colossal blast was picked up first by Nasa's Swift space observatory which is tuned to see the high-energy gamma-rays emitted from extreme events...

A Swiss woman has lost her job after her employers spotted she was using the Facebook website when she had claimed to be too ill to use a computer http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8018329.stm

Carl Froch dragged himself up off the canvas before delivering a last-gasp knock-out to retain his WBC super-middleweight title against Jermain Taylor in Connecticut http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12183_5241439,00.html :hatsoff:

Wembley Stadium's controversial pitch is to be dug up immediately, the Football Association has confirmed. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8017297.stm It is really embarrassing - somebody must give an explanation Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger on the Wembley pitch

A Miss Universe Australia finalist has hit back at claims she is too thin, saying she is happy with her body and eats up to eight meals a day...

Conservation campaigners are hailing a victory for the "critically endangered" gray whale. The groups have won agreement from some oil and gas companies in Russian waters to end seismic work, giving gray whales a chance to breed undisturbed. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8017291.stm

A molecule that until now existed only in theory has finally been made. Known as a Rydberg molecule, it is formed through an elusive and extremely weak chemical bond between two atoms. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8013343.stm

Severe droughts lasting centuries have happened often in West Africa's recent history, and another one is almost inevitable, researchers say http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8003060.stm

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Archaeologists are to search three sites in Egypt that they say may contain the tomb of doomed lovers Anthony and Cleopatra. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8000978.stm

Red pandas have surprised researchers by demonstrating a liking of artificial sweeteners http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8002978.stm cute lil buggas

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The Sidamo lark could soon be the first bird on mainland Africa to die out since modern records began. A survey has found that just a few hundred of the larks survive in Ethiopia. Unless action is taken to save it, the bird will disappear. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8000199.stm

A team of researchers in the US has discovered traces of a medicinal alcoholic ***** in bottles that are more than 5,000 years old. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7992575.stm :glugglug:

A Florida woman who set up a webcam in her home turned on from work to see burglars robbing her in real-time...

Paranormal experts are investigating an alleged ghost sighting apparently caught on CCTV in the grounds of an Edwardian country house http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Ghost-Captured-On-CCTV-At-Croxteth-Hall-Liverpool/Article/200904115257658

Marilyn Chambers, a former Ivory Snow detergent model who became a porn star, died Sunday at her Canyon Country home, the Los Angeles Times reports. She was 56. http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/04/marilyn-chambers-los-angeles-porn-star-death-behind-the-green-door-ivory-snow.html

Archaeologists have discovered the earliest evidence of human beings ever found in Scotland. The flints were unearthed in a ploughed field near Biggar in South Lanarkshire. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7992300.stm

As a *** who did you admire,look upto,worship?(fact or fiction) Do you still? Mine Rocky Marciano Mike Tyson Luke Skywalker Tyson no more Skywalker always

A cheap solar cooker has won first prize in a contest for green ideas. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7991654.stm

HALTOM CITY, Texas—A woman called 911 to report she didn't get as much shrimp as she wanted in her fried rice at a Texas restaurant. http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2009/04/08/woman_calls_911_over_lack_of_shrimp_in_fried_rice/

Chimpanzees enter into "deals" whereby they exchange meat for sex, according to researchers. Male chimps that are willing to share the proceeds of their hunting expeditions mate twice as often as their more selfish counterparts http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7988169.stm

Scientists have detected particles that may come from invisible "dark matter". This is thought to make up 23% of the Universe, but can only be detected through its effects on "normal" matter http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7977102.stm

Baby birds can do arithmetic, say researchers in Italy. Scientists from the universities of Padova and Trento demonstrated chicks' ability to add and subtract objects as they were moved behind two screens. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7975260.stm mmmmmm

A Big *******-style experiment to test whether humans could travel to Mars and back has begun in Moscow. Six volunteers from Russia, France and Germany have been locked into a capsule to simulate the conditions of a manned flight to the planet lasting two years...

The US has finished constructing a huge physics experiment aimed at recreating conditions at the heart of our Sun. The US National Ignition Facility is designed to demonstrate the feasibility of nuclear fusion, a process that could offer abundant clean energy...

Giant lions were roaming around Britain, Europe and North America up to 13,000 years ago, scientists from Oxford University have found http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/7974948.stm

A gunman has shot dead six people and injured at least five others, including a police officer, in a shooting spree at a nursing home in North Carolina, police have said...

People in the Australian state of Queensland have taken part in a mass capture of poisonous cane toads as part of a collective effort at pest control. The celebratory cull is known as Toad Day Out and was advocated by a Queensland politician, Shane Knuth. The toads have to be captured alive...

Millions of people worldwide are being urged to switch off lights for an hour, in what is described as the biggest climate change protest ever attempted. The initiative, Earth Hour, was begun in Sydney two years ago by green campaigners keen to cut energy use...

Queen's University says new research it conducted shows crabs not only suffer pain but retain a memory of it. The study, which looked at the reactions of hermit crabs to small electric shocks, was carried out by Professor Bob Elwood and Mirjam Appel...

Scientists say the possible discovery of mud volcanoes on Mars could boost the search for the planet's past life. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7966437.stm

Japan has certified a man aged 93 as the only known survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, both hit by atomic bombs towards the end of World War II. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7963581.stm

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1915679/ Eugenia Silva @ Premiere of "Los Abrazos Rotos" in Madrid, March 18, 2009 HOT

A pink baby elephant has been caught on camera in Botswana. A wildlife cameraman took pictures of the calf when he spotted it among a herd of about 80 elephants in the Okavango Delta. Experts believe it is probably an albino, which is an extremely rare phenomenon in African elephants...

Cameras have revealed how "armed" chimpanzees raid beehives to gorge on sweet honey. Scientists in the Republic of Congo found that the wild primates crafted large clubs from branches to pound the nests until they broke open. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7946614.stm

A giant fossil sea ******* found in the Arctic had a bite that would have been able to crush a 4x4 car, according to its discoverers. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7948670.stm

Europe is set to launch one of its most challenging space missions to date. The Goce satellite will map minute variations in the pull of gravity experienced across the planet http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7935621.stm

Scientists have discovered a highly unusual fish with fangs made of bone. Dubbed the "Dracula" fish, the creature is about 17mm (0.7 inches) long and has been found in only one Burmese stream http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7935482.stm

An unmanned Nasa mission to search the sky for Earth-like planets with the potential to host life has launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The Kepler telescope will orbit the Sun to watch a patch of space thought to contain about 100,000 stars like ours...

Reseachers have seen the best evidence yet for a pair of black holes orbiting each other within the same galaxy. While such "binary systems" have been postulated before, none has ever been conclusively spotted. The new black hole pair is dancing significantly closer than the prior best...

Mars appears to have had running water on its surface about one million years ago, according to new evidence http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7919113.stm