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Aberdeen-based DEO Petroleum is being bought by an oil firm with whom it has been collaborating in the North Sea.

A learning support assistant who repeatedly touched a 15-year-old male student is placed on the sex offenders register.

Firefighters deal with a fire on the eighth floor of a multi-storey car park in Inverness which damaged two cars.

The managing director of Bond Offshore Helicopters is stepping down, as a review of operations is launched.

Satellite image shows the weekend's clear skies

As a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s, pop art aims to emphasize the nature of things popular in our daily routine. In the pop art most artists used mechanical means of rendering techniques that downplay the expressive hand of the artist. Being an art movement, it has some expr ...

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Beauty retouching is probably one of the most popular application areas in which Adobe Photoshop is used extensively. There are two simple reasons for that. First, Photoshop offers a variety of advanced tools to smooth out skin and hair, optimize body proportions and emphasize some beautiful de ...

Although light is considered to be rather a practical than an artistic tool, it has some properties which designers can effectively explore in their works. Indeed, light can also be considered as a medium for more powerful and more vivid artistic expression. In fact, many artists and crews make ...

Republican presidential candidate John McCain again attacks his Democratic rival's plans of "re-distributing wealth".

The European Commission defends Peter Mandelson over his links to Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska.

Several hundred people taking part in a run in the Lake District are reported to be stranded by flooding and torrential rain.

Gordon Brown hits the campaign trail in a by-election for the first time since becoming prime minister.

A sea scooter race official from the UK has gone missing during the Asian Beach Games

I recently purchased an Aiwa AM-NX9 from Ebay. It's a Net MiniDisc from the brief period that Aiwa was branch of Sony before being shut down. Sony had hoped that AIWA could become their new youth orientated brand to combat Apple and its own fading brand name. Sony at this time ...

This is probably what all the web developers out there are thinking. I have to say after reading Google Chrome Comic I was pleasantly surprised. It seems to take the best from all the current browsers and then add a fresh take to it. It is based on webkit, but seems ...

There are some really sexy new devices out. I really should bring back the Cool Wall I used to run on SteelSkin. Without further a do:  I really would like a new telly and this picture shows the telly from my dreams. It's a Panasonic Plasma, running at 1080P and ...

For many years I have had a nagging feeling about Apple and it's products. I generally like what they do and many of their laudable aims, but they have really started to grate with me in recent years. I'm not entirely sure why, they are not any worse than many ...

I have made a few minor tweaks to make the site more palatable to Safari / Mac users. They added a new font rendering style to Safari for Windows called Standard (for CRT). It is kind of like the Mac font rendering acting a wee bit more Windows like. Is ...