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The study found drivers tend to pass closer when overtaking cyclists wearing helmets than those who are bare-headed. [...] While wearing the wig, drivers gave him an average of 14cm more space when passing.

On July 29, the man [who had worked in the royal palace at Monte Carlo as a valet] sent another five electronic love letters to the princess and asked for a rendezvous.

A Slovak driver who crashed into a bus shocked rescuers who found him unconscious and half naked

[A]rmy officers are accused of placing car bombs around Bogota, including one that went off wounding more than a dozen soldiers and killing a civilian. The motivation was to claim reward money from the government, which offers payments of up to $400,000 (£220,000) for information on the activities of Marxist rebels and drugs traffickers.

The alert follows a security breach in which a malicious hacker broke into a database holding information about Second Life's 650,000 users. This held names, addresses, passwords and encrypted credit card information.

They say that breaking up is hard to do, and I know, I know that it's true...well, at least according to the coherent knowledge structure built with that tart who left me.

So the antivirus people are having to hack Windows so they can get close enough to protect it. Microsoft does not see it that way, though. [...] "That's really why Windows Vista's been re-architected - to protect itself from external access."

Solar-B is a Japanese spacecraft which will have three telescopes to study solar flares, the huge bursts of energy which erupt from the Sun's surface. [...] The Solar-B mission will try to gain new insights into the flares' so called "trigger phase".

Japan's Princess Kiko has given birth to a baby boy, potentially resolving the royal family's succession crisis.

Extreme drug resistant TB (XDR TB) has been seen worldwide, including in the US, Eastern Europe and Africa, although Western Europe has had no cases. TB presently causes about 1.7 million deaths a year worldwide, but researchers are worried about the emergence of strains that are resistant to drugs.

Partners in the project include the websites of US newspaper the New York Times and the Guardian from the UK. Other sources include news aggregators, websites which collect and display news stories from multiple sources.

The BBC today unveiled Creative Future, a new editorial blueprint designed to deliver more value to audiences over the next six years and turn the BBC's public purposes laid out in the recent Government White Paper into quality content for the on-demand world.

Expression Web is the first major Web editor designed from the ground up to create code based on CSS and XML. Even when you drag an image or text box to resize it, the program inserts CSS-based layout code rather than the old-style HTML tags created by FrontPage or DreamWeaver.

Rupert Sheldrake, whose research is funded by the respected Trinity College, Cambridge, said on Tuesday he had conducted experiments that proved that such precognition existed for telephone calls and even e-mails. [...] "The hit rate was 45 percent, well above the 25 percent you would have expected"

Eric McCarty, a 24-year-old San Diego resident, indicated he was unhappy with USC for not admitting him to the university, according to court papers. [...] Shortly after the hack, McCarty posted a comment on his blog where he admitted that "USC Got Hacked, I was involved, I'm sorry, my bad, so all the hot USC Girls, I got your phone number ladies."

This innovative approach involves giving suspects secondary tasks such as giving their version of events in reverse order, or recalling information relayed through a set of headphones. As lying takes up more brain power than telling the truth, a guilty suspect is unlikely to be able to perform other tasks as well.

Google this weekend decided to turn over records to the Brazilian government about users of Orkut, the company's social-networking service that has found a large fan base in Brazil.

“Every once in a while he even in some way suggested how I could escape and get away from him. As if he wanted that I get free some day. That it all falls apart. That somehow justice prevails, or something like that. I think I was stronger, he had an unstable personality. He had insecurity issues.”

Of the 17 patients with advanced skin cancer who underwent gene therapy, the treatment worked only on Mr Origer and "Thomas M", aged 39, clearing the disease from liver, lymph node and lung.

Writing in the scientific journal Nature, ACT researchers described a way to make stem cells from single cells that had been removed from embryos. Because fertility doctors routinely remove single cells from embryos for genetic testing and then successfully implant them, the technique could in theory be used to create stem cells without destroying human embryos.

Priklopil would sometimes hand her newspaper cuttings about the kidnapping, which had prompted an international police hunt. "Look, they are still writing about us," he would say. He told her it was as if "we are alone together in a boat" and said: "We belong together for ever."

Mr Irwin, 44, died after being struck in the chest by the stingray's barb while he was filming a documentary in Queensland's Great Barrier Reef.

Footage of Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin being fatally attacked by a stingray on the Great Barrier Reef has been handed to Queensland police as fans worldwide come to grips with the "freak" death.

"In Europe we're getting worried about three or four cases of rare disease associated with the Baltic Ocean - but in Africa we're talking about potentially many millions of cases of malaria" -- Professor Paul Hunter, University of East Anglia

Children who grow up with alcoholic parents bear emotional, behavioural and mental scars, experts say. [...] The report found 55% of domestic violence occurs in alcoholic homes.