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One litre of seawater can contain more than 20,000 different types of bacteria, scientists have found. [...] "The 454 tag sequencing strategy increases resolution like the Hubble Telescope. We can see marine microbial diversity to which we were blind before."

Penguins stranded on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro will hitch a ride back home to Antarctica with Brazil's air force and navy, Reuters news agency reports. [...] The penguins wash up on Brazilian beaches each winter after floating on Antarctic ice floes which melt. Many of the birds, which are flightless, are usually taken to local zoos, Reuters says.

The famed businessman used to go through 100 cigarettes a day but stopped 23 years ago. Since then he has built a global empire on teaching people how to quit, with clinics in more than 30 countries and bestselling books.

A new study found that the risk of miscarriage to expectant mothers was 60 per cent higher when the father was aged 40 or over compared to when he was 25 to 29 years old. The risk of losing the baby was also about three times greater when the man was aged between 35 and 39 years of age than if he were younger than 25.

"[It] can transfer to the virtual world the meaning and intent of common hand gestures, such as pointing, wagging the finger, tapping in the air or other movements." The device is also able to transfer to the computer very precise information about the physical characteristics - shape and size - of an object when a user taps, scratches, squeezes, strokes or glides a finger over the surface of the object.

Scientists believe they are probably frigid lakes of liquid methane, or a combination of methane and ethane. The smallest is 0.6 miles wide, while the largest l is 62 miles long.

Evolutionary psychologists believe that this is a survival preference as the best chance of healthy offspring in an environment where food is scarce is a heavier woman. Dr. Tovée explained that cognitive state, drives, and interests are dependent on the underlying physiology, blood sugar levels and hormone levels, and these depend upon hunger, and this explains how physiology does impact our perceptions and thought process.

A City worker has won an estimated £800,000 damages in a High Court bullying case against Deutsche Bank Group Services (UK) Ltd. Helen Green, 36, sued the bank claiming harassment by colleagues and lack of support from bosses in what she called the "department from hell". She said she suffered psychiatric injury after working in the secretariat division from 1997 to 2001.

Composition means, literally and simply, putting several things together, so as to make one thing out of them; the nature and goodness of which they all have a share in producing . . . .

Thieves have stolen more than 200 items - with an estimated value of $5m (£2.67m) - from Russia's prestigious Hermitage art museum in St Petersburg. The thefts are thought to have been carried out over a number of years - police believe as many as 30 years.

K-For recently reopened its base north of Mitrovica and close to the border with Serbia proper. Extra UN police have been deployed in the region. All in case it all goes wrong.

The ingredient [in the drug] prevents transport and implantation of embryos in the womb by interfering with the delicate system. [...] "Cannabis use certainly has a huge effect on infertility in men. We're used to counselling men and it's useful to be able to use this research to advise women as well."

Telenor ASA of Norway bought Serbian mobile phone operator Mobi 63 on Tuesday for 1.5 billion euros ($1.92 billion), expanding its presence in the region. Telenor's chief for central and eastern Europe, Jan Edvard Thygesen, signed the deal with Serbia's Finance Minister Mladjan Dinkic a day after Telenor outbid Mobilkom Austria AG and Egypt's Orascom Telecom at an auction.