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A £40,000 teddy which used to belong to Elvis Presley was among scores of toy bears destroyed when a dog meant to guard them went on the rampage. [...] Barney also caused an estimated £20,000 damage to other bears in the collection.

Jockey Paul O'Neill, who head-butted a horse during a meeting at Stratford, has been given a one-day ban by the Horseracing Regulatory Authority.

The findings challenge the long-held belief that the insects seek out flowers that contain the most nectar or pollen. [...] "We think the fact that 80% of floral species have this, it could be a broad evolutionary innovation in order to generate warmth and thus lure pollinators to collaborate with them," he suggested.

About one-third of digital camera users in the UK are not backing up their photographs, reveals research. [...] "I think it will be ok if we lose a couple of billion photos of chopped off heads and red eyes" -- Mike Bethany, Orlando [...] "I print off ALL my pictures and store them in a box under the bed. That way I don't have to worry about internet security trojan worms and the like." -- John Ringer, Cheshunt, UK

Dubbed "planemos", they circle each other rather than orbiting a star. Their existence challenges current theories about the formation of planets and stars, astronomers report in the journal Science.

The University of California, Berkeley's Stardust@home project - a needle-in-a-haystack search for interstellar dust that's open to anyone with a computer - gets off the ground tomorrow (Tuesday, August 1) at 11 a.m. PDT.

The researchers demonstrated the vulnerability at a computer-security conference, showing how to take complete control of a MacBook from Apple Computer Inc. [...] "The problem itself isn't really an Apple problem," said Maynor, a researcher at SecureWorks Inc., a network-monitoring company. "This is a systemic problem across the industry."

A 16-year-old Irish student has startled the Internet world by creating a new Web browser that may -- or may not -- be able to goose browsing times by 600 percent.