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Transport officials said the 59-year-old woman was held in connection with a confrontation with the flight crew. She was carrying hand cream - a banned item - and matches on board the United Airlines flight. The aircraft was escorted into Logan airport by two jet fighters.

Relakks, as the service is known, allows users to send and receive files through a heavily-encrypted connection. It claims to be the first commercial darknet, a virtual network set up to share files between trusted users.

A worm has been spotted online that tries to use the vulnerabilities to hijack home computers. Any computer compromised by the worm will become part of a large network set up to send out junk mail. At the same time Microsoft is re-issuing a recent security patch which has made the Internet Explorer browser crash on some computers

Electronics giant Sony has seen its share price fall after laptop batteries it supplied to computer maker Dell were deemed a fire risk. Dell is to recall 4.1 million of its notebook computer batteries because of the problem.

The proposal recognises eight classical planets, three planets belonging to a new category called "plutons" and the largest asteroid Ceres.

It is thought 306 British soldiers were shot for cowardice, desertion or other offences in the 1914-1918 war. [...] But injustices "were clearly done".