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You may not be familiar with the name Guy Kewney, but you will certainly have heard of the embarrassing incident when someone who clearly wasn't IT expert Guy Kewney was interviewed in a business slot on News 24.

Reports from California suggest his story may be turned into a Hollywood movie - and that ought to earn him a couple of quid at least.

It's a program that generates an authentic-looking initial fragment of a news article about a prison escape. The stories are one hundred percent bogus.

Stories by Elena Filatova

CNN anchor Kyra Phillips took a bathroom break during President Bush's Katrina speech in New Orleans on Monday. Her microphone was still live, however, and viewers overheard her conversation with another woman as Mr. Bush spoke

High-tech MRIs of the brains of a group of nuns suggest there is no single so-called "God spot" in the brain. Instead, mystical experiences appear to involve a number of brain regions and systems that normally control a variety of functions, including self-consciousness, emotion and body representation, said a Canadian team at the Universite de Montreal.

In a demonstration aboard a bus traveling at about 37 miles per hour, the technology achieved intercell data transmission handovers, including the broadcast of high-definition TV and high-speed Internet access. Samsung claimed the handover is possible while moving at a speed of up to 70 miles per hour.

As therapists continued caring for Kampusch in the secure, unidentified location where she has been resting since escaping Priklopil, police said they tentatively planned to question her again about her ordeal.

Once you pass the thick walls and the security gates, any resemblance to a normal jail disappears: there are children playing, market stalls, restaurants, hairdressers and even a hotel.

"We can do this the easy way... or the hard way."

"But, young man, do you not realize that there are miles and miles of beach and there are starfish all along every mile? You can't possibly make a difference!"

Patients in whom cellulite had worsened had started off slimmer than others in the study, suggesting that beyond a certain point, dieting will not do any good. And those who did achieve significant weight loss were still left with some dimpling.

t was found that one person feeling that they matter to another can positively affect symptoms of depression.

"What we've done is determine the structure of three of those four, which hadn't been done before and, it turns out, they show some structural differences from the group that was used to develop Tamiflu and Relenza." [...] This suggests that it may be possible to design or identify other compounds that would block neuraminidase activity.

Google has said it intends to crack down on the use of its name as a generic verb, in phrases such as "to google someone." The Internet search giant said such phrases were potentially damaging to its brand.

Google today announced availability of its first Wi-Fi network. Most residents of Mountain View, Calif., can connect to the Internet via a Mesh Wi-Fi network for free. Google said that its network "eventually will cover the entire city" and serve as "testing ground for future innovations."

“ Snakes on a Plane, man!” [Samuel L.] Jackson interrupted. “We’re totally changing that back. That’s the only reason I took the job: I read the title.”

The gene has undergone the most changes since the ancestors of humans and chimps diverged. Its precise function is yet to determine, and the gene may hold clues to evolution of human brain capacity, said the researchers from the United States, Belgium and France.

Trolltech, the world's top supplier of Linux software for mobile phones, said it will offer a mobile cameraphone running on the international GSM/GPRS standard it calls Greenphone. Trolltech's phone is priced at around $690 and comes with all the software and source code necessary to develop a complete mobile phone model, including core Linux operating system controls, a phone dialler, address book and camera application.

A plant Celts used to get blue dye for their war paint is a rich source of a compound that fights breast cancer, scientists have found. Woad, which belongs to the same plant family as cauliflower and broccoli, contains high levels of the compound glucobrassicin.

AIDS-causing virus has a `bag full of tricks'. It's destructive and coy. It's dumb and smart at the same time. And it's extremely complex.

Descendants of extinct mammals like the giant woolly mammoth might one day walk the Earth again. It isn't exactly "Jurassic Park," but Japanese researchers are looking at the possibility of using sperm from frozen animals to inseminate living relatives.

Because NASA's equipment was not compatible with TV technology of the day, the original transmissions had to be displayed on a monitor and re-shot by a TV camera for broadcast.

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Popular massively multiplayer online games, such as "World of Warcraft," have created a market for valuable game identities loaded with gold or other hard-earned forms of in-game currency that can be used to buy new weapons, magic spells or other trappings to advance within the game.