Woman held in China for using Twitter
London: A woman in China is believed to be the first person in the world to be imprisoned for using Twitter, it was reported here.
The Independent reported Sunday that the woman, Cheng Jianping, was
Pope okays use of condoms - sometimes
London: Breaking with years of Roman Catholic teaching, the Pope has said the use of condoms can be justified 'in certain cases'.
In a book, Benedict XVI has signalled that the contraceptive could be
Maid knew of royal engagement before Queen
London: A maid in Kenya was told about the engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton - before even the Queen was informed.
Margret Lekartgi, a 22-year-old maid, has known about William and Kate
Just like dad, Prince William is marrying his ‘nanny’
London: They say men subconsciously look for women who remind them of their mothers, but Prince William seems to have found a woman who is a reflection of his nanny.
Both father Prince Charles and so
Radioactive mouse on the loose in US
Melbourne: Authorities in the US state of Washington are looking for a radioactive rodent – just two weeks after a radioactive rabbit was trapped.
The Tri-City Herald reported that radioactive mouse
Life discovered deep inside Earth
London: Just when you thought we had discovered signs of life everywhere possible on Earth, a new expedition has revealed a complete ecosystem existing in the deepest layer of the planet’s crust.
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Nokia's iPhone challenger has a fault - a big one
Nokia, the world's top cellphone maker, said on Friday some of its flagship N8 smartphones were sold with a power fault that meant they switched themselves off.
The success of the N8 - Nokia's first
White Britons will be a minority - in 50 years!
avid Coleman, professor of demography at Oxford University, said the decline in white population would be due to a record breaking immigration along with the departure of thousands of Britons to green
Hitler's 'flying saucer-attacks on London, NY'
London: As Hitler's armies began to suffer a series of crushing reverses in Stalingrad and North Africa, he turned to his scientists to create a super-weapon - flying saucers to bomb London and New Yo
Facebook: Girl with 5,000 friends wants 'em all
Washington: As Facebook users started trimming their ‘friend fat’ on the ‘National Unfriend Day’, an Oklahoma student has insisted that she really doesn''t have much to cut.
Chinh Doan, a 20-year-old