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| Saturday 7th of June 2008 / Entertainment |
| Now, a body-creeping 'Skin-tenna' to monitor health remotely
London, June 7 (ANI): A wireless antenna, which is small enough to be worn discreetly under clothes and allows doctors to monitor illnesses and injuries remotely, is closer to becoming a reality. |
| Church castigates Labour Govt for paying lip service to Christianity in favour of Islam
London, June 7 (ANI): A report commissioned by the Church of England has said that the Labour Government pays "lip service" to Christianity and favours Islam and other minority religions. |
| Lawyer's firm earns nearly a million pounds representing terror suspects
London, June 7 (ANI): Mudassar Arani, the controversial lawyer who represented the Muslim cleric Abu Hamza and other terror suspects saw her firm earn almost one million pound in legal aid last year. |
| Capello tips Germany to win EURO 2008
London, June 7 (ANI): England coach Fabio Capello believes that Germany could well be crowned European champions this summer. |
| Waitress loses job after cancer charity head shave
London, June 7 (ANI): A waitress has been sacked for shaving her head to raise money for a cancer charity. |
| IBM aims to use water to cool chips
London, June 7 (ANI): IBM researchers have shown that possibility of using a network of tiny pipes of water to cool next-generation PC chips. |
| London police chief wants tough action against druggie celebs
London, June 7 (ANI): Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair has said that celebrities who are pictured apparently taking drugs should be put on trial to prove they were snorting talcum powder and not cocaine. |
| Ballot paper that brought Hitler to power to be auctioned
London, June 7 (ANI): A rare 1933 ballot paper, which brought Nazi dictator Adlof Hitler to power, is set to go under the hammer. |
| Pakistan to ask Saudi Arabia to defer oil payments
London, June 7 (ANI): Pakistan is to ask Saudi Arabia if it can defer paying for oil imports worth two billion dollars as it grapples with a deteriorating economic situation fuelled by rise in global crude prices. |
| Granddaughter's scream miraculously wakes up coma victim
London, June 7 (ANI): An Indian origin woman, who was in a coma for six weeks, miraculously woke up from her condition by her granddaughter's scream. |
| Real Madrid believes Ronald will be their new Becks
London, June 7 (ANI): Spanish football club Real Madrid believes Cristiano Ronaldo will be their new David Beckham. |
| Original dot-com billionaire 'built a cocaine fuelled sex cave under house'
London, June 7 (ANI): Henry T. Nicholas III, the flamboyant co-founder and former chief executive of semiconductor chipmaker Broadcom, built a "sex cave" under his house, took cocaine, spiked customers' drinks with ecstasy and also directed a stock-options backdating conspiracy, federal criminal indictments released on June 5 charged. |
| Scientists make 'super-paper' stronger than cast iron
London, June 7 (ANI): Swedish researchers have created a sort of 'super-paper' that they claim is stronger than cast iron. |
| Microbes aboard NASA's Phoenix probe might have hopped onto Mars
London, June 7 (ANI): Two new studies have suggested that NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander may have been coated with dozens of species of bacteria when it left Earth, which might have hopped on to Martian surface when the probe touched down on the Red Planet. |
| Time might have existed even before the Universe's Big Bang
London, June 7 (ANI): By studying the cosmic microwave background (CMB), a team of physicists has claimed that time might have existed even before the Big Bang in the Universe. |
| Ronaldo's mum insists that he sticks with ManU
London, June 7 (ANI) Portuguese striker and Manchester United's leading goal scorer for this year, Cristiano Ronaldo has been told by his mother to remain at Old Trafford, and give up thoughts of quitting for Real Madrid. |
| Real Madrid praying for Ronaldo to go on ManU strike
London, June 7 (ANI): Real Madrid are hoping that Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo will go on strike at Manchester United to force the Old Trafford-based club to sell him off to the Spaniards. |
| Experts fear sharks actively hunting humans
London, June 7 (ANI): Experts fear that sharks are seeking human as their targets for the first time after a string of Jaws-style attacks on a resort in Mexico. |
| Pope Benedict XVI emerges as best-selling author
London, June 7 (ANI): Pope Benedict XVI emerged as a best-selling author, after more than 2.5 million copies of his latest book were sold in just over a year. |
| Now, a simple cheek swab test to tell if you're an early bird or a night owl
London, June 7 (ANI): You can now find out whether you are an early bird or a night owl - thanks to scientists at Swansea University, who have discovered a new "non-invasive" technique of identifying people's sleep patterns. |
| Dungeon dad's custody extended
London, June 7 (ANI): Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl, who held his daughter captive in a cellar for 24 years, will remain in custody for another two months, a prosecutor has said. |
