Sydney in darkness
The Sydney Opera House’s gleaming white-shelled roof was darkened Saturday night along with much of the rest of Australia’s largest city, which switched off the lights to register concern about global warming.
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Freedom rings? You don’t have to give out your real phone number…with Jangl
Rather than giving out your actual phone number to just any old person over the internet, web site Jangl lets users hand out Jangl IDs rather than phone numbers. Once someone receives your ID, they can head over to Jangl.com, enter the ID you gave them to get a number to call you at. It’s […]
Heavy Mental
Many parents may regard it as a deafening din, but liking heavy metal may be a sign of intelligence in youngsters. New research suggests clever teenagers listen to it as a way of coping with the pressures of being talented. A study of 1000 of the country’s brightest adolescents revealed “metalheads” are often extremely bright. […]
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Europe: Three Italians, including an EU official, are arrested as part of a corruption probe involving the EU Commission. Germany introduces cancer jab. Young girls in Germany are to be vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer. Thousands march in the Polish capital, Warsaw, to call for a total ban on abortion even in […]