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I know a few members enjoy watching Doctor Who, but after watching an interesting program the other night on PBS, I wondered how many other members enjoyed (or will admit to having enjoyed :p) a few other programs that are now buried in the Time Vaults ...... The Time Tunnel Lost in Space...

CNN Jan 20 London (CNN) -- Britain has denied entry to the Florida pastor who said last year that he was "praying about" whether to burn Qurans to protest the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. "The government opposes extremism in all its forms which is why we have excluded Pastor...

BBC Jan 19 A German man has admitted to smuggling live tarantulas into the US. Prosecutors said Sven Koppler of Wachtberg posted hundreds of spiders to buyers in the US and across the world, earning more than $295,000 (£184,548). Among the spiders he sold were Mexican red-kneed...

BBC News Jan 20 A US astronaut has lost his place on the next space shuttle mission next month, after falling off his bicycle. Tim Kopra was injured in a cycling accident at the weekend. His place as the lead spacewalker on the shuttle's flight will be taken by another astronaut...

BBC News Jan 20 The victim of a high-profile New York baby-snatching case has been reunited with her mother after solving the mystery of her abduction herself. Carlina White was abducted from a hospital in Harlem in August 1987, when she was just 19 days old. Raised as Nejdra Nance in...

BBC News Jan 20 There has been uproar in the Irish parliament after five ministers quit the cabinet inside two days, with a sixth expected to join them. It was confirmed overnight that four had tendered their resignations, joining Foreign Minister Micheal Martin, who stood down on Tuesday...

Independent Jan 19 Curry has become the latest in a bizarre line of alleged cures after it was claimed the dish could fend off the common cold 1. For centuries it was believed that Copper could cure anything from gallstones to rheumatism and even today copper bracelets are commonly worn to...

BBC News The new James Bond book, written by thriller author Jeffery Deaver, will be called Carte Blanche. The title and cover were unveiled in Dubai where parts of the book are set. US writer Deaver said the novel - to be published in the UK on 26 May - posed "the looming question of...

Independent Jan 19 A mysterious visitor to Edgar Allan Poe's grave has failed to show up for the second year in a row. Fans of the writer waited all night at the Baltimore cemetery where Poe is buried. Four impostors came and went. At about 5am yesterday, the dozen Poe fans who were left...

BBC News Jan 19 Amoebas show primitive farming behaviour as they travel A species of amoeba - among the simplest life forms on Earth - has been seen "farming" the bacteria it eats. When the bacteria become scarce, the Dictyostelium discoideum slime mould gathers up into a "fruiting...

Wednesday January 19 2011 Associated Press= AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A proposed Texas state budget would cut a staggering $5 billion from public schools. The draft of the two-year budget was released late Tuesday as Gov. Rick Perry and his supporters were dancing at an inaugural celebration. The...

Independent The Arctic is to become the "new environmental battleground", campaigners warned yesterday after BP announced plans to drill in one of the last great unspoilt wildernesses on earth. Greenpeace and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) have vowed to confront BP's...

BBC News Jan 18 Technology that links vehicles into "road trains" that can travel as a semi-autonomous convoy has undergone its first real world tests. The trials held on Volvo's test track in Sweden slaved a single car to a lorry to test the platooning system. Trains of cars under the...

BBC Researchers in Australia have discovered a secret weakness of one of the ocean's most impressive predators. Sharks, it seems, are completely colour blind. The scientists, who examined retinas of 17 different species of shark, discovered that the creatures had only one type of...

– Tue Jan 18, 12:14 pm ET LONDON (Reuters) – Sherlock Holmes is to be brought back to life in the first new novel about the great Baker Street detective to be officially approved. Anthony Horowitz, author of stories about teenage spy Alex Rider, has been chosen by Arthur Conan Doyle's...

– Tue Jan 18, 2:01 pm ET ATHENS (Reuters) – A Cypriot monk caught at a Greek airport with the skeletal remains of a nun in his baggage on the weekend told authorities he was taking the relics of a saint back to his monastery. The 56-year-old Cypriot was detained at Athens airport on Sunday...

By Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press – Tue Jan 18, 11:20 am ET WASHINGTON – Missing a plane connection cost Utah gun owner Greg Revell 10 days in jail after he was stranded in New Jersey with an unloaded firearm he had legally checked with his luggage in Salt Lake City. Nevertheless...

AP Tuesday Jan 18 WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court will decide whether to allow California to reduce its Medicaid payments to help close its massive budget gap. The high court on Tuesday decided to hear an appeal from state officials. Lower courts stopped California from enacting a 10...

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, AP Legal Affairs Writer – 1 hr 44 mins ago COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Ohio Supreme Court justice who helped write the state's death penalty law three decades ago is calling for an end to capital punishment in the state. Justice Paul Pfeifer was one of the leading...

AP Jan 18 A letter to Ireland's Roman Catholic bishops has been revealed by the broadcaster RTE that contradicts the Vatican's frequent claim it has never instructed clergy to withhold evidence or suspicion of child abuse from police. The 1997 letter documents rejection of a 1996 Irish...