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BBC News Jan 26 When you read this report, forget about the fact they mention the dreaded words .... global warming. I posted this piece simple because I thought it was an amazing feat by the Polar Bear - EL :) Scientists studying bears around the Beaufort sea, north of Alaska...

BBC News Jan 26 Bats in Borneo have been found roosting in carnivorous pitcher plants. A new study reveals that the plants benefit from nutrients in the bats' droppings. This unusual living arrangement is apparently beneficial for the bats too as they can shelter unseen inside the...

Reuters Jan 20 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A new species of giant crayfish literally crawled out from under a rock in Tennessee, proving that large new species of animals can be found in highly populated and well-explored places, researchers said on Wednesday. The new crayfish should not have...

Reuters Jan 24 MIAMI (Reuters) – A Florida Republican congressman has sent a proposed bill to Congress seeking to block Cuba's plans to start its first full-scale offshore oil exploration with a deepwater rig located off the Florida Keys. If approved, the draft bill by Congressman Vern...

Telegraph Jan 25 If you want knowledge to stick then it is best to take a nap after absorbing it, claims new research Researchers in Germany showed that the brain is better during sleep than during wakefulness at resisting attempts to scramble or corrupt a recent memory. Their study...

BBC News Jan 24 Wind chill warning are in place across much of east and central Canada as Canadians brave some of the lowest winter temperatures in decades. Quebec City temperatures fell to -25C. Wind chill made it feel more like -40C. Other parts of east and central Canada are...

BBC News Jan 24 Breaking News A US appeals court has ruled that President Barack Obama's former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel cannot run to be mayor of Chicago, a report says. Lawyer Burt Odelson said the court had voted 2-1 to overturn a judge's ruling to keep Mr Emanuel's name on the...

Mail Jan 23 Online backlash: Facebook and Twitter 'make us less human and isolate us from the real world' They call themselves social networking sites but now it appears that the likes of Twitter and Facebook could be downright anti-social. A leading academic claims that the technology...

Mail Jan 24 It is news to gladden the heart of any metric martyr. Scientists have discovered that the kilogram is struggling with a weight problem. Measurements taken over the past 100 years show that the international prototype – the metal object on which the scientific unit of mass is...

ABC news - updated 4 minutes ago A Washington state sheriff says a shooting at a Walmart has left one person dead and two sheriff's deputies wounded. Kitsap County Sheriff Steve Boyer says the two deputies along with another person are being taken to a Tacoma hospital. He says the incident...

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BBC Imagine being attacked by one of your own hands, which repeatedly tries to slap and punch you. Or you go into a shop and when you try to turn right, one of your legs decides it wants to go left, leaving you walking round in circles. Last summer I met 55-year-old Karen Byrne in New...

I just want to say .... I love American Football .... well maybe not so much the football but the Bud Light adverts :D There are so funny and there always seems to be a new one :D

Telegraph Jan 21 A love bite on the neck caused a woman to suffer a minor stroke which partially paralysed her, doctors in New Zealand have disclosed The 44-year-old Maori woman experienced loss of movement in her left arm and went to the emergency department of Middlemore Hospital in...

Telegraph Jan 23 Executions across the United States could be thrown into disarray after the only manufacturer of a drug used in most lethal injections announced it is ending production A shortage of sodium thiopental has already forced some states to put executions on hold in recent...

Telegraph Jan 23 Mike Tyson, the self-styled "baddest man on the planet", will emerge soon in a television show as a former boxer with uncanny similarities to the one played by Marlon Brando in 1954 Tyson's fascination with pigeons, to be featured in a six-part series on the Animal Planet...

Telegraph Jan 23 Scottish officials are attempting to persuade American politicians to reverse a 40-year ban on the haggis Richard Lochhead, the Scottish Government's Rural Affairs Secretary, has invited a delegation of American politicians to Scotland in the hope of persuading them to...

Mail Jan 23 We ARE alone: Despite discovering more planets, the chances of finding ET are unlikely, says astronomers With films like Star Trek and 2001: A Space Odyssey and millions of sci-fi books, man has always believed in aliens. But the chances of finding extraterrestrial beings is...

Mail Jan 14 Meet the mini T-rex: The tiny 4ft dinosaur with grasping hands that gave rise to the most ferocious predator of all time It's the dinosaur that spawned the biggest and most ferocious land predator that ever lived. The remains of a previously unknown species of dinosaur that...

BBC Jan 22 The "newest" cat species described to science, the Sunda clouded leopard, actually exists in two distinct forms, scientists have confirmed. This big cat is so enigmatic that researchers only realised it was a new species - distinct from clouded leopards living elsewhere in...