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Meet and even smaller "mini-T Rex" :p BBC Jan 24 Two-clawed and parrot-sized: new T.rex cousin unveiled A tiny distant cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex has been discovered in China with only a single claw on each upper limb. Linhenykus monodactylus weighed no more than a large parrot...

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...

LOL couple of points .... UK do not have autobahns .... thats Germany :) Chevy is not a car normally seen in the UK, but with that mileage per gallon I bet everyone would want one UK emissions tests are part of the MOT service that has to be done once a year ...very strict on...

Its taken me this long to stop laughing :D I forgot to say 21 yrs twice and a bit...... then half it :D IMO I still do not think some understand the point being made though. Its not our generation or probably the next that is the worry. Like turtle says, "Who knows? One day...

ROFL :D Well I do not consider myself as you describe above, in any way shape or form (and yes I have been 21 yrs twice and a bit more LOL) :p I do like the internet, cell phones and of course my xbox :D But I believe the point that is trying to be made isn't what you are saying in your...

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...

Personally I'm not so sure on the Chicken Little theory for this one - anyone ever read Isaac Asimov, Robots & Empire? With more & more "faceless" communication it does make one wonder what the future holds :rolleyes: :p

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...

"All but one of the 35 US states that employ lethal injection for executions use sodium thiopental. It is usually used as part of a three-drug combination" Why don't the other 34 States use whatever it is that the one State uses? :confused:

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...