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Saturday, 07 October 2006 |
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Man found dead in bed after five years
An Austrian man has been found lying dead in his bed, apparently for the past five years. The man, who has been identified as Franz Riedl, is believed to have been in his late 80s when he died. His corpse went undetected for so long because his rent had been paid by automatic order from the bank account into which he received his pension.
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Tuesday, 03 October 2006 |
Sony battery recall may widen
Major Japanese electronics maker, Fujitsu, has announced that it will presently decide on a recall of lap-top computers using Sony-made batteries which have already been the subject of a recent massive global recall. Fujitsu spokesman, Masao Sakamoto, said the Tokyo-based company would make a decision soon.
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Tuesday, 03 October 2006 |
![]() Branson unveils Virgin Galactic Spaceship Two
The innovative British entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson, has revealed an interior mock-up of the sub-orbital spaceship in which he plans to take paying passengers on flights into space. The full-size model of the interior of SpaceShipTwo, which is being built under wraps by aviation designer Burt Rutan in California's Mojave Desert, where its predecessor, SpaceShipOne, was flown in 2004, was displayed for the first time during a technology show in New York last week.
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Tuesday, 03 October 2006 |
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U.S. scientists win 2006 Nobel Prize for Medicine
Americans Andrew Fire (pictured) and Craig Mello have won the 2006 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their discovery of how to switch off genes, a potential path to new treatments for diseases from AIDS to blindness and cancer. Fire, 47, and Mello, 45, are among the youngest in recent history to win the prize of 10 million Swedish crowns (726,000 pounds Sterling). Their work, which was published in 1998, received remarkably swift recognition.
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Saturday, 23 September 2006 |
It is ironic that Benedict XVI finds himself accused of crude anti-Islamic prejudice after quoting a medieval emperor's opinion that Mohammed's violent teachings were "evil and inhuman", for no pope in history has made a deeper study of Islam.
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