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Scientists at Rice University, Houston, have zoomed ahead in the race to build the smallest "car" - a very small moving object that has applications only at the molecular level.The "nanocar" resembles the average automobile only in shape as it measures only three by four nanometres - so small that a million of them parked bumper to tail may just be barely visible to the naked eye.A human hair, by

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Politics is a deadly business in Iraqwith public figures in constant fear of assassination or kidnap, but self-defense measures backfired on one member of parliament Tuesday.Police reported a Sunni Arab lawmaker from northern Nineveh province had been wounded in an attack.But his party leader, Adnan al-Dulaimi, told Reuters: "Hashim Yahya al-Taee was not the victim of an

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COBAN, Guatemala - Pretty young women sashay across stage, thoughtfully answer questions and perform dances but the Rabin Ajaw pageant, which picks Guatemala's Maya Indian beauty queen, is no typical beauty contestInstead of bikinis and high heels, the 78 female contestants dress in traditional Mayan knee or calf-length skirts, headdresses and shawls embroidered with flowers and animals.Parading

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LONDON - British police have condemned a role-playing game where contestants travel all over London armed with water pistols looking to "assassinate" other players, saying it could spark terrorism alerts."StreetWars," which is described on its Web site as a "three-week long, 24/7, water gun assassination tournament," begins Tuesday in the British capital.The game, which has taken place in cities

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NICOSIA - An England football shirt gave away a Senegalese man attempting to enter Cyprus on a forged French passport, police on the Mediterranean island said on Monday.Suspicions were aroused when the man appeared at a checkpoint supervising crossings from the Turkish Cypriot north to the Greek Cypriot south of the divided island, wearing the England shirt and presenting a French passport."Being

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LONDON - With Australian outback hero Crocodile Dundee as her inspiration, an 80-year-old British pensioner foiled a knife-wielding burglar with an even bigger blade of her own.When woken by a masked man holding a knife, Winifred Whelan screamed and ran downstairs to the kitchen.Grabbing a giant carving knife, she told the startled intruder "You call that a knife? This is a knife" in an echo of

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PUNE: Superman's spectacular return to celluloid this summer capitalises on mankind's secret desire for larger than life heroes and their world-saving antics. One of the most popular and enduring forms of art, comic books have the power to zoom their central characters right off their pages on to the silver screen. Last year there were the due instalments from Batman and Spiderman. Superman

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LONDON: From dating invitations to sexually explicit comments, mobile text messaging is slowly changing the way most young people approach romantic relationships, a survey conducted across Britain has shown. More than half of mobile-users aged between 18 and 24 have sent or received an invitation to a date in a text message, while just as many have traded sexually explicit messages, the survey

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JAKARTA - A militant Islamic group has filed a police report against Indonesia's miss universe candidate accusing her of indecency, a lawyer for the organization said Tuesday.Nadine Chandrawinata's participation in the contest and display of her body in a swimsuit there "is actually insulting for Indonesian dignity and women," Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) attorney Sugito told

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WELLINGTON: A bald, mustachioed lawyer turned up at court wearing a skirt and blouse and toting a purse to protest a lack of care and sensitivity among New Zealand's male-dominated judiciary, a newspaper reported Tuesday. Rob Moodie, 67, a former rugby player, pipe smoker and secretary of the police union, arrived at Wellington's High Court on Monday in a navy blue woman's suit complete with

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HELSINKI - Finnish engineers have poured pig manure into a contaminated pond next to an old mine, saying the bacteria in the slurry will clean up metals in the water.Mining company Outokumpu dumped 450 cubic meters of pig slurry into the waste water near the closed Kangasjarvi mine, which once produced zinc, copper and sulfur."Pig slurry contains bacteria that bind metals that are in the mine

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PROVINCETOWN, Massachusetts - Provincetown, New England's summer gay capital, is facing a rise in harassment and discrimination. But this time it's straight people who say they are being ridiculed as "breeders" and "baby makers."Less than a decade after a successful campaign to end violent paroxysms of "gay bashing" in the beach town at the tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, police and town

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LONDON - Two women died and 13 people were injured when they fell from a huge inflatable sculpture after it broke its moorings and flew into the air in a park in northeastern England, police said Monday.Up to 30 people were inside the walk-in exhibit, which has been shown around the world, when a gust of wind blew it 9 metres above the park in Chester-le-Street Sunday."All of a sudden it just

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BERLIN - Police in the Bavarian city of Ingolstadt were stunned when a thief they had just released from custody stole an officer's bicycle on his way out and rode off on it, authorities said Thursday. "They could scarcely believe his cheek," said a spokesman for Ingolstadt police. "It's almost impossible to beat."Police had earlier arrested the 22-year-old man of Tunisian origin after he was

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LAS VEGAS - Vera Rhodes has come a long way from her conservative upbringing in Pennsylvania's Amish communityThere she was a virgin until she married at age 30. Now, she is an enthusiastic 54-year-old member of the millions-strong "swinging" community who speaks openly of her encounters with multiple sexual partners."Last night it was really special," said Rhodes, who is divorced and makes a

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NEW YORK - A missile fell off a truck and onto a New York highway on Friday, but the weapon did not have a warhead and posed no danger, police said.WCBS radio reported it was a Tomahawk cruise missile. Police and fire department officials could not confirm that.The cargo came loose when the truck carrying it collided with another truck on a motorway in the Bronx."It was a military-type missile

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SHANGHAI - Online marriage brokers are common in China, but a young Chinese Web site is thriving by turning the traditional idea of marriage on its head.Called "Marriage for Asexuals" (www.wx920.com), the site claims to be the first and biggest online marriage broker for "asexual" people in China. It says it has attracted 7,000 members since it was launched last year.Its rapid success

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BERLIN - A German soccer club plans to open a cemetery next to its stadium so that die-hard fans can rest in peace alongside their favorite team.Hamburg SV, a Bundesliga side from the northern port city, aims to open the graveyard some 50 feet from the stadium's main entrance, said deputy chairman Christian Reichert."For a large number of people, it's important to be close to the club after their

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London - Britons are spending as much as 83 billion pounds a year without knowing where the money went, according to research by Visa.A survey of over 1,000 people revealed that the average UK adult spends 33 pounds ($61) every week with no recollection of what the money bought.With that amount, Visa said, the average household could have paid for the following:-- everyday power and water bills

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Fancy sex on a fishing boat? Then visit the Lake Balaton resort, say Hungary's authorities in a recently launched campaign aimed at attracting young people to its main lake resort.The tourism authority is sending around an email with an internet link http://abalatoninyar.fw.hu/, leading viewers to a short cartoon film which features a young blonde woman having sex with a married man on a fishing

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Rome : The next time you call directory inquiries in Italy, you may speak to a convicted murderer.Italy's biggest phone operator, Telecom Italia, Thursday presented its new call-center in Rome's largest prison, where 24 inmates are glued to a computer screen to answer thousands of requests for phone numbers and addresses every day."This is a unique initiative in Europe and it helps the detainees

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Mexican big-screen siren Salma Hayek Friday dismissed as nonsense reports that she has a $100 million fortune, and said if she did she would retire and use the money to help the poor.Local media in Mexico and Latin America reported this week that the Oscar-nominated actress had been ranked by Fortune magazine as the second-richest Latin American in Hollywood, with nearly half as much money as

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