Topic: COMPUTER - on June 17, 2004 at 2:54:00 PM CEST
Munich embraces the penguin
The city council of Munich yesterday decided to go ahead with its planned migration from proprietary to open source applications. Although financial and technical problems have dogged Project LiMux, Munich's Rathaus (City Hall) will now migrate 16,000 desktop PCs to the Linux operating system.
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Topic: Euro 2004 - on June 17, 2004 at 2:50:00 PM CEST
Totti: Frühestens im Halbfinale wieder dabei
Francesco Totti hat am Donnerstag die Rechnung für sein unsportliches Verhalten präsentiert bekommen: Der Italiener, der am Montag dem Dänen Christian Poulsen mitten ins Gesicht gespuckt hatte, wurde für drei Spiele gesperrt. Damit steht er seinem Team frühestens im Halbfinale wieder zur Verfügung.
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Topic: Euro 2004 - on June 17, 2004 at 2:48:00 PM CEST
Totti banned for spitting
Italy's Francesco Totti has been banned for three games by Uefa after spitting at Denmark's Christian Poulsen.
Totti will miss his side's next two Group C matches against Sweden and Bulgaria as well as the quarter-finals should the Italians qualify.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 17, 2004 at 2:45:00 PM CEST
Armed trio steal £3 worth of strawberries
German police are looking for two armed men and a woman who stole £3 worth of strawberries at gunpoint.
A woman working at a pick-your-own fruit farm near Munich arrived to find three people picking their own.
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Topic: Euro 2004 - on June 17, 2004 at 2:44:00 PM CEST
Drunk Irish fan steals ambulance in Algarve
In one of the more bizarre Euro 2004 incidents so far, an Irishman was detained by police today after allegedly driving away an ambulance.
Police in Lisbon said the man, who took the emergency vehicle in Portimao on the Algarve at 3.30 a.m. today, had a very high alcohol reading.
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Topic: SEX - on June 17, 2004 at 2:42:00 PM CEST
Horny gene found Out
What would you give for a simple injection that would stop your lover from cheating?
Well, at least it works for meadow voles.
A single gene inserted into the brain can change promiscuous male rodents into faithful, monogamous partners, scientists said Wednesday.
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Topic: 911 - on June 17, 2004 at 2:40:00 PM CEST
9/11 'myths' to be dismissed
A member of the 9/11 commission says several "urban myths" about the 2001 attacks will be dispelled Thursday at the panel's last scheduled public hearing.
One such myth is the widely held belief that the U.S. military was ready to carry out orders to shoot down civilian aircraft if necessary.
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Topic: FUN - on June 17, 2004 at 1:33:00 PM CEST
Flamingo Drive Yetisports 5
The Yetisports World Tour 2004 comes to Afrika. With the help of flamingos, Yeti undertakes a absolute funny and incredible amusing safari in the African savanna. Underneath giraffes, over elephants and acacias, catapulted high up to the sky by snakes and carried by vultures, the penguin demonstrates clean flying tricks on advanced level.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on June 17, 2004 at 12:31:00 PM CEST
Power implant aims to run on body heat
Life-saving medical implants like pacemakers and defibrillators face a big drawback: their batteries eventually run out. So every few years, patients need surgery to have the batteries replaced.
Now a company in New York state is planning to tackle the problem by providing patients with an implantable power source that recharges their implant's batteries using electricity generated by the patient's own body heat.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 17, 2004 at 12:03:00 PM CEST
Thunderbird 0.7 Released
New features in Thunderbird 0.7 include: Updates are similar to Firefox's, with new extension and theme managers and slight increases in speed. Be sure to read the release notes for the complete list of new features.
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Topic: Terror - on June 17, 2004 at 12:00:00 PM CEST
Hostage paraded on video at Islamic website
A CAPTURED United States hostage was last night paraded on a website video by kidnappers who threatened to murder him within 72 hours unless al-Qaeda prisoners were released.
A man identifying himself as Paul Johnson was shown on video, blindfolded and saying he worked on an Apache helicopter programme in the kingdom for the Lockheed Martin firm.
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Topic: NEWS english - on June 17, 2004 at 11:58:00 AM CEST
The miracle of Älmhult
It started by piggybacking its deliveries on milk trucks, and was almost wiped out by a fire. Now it has 186 stores in 31 countries and has made its reclusive founder, Ingvar Kamprad, the world's richest man - while producing the beds on which 10% of Europeans were conceived. What is the secret of Ikea's success? And what exactly is a Mållen clip for?
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