Topic: EU - on June 30, 2010 at 10:45:00 AM CEST
EU to ban selling eggs by dozen
Under the draft legislation, to come into force as early as next year, the sale of groceries using the simple measurement of numbers will be replaced by an EU-wide system based on weight.
It would mean an end to packaging descriptions such as eggs by the dozen, four-packs of apples, six bread rolls or boxes of 12 fish fingers.
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Topic: POLITIK - on June 30, 2010 at 10:44:00 AM CEST
Berlusconi-Buddy zu sieben Jahren Haft verurteilt
Er gilt als rechte Hand von Premier Berlusconi und soll dessen Partei Forza Italia mit Hilfe der Mafia groß gemacht haben: Jetzt hat ein Gericht in Palermo Marcello Dell'Utri zu einer langjährigen Haftstraffe verurteilt. Ein Meilenstein in der Rechtsprechung? Wohl kaum.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on June 30, 2010 at 10:42:00 AM CEST
Vatican says not liable in U.S. sexual abuse case
The Vatican, struggling to control the damage to its image from a sexual abuse scandal, said Tuesday it would prove it cannot be held legally responsible for a predatory priest in a pivotal U.S. lawsuit.
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Topic: FUN - on June 26, 2010 at 10:35:00 AM CEST
Future Technology, Today: Newspapers
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Topic: TV - on June 26, 2010 at 10:11:00 AM CEST
Fair and balanced! - EXCLUSIVE: Pedophiles Find a Home on Wikipedia
Wikipedia has become home base for a loose worldwide network of pedophiles who are campaigning to spin the popular online encyclopedia in their favor and are trying to lure more people into their world, an investigation by FoxNews.com confirms.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on June 26, 2010 at 10:07:00 AM CEST
New York man builds his own nuclear reactor
A web designer from New York has revealed a home-made nuclear reactor which he's constructed himself in a Brooklyn warehouse.
Mark Suppes is said to be the 38th independent physicist in the word to achieve nuclear fusion from a self-built reactor.
The 32-year-old amateur physicist says the device cost him £25,000 and he built it because he sees it as a possible future energy technology.
newslite.tv The Original Inventor of the World-Changing Homemade Fusion Reactor: Robert Bussard (Video)
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Topic: STRANGE - on June 26, 2010 at 10:05:00 AM CEST
From food to fashion, the thriving market in human hair
The trade in human hair is a growing - and very lucrative - market, with a new film by US comedian Chris Rock looking at the industry. But what can human hair be used for?
There's no such thing as a bad hair day for some people.
Not for the chef using it to get the perfect pizza crust, or the fashion designer charging up to £20,000 for clothes created using human hair. Certainly not for the hairdresser charging up to £2,500 for extensions.
Human hair is now big business in the UK and US and other parts of the world. It's also extremely lucrative for some. American comedian Chris Rock explores the international trade in his new documentary film Good Hair, released in this country on Friday.
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Topic: SPORT - on June 25, 2010 at 12:41:00 PM CEST
Olympics 2012: Fans must use Visa for tickets
Visa is the only payment choice for UK based London Olympics 2012 fans
Sports fans who want to buy tickets by card for the London 2012 Olympics will only be able to use the Visa payments system.
The restrictions are part of the sponsorship deal struck between Visa and the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Visa credit and debit cards will be the only ones accepted at shops or cash machines at Olympic venues.
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Topic: born rich - on June 25, 2010 at 12:35:00 PM CEST
Singapurs neueste Attraktion ist das Hotel Marina Bay Sands
Die drei riesigen Türme des neuen Mega-Hotels Marina Bay Sands recken sich in den Himmel von Singapur. Auf dem Dach befindet sich die neueste Attraktion der Stadt: der Sky Park in 200 Metern Höhe.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on June 23, 2010 at 12:50:00 PM CEST
Werner Herzog has teamed up with David Lynch
Werner Herzog's output has swung perilously close to mainstream of late. His 2006 Vietnam war action film Rescue Dawn was mostly well-received, while his Bad Lieutenant was released last month to widespread admiration. Has the famously idiosyncratic German director gone straight? Not a chance. His latest movie, which screens at the Edinburgh international film festival this week, sees him back on the fringes of artistic expression.
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Topic: FUN - on June 23, 2010 at 12:46:00 PM CEST
Nike Air Abuku
" we decided to create something based on the concept of air, the main quality of this model. What we did was keep the soles filled with air as is, but take off the upper part of the shoe and use it to mold a clear material into that shape. This became an aquarium for goldfish, a representative aquarium fish in Japan. What you can see from the relationship between a goldfish and air in this microcosm, a shoe, is the human society and the microcosm that contains it. "
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on June 23, 2010 at 12:43:00 PM CEST
"Futurezone": Name weg, Inhalte bleiben
Die "Futurezone" als Kanal falle weg, aber die Werte, um die es in der Berichterstattung des Portals ging, würden nicht untergehen, sagte Pachner. Etwa die Fragen von Persönlichkeitsschutz im Internet. Dass der ORF künftig eine Mehrzahl der Internetforen nicht mehr betreiben darf, weil die Verleger auf diesen Geschäftszweig pochen, versteht er nicht, schließlich habe man als Marktführer kein Geld mit den Foren verdient. Auch die "Futurezone" sei ein Nullsummenspiel. Die von den Verlegern im Zuge der Verhandlungen um das ORF-Gesetz durchgesetzte Einstellung des Portals versteht Pachner nach wie vor nicht. Es sei schließlich auch ohne gesetzliches Verbot möglich gewesen, ein solches Portal zu gründen.
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