Topic: NEWS english - on May 16, 2004 at 9:41:00 PM CEST
Smoking on beach may be next to go
Smokers have been rejected from offices and restaurants, their presence in pubs and clubs is precarious, and now they face a new fight for their right to smoke on Sydney beaches.
A proposal before Manly Council tonight may ban smoking on the beach where the newspaper editor William Gocher was arrested in 1902 for defying the law by swimming during the day.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 15, 2004 at 9:51:00 PM CEST
Nepal arrests 'skull-smugglers'
Police in Nepal have arrested two men carrying 250 human skulls.
They were detained near Birgunj, a town near the border with India, apparently trying to smuggle the skulls into Nepal in bags.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 14, 2004 at 2:21:00 AM CEST
Coming to a Store Near You: Chinese Cola
China's largest beverage maker is going where no other Chinese firm has gone before -- it has shipped the first retail batch of its own cola to the home of the carbonated soft drink, the United States.
Hangzhou Wahaha Group, whose 170,000-bottle shipment is on the way to New York and Los Angeles, will have to slug it out with giants PepsiCo Inc and Coca-Cola Co in the mammoth $64 billion market.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 13, 2004 at 8:01:00 AM CEST
Climbing Everest? Don't Forget to Dress for Dinner
Seven men who enjoyed duck and caviar at more than 22,000 feet in the Himalayas pitched a claim for the record highest altitude formal dinner.
One Australian and six British men made it to the top of the 23,113-feet Tibetan peak Lhakpa Ri near Mount Everest carrying tables, chairs and white tie dinner suits earlier this month. Gales forced them back to 22,326 feet for the sumptuous meal.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 11, 2004 at 11:21:00 AM CEST
Australians incensed by British boomerang claim
A British children's author is claiming the boomerang, an iconic symbol of Australian heritage, was in fact invented in Britain.
Experts say the Bronze-age image, dating from around 3,000 to 4,000 BC, is a sun or fire worship symbol.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 10, 2004 at 5:45:00 PM CEST
Wi-Fi phones may help cut calling costs
Now that some Wi-Fi "hot spots" have grown into broader neighborhood "hot zones," the next wave is waiting: Phones and gear that send conversations over wireless Internet networks - for free or at a fraction of the cost of traditional calls.
Mobile phone maker Motorola Inc. plans to introduce a device that would seamlessly switch calls from cellular networks to cheaper Wi-Fi networks wherever they're available.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 10, 2004 at 12:30:00 AM CEST
Israel raids Gaza tunnel diggers
The Israeli military say they caught a group of Palestinians trying to dig a tunnel from the Gaza Strip into neighbouring Egyptian territory.
The operation by the army was part of an ongoing campaign that Israel wages against tunnel diggers at the southern end of the Strip.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 9, 2004 at 10:11:00 AM CEST
Coca-Cola Creates Custom Phone for Promo
The FCC yesterday approved an entirely new type of cellular device designed exclusively for a Coca-Cola promotion to take place this summer. The device, which is shaped like a soda can, includes a specialized GSM cellular phone and a GPS location-tracking device.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 5, 2004 at 9:59:00 PM CEST
Nails in skull
Six nails embedded in the skull of construction worker Isidro Mejia, 39, after an industrial incident caused a nail gun to shoot nails into his head and brain on April 19, 2004, are seen in this X-ray image from Providence Holy Cross Hospital in Los Angeles.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 5, 2004 at 7:34:00 PM CEST
419ers crack cold fusion
Since they already have a man in space, it should come as no surprise that our old mates from Lagos have pulled off an even more impressive feat - cold fusion. Well, it was actually the brilliant Nigerian physicist Koffi Abacha, who sadly died in the obligatory mysterious plane crash.
However, his work looks promising, and for just $10,000 you can buy yourself into the energy revolution. Read on:
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 5, 2004 at 7:29:00 PM CEST
Grass routes
Copenhagen's 'free state' of Christiania is under threat. Matthew Tempest visits the hippy enclave and finds it's still rolling on. Christiania - the communal enclave founded out of the squatting movement in the early 1970s - regards itself as a "free state" within Denmark; so much so that as you leave the leafy quarter of lakes, shared warehouses, coffeeshops, bicycle shops and vegetarian restaurants, an archway sign warns you that "You are now entering the EU."
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 5, 2004 at 9:26:00 AM CEST
Eunuch beauties
Babi Darling, winner of the Miss Koovagam beauty contest, and second runner up Lakshmi pose in the Villupuram area of the southern Indian city of Madras. Sixty-eight eunuchs from across the country participated in the contest organized by the state AIDS control board on Tuesday.
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