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A legislator who filed a lawsuit against God has gotten something he might not have expected: a response.
‘God’ responds to legislator’s lawsuit - CNN.com.

Looking for who is behind the iPod Nano Commmercial Song”1, 2, 3, 4.”?No worry she is Feist, the Canadian singer-songwriter.
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An Indian television news channel has been taken off air for a month after broadcasting a false “sting” which led to riots and a woman being jailed.
BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | India bans faked report channel.

Men have a source of potentially life-saving stem cells between their legs.
A team of American researchers has found a way to easily identify stem cells in the testicles of adult mice that can be coaxed to turn into brain cells, muscle cells, heart cells, blood cells and even blood vessels.
globeandmail.com: Using testicles to fix [...]

Kaspersky say today that they have discovered a nasty virus that came pre-installed on Maxtor  3200 Personal Storage external hard drives sold in the Netherlands.According to the company the virus roots around a computer in search of gaming passwords. The malicious code also rifles through a computer’s contents and deletes mp3 files.The virus, named Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah installed as soon [...]

The abrupt and brutal departure Thursday of José Mourinho from his post as the highest paid coach in soccer was surprising only for its timing.
Soccer: José Mourinho is out, Avram Grant and Steve Clarke are put in charge of Chelsea - International Herald Tribune.

From bedbugs to toxic moths, the number of pests in UK homes is on the rise. Why is this, and what can be done to curb their populations?
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Itching to get at you.

NBC has announced that it will begin offering free ad-supported downloads of its TV shows next month.
The TV network will launch a service called NBC Direct, which gives users the opportunity to download full episodes from a select set of shows. The catch is that it will contain commercial breaks just as if it was [...]

The IBM Lotus Symphony is made up of Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets and Lotus Symphony Presentations, the tools support Windows and Linux desktops and are designed to handle the majority of office tasks that workers typically perform.It also supports multiple file formats including Microsoft Office and ODF (Open Document Format), and can also [...]

President Hugo Chavez wants Venezuelan clocks turned back half an hour and he wants it done in record time — next Monday.
Call me cuckoo: It’s Chavez time in Venezuela - Yahoo! News.

Apple Inc. has partnered with network operator T-Mobile to introduce the iPhone in Germany on Nov. 9, the companies announced on Wednesday.
PC World - Germany Will Get iPhone on Nov. 9 Too.

Rapper Dizzee Rascal and soul singer Amy Winehouse have been named the best UK male and female acts at the Music of Black Origin (Mobo) Awards in London.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Dizzee and Winehouse win at Mobos.

Being fluent in two languages may help to keep the brain sharper for longer, a study suggests.
BBC NEWS | Health | Being bilingual ‘protects brain’.

It is mid-afternoon in an airy, lower-Manhattan flat, on the ninth floor of a posh-looking building with a doorman.
BBC NEWS | Americas | US family tries life without toilet paper.

Arsenal 3-0 SevillaBarcelona 3-0 LyonFenerbahce 1-0 Inter MilanPSV 2-1 CSKA MoscowRangers 2-1 VfB StuttgartRoma 2-0 Dynamo KievSlavia Prague 2-1 Steaua BucurestiSporting 0-1 Man Utd

O.J. Simpson walked out of the Clark County Detention Center on Wednesday after paying the $125,000 bail set earlier in the day.