British scientists have developed the world’s first practical plastic magnet. The breakthrough could lead to new advances in computing and medical applications. The new plastic magnet, developed by the University of Durham’s organic electroactive materials group, is the first in the world to operate at room temperature.
Packs of wild dogs on Australia’s Fraser Island have merged into one ”superpack” that poses a big risk to the thousands of local and foreign tourists who flock to camping sites their each year, a researcher said on Monday. The Fraser Island dingoes have developed a tolerance for each other that is uncharacteristic of their breed.
Police fired shots and foiled an armed robbery of a cash transport in downtown Oslo early on Monday, as the dramatic showdown was captured on video by a crew filming a pornographic movie nearby. ”We heard a lot of noise outside, and went to check,” porn star Thomas ”Rocco” Hansen said on national radio.
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) on Monday stated it will now mobilise all 180Â 000 workers in component manufacturing and at petrol stations, car dealers and panel-beating shops for an indefinite strike from September 10, after employers reportedly reneged on a previous in-principle agreement.
Ahmed Idris’s wife is preparing the family’s only meal of the day and there is not enough for their 11 children running around their two little shelters in the middle of the Zamzam refugee camp in Sudan’s Darfur region. The children, some of them with distended bellies, appear malnourished, although their mother says the quantity of the food rations they get has increased considerably in recent months.
Nigerian troops set off for Darfur
Alleged mercenaries Harry Carlse and Lourens Horn have been charged for contravening the Foreign Military Assistance Act. Carlse and Horn arrived home from Zimbabwe on Saturday after a Harare court acquitted them on weapons charges on Friday.
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A 155-strong company of Nigerian infantrymen arrived at Abuja aiport on Monday, ready to depart to the war-torn western Sudanese region of Darfur as part of an African Union force protecting ceasefire monitors. ”You are going to Sudan purely to assist our brothers and sisters in restoring a hope that is fast diminishing in them,” said Brigadier General Shekari Biliyak.
It’s a frustrated commuter’s escapist fantasy: literally lifting your car from a clogged highway and soaring through the skies, landing just in time to motor into your driveway. Engineers at Nasa, the Boeing Company and elsewhere say the basis for a flying car is there. At Nasa, the first goal is to transform small airplane travel.
There was no Madonna-Britney Spears kiss, no partially clad Howard Stern coming down from the rafters and certainly no wardrobe malfunctions. The MTV Awards show on Sunday featured typical frenetic energy and sexy style, and a few musical surprises, but it was mostly a kinder, gentler version of past shows.
The case of five soccer referees accused of match fixing was postponed in the Pretoria Regional Court on Monday to October 6. Bail was extended for Reuben Maruping Kgatla, Malose Jonas Mokonyane, Kgomase Michael Sikwe, Masithela Patrick Phandiwe and Christopher Choane.