New Zealand's high school students will be able to use "text-speak"
in national exams this year.
Australian scientists have invented a T-shirt that allows air
guitarists to play actual music as they strum the air.
Australian granny revealed as the person who discovered the
intriguing Canadian rock formation that looks like an iPod-wearing,
native American.
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He might be the most active philanthropist you have never heard of:
a retired technology entrepreneur putting his stamp on science
research centres at the world's top universities and sponsoring
what he hopes will be 21st-century versions of the Nobel Prizes.
Shortly before dinner at a trendy new restaurant in Manhattan's
theatre district, a production crew started setting up.
Deutsche Telekom AG Chief Executive Kai-Uwe Ricke will step down
from Europe's biggest telecommunications company on Monday, the
company said late Sunday.
Shortly before dinner at a trendy new restaurant in the theatre
district, a production crew started setting up. They arranged
lights, checked the cameras and put a microphone on the sushi chef
Masatoshi "Gari" Sugio. Soon they would be filming at the Sushi of
Gari 46 and interviewing the famed chef.
Cellular phone subscribers rose in India by a record 6.6 million in
October, keeping the country's place as the world's fastest-growing
mobile phone market, according to data released over the weekend.
The message was simple: Write a letter to someone lost in the Korean War. Within a day, responses started pouring in for the latest effort by brothers Hal and Ted Barker to remember the war their father didn't like to discuss. In the three weeks since their plea went out, more than 500 letters and e-mails have arrived _ from daughters who lost their fathers to veterans who lost friends to schoolchildren thanking those who died for their freedom.
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Microsoft has decided to get fair dinkum about Australian
colloquialisms by including some in its 2007 version of Microsoft
Office.
From tequila texting to vitriolic blogs, the aftermath of a
break-up can be more publicly humiliating than ever before, writes
John Luu.
The race is on to digitise the world's literature, writes Laurence
Benhamou.
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