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UK call for more air seat space
There must be a new minimum distance between seats on airlines in order to ensure passenger health and safety, a report declares.

Draw Hot Favourite In Colombo
The draw is the clear 4/9 favourite after day two of the second Test between Sri Lanka and England in Colombo. After their poor final session yesterday , England urgently needed a better second day at Colombo in order to stay in the match and the series

Razing of New Orleans housing halted (AP)

Two people look out from inside a building of the B.W. Cooper housing development that is scheduled to be torn down in New Orleans on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development wants to demolish about 4,500 public housing units at four of the citys largest complexes and replace them with mixed-income neighborhoods.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Demolition of three public housing complexes, slated to start this weekend, was halted Friday amid complaints about the scarcity of housing for the poor after Hurricane Katrina.




NASA releases e-mails in Nowak case (AP)

This photo provided by NASA shows astronaut and U.S. Navy Capt. Lisa M. Nowak, March 7, 2005 in Houston. Nowak was arrested Monday Feb. 5, 2007 for attempting to kidnap a woman she believed was romantically involved with another astronaut she was in love with, police said. NASA on Wednesday Dec. 11, 2007 released copies of the early e-mails between Nowak and astronaut William Oefelein, and messages between Oefelein and Nowaks romantic rival, Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman.  (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Newly released NASA e-mails hint at something more than a professional relationship between former astronaut Lisa Nowak and a space shuttle pilot.




Luxury firms slammed for lacklustre moves to save planet (AFP)

Production line at a LOreal plant. The best score obtained by the worlds 10 luxury giants according to a World Wildlife Fund ranking of A to F -- best score to worst score -- was a C+ by French luxury group LOreal.(AFP/File/Francois Guillot)AFP - The luxury industry is not doing its bit to save the planet, according to a World Wildlife Fund study of the worlds 10 largest publicly-traded luxury firms.




Canadian museum unveils long, long-lost dinosaur (Reuters)

Director and CEO of the Royal Ontario Museum, William Thorsell, attends the opening of the museums New Age of Dinosaurs and Age of Mammals exhibit in Toronto December 12, 2007. (Fred Thornhill/Reuters)Reuters - Canadas Royal Ontario Museum unveiled the skeleton of a massive dinosaur on Wednesday that had been lost for decades -- in its own collection.




Japan scientists develop fearless mice (AP)

In this undated photo released by Tokyo Universitys Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry Graduate School of Science, a genetically modified mouse approaches a cat in Tokyo. Using genetic engineering, scientists at Tokyo University say they have successfully switched off the rodents instinct to cower at the smell or presence of cats, showing that fear is genetically hardwired and not leaned through experience, as commonly believed.   (AP Photo/Ko and Reiko Kobayakawa, Tokyo University Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry Graduate School of Science, HO)AP - Cat and mouse may never be the same. Japanese scientists say theyve used genetic engineering to create mice that show no fear of felines, a development that may shed new light on mammal behavior and the nature of fear itself.




Hunley commanders watch no smoking gun (AP)

This undated photo, provided by The Friends of the Hunley, show the gold watch that belonged to the commander of the H.L. Hunley,  Lt. George Dixon.  Scientists announced Friday, Dec. 14, 2007, in Charleston, S.C.,  that the gold watch did not slowly wind down but stopped quickly, leaving unanswered questions about why the Confederate submarine sank sank off Charleston in 1864. (AP Photo/Friends of The Hunley)AP - When scientists opened the watch belonging to the H.L. Hunley commander three years ago, they thought they had the key clue to why the Confederate submarine sank off Charleston.




 

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