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Tickets for a public memorial service for Michael Jackson in Los Angeles on Tuesday will be available via the internet, organisers have revealed. Read the rest of this entry »
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About Science-Nature - UK-born astronauts are to receive a commemorative pinAbout Science-Nature -
The five UK-born individuals who have flown in space are being honoured with a commemorative pin. Read the rest of this entry »
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About Health - Fight for lifeAbout Health - A woman from Gaza stands at an Israeli check-point. We can only see her back but it is clear that in shame she opens her top to a female Israeli soldier to show that her breasts have been removed in an attempt to beat cancer. Despite this, she is refused entry to Israel on security grounds. This is the climactic scene from the first major Palestinian attempt at an animated movie and it is based on a true story. But this is not and anti-Israeli rant. There are good and bad characters on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide. The heroine of the movie is called Fatenah. She is a Gazan woman whose dream of finding love and leading a normal life is torn apart by cancer and the conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis. "Usually Palestinians are treated as numbers, but this is not the case here," said Saed Andoni, the film’s producer. Read the rest of this entry »
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About Entertainment - Magazine - Take That receive coveted awardAbout Entertainment - Magazine - 
Take That are in the middle of their 20-date stadium tour
Pop survivors Take That have won their second coveted Silver Clef award, recognising an 18-year chart career. The former boyband first received the prize in 1995, mere months before Robbie Williams quit. On that occasion, so many fans packed the entrance to the Intercontinental Hotel in London that the group had to be ushered in through a side entrance. They have now eclipsed the likes of Sir Paul McCartney and The Rolling Stones, who have only received the prize once. The trophy is awarded each year to raise funds for music therapy charity Nordoff-Robins. Lulu, who duetted with Take That on Relight My Fire, turned up to present the four-piece with their trophy. Other winners at this year’s ceremony at the London Hilton included Madness, who picked up the Icon award, and Queen, who were named Ambassadors of Rock.
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About Technology - Facebook criticised over privacyAbout Technology -
The social networking site Facebook has come under fire for planned changes to its privacy settings. Read the rest of this entry »
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About Science-Nature - How honeybee mobs smother giant hornets to deathAbout Science-Nature - Honeybee hordes use two weapons - heat and carbon dioxide - to kill their natural enemies, giant hornets. Japanese honeybees form "bee balls" - mobbing and smothering the predators. This has previously been referred to as "heat-balling", but a study has now shown that carbon dioxide also plays a role in its lethal effectiveness. In the journal Naturwissenschaften, the scientists describe how hornets are killed within 10 minutes when they are trapped inside a ball of bees. Japanese giant hornets, which can be up to 5cm long, are voracious predators that can devastate bees’ nests and consume their larvae. But, if the bees spot their attacker in time, they mount a powerful defence in the form of a bee ball. This study found that the heat inside the bee ball alone was not enough to reliably kill the hornets.
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About Entertainment - Magazine - Olympic cyclists join KraftwerkAbout Entertainment - Magazine -
Kraftwerk have wheeled out four British gold medal-winning Olympic cyclists to ride to their music at a show in the Manchester Velodrome. Read the rest of this entry »
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About Entertainment - Magazine - The Bill’s theme tune to be axedAbout Entertainment - Magazine -
The title music to ITV1 police drama The Bill is being dropped as the show moves to a post-watershed slot. Read the rest of this entry »
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About Science-Nature - No safe haven for rarest antelopeAbout Science-Nature - 
A bit special: a lone adult male
Fleeting sightings of the world’s rarest antelope, the hirola, in a new safe haven are cases of mistaken identity, a survey has found. That has dashed hopes that some of the last hirola have managed to colonise a new territory where they would be less vulnerable to flooding and hunting. Fewer than 600 wild hirola remain, confined to a small area in Kenya. It is sometimes called a ‘living fossil’, being the sole survivor of a once diverse group of antelope species. Prior to 1970, an estimated 14,000 hirola existed in the wild. But the antelope soon came under a host of pressures which led to a dramatic decline in its population over the next 30 years. Hunting and predation killed many, while the animals’ range became restricted by habitat loss and an increase in human settlements and farms rearing livestock. That left few animals surviving in a small area along the border between the River Tana in Kenya and the River Juba in Somalia. The Somalia population is already thought to be extinct, while in Kenya the antelope survives in pockets within the Ijara, Garissa, Tana River and Lamu districts, while two small groups of animals translocated to the Tsavo East National park and are struggling to establish there. Under pressure However, in the 1990s two new threats emerged. The collapse of the Republic of Somalia in 1991 precipitated a massive influx of refugees into Kenya. "The majority of the Somali refugees were resettled in Garissa district which is part of the hirola’s natural range," says Yakub Dahiye of the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi. "The presence of large numbers of refugees increased poaching activities and general insecurity of the area." In 1997 significant flooding caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon covered the region. In response to both, many large mammals including the hirola migrated either to higher or quieter areas.
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