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WORLD’S BIGGEST GHOST HUNT SET TO BREAK THE GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS Fright Nights, the leading UK ghost hunt specialist, is set to break the Guinness World Records by staging the World's Biggest Ghost Hunt on 31 October from 7:00pm – 12:00pm. The ghost hunt, which is to be held at the Alton...

BBC: Note "impossible" to cheat. Anyone see any problems with this?

I stumbled upon this heartwarming site, which responds to the Evil Bible site. A few gems: (bold added) And: It's all about love, man.

Nov. 12 - China's assemblers are likely to make and sell 6.4 million passenger cars, vans, buses and trucks in 2006, spurring the nation to surpass Germany as the world's third-largest vehicle maker, according to government research. Vehicle sales in Asia's second-largest economy may rise by...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Nordic countries have some of the world's most competitive economies, despite high taxes and extensive social security systems, with Finland in the lead, according to a study issued Wednesday. In the study, the Geneva-based World Economic Forum set the United States second...

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/vancouver-worlds-most-liveable-city/2005/10/04/1128191681105.html Yay socialist democracy.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/09/17/face.transplant.ap/index.html Insert joke here. Or discuss.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4592541.stm Every two days. Wow. Edited for breach of Rule 4. I sent you this PM: This is your last warning. Further breaches such as this post will result in a suspension for a minimum of three days.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Global warming is shrinking glaciers on the Tibet side of Mount Everest faster than ever, putting world water supplies at risk, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday. Chinese scientists researching the world's tallest peak, which China refers to by its Tibetan name...

The world's population is expected to rise from the current 6.5 billion to 9.1 billion by 2050, the UN says. Virtually all the growth will be in the developing world, according to a report by the UN Population Division. By contrast, the population of developed countries will remain almost...

China overtakes U.S. as world's biggest consumer.

American Telephone and Telegraph Once the world's largest company built by the inventor of the telephone, AT&T has been sold off for only $16 billion to a company that at one time it owned. Chronology * 1877: Telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell establishes the Bell Telephone Company...

The greenhouse effect could wreck attempts to lift the world's poorest people out of poverty and reverse human progress, campaigners say. A report by a coalition of environment and aid agencies calls for urgent action to avert the threat. The Working Group on Climate Change and Development...

World leaders and mayors have warned that rapid urbanisation is set to become one of the biggest challenges facing humanity in the 21st Century. By 2015-2020, well over 50% of the world's population will live in urban and semi-urban areas, the World Urban Forum in Barcelona was told...

Anyone in the UK catch this programme on Channel 4 last Friday (I think)? I only caught it because I fell asleep in front of the TV and woke in the middle of it. There were the inevitable `orbs' but two videos looked interesting. We saw a chair move across the floor, a typewriter and a glass...

A light hearted slant on a serious problem in this country (and elsewhere) www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1545464,00.html

Measles deaths drop dramatically as vaccine reaches world's poorest children On a sidenote: In 1986, there were 23,490 reported cases of measles in Denmark. In 1987, kids began to be vaccinated routinely. In the first half of 2003 (most current figures), there were exactly 0 reported cases of...