Entertainment

• A new Street Fighter movie is said to be in production. The title: The Legend of Chun Li. The star: Kristin Kreuk
• A MacGyver film is rumoured to be in the works.
• Hilarious Batman vs Iron Man video:
• Russian Communist Party members threaten to beat up Harrison Ford if he ever steps foot there, following the negative portrayal of Russians in the latest Indiana Jones film.

Tech

• Real-life Iron Man technology boosts endurance and strength by up to 20 times.
• SMS-ing is four times more expensive than receiving data from space.

Games

• A US-based monitoring group mistakes concept art for the post-acolyptic game Fallout 3 as al-Qaeda simulations for the aftermath of a terrorist attack.
• The award-winning game Bioshock has been confirmed for a movie adaptation. The director, Gore Verbinski, worked on Pirates of the Carribean.
• A pole-dancing game is being developed for the Wii (no, not Polish artists).
• PC version of the Bioware hit Mass Effect is launched. Complaints abound regarding its strict anti-piracy measures, among them an online check every 10 days.

World, Politics

• Bush claims to have given up golf in 2003, to honour fallen soldiers in Iraq. The claim is promptly debunked with video evidence.
• Barack Obama has finally cut ties with Trinity United Church of Christ, following months of controversy because of its pastor’s beliefs.
• China looks to outsource certain jobs to the US.
• India is hopping mad after the US apparently blames them and other developing nations for food price increases.

Internet

• A Singapore firm claims that they hold a patent on image-linking “technology”, planning to claim millions from Google.

Science

• South Korea puts its cloning research to good use - by cloning seven Labrador retrievers from a highly-trained “original”, to sniff out drugs an explosives. They are all named “Toppy”.
• Girls are becoming just as good as boys in math.
• Teenager isolates a microbe that can break down plastic bags for a science project.
• Six “human” traits (Culture, mind reading, tool use, morality, emotions, and personality ) - have been observed in animals.

Religion

• French citizens and lawmakers discuss marriage laws after a Muslim divorces his wife because she was not a virgin.
• Vatican astronomer says aliens could exist.
• A group based in San Diego calls for a boycott of Starbucks after the company reverted to an adaptation of its old logo, featuring a mermaid. The image apparently “has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute.”

Interest

• Homeless Japanese woman lives undetected in a stranger’s closet for a year.
• Teacher faces criminal charges after giving out too much information in a sex-ed class.
• Macbook used to cut a cake
• X-ray image of a python that had just swallowed a cat.
• Woman wakes up after being declared dead following two heart attacks. Interesting thing is rigor mortis had already set in.

Consumer

• There is a serious problem with certain HP notebook models that can cause motherboard damage. BIOS update for all affected notebooks rated “Critical”.

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