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The Dragons' Den reject who made a £400,000 killing By Mail On Sunday Reporter Last updated at 8:38 AM on 10th October 2010 Comments (0) Add to My Stories He was dropped as a Dragons’ Den panellist three years ago. But now he has made a business killing to rival anything achieved by the programme’s contestants. Richard Farleigh earned an astonishing £400,000 profit on a £200,000 loan – in three months. The deal is the latest coup for Mr Farleigh, the son of an Australian sheep-shearer who has made a £50 million fortune through astute investments. Midas touch: Richard Farleigh with wife Camilla The 49-year-old first feature…

Pygmy goats on a high after grazing on 'magic' mushrooms By Mail On Sunday Reporter Last updated at 12:06 AM on 10th October 2010 Comments (1) Add to My Stories Former actress Alexandra Bastedo has told how she found her three pygmy goats staggering around wildly after they ate psychoactive ‘magic’ mushrooms growing at her animal sanctuary. A vet told her that the trio, named Homer, Marge and Lisa after The Simpsons characters, were ‘tripping out’ from the Psilocybin mushrooms. The goats suffered hallucinations, vomiting and lethargy, taking two days to recover from the mushrooms which were growing in the paddock. Living the high…

First man on the moon was Buzz Lightyear, say 1 in 5 of school children By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:12 AM on 8th October 2010 Comments (29) Add to My Stories To Infinity.. : Buzz Lightyear was the first person on the moon, according to one fifth of British schoolchildren One in five British children thinks Buzz Lightyear from the Toy Story films was the first person to walk on the moon, researchers found. And although twice as many knew it was actually a man called Armstrong, they thought he was called Lance – the seven-time Tour de France winner – rather than Neil. The figures emerged in a study of 2,000 children aged…

Make way for a generation of digital youngsters: Study shows new babies are online before they're even born By Daniel Bates Last updated at 6:35 PM on 8th October 2010 Comments (4) Add to My Stories It seems the tradition of visiting newborn babies armed with presents and flowers is coming to an end. A new study shows friends and relatives are using something far more convenient for their first glimpse of a baby: the Internet. More than eight out of 10 babies have an online ‘life’ by the time they reach the age of two, it reveals. Digital babies: Some parents even set up an email address for their babies as soon as they are born. …

Star student,18, set to lose $33,000 university scholarship after appearing in an internet porn video By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:13 PM on 8th October 2010 Comments (5) Add to My Stories With a cheeky, happy smile and holding her university ID cards, Elizabeth Hawkenson looks like she's posing for a friend's photograph taken on a phone. But the truth is far less innocent. In fact the 18-year-old is about to participate in a porn film - and is flashing her identification to prove she is not under age. Miss Hawkenson is a first year studying geology at Arizona State University, but it is not her interest in rocks and soil …

Hidden health risk in mobiles: Phone giants accused of burying warnings in small print By Sean Poulter Last updated at 10:16 AM on 9th October 2010 Add to My Stories Health risk: Mobile phone firms have been accused of concealing warnings about their handsets Mobile phone firms have been accused of concealing warnings about the health risks of using their handsets. A warning that Apple’s popular iPhone should be kept at least 15mm away from the body is buried deep inside the manual. BlackBerry goes even further, saying customers should use their devices hands-free or keep them an inch from the body ‘including the abdomen of pregnant …

The secret to happiness: don't date a neurotic or worry about your career, go to church and stay thin By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 4:57 PM on 8th October 2010 Comments (0) Add to My Stories Secret to happiness: Experts have come up with a simple formula for those in search of inner calm Forget the self-help books and stay away from chocolate - according to scientists, the true secret to happiness lies elsewhere. Experts have now come up with a simple formula for those in search of inner calm. According to their research, people who go to church, stay thin, avoid worrying about their careers and have emotionally stable part…

So I've gotten a couple of emails that are trying to scam my money. I do NOT know how it managed to find my email. Anyway, I opened them and read it's contents, but I deleted it after that. I didn't send any information back or anything, but does the act of just reading/opening the email put my computer/information at risk? This is probably the n00best question of the year.

Interpreters hired to translate Geordie and Scouse accents for foreigners Last updated at 2:26 PM on 8th October 2010 Comments (10) Add to My Stories Lost in translation? Bosses at Today Translations have offered to help Cheryl Cole make herself understood when she appears on the American X Factor Interpreters are being hired for foreign visitors to the UK to translate Geordie and Scouse accents. A translation company claims businessmen and women are left baffled by the thick local dialects in Newcastle and Liverpool when they come to Britain. Bosses at Today Translations, the company recruiting the translators, have even…

Bruce Willis wants to make a fifth 'Die Hard' film John McClane set for a return? Bruce Willis says he wants to start work on a fifth Die Hard movie next year. The actor wants to play maverick cop John McClane once more, and hopes production on another instalment of the action series can begin in 2011. He told MTV News: "It's probably going to happen next year. We have a script. They're making a couple changes right now." It's believed that Skip Woods, the writer of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, is working on the script. Willis first played the character in 1988, and took on the role as recently as 2007 in Die Hard 4.0. Meanwhile, the actor is next set to a…

Bouncers step in to protect Jeremy Kyle after an angry guest lashes out By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 8:04 PM on 7th October 2010 Comments (0) Videos Add to My Stories Talk show host Jeremy Kyle was shaken today after an angry guest hurled an envelope at his head. The TV presenter had just read the DNA test results to a man named Kev on the ITV show when he lashed out. Looking visibly shocked as he rubbed his head, Mr Kyle returned to confront the young father, who then threatened to 'knock him out'. Look out: Jeremy Kyle walks away from his guest Kev, unaware of the envelope heading for his head on today's episode of his…

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KT shared this on my FB wall, thought I would like to share it with y'all. Credits to KT for linking the article to me in the first place. If I'm not mistaken, this made headlines on the papers here today. http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/8089461/monkey-kills-baby-in-snatch-attack/ HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAAH This article makes Malaysia sound like a freaking jungle and we still live on stilt houses. Perhaps the government should have a more systematic way of developing the country.

anyone else playing it?? ive been absolutely hooked on it and im not much of a gamer at all.

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Nobel prize for chemistry awarded for new way to build useful molecules Three scientists share the Nobel prize for chemistry after developing a technique for assembling chains of carbon atoms to make novel drugs, agrochemicals and electronic coatings. "for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis". http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/oct/06/nobel-prize-chemistry CONGRATULATIONS!!! :D

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Italy to become next European country to ban burka after government report recommends forbidding it in public By Nick Pisa Last updated at 1:41 PM on 7th October 2010 Comments (81) Add to My Stories Ban: Italy could become the next European country to ban the burka after a government report ruled in favour of legislation to prohibit wearing it in public Italy is set to become the next European country to ban the burka after a government report ruled in favour of the proposed legislation. MPs from the anti-immigration Northern League party, a member of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s ruling right wing coalition, have presented th…

Now police are ordered to protect 'Doggers' indulging in outdoor sex with strangers from hate crime By Charlotte Gill Last updated at 3:58 PM on 7th October 2010 Comments (127) Add to My Stories Police have been ordered to stop anyone taking in part in illegal outdoor sex being abused or verbally taunted as it can cause them to suffer post traumatic stress. An extraordinary new Hate Crime Guidance Manual has been handed to officers telling them to arrest anyone suspected of committing a hate crime against those engaged in ‘dogging’. Although it notes that outdoor sex can have an ‘impact on the quality of life of people using these locat…

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Well, I´d like to know if there´s someone who likes this amazing World. You know, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, ...

Just wondering if anyone on this board watches this show. One of my friends showed me this show and it's great! The acting is really amazing, that I feel it's academy award winning material... to bad it's a tv show :P The 2nd season is coming out like April 5th, I cannot wait!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11483171 See link for footage of the incident - The shooting is not filmed but the sounds are available

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/oct/07/gulf-oil-spill-report-white-house BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig seen burning in April. A report commissioned by Barack Obama has revealed that the White House office of management and budget blocked scientists seeking permission to show worst case scenario models two weeks after the explosion. Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP