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BBC NEWS | UK | 15,000 bags stranded at Heathrow

BBC NEWS | UK | 15,000 bags stranded at Heathrow

Last Updated: Saturday, 29 March 2008, 18:10 GMT E-mail this to a friend Printable version

15,000 bags stranded at Heathrow

The knock-on effects have stranded bags at all terminals Luggage mountain At least 15,000 bags are stranded at Heathrow airport after a third day of cancellations at the new Terminal 5. The news came after one-fifth of British Airways flights from the troubled terminal were scrapped on Saturday - 67 out of the 330 scheduled.

VISTA CRASHER EXPOSED

NVIDIA drivers responsible for nearly 30% of Vista crashes in 2007

from Engadget by Nilay Patel

SHAW SPEED PROMO FAILS TO IMPRESS

they said I'll have 5MB d/l as of yesterday...yet this is not even 10% of that speed ...


this is so sad but what do you expect .... no delivery on this one !!

TheStar.com | Ontario | $3 Casino Rama bet nets $8.9M jackpot

TheStar.com | Ontario | $3 Casino Rama bet nets $8.9M jackpot: "Mar 24, 2008 04:30 AM
John Goddard
Staff Reporter

Steady play on a slot machine for under an hour won Anna Falco a record $9 million on the weekend.

The 53-year-old woman from Woodbridge was playing the Megabucks machine at Casino Rama on Saturday. Her husband Franco arrived to share in her triumph.

The machine takes a minimum $1 bet but she was wagering $3 a spin to qualify for the jackpot, which starts at $1 million and continues to mount until there's a winner.

Falco had spent around $200 when lights flashed and bells sounded."

TheSpoof.com : NASA on Roswell incident: Conclusion - Alien space turds are edible! funny satire story

TheSpoof.com : NASA on Roswell incident: Conclusion
- Alien space turds are edible! funny satire story:

"'We have recovered what appears to be Alien Poo. We theorize that once the doomed craft were heading in at high crash speeds, the aliens pooped their spacesuits. We have recovered the turds from the wreckage in the immediate days after the crash. It was fresh, firm, and surprisingly fragrant!'"

Strange lights spotted in Lincolnshire's skies may have been a warning of the earthquake

DID 'UFO LIGHTS' HERALD LINCOLNSHIRE EARTHQUAKE?

: "Several sightings of lights appearing in the sky were reported in the days leading up to the quake, which had its epicentre near Market Rasen when it struck early on February 27.

And some believe that these could be 'earthquake lights' - caused by changes in the electrical properties of the ground before a quake occurs.

There have been many similar reports of 'earthquake lights' throughout history.

The most well known case was in Lincoln's twin town, Tangshan, in China in 1976, before a massive quake that killed 240,000 people across the country."

China overtakes U.S. as largest Internet market

China overtakes U.S. as largest Internet market

China is now the world's largest Internet market, surpassing the United States in the number of users, research firm BDA reported.

BDA cited data from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), which placed the total number of users in China at 210 million at the end of 2007; and data from Nielsen/NetRatings, which put the U.S. Internet population for the same period at 216 million.

"Based on these sources and the assumption that these markets have continued to grow in 2008 to date at the same rates that they grew in 2007, we can conclude that China has by now comfortably surpassed the United States as the world's largest Internet population," said Bin Liu, BDA's Beijing-based principal analyst for new media.

"A buoyant economy, massive investments in broadband infrastructure and strong consumer demand for applications including online games, instant messaging and online-music and online-video sharing are fuelling China's rapid Internet growth," said Duncan Clark, BDA chairman.

BDA estimates 2007 revenues from China's online games sector at $1.88 billion. This estimate exceeds the combined estimated revenues from online brand advertising ($930 million) and search ($395 million), according to BDA.

The research firm placed the number of online game players in China at 50.4 million at the end of 2007. On the other hand, the "QQ" instant messaging client from Shenzhen-based Tencent reportedly had 280 million active users by Q3 07.

SPACE.com -- Canadians Excited to Send Robotic 'Superhero' into Space

SPACE.com -- Canadians Excited to Send Robotic 'Superhero' into Space:

"Canadians Excited to Send Robotic 'Superhero' into Space
By Dave Mosher
Staff Writer
posted: 10 March 2008
01:20 am ET

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Mr. Dextre stands taller than a house, has two seven-jointed arms and can fly around the Earth in about 90 minutes. But he is not a superhero, nor is 'he' a person.

'Mr. Dextre,' as NASA's latest space shuttle Endeavour crew has coined it, is actually a Canadian space-age robot bound for the International Space Station (ISS) early Tuesday morning along with Japan's first orbital room. Led by commander Dominic Gorie, the seven-astronaut STS-123 crew will start assembly of the giant robot in space later this week."