Today's news

Bum rap for Obama
Barack Obama is the biggest rock star of the
Democratic party - and now the presidential contender
is the subject of a steamy new pop video featuring
skimpy hotpants alongside health policy as a turn-on.

Swamp soccer makes the beautiful game dirtier than it has ever been
A Scottish football enthusiast is spearheading the international expansion of swamp soccer, a grimy offshoot of the beautiful game.

Russians recall bygone era with Soviet game museum
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Forgotten and broken down Soviet-era arcade games are being restored for Moscow's newest museum, just opened by volunteers nostalgic for childhood days spent playing games like 'Tankodrom' and 'Sniper'.


Homemade firearms of Chechnya
A gallery of homemade Chechen guns seized by Russian police.

Driver Not Included in This Performance Test
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 14 — The team of Stanford University engineers that won $2 million in a Pentagon-sponsored robot car contest in 2005 unveiled its next-generation vehicle that will maneuver in traffic without a human driver.
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'Aftershave drink' kills Russians
Many cheap aftershaves contain high levels of ethanol
Russian men are risking death by drinking aftershave and cleaning agents, a study has suggested.

ENVIRONMENT-UAE: Coming Up - World's First 'Zero-Carbon' City
DUBAI, Jun 15 (IPS) - A city free of cars, pedestrian-friendly, powered by renewable energy and surrounded by wind and photovoltaic farms -- all in the middle of a petroleum-rich desert. This five billion US dollar plan, which might do credit to a sci-fi film set, is envisaged for Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). When complete,in 2009, it will be the nearest thing yet to a zero-carbon, zero-waste city.