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A LAWSUIT that seeks to stop McDonald’s from selling Happy Meals should be dismissed because parents can always prohibit their children from consuming the food, the hamburger giant said in a court filing on Monday. The lawsuit claims McDonald’s unfairly uses toys to lure children into its restaurants. The plaintiff, Monet Parham – a Sacramento, […]

THE number of rhinos living wild in Nepal has risen above 500 for the first time since a civil war that led to rampant poaching of the endangered animals, the government said on Sunday. It said wildlife experts who have spent the past month conducting an exhaustive survey had counted 534 rhinos in Nepal’s southern […]

THE world’s biggest atom smasher has set a new world record for beam intensity, a key measure of performance and power, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Friday. On a quest to unlock some of the universe’s deepest secrets, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva collided beams with a luminosity exceeding […]

THREE bombs ripped through India’s commercial capital Mumbai on Wednesday, killing 21 people and injuring more than 100 in the deadliest attack in the city since the 2008 assault by Islamist militants. The strongest of the coordinated blasts hit busy districts in the south of the city, the same area targeted two and half years […]

JAPANESE electronics and entertainment giant Sony Corp on Tuesday announced plans for two tablet computers, codenamed S1 and S2, in a direct challenge to Apple’s iPad. The S1 has a single screen and is for home use while the portable S2 has two screens, Sony said at a news conference to unveil the devices. The […]

Less than a decade ago, it fired its first human being into orbit. Now, Beijing is working on a multi-capsule outpost in space. But what is the political message of the Tiangong ‘heavenly palace’? China has laid out plans for its future in space, unveiling details of an ambitious new space station to be built […]

A REPTILE shop owner in Germany has bred a two-headed Royal python. The one-year-old python has two spinal cords and two heads, both of which are active. It has no known physical problems and manages to eat and digest food with little difficulty. However, only one head does the eating, as if both heads were […]

COMPUTER security experts warned on Monday that online scammers have already started to exploit the death of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to spread malware. ‘Watch out for the links you’re likely to come across in email or on social networking sites offering you additional coverage of this newsworthy event,’ Mr Paul Ducklin of computer […]

THE images are striking: Overweight boys and girls staring sombrely from billboards and online videos, real-life embodiments of the blunt messages alongside. ‘Chubby kids may not outlive their parents,’ for example. Or: ‘Big bones didn’t make me this way. Big meals did.’ The ads – part of a new ‘Stop Child Obesity’ campaign in Georgia […]

SONY executives bowed in apology on Sunday for a security breach in the company’s PlayStation Network that compromised the personal data of some 77 million accounts on the online service. ‘We deeply apologize for the inconvenience we have caused,’ said Mr Kazuo Hirai, chief of Sony Corp’s PlayStation video game unit, who was among the […]