Scientists have released new details of a giant super-crocodile which lived around 110 million years ago and grew to the length of a bus. Sarchosuchus imperator specimens were first discovered in the Ténéré Desert in Niger in 1964, but new finds in the Sahara have made it possible to form a clearer picture of the giants
Two Ohio men who threw beer bottles at a woman in a car paid the price on Friday — they had to parade through the centre of their hometown dressed as women
Telstra broadband and online services executive director Greg Willis said the $1 billion plus of broadband development would be over a number of technologies including satellite, ADSL and its hybrid fibre coaxial cable
ICANN has fiddled its own rules to protect existing members. It claims unjustified delays in processing an application by New.net meant the bid was rejected, causing a ruckus
Some people want to introduce elephants, camels and other large African beasts into the US — and not in zoos, but roaming free in vast parks. Why? To replace the megafauna supposedly killed off by the first humans to enter the New World. The popular overkill theory took a hefty knock today with evidence it wasn’t humans but climate change which caused the extinctions
Check out the University of Virginia’s Plagiarism Resource Centre — a complete one-stop shop to stop plagiarism, a growing problem since students discovered the net
State, Territory and Commonwealth Government consumer authorities have launched a combined Web site designed to protect consumers from online scams
Researchers in Seattle are getting closer to growing living heart muscle outside the body, a technique that could one day make heart transplants and artificial hearts obsolete
A Pennsylvania man who wanted to promote co-operation between Iraq and the United States in the wake of the 11 September attacks apparently has a new pen pal in Saddam Hussein
Treva Throneberry quit her Panhandle high school in 1985, halfway through her junior year, leaving classmates wondering where she went. Police in Vancouver, Washington, believe they have the answer. They say she has been hitchhiking around the country for much her adult life, masquerading as a homeless, abused teenager
Students at Indiana University are leading a campaign to get state agencies to reject doing business with Boise Cascade, a company accused of environmental abuses
Software developer Multelink yesterday announced it would spend $10 million trialling a wireless phone and e-mail device in Ballarat over six months
SafeSurf was one of the earliest advocates of Internet filtering. Their Online Co-operative Publishing Act is probably the only time that an Internet filtering company proposed that web site operators could be sued by parents for not rating their web site — regardless of what type of content was on it. But now the SafeSurf web site is being blocked by TeleGlobe, a company with their own take on filtering
Tests of a controversial weapon that is designed to heat people’s skin with a microwave beam have shown that it can disperse crowds. But critics are not convinced the system is safe. Last week, the Air Force Research Laboratory in New Mexico finished testing the system on human volunteers. The Air Force now wants to use this Active Denial Technology, which it says is non-lethal, for peacekeeping or riot control at relatively long range — possibly from low-flying aircraft
A homeless woman is suing Santa Fe Southern Railway over a 1998 accident in which a train in Santa Fe severed her feet as she was lying on the tracks at a crossing
Hundreds of people called 911 after seeing six parachutists who were trailing plumes of red smoke land at Austin High School. People thought we were being invaded,
said Ed Harris Jr, director of emergency communications for the Austin Police Department
McDonald’s employees found a dead deer under a sink in the men’s bathroom, and police were trying to figure out how it got there. I am taking this matter very seriously,
owner Larry Smith said Tuesday. The safety of my restaurant, employees and customers are among my highest priorities and will never be compromised
An international day of protest designed to jam the US-led communications spy system Echelon was a rousing success according to its organisers, who claim that the cyber-demonstration helped to raise public awareness about the surveillance system
Home Secretary David Blunkett has announced he wants the UK’s laws covering cannabis to be eased so possession will no longer be an arrestable offence. The drug would remain illegal under Mr Blunkett’s proposals but be re-classified from a class B to a class C drug
Drinks maker Coca-Cola has come under fire from Harry Potter fans for using images of the popular character in its latest advertising campaign
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