Forty-six Thai students have been banned from the military for life after they tried to cheat in an army entrance examination by concealing cellphones in their shoes.

The growing surge in international VoIP calls has caused the state-owned telecommunications monopoly in Costa Rica to propose legislation that could criminalize the use of Internet telephone calls.

Particles of solar wind have been extracted by scientists from NASA’s Genesis space capsule which crashed to Earth in Utah in 2004.

The cloaking device, famously used by the Romulans in Star Trek to hide their spacecraft from enemies, may yet become reality, thanks to US researchers.

“In Nigeria, we are always amazed that anyone could be so stupid as to respond to such an offer.”

The fact is that many people do believe these letters – enough to make 419 crime quite a lucrative money earner. It has been estimated that there are well over 250,000 scammers involved in 419 scams worldwide […]

German police are warning that pickpockets are stooping to new lows by robbing people while they are on the toilet.

Seth Godin:
The New York Times points out that the toy business is crumbling. The reason: all the stores that love to sell toys are disappearing, defeated by WalMart.