London, Sep 19 : A criminal damage worth just 1pence has cost the UK government 1,000 pounds.

The Crown Prosecution Service charged a 15-year-old boy after he owned up to ripping the handles off a plastic bag, worth 1p, belonging to a 13-year-old girl.

Following the charge, prosecutors are being accused of wasting taxpayers’ cash.

The girl's parents called police who passed a file to the CPS, and the case is believed to have cost 1,000 pounds.

London, Sept 19 : A school in Hartford, UK, has set a record of sorts by having 20 sets of twins on its roll.
 
And the Grange School, which achieved that distinction when four new pairs enrolled this month, says it has so much experience teaching twins that it now specialises in looking after them.
 
Having 20 pairs of twins means that one in 28 students of the 1,140-strong school is a twin.
 

Washington, Sept 18: A new survey has revealed that most men don’t wash their hands at public restrooms while most women do.
 
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and The Soap and Detergent Association (SDA) conducted an observational study that revealed that slightly over three-quarters of men and women (77percent) washed their hands in public restrooms. The result was a six percent decline from a similar study conducted in 2005.
 

Washington, Sept 18: Cyprian honeybees kill their archenemy, the Oriental hornet by smothering them, a new study by entomologists in the recent issue of Current Biology, has revealed.

Washington, Sept 18: Astronomers have launched into space the key components of a new approach to discover life on Mars.

Washington, Sept 18: When we come across an attractive person or assess a possible rival, we are more often captured almost instantaneously and are rendered for the moment helpless to avert the gaze, a Florida State University study has revealed.

The researchers studied the role mating-related motives can play in a psychological phenomenon called attentional adhesion.

“It’s like magnetism at the level of visual attention,” said Jon Maner, an assistant professor of psychology at FSU.