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Car gadget developed for motorists to avoid red lights

A device has been invented by a German car-maker that will let the motorists to avoid red lights. The name of this gadget is Travolution and it informs the drivers to drive at a specific speed so that when they arrive at the traffic lights, it is green.

The formula behind this gadget is that once installed inside the car, it plots the position of the vehicle and the distance from the next set of traffic signals. Following this, the optimum speed is displayed by it on a screen.

Mistrial For Britney’s ‘Trafficgate’

Mistrial For Britney’s ‘Trafficgate’Jurors' failure to reach a verdict after 8-hours of deliberations, left the Judge in Britney Spears’ trial for driving without a valid California licence, no option but to declare it a mistrial.

Nick Hogan Released From Jail

Nick Hogan, 18 star of ‘Hogan Knows Best’ has been released from jail early, even though his reckless driving left his friend - former Marine John Graziano in need of life long medical care.

Suicide Risk Rising for Middle Age Whites

A recent study has said that suicide rates in the U.S. have shown an increase largely due to an increase in suicides among middle aged white men and women. This increase has come about after a decade long decrease in suicide rates.

The study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine said white people in the age group of 40 to 64 have "recently emerged as a new high-risk group for suicide." White women constituted the largest increase in suicides with a 4 % increase although white men still make up the largest number of people who kill themselves though there rate has increased by 3 %.

Fat Children Are Born To Obese Mothers

Fat Children Are Born To Obese MothersObesity of mother directly affects the child. Previous studies have shown that an overweight mother has a higher chance of giving birth to a plump baby. Obesity increases the risk of many diseases.

The recent study found that slightly undernourished rat pups were healthier adults, while overfed babies were fatter.

A separate UNSW study showed that pups from obese mother rats fed more milk were almost twice as heavy as those born to lean mothers feeding normally.  
 

Lockerbie Bomber Diagnosed With Advanced Stage Cancer

Lockerbie Bomber Diagnosed With Advanced Stage CancerAbdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence agent, 56, is serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 27 years for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103. This plan crash took lives of 270 people, including all 259 passengers on board and 11 residents of Lockerbie, the Scottish town, where the plane crashed. He was convicted in 2001 since than he is fighting a legal battle to overturn the guilty verdict.

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