London, July 23 : Eastern European hackers are suspected of placing the Asprox virus on more than a thousand British websites, which including key government and consumer websites, in the past two weeks.

According to a report in The Times, using the virus, the hackers have been able to steal the personal details of anyone browsing the sites.

Experts described the Asprox virus as an alarming departure from commonplace viruses which tend to be spread through rogue e-mails and unregulated websites.

London, July 23 : British Public Health Minister Dawn Primarolo has demanded that the drinks industry help tackle problems related to alcohol abuse, saying that boozing costs the country over 25 billion pounds a year.

She pointed out that booze-fuelled crime cost as much as 15billion pounds, while hangovers and days off caused by alcohol added about 7.4billion pounds more to the bill.

She even said that the NHS forked out 2.7billion pounds patching up injured drunks, and treating diseases caused by drinking.

London, July 23 : One in five Brit teens carries a weapon, according to a new survey.

However, Home Office stats released last week said only one in 16 carried weapons.

In the poll of 1,426 children aged 14 and 15, 19 percent of youngsters reported having carried a weapon at some point in the last 12 months, with 60 per cent saying it was for protection from attack.

In the study, conducted by Portsmouth University, 20 admitted they carried a weapon to attack.

One per cent said they had them only in lessons and 5.1 per cent said they did it both inside and outside school.

Some 71 per cent felt safer in school than out.

London, July 23 : Building the pixels of flat-panel displays like tiny telescopes, similar to a design invented by Isaac Newton, could make them much more power efficient, or make screens easier to read in direct sunlight.

Though today’s dominant display technology is the thin, cheap and durable liquid crystal display panel (LCD), the bulk of the light created by a screen’s backlight is wasted, and never reaches the viewer.

The rear layer of an LCD produces light that passes through individual pixels, whose brightness is controlled by small liquid crystals that swing round like tiny shutters.

London, July 23 : A woman has launched a global hunt to track down 500 Osamas, and has already turned up with 44.

Doctor Farrah Jarral is travelling the world searching for men who share their first name with terror chief Osama Bin Laden, but do not have his devilish designs.

She’s asking each of them to write down something they love on a piece of cardboard.

According to The Sun, pictures of her Osamas are being posted on the web and her search is being filmed for a Channel 4 documentary.

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