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Dungeon dad ‘can’t stand being cooped up’ in jail cell

London, July 11 : Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl, who held his daughter as a captive in a cellar dungeon for 24 years, has made a request officials to allow him to leave his prison cell after admitting that he can no longer stand being caged.

The 73-year-old devil had kept daughter Elisabeth locked in a windowless cellar in Amstetten, Austria, and fathered her seven children before being caught by police.

Now, after just two months of incarceration and despite his fear of being attacked by fellow prisoners, he has demanded his right to 30 minutes exercise every day.

Fritzl has now twice had half-hour walks, protected from other inmates by a close guard of prison officers.

Scientists take first look at working muscle fibres

London, July 11 : Stanford researchers have found that it is possible to look at tiny fibres of working muscles in live humans with the aid of an unusual microscope that has a tip the size of a needle, without causing much of discomfort to the patient.

The researchers say that the microendoscopy technique for viewing sarcomeres, muscle fibre about three millionths of a meter long, has advantages over methods like muscle biopsy wherein a portion of the muscle is removed for examination.

A research article on this study describes sarcomeres as the basic contracting engines of muscle that generally pull in a coordinated fashion, allowing people to walk down the sidewalk or throw a sinking curveball from the pitcher''s mound.

Bollywood Burner hopes to take on Curry Hell in culinary contest

Guinness Book of Records London - An Indian restaurant chef in London hopes to enter the

US welcomes India''s move to circulate safeguards draft among IAEA governors

US-IndiaLondon, July 10 : US Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Gregory Schulte today welcomed India''s move to circulate the safeguards draft among the IAEA Board of Governors.

Addressing reporters at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, he promised to ensure that the Indo-US nuclear deal is implemented as early as possible.

He said, “We welcome India''s willingness to move forward with this historic initiative. The initiative will help strengthen the global non-proliferation regime and India to meet its growing energy demands in an environmentally friendly way."

British church minister shames worshippers with tramp disguise

London  - A church minister in Britain who found he was ignored by his flock when he dressed up as a tramp sitting outside his church has put worshippers to shame, the Daily Telegraph reported Thur

Salman Rushdie wins third award for Midnight's Children

Award-winning author Sir Salman Rushdie

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