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Palin is five times better looking than I am: Tina Fey

Washington, Oct 22 : Tina Fey believes that Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin looks five times better than her.

Computer criminals can hear what you type on a keyboard

Computer criminals can hear what you type on a keyboardLondon, October 22: Swiss researchers have shown that computer criminals can misuse the electromagnetic signals produced by when buttons on a keyboard to eavesdrop on what a user types.

Martin Vuagnoux and Sylvain Pasini, doctoral students from the Security and Cryptography Laboratory at the Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), have been successful in analysing the signals produced by keystrokes to reproduce what a target typed.

Turkish flying saucer video ‘most important images of a UFO ever filmed’

London, Oct 22 : An astonishing video footage of a ''flying saucer'' spotted in Turkey is being considered the "most important images of a UFO ever filmed".

The shots were captured earlier this year by 42-year-old night guard Yalcin Yalman in a compound in Turkey.

Almost two-and-a-half hours of footage features a variety of objects ranging from incredible flying saucer-type ''craft'' to clustering orb-like lights hovering in the night sky.

Yalman and a number of residents claim that the UFOs were spotted over a four month period between May and September near the compound in Istanbul.

Nine Afghan army soldiers killed by "friendly fire" airstrike

Nine Afghan army soldiers killed by "friendly fire" airstrike Kabul - US-led coalition forces mistakenly bombed an Afghan national army position in eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing nine soldiers and wounding three others, officials said.

The incident took place in Sayedkhail district of the south-eastern province of Khost when a coalition convoy was returning from an operation, the US military said in a statement.

"Initial reports from troops on the ground indicate that this may be a case of mistaken identity on both sides," the statement said.

New candidate genes may help understand schizophrenia

Washington, Oct 22 : In a collaborative study, UCLA and Dutch researchers have identified three new candidate genes for schizophrenia that may contribute to a better understanding of how the disease evolves.

For the study, Roel A. Ophoff, an assistant professor with the Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, and his colleagues examined the genetic makeup of 54 Dutch patients diagnosed with deficit schizophrenia, a particularly severe form of the disease that is both chronic and debilitating.

Specifically, they looked at a number of large but rare deletions and duplications in the genome of the patients, known as copy number variants, or CNVs.

Norway and Britain in loan talks with Iceland

Norway and Britain in loan talks with IcelandReykjavik/Oslo - Norway and Britain were Wednesday reported to be considering loans and other assistance to financially-troubled Iceland.

The economy of the North Atlantic nation of some 300,000 people has come under severe strain amid the global credit crunch.

A Norwegian delegation was heading for Iceland to discuss the situation and "how Norway can possibly help," Norwegian Transport and Communications Minister Liv Signe Navarsete told broadcaster NRK.

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