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British Airways staff slam ‘smelly and annoying’ passengers on Facebook

British AirwaysLondon, November 3: British Airways staff have launched a scathing attack on passengers, whom they have branded "smelly and annoying" on a Facebook page created by "London Gatwick Ground Staff".

The staff’s hatred for travellers manifests itself in the comments on the Facebook page, which suggest that passengers put boarding passes in their mouths before handing them over at the departure gate.

While one staff member has slammed smelly passengers and celebrity fliers, another has criticised Americans.

Winston Churchill, Sophia Loren iconic portraits to go on display in UK

Sir Winston ChurchillLondon, Nov 3: A 1941 iconic portrait of British PM Sir Winston Churchill is all set go on display in an exhibition of works by the legendary photographer Yousuf Karsh.

The Armenian-born Karsh died in 2002 after a career of more than 70 years.

He named Churchill’s portrait as ‘The Roaring Lion’.

He has photographed the likes of Fidel Castro, Nikita Krushchev and Pope John Paul II along with glamorous Sophia Loren, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot and a young Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of John F Kennedy, reports the Telegraph.

Scaffolds may soon help heal broken hearts

Scaffolds may soon help heal broken heartsLondon, Nov 3: Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new technique that may one day help in mending damaged heart tissues.

The team has developed a novel scaffold, on which it claims to place living heart cells or stem cells that would later develop into a patch of cardiac tissue that could be used to treat congenital heart defects, or aid the recovery of tissue damaged by a heart attack.

The biodegradable scaffold would be gradually absorbed into the body, leaving behind new tissue.

Obama Looks Undefeatable In Garden State, Say NJ Polls

Coming soon: PCs based on young users’ dreams

Coming soon: PCs based on young users’ dreamsLondon, November 3: Intel and ASUS are urging people to dream about and tell them what do they want in an ideal computer so that they could design PCs in accordance with the user community’s desires.

The companies have created a website, WePC. com, to enable people to share and comment on ideas to "enable a global conversation about the ideal elements of a PC."

Both companies insist that they are actually committed to building an ideal machine based on their customers’ feedbacks.

Scores dead in flooding, landslides in Central America

Scores dead in flooding, landslides in Central AmericaTegucigalpa, Honduras - Weeks of rain have caused the deaths of nearly 50 people and left more than 20 missing in Honduras and killed dozens more in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, officials said.

Most of the victims were buried in landslides and drowned in rivers that overflowed their banks, authorities said Sunday.

In Honduras, 100,000 people were affected by flooding while the emergency services agency estimated damage to highways, bridges, crops and houses at 150 million dollars.

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