According to a new survey, 60% of British kids have seen disturbing images on the internet, which has actually raised concerns over the exposure of kids to the unsuitable material on net.

Keeping this thing in mind; the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) advices that new computers should be equipped with carry high-security “blocking” software; which could stop them from surfing through aggressive or vulgar material available over the vast world of Internet.

London, Oct 22 : The global Internet auction site eBay has announced that from January 2009, it will ban the sale of ivory from all its 39 websites worldwide.

According to a report in New Scientist, the move was prompted by a report exposing the scale of potentially illegal Internet trade in wildlife products, especially ivory.

Although eBay introduced a ban in June 2007 on sales of ivory between countries, transactions involving ivory have continued, according to ‘Killing with Keystrokes’, a report by the Fund for Animal Welfare.

London, October 22: Moles can no longer open their eyelids after adapting to an underground lifestyle, but they have still managed to retain the basics of vision, according to a new study.

"What we think we''re seeing in the mole is the very start of a breakdown in the eye. I think the moles would have no problem seeing light and dark," New Scientist magazine quoted Martin Collinson, a developmental biologist at the University of Aberdeen, UK, as saying.

For their research, Collinson and his colleague David Carmona studied eye development in Iberian moles, whose eyelids are glued shut thanks to their adaptation to subterranean life.

London, Oct. 22 : Before becoming the undisputed dictator of Germany, Adolf Hitler marched his henchmen onto the streets of Munich to perpetrate the atrocity that became known as Kristallnact.

Newly deciphered passages from the diaries of Josef Goebbels show that on the night of November 9, 1938, the Fuhrer led Nazis to destroy an important synagogue, and deliberately throwing a match into a tinderbox.

That Nazi-era pogrom was prompted by the murder of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris on November 7, 1938 by Jewish teenager Herschel Grynszpan.

The pogrom has gone down in history as the “Night of the Broken Glass”.

Ljubljana - Queen Elizabeth II received a golden tea set Tuesday at the start of her three-day visit to Slovenia, her first since the Alpine-Adriatic republic claimed independence from former Yugoslavia.

Queen Elisabeth II and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, were whisked away from the airport outside the capital Ljubljana to meet their host, President Danilo Turk, at the nearby 16th century castle Brdo pri Kranju.

Upon arrival, the Queen, President Turk and their spouses posed for pictures and exchanged gifts.