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Brit survives close-range shot – with the help of his nose!

London, Oct 31 : A British man couldn’t believe his luck when his nose saved him from almost certain death – it stopped a bullet fired at close range.

Daniel Greenwood, 19, was visiting pals when he got himself in a row after a man called David Cummins.

Cummins, 21, shot his victim with a 9mm Cuno Melcher gun when he tried to snatch a gold chain from around his victim''s neck at a house in Manchester on March 22 this year.

But thankfully Daniel’s nose blocked the bullet from piercing his head and saved him, reports the Sun.

An amazing X-ray shows the round lodged in the bridge bone of his hooter, which the doctor removed without any problem.

British law firms outsourcing services to India to cut costs

London, October 31 : Several law firms in Britain are outsourcing legal services like conveyancing, accident claims and due diligence investigations to India in order to cut costs for the duration of the downturn.

British firms get the services of thousands of Indian lawyers and recent law graduates for a fraction of the cost they would have to bear if work was done in the country.

World''''s largest law firm Clifford Chance is said to have set up its own bespoke offshore centre in Delhi.

Eversheds, another leading UK law firm, has also confirmed that it is taking the services of Indian lawyers.

Bug-eye-inspired camera has six times the field of view of conventional ones

London, October 31 (ANI): A tiny bug-eyed camera, which provides a field of view six times that of the conventional camera, has been tested by researchers at a defence company in the UK.

Experts at BAE Systems at Great Baddow have revealed that the new system, called BugEye, has been developed primarily for use on missiles to keep track of targets.

The researchers add that the prototype camera is so small that it can also be used on endoscopes, giving an improved field of view in keyhole surgery.

New Bond babe Olga Kurylenko says she’s not interested in men

London, Oct 31 : She’s one of the most seductive-looking Bond girls ever to catch the eye of 007, but when it comes to men, Olga Kurylenko is not interested.

Following the recent break-up of her second marriage – to American mobile phone mogul Damien Gabrielle – Olga has made it a point that she would rather be alone.

“You can’t judge someone by the way they look because it’s actually totally different,” the Mirror quoted the Ukrainian-born actress, as saying.

“I’m not what you think I am. I’m not a person who has had a lot of romance in my life. Maybe I look like that, but I’m not a romantic person. Sorry to disappoint you,” she added.

CIA officers could face trial in Britain over Gitmo inmate torture allegations

London, Oct 31: Senior US intelligence officers could be put on trial in Britain after it emerged last night that the Attorney General is to investigate allegations that a British resident held in Guantanamo Bay was brutally tortured, after being arrested and questioned by American forces following the terrorist attacks on New York in 2001.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has asked Baroness Scotland to consider bringing criminal proceedings against CIA officers allegedly responsible for the rendition and abuse of Binyam Mohamed, when he was held in prisons in Morocco and Afghanistan.

Genetic changes that made bats ‘blood-sucking vampires’

London, Oct 31: A new research has pinpointed some of the genetic changes that allowed vampire bats to evolve to subsist on a diet of pure blood.

According to a report in New Scientist, key among those changes is a knack for keeping their meals from coagulating, which they do with the help of a gene found in other animals – plasminogen activator.

In humans, the gene protects against heart attack by producing proteins that bust up blood clots and clear vessels.

Previous research had shown that vampire bats activate the gene in their saliva, too.

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