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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.

UK will be in terror grip till 2038, says Security Minister

London, Oct. 22: A minister in the Gordon Brown-led British Cabinet has warned that the country could be terrorized by radical young Muslims for the next 30 years.

Security Minister Lord West told the Commons Defence Committee that there were no fast track solutions to countering the menace.

"This isn''t going to change just like that. To stop this radicalisation of extremists is going to take about 30 years, I would think. But it will become a virtuous circle. It will start getting better and better," the Daily Mail quoted him, as saying.

The ex-Royal Navy chief, 60, also warned that security policies alone could not beat radicalisation.

Methane gas confirmed on Mars

London, Oct 22 : A scientist has claimed to have found concrete evidence that confirms the detection of methane gas on Mars and also identifies key sources of the gas.

The scientist in question is Michael Mumma, of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, US.

While on Earth, methane is mostly biological in origin, on Mars, it could signal microbes living deep underground.

According to a report in Nature News, the latest work suggests that Martian methane is concentrated in both space and time.

At a handful of hotspots hundreds of kilometers across, plumes of methane bloom and dissipate in less than a year.

Climate change leading to increase in tiger attacks in Sundarban islands

London, Oct 22 : Conservation experts have said that the number of tiger attacks on people is growing in India’s Sundarban islands as habitat loss and dwindling prey caused by climate change drives them to prowl into villages for food.

The Sundarbans, a 26,000 sq km area of low-lying swamps on India’s border with Bangladesh, is dotted with hundreds of small islands criss-crossed by water channels.

According to a report in New Scientist, wildlife experts said that endangered tigers in the world’s largest reserve are turning on humans because rising sea levels and coastal erosion are steadily shrinking the tigers’ natural habitat.

60% Of British Kids See Disturbing Images On Net – A Survey

60% Of British Kids See Disturbing Images On Net – A SurveyAccording 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.

eBay will ban ivory sale from January 2009

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.

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