Washington, February 12 : While people generally think of speech as being something they hear, a report now suggests that speech perception involves multiple senses.

Published in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science, the report says that the brain treats speech as something that people hear, see, and even feel.

Psychologist Lawrence D. Rosenblum of the University of California, Riverside, says that people receive a lot of speech information via visual cues, such as lip-reading, and this type of visual speech occurs throughout all cultures.

He says that it is not just information from lips when someone is speaking, people even note the movements of the teeth, tongue and other non-mouth facial features.

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Melbourne, Feb 12 : A US airline has started a controversy after it decorated one of its planes with a picture of Sports Illustrated cover girl Bar Refaeli in a sexy swimsuit.

The Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700, which was unveiled for the first time at La Guardia aiport in New York, has its whole length decorated with a picture of Refaeli lying seductively in a revealing white bikini.

The plane will be flying between New York and Las Vegas and it will bear the sexy image on its fuselage for a limited time, reports News. com. au.

Washington, Feb 12 : A new research has suggested that lice in humans' pubic hair may be an `unwelcome gift' from gorillas, which are the more hirsute branch of our evolutionary family.

There are two species of lice that infest humans: pubic lice, Pthirus pubis, and human head and body lice, Pediculus humanus.

A new article in BioMed Central's open access Journal of Biology suggests one explanation for the separation of the two species.

In the article, Robert Weiss from University College London describes how he was struck by inspiration while pondering the question of why lice would separate into two groups when our ancestors are quite uniformly hairy.

New York, Feb 12 : Although the latest report on the Chris Brown case suggests that he threatened to kill Rihanna when he allegedly attacked her, his sister insists that he is a `good boy' who has never been violent.

Lytrell Bundy says that Brown is an "upstanding citizen".

"He''s always been a good boy - never violent," the New York Daily News quoted her as telling Extra magazine.

Brown was arrested after he allegedly left the `Umbrella' hitmaker with horrific bruises, including a split lip, a bloody nose and bite marks on her hands.

He is reportedly staying with his mother in Virginia, and attempting to reach Rihanna.

Washington, Feb 12 : Pop star Chris Brown has left people baffled, as he has chosen none other than Michael Jackson's former lawyer, who badly lost the onetime pop-king's case, to represent him in his domestic abuse case against Rihanna.

Michael's former lawyer Mark Geragos got him into trouble after he almost had him behind bars in his child molestation case, after which Michael replaced him with another lawyer Mesereau, who finally got him acquitted of the charges.

However, Brown and his people have chosen Geragos instead of Mesereau, reports Fox News.