BBC NEWS | Europe | Pisa's leaning tower 'stabilised'

BBC NEWS | Europe | Pisa's leaning tower 'stabilised': "Italy's famous leaning tower of Pisa has stopped moving for the first time in its 800-year history, engineers who have worked to stabilise it say."

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BBC NEWS | Health | Trust drug may cure social phobia

BBC NEWS | Health | Trust drug may cure social phobia: "A nasal spray which increases our trust for strangers is showing promise as a treatment for social phobia, say scientists from Zurich University.

They found that people who inhaled the 'love hormone' oxytocin continued to trust strangers with their money - even after they were betrayed.

Brain scans showed the hormone lowered activity in the amygdala - a region which is overactive in social phobics."

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Fast flying fish glides by ferry

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Fast flying fish glides by ferry: "The fish was completely airborne for 45 seconds. This beats one previous, impressive report from an American researcher in the 1920s of 42 seconds.

The animal is seen travelling parallel to a ferry, which itself is motoring at about 30km/hour (20mph)."

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Is Nato repeating the USSR's Afghan mistakes

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Is Nato repeating the USSR's Afghan mistakes: "A negative, sobering but very well-informed opinion - and the kind that is often ignored."

BBC NEWS | Europe | Vatican says aliens could exist

BBC NEWS | Europe | Vatican says aliens could exist

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The Death of Lord Haw Haw by Brett Rutledge Published in 1940. Lord Haw Haw was the name given to a series of Nazi propaganda broadcasters during WWII. It's hard to tell whether this book is fictional or not, but it reads like a novel. It's set before the fall of France. Germany had not yet assaulted the Maginot Line but things were becoming increasingly desperate for the French. It's a perspective I have not come across before. I knew about the complacency of the US populace before Pearl Harbor, but this puts a whole new light on it. The story is narrated by a freelance American counter espionage agent recruited by France to stop one version of Lord Haw Haw that he traces back to New York. I don't want to give away more, but I highly recommend it. It's quick and easy to read but exciting none the less.

BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | The 'creaking' US airline industry

BBC NEWS Programmes From Our Own Correspondent The 'creaking' US airline industry:

Look at this comment:
"Like much of America these days, the airline industry feels tired, worn down, and old.
That is surprising in a country that often likes to think of itself as the best.
Arguably, it once was, but the airline industry - like the health system, like schools, roads - you name it, feels like it is just creaking along and leaving its passengers ever more frustrated."

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Great tits cope well with warming

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Peter Wilby: The last excuse for the Iraq war is founded on a myth | Comment is free | The Guardian

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In One Flaw, Questions on Validity of 46 Judges - New York Times

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Electronics' 'missing link' found

BBC NEWS Technology Electronics' 'missing link' found

BBC NEWS | Health | Fertile women 'have sexier voice'

BBC NEWS Health Fertile women 'have sexier voice': "A woman's voice becomes more alluring when she is at her most fertile, according to US research.
Recordings of women taken at different points in their menstrual cycle were played to people of both sexes.
New Scientist magazine reports that the voices rated as most attractive belonged to women at peak fertility.
The study suggests sex hormones can alter the workings of the voice box, but the change may be too subtle to pick up in many situations.
Human reproduction differs from reproduction in other mammals in that there are no obvious signs that a woman is at her fertile phase.
However, scientists have suggested that very subtle changes caused by the rise and fall of different sex hormones can be detected by men, who then perhaps find a woman more attractive without necessarily even realising why."

BBC NEWS | Europe | Lesbos islanders dispute gay name

BBC NEWS Europe Lesbos islanders dispute gay name: "Campaigners on the Greek island of Lesbos are to go to court in an attempt to stop a gay rights organisation from using the term 'lesbian'.
The islanders say that if they are successful they may then start to fight the word lesbian internationally.
The issue boils down to who has the right to call themselves Lesbians.
Is it gay women, or the 100,000 people living on Greece's third biggest island - plus another 250,000 expatriates who originate from Lesbos?"