Various Anonymous cells have launched campaigns in support of Tunisian-inspired civil protests currently happening in countries like Egypt, Algeria or Albania.Anonymous is a social movement characterized by strong anti-censorship views, whose supporters often organize mass Internet "operations" against companies, gov... |
26 January 2011 07:45 GMT |
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Laura Ripley is 25 years old and lives in the UK. In 2008, she was given an £8,000 operation on the NHS, helping her lose 16 stone (over 100 kg). Thanks to it, not only is she now much slimmer, having gone down from 38 stone (over 240 kg) to 22 stone (139 kg), but, what’s more important, she is alive, sin... |
30 July 2009 13:21 GMT |
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You could have not imagined a human surviving the thrust of a knife in the head. Especially in the case of a 10-year-old child. But BBC News has reported this odd case from Afghanistan.Major Stephen Gallacher, a Territorial Army medical officer from Caernarfon in Gwynedd, saved the life of a 10-year-old Afghan boy w... |
13 March 2008 14:06 GMT |
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Weird like it sounds, about 20% of indigenous cultures worldwide practice male genital cutting, varying from circumcision to the removal of a testicle. Now, we know also why: Chris Wilson, a doctoral candidate in Cornell's Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, says that this decreases the chances of fertiliza... |
8 March 2008 03:52 GMT |
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Any physician, dietician, or fitness instructor will tell you that two factors are necessary to look good after the age of 20: diet and exercising. But if you're a couch potato aged 40, and your life's centered around alcohol, smoking and white nights, there is one last chance: plastic surgery. Only in 2006... |
29 September 2007 04:05 GMT |
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Sex is a very important issue in Brazil, and this goes beyond those sexy Brazilian butts to the Copacabana beach and the boobs of the Rio carnival. Brazil's public health care system will pay the cost of sex-change operations, after a federal court stated the procedure was a constitutional right. The surgery wil... |
20 August 2007 06:22 GMT |
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A case of Guinness Book of the World Records or a penal case? Under the attentive surveillance of his parents, the 15-year-old son of two doctors from southern India performed a filmed Cesarean section. This was made on the run to gain the title of world's youngest surgeon.Instead of that, the boy's father ... |
25 June 2007 05:51 GMT |
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Create the most amazing dinosaur theme park the world has ever seen, or battle your way through 12 intense missions that will truly test your skills against the awesome powers of nature and its most dominant creatures in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis.Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis is a detailed, deep, and hard-t... |
20 March 2007 08:47 GMT |
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