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Britain’s ‘most important archeological’ discovery found in desk drawer

London, Oct 23 : Thousands of tiny gold pins which lay hidden in a desk drawer for 40 years have been described as one of Britain’s most important archeological finds.

According to a report in the Telegraph, the artifacts were part of a dagger buried with a warrior chief, near Stonehenge, nearly 4,000 years ago.

The pinhead-sized studs form an intricate pattern on the handle of the dagger, but archeologists failed to realise their significance when they excavated the burial mound in Wiltshire - known as Bush Barrow- in 1808.

Facebook fuels ‘friendship addiction’ and users insecurity

London, Oct 23: Social networking site, Facebook, is responsible for ‘friendship addiction’ and is fuelling insecurity in users, according to psychologists.

With social networking sites becoming more of a substitute for families, it is the women who are most affected by it, as they derive their self worth from relationships with others and Facebook compels them to ‘acquire’ hundreds of friends, experts say.

According to David Smallwood, an addictions expert with the Priory clinic, at least 10 per cent of the population were vulnerable to ‘friendship addiction’.

World’s first 1,000mph car would be faster than a bullet

World’s first 1,000mph car would be faster than a bulletLondon, Oct 23: British engineers have unveiled plans for the world’s first 1,000mph car, a vehicle designed not to break the world land speed record, but to shatter it.

According to a report in the Guardian, Bloodhound SSC, named after the British cold war supersonic air defence missiles, will attempt to beat the existing record by more than 250mph.

Working from an aircraft hangar in Bristol, the research team’s engineers have been working on the project in secret for the past 18 months.

Footage of McCain interviewed as bedridden prisoner in Vietnam released

Presidential candidate John McCainLondon, Oct 23 : The French national archive has released a footage of Republican presidential candidate John McCain being interviewed as a bedridden prisoner during the Vietnam War.

McCain, who was filmed smoking, was emotional during the interview, the Sky News reported

The video portrays McCain as a hero but the message may be tarnished as he is filmed smoking a cigarette.

Madonna to continue her stay in London

Madonna to continue her stay in London Heart throb of millions, the pop icon ‘Madonna’ decided not to bid adieu to Britain even when she has broken up with her husband, British Director, Guy Ritchie. Madonna who is presently 50 years old, married the director(40), in December 2000 at Skebi Castle in the Scottish highlands.

Madonna who was supposed to leave for New York with her kids as soon as she gets divorce from Ritchie, now changes her mind as the British director admitted that it was in best of interests for the kids to remain in Britain.

Computer criminals can hear what you type on a keyboard

Computer criminals can hear what you type on a keyboardLondon, October 22: Swiss researchers have shown that computer criminals can misuse the electromagnetic signals produced by when buttons on a keyboard to eavesdrop on what a user types.

Martin Vuagnoux and Sylvain Pasini, doctoral students from the Security and Cryptography Laboratory at the Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), have been successful in analysing the signals produced by keystrokes to reproduce what a target typed.

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