London stage fright: rats, mice and fleas: survey (Reuters)

Reuters - Performers in London's West End are having to cope with a different kind of stage fright in the form of mice, rat and flea infestations in theatres, according to a new survey by actors' union Equity.

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Canada Parliament eats seal to defy "ignorant" EU (Reuters)

Appetizers featuring seal meat are displayed during an event to mark the first time seal meat is served in the parliamentary restaurant on Parliament Hill in Ottawa March 10, 2010. REUTERS/Chris WattieReuters - Canadian parliamentarians tucked into a meal of seal meat on Wednesday to defy both animal right activists and the European Union, which has banned imports of seal products.




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Spike in Prius complaints may not be all it seems (AP)

A 2005 Toyota Prius, which was in an accident, is seen at a police station in Harrison, New York, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. The driver of the Toyota Prius told police that the car accelerated on its own, then lurched down a driveway, across a road and into a stone wall.(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Reports of sudden acceleration in the Toyota Prius have spiked across the country. But that doesn't mean there's an epidemic of bad gas pedals in the popular hybrid.




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MySpace outlines makeover after exec shake up (AP)

In this photo released Tuesday March 9,2010 by MySpace showing Jason Hirschhorn,38, left, and Mike Jones,34 right at the MySpace headquarters in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Monday March 8, 2010. The two new co-presidents of MySpace were announced this week following the abrupt departure of CEO Owen Van Natta in February after just 10 months on the job. (AP Photo/MySpace) NO SALESAP - Long ago lapped by Facebook in popularity and with fast-growing Twitter on its tail, MySpace is planning a series of updates over the next months that will link its users' posts to the other social networking sites more easily and carve out its niche as an entertainment hub more clearly.




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Air Canada learns that hockey trumps flying (Reuters)

Canada's Sidney Crosby celebrates after scoring the game winning goal against the U.S. during overtime in their men's ice hockey gold medal game at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics February 28, 2010. REUTERS/Todd KorolReuters - Canada's largest airline has learned it sometimes has to take a back seat to the country's biggest sporting passion, ice hockey, the head of Air Canada said on Tuesday.




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First American woman in space promotes careers in science (Reuters)

Former shuttle astronaut Sally Ride (R) is congratulated by former Apollo 13 Commander James Lovell (L) after being inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville, Florida on June 21, 2003 file photo. REUTERS/Charles W. LuzierReuters - American physicist Sally Ride achieved lasting fame in June 1983 when she became the first American woman to travel in space as a crew member of the Space Shuttle Challenger.




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Hamas bans men from women's hair salons in Gaza (Reuters)

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh prepares himself inside the plane before landing in Tehran December 7, 2006 file photo. REUTERS/Suhaib SalemReuters - The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Thursday banned men in the Gaza Strip from working in women's hair salons, vowing to arrest and try offenders.




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Intego releases VirusBarrier X6 Dual Protection (Macworld.com)

Macworld.com - The perils of malware and viruses are everywhere, and Mac users shouldn't be complacent, especially if they're also running Windows via Boot Camp or other virtualization software. To those ends, Intego has released VirusBarrier X6 Dual Protection, which offers all the features of its  X6 product for both Mac and Windows operating systems running on your machine.

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Huge 'botnet' amputated, but criminals reconnect (AP)

AP - The sudden takedown of an Internet provider thought to be helping spread one of the most promiscuous pieces of malicious software out there appears to have cut off criminals from potentially millions of personal computers under their control.

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OnLive game streaming service to start in June (AP)

AP - In an industry first, a new gaming service will start allowing people to "stream" popular high-end games such as "Assassin's Creed II" over the Internet in June, using a mechanism similar to watching TV shows or listening to music online.

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Canada drops plans for politically correct anthem (Reuters)

Reuters - Don't mess with a century-old tradition even if it is sexist, Canadians told the Conservative government this week, forcing Ottawa to scrap plans to make the country's national anthem gender-neutral.

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Sony unveils new motion contoller to slow Nintendo (AP)

In this undated image released by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Sony's new motion controller is shown. The Japanese maker of the PlayStation 3 unveiled Thursday, March 10, 2010, its highly anticipated motion controlling system, as it takes aim at Nintendo's dominance in the gaming sector. Used with the existing PlayStation Eye camera, the new wireless motion controller can track players' body movements. The controller, in turn, has on its end a light-emitting orb that is recognized by the camera. (AP Photo/Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)AP - Sony has a new message for Nintendo Wii gamers: Come join us.




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Cyprus holds two for theft of ex-leader's corpse (Reuters)

Cyprus' President Tassos Papadopoulos addresses a news conference at the end of a European Union Heads of State and Government summit in Brussels December 14, 2007 file photo. REUTERS/Ezequiel ScagnettiReuters - A court in Cyprus remanded two men in custody Wednesday on suspicion of snatching the corpse of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos, holding it for ransom for three months until its discovery Monday.




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Palm Inc. teeters in crowded smart phone market (AP)

In This March 8, 2010 photo, a customer uses a Palm Pre Plus at Best Buy in Mountain View, Calif. Last year, Palm Inc. thought it had all the right pieces for a rebirth in the market it helped create. Palm had a new CEO who helped rival Apple make the iPod a household name, a well-regarded new smart phone called the Pre and fresh, intuitive operating software. Now Palm might be the latest company to learn that great technology and an accomplished leader don't guarantee success. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Last year, Palm thought it had all the pieces for a turnaround in the market it pioneered: A new CEO known for making the iPod a household name, a sleek new smart phone called the Pre and fresh, intuitive operating software.




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48 Hawaii-only species given endangered listing (AP)

In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an akikiki or Kauai creeper is seen in Kauai, Hawaii. The federal government added the akikiki and 47 other plants and animals to the endangered species list Wendesday, March 10, 2010. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Dr. Eric VanderWerf.)AP - Wildlife officials lauded Washington's "holistic approach" to conservation in Hawaii after the Obama administration declared 48 species as endangered and announced plans to set aside more than 40 square miles on Kauai as critical habitat to allow the plants and animals to flourish.




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U.S. blacks, Hispanics losing more sleep over worries (Reuters)

Reuters - Black and Hispanic Americans are more likely than whites and Asians to lose sleep over job and money worries, a sleep survey released on Monday found.

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New Zealander auctions "ghosts" in a bottle (Reuters)

Reuters - A New Zealand woman sold two vials that she said contained the ghosts of an old man and a young girl for almost NZ$2,000 ($1,410) after a fiercely contested online auction, local media reported.

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Global agency reconsiders `.xxx' for porn sites (AP)

FILE - In this March 22, 2007 file photo, Stuart Lawley, chief executive of ICM Registry Inc., poses for a photo in his Jupiter, Fla home, Thursday, March 22, 2007 by one of his computers. A key global Internet oversight body is reopening discussions about whether to create a '.xxx' address for pornographic Web sites after an outside panel questioned the grounds for earlier rejecting such an online red-light district.(AP Photo/J. Pat Carter, file)AP - A global Internet oversight agency is reopening discussions about whether to create a ".xxx" domain name as an online red-light district where porn sites can set up shop away from the wandering eyes of children and teenagers.




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Chocolate-powered racecar makes sustainability sexy (Reuters)

Reuters - Fueled by leftover chocolate and with components made from carrots, potato starch and flax, the world's first sustainable Formula 3 racing car has a top speed of 135 miles per hour and can go from zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds.

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Swedish artist has no regrets over prophet drawing (AP)

Swedish artist Lars Vilks walks in the streets without protection in Stockholm, Sweden, Wednesday March 10 2010. The Swedish artist who angered Muslims by drawing the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog says he believes the suspects arrested in Ireland and the U.S. in an alleged plot to kill him were not professionals . (AP photo/Scanpix, Bertil Ericson)AP - The point of a caricature depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a dog was to show that artistic freedom allows mockery of all religions, including the most sacred symbols of Islam, the Swedish artist who created it said Wednesday.




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