日期：2008-08-06 You can't buy love, but with a Japanese piggy bank that combines thrift with virtual romance, you can at least save up for it. Ikemenbank, or handsome men bank, is a heart-shaped electronic piggy bank with an LCD screen that allows its owner to cond... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-08-06 One in three information technology professionals abuses administrative passwords to access confidential data such as colleagues' salary details, personal emails or board-meeting minutes, according to a survey. US information security company Cyber-... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-08-06 An unused life jacket from the doomed Titanic ship will go under the hammer later this month in New York, Christie's auction house said on Wednesday. The cork-filled life preserver -- still largely intact, but stained and torn in parts -- was though... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-08-06 A luxury flat in Hong Kong has sold for 225 million Hong Kong dollars (28.8 million US), the most expensive apartment per square foot ever sold in Asia, a report said on Wednesday. The 80th floor penthouse with a private swimming pool and spectacula... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-08-06 Austrians despairing at their team's Euro 2008 exit can seek solace in a mock documentary charting their stunning title victory. The film also offers comfort for co-hosts Switzerland, who survive until the quarter-finals instead of tumbling out of t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-08-06 Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda admits his job is tough and says a glass of wine can relieve the stress. But he draws the line at vodka. Fukuda was slapped earlier this month with an unprecedented censure motion amid slumping approval ratings,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-08-06 For most folks, a nice hug and some sympathy can help a bit after we get pushed around. Turns out, chimpanzees use hugs and kisses the same way. And it works. Researchers studying people's closest genetic relatives found that stress was reduced in c... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-08-06 A South Korean biotech company on Monday unveiled four Labrador retriever puppies it said were cloned from a Japanese dog skilled at sniffing out patients with cancer. RNL Bio, affiliated with the stem cell lab of Seoul National University, said the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-08-06 The heat is on, and the stakes are high, with the potential first ladies' bake-off underway and organizer Family Circle magazine looking to see which way the cookie is going to crumble. In the past four presidential elections, readers of the magazin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-08-06 US President George W. Bush, scrutinized in the memoir by his ex-spokesman McAllen, is considering writing a memoir of his own. Bush has been silent on former spokesman Scott McClellan's book, which said the White House shaded the truth and conducte... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-08-06 If you're feeling stressed, rather than wallow in front of the television try looking out of the window, with a US study finding scenes of nature can alleviate minor stress levels. Researchers at the Human Interaction with Nature and Technological S... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-08-06 Dutch statisticians have established that Friday 13th, a date regarded in many countries as inauspicious, is actually safer than an average Friday. A study published on Thursday by the Dutch Centre for Insurance Statistics (CVS) showed that fewer ac... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-08-06 Heir to the throne Prince Charles on Tuesday paid off a family debt incurred more than 350 years ago -- but was spared the accumulated interest that could have run into tens of thousands of pounds. Charles handed over 453 pounds and 15 pence (572 eu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-08-06 With Father's Day fast approaching, many dads admit they are struggling with how to juggle long days at the office and quality time with their family, according to a new survey. A fifth of the 248 Canadian fathers questioned said time away from home... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-08-06 A popular seaside resort in the northeastern US state of Maryland is urging tourists to book vacations now before the ocean disappears altogether. Borrowing from the style of Orson Welles' 1938 radio announcement that Martians were landing on Earth,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-08-06 New York City Opera has commissioned American composer Charles Wuorinen to write an opera based on Annie Proulxs short story Brokeback Mountain, a love story about two US ranch-hands that won three Oscars when it was turned into a movie. The opera h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-07-23 A washing machine using as little as a cup of water for each washing cycle could go on sale to environmentally conscious Britons next year. Xeros, which has been spun out of the University of Leeds to commercialize the technology, said on Monday the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-07-23 Middle-aged adults who smoke tended to perform poorly on tests of memory and reasoning compared to nonsmokers, adding to the list of reasons not to smoke, French researchers said on Monday. Analyzing previously collected data on about 5,000 British... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-07-23 In a newly published book, France's first lady speaks out about falling head over heels in love with President Nicolas Sarkozy, not only for his physique, but also for his five or six brains. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has maintained a relatively low profi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-07-23 Police dogs should be considered civil servants and any acts of violence against them therefore merits the same punishment as attacks on human police officers, Norway's Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The police officer and dog work ... as a single un... 阅读全文>>