One of the more interesting people I’ve talked with in the last two years is a figment of his own imagination. “Craig Barth,” the chief technology officer of Florida-based Devil Mountain Software, a company that makes and markets Windows performance metrics software, is, I have discovered, nobody. He doesn’t exist. Barth is, in fact, a [...]
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Australia is to get its first saint, Mother Mary MacKillop, a Melbourne-born nun who worked with needy children, Pope Benedict has announced. The Vatican said MacKillop, who died in 1909, would be canonised on 17 October. Her work for the Church was sometimes controversial – and in 1871 she was excommunicated for insubordination. The Church [...]
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Teaching stroke patients to sing “rewires” their brains, helping them recover their speech, say scientists. By singing, patients use a different area of the brain from the area involved in speech. If a person’s “speech centre” is damaged by a stroke, they can learn to use their “singing centre” instead. Researchers presented these findings at [...]
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A California peak formerly known as Negrohead Mountain has been officially renamed in honour of the black pioneer who settled there in 1869. The 619-metre peak near Malibu, became Ballard Mountain after John Ballard, a blacksmith and former slave. Dozens of Ballard’s relatives attended the renaming ceremony on Saturday. The name originally contained an even [...]
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A senior Islamic militant was among six killed in an assault by Philippines troops on a rebel camp on the southern island of Jolo, officials say. Abu Sayyaf commander Albader Parad was wanted for the abduction of three Red Cross workers on the island last year. Gen Benjamin Dolorfino said his death was a “big [...]
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Saudi Arabia is planning to bring in a new law to allow women lawyers to argue cases in court for the first time. Justice Minister Mohammed al-Eissa said the law was part of King Abdullah’s plan to develop the legal system. The law – to be issued “in the coming days” – would allow women [...]
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