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 Arts & entertainment

Blistering barnacles! Tintin returns

• London teenager to star in three-movie series of boy adventurer directed by Steven Spielberg
  • Tintinophiles will demand fidelity to Hergé's art
  • Obituary: Raymond Leblanc

 

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Ex-security guard solves maths riddle

Solution to 40-year-old conundrum promises mapping revolution

 

Cook authentic risotto in five steps

Whip up a risotto typical of the Veneto region in five easy steps in the first of our series of videos on Italian cooking

 

 * Crusaders 'left genetic legacy'
Scientists have detected the faint genetic traces left by medieval crusaders in
the Middle East.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7316281.stm

 

Study unlocks Latin American past
21 Mar 08 |  Science/Nature

 

  Silicon chips stretch into shape
Normally fragile and brittle silicon chips are made to bend and fold by scientists
in the US.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/technology/7313203.stm

 

  Warning on plastic's toxic threat *
Plastic waste in the oceans poses a potentially devastating long-term toxic threat
to the food chain, marine scientists say.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7316441.stm

 

Midway's battle
Midway's story of beauty defiled casts a powerful spell

 

 

Open and shut
The growing border controls of the global internet

 

 

Seeking UFOs, deep underground

By Tomas Alex Tizon

Peter Davenport runs the National UFO Reporting Center from an abandoned missile complex in Washington state. He is passionate that there is something out there.

 

 

 

U.S. Navy taking on pirates

By Tony Perry

As incidents escalate in international waters off Somalia and in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. mission has expanded.

 

 

 

Low-key war on pirates becomes more perilous

By Tony Perry

When a vessel is seized, the U.S. Navy lies low -- until lives are at risk. Off Somalia, violence in such incidents is on the rise.

 

 

 

'Cold Mountain' author remembers Anthony Minghella

By Charles Frazier

Before the filming of 'Cold Mountain,' it was just two writers wandering in the rain.

 

 

 

Olympics become a hurdle <== somebody goofed - heads will roll

By Tina Daunt

THIS isn't exactly the show Chinese government officials had in mind when they signed on to host the Olympic Games in Beijing this summer.