"Scientists say they have discovered an antibody that could minimise the major internal bleeding seen in traumas like bullet wounds and car crashes.

The team at Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) has discovered that a protein called histone is responsible for much of the damage.

They say they have found a specific type of antibody that can block the ability of histone to cause damage."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8322454.stm

"Scientists are planning to develop a paint coating for military vehicles which would soak up a chemical warfare agent and then decontaminate itself.

The technology could protect those operating in or around a vehicle after a chemical attack.

It would be adapted from "strippable" coatings currently used to provide temporary camouflage for vehicles.

The development work is being carried out by the UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL).

Dr Steven Mitchell, from DSTL's headquarters at Porton Down in Wiltshire, said the next generation of coatings could be engineered to absorb chemical warfare agents."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8321657.stm

Police relaunch Lockerbie bombing investigation

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/6425205/Police-relaunch-Lockerbie-bombing-investigation.html#

Authorities secretly ordered the re-examination of all evidence following the decision by Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi to drop his appeal against his conviction for mass murder.

The disclosure comes as the relatives of British victims of the terrorist attack launch a campaign today – backed by The Sunday Telegraph – for an independent public inquiry into who ordered and carried out the bombing.

Critics of Megrahi's conviction – including Dr Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora died on the plane – believe Libya and its ruler Colonel Muammar Gaddafi were framed in a US-led conspiracy. They suggest that the group most likely to have carried out the bombing was the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command (PFLP-GC).

In 1988 the group was under the control of Ahmed Jibril, a former captain in the Syrian army, who was based in Damascus and funded by Iran. Five months before the Lockerbie bombing in July 1988, Iran Air Flight 655 was accidentally shot down by the USS Vincennes with the loss of 290 lives. The Lockerbie bombing may have been in revenge for that attack, which Iran has never accepted was a mistake.

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>>	Junior Field Reporter 09/10/25(Sun)15:06 No.2540   File: 1256508374146.jpg -(30521 B, 480x480) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. >>2539 >Flight 655 was accidentally shot down by the USS Vincennes >accidentally shot down >accidentally

>>	Junior Field Reporter 09/10/26(Mon)01:37 No.2542   File: 1256546277748.jpg -(36854 B, 304x450) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. I accidentally the whole plane!?

The world's greatest investor is weathering the financial crisis by practicing what he preaches.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8317072.stm

"A young girl, believed to be in her teens, has no recollection of who she is, where she lives, and who her family is, according to authorities in New York. The New York City Administration for Children's Services (ACS) and the New York City Police Department's (NYPD) Missing Persons Squad are calling on Americans to help identify the girl who was found wandering midtown Manhattan on October 9."

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7016789426?Teen%20Girl%20With%20No%20Memory%20Seeks%20Identity%20In%20New%20York%20City

>>	Junior Field Reporter 09/10/25(Sun)09:28 No.2537   File: 1256488136537.jpg -(67676 B, 340x273) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. In b4 Kaspar Hauser

"CNET News took a trip to the Alameda County Sheriff's Office Regional Training Center on Friday to have a look at some of the newest equipment from Taser"

"There are also two recently released handheld Tasers: the X3, which unlike its single-shot predecessors can fire off a total of three shots at once; and the XREP, a Taser projectile that's fired out of a modified 12-gauge shotgun (the modifications ensure that regular cartridges can't be used instead). Both devices are bright yellow, which representatives told us means they're easily identified as non-lethal weapons."

"Another time, a Taser was successfully used to safely deter an out-of-control alligator in Florida. "But then they tried it in Australia on those big salt-water crocodiles," Guilbault related, "and that didn't work. It just made them mad.""

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10382575-1.html

>>	Junior Field Reporter 09/10/26(Mon)05:20 No.2543   File: 1256559639222.jpg -(28004 B, 273x400) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. Ozzies are just too hardcore.

"A U.S. drone reportedly killed 24 people in northern Pakistan, including Taliban members meeting in an underground hideout, witnesses and officials said."

"A Pakistan army spokesman Sunday denied the deaths and injuries were caused by a drone, or pilotless plane. At a news conference in Islamabad, Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said Saturday's devastation in Damadola was caused by explosive material that blew up while being loaded onto a vehicle."

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2009/10/25/Report-US-drone-kills-24-in-Pakistan/UPI-58591256476529/

"It's a big number that only tells part of the story. The number of banks that have failed so far this year topped 100 on Friday — hitting 106 by the end of the day — the most in nearly two decades. But the trouble in the banking system from bad loans and the recession goes even deeper.

Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of other banks remain open even though they are as weak as many that have been shuttered. Regulators are seizing banks slowly and selectively — partly to avoid inciting panic and partly because buyers for bad banks are hard to find.

Going slow buys time. An economic recovery could save some banks that would otherwise go under. But if the recovery is slow and smaller banks' finances get even worse, it could wind up costing even more.

This year's 106 bank failures are the most in any year since 181 collapsed in 1992 at the end of the savings-and-loan crisis."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091024/ap_on_bi_ge/us_bank_failures

A SIX-YEAR-OLD dubbed "cat-girl" has baffled doctors after thick grey hair started growing uncontrollably all over her body.

Until just a few months ago little Li Xiaoyuan had just a tiny birthmark on her back.

But hair started to grow from the mole — and quickly spread over her entire back and is now starting to grow on her arms and face.

Her dad Li Yan said: "Doctors told us it was just a birthmark even when it started spreading but now it covers half her body.

"None of the other children want to play with her they are calling her cat-girl and are really mean."

Li's distraught mum, Li Jiang of Fengkai, southern China, said: "The poor girl - it breaks our hearts to see her suffer like this."

Surgeon Dr Lou Zhongquan of Zhaoqing City Dermatological Hospital believes the youngster may be suffering from a rare disease that sends normal moles out of control.

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>>	Junior Field Reporter 09/10/24(Sat)18:02 No.2531   File: 1256432521029.jpg -(81496 B, 1200x800) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. it grows virtually everywhere.

"A Sicilian builder transferred from prison to house arrest tried to get himself locked up again to escape arguments with his wife at home, Italian media reported Thursday.

Santo Gambino, 30, did time for dumping hazardous waste before being moved to house arrest in Villabate, outside the Sicilian capital, Palermo, Italian news agencies reported.

Gambino went to the police station and asked to be put away again to avoid arguing with his wife, who accused him of failing to pay for the upkeep of their two children."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091022/od_nm/us_italy_prisoner