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Vancouver will modify powerful audio equipment that critics say could be used as a "sonic gun" against protesters at next year's Winter Olympics, and stop any chance of using the device as a weapon, Vancouver police said on Tuesday.

An Indian Ocean airline is planning flights carrying 840 passengers after ordering the first no-frills version of the A380, the world's largest airliner, with economy seating only.

A London-based translation firm is offering parents-to-be the chance to check the meaning of prospective baby names in other languages to avoid inadvertently causing their offspring future embarrassment.

An Indian Ocean airline is planning the first regular flights for more than 800 passengers after buying a budget version of the Airbus A380, the world's largest airliner, with economy seating throughout.

It's a unique concept according to its creators, a hotel in the French town of Nantes is offering the chance for people to become a hamster.

"Unfriend" has been named the word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary, chosen from a list of finalists with a tech-savvy bent.

New Delhi, November 17 (ANI): A 6-year-old boy in Shanghai has come up with a formula to avoid getting bashed up by his parents.

London, November 17 (ANI): What's in a name? 'A lot of flavour' may just be the answer you could get from a man who can taste anything from coconuts to crisps upon hearing names of people.

It?s 2 pm on a day when the mercury is shy to rise. The Arabian sea is a bed of glistening sequins constantly torn down by waves. About five watercraft skiers, all participants of the F1 Jet Ski race, none of who can speak fluent English, shoot out from the surf in different directions. The whirring from their motors, put together, is the dissonance of a Tool rhythm in full swing.

Nowadays, our party hosts have adopted an annoying ploy, which makes me say, ?Darling you cannot have your cake and eat it too.? Hosting a party and getting it covered on the haloed Page 3 is nothing new, but of late the party-hearty hosts have got a new gimmick. It?s called ?Photographs Only on the Red Carpet?.

Tanaaz Irani is ready to take on her detractors. The TV actress, who was eliminated from Bigg Boss 3 on Friday night, will re-enter the show this weekend as a wild card participant.

I have had 18 close encounters with death and managed a narrow escape each time. But of all these, the one experience that remains shrouded in mystery is when I was struck by lightning in the icy Himalayas.

Some of the finest all weather mountain roads in India are built by the Border Roads Organisation. A hard working team risks their lives to build roads in impossible conditions ? to open up remote areas.

His last cameo lasted nine months, though it was only expected to be around for two months. He played a positive lover boy who turned into a Shah Rukh Khan-ish psychopath from Darr in the recently concluded Doli Saja Ke.

Japan's former Olympic marathon gold medallist Naoko Takahashi has decided to become a vegetable farmer.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica's ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whisky that has been on the rocks since a century ago.

He wiggled, jiggled and even dropped his trousers, but a thief trying to break into a supermarket in Portugal stayed stuck fast in a tiny window until he was rescued by police and the fire brigade.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in Rome for a U.N. food summit, spent several hours in the company of 200 Italian women recruited by an agency and tried to convert them to Islam, Italian media reported on Monday.

New York, Nov 16 (ANI): A former student has returned a pair of library books to a high school librarian in Phoenix 51 years after they were due.

New Delhi, November 16 (ANI): A new supermarket in Beijing has opened its doors selling "only love and nothing else".