A 24-YEAR-OLD female kindergarten teacher has been detained in south-west China after allegedly stabbing more than 20 children with a syringe to discipline them. The woman, Sun Qiqi, was taken into custody at the weekend in Yunnan province after angry parents complained to police about the alleged abuse at the unlicensed school in Jianshui county, [...]

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Internet security experts are warning governments and industry that they only have a few years to prepare for a potential cyber attack that could cripple a major piece of Australian infrastructure. In July, US government websites crashed, and then a few days later, South Korean government websites suffered the same fate. North Korea seemed to [...]

Scientists have shed new light on how fiddler crabs use their very small brains to perceive the world. Crabs’ eyes are made up of 8,000 separate parts, each of which can see in just one direction, but together they enable the crabs to see everywhere. Fiddler crabs have constant decisions to make: who is a [...]

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients. The declaration, signed Friday night and announced Saturday, comes with the disease more prevalent than ever in the country and production delays [...]

A TEXAS police chief has apologised after at least 39 people received traffic tickets because they couldn’t speak English. “I was surprised and stunned that that would happen in the city of Dallas because we are a very, very diverse city,” Dallas police chief David Kunkle said. “I apologise to the Spanish speaking, Hispanic community.” [...]

An enormous explosion rocked the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico early yesterday as 15 fuel tanks blew up at a petrol refinery, leaving two people injured. The massive fireball at the Caribbean Petroleum Corp plant left the surrounding area and much of the nearby capital city San Juan under a huge cloud of black smoke, [...]

MAJOR nuclear reactor manufacturers in Japan have begun developing small nuclear power systems for both developed and emerging countries, a report says. Toshiba is developing an ultra-compact reactor with an output of about 10,000 kilowatts and has started procedures for approval in the US, the Nikkei business daily said. The new reactor, the Toshiba 4S, [...]

A children’s literature expert says changes made to the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty are part of a worrying trend in society. In the United Kingdom, the BBC is under fire for rewriting Humpty Dumpty to give it a happy ending on the CBeebies children’s program Something Special. Instead of the last line saying “couldn’t put [...]