Bird-Brain Breakthrough

No, I don't mean the obscure weirdo New Mutant character... Scientists in eastern China say they have succeeded in controlling the flight of pigeons with micro electrodes planted in their brains, state media reported on Tuesday. Scientists at the Robot Engineering Technology Research Centre at Shandong University of Science and Technology said ther electrodes could command them to fly right or left or up or down, Xinhua news agency said. "The implants stimulate different areas of the pigeon's brain according to signals sent by the scientists via computer, and force the bird to comply with their commands," Xinhua said. "It's the first such successful experiment on a pigeon in the world," Xinhua quoted the centre's chief scientist, Su Xuecheng, as saying. Seriously, what is this great scientific breakthrough for? Not to mention its blatantly obvious brutality? Soldiers for the impending Bird Flu Apocalypse? Or probably air strikes as such?

"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell." - Bertrand Russell(1872 - 1970).

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Indian Macabre

Indian forensic experts are seeking DNA tests to establish the suspected rape of some 21 people in the country's most macabre serial killings in decades. Officially 21 people, mostly children, were murdered over a period of three years in a stylish bungalow in the northern Indian village of Nithari, but media reports say the toll could exceed 40. House-owner Moninder Singh Pandher and his servant Surender Koli were arrested in December, with Koli also confessing raping his victims and having sex with their bodies. Koli, according to the police, has also confessed trying to eat human organs extracted from the crudely-dissected bodies of the victims. Police say Koli lured children from nearby Nithari, just outside New Delhi, to his master's home, where they were assaulted by both and then cut with "butcher-like precision". Most of the human remains have been found in sewage drains around the house and in the adjacent Noida, an affluent Delhi satellite township of the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

"We will do our best to ensure safety ... but I cannot say please come cheer for your side because I really don't know what's going to happen." - Thailand's Tourism and Sports Minister, Dr Suvit Yodmani. Certainly, these comments will boost the receding tourism in Thailand for tickling the bones of adventure-seeking Singaporean. Particularly those with a death wish.