Hazardous golf balls take 1,000 years to decompose: Scientists

October 1st, 2009 KUWAIT - The Kuwait has decided to deport over 1000 Pakistanis who are living in the country illegally. According to The Dawn, Kuwait's Interior Ministry has said that it would soon send nearly 17,000 illegal migrants people back to their native country.

July 5th, 2009 LONDON - Honeybee hordes form "bee balls" to mob and smother their predators, giant hornets, killing them within 10 minutes of trapping, scientists have observed. According to the journal Naturwissenschaften, honeybees use heat and carbon dioxide as part of their mechanism to guard themselves from their natural enemies.

June 25th, 2009 LONDON - A golf lover, who is paralysed from the waist down, can now play his favourite game for the first time, courtesy a new invention called 'Paragolfer'. Graham Hunt, 24, became addicted to golf after he started playing a simulated version of the game in his living room on his Nintendo Wii.

June 14th, 2009 LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown may have to face more difficulties in the days to come, as one of his closest allies Ed Balls, has said that he could ask Brown to step down. It has been revealed that Balls, who is currently the country's Schools Secretary, stunned Labour MPs by saying he is prepared to get rid of Brown at Labour's annual conference scheduled to be held in September.

June 11th, 2009 LONDON - A father of three in England is the proud owner of a 1979 VW Golf that can blow away a Bugatti Veyron supercar. Forty-two-year-old Andy Waite, of Fordham, Cambridgeshire, purchased the Mk 1 Golf for fifty pounds, about 1million pounds less than the price of the Bugatti, the world's most expensive motor.

June 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese man, who believes that college students are pure, has handed out 1000 posters at 10 university campuses in search of a perfect wife. Fu Bing, 32, who wants to find his true love from among the student population, distributed the posters to campuses in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, reports the China Daily.

May 15th, 2009 LONDON - While fortifying grain products with folic acid has been found to be effective in preventing neural tube defects in Canada, scientists have now found that this form of vitamin B also prevents congenital heart defects. McGill University researchers in Montreal have found in a study that folic acid decreases the incidence of congenital heart defects by more than 6 percent.

May 1st, 2009 British amateur golfer Ben Enoch dies in car crashLONDON — Walker Cup squad member Ben Enoch has been killed in a car crash, the chief executive of the Golf Union of Wales said. The amateur golfer was 19.

April 29th, 2009 LONDON - Kylie Minogue and her Spanish beau reportedly shelled 40,000 pounds on golf gear after stepping into a silent English town by helicopter. The stunning singer allegedly spent hours with model Andres Velencoso to bag the made-to-measure irons, woods and putters.

April 4th, 2009 LONDON - In a new research, scientists have unraveled the natural climate mechanism that caused unusually warm weather in medieval times in Europe 1000 years back. According to a report in New Scientist, the research was carried out by Valerie Trouet at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research in Birmensdorf.

April 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Baby birds can count and perform basic arithmetic, say researchers. The study, conducted by scientists from the universities of Padova and Trento, has shown chicks' ability to add and subtract objects as they were moved behind two screens.

April 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Meet the Russian golfer whose sex appeal matches her playing skills. Maria Verchenova has made a huge impression on the Ladies European Tour circuit, but there is much more to her than her skills on the fairway.

April 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood actor Robert Patrick is gearing up to reprise his role as the evil robot in 'Terminator 5'. Filmmaker McG has been signed up to direct the forthcoming flick called 'Terminator Salvation', and he is eyeing Robert for the role of evil robot T-1000.

March 21st, 2009 LONDON - Former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan has demonstrated the art of batting off the pitch with a series of paintings created with cricket balls. he "Artballing" series of paintings involved the batsman hitting paint covered balls at a stencil over a canvas to create a unique set of 60 images.

March 19th, 2009 LONDON - Former Russian tennis ace Anna Kournikova has strutted her sexy body yet again for a new sportswear ad campaign. Kournikova, 27, was pictured posing on a bed of tennis balls for the ad by sportswear firm K-Swiss.