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Big bucks for "Mr. Potter" A rare first edition Harry Potter book is expected to fetch up to L12,000 when it goes under the hammer, auction organisers have said.

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Life from Mars theory put to test A rock quarried on Orkney was blasted into space to find out if meteorites could carry primitive life from one planet to another.

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Uber Body Armour A new type of carbon fibre, developed at the University of Cambridge, could be woven into super-strong body armour for the military and law enforcement.

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Dr. Moreau? Regulators have agreed in principle to allow human-animal embryos to be created and used for research.

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Blockbuster offers Blu-ray Blockbuster video rental giant has let customers decide to choose what format of hi-def DVD they wish to rent. In the 250 stores in which both blu-ray and hd-dvd were offered customers have chosen blu-ray as the preferred format. Now the video giant has gone ahead and made blu-ray dvd the exclusive hi-def dvd format for rent in 1,450 stores across the US.

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Banned video game The British Board of Film Classification has decided to refuse classification of Rockstars' new release Manhunt 2.

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Norway at peace A study has ranked Norway as the most peaceful country and Iraq as the least in a survey of 121 countries.

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Table Computer Microsoft has unveiled a new touch-sensitive coffee table-shaped computer called "Surface".

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Halo 3 Thousands of gamers were unable to play the multiplayer test version of Halo 3 on wednesday due to technical problems.

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25 hour day?! Our natural daily 24-hour cycle could be stretched by an extra hour safely and simply by exposure to pulses of bright light, research suggests.

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Rare Giant Turtle One of the world's largest turtles said to be on the brink of extinction, has been found in abundance in a former Khmer Rouge stronghold in Cambodia.

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Virginia closes firearms loophole Virginia governor Timothy M. Kaine has issued an executive order banning people found to be dangerous and ordered to have involuntary mental health treatment from purchasing guns.

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Pacific Whale Decline "a mystery" Grey whales in the eastern Pacific appear to be in some trouble, with the cause far from clear, scientists say.

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Rhino! Rare Borneo rhino captured on film! See video at BBC.com

"Kryptonite" Scientists discover a mineral with the same chemical make-up as the fictional kryptonite seen in Superman. Learn more at BBC.com