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"FRIEND CONNECT"

Google Inc. creates tools to make Web sites more sociable

Google. Photo: EFE
Google's initiative, called "Friend Connect", follows pledges by MySpace and Facebook last week to allow their users to transport their personal profiles and applications to other Web sites.

BILL GATES

Microsoft launches Worldwide Telescope

Computer users can browse through the galaxy on their own or take guided tours of different outer-space destinations developed by astronomers and academics.

NEW STUDY

Being breast-fed may lower breast cancer risk

Adult women who were breast-fed as infants may have a lower risk of developing breast cancer than those who were not breast-fed. Photo: EFE
However, in analyses restricted to breast-fed women, those with 3 or more older siblings had a lesser risk for breast cancer than first born women, the researchers found.

POPULAR ONLINE SOCIAL HANGOUT

Facebook loosens grip on personal profiles

Facebook joins a growing movement to make it easier for people to share their favorite pictures, information and applications with family and friends anywhere on the Internet.

IN INDONESIA

World's largest wild orangutan population to extinct in 3 years

A baby orangutan on Indonesia's Borneo island. Photo: EFE
A report by the Centre for Orangutan Protection said just 20-thousand of the endangered primates remain in the tropical jungle of Central Kalimantan, down from 31,300 in 2004.

HEALTH STUDY

Studies show firefighters have higher risks of certain cancers

A number of studies have found that firefighters have elevated cancer rates, though they have not always been consistent in the specific types of cancer.

JAPAN'S RICHEST PERSON

Former Nintendo chairman becomes Japan's richest

Nintendo's Wii game machine. Photo: EFE
The net worth of Yamauchi, 80, jumped $3 billion in the past year, boosting him from third place to surpass property tycoon Akira Mori, Japan's richest man last year.

STUDY

Sleeping less than 6 and more than 9 hours more likely to be obese

The study is based on door-to-door surveys of 87,000 U.S. adults from 2004 through 2006 conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

NEW RESEARCH

Global warming might be greatest threat to tropical species

Global warming may be a threat to species living in the tropics. Photo: EFE
Tropical species are accustomed to living in a small temperature range and thus may be unable to cope with changes of even a few degrees.

COMPUTER GAMES

Nintendo's Wii Fit rocks Europe: Just do it

Wii Fit, Nintendo's new computer game. Photo: EFE
It recently launched in Europe, and is already sold out in many high street retailers. The game is becoming the perfect present for the Mother's Day, celebrated in most of the European countries in May.
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