Nearly 70 fans of an Argentine football club are charged after hijacking two buses to get to their team's game, say police.

DNA tests done on additional remains found near the wreckage of Steve Fossett's plane in the Sierra Nevada Mountains confirm the adventurer's death.

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This isn't strictly design-related, but will surely be of interest to those of you who like entering those theory-heavy design competitions:

...a new study by researchers [tested] to see if there was any connection between physical and emotional heat.

To their surprise, they found that people who held a cup of hot coffee for 10 to 25 seconds warmed to a perfect stranger. Holding a cup of iced coffee had the opposite effect.

Might this explain why people seem friendlier in Hawaii than in Helsinki? And what implications could this have for product design--business-card-warmer-upper carrying cases, anyone?

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A shortage of several thousand dollars keeping you from your dream visit to Antarctica? If you are a U.S. high school student with a passion for environmental issues, apply for one of ten full scholarships to head way, way south with the Students on Ice Polar Education Foundation. The trip lasts from Christmas Day to January 9th.

To get a more info and a scholarship form, contact Niki Trudeau at apply@studentsonice.com. Students must demonstrate financial need. For full details, check out Students on Ice here.

I'll admit this is a teeny bit tenuous, since the Hacha PF02 is only an MP3 player whilr the Vertu Signature is a fully-fledged and bejeweled cellphone...but you have to admit the lookalike-ness is pretty amusing. And the fact that a $15 naff screenless MP3 player with 2GB of storage, USB 2 connectivity and MP3, WMA and OGG files compatibility can pump out your tunes while a $10,000 cellphone can't is priceless. [Product page via GadgetLab]

Civilian Conservation Corps Working With Bricks We keep saying that the best source of energy is conservation and efficiency; by coincidence, Franklin Roosevelt set up the Conservation Corps to build ditches, plant crops and reforest America in the Great Depression. Now leader of the free world Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the UK is doing the same, creating a new Conservation Corps to conserve energy- training thousands to insulate attics. "We are expanding in a very radical way our insulation and draught-proofing central-heating provision for the elderly and other people in our country. We are training large numbers of additional people to...

The latest release of the free and open source OpenOffice suite is the first to offer native support on the Mac OS X desktop. It's also the first version with full support for Microsoft's new OOXML file format.

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