Researchers in Austria and Germany measured the smallest time interval recorded, and found it lasted a ten million billionth of a second.

It's about ten times shorter than the previous shortest measured interval, which lasted about one femtosecond or a million billionth of a second.

The scientists used pulses of laser light to watch an electron moving around inside an atom, distinguishing motion over periods as brief as 100 attoseconds.

As an attosecond is a thousand million billionth of a second.

Woman Says 'I Don't' At NBA Game

Crowd Stunned By Reaction

 "She said No!" appeared on the arena's scoreboard.

Customer appalled by bandage in fries

By SEAN GONSALVES
STAFF WRITER
BOURNE - Heather O'Neill, 26, said she picked up a Big Mac and fries at the drive-thru window of a McDonald's. On the way back to her home in Sagamore Beach she ate some of the fries.

But once she got home, while watching TV, she discovered she had more than just fries.

"I picked up a clump of fries, and something falls on my lap," she said. "It was a dirty, bloody, folded Band-Aid."

Keith Richards should have died eight years ago, according to a health expert.

The 60-year-old Rolling Stone has outlived all expectations and "eluded death" after years of hard living, claims American gerontologist David Demko.

 "He should have passed away at 52. I'm not sure how he does it but he defies all conventional wisdom. Eighty per cent of the factors that control how long you live are related to your lifestyle not genes."

Killer ... a poisonous Black Widow spider

Pet spider kills its owner

From ALLAN HALL
in Berlin

Police broke in to Mark Voegel’s apartment to find spider Bettina along with 200 others, several snakes, a gecko lizard called Helmut and several thousand termites had gorged on his body.

“Giant webs draped him, spiders were all over him. They were coming out of his nose and his mouth.

“Larger pieces of flesh torn off by the lizards were scooped up and taken back to the webs of tarantulas and other bird-eating spiders.”

Hungry ... termites ate body

“He had spiders so aggressive they are the equivalent of a pit-bull in the animal world.”

The reptiles were allowed to roam free in the flat.

Associated Press
Published on: 02/23/04

Courtesy Sports Illustrated

A pensioner who disappeared from a care home 17 days ago has been found - in New York.

David Newport, 79, vanished from Woodtown House home in Bideford, Devon, UK, wearing just a sports jacket and trousers.

Paul Tutt, owner of the Woodtown House home, said he was stunned when Mr Newport turned up in the New York suburb of Queens, where he's being treated for thrombosis.

"He has talked about wanting to go to America but we never dreamed he would do it."

LONDON (Reuters) - A tiny Scottish village called Lost is to change its name because souvenir hunters keep stealing its road signs.

22 YEARS AGO TODAY

Feb 27 1982

Freelance photographer Wayne B. Williams found guilty of two counts of murder, though he is suspected of killing 22 other Atlanta area black boys. Williams was caught dumping a suspicious load from atop a bridge in the middle of the night.