A study by an award-winning cancer expert shows that cell phone use could kill more people than smoking, it is reported.

According to the U.K.'s Independent newspaper, the study, headed by Dr. Vini Khurana, shows that there is a growing body of evidence that using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer.

Khurana — one of the world's top neurosurgeons — based his assessment on the fact that three billion people now use the phones worldwide. That is three times higher than people who smoke. Smoking kills some five million globally each year.

He warned that people should avoid using handsets whenever possible and called on the phone industry to make them safer. France and Germany have already warned against the use of mobile phones, especially by children, it is reported.

The study is said to be the most damning indictment of cell phone use. According to the Independent, cancers take at least 10 years to develop, which has influenced earlier cancer studies showing relative safety when using cell phones.

Print-ad revenue at U.S. newspapers last year suffered its biggest decline since at least 1950, the Newspaper Association of America reported, amid signs that conditions in the newspaper industry have worsened so far this year.

Print-ad revenue plummeted 9.4% to $42 billion in 2007, according to an NAA estimate released Friday. Classified ads, which account for a third of the total, were hit especially hard, down almost 17%.

The NAA's estimate showed that while newspapers' online-ad revenue is growing, the extra ad dollars coming from the Internet aren't enough to offset the lost print revenue. Including online revenue, newspapers still saw ad spending fall 7.9% in 2007 -- second only to the 9% decline the NAA reported they experienced in 2001, when the estimate didn't include online revenue.

WebCosmo.com is in the process of adding many new components to the system. As part of that process a reporting tool is added in the system. This report generates the post id and the respective url by date for your active ads.

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- You may use this report to publish the urls on other websites for promoting your adverts.
- You can keep records on your computer.

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A New Zealand man has been sentenced to community service after telling police he had been raped by a wombat and the experience had caused him to start speaking "Australian".

Arthur Cradock, a 48-year-old orchard worker from Motueka on South Island, rang police on February 11 to say he was being raped by the slow moving Australian marsupial at his home, The Nelson Mail reported.

He rang back soon afterwards to say he was withdrawing his complaint against the wombat, a court was told Wednesday.

"Apart from speaking Australian now, I'm pretty all right you know," he told police in the second call.

Cradock pleaded guilty to using a phone for a fictitious purpose and was sentenced to 75 hours community work.

Prosecutors said alcohol played a large part in Cradock's life, although his defence lawyer said he was not drunk on the afternoon of the phone calls.

Picture shows a zookeeper with a junior wombat

The current law in Arkansas allows anyone even toddlers get married with parental consent. How it happened? By mistake.

Rep. Will Bond backed the legislation last year. This week he's asking for a do-over.

Bond has filed a bill to be considered in this week's special session that will repeal a law he sponsored that he hoped would clarify the state's marriage laws. But a typo in the law not found until after it was signed into law embarrassed legislators and confused clerks.

"I wish it had never happened, but I'm glad we're having the opportunity to fix it," said Bond, D-Jacksonville. "If anything good has come out of this process, it's kind of shined a light on the way our marriage age statutes are drafted."

The marriage age law, which took effect July 31, was intended to establish 18 as the minimum age to marry while also allowing pregnant minors to marry with parental consent. An extraneous "not" in the bill, however, allows anyone who is not pregnant to marry at any age if the parents allow it.

The bill read: "In order for a person who is younger than eighteen (18) years of age and who is not pregnant to obtain a marriage license, the person must provide the county clerk with evidence of parental consent to the marriage."

An independent commission formed to correct typos and technical errors in bills tried to reverse the mistake, but lawmakers balked. A state judge in October ruled that the Code Revision Commission made a substantive change to the law, and therefore exceeded its authority.

Some legislators called on Gov. Mike Beebe to hold a special session to correct the error, saying pedophiles would try to use the botched law to their benefit. But Beebe resisted and said that that no imminent crisis existed.

"The Jay Lenos and those folks are going to have fun with any piece of legislation, and it just so happened we happened to be the brunt of this one," Beebe said last year. "Nobody likes to be the brunt of it, but we're going to protect our children and we're not going to do anything that puts them in danger."

Rather than try again with raising the minimum marriage age, Bond said he was urged to keep the fix simple. The proposal, filed Thursday, will repeal last year's law and return the minimum marriage age to 17 for boys and 16 for girls. The lawmaker said he filed it as early as possible to give his colleagues time to vet the proposal carefully.

"There's been a lot of eyes on it. We want to give everybody plenty of time to take a look at this and make sure everything's OK," Bond said.

Beebe included the marriage age issue on the call for the special session, which begins Monday, after legislative leaders assured him there would be enough support for the measure and it would not be controversial. Beebe called the session primarily to consider raising the state's severance tax on natural gas production to pay for highway improvements.

"I'm glad that he put that on the call and maybe this will allay any fears of people who thought that if we don't change it we'll have 12 years olds marrying. I think this will clear that up," Senate President Jack Critcher said.

County clerks say repealing the law will clear up confusion that was created after the error was noticed last year. Clerks throughout the state were enforcing and interpreting the law differently, with many counties asking judges to approve marriage licenses issued to anyone under 18.

"It just takes us back to the way the law was for years," Madison County Clerk Faron Ledbetter said. "It gives us a clear guide assuming it passes in a special session and a clear law we can follow."

Favicon is like the identity of a website. Also known as website icon, url icon, or page icon. 

Using a favicon gets you quite a few advantages:

- Makes an symbolic identity for your website. Having a Favicon for your site will help your visitors identify your website.

- Makes the website visually pleasing.

- Creates branding of your website. 

There are many websites online you can use to generate a Favicon.ico file from an image. But I will show you here how you can do it yourself. You can even make it transparent so there is no white background behind.

So here are the steps to make a transparent Favicon.ico file using Photoshop:

-  Create a graphics file in Photoshop. Preferably 32px x 32px or 16px x 16px.

-  Put the icon graphics on the file.

- Uncheck the background layer so its not visible.

- Change the color mode to Indexed. It will ask you if you wanna flatten the visible layers; click yes. This will merge all your layers to one.

-  Export it using the Gif89a plug-in or photoshop's built in "save for web". Save it as .gif or Png.

- Now open the saved file.

- Perform the "Save As" command from "File" menu. Choose the "Windows Icon, ICO" format.

Thats it.

Now you can get the Favicon file show on your website in several ways:

- You can upload the  Favicon.ico file to the root of your website. Browsers will do the rest of the work for you

- Or you can mention the Favicon location in the head section of each file. You can use css code like this <link rel="Shortcut Icon" href="/favicon.ico">

A Colorado man shot a cat with a rifle and sent e-mails to relatives to tell them he did it "to get even" with his wife.

Longmont police say they arrested 50-year-old Paul John Vickers Wednesday after his wife's sister told police of the e-mail in which Vickers wrote about killing "Bootsie." Police Sergeant Tim Lewis says the married couple was involved in a long-running argument and Vickers was angry at his wife.

Police found the cat's body in a pond near where Vickers lives and say "Bootsie" was shot while in the couple's basement.

Vickers is being held at the Boulder County Jail on $25,000 bond. He faces charges of felony animal abuse, domestic violence and harassment.