US Senator Charles E Grassley has asked the countrys 10 top medical schools what they are doing about professors who put their names on
ghostwritten articles in medical journals and why that practice was any different from plagiarism by students. Grassley, of Iowa, the ranking
Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, sent the letters as part of his investigation of medical ghostwriting. He said ghostwriting had hurt

Egypt will open the worlds first Arabic language Internet domain, its communications minister has said. Tarek Kamel said the new domain name
would be .masr written in the Arabic alphabet. It translates as .Egypt. In October, the Internet regulator Icann voted to allow non-Latin web
addresses. Domain names can now be written in Arabic, Chinese, Russian and other scripts.

At high noon on November 14, a gondola bearing a hot-pink plywood coffin decked with yellow flowers made its way down Venices Grand
Canal. Onlookers watched from the shore and shouted greetings from a bridge before the boat appeared in front of the Venice city hall. A piano
played mournful music. The spectacle was the centrepiece of a fake funeral for the city of Venice. A group of provocateurs organized it to protest