"Irish Justice Minister Dermot Ahern says substantial vote tallies across the country show the European Union Lisbon reform treaty has been rejected.

Tallies are not official, but Mr Ahern says it is clear the No vote is ahead in a vast majority of constituencies."

"Our correspondent says that many voters seem to have voted No for the simple reason that they did not understand the treaty"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7452171.stm

Recent Japanese legistalation requires all citizens to conform to government restrictions on waistline measurements. The law allows a maximum waistline of 33.5 in. for males and 35.4 in. for females. Those individuals who's measurements exceed the limits and also suffer medical illness will be referred to a diet regiment.

This legislation comes as part of the government's efforts to counter obesity and weight-related ailments, though some critics argue that the ultimate effects with be increased health care costs and hypochondria.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/world/asia/13fat.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin

"New Fuel Cell System 'Generates Electricity with Only Water, Air'"

"The system can generate power just by supplying water and air to the fuel and air electrodes"

http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20080613/153276/

"A 22-gun British warship that sank during the American Revolution and has long been regarded as one of the "Holy Grail" shipwrecks in the Great Lakes has been discovered at the bottom of Lake Ontario, astonishingly well-preserved in the cold, deep water, explorers announced Friday.

Shipwreck enthusiasts Jim Kennard and Dan Scoville used side-scanning sonar and an unmanned submersible to locate the HMS Ontario, which was lost with barely a trace and as many as 130 people aboard during a gale in 1780.

The 80-foot sloop of war is the oldest shipwreck and the only fully intact British warship ever found in the Great Lakes, Scoville and Kennard said."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080614/ap_on_sc/shipwreck_found

"Parts of Florida and Mexico were supplying "the vast majority" of tomatoes sold when the salmonella outbreak began in April and thus remain leading suspects, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday.

But the FDA hasn't narrowed its hunt to just those two places, said Dr. David Acheson, the agency's food safety chief.

"The logical assumption would be that Florida or Mexico are the most likely source" because of the outbreak's timing, he told The Associated Press. "But we have not simply shifted the focus to those two places. ... It's wide open for anybody not on that exclusion list.""

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080614/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/tomatoes_salmonella

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1273232.ece

BABY BORN WITH PENIS ON BACK

>>	Junior Field Reporter 08/06/12(Thu)06:21 No.6984   File: 1213276867467.gif -(80886 B, 472x371) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. not so intelligent design...

"A deer with a single horn in the center of its head — much like the fabled, mythical unicorn — has been spotted in a nature preserve in Italy, park officials said Wednesday.

"This is fantasy becoming reality," Gilberto Tozzi, director of the Center of Natural Sciences in Prato, told The Associated Press. "The unicorn has always been a mythological animal.""

"He is believed to have been born with a genetic flaw; his twin has two horns."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080611/ap_on_fe_st/italy_unicorn

"Attorney General Michael Mukasey said on Friday that military proceedings against detainees at in the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba will proceed despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling the previous day.

The Court voted 5-4 on Thursday to allow terror suspects at the American Naval Base to challenge their detentions in U.S. civilian courts. The ruling declares a 2006 law that took away Guantanamo prisoners' rights to file habeas corpus petitions, unconstitutional."

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7011263000

"Berlin, Germany (AHN) - By 2010, a green tax would be collected on German car owners with the tax based on the vehicle's carbon emissions instead of engine size.

The levy would be collected by the federal government, which would subsequently compensate German states $13.7 billion (8.9 billion euro) for their revenue loss.

By using greenhouse gas release as basis for computing the tax, European car manufacturers would be encouraged to design automobiles that produce less carbon dioxide, the main cause of global warming, said German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel"

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7011254193

"According to a new report released by the Center Health, Environment and Justice, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) shower curtains give off toxic chemicals which can be very harmful to your health.

For the study, they looked at five house-brand shower curtains from Wal-Mart, Bed Bath & Beyond, Target, K-Mart, and Sears.

The report was released on June 12 and found that when these type of PVC shower curtains are unpacked and are brand new, they give off a total of 108 toxic chemicals."

http://www.dbtechno.com/health/2008/06/13/shower-curtains-prove-to-be-toxic-harmful-to-your-health/