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Europe prepares to launch the 1.9bn-euro Herschel and Planck observatories from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.

Troubled U.S. phone maker Motorola today announced the W7 Active Edition, a motion-enabled slider that senses the body's motions to perform tasks such as launching its built-in pedometer, silencing incoming calls or controling the music player.

A week after rival Verizon Wireless announced plans to offer a compact Wi-Fi device, Sprint said that it would launch its own 'Mobile Hotspot' gadget, a similar portable unit that creates a localized Wi-Fi cloud to share high-speed Internet with wireless electronics like laptops, netbooks, cameras and music players.

The US healthcare establishment has launched a series of television attack adverts using tragic stories from Britain's National Health service to contest Barack Obama's plans to contain the escalating cost of treatment and make it more accessible to the poor.In the broadcasts, by Conservatives for Patients' Rights (CPR), Britons complain about waiting times, restrictions to operations and access to life-saving drugs on the NHS. A top British cancer specialist, Dr Karol Sikora, dean of the University of Buckingham's medical school and former chief of the World Health Organisation's cancer programme, also appears, warning that a state-run system strips patients of control over their healthcare. 'They lose control over their own destiny in the health system,' he says in the advert.Supporters of reform have accused CPR of conducting a scaremongering campaign on behalf of the medical establishment similar to one that sank the last attempt at reform by the Clinton administration 16 years ago

A lawsuit naming the University of Utah and a Salt Lake City company has launched a major assault on the U.S. government's grants of patents for human genes, arguing the practice denies women with breast and ovarian cancer the benefit of new tests and possible treatments.

Ashley Olsen strips to a bra and bares her midriff in the Summer 2009 issue of V Man magazine. Olsen, 22, also dons a brown wig for the photo shoot, done to promote the launch of The Row's menswear line this fall. She designs the brand with her sis, Mary-Kate. Check out Mary-Kate and Ashley's crazy fashion over the years. So when does a guy's style attract her? 'To touch a man who has a... Join Us on Facebook and Twitter for even more up to the minute celebrity news and photos!