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Patricia Lefranc was left terribly disfigured after her jilted lover sprayed sulphuric acid on her face. The 48-year-old woman spent three months in a coma. She lost the sight of one eye, became partially deaf, and had to endure 86 surgical operations. Two years have passed since the attack; still the acid continues to erode her skin and eat away her nose. Being mocked by her son�s school friends, being stared at in the street, being cited as example to unyielding girls by threatening lovers..., the horror and shame of it haunts her in innumerable forms. Remes has ruined my life as a woman. I am determined to seem to be him in the eye and show the jury what he has done to me. I would also appeal to his wife. She paints me as a manipulator who hooked her husband. I think that's an insult - a dagger in my back. �Richard Remes, the accused, has apologized for the attack; but he denies that he planned to murder or even maim her, confessing that he did not realize that the acid would ha...

The remainders of what may be a previously unknown human species have been identified in southern China. The bones, which represent at least five persons, have been dated to between 11,500 and 14,500 years ago. But scientists are calling them merely the Red Deer Cave people, when one among the sites where they were unearthed. The team has told the PLoS One journal that much more detailed analysis of the fossils is needed before they will be ascribed to a new human lineage. "We're trying to be very careful at this stage about definitely classifying them," said study co-leader Darren Curnoe from the University of New South Wales, Australia. "One of the reasons for that is that in the science of human evolution or palaeoanthropology, we presently don't have a generally agreed, biological definition for our own species (Homo sapiens), believe it or not. And so this is a highly contentious area," he told BBC News. Much of the material has been in Chinese collecti...

In the past when people got married they never had much of a choice to choose from when it came to engagement rings. They prefer traditional gold. But today, the range of rings available is much wider. From centuries, gold rings were used for engagement and wedding purpose. But nowadays, yellow gold is used for engagement purpose. While buying gold for engagement or wedding purpose, do check the carat mark. If you buy pure gold (24k) it is considered soft jewelry. But 9, 18 or 22 carat gold is considered more durable. At present, yellow gold is replaced with white gold. White gold is obtained from small amounts of palladium. Nowadays most of the couples buy white gold as it complements diamond beautifully. There are various unusual diamond engagement rings which are unique. Tension rings, diamond rings with multiple stones and rings with a metal pattern. While buying an engagement ring you have to keep in mind four C's like color, cut clarity and carat. Novori  had a collection of...

Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women in America � so it�s important to take care of your ticker.  �There are natural ways to protect your heart, like taking hawthorn berry� The Medicine Hunter, Chris Kilham, said. �There are almost certainly a couple hundred different species of hawthorn trees,� Kilham said. �And it's the leaves and the flowers and the berries that are used to enhance heart health.� Kilham said there is an enormous body of science on hawthorn, which looks like fat, red peppercorns. �We know that it strengthens the heart; it makes the contractions of the heart more even,� he said.  �It really enhances the amount of blood that comes out of the aorta. And it also reduces the sort of skittishness of the heart. If you get a fear or a shock it will keep the heart beat more regular and steady. So this is real medicine.�  Hawthorn is extensively used in Europe and the U.S. for strengthening the heart muscle, improving nerve function to the heart, making hea...

Recently, there's an online movement to get her to attempt what could be her biggest feat yet: going bald to fight cancer. A Face book page titled �Beautiful and Bald Barbie Let�s see if you can get it made �was started before Christmas .By Wednesday afternoon, the page had more than 16,000 fans. The ambition is to get toy maker Mattel Inc. to produce a bald Barbie in support of children with cancer. Friends Rebecca Sypin and Jane Bingham, who live on opposite coasts but have both been affected by the disease cancer, hatched the idea to use Barbie for the movement because she's such a admired children's toy. Bingham has lost her hair due to chemotherapy treatments to treat lymphoma. Sypin's 12-year-old daughter, Kin Inich, also lost her hair this year in her own battle with leukemia disease. Mattel didn't return calls on Wednesday seeking comment, but the women said they have contacted the company through some common form letters. In return, they said, they've r...

When they grow up, a set of infant twins in South Dakota will be able to tell people they were born in different years. Kylee Anthony was born a minute before midnight on New Year's Evening, and brother John Jr. was born three minutes into 2012.. Parents John Sr. and Jolene Anthony set claim to having the last baby of 2011 as well as the first baby of 2012 in Rapid City. "We could go buy a lottery ticket right now," John Anthony said. John, 29, a car salesman, and Jolene, 26, a store assistant manager, were married almost three years ago. Each has elder children, and they had been hoping to have children together. Ultrasounds showed they were having twins, but with a due date of Jan. 20 and a scheduled induction planned for Jan. 9, the couple never expected the babies to arrive with such New Year's fanfare. Kylee was born at 11:59 p.m. Saturday, 21 inches long and weighing 6 pounds, 2 ounces. John Jr. was born at 12:03 a.m. Sunday, measuring 19 inches and weighing 5 p...

Paul Davies and Robert Wagner of Arizona State University have recommended a crowd-sourcing effort to find artificial structures on the moon. After all, lunar missions like NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter are returning some stunning, high-resolution imagery of the moon's surface. If aliens have been there, possibly we could spot evidence of their presence. "Although there is only a tiny probability that alien technology would have left traces on the moon in the form of an artifact or surface modification of lunar features, this location has the virtue of being close, and of preserving traces for an immense duration," Davies and Wagner say in their article published in the journal Acta Astronautical .         Indeed, due to the moon's pristine atmosphere, any modification of lunar surface features will remain preserved for eons -- the lack of an atmosphere means features are not eroded away. Unless intelligent aliens came, saw and then covered their...