Huge Chinese piracy ring tackled

The pirates pumped out fake versions of Windows Vista

Fake software worth $500m (£250m) has been seized as the FBI shuts down one of the world's largest piracy outfits.
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Scientist Develops Carbon-Sucking Tree

Klaus Lackner has developed a synthetic, carbon-sucking tree. It is only conceptual, but he calculates that an area of sodium hydroxide the size of a television screen (not a 103-inch plasma behemoth but the 20-inch diagonal that people found just fine once upon a time) would soak up an amount of carbon equivalent to what one American is responsible for emitting. Or, to use another comparison, one tree could absorb about as much as 15,000 cars emit.
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India's millionaire population crosses 1 lakh mark

The number of high net worth individuals (HNWI), with a net asset of atleast one million dollar, increased by 20.5 per cent to 1,00,015 in India last year, second only after 21.2 per cent growth in Singapore, according to the World Wealth Report released by Merrill Lynch and Cap Gemini on Thursday.
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The report is available here