A Briton who lost one eye and blinded the other in an accident was able to see again after part of his tooth was implanted in his eye socket as part of a unique sight-restoration surgery. Martin Jones, 42, of Rotherham, South Yorkshire saw his wife for the first time when doctors removed the bandage off his operated eye.

The influenza A (H1N1) pandemic has made fake Tamiflu the most spammed drug over the Internet surpassing spam e-mails on bogus male impotency drug Viagra, Britain's pharmaceutical body said Friday. "From looking at sites that used to sell Viagra and the amount of spam emails we're having reported to us, we think that Tamiflu is now the most spammed drug on the Internet," David Pruce, Director of Policy for the UK's Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) told CNN. "Every Web site that used to sell Viagra is now selling Tamiflu," Pruce added.

A Colorado company is selling caskets made from banana sheaves, bamboo or pandanus that decomposes together with the body as a way of promoting ecologically-friendly burials. The so-called Ecoffin, short for eco-friendly coffins, of Ecoffins USA takes six months to two years to biodegrade. The company's marketing director, Joanna Passarelli, said the Ecoffins is better for the environment than cremating bodies, according to Foxnews. com.

A company that supplies color-coded keyboards has launched a nationwide speed typing contest offering $1 million worth of prizes to the fastest typists in the U. S. KeyRight USA said its America's Fastest Typist contest aims to improve the nation's keyboard literacy by offering cash prizes and educational scholarships to participating individuals, students, school teams and corporate teams.

North Korea has aired its first TV commercial of a locally-brewed beer and the advert was monitored in Seoul, South Korea on Friday. The commercial showed a thirsty and sweaty miner holding a mug of frothy beer and young women in traditional Korean dress serving trays of beer to men in Western suits.

An Ariane 5 rocket Wednesday afternoon put into orbit a commercial telecommunications satellite touted as being the world's biggest. The TerreStar 1, weighing about 15,000 pounds, was the only cargo aboard the rocket that is capable of carrying double payloads.

Sarah Jessica Parker disapproves of her "Sex and the City" character. The actress - who plays columnist Carrie Bradshaw for all six TV series, last year's movie and will reprise her role for next year's film - didn't agree with the raunchy antics her alter-ego and her friends got up to. She is quoted as saying: "If the audiences had known my true feelings about some of the sexual content in 'Sex and the City,' they may have felt I wasn't the right person to be in such a series. "

Amy Winehouse has been banned from swimming amid fears she will drown. The troubled singer's excessive drinking has caused concern for those close to her and now worried staff at the St Lucia resort where she is staying have warned her to stay away from the pool. A source explained to Britain's The Sun newspaper: "She is regularly drinking large quantities of wine and rum and no one in her condition should be going anywhere near water. "

Ryan Reynolds wore cellophane underwear in his latest movie. The 32-year-old actor - who plays PA Andrew Paxton in "The Proposal," about an assistant whose boss forces him to marry her to ensure she isn't deported - had no problem donning the transparent garment as he thinks he looked good in it. Discussing whether a scene in which he and co-star Sandra Bullock appear naked was "sexy", he joked: "I don't know what was unsexy about it. I mean I was furnished with cellophane underwear that day. That's a beautiful sight. A nice see through, cellophane Speedo. "