Millions of British adults are becoming bad spellers and they are blaming this on predictive text functions of their mobile phones. In a study conducted by of spelling and grammar software firm whitesmoke. com 40 percent of the 2,500 surveyed could not spell "questionnaire", 38 percent misspell "accommodate" and 37 percent are confused by "definitely".

Teachers and officials at a coed British school were shocked to see a class with an all-boy attendance on the first day of school. For the first time since it opened 30 years ago Bassetts Farm, a primary school with a population equally split between girls and boys, suddenly had a class of 20 4-year old boys, an occurrence that is still puzzling people.

Loneliness is painful and potentially deadly, according to new research at the University of Chicago that found animals, gadgets and spiritual beliefs - not just friends - ease the sense of being alone. "It's actually a greater risk for morbidity or mortality than cigarette smoking is," says Nicholas Epley, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science at the university's Graduate School of Business and lead author of an article on the subject in the February issue of the journal Psychological Science.

A couple that recently moved in to an apartment were in for a surprise upon discovering about $12,000 in cash inside the refrigerator. Colleen Mesler, 65, said that she found the bills in the freezer, when her husband Jim asked her to throw the tray out. The cash was seen deteriorating and covered with mold, and wrapped in tin foil.

A judge in western Canada's Saskatchewan province on Wednesday granted a Canadian woman's civil suit against her drug dealer for selling her addictive street narcotics that caused her hospitalization due to overdose. Sandra Bergen, the drug addict, won by default after her drug dealer refused to identify the source of the narcotics.