Picture-takers were busy clicking away at girls in miniskirts next to the giant flat-screen TVs and fancy mobile phones at Japan's biggest technology trade show on Friday. Wataru Tatebayashi, 35, was one of those fans at the site, aiming his camera at the women lined up in front of the gadgets, waving at visitors.

A Japanese research team is planning to run a campaign on environmental awareness by entering a racecar that runs on cooking oil, used to fry tempura, in the Dakar rally. Hidefumi Onaka, a lecturer at the Osaka Sangyo University, said Toyota's Land Cruiser 100 would be the first racecar to run on bio-diesel in the prestigious sporting event. Onaka told the Canadian Press, "We want to show what tempura oil can achieve, as a way to raise environmental awareness. . . We're not doing it just for fun, so we decided to enter an internationally acclaimed event and appeal to the world. "

For many Lebanese and Israeli civilians caught in the crossfire of the violent fighting between the Israeli army and the Hezbollah guerillas, the Internet could be a battleground too. Postings on online journals are a unique forum for communication between two countries.

(AHN)- Starting in Namibia and ending in Massachusetts. Police have raided a Massachusetts home to seize illegally obtained photos of the Jolie-Pitt baby shower. It was downloaded by the employees of a camera repair shop. How it ended up there starts with James Haven, Jolie's brother. He took a number of photos of the event in Namibia. TMZ reports that on his return to L. A. , his camera broke so he took it to Best Buy and asked them to repair it under the warranty. Best Buy sent the camera to Precision Camera and Video Repair in Enfield, Connecticut.

A Deputy in Florida has been fired, after allegedly posting "inappropriate information" on his MySpace. com homepage. The social networking website, which is often in the news as a medium for child predators to catch their prey, was the basis for a Marion County sheriff's deputy to be charged with conduct unbecoming an officer.