A Briton has informed authorities that a computer he bought through eBay for $142 contained data on several million credit card customers. The incident has sparked an investigation in the U. S. and the U. K. The buyer, 56-year-old IT manager Andrew Chapman of Oxford, England, contacted authorities when he found on the computer's hard drive the account numbers, passwords, cell phone numbers and signatures of credit card customers of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), its subsidiary NatWest and American Express.

The California legislature approved on Thursday a bill that prohibits texting while driving. Adult violators would be fined $20 for first offense and $50 for subsequent offenses. But it needs the signature of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who earlier vowed not to sign any legislation until the state budget is approved.

Results of lab tests on soil samples dug up in the Red Planet's north pole have confirmed the soil contains ice water. Scientists of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) here announced in a press conference Thursday the findings transmitted by the Phoenix Mars Lander, which analyzed disappearing bright chunks in Martian soil Wednesday.

An 11-year-old boy responded to a pit bull attack like a dog would. He bit back. Gabriel Almeida was reportedly playing in his uncle's back yard when his uncle's dog, Tita, lunged at him, biting him on the left arm. Almeida then decided to bite the dog in the neck to defend himself. He bit so hard he lost his canine tooth. Nearby adults then pulled the dog off the boy and ran him off.

To see is to believe, but how can an 85-year old blind man confirm what his friends saw? Robert Dunham is still having a hard time believing what his fellow golfers told him; despite his disability and age, he did a hole in one!According to CityNews. ca, Dunham, legally blind at 85, was playing golf late last week in his hometown of Green Valley, Arizona, when he did the extraordinary feat on a three-par course.