A recent study revealed that swearing in the office relieves stress and is good for workers and bosses. Professor Yehuda Baruch from the University of East Anglia oversaw the survey of around 100 people in Britain and the U. S. said that foul language creates a good team spirit, allows staff to vent frustrations and cements relationships.

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center say that the function of the frequently discarded appendix is to produce and protects good germs for your gut. This theory is explained in an online edition of the Journal of Theoretical Biology. According to the study, there are massive amounts of bacteria in the human digestive system. Most of it is good and helps digest food. But sometimes this bacteria dies off or is purged from the intestines. When the diseases such as cholera or dysentery cause bacterial purging, the bacteria in the appendix are safely harbored. According to the researchers, the appendix's job is to "reboot" the digestive system when that happens.

A Royal Air Force fighter jet on a routine flight has accidentally dropped a 14kg practice bomb on Scotland Monday. The RAF said it has no idea whether the device survived the fall and have yet to locate the bomb. Nevertheless, it is warning the public against touching it.

The Board of Registration in Medicine, which is the governing authority issuing licenses to Massachusetts doctors, has reportedly suspended a Boston anesthesiologist from the practice of medicine for dozing off during an operation. In December 2005, Thomas Ho admitted inhaling anesthetic gas while on lunch break on another occasion. The Board also added that following month Ho had taken a prescription drug that caused him to doze off. When he fell asleep he was the only anesthesiologist in the operating room at Children's Hospital Boston.

A group of 30 Spaniards selected by psychologists for their unusually high levels of stress and anxiety were allowed to run wild throughout a Spanish hotel, smashing whatever they wanted to with sledgehammers and pickaxes. Among the lucky winners who were selected from a pool of 200 applicants were a corporate executive, a soon-to-be-married couple and a single mother.