The pen may be mightier then the sword, but it apparently is not mightier then the computer keyboard, reports the Washington Post. The newspaper reports that when handwritten essays were introduced on the 2006 SAT exams, less then 15 percent of the 1. 5 million students wrote their answers in cursive. The rest printed, in block letters.

Thieves have come up with a new way to steal money - they carry it away with a forklift. Around the country, police are reporting thieves are stealing forklifts from construction sites and taking ATMs with them. The thefts have happened this summer in Arizona, California and Georgia. Phoenix has had 21 attempts alone. ATM manufacturers are working on ways to stop the thefts.

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.

The IgNobel, a humorous take on the Nobel prizes, was awarded to research work on stinky feet, a study on the sound of fingernails on a blackboard and a device that repels teen-agers with an annoying high-pitched hum to name a few. "The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honour the imaginative -- and spur people's interest in science, medicine and technology," said Marc Abrahams, editor of the science humor magazine "Annals of Improbable Research," which sponsors the awards.

South African Christians seeking a quick spiritual boost will be able to download the entire bible on to their mobile telephones phones from Wednesday as part of a drive to modernize the scriptures. Rev. Gerrit Kritzinger, chief executive of the Bible Society in South Africa, said in a statement, "The Virtual Bible will enable the Bible Society to supply the Bible to every modern cell phone user in a fast and affordable format. "