The United Nations on Tuesday launched a campaign urging mobile phone users in the U. S. to send text messages of peace to promote the International Day of Peace on Sept. 21. The 160-character text message should start with the word "peace" and must be sent to 69866. The text messages will be gathered, posted in the website www. peaceday2008. org and delivered to world leaders attending the UN General Assembly on Sept. 23.

With a record-breaking zero percent second quarter economic growth rate hitting the United Kingdom, Britons have little choice except to further tighten their belts. As food prices continue to soar, expensive meat had become a prime target for shoplifters, prompting British supermarkets to attach security tags on steaks, joints, chicken and other premium-price meats.

North Korea has developed a new weapon to combat its worst food shortage in nearly a decade - a noodle made of corn and soybeans that it says leaves people feeling fuller than ordinary noodles. Development of the noodle reportedly represents a sort of technological breakthrough because soybeans don't contain any starch and, therefore, are difficult to make into noodles.

Data from the United Kingdom's Civil Aviation Authority showed that air rage incidents among British passengers have tripled over the past five years. Pilots blamed the rise on plane delays which led bored and angry passengers to take up drinking as a way to pass the time, leading to inflight fights. From January to March, the CAA recorded 601 air rage incidents, up by 32 percent from 458 cases logged for the first quarter of 2007. For the same period in 2003, only 214 such incidents were on record.

What do all victorious Olympians have in common? The victorious gestures that vary from fist-pumping and chest-puffing to raising their arms in a victory salute. A new study has found that all these victory gestures are innate and biological rather than learned responses to success and failure. So is the reaction to defeat and failure that is marked by slumped shoulders.