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A driverless robot car with an electronic brain and laser eyes that see everywhere at once has been built in Germany to demonstrate the future of road transport - when computer-assisted cars take the steering wheel out of error-prone human hands.

A trader at Bear Stearns was blamed for a 100pt fall in the Dow after he entered a $4bn sell order instead of a $4m order. $600m+ of stock traded before the mistake was detected and was blamed for the day's 183pt slump. "You can put in one extra zero by accident but to put in three extra zeros is three fat fingers and that’s pretty stupid."

Windows apparently thinks that "Operation completed successfully" is a perfect way to describe a program failing to launch.

The majority of the world now believes that global warming is a threatening issue. Last year more than 20,000 people were polled and the margin of error ranged from 3-4%.

The BBC has admitted to a mistake on a phone-in competition on children's programme Blue Peter, which occurred last November.The broadcaster says it was contacted last Friday by a viewer who raised questions about a competition that aired during a live programme to raise money for the Blue Peter Appeal in aid of Unicef.