The four gold Iron Age neck ornaments, or torcs, date from between the 1st and 3rd Century BC and are said to be worth an estimated £1m.
They were discovered in September by "first-time" metal-detector enthusiast David Booth in a field in Stirlingshire.
 |  | Many earthquakes may be aftershocks of large quakes that occurred hundreds of years ago, say scientists. |
| The Nasa Messenger probe's observations of Mercury show the planet is even more of an "iron planet" than scientists thought. | | A modification to commercial optical fibre could be a promising route to solar power without large arrays, say researchers. |
And the year isn't even over yet. Yes, lessons learned starting with "let them rot and go bankrupt next time." As important as the Wall Street bailout was for preventing a much worse recession, any possibility of future assistance has been wiped out with this excessive greed. Playing Mr. Nice Guy with Wall Street is never good policy.Critics say it is also a sign that banks have learned few lessons from last year's financial crisis, which has been widely blamed on Wall Street's pursuit of short-term profits that pumped up pay.
"Banks don't appear to have learned much, at least on the compensation side, from what we've been through," said Cornelius Hurley, director of the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law at Boston University. "Don't tell me you are bringing me back to the good old days of yesterday. Getting back to pre-Bear Stearns or Lehman is not fixing it. It is setting us up for another fall."
Not that it is much of a surprise, but still interesting to see how bad processed food is. The difficulty is that for many reasons (time, easy access, cost) this is what many people eat. Eating fresh fruits and vegetables takes a bit more work but in the long run is so much better for the health.They compared participants -- all civil servants -- who ate a diet largely based on "whole" foods with a second group who mainly ate fried food, processed meat, high-fat dairy products and sweetened desserts.
Taking into account other indicators of a healthy lifestyle such as not smoking and taking physical exercise, those who ate the whole foods had a 26 percent lower risk of depression than those who ate mainly processed foods.
People with a diet heavy in processed food had a 58 percent higher risk of depression.
We always knew "support the troops" didn't really mean anything to repugicans. It was a slogan, nothing more. And, that's being confirmed by Tom Coburn (reptile-OK) who is using the anonymous "hold" procedure in the Senate to prevent action on a bill designed to support veterans.Thirteen major military and veterans groups have joined forces to try to force one senator — repugican Tom Coburn of Oklahoma — to release a hold that he has placed on a major veterans benefits bill.Maybe the Democrats should file a cloture motion on S. 1963 to force the repugican caucus to choose between Coburn and the vets.
Coburn has been identified by Senate aides as the lawmaker preventing consideration of S 1963, the Veterans’ Caregiver and Omnibus Health Benefits Act of 2009, by using an informal but legal practice of putting a hold on a bill.
These former status symbols for infants have gone from must-have to must-hide.
Ordering festive menu items like pumpkin muffins can wallop your waistline.
Here are 8 insights into how one of the world's richest men makes money.
Even well-intentioned actions like saving for kids' college funds can backfire.
High levels of a potentially harmful chemical in soups and vegetables raise safety concerns.
Using accessories to accentuate a small part of your body can create the illusion of thinness.
A woman cornered on a London street was surprised at who answered her calls for help.
Spend a night in a castle in France or in a luxury home in Hawaii for very little money.
Honda reveals what may be the most futuristic take on the minivan ever.
Mentioning these red flags could result in a delay or even a denial of your insurance claim.
After Elena Desserich died of cancer, her family found hundreds of surprising tokens of her love.
One out of every 4 pageviews is a facebook pageview.Many Shanghai residents are used to loitering around the streets in their pajamas. But now the municipal government is making every effort to stop them from doing so, because it would be a "loss of face" for city authorities if a foreigner sees people walking the streets in pajamas during the 2010 World Expo. (...)
As a modern international metropolis, Shanghai has been playing host to foreigners for decades. So why have pajamas become embarrassing only now? And will it be okay for people to walk the streets in pajamas after the World Expo? Why should we change our habits and customs to suit foreigners' taste when we travel abroad as well as when we play host to them? Do we suffer from a sense of inferiority?
An earthquake has hit the southern part of Iran.
Scientists have seen the first starlight ever recorded, and we don't mean the first incidence of a monkey marking something down - we mean the first star to send light which reached Earth. This light is the earliest, the furthest away, the most red-shifted, and every other factor that could possibly say "Everything else ever came after this."
These businesses have never laid off a single employee in their history.
It took a family member, a historian, and a detective to connect a Jane Doe case to a girl's disappearance.
