Today marks the final day of the Spanish festival of San Fermin, a nine-day festival held since 1591. Tens of thousands of foreign visitors descend on Pamplona, Spain each year for revelry, morning bull-runs and afternoon bullfights.

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Germany’s autobahns are renowned for average speeds well in excess of 80miles (130kilometres) an hour. But the average dropped near zero Sunday for a cultural celebration titled, appropriately enough, “Still Life.” A festival spokesman said an estimated three million people turned out amid fine weather, one million of them with their bicycles.

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Castleford stage a stunning second-half comeback to thrash Wakefield and leapfrog their local rivals into the play-offs.

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There’s always that one person in every group who due to their contractual obligations by Haterade must not only dislike games, but would be more than happy if you put down the controller for good.

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wog777 writes “Researchers led by Mark Prausnitz of Georgia Institute of Technology reported their research on microneedles in Sunday’s edition of Nature Medicine. A microneedle contains needles so small you don’t even feel them. Attached to a patch like a Band-Aid, the little needles barely penetrate the skin before they dissolve and release their vaccine.”

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Hugh Pickens writes “IGN has an interesting interview with Tom Bissell, author of the recently published Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, in which Bissell uses his experience in investigative journalism and as a war correspondent to describe his years playing games. Bissell talks about the difficulties in describing gameplay to non-gamers. ‘A lot of casual games sort of submerge their storytelling to an almost subliminal level while upping the (more…)

coondoggie writes “There is a push by a variety of proponents to give unmanned aircraft more free rein in US airspace, but safety is a major hitch in that effort. The Federal Aviation Administration said this week that data from the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency, which flies unmanned systems on border patrols, shows a total of 5,688 flight hours from Fiscal Year 2006 to July 13, 2010. The CBP accident rate is 52.7 accidents per 100,000 (more…)

Don’t believe what you’ve heard—the state of Windows gaming is still strong.

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As the NBA free-agent process trudges painfully onward, news that the Nuggets gave noted head case Al Harrington a five-year, $34 million deal hardly comes as a surprise.

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World number one Tiger Woods says day two of the Open at St Andrews was one of the toughest rounds of his career.

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