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Sweden has cancelled an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on accusations of rape and molestation.

The Swedish Prosecution Authority website said the chief prosecutor had come to the decision that Mr Assange was not suspected of rape but did not give any further explanation.

There's some exciting and potentially confusing news coming out of the NASA's Cassini Saturn orbiter program. Two new papers have come out, both dealing with the possibility that alien life could be theoretically hanging out on Saturn's moon Titan.

Jacques Vallee a computer scientist and author of more than 20 books, including Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers has posted his results of questions posed about crop circles, among other things like "Could this be done by Aliens?" or "What is the message of the Glyphs?" as most people have done we can only get into endless arguments based on personal bias or belief. But what are the relevant questions?

Apples iPad is an overpriced closed platform cash cow, Cory Doctorow slams it as being targeted for , Apple's model customer who is that same stupid stereotype of a technophobic, timid, scatterbrained mother. He adds, If you want to live in the creative universe where anyone with a cool idea can make it and give it to you to run on your hardware, the iPad isn't for you. Boing Boing

While Stephen Fry gush's ''It is possible that the public will not fall on the iPad, as I did, like lions on an antelope. Perhaps they will find the apps and the iBooks too expensive. Maybe they will wait for more fully featured later models. But for me, my iPad is like a gun lobbyist's rifle: the only way you will take it from me is to prise it from my cold, dead hands. One melancholy thought occurs as my fingers glide and flow over the surface of this astonishing object: Douglas Adams is not alive to see the closest thing to his Hitchhiker's Guide that humankind has yet devised. '' Time Magazine

A finger found in a Siberian cave, is from a previously unknown type of ancient human say Scientists. The extinct "hominin" (human like creature) lived in Central Asia between 48,000 and 30,000 years ago.

An international team has sequenced genetic material from the fossil showing that it is distinct from that of Neanderthals and modern humans.

Details of the find, dubbed "X-woman", have been published in Nature journal.

Jonathan Ross's new comic book "Turf" A four- issue hard boiled noir crime thriller with girls, guns, fangs and aliens, launches in mid April. A signing event is being held in Forbidden Planets London Megastore on April 14, 2010 starting at 18:00, signed edition available for pre-order here. Jonathan Ross and Tommy Lee Edwards will appear themselves on a 500 limited edition variant cover edition of the comic Turf issue 1, being published exclusively for UltimateComicsOnline.com in the US

Maybe the ultimate crossover, go read, "Alien Vs Pooh", by "Giant Hamburger" Click here for the Web Comic!

When Pc Alex Deeprose was called to Glasgow's sprawling Southern Necropolis on the evening of 23 September 1954, he expected to be dealing with a simple case of vandalism.

Children turn vampire hunters

But the bizarre sight that awaited him was to make headlines around the world and cause a moral panic that led to the introduction of strict new censorship laws in the UK.