Are you one of those who get bored sitting on long flights? Spring Airline, a Chinese budget-airline, is offering something different. It has applied for permission to sell cut-price ‘standing room only’ tickets to stand in the aisle during flights, reports IC Media. The president of the airline, Wang Zhenghua, is quite confident about the government backing it and says that the tickets would...

Large Wall Street firms spend millions of dollars on creating proprietary trading black boxes off which they make big money. In fact, such proprietary trading is their main source of profits. Naturally, they guard such codes zealously. A former Goldman Sachs worker was arrested in New York on allegations of stealing trade codes used for sophisticated automated stock and commodities trading....

Indians love spices and chilli is their favourite. But some Indian scientists are toying with the idea of using chilli as an explosive by adding it to hand grenades. Defence researchers say that the idea is to replace explosives in small hand grenades with a certain variety of red chilli to immobilise people without killing them, reported BBC. The chilli to be used is known as Bhut Jolokia...