SAN FRANCISCO (California) - DAVID de Rothschild hopes to build a boat from thousands of empty plastic bottles and sail from California to Australia to highlight global waste.

The 60-foot catamaran will be made entirely of recycled plastic except for the metal masts said Mr De Rothschild.

UNITED STATES - RIGHTS groups have called on Google, Yahoo and Microsoft not to censor their search engines for one day this week to help protest cyber censorship said reports on Monday.

The World Day Against Cyber Censorship, on March 12th, is a protest against state filtering of the web. It comes as the Australian Government is finalising its live trials for a much-debated internet filter.

STOCKHOLM - YOUR mother was right: Eating fish makes you smarter, according to a Swedish study released on Monday, showing that eating enough of the aquatic vertebrates clearly heightens teenage boys' IQ levels.