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Men drawn to ladies in red

  Women hitch-hikers dressed in red make male motorists stop in their tracks, a study shows.
In tests, it had more pulling power than other colours

Don't sleep on it...it'll only make it worse!

  A night of shut-eye can "sear" bad feelings into the mind, according to a report in the journal Neuroscience.
So, staying awake after a traumatic experience might be the best way to take the edge off, the study suggests.

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Overweight fliers should pay 'fat tax'

  Fat travellers should pay more to fly, a former airline executive believes.
Tony Webber, who worked as an economist for Qantas for seven years, claimed overweight passengers were adding to fuel costs and eating into profits.
Customers who kept in shape were, in effect, subsidising the ones who did not, Mr Webber said.

The natural world is filled with strange and exotic life - like this rarely seen angler fish from the ocean depths