Dead Can Return, online

Until now, there have been few ways to control our virtual afterlives, but a Swedish internet site is launching a service that offers to manage e-mail and social networking accounts after death. `My Webwill' is set to test launch in Sweden and the US this month and go live in Britain and Germany at the start of next year. Users can set up a digital will with directions on what should happen to their e-mail and social network accounts after they die. It offers a range of services, including posting prepared messages, changing profile pictures or updating status bars. Users can also pre-write e-mails that will be passed on to designated receivers.

Say the Truth

Scientists have now discovered the physiological mechanisms in the brain, which they claim can enable predicting whether someone will break a promise. A team at the University of Zurich carried out an experiment in a brain scanner where the breach of a promise led both to monetary benefits for the promise breaker and to monetary costs for the partner. The study showed that there was increased activity in areas of the brain playing a vital role in processes of emotion and control.
The pattern suggests that breaking a promise triggers an emotional conflict in a promise breaker due to suppression of an honest response.

Sure find

A schoolgirl's lost dinner money has turned up 27 years after it went missing. Lisa O'Neill, 35, lost the handwritten brown envelope containing two £1 notes at school when she was eight years old. But 27 years on, builders have rediscovered the lost cash while refurbishing the cloakroom. Lisa, now Lisa Dugdale, a section manager at Marks & Spencer in Dumfries, said: "I got a shock when the school rang to tell me they'd found my dinner money. I don't remember losing it, but I know I was in the second year of school at the time." She plans to either frame one of the old £1 notes or put them in a trust fund for her baby.