Drug Erases Fingerprints, Causing Immigration Drama

A drug that removes your fingerprints?

Capecitabine is not the work of a criminal mastermind with a PhD in chemistry. Rather, it is a common cancer drug, routinely given to patients with head, neck and kidney cancers.The drug’s fingerprint-obliterating side effects were discovered when a cancer patient, 62, from Singapore, travelled to the US last year. Immigration officials found he had no fingerprints because capecitabine had caused so much redness and peeling.

Some 2010 World Cup Games Already Sold

Hey, if you are planning to head down to South Africa to watch the opening match and haven’t brought a ticket yet, you are out of luck.

Football’s governing body FIFA says tickets are sold out for the opening and final matches of the 2010 World Cup, as well as for all games involving England, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Ireland and the Netherlands. FIFA said in a statement on Thursday that, with just over a year before play begins, the semi-finals and all the matches in Cape Town, Nelspruit and Pretoria are also sold out. The first match is on June 11, 2010 in Johannesburg.

Source: www.fifa.com