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1. Las Islas Cies, Galicia, Spain

Mention Spanish beaches and most people instinctively think of the Mediterranean. Yet the wilder, stunning Atlantic coastline of Galicia, just north of Portugal, has far more dramatic praias – with far fewer people on them. One of the jewels of this coast is on Las Islas Cies, a 40-minute boat trip from the pretty town of Baiona. Once a pirates' haunt, Cies is now an uninhabited and pristine national park, open to the public only in summer. Galegos come here to spend long, lazy summer days on the Praia das Rodas, a perfect crescent of soft, pale sand backed by small dunes sheltering a calm lagoon of crystal-clear sea.

Locals call this their "Caribbean beach", and the water is turquoise enough, the sand white enough to believe the comparison … until you dip your toe in the water. Then it feels more like Skegness. You can sleep in an idyllic campsite, shaded by tall pine trees, with a view over the ocean. And, this being Spain, there's even a proper restaurant serving great seafood.

Where to stay: Camping Islas Cies is open Easter week and June-September.

2. Tayrona national park, Colombia

I've never been as instantly impressed by a beach as I was the moment I set eyes on Tayrona. After a 40-minute hike through the forest, I was expecting to see a classic Caribbean beach, all white sand and calm turquoise water, perhaps a few cabanas for the tourists. Instead I was greeted with a wild sea crashing on to rocks the size of houses that are dotted along the untamed and semi-deserted beach. In a country with a "healthier" tourist industry Tayrona would undoubtedly be a major resort, but as it's in Colombia the virgin rainforest cascades down the mountainside right on to the sand. And there was no one on it save a small community of backpackers who sleep in open-air hammocks.

On arrival I wandered along it, marvelling at the raw beauty and remoteness of the place but after just 10 minutes I quite literally walked into my friend Jim! It was the unlikeliest spot for a "you'll never guess who I bumped into" travel story, and made for the best beach holiday I've ever had. I gather it's become more popular in the ten years since I was there, but thanks to its national park status the developers have been kept at bay.

Where to stay: Under the stars in a hammock strung between two palm trees.

3. Porto da Barra, Salvador, Brazil

Sydney has Bondi, LA has Venice, Rio has Copacabana and Ipanema - town beaches that are both world famous and a microcosm of their city itself. I lived in Salvador, Brazil's oldest city, for several years and Porto da Barra was where I would come for an early morning swim or a cold beer in the late afternoon. The location is stunning, at the entrance of the magnificent Bahia de Todos os Santos,

The digital tablet format is not new. It has been around for over a decade now. Like the iPod, which brought fresh impetus and became the new standard for digital music players, the iPad, too, which came on the market a few months ago, seems to have caught everyone's fancy.

Make no mistake, the iPad is certainly a cool product - an amazingly capable machine. In fact, if you are the sort of person who buys an expensive computer just to surf the Internet and occasionally check e-mails, it is the perfect device. Well, almost. That's because the iPad does not support Adobe's Flash software.

And while Apple's Chief Executive Steve Jobs has his reasons for not allowing Flash support on the iPad - not in the least because Flash is a resource-hungry software - it remains very popular with web developers looking to add interactive multimedia to their websites. The iPad does not have cameras or output cables such as an HDMI port to connect to high-definition televisions.

Yet, the iPad faces a slew of competitors - some releasing their tablet devices now and some over the next few months. Devices such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab and the Dell Streak, both of which run Google's Android version

A team of researchers believe they have identified the 50 best one-liners.

Researchers scoured the web and examined more than 1,000 jokes before whittling them down to a final 50 on which 36,000 people voted.

They include digs at wives, husbands, blondes and foreigners and risque jokes about religion, anorexia - and animal cruelty.

A quarter-century after his death comedy hero Tommy Cooper makes a strong showing in the list, which also includes gags by Peter Kay, Lee Evans and Canadian comic Stuart Francis.

Here at the ones that made the top 10:

10. A man walks into a bar with a roll of tarmac under

A hospital in cooperation with a research group here in India, has conceptualised and launched a health service that uses mobile phones to detect cancer.

The Mazumdar Shaw Cancer Centre (MSCC) of the Narayana Hrudayalaya, a well-known hospital along with the SANA (a research group at Harvard/MIT), has launched the 'mhealth' that uses mobile phone to detect cancer.

The Head of Department (HOD) of Cancer in the Narayan Hriduyalya, Dr. Moni Abraham, said that usually patients visit specialists with stage four of cancer that is expensive to treat.

However, if cancer is detected early, it can be treated properly