A retinal implant -- or bionic eye -- which is powered by light has been invented by scientists in California.Implants currently used in patients need to be powered by a battery. The new device, described in the journal 'Nature Photonics', uses a special pair of glasses to beam near infrared light into the eye to power the implant.Stripper activist seizes Euro cupA Ukrainian women's rights activist stripped to the waist and seized the Euro-2012 soccer trophy while it was on public display in Kyiv at the weekend in protest against the upcoming championship.The young woman, 23-year-old >>>

The Euro 2012 football trophy sat on display in Kyiv’s Independence Square this past Saturday as hundreds of tourists and enthusiasts lined up to have their photograph taken with the top prize. The trophy will be awarded on July 1 after a month-long tournament between Europe’s best teams. The championship will be co-hosted by Ukraine and Poland. Yulia Kovpachik, a 23-year-old activist with the women’s rights group FEMEN, stepped up to the trophy just like any other visitor to the trophy on Saturday. According to the Moscow Times, “she then pulled down her red T-shirt to reveal the words >>>

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KYIV | Mon May 14, 2012 3:11pm EDT KYIV (Reuters) - A Ukrainian women's rights activist stripped to the waist and seized the Euro-2012 soccer trophy while it was on public display in Kyiv on Saturday in a protest against the forthcoming month-long championship. The young woman, 23-year-old Yulia Kovpachik, is a member of the Kyiv-based Femen women's rights group which believes the Euro-2012 soccer tournament being played in Ukraine next month will encourage sex tourism.Kovpachik strode up to the silver, 60 centimeter (two feet) high trophy, which was >>>

KYIV (Reuters) - A Ukrainian women's rights activist stripped to the waist and seized the Euro-2012 soccer trophy while it was on public display in Kyiv on Saturday in a protest against the forthcoming month-long championship.The young woman, 23-year-old Yulia Kovpachik, is a member of the Kyiv-based Femen women's rights group which believes the Euro-2012 soccer tournament being played in Ukraine next month will encourage sex tourism.Kovpachik strode up to the silver, 60 centimetre (two feet) high trophy, which was on display as a tourist attraction in an open air exhibition in central Kyiv, >>>

KYIV (Reuters) - A Ukrainian women's rights activist stripped to the waist and seized the Euro-2012 soccer trophy while it was on public display in Kyiv on Saturday in a protest against the forthcoming month-long championship. The young woman, 23-year-old Yulia Kovpachik, is a member of the Kyiv-based Femen women's rights group which believes the Euro-2012 soccer tournament being played in Ukraine next month will encourage sex tourism. Kovpachik strode up to the silver, 60 centimetre (two feet) high trophy, which was on display as a tourist attraction in an open air >>>

As if Kyiv doesn't have enough troubles related to Euro 2012... On top of an EU foreign ministers meeting today in Brussels to consider a blocwide boycott of the European football championship to be held in Ukraine, a topless protester from the infamous Femen women's rights group slightly damaged UEFA's famous Henri Delaunay Trophy as it went on public display over the weekend in the Ukrainian capital.   In a statement, Femen said: Security guards attend to the wounded trophy. It escaped with minor injuries.Security guards attend to the wounded trophy. It escaped with minor injuries. ​​Kovpachyk >>>

Transmission Security! Guards try to prevent topless Femen activist Yulia Kovpachyk from grabbing the Euro 2012 trophy in Kyiv on May 12. May 14, 2012 As if Kyiv doesn't have enough troubles related to Euro 2012... On top of an EU foreign ministers meeting today in Brussels to consider a blocwide boycott of the European soccer championship to be held in Ukraine, >>>

How many topless Ukrainian activists does it take to unravel a showing of the 2012 Euro football trophy? Just this one. Twenty-three-year-old Yulia Kovpachik strolled up to the shining silver cup, which was on display in Kyiv, struck a provocative pose, then tore her strapless top off her torso. Kovpachik, whose bare chest and stomach read “F*ck Euro 2012,” is an activist for Femen, a women’s rights group that’s protesting next month’s soccer tournament because they say it promotes the sex-tourism trade. After Kovpachik was hauled away by security and charged with righteous-sounding >>>

09:19 A young topless woman from FEMEN, a Ukrainian feminist group known for its topless protests, on Saturday threw on the ground a famous UEFA trophy put on show in the center of Kyiv and was arrested after that, Ukraine's Channel 5 television said.The Henri Delaunay Trophy will be awarded to the winner of this year's UEFA European Football Championship (Euro 2012), whose finals are to be hosted by Ukraine and start on June 8. Brought to Ukraine on Friday, the trophy is on display on Independence Square and will be shown in several other Ukrainian cities afterward.FEMEN said in a statement: >>>