Car buyers sued Ford complaining that a limited edition of a modified Ford Mustang was not so limited after all.

The class action lawsuit on behalf of a New York man and other buyers of the 2007 Roush Stage 3 BlackJack vehicles claimed they paid a premium price of nearly $58,600 (€37,955) last year because Ford advertised that only 100 would be made.

Representatives of Ford were not immediately available to comment, a company spokesman said.

"The vehicles purchased by the plaintiff and the other class members were not as unique or rare as the defendants had stated them to be," the complaint said.

"Their value from scarcity and as collectors' items were and are dramatically less than the buyers had been led to believe their value would be."

Ford manufactured a limited run of a modified version of the Ford Mustang, made especially for conversion by Roush into the Stage 3 BlackJack, the complaint said.

Drew Conner of Bardonia, NY , and at least 100 other people are members of the class seeking a jury trial and more than $12 million in damages.

One-eyed shooter sets sight on gold

Blinded in one eye by cancer from the age of two, French shooter Veronique Girardet did not have any aspirations for the Olympics.

The 42-year-old's first love was clay-pigeon shooting, where she was a four-time world champion.

Seven years ago, at the ripe age of 35, she "had a sudden urge to change" and switched to skeet with Olympic success her one and only goal.

"Since I was a young girl, I always dreamed of being world champion.

"Had clay-pigeon been an Olympic sport, I would have had Olympic dreams too, now I'm trying to make up for lost time," she said.

Ms Girardet, who won the world skeet title in 2005, has overcome the handicap and speaks freely of her missing eye.

Dying for a salad?

Celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson has apologised after accidentally recommending a potentially deadly plant in organic salads.

The chef and TV presenter said in a magazine article that the weed henbane, also known as stinking nightshade, made an excellent addition to summertime meals.

There was plenty of it, it grew locally and was used by the ancient Greeks and the Arabs for its anaesthetic properties.

Er, not quite.

Henbane, or Hyoscyamus niger, is toxic and can cause hallucinations, convulsions, vomiting and in extreme cases death.

Worrall Thompson, who was discussing his passion for organic foods, had confused the plant with another of a similar name.

German police women get 'bullet-proof' bras

Thousands of German police women will receive what media have labelled "bullet-proof bras".

Made of white cotton and featuring the word (Police) Polizei along the seam, the bras are meant to better protect police women who wear bullet-proof vests.

"There was a slight safety risk for women wearing normal bras with metal parts underneath a bullet-proof vest," a police spokesman in the northern city of Hanover said.

"If the vest is hit by a projectile, this can have an impact on the metal bit in the bra underneath and cause injuries."

Some 3,000 police women working for Germany's federal police will be equipped with the new bras which feature no metal parts and look like sports bras, the spokesman said.

Fido's not just yawning

Dogs find human yawns contagious, suggesting they have a rudimentary capacity for empathy, British scientists said yesterday.

Although yawning is widespread in many animals, contagious yawning - a yawn triggered by seeing others yawning - has previously only been shown to occur in humans and chimpanzees.

It turns out, however, that man's best friend is highly sensitive to catching human yawns, with 72 per cent of 29 dogs tested yawning after observing a person doing so.

Writing in the journal Biology Letters, Atsushi Senju and colleagues at London's Birkbeck College said this behaviour showed dogs were skilled at reading human social cues and "may relate to their capacity for empathy".