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Lessons in sending mobile phone text messages have been held for a group of over 50s in Glasgow.



A total of 20 mature students at Strathclyde University's Senior Studies Institute took part in a tutorial on the various uses of a mobile phone.



The class was held in the city by four "phone trainers" from the mobile phone company Orange.



As well as text message lessons, attendees were also taught how to download mobile pictures and ringtones.



Students were also shown how to send pictures as text messages to friends and family on the day.

Ikea Japan will make some size modifications to its Japanese products, such as shorter bookshelves for rooms with lower ceilings, but consumers from other countries will recognize the products - though perhaps not the prices. Some items are likely to be more expensive, to reflect Japan's higher costs, Kullberg said.

A busy highway near Oxford in central England was closed in both directions Friday when around 1,000 chickens escaped from a truck that collided with four other vehicles, injuring four people.



"They were all over the carriageway," said a spokesman for Thames Valley Police.



The birds' escape could be short-lived: Thousands of shooting enthusiasts, game keepers and falconers are in the area for a game fair organized by the Country Land and Business Association.



"We are going to ask (them) if there are any wagons or nets that we can use to get the chickens together," said the police spokesman, who spoke with customary anonymity.

But to view Mel Gibson's "Passion of Christ" in Malaysia, viewers must be Christian. No Muslims are allowed to see it.



"It might spark off some religious disagreement in this country," Film Censorship Board spokeswoman Kathy Kok said, explaining the board's decision to bar a general release.



Gibson, Hollywood star-cum-producer and devout Catholic, did not even bother to ask Malaysia, home to 25 million people, for approval to screen his film in local cinemas. He and his distributors assumed the mainly Muslim nation would ban it.



But after an appeal to the prime minister by local churches keen to see the graphic movie about Christ's crucifixion, the censors have finally cleared it -- but for Christian eyes only.