Sony announces 40GB PS3 release in Europe

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe announced today a new Playstation 3 model to launch in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Australasia this month.

The new PS3 packs a 40GB HDD but is no longer backwards compatible with PlayStation 2 titles. It also cuts the available USB 2.0 ports from four to two, and comes without a multi-memory card port.

The current Starter Pack, comprising of the 60GB backwards-compatible PS3, two SIXAXIS controllers and two Sony titles will be reduced in price to €499. The 60GB model will remain on on sale while supplies last, and in the United Kingdom and Ireland, the Starter Pack will be replaced by a different in-store promotion on the 60GB PS3.

Available October 10, the 40GB PS3 will retail for €399.

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10 Year-Old Girl Swims With Hands and Legs Tied

A little 10 year-old girl had her hands and feet bound and was thrown into a southern Chinese river by her father. It took her nearly three hours to cross the river.

Why would any father do such a thing? Well he felt like it will help her to achieve her goal of swimming the English Channel. The girl got the idea from watching a similar feat on a local television program.

“Her swimming skills are perfect and she insisted on doing this,” Huang Daosheng said.

Hunag Li swam like a dolphin in order to cross the more than a mile wide Xiang River.

“It’s not dangerous because, first, her swimming skills are really good and second, I was swimming with her, staying close to her,” the father said. “I had her when I was 35, so she is my heart. I would never play around with her life.”

The girl maybe a good swimmer, having started when she was six, but that hardly protected her from the cold of the river. Her face was blue from being so cold when her father picked her up out of the river.

“She asks me every day, ‘Can I achieve this? Is the English Channel wide? Are the waves really big?’” Huang Daosheng said.

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