LONDON, December 11 /PRNewswire/ --

Global Crossing (Nasdaq: GLBC), a leading global IP solutions provider, today announced third quarter financial results for its subsidiary, Global Crossing (UK) Telecommunications Limited (GCUK).

Highlights

GCUK generated 82 million pounds in revenue in the third quarter, with adjusted gross margin of 68 percent or 56 million pounds and adjusted IFRS EBITDA of 21 million pounds. (Adjusted gross margin and adjusted IFRS EBITDA are both non-GAAP metrics that are defined and reconciled below.) The company also generated 14 million pounds in cash from operations.

LONDON, December 11 /PRNewswire/ -- http://www.BackgammonMasters.com Online Game Operator launched two additional proprietary games in their All-in-One Game Lobby including a Single Deck, Multi-Handed Blackjack Game and Dueces Wild Video Poker Game. These two new additions to the BackgammonMasters Casino Game Lobby are part of a series of brand new video slot and card games which overflow the Lobby with game selections for hours of entertainment.

GIBRALTAR, December 11 /PRNewswire/ -- MansionPoker.com (http://sv.mansionpoker.com) offers unrivalled design and unbeatable functionality that will appeal to the Swedish pursuit of attaining the balance between precision and style.

The new version of Mansion's website for Sweden gives the Swedish-speakers the opportunity to experience what speakers of English, Spanish, German and French have already been enjoying in their hundreds of thousands. Fully translated specifically for the Swedish market, it will give Swedish-speakers the chance to play and win at one of the fastest growing and most exciting online poker rooms in the world.

Researchers at MIT recently found an elegant solution to a sticky scientific problem in basic fluid mechanics: why water doesn't soak into soil at an even rate, but instead forms what look like fingers of fluid flowing downward. 

Scientists call these rivulets "gravity fingers," and the explanation for their formation has to do with the surface tension where the water—or any liquid—meets the soil (or other medium). Knowing how to account for this phenomenon mathematically will have wide-ranging impact on science problems and engineering applications, including the recovery of oil from reservoirs and the sequestration of carbon underground. 

LUGANO, Switzerland, December 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Helsinn is delighted to announce that its drug product manufacturing facility in Dublin, Ireland, Helsinn Birex Pharmaceuticals, has recently obtained an authorisation for Manufacture of Investigational Medicinal Products (IMP) for products for human use from the Irish Medicines Board according to EU Directive 2001/20/EC.

Throughout history, human beings have used the whistle for everything from hailing a cab to carrying a tune. Now, an orangutan's spontaneous whistling is providing scientists at Great Ape Trust of Iowa new insights into the evolution of speech and learning. 

Found in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud, 30 Doradus is one of the largest massive star forming regions close to the Milky Way. Enormous stars in 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, are producing intense radiation and searing winds of multimillion-degree gas that carve out gigantic bubbles in the surrounding cooler gas and dust. Other massive stars have raced through their evolution and exploded catastrophically as supernovae, expanding these bubbles into X-ray-brightened superbubbles. They leave behind pulsars as beacons of their former lives and expanding supernova remnants that trigger the collapse of giant clouds of dust and gas to form new generations of stars.

Insufficient vitamin D can stunt growth and foster weight gain during puberty, according to a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology&Metabolism. Even in sun-drenched California, where scientists from the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and the University of Southern California conducted their study, vitamin D deficiency was found to cause higher body mass and shorter stature in girls at the peak of their growing spurt.

A new study reveals that humans use different neural mechanisms for determining criminal responsibility and assigning an appropriate punishment. The research, published in the December 11th issue of the journal Neuron, provides fascinating insight into brain systems that may explain how thousands of years of reliance on human sanctions to enforce social norms gave rise to our current criminal justice system.

Moons outside our Solar System with the potential to support life have just become much easier to detect, thanks to research by an astronomer at University College London (UCL).

David Kipping has found that such moons can be revealed by looking at wobbles in the velocity of the planets they orbit. His calculations, which appear in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society today, not only allow us to confirm if a planet has a satellite but to calculate its mass and distance from its host planet ­ factors that determine the likely habitabiliity of a moon.