"If we walk outside, it's just like being next to a campfire, " he said.

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They have ruled out two possibilities -- mechanical "impact" damage, like that caused by being dropped, or short-circuiting outside the battery.

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Her husband died three days after being attacked outside their home and kicked "like a football" by a gang who had been vandalising his car.

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You get lightheaded and floaty being outside at that height, a bit like falling in love, which is probably why Empire is the scene ender in classic love stories like An Affair to Remember, Sleepless in Seattle (in homage to Affair) and King Kong (yes, it is a love story).

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Other facilities include a small children's library, exhibition spaces, lecture halls, a school for information sciences and a planetarium, this last being a separate, spherical structure poised at one end of the vast outside plaza like an orbiting satellite.

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