IN THE NEWS TODAY, UK: Thai office worker Suwan Meunlow, 48, has been swallowing 15 live lizards a day for the last 30 years. He says the reptiles keep his chronic indigestion at bay. Britain's best-preserved Neanderthal butchery site, including the 50,000-year-old remains of mammoths and meat-cutting axes, has been uncovered in Norfolk. A little boy shares a vat of milk with dozens of rats - in the hope it can save him from plague. At the Karni Mata Hindu temple in Deshnoke in the north-west region of Rajasthan, India, rats are kings. They are believed to be reincarnations of dead human beings and are considered sacred. And, while rats have been blamed for spreading plague for centuries, it is claimed that drinking from the same container guarantees protection against the disease. A million people a year visit the shrine to the Hindu goddess Karni Mata - and reactions range from awe-struck to squeamish. If a rat scuttles across your feet in the temple, where visitors go barefoot, it is considered a sign of luck. Even better is a sighting of a rare white rat, which is revered as an incarnation of Karni Mata herself. A contact lens that is glued into wearers' eyes to aid sight for up to five years was unveiled yesterday. It is said to offer a safe and reversible alternative to laser eye surgery. Australian scientists are due to start human trials on the lens, which could correct long or short-sight problems. DailyRecord.co.uk