Washington: In what is claimed to be a major breakthrough, scientists have produced threads of silk fibre — without the use of insect silk glands.

Toronto: Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey just missed welcoming a new kind of guest on her show on Thursday. A pregnant Toronto woman was in the audience of The Oprah Winfrey Show’ in Chicago when she went into labour and almost gave birth to her child on the sets, according to press reports.

Winnipeg, Climate change is transforming the Arctic environment faster than expected and accelerating the disappearance of sea ice, scientists said on Friday in giving their early findings from the biggest-ever study of Canada’s changing north.

Washington: Pluto, the dwarf planet on the outer edge of our solar system, has a dramatically ruddier hue than it did just a few years ago, Nasa scientists said on Thursday, after examining photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Washington: Pluto, the dwarf planet on the outer edge of our solar system, has a dramatically ruddier hue than it did just a few years ago, Nasa scientists said on Thursday, after examining photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Washington: Physicists have built the world’s most accurate timepiece, based on an advanced version of an experimental atomic clock relying on a single aluminium atom.

London: Hollywood actress Brittany Murphy died from pneumonia, aided by anaemia and drug intoxication, according to a Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office report.

London: US socialite Paris Hilton was burgled of over £1 million worth of possessions by a gang after she left the key to her home under her doormat. Surprisingly Hilton didn’t notice she had been burgled for two months, Daily Mail online reported.

FILM ACTRESS Kajol said she has seen her co-star Shah Rukh Khan act for the first time in their latest film My Name Is Khan, which will be released all over the world next week.

London: The prim and proper A-grade student of Harry Potter movies, Emma Watson showed a wilder side of herself in a recent photoshoot.