Flowers may bloom on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa

July 27th, 2009 LONDON - Always wanted to walk on the moon as an astronaut? Well, now a new coffee-table book gives you the chance to bring the moon to your home, but at a sky-high price. Titled 'Moonfire', the book is being touted as one of the most expensive publications in the world.t details the Apollo 11 lunar mission, and allows its owners not only to read about the Moon but also to touch it, as 12 copies of the tome will include a slice of a meteorite that hurtled from the Moon to Earth.

July 22nd, 2009 LONDON - If reports are to be believed, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni have been spending over 660 pounds a day on flowers. The revelation comes as a public audit has surfaced amid the worst recession for decades.

July 18th, 2009 LONDON - One fourth of Britons believe that the 1969 Apollo 11 mission moon landings were nothing but a hoax, according to a survey. A total of 1009 people participated in the survey for E andT magazine, published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

June 29th, 2009 LONDON - An 89-year-old British woman faces losing allotment for growing flowers instead of vegetables. Edith Avery, of Cefn Road, Rogerstone, near Newport, south Wales, was informed that her plot of 30 years would be cleared due to her failure to comply with the Rogerstone Community Council regulations.

June 25th, 2009 LONDON - A new research by European scientists has provided evidence that an enormous plume of water spurts in giant jets from the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus is fed by a salty ocean, a discovery that may have implications for the search for extraterrestrial life. The Cassini spacecraft made a surprising discovery about Saturn's sixth largest moon, Enceladus, on its exploration of the giant ringed planet in 2005.

June 21st, 2009 LONDON - Humans are not the only ones cribbing over weight issues, some planets too go through a "fat" stage that swells their waistlines temporarily. "Astronomers have found a lot of planets whose sizes cannot be explained by standard theory," says Laurent Ibgui of Princeton University.

June 18th, 2009 London, June 18 (ANI): A new study, with an analysis of more than 100 years of observations, has suggested that the Jupiter's moon Io, which is the solar system's most volcanically active body, will one day become dormant. Io, which is about the size of Earth's moon and is Jupiter's closest large satellite, is covered with lava flows and dozens of active volcanoes.

May 21st, 2009 LONDON - 'The Pirates of the Caribbean' actor Orlando Bloom has sparked rumours of engagement after his long-term girlfriend Miranda Kerr was spotted wearing a gold diamond band on her ring finger. Miranda's representative Carlii Lyon refused to confirm or deny the reports saying she was aware of the engagement rumours.

May 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Stunner Miranda Kerr has made it clear that she doesn't have any immediate plans of walking down the aisle with beau Orlando Bloom, as she's too busy with work. Miranda, who has been dating Orlando since 2007, revealed that though she would like to see herself settled down one day, she doesn't have time at the moment.

April 30th, 2009 LONDON - NASA's acting administrator, Chris Scolese, has told lawmakers that the agency will probably not build an outpost on the moon as originally planned. According to a report in New Scientist, Scolese's comments also hinted that the agency is open to putting more emphasis on human missions to destinations like Mars or a near-Earth asteroid.

April 27th, 2009 LONDON - Visitors to the Kew Gardens in Britain are set to see the world's smelliest flowers coming into bloom this week. However, they have been warned to keep away as the flowers emit a smell of rotting flesh.

April 19th, 2009 LONDON - British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen offended pop superstar Madonna by making fun of her attempt to adopt an African baby in his new movie 'Bruno' but apologised later by sending her a bouquet of flowers. Cohen, infamous for offending people in general, in the movie collects an African baby out of a luggage at an airport and then comes on US talk shows defending the adoption just as Madonna did, mirror.co.uk reports.

March 28th, 2009 LONDON - An American firm is planning to grow the first flowers on the Moon, in a proposed greenhouse on the lunar surface. According to a report in New Scientist, the company in question is engineering firm Paragon Space Development, which has designed habitats for plants and animals living in microgravity.

March 27th, 2009 SRINAGAR - The opening of an international airport has buoyed the hopes of flower growers in Kashmir as avenues for selling their produce in international markets open up. Flower growers and exporters are anticipating a huge boost in flower business, as they are hopeful to tap the international markets especially the Gulf countries where the demand for flowers is quite high.

January 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Rocker Brandon Flowers of The Killers has bought a patch of desert and wants to build a house there one day. Thesun.co.uk reports that Flowers bought some land in his native Las Vegas where he hopes to build a house one day and will also put up a giant Desert Casino sign.