‘Googlle’ marks 11yrs of creation with misspelt logo

October 2nd, 2009 LONDON - The search engine Google Friday decorated its home page with a sketch of Mahatma Gandhi on his 140th birth anniversary. The page, seen by millions of people around the world every day as they search the internet, showed Gandhi's face - the dome of his head and mushtacheo forming the initial letter 'G'.

September 28th, 2009 LONDON - Google marked ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius' 2,560th birthday by changing its homepage logo. The Confucius image the search engine giant adopted to commemorate the anniversary of his birth aroused a lot of interest among netizens, reports the Telegraph.

September 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - The oldest lunar calendars have been identified in cave art found in France and Germany, dating back to the Aurignacian Culture of Europe during 32,000 B.C. Between 1964 and the early 1990s, Alexander Marshack published breakthrough research that documented the mathematical and astronomical knowledge in the Late Upper Paleolithic Cultures of Europe.

September 16th, 2009 LONDON - Internet users are scratching their heads trying to figure out the meaning behind Google's latest "doodle" that shows the company's name spelt out in crop circles. Google Doodles are the various modifications or humorous features the company does to its logo that appears on its home page to mark holidays, birthdays of famous people, and major events.

September 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which has been declared fully rejuvenated, has captured colorful, multi-wavelength pictures of far-flung galaxies, a densely packed star cluster, an eerie "pillar of creation," and a "butterfly" nebula. Hubble's suite of new instruments allows it to study the universe across a wide swath of the light spectrum, from ultraviolet all the way to near-infrared.

September 1st, 2009 Britain marks anniversary of child evacuationsLONDON — Britain held a service of thanksgiving Tuesday to remember the thousands of children who were evacuated to the countryside to protect them from German bombs during World War II. Over 2,000 people gathered at London's St.

June 15th, 2009 LONDON - A new study has shown that a majority of Brits find it difficult to properly spell the word 'definitely'. The 10-letter word of English language topped the list of commonly misspelt words as most of them mix up the second 'I' with an 'A'.

May 24th, 2009 LONDON - Studying the teeth of an ancestor of Neanderthals, known as Homo heidelbergensis, a team of Spanish researchers have come to the conclusion that "lefties" have been coping with a right-handed world for more than half a million years. Marina Mosquera, a paleoanthropologist at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, says that the study seems to suggest that the ancient humans were predominately right-handed.

April 29th, 2009 LONDON - Pop diva Britney Spears is to be honoured as a gay icon at a prize ceremony. The singer will receive the 'Always Next, Forever Now' Award at the second annual NewNowNext prize ceremony, which pays homage to role models within the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, reports contactmusic.com.

April 22nd, 2009 LONDON - The longest place name in United States, Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, has been misspelt for years on signposts, admit officials. After researching historical spelling combinations and the local newspaper the Telegram and Gazette of Worcester, local Chamber of Commerce officials have agreed that some signs at the lake in Webster, Massachusetts - known as Webster Lake for short - has been wrongly spelt.

March 18th, 2009 LONDON - David Bekham may don the Real Madrid shirt this summer if Florentino Perez becomes the club's president again. "Florentino will try to bring Becks back if he decides to run for presidency.

March 13th, 2009 LONDON - The sleepy town of Devon in South West England has once again been spooked, after an elderly lady discovered what are said to be the Devil's footprints. Jill Wade, a pensioner, found the hoof-like marks in the snow in her back garden in Woolsery, and they were a repetition of the first marks recorded in 1855.

February 1st, 2009 LONDON - Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma is to visit India Feb 4-11 for discussions on the current global economic scenario on the 60th anniversary of the grouping, his office announced Monday. Sharma will address international and local audiences, focussing on the current global economic situation, and 'the pressing need' for reform of international institutions and collective action by all governments.

January 26th, 2009 LONDON - Actress Lindsay Lohan has lost an astonishing amount of weight in just a short while after her break-up with girlfriend Samantha Ronson and her friends are now concerned for her because she has got scratch marks on her body. Mirror.co.uk reports that Lohan has been spotted with mysterious scratch marks all over her arm.

December 28th, 2008 LONDON - Footballer David Beckham's wife Victoria is not happy with his new tattoo. The new tattoo is a biblical proverb in Hebrew and is on his left hand, reports thesun.co.uk.