Two new musical pieces by Mozart unearthed

October 8th, 2009 Lloyd Weber makes new Phantom set at Coney IslandLONDON — Andrew Lloyd Weber has announced a sequel to his massively successful "Phantom of the Opera" that will be set at Coney Island. Weber's new production, "Love Never Dies," is due to open in London in March of next year.

October 8th, 2009 LONDON - A 10-year-old British schoolboy has been predicted to be the new Mozart after he displayed his genius with just four months of formal piano lessons. Shane Thomas, who put his fingers on a piano at the age of seven, rehearses for just four hours a week but already exhibits high standards of music scores.

September 14th, 2009 LONDON - Archaeologists have unearthed a mass cemetery carved in rocks near al-Basel Hospital in Syria. According to the Global Arab Network, archaeologists at the Syrian Department of Antiquities in Tartous discovered the graveyard.

September 10th, 2009 LONDON - Encouraging your children to learn a guitar or piano can help boost their memory and intelligence, suggest researchers. The research team from University of London's Institute of Education has found that learning to play an instrument expand the left side of the brain, enhancing kids' memory power by almost 20 per cent, reports Times Online.

September 1st, 2009 SYDNEY - Scientists have uncovered the remains of a giant hippo-like creature near Alcoota, a find that will shed new light on the territory's prehistoric past. For 25 years, palaeontologsts from the Northern Territory (NT) Museum and Flinders University have been painstakingly extracting the remains of giant flightless birds, wombat-like creatures and crocodiles from a nearly seven million-year-old fossil site near Alcoota.

July 24th, 2009 LONDON - Two previously unknown compositions written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart have been discovered by the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg. "The Department of Research at the International Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg has identified two works, which have long been in the possession of the Foundation, as compositions of the young Wolfgang Amade Mozart," the foundation said in a statement, without giving any more details.

July 14th, 2009 LONDON - A prehistoric dwelling, which is 3,000 years older than Stonehenge, has been unearthed during construction of the runway extension at Isle of Man Airport. According to Isle of Man newspapers, dating back an astonishing 8,000 years to the time when the first human settlers returned to the Isle of Man after the end of the Ice Age, it is probably the oldest dwelling ever found in the Island.

May 28th, 2009 BALANCAN - Archaeologists have discovered an ancient Maya river port dating back to 600 B.C. in southeast Mexico.

May 1st, 2009 LONDON - British filmmaker Guy Ritchie is set to make a gangster musical, it has emerged. Reports have suggested that the filmmaker's musical would be a cross between 'Wurzel Gummidge'-a TV show about a talking scarecrow, and 'Bullitt'-the stylish Steve McQueen crime caper.

May 1st, 2009 LONDON - British director Guy Ritchie is turning his back on directing gangster films. He's reportedly working on a musical movie.

April 24th, 2009 LONDON - Jade Goody's life and death is to be the subject of a musical, according to one of her closest friends. It has emerged that producers are searching for an actress to play the former Big Brother star, reports The Telegraph.

April 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Danny Hayward, a close friend of late British reality TV star Jade Goody, has revealed that there would be a musical on the troubled actress' life. Haywards also revealed Wednesday night at a party to celebrate Goody's life and launch the final part of her autobiography that a search was on for an actress to play Goody in the musical titled 'Jade The Musical', reports the Mirror online.

March 27th, 2009 LONDON - ABBA stars Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus say that their musical 'Mamma Mia!' would not have been a big hit had they not turned down the original script, which was set in a zoo with animals singing their songs. They have revealed that some producers approached them in the early Nineties with the idea of staging a show, in which their songs would be performed by lions, tigers, giraffes and elephants.

March 5th, 2009 LONDON - After the smashing success of its first three instalments, Disney has announced the fourth movie in its hit 'High School Musical' franchise. The new musical will feature an entirely new cast of characters and debut on Disney Channel in 2010, reports contactmusic.com.

February 8th, 2009 LONDON - Rocker Sheryl Crow's musical skills are already rubbing off on her 21-month-old son Wyatt. Crow, who adopted Wyatt in 2007, says he has been quick to reach for his musical instruments.