London, Nov 2 : Pop star Lily Allen has revealed that she was left in tears after learning that Russell Brand had resigned from the BBC following the prank calls row.

Brand quit his job as a BBC radio presenter on Wednesday over a series of messages he and Jonathan Ross left on Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs’ answer phone.

On one of the messages, which were broadcast on Brand''s BBC Radio 2 programme, the comedian claimed he had slept with Sachs'' granddaughter.

The pair also joked that the actor might kill himself as a result of the comedian''s claim, reports the Daily Star.

Coffee can help stay one alert for long hours. A team of Swimburne University of Techology (SUT) carried out the study by a new optical instrument.

Patterson said, “In our project we used the Australian-designed Optalert, which measures drowsiness by observing total duration of eye blinks and the ratio of amplitude and velocity of eye closure during blinking.”

London, Nov 2 : Ronnie Wood has offered his estranged wife Jo 3 million pounds-a-year as part of their divorce deal, it has emerged.

Jo will receive 250,000 pounds a month after the Rolling Stone guitarist left her for 20-year-old Russian Katia Ivanova. 

The 61-year-old rocker, who has a 70 million pounds fortune, will also hand over a multi-million- pound lump sum, with some experts predicting Jo could pocket up to 50 million pounds in the end. 

Islamabad - A suicide bomber on Sunday steered an explosive-laden car into a checkpoint at a paramilitary camp in Pakistan's restive tribal region near Afghanistan, killing at least eight soldiers, officials said.

The attack took place at Zalai Fort, which is manned by the Frontier Corps (FC) paramilitary forces, in the South Waziristan tribal district. The camp is located 15 kilometres west of Wana, the region's main town.

Former president A P J Abdul Kalam, who visited the Indian Deep Space Network and the giant antenna at Byalalu village near Bangalore on Saturday, said that every Indian should be proud of the space researchers who made the launch of Chandrayana- I, the country’s first unmanned lunar spacecraft, a successful attempt.

Dr. Kalam expressed his aspiration to see an Indian researcher land on the moon by 2021.

He told a gathering of senior scientists, “I would be 90 years old then.”