Mumbai/Brussels- A delegation of 13 European Parliament representatives who were caught in the Mumbai terrorist attacks are safe, a member of the delegation told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa on Thursday.

Parliamentarian Daniel Caspary, a member of the parliament's trade committee, told dpa by telephone that he, six fellow members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and six support staff had managed to escape to the French consulate in Mumbai.

France currently holds the EU's rotating presidency.

Melbourne, Nov 27 : In a rather innovative collaboration between science and art, a PhD student from University of Sydney has won an international dance contest, where participants had to actually dance their thesis.

Dr Sue Lynn Lau stood first in the graduate student section with her entry “The role of vitamin D in beta cell function”.

She has won a trip to Chicago as her prize where she will see her winning entry performed by professional dancers in February 2009.

Her routine included a troupe of five dancers who danced on three pieces of music: the Latin rhythm of ‘Hot Hot Hot’, moving through the classical ‘Nutcracker Suite’, ending with the popular ‘Walking on Sunshine’.

London, Nov 27 : Scientists at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered a key molecular partnership that coordinates body rhythms and metabolism.

For the study, the research team led by Mitchell Lazar, MD, PhD, Director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, studied a protein called NCoR that modulates the body’s responses to metabolic hormones.

They then engineered a mutation into mice that prevents NCoR from working with an enzyme that is normally its partner, HDAC3.

It was found that the animals showed changes in the expression of clock and metabolic genes, and were leaner, more sensitive to insulin, and on different sleep-wake cycles than controls.

Washington, Nov 27: Hollywood actor Will Smith is reportedly in talks to remake Korean movie ‘Oldboy’.

The ‘I’m Legend’ actor’ is keen to remake the controversial flick which was based on a man''s violent quest for revenge after he was shamed at high school.

The Korean flick was branded controversial after South Korean-born Seung-Hui Cho murdered 32 students at Virginia Tech in 2007 in the same style, reports Contactmusic.

The Virginia Tech carnage was the worst shoot out in the American history and it was linked to ‘Oldboy’ after a photograph was found of Seung-Hui Cho recreating a pose from a poster promoting the flick.

London, Nov 27 : The "British Josef Fritzl," who admitted to repeatedly raping his two daughters and getting them pregnant 19 times, did the evil act to get child benefit payments, claims his sister-in-law.

The 56-year-old’s relative said that he fathered nine children by the girls in order to support his lifestyle.

In order to boost his income through benefits and tax credits, the Briton once offered his younger daughter 500 pounds to have another child, the relative said.

Wellington, November 27 : A 28-year-old Christchurch man may have created a Guinness World Record for the Longest Journey by Skateboard after travelling 12,159km.

Rob Thomson completed his journey in two-and-a-half years.

He had worn out three pairs of shoes, three sets of wheels, and three skateboard decks by the time he arrived at his parents'' Halswell home.

He had also endured three crashes over the 12,159km expedition.

Thomson spent 15,000 dollars during the 850-day trip, and returned home with a debt of 1000 dollars, which he planned to pay off by writing a book about his adventures.