London, Oct 31: Two bones and a driver's license with Steve Fossett''s name have been found near the crash site of missing adventurer Steve Fossett's plane in California's rugged Sierra Nevada mountains.

The team also found the aviator's tennis shoes as well as credit cards, authorities have confirmed.

The finding was made on October 29 about half a mile east of the crash site, near the town of Mammoth Lakes.

The remains have been sent for tests to a Department of Justice laboratory.

The shoes and driver's licence had animal bite marks on them, said Madera Country Sheriff John Anderson.

"This reinforces our theory that animals dragged him away," Times Online quoted him, as saying.

U. S. health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the rate of new diabetes cases in the country increased by
90 % in the last decade as a result of increasing obesity and sedentary lifestyles. The numbers may be underestimated as these are from self reported surveys conducted by the CDC and about a third of people with diabetes don't yet know they have the disease.

New York, Oct 31: Singer Gwen Stefani has introduced her 3-month-old son Zuma to the world by posting her photo on her website.

The photo shows seemingly naked Stefani holding her son with a caption "We wanted to share with you the first photo of Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale. Gwen, Gavin, Kingston and Zuma are all doing well and enjoying being a party of four," reports the New York Daily News.

The photo came after paparazzi photos of the tiny tot began to surface.

Washington, October 31: A team of researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Biology and Soils 
(IBS) captured and released a female Far Eastern leopard, the world''s most endangered big cat, in Russia last week.

The leopardess, nicknamed "Alyona" by the researchers, was found in Primorsky Krai along the Russian-Chinese border.

She was in good physical condition and weighed a healthy 85 pounds, said the researchers.

A preliminary health analysis suggested that the animal might have been eight to ten years old, they added.

London, Oct 31: Madonna has been reportedly taunting estranged hubby Guy Ritchie with weird text messages like ‘you’re going down’.

The 40-year-old director showed crew on the set of his latest film Sherlock Holmes one which read: “You’re going down.”

He said he found his estranged wife’s behaviour odd, but that he is used to it by now.

And he confided in one pal: “This is her idea of a joke – but it’s not funny. Imagine what it was like living with her.”

Washington, Oct 31: Petroleum geologists from around the globe have concluded that the east Java mud volcano was triggered by drilling of a nearby gas exploration well, not by an earthquake.

Lusi, the volcano in question, started to erupt in East Java, Indonesia, on May 29th 2006, and is still spewing huge volumes of boiling mud over the surrounding area. It has displaced around 30,000 people from their homes and swamped 12 villages.

The cause of Lusi was recently considered at a debate at an International conference in Cape Town, South Africa, which concluded with a vote between 74 world-leading petroleum scientists who considered the evidence presented by four experts in the field.