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.

Washington, Oct 31 : With the help of a "living fossil" tree species, a researcher from the University of Michigan is trying to understand how tropical forests responded to past climate change and how they may react to global warming in the future.

The researcher in question is Christopher Dick, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, in the University of Michigan.

Washington, October 31: University of Illinois researchers have found that measuring the quality of romantic relationships is more complex than previously conducted personality studies suggest.

Psychology professor Glenn Roisman and graduate student Ashley Holland say that while personality has been found to be predictive of perceived relationship satisfaction and success, other measures of relationship quality may offer additional insight into how a romantic relationship is functioning.

Stock market analysts have maintained ‘buy’ rating on Jindal Steel & Power Ltd stock with an intraday target of Rs 765.

According to them, interested traders can purchase the stock above Rs 692 with a strict stop loss of Rs 682. If the stock market remains positive, the stock pricing becomes more attractive, and reach above Rs 772.
 

Washington, Oct 31: No matter when babies start talking, a new study has claimed that infants'' brains become acquainted with hundreds of words much before they start uttering them.

The report, published in the October issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, describes an increasing emphasis among researchers in studying vocabulary development in infants.