London, July 24 : A Brit woman has made a fortune of 1.2million pounds by winning a lottery – with the help of her dead dad.

The 44-year-old, Susan Crossland, carried on using Barrie’s numbers – 6, 9, 13, 18, 29, 30 – after he died from cancer.

When the mother checked her ticket on July 19 she found she had picked up 138 pounds with her three lines.

But she was amazed to see she’d matched all six of her dad’s numbers.

“It’s a real shame he isn’t here to share the winnings,” The Sun quoted her, as saying.

Susan, married to dairy worker Michael, said that she had a feeling her dad was looking out for her on the week of the draw as she kept seeing white feathers in the air.

The doctors in Britain have to prove their fitness once in five years to carry on their practice. This plan is introduced by England's Chief Medical Officer Liam Donaldson on Wednesday. The current plan is the biggest change in medical regulations of UK for 150 years.

Washington, July 24: Scientists at the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research have found that bacteria communities use chemicals as weapons to protect themselves against the attacking phagocytes, biological cells that ingest and destroy foreign matter like micro-organisms.

Dr. Carsten Matz and colleagues looked at marine bacteria that face constant threats in their habitat from environmental phagocytes, the amoebae, which behave in a similar way in the sea as the immune cells in the human body.

The Braunschweig-based researcher says that these predators easily pick bacteria when they are swimming freely and separately in the water.

London, July 24 : Brahamdagh Bugti, the grandson of slain Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Bugti, has reportedly said that instead of Pakistan’s, the sovereignty of Balochistan was dear to the tribesmen, and that they would welcome any help from across the border for Balochistan’s defence.

London, July 24 : Scientists have used tiny fossils to refine the timing of the climate shift that gave rise to Antarctica’s remarkable Dry Valleys, a landscape akin to Mars, estimating it to date back to 14 million years.

According to a report by BBC News, the famously ice-free terrain enjoyed more benign, tundra-like conditions 14 million years ago - but then flipped to the intensely cold setting seen today.

Scientists determined that ancient lake-living shrimp-like creatures can pinpoint the big switch, as the ostracods would not have coped with a harsh, dry environment.

London, July 24 : The British Government has decided to impose visa curbs on foreign brides and bridegrooms to prevent forced marriages in the country.

The measures introduced on Wednesday will hit 17,000 spouses and fiancé (e)s from the sub-continent the hardest.

According to a report in The Times, teenage foreign brides and bridegrooms will have to be at least 21 years of age to enter the country as a spouse.