London, Nov. 13 : Believe it or not, former England football star Paul Gascoigne is set for a shock comeback, playing in next season’s FA Cup.
Gazza, 41, is being lined up to appear in a team made up entirely of former Cup winners. He will join a host of former aces in a non-league side that will be entered for the game’s most coveted trophy.
China has announced that the second lunar probe, named Chang’e 2, will be launched before the end of 2011.
According to an official, this experimental satellite will mark the beginning of the second phase of China’s lunar exploration program.
The State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense stated that Chang’e 2 will carry out several experiments, which will involve five core technologies including orbital adjustments and soft landings.
Sydney, Nov. 13: Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting has received strong backing from Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland over the over rate debacle in the fourth Test against India.
Speaking at the launch of Ponting''''s Captain''''s Diary 2008, Sutherland backed Ponting''''s decision to bowl spinners and part-timers in a bid to reel back a slow over rate when wickets were needed to salvage the series, ultimately lost 2-0.
London, Nov 13 : Based on a new climate model, scientists have determined that had humans not radically altered the atmosphere by pumping massive amounts of carbon dioxide into it, the future might have seen a super ice age lasting millions of years.
According to a report in New Scientist, Thomas Crowley of the University of Edinburgh, UK, and William Hyde of the University of Toronto in Canada developed the climate model.
CO2 levels have slowly fallen from around 100 to 50 million years ago, possibly due to the rise of the Himalayas.
As a result, Earth has gradually cooled, with permanent ice sheets starting to form in Antarctica around 30 million years ago and later in the Arctic.