London, Oct 24 : Scientists are developing an optical distress beacon for astronauts working outside their spacecraft, which would enable their screams for help to be heard in space in case of an emergency.

According to a report in New Scientist, the device could provide an alert if an astronaut is unable to speak or radio links fail.

The distress beacon will be attached to sensors monitoring heartbeat or breathing, and will have LEDs visible up to 800 meters away.

“The astronaut might even flash them to send messages in Morse code,” said Sarah Harris of Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, who is developing the device with staff at the Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California.

Washington, Oct 24 : In a new study, scientists have established that hypnosis can trigger "synesthetic" experiences – where one sense triggers the involuntary use of another – within an average br

Frankfurt - The euro hit a three-year low Friday of below 1.

Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Friday rejected a Breach of Privilege notice against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The notice on Breach of privilege was given on the issue of Indo-US nuclear deal.

But after that the house witnessed a war of words broke out between speaker and two members of Left parties. And Chatterjee left the proceeding in the mid way of the discussion all of a sudden. The two left leaders include CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta and CPI (M) leader Basudev Acharya.

Railway Minister Lalu Yadav requested Chatterjee not to leave the house, but upset Chatterjee left the house and said that the Left leaders were deliberately making allegations against the Chair.

Jerusalem - The ultra-Orthodox Shas party decided Friday morning not to join a coalition led by Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, dealing a serious blow to her efforts to form the government by early next week, Israel Radio reported.

The party's Council of Torah Sages, headed by Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yoseph, decided in a conference call Friday morning to reject the final offer she had made for raising child allowances for large families, a top priority for the party.

New Delhi - At least eight militants were killed in separate clashes with security forces in India's north-eastern state of Manipur, police said Friday.

"Police commandos and paramilitary forces killed five militants from the banned Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) in an encounter near a village 30 kilometres from state capital Imphal on Thursday night," a state police officer said by telephone, requesting anonymity.