London, Nov 4 : Italian soccer star Marco Materazzi today accepted substantial undisclosed damages over Daily Mail articles which said that he has used vile racist abuse to French captain Zinedine Zidane.

As the world speculated about why French captain Zidane had felled Italian player Materazzi with a head-butt in the 2006 World Cup final, newspapers rushed to fill the void.

The Daily Mail was forced to pay “substantial” libel damages to the Italian star for alleging that it was “vile racist abuse” that had provoked Zidane to bring his final match in a France shirt to such an ignominious end.

Washington, November 4 : Kelly Osbourne, who has been dating model Luke Worrall for four months, has sparked rumours after she was spotted sporting a diamond ring on her wedding finger.

The 24-year-old, who has raised eyebrows after allegedly moving in with her beau, has been speculated to tie the knot with her 18-year-old beau, reports Contactmusic.

However, the daughter of rocker Ozzy and ‘X Factor’ host Sharon Osbourne has denied the claims insisting that it was too soon to thinking on those lines.

Though there has been no confirmation of an engagement, the pair is reportedly planning to move in together in Osbourne''s adopted home of Los Angeles.

London, Nov 4 : A group of Army wives have found a ‘sexy’ way to help their hero soldiers—pose naked.

A number of women between 23-29 years have posed nude with a bit of their husbands’ military gear for a 2009 calendar titled Garrison Girls.

The move was organised by Sarah Bennett Thurston, a mum-of-three, who claims that she was by the 2003 film Calendar Girls, in which members of the Women’s Institute made a nude calendar.

“Our aim is to raise 64,000pounds. We couldn’t do that with cake sales or raffles,” The Sun quoted her as saying.

She added: “I loved the idea, talked to friends about it and soon had volunteers ranging from a high-ranking officer’s wife to a new recruit’s wife.

London, Nov 4 : While organisms are known for their ability to reproduce, scientists have now successfully created an artificial material that can repeatedly copy itself.

The scientists claimed that a careful designing of these sequences, could enable them to build various structures from them, like microscopic relief maps of the Americas.

Using micrometre-scale particles, scientists showed that when in solution, these particles self-organise into units capable of reproducing.

"While nature teems with organisms that readily reproduce, no one has yet succeeded in making an artificial material that can repeatedly copy itself," New Scientist quoted Paul Chaikin and colleagues at New York University, US, as saying.

London, Nov 4 : Mariah Carey is going to have all her diva demands met at the World Music Awards in Monaco, according to reports.

The organisers are planning to spoil her - they are going to spend 10,000 pounds on a private jet that will pick her after her ‘X Factor’ performance and take her to Monaco for the 20th anniversary celebrations, say sources.

It will be the first time she will be seen there with her husband Nick Cannon.

Washington, Nov 4 : Jennifer Aniston has nothing but praise for her ‘Marley and Me’ co-star Owen Wilson.

The actress tells the L. A. times that Wilson is “brave, funny and sweet” and was great to work with.

"Owen Wilson is so divine in this film. I''ve never seen him play a part like this. He was a man; he was a husband; he was a father," People quoted her, as saying.

Aniston also spoke about Wilson’s personal struggles, which included hospitalized in 2007 for an apparent suicide attempt.