Washington, Oct 29: One of Hollywood’s greatest actresses Julia Roberts has laughed off reports of a sequel to her hit movie Pretty Woman, insisting that she’s too old to play a prostitute.

The now 41-year-old played the role of a ''hooker with a heart of gold'' in the 1990 movie, which also starred Richard Gere.

While telling TV show Extra at a charity event in California on October 27, the actress made it clear she had no plans of returning to the streets of Los Angeles.

The India's first unmanned moon mission, Chandryaan-1 seems to be moving according to the planned schedule, to cover up its journey to reach the moon.

"The Chandrayaan has covered almost half the distance to the moon. The Chandrayaan was launched on October 22 with the help of a homespun PSLV C-11 rocket; modified for India's first lunar expedition," reported project director M. Annadurai.

Washington, Oct 29 : A major new investigation by Australian scientists has revealed that rising carbon dioxide levels in the world’s oceans could deliver a disastrous blow to the ability of coral reefs to withstand climate change.

The investigation has revealed that acidification of the oceans from human CO2 emissions has the potential to worsen the impact of the bleaching and death of reef-building organisms expected to occur under global warming.

The study, by a team led by Dr Ken Anthony of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and the University of Queensland, concludes that earlier research may significantly understate the likely damage to the world’s reefs caused by man-made change to the Earth’s atmosphere.

New York, Oct 29: Realising that the mobile phones text messages are the most apt medium to reach out to the GenNext, the Barack Obama camp is learnt to have devised a novel idea of sending across SMSs giving detailed programmes of the Democratic presidential nominees and their polling booths.

In the states going to early-voting, the messages have already gone out, reported the New York Daily News.

In August too, Obama had used the same medium to inform his supporters that Joe Biden was his running mate.

Hong Kong - Hong Kong stocks end another day of volatile trading just in positive ground at 0.8 per cent higher Wednesday.

The blue-chip index closed 105 points up at 12,707 on a day which saw the index rise and fall like a rollercoaster.

At one point the index reached over 13,200 only to dip down below 12,400 and then climb back up again. Turnover was 59.2 billion Hong Kong dollars (7.6 billion US dollars).

This week has seen some of the most volatile trading in the last 10 years on the Hong Kong stock market with the index losing a huge 12.7 per cent Monday only to rebound 14.35 per cent Tuesday.

Frankfurt - European stocks stormed out of the gate Wednesday after hopes of lower interest rates led to a surge in shares across Asia and on Wall Street.

Amid expectations of the US Federal Reserve delivering another hefty cut in borrowing costs Wednesday, Europe's blue-chip Stoxx 50 rose 6.5 per cent to 2,191 in early trading.

This was reflected across national bourses with shares in London gaining more than 5 per cent and Paris jumping 6.5 per cent as the morning session got under way. Stocks in Zurich were up 4.4 per cent.

In addition the European Central Bank is expected to cut the cost of money at its meeting set down for next week.