Washington, Oct 25 : A new study by researchers at the University of California-Davis has suggested that making vegetable juice a daily habit could be a small step that can lead to big changes in meeting daily vegetable recommendations.

For the study, the researchers looked at three groups of healthy men and women. All three groups received dietary counselling on ways to get more vegetables, but only two of the groups were instructed to consume at least one serving of vegetable juice, in the form of V8 100 percent vegetable juice each day.

Of those two groups, one drank one 8-ounce glass of vegetable juice every day and the other drank two 8-ounce glasses of vegetable juice every day as part of a balanced eating plan.

London, Oct 25 : Abba-themed musical ‘Mamma Mia!’ is all set to become the highest grossing film of all time at the British box office.

The film, set on an idyllic Greek Island, has so far taken 66.2 million pounds in the UK since its release on July 18.

"Mamma Mia! is pure escapism, providing a fun and inexpensive way to forget about the state of the economy for a couple of hours," the Telegraph quoted David Kosse, the president of Universal Pictures International, as saying.

The film, cost 28 million pounds to make, has taken 342 million pounds in box offices around the world.

London, Oct 25 : Popstar Cat Stevens alias Yusuf Islam has rebuffed claims that Israeli security services objected to his entry into the country, claiming that it was he who backed out due to other date conflicts.

The grapevine has it that Stevens, who converted to Islam in 1977, was invited to headline an October 27 peace concert to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Peres Centre for Peace, an organisation backed by Israeli President Shimon Peres.

Uri Savir, a former Israeli diplomat and negotiator who heads the Peres Centre, earlier said that when Stevens’ passport details were submitted for a "conventional security check", it sparked a "huge row".

London, Oct 25: The rise in demand of electronic products like plasma TV’s is resulting in a boost in atmospheric levels of a potent greenhouse gas known as nitrogen trifluoride (NF3).

According to a report in Nature News, nitrogen trifluoride is an extremely potent greenhouse gas used in the electronics industry, which is at least four times more abundant in the atmosphere than previously thought.

Scientists recommend that to better control its use, NF3 should be added to the list of gases regulated under future climate-change agreements.

New Delhi: It’s certainly not a good news for those who wanted to purchase Maruti this Diwali. India’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki has announced an increase in prices of its selected models by upto Rs 6,000 just ahead of Diwali. The price hike on select models would range between Rs 2,000 and Rs 6,000.

In a press release, the company said, “'The company has announced a marginal price hike of between 0.7 per cent to 1.1 per cent (between Rs 2000 to Rs 60000) in the ex-showroom prices of its cars.”

The price of the entry model ‘800cc’car have been hiked by Rs 2,000, while ‘Alto’ will cost Rs 2,500 more.

Nokia has come up with its new N85 multimedia phone collection for the Indian consumers. Nokia N85 is a dual slider phone which promises to give its buyers a whole new package that one looks for in a ‘smart phone’.  

Devinder Kishore, the Director- Marketing of Nokia India said, “The Nokia N85 was created to be more than the sum of its parts, offering a complete mobile entertainment package. Combined with landscape gaming and dedicated gaming keys for additional comfort, the Nokia N85 breaks the boundaries of mobile gameplay,”