Oslo - British actor Michael Caine is to co-host the upcoming Nobel Peace Prize Concert along with US actress Scarlett Johansson, organizers said Wednesday.

Caine, a two-time Academy Award-winning actor, appeared with Johansson in the 2006 movie The Prestige.

He was knighted in 2000, the same year he won an Oscar for best supporting actor for Cider House Rules.

Washington, Oct 29 : Engineers with NASA''s Phoenix Mars Lander mission are trying to extend the lander''s survival by gradually shutting down some of its instruments and heaters.

Originally scheduled to last 90 days, Phoenix has completed a fifth month of exploration in the Martian arctic. 

As expected, with the Martian northern hemisphere shifting from summer to fall, the lander is generating less power due to shorter days and fewer hours of sunlight reaching its solar panels.

New Delhi, October 29: Lindsay Lohan, who has reportedly dropped from size 10-12 to a drastic 6, has left friends worried over her diminishing health.

The ‘Mean Girls’ actress had earlier denied rumours claiming that she had fallen victim to an eating disorder and had been bitten by the size zero bug, reports China Daily.

Friends of the 22-year-old, who is believed to have lost 14 lbs, were concerned that the singer might have taken things too far with herself.

Washington, Oct 29: Scientists have said that NASA satellite data can improve forecasts of dust storms in the American Southwest in ways that can benefit public health managers.

Led by investigators Stanley Morain of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and William Sprigg of the University of Arizona in Tucson, scientists evaluated the influence of space-based observations on predictions of dust storms.

Using NASA satellite data, forecasters could more accurately predict the timing of two out of three dust events.

Damascus - A Syrian court reduced the sentences for twelve political activists on Wednesday who had been handed six-year jail terms for "publishing false news and threatening Syria's national morale."

Syria last December arrested the activists for their association with an organization called "Damascus Declaration group."

Established in 2005, the group includes Syrian intellectuals and calls for democratic reform in Syria and the recognition of Lebanon as an independent state.

The Syrian court reduced the original prison sentence from six years to two and a half years.

London, October 29: Eva Mendes has revealed that she likes to stay away from the ‘size zero’ bug and eats whatever she wants, whenever she wants.

The 34-year-old actress, whose semi-clad appearance in an ad for Calvin Klein’s perfume was deemed too sexy to be shown on U. S. TV, said that she was not daunted by the amount of calories she takes.

“I’m like every other girl across the globe – I love chocolate and I hate working out. I like to eat. I cannot hold back. I cannot skip a meal,” the Daily Express quoted her as telling the Grazia magazine.