New York, Oct 29: American actor Zac Efron is in talks for Kevin Bacon''s iconic role in the Paramount remake of the movie ‘Footloose’.

Efron has been rumoured to take the lead role in the movie, and after he made 42 million dollars last weekend for ‘High School Musical
3’, Paramount has moved forward with production and hopes to start filming next spring.

Kenny Ortega will be directing the movie along with “Nick and Norah''s Infinite Playlist” director Peter Sollett, who will rewrite the script.

According to Variety magazine, the studio is also working on a slew of new songs to jazz up the soundtrack, reports New York Daily News.

London, Oct 29: The home planet of Star Trek’s hero Mr Spock could really exist, as per a new finding.

The find was made through a powerful telescope, which found rocky worlds around the star, Epsilon Eridani, which has Spock’s planet Vulcan orbiting in the TV show.

The star Epsilon Eridani is surrounded by two bands of rocky and metal fragments like the asteroid belt that lies beyond Mars in our solar system.

And NASA experts believe if they are there, rocky planets like Earth must be there too, and it boosts that chance that this new solar system could be inhabited.

Washington, October 29: An expert at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign says that rapid digitising may ultimately lead to a “digital dark age”, where digital photographs will become unreadable to future computers.

Jerome P. McDonough, an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the university, says that the issue of a looming digital dark age originates from the mass of data spawned by the ever-growing information economy — including electronic records, tax files, e-mail, music and photos.

He is afraid that data produced with ever-shifting platforms and file formats may eventually fall into a black hole of inaccessibility.

Jaipur, Oct 29 : At least five people were killed and 18 others injured when the bus in which they were traveling collided with a trailer truck near Khokra village in Pali district last night.

Bangkok - Thai shares started strong Wednesday but ended down 3.49 per cent as investors reacted to declines on other bourses in Asia and Europe.

New Delhi, Oct 29: Melanie Brown, who’s currently working on a solo album, has dropped her plans of releasing songs that talk about her bitter split from ex-lover Eddie Murphy.

Scary Spice said that she has decided to drop tracks ''Second Hand Lover'' and ''Reflections In A Broken Mirror'' from her album, insisting that she’s moved on, reports China Daily.

Mel told New! magazine: "I was keen to keep those songs in and then I thought, ''Why am I giving this jerk any reference? I have moved on!'' "