Mogadishu - Five suicide bomb attacks, including one on an Ethiopian embassy and one on a UN compound, rocked Somalia Wednesday, witnesses said.

Witness Farhaan Omaye told Deutsche Presse Agentur dpa that three near-simultaneous bombs went off in in Hargeysa, in the breakaway northern state of Somaliland.

The Ethiopian embassy and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) compound were targeted, as was Somaliland's presidential palace.

Two other bombs exploded in the semi-autonomous state of Puntland at the offices of the Puntland Intelligence Service in the port town of Bosasso, witness Mohamed Ali told dpa.

There was no immediate information on casualties.

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.