After a descent from the international space station, the Soyuz TMA-12 capsule carrying a British-born space tourist Richard Garriott and two cosmonauts landed the earth safely at 0337GMT in north-central Kazakhstan.

Richard, acomputer game designer, conducted various scientific experiments during his 10-day stay on the orbiting station, for which he paid an estimated $30 million to the Russian government.

Search and recovery crews extracted Richard Garriott, Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko from the capsule.

Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Friday rejected a Breach of Privilege notice against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The notice on Breach of privilege was given on the issue of Indo-US nuclear deal.

But after that the house witnessed a war of words broke out between speaker and two members of Left parties. And Chatterjee left the proceeding in the mid way of the discussion all of a sudden. The two left leaders include CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta and CPI (M) leader Basudev Acharya.

Railway Minister Lalu Yadav requested Chatterjee not to leave the house, but upset Chatterjee left the house and said that the Left leaders were deliberately making allegations against the Chair.

Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham is ready to entice Indian fans as cover girl for Vogue India’s November issue wearing a traditional Indian Bridal Sari.

According to sources, the magazine will hit the stands within a week.

While commenting upon her new image, she said, “I’ve never played safe with my image.”

Beckham, who has been living in Hollywood for the last 18 months with her family, has been working on her fashion ranges.
 
When she slipped on a Tarun Tahiliani lehenga, Victoria exclaimed, “I feel like an Indian princess!”

The Maharastra Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) has arrested a sadhvi in connection with the Malegaon blasts. She is identified as Pragya Singh Thakur.  Five people were killed in Malegaon blasts in last September.

Earlier ATS claimed that extremist Hindu groups were behind the Malegaon blasts. This has triggered a political controversy in the state.

According to an Official of ATS, "same group could also be behind the blast in Modasa in Gujarat the same day."

ATS got the links through the motor cycle used in the blast.

The BJP denied the charges made by ATS. Party general secretary Gopinath Munde said, "Hindu groups cannot be involved in blasts."

Dengue took the death toll to four when a 21-year-old, Rupesh Kumar Mishra died at a city’s nursing home by suffering from the same.

The deceased who originally hailed from Jaunpore in Uttar Pradesh was living with his father at Bechu Chatterjee Street in Ward 38, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and was admitted to the nursing home on Saturday.

A recent survey by an insurance company, ‘Sheila’s Wheels’ revealed that women wearing heels while driving cars stand a chance of risking their lives. It was reported that out of every five female car drivers, four are at risk due to inappropriate footwear they endorse while driving.

The company questioned around 750 women out of which 75 admitted that they have experienced accident or a “near miss” as their footwear slipped or got under the pedals and made driving difficult. A quarter of them agreed that before they started to drive even though they believed that the shoes they are wearing are uneasy denied of changing them as they felt it wouldn’t bother them that much.