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Its president has said that the five European Union members that have not yet recognized Kosovo appear to be moving towards recognition.

According to the reports of the EU Observer, Greece, one of the five, recognizes Kosovar passports, Fatmir Sejdiu said during a visit to Brussels.

Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in February 2008 and was recognized almost immediately by the United States, most EU member states and China. Serbia and Russia still say Kosovo is a breakaway region, and Cyprus, Romania, Slovakia and Spain are still holdouts in the European Union.

A retailer has said that vegetable seeds are outselling flower seeds in Britain as more people practice frugality, self-sufficiency and healthier living.

The retailer B&Q said that vegetable seed sales have increased nearly threefold in recent weeks when compared with the same time last year, which also saw a record increase of 30 percent over the year before,

Researchers in Australia have said that the presence of an attractive woman elevates testosterone levels in young men, increasing their capacity for physical risk.

Young adult men were asked by Richard Ronay and William von Hippel of the University of Queensland, to perform both easy and difficult tricks on skateboards, first in front of another male and then in front of a young, attractive female. The skateboarder's testosterone levels were measured after each trick.

British and Finnish researchers have found that the more babies danced to music, the more they smiled.

It was concluded by study leader Marcel Zenter of the University of York in England and Tuomas Eerola of the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, that babies may be born with a predisposition to move in response to rhythm and tempo and find it more engaging than speech.

A coroner has found that a woman died of eating poisonous mushrooms her niece found growing wild at a botanical garden in southern England.

The Times of London has reported that John Matthews, coroner for the Isle of Wight, released a verdict Thursday that Amphon Tuckey's death was an accident.

Both Tuckey and her niece, Kannika "Pern" Tuckey, ate the mushrooms, later identified as amanita phalloides, but the younger woman recovered after treatment at a London hospital.

According to doctors, a boy in Britain is doing well four days after surgeons used the boy's own stem cells and a transplanted windpipe to replace his trachea.

The Financial Times has reported that Martin Birchall of University College London said using the patient's own stem cells and body as a "bioreactor" could transform transplant surgery in the future.