London, Feb 12: Women's personality traits are written all over their faces, while men's are closed books, claims a new study.

According to the New Scientist study, simply by looking at females' faces one can tell if they're lucky, religious or trustworthy.

However, studying men''s faces gives no hint as to their character, the study found.

To reach the conclusion, researchers asked 1,000 people to send in photographs of themselves and fill in a detailed questionnaire about their personality and beliefs.

London, February 12: An independent body that advises the UK government on drug policy says that ecstasy causes slight memory difficulties and mild depression, but they rarely translate into problems in the real world.

The UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) came to this conclusion after undertaking the biggest ever review to determine whether ecstasy damages health in the long term.

The review suggests that smaller studies do show that some individuals have problems like weakened immunity and larger memory deficits, but for most people ecstasy seems to be nowhere near as harmful over time as one may have been led to believe.

London, Feb 12: Rebecca Loos, the woman made famous for her alleged affair with footballer David Beckham, has revealed that she is expecting a baby with her doctor boyfriend.

Beckham's former PA said the unplanned pregnancy came after she met the unnamed Norwegian medic last autumn.

"I wasn't planning to have a child, but it's going to be very loved. Becoming a mother will change everything. My years as a crazy, single woman are over," the Sun quoted her, 31, as saying.

London, Feb 12: Astronomers have claimed that swathes of dark comets may be prowling the solar system, posing a deadly threat to Earth.

According to a report in New Scientist, UK-based astronomers Bill Napier at Cardiff University and David Asher at Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland have made the claim that many such comets could be going undetected.

"There is a case to be made that dark, dormant comets are a significant but largely unseen hazard," said Napier.

In previous work, Napier and Janaki Wickramasinghe, also at Cardiff, have suggested that when the solar system periodically passes through the galactic plane, it nudges comets in our direction.

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London, Feb 12: A major collision between two satellites on February 10 has resulted in hundreds of pieces of debris floating in space that could pose a risk to other spacecraft.

According to a report in New Scientist, the accident happened between a defunct Russian Cosmos satellite and a communication satellite owned by the US firm Iridium, some 790 kilometers above northern Siberia.

"This is the first time that two intact spacecraft have accidentally run into each other," said Nicholas Johnson, chief scientist of NASA's Orbital Debris Program Office in Houston, Texas.