London - Shoppers in Britain were Thursday flocking to catch a bargain at the Woolworths retail chain faced with closure by the end of the year after administrators failed to find a buyer for the traditional High Street chain.

More than 30,000 staff at 815 outlets across Britain could face redundancies after accountancy firm Deloitte announced that efforts to rescue the 99-year-old chain had failed.

Deloitte has said that some shops could close for good by the end of the year, while talks would be held with the trade unions over redundancies.

London, December 11 : Kate Winslet has revealed that she has the delivery room to thank for making her drop her clothes onscreen without any inhibitions.

The `Titanic' star said that nudity was not an issue with her since she did it for aesthetic reasons and confessed that her time in the delivery room had taught her to wave goodbye to her vanity and self-consciousness.

Johannesburg - The British government minister responsible for Africa, Mark Malloch Brown, was due to hold talks with South Africa's Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Thursday about the situation in neighbouring Zimbabwe, where a cholera outbreak has killed close to 800 people.

South Africa's foreign ministry spokesman Ronnie Mamoepa confirmed that Malloch Brown would be visiting Dlamini-Zuma before later meeting Zimbabwean refugees at a church in downtown Johannesburg.

Malloch Brown's visit comes after South Africa this week ruled out taking part in any military intervention in Zimbabwe to depose President Robert Mugabe.

London - Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez has called on his side to make sure they are still head of the domestic pack when European competition resumes in February.

They lead the Premier League by a point, but the big question mark over them is the depth of their squad, and Benitez knows that the next few weeks, in the gap between the Champions League group stage and the start of the knockouts, is critical.

"We now have almost three months to concentrate on the Premier League, and the FA Cup," he told reporters.

London, Dec 11: The “best meal” Prince Harry had had during his secret 10-week deployment was a charity box containing Sainsbury's packet curry.

This revelation was made at the Woman's Own Children of Courage award ceremony, where the Prince gave young children bravery awards.

Keaton Peppiatt, 10, from Bexhill in East Sussex, who was being awarded for his donation of 400 provisions boxes to frontline troops in Afghanistan to raise morale, was among the children who spoke to the Prince.

London, Dec 11: A new study has suggested that large and distant ocean worlds could provide a last refuge for life around Sun-like stars, long after the heat of the stars’ red giant phase sterilizes closer-in, Earth-like planets.

According to a report in New Scientist, the study was led by Werner von Bloh of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.

Stars similar in mass to the Sun swell to become red giants at the end of their lives, engulfing their inner planets and roasting slightly more distant ones.

The Sun itself is scheduled to enter this phase around 5 billion years from now, which should bake to death any remaining life here even before the planet is swallowed up altogether.