London, August 22 : A three-year space survey has produced the first detailed global guide to the location of flashes of light in the Earth''s upper atmosphere, which are referred to as elves, sprites, halos and jets.

According to a report in New Scientist, these are "transient luminous events" - brief flashes of light -in the upper atmosphere during thunderstorms.

Their precise origins are largely a mystery, but an analysis of satellite photographs has revealed surprising details about the spooky lights'' preferred habitats.

Though sprites, jellyfish-shaped flashes brighter than Venus, had till now received the most attention from researchers, this new survey relegates them to second place.

According to statistics, approximately half of population in UK suffers from back pain.

The recent research in Britain has shown that a 100-year-old relaxation method known as 'Alexander Technique' is very helpful in curing chronic back pain.

Under this technique, patients learn proper ways of sitting, standing and walking. It has been named after its founder, Australian actor Frederick Matthias Alexander.

London, Aug 22 : New York Senator Hillary Clinton’s youngest brother has met a top aide to the Republican presidential candidate John McCain, fuelling rumours that some people close to the former First Lady are actively working against Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama.

Tony Rodham, who held a fundraising event for Hillary in Pennsylvania when she was battling against Obama in the Democratic primaries, met Carly Fiorina, McCain’s senior economic adviser in the state.

London, Aug 22: The trial of Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl will be held behind closed doors, a court official has revealed.

The public and press will “quite certainly” be excluded to protect his victims in Sankt Poelten, Austria, he said.

This implies that the full story of how Fritzl kept daughter Elisabeth caged as a sex slave for 24 years may never be known.

Elisabeth, 42, had seven children by her evil father, 74.

Three were taken to live upstairs with Fritzl and wife Rosemarie, 69.

Northgate Technologies Limited, e-commerce and online advertisement solutions provider, has informed that its wholly-owned subsidiary named Axill Europe Ltd, has acquired Reuter's London (UK) based high end data centre infrastructure, for undisclosed amount.

The data centre with over 8000 sq feet area is located at a close proximity to company’s existing server farms in London which is the Global hub for all internet based services.

London, Aug 21 : A boomerang collected by Captain James Cook on his first voyage to Australia could fetch up to 60,000pounds at an auction in London.

The explorer collected the strange, crooked stick in 1770 while surveying Australia, but he had no idea what it was for, or even what it was called.

He thought that it was a wooden sword; his botanist, Sir Joseph Banks, believed it to be a short scimitar.