London, Aug 7 : After being in the limelight for quite sometime, British Royal Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh, has now sought a privacy law to protect members of the Royal Family.

Taking a lead from the Max Mosley sex case, the Duke took action over an alleged invasion of privacy related to the family''s personal health, and hopes to prevent the media from reporting details of the royals'' private lives.

London, Aug 7 : The spooky antics of what is believed to be a ''ghostly power'', troubling a young family in Britain has been caught on video.

The family was living under constant fear following a ghostly presence in their house.

The spooky antics caught on video shows a bottle of water mysteriously tipping to the side. The astonishing shots of the assault show wounds gradually materialising from nowhere as the horrified victim displayed his reddened back to the camera.

London, August 7 : Amid fears that rising fuel prices may induce people to try different ways to improve their vehicles’ mileage, British motorist’s organisation RAC is urging drivers not to ape hardcore hypermilers — who go to amazing lengths to make their cars travel as far as possible on the least amount of fuel.

The organisation feels that there is a difference between being a cost-conscious motorist and a hypermiler.

Peterborough-based IT worker Karl Dyson, who has been a hypermiler for a few months, describes hypermiling as a mindset.

Compared to cost-consciousness, he says, hypermiling is a state when one is always trying to improve one’s driving techniques to cut fuel consumption.

London, August 7 : A treasure hunter, using a metal detector, has discovered a pure gold cross dating from the 7th century, which is worth at least 25,000 pounds.

The anonymous finder discovered the 1,400-year-old cross 12 inches beneath the sod on a farm in Nottinghamshire.

The specific location is being kept secret for fear that so-called Nighthawks will descend on it in case there is anything else to be found.

London, August 7 : German researchers have written a piece of software that enables robots to “learn” to move through trial and error.

Ralf Der, a professor at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MPI-MIS) in Leipzig, has revealed that the software mimics the interconnected sensing and processing of a brain in a so-called "neural network".

London, Aug. 7 : British troops deployed at the airport outside Basra when American units and thousands of Iraqi reinforcements arrived in March to launch an attack on Shia extremists in the city were itching to join in, but were prevented from doing so.

The Times quoted Brigadier Julian Free, the commander of 4 Mechanised Brigade, as saying that the troops wanted to be a part of the operation “to help the Iraqis”, but an order from Defence Secretary Des Browne stopped them from moving in.