London, April 18 : At a meeting in the US city of Baltimore, parties to the Atlantic Treaty have adopted proposals to limit tourism in Antarctica, in a bid to protect the fragile ecosystem of the continent.

According to a report by BBC News, the parties agreed at the meeting to limit the size of cruise ships visiting Antarctica and the number of tourists taken ashore.

Limiting tourism has taken on urgency due to a surge in visits and a number of cruise ship accidents.

It’s really a miracle!

Nina Whear, a 38-year-old British woman, has beaten the odds to recover from heart operation conducted minutes after giving birth to two healthy twins, Evie and Alfie.

Nina was diagnosed with a potentially disastrous heart problem at nine months pregnant, and a critical caesarean delivery was carried out.

The doctors at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, have given just a 7% chance of her survival.

Even her hubby Andy Whear was told to say last "bye-bye" to Nina.

London, April 18 : Authorities in England have fined a woman after her noisy sex sessions with her husband even woke a partially deaf neighbour.

Randy Caroline Cartwright, 47, received a noise abatement notice last year following complaints about her bedroom antics with her factory worker husband Steve, 46.

However, their raucous romps continued, compelling their neighbours to file further complaints against them.

London, Apr 18 : Staying slim is not only beneficial for you but it''s also good for the planet, say scientists.

Scientists at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine''s department of epidemiology and population health say food production is a major contributor to global warming.

The research team suggested that a lean population will consume almost 20 per cent less food than a population in which 40 per cent of people are obese.

Transport-related emissions will also be lower if people are slim because it takes less energy to move them around.

London  - The man who died after being pushed to the ground by police at this month's London G20 summit died of internal bleeding, not a heart attack as previously said by police, a second postmortem revealed on Friday.

A police officer suspended after the incident has now been interviewed under caution on suspicion of manslaughter, a statement from the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said.

Close on the heels of Nokia reporting its first ever quarterly loss, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Ltd has also posted its third straight quarterly loss for the first quarter of 2009.

While pretax loss figures of the company stood at 370 million euros, as against the analysts' estimates of 371 million; the first-quarter net loss was 293 million euros, in comparison to the year-before profit of 133 million euros.