London, Nov 4 : New York-based billionaire businessman Donald Trump’s contentious plans to transform a wild and windswept stretch of the Aberdeenshire coastline into an exclusive 1 billion pound golf resort have been approved by the Scottish Government.

Trump said he was “deeply honoured” by the decision, which follows a local planning inquiry.

Soon after Trump submitted his plans for a golf resort, he made clear that he expected officialdom’s approval. With characteristic bluntness, the property billionaire told an interviewer: “I’m going to get it.”

London, Nov 4 : Italian soccer star Marco Materazzi today accepted substantial undisclosed damages over Daily Mail articles which said that he has used vile racist abuse to French captain Zinedine Zidane.

As the world speculated about why French captain Zidane had felled Italian player Materazzi with a head-butt in the 2006 World Cup final, newspapers rushed to fill the void.

The Daily Mail was forced to pay “substantial” libel damages to the Italian star for alleging that it was “vile racist abuse” that had provoked Zidane to bring his final match in a France shirt to such an ignominious end.

London, Nov 4 : A group of Army wives have found a ‘sexy’ way to help their hero soldiers—pose naked.

A number of women between 23-29 years have posed nude with a bit of their husbands’ military gear for a 2009 calendar titled Garrison Girls.

The move was organised by Sarah Bennett Thurston, a mum-of-three, who claims that she was by the 2003 film Calendar Girls, in which members of the Women’s Institute made a nude calendar.

“Our aim is to raise 64,000pounds. We couldn’t do that with cake sales or raffles,” The Sun quoted her as saying.

She added: “I loved the idea, talked to friends about it and soon had volunteers ranging from a high-ranking officer’s wife to a new recruit’s wife.

London, Nov 4 : While organisms are known for their ability to reproduce, scientists have now successfully created an artificial material that can repeatedly copy itself.

The scientists claimed that a careful designing of these sequences, could enable them to build various structures from them, like microscopic relief maps of the Americas.

Using micrometre-scale particles, scientists showed that when in solution, these particles self-organise into units capable of reproducing.

"While nature teems with organisms that readily reproduce, no one has yet succeeded in making an artificial material that can repeatedly copy itself," New Scientist quoted Paul Chaikin and colleagues at New York University, US, as saying.

London, Nov 4 : Mariah Carey is going to have all her diva demands met at the World Music Awards in Monaco, according to reports.

The organisers are planning to spoil her - they are going to spend 10,000 pounds on a private jet that will pick her after her ‘X Factor’ performance and take her to Monaco for the 20th anniversary celebrations, say sources.

It will be the first time she will be seen there with her husband Nick Cannon.

London, November 4 (ANI): A Government body in the UK is urging firms to appoint tea monitors so as to ensure that people do not waste water.

Envirowise, funded by the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, suggests that firms use teapots instead of making individual cups of tea, and try to re-introduce tea urns to the workplace.

The agency is of the opinion that such a step could cut greenhouse gas emissions, and thereby help business houses save money.

Envirowise reckons that more than 30 billion cups of water are unnecessarily boiled each year.