London, Nov 1 : England captain Kevin Pietersen has already agreed to join the mega-bucks Indian Premier League.

The England skipper, currently playing in the Stanford Super Series, just needs the green light from the English cricket board.

English cricket’s governing body had hoped the lure of 600,000 pound for winning in Antigua would see players resist the call of Twenty20 in the sub-continent, The Sun reported.

London, November 1 : A Chinese research team has moved a step closer to realising flat speakers that will be much cheaper than the existing ones, for they have found that sheets made of carbon nanotubes behave like a loudspeaker when zapped with a varying electric current.

Shoushan Fan and his colleagues at Tsinghua University and Beijing Normal University have become the research team to study the acoustic properties of nanotubes.

For their study, the researchers created a think sheet by roughly aligning many 10-nanometer-diameter carbon nanotubes.

London, Nov 1 : The England cricket team should not be called England on their misguided mission to win a huge pot of money.

That is the opinion of Bob Willis, who has been horrified at some of the antics in Antigua.

The former Test captain has watched as Kevin Pietersen’s team has become the playthings of Sir Allen Stanford — a Texan billionaire with an uncontrollable ego.

“This is the national cricket team and that should stand for dignity and prestige built up over many years. It means this 20million dollar match is a very different situation from tennis players or golfers earning a lot of money for exhibition matches,” The Sun quoted Willis, as saying.

London, Nov 1 : Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney has been cautioned for spitting at a photographer and forced to pen a grovelling apology to his victim.

The Manchester United ace finally said sorry last night when he attended a police station in central London.

Rooney, 22, spat on Lee Simmons’s back as he left a restaurant in the capital with wife Coleen, also 22.

London, November 1 : A rampant Madonna fan was thrown out of Guy Ritchie’s pub for tossing insults at the singer’s estranged hubby over their divorce.

The Brit director was shouted out at ‘The Punchbowl’ in London after Guy had been celebrating his father’s 80th birthday.

The crazed fan, who fired taunts and allegations at the 40-year-old over his much publicised split with the Queen of Pop, was reported to the cops by the staff and was ultimately taken away for questioning.

As he was being dragged away, the Madonna enthusiast managed to spill a drink over other guests while denting a Mercedes, claiming he had CIA connections.

London, Nov 1 : Scientists at the University of California, Irvine, have claimed that they have found a way to improve and even restore cognitive function in people suffering from fragile X, the most commonly inherited form of learning disability.

Fragile X is caused by mutation of a gene called FMRl on the X chromosome.

The mutation prevents the brain from developing properly, leading to a form of mental retardation that has long been considered untreatable.

However, researchers, led by Julie Lauterborn, have now devised a new way to improve and even restore cognitive function not only in people suffering from fragile X, but in people with other cognitive impairments as well.