London, October 22: Moles can no longer open their eyelids after adapting to an underground lifestyle, but they have still managed to retain the basics of vision, according to a new study.

"What we think we''re seeing in the mole is the very start of a breakdown in the eye. I think the moles would have no problem seeing light and dark," New Scientist magazine quoted Martin Collinson, a developmental biologist at the University of Aberdeen, UK, as saying.

For their research, Collinson and his colleague David Carmona studied eye development in Iberian moles, whose eyelids are glued shut thanks to their adaptation to subterranean life.

London, Oct. 22 : Before becoming the undisputed dictator of Germany, Adolf Hitler marched his henchmen onto the streets of Munich to perpetrate the atrocity that became known as Kristallnact.

Newly deciphered passages from the diaries of Josef Goebbels show that on the night of November 9, 1938, the Fuhrer led Nazis to destroy an important synagogue, and deliberately throwing a match into a tinderbox.

That Nazi-era pogrom was prompted by the murder of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris on November 7, 1938 by Jewish teenager Herschel Grynszpan.

The pogrom has gone down in history as the “Night of the Broken Glass”.

Ljubljana - Queen Elizabeth II received a golden tea set Tuesday at the start of her three-day visit to Slovenia, her first since the Alpine-Adriatic republic claimed independence from former Yugoslavia.

Queen Elisabeth II and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, were whisked away from the airport outside the capital Ljubljana to meet their host, President Danilo Turk, at the nearby 16th century castle Brdo pri Kranju.

Upon arrival, the Queen, President Turk and their spouses posed for pictures and exchanged gifts.

London, Oct 21 : A man had paid a whopping 30,000 pounds for a water tower that he wished to convert into a "modern and funky pad" to share with his girlfriend, only to find he could reach there by helicopter or plane.

First time buyer Ashley Parsons has been told that driving or walking to the disused Ministry of Defence water tower could actually land him in prison, for his future love nest stands on private land.

The company that bought the land around the water tower refused to grant him with retrospective access rights because the directors do not want the tower to be redeveloped.

"It''s a horrible feeling but it won''t stop me and I''m glad I went ahead with the purchase,” The Telegraph quoted Parsons, as saying.

London, Oct 21 : Iranian security forces have arrested two pigeons for apparently spying near its Natanz nuclear facility.

According to the Etemad Melli newspaper, one of the pigeons captured near rose water production plant in the city of Kashan in Isfahan province had metal rings and "invisible" strings attached to it.

It is believed that the bird might have been communicating what it had seen with the equipment it was carrying.