London- The recovery of the London stock market continued into a second day Tuesday as co-ordinated efforts to stabilize the financial sector pushed the Financial Times Share Index (Footsie) 4 per cent higher in early trading.

The Footsie rose by 157 points to 4,413.9 points during morning trading, but the shares of of leading banks remained volatile after the bail-out plans announced Monday.

Royal Bank of Scotland, which is in line to receive 20 billion pounds (35 billion dollars) under the cash injection scheme, was up 5 per cent, while Barclays' shares rose by

London, Oct. 14 : The British Ministry of Defence has confirmed that up to two million records of potential armed forces recruits have gone missing.

Last week the Ministry of Defence said a computer hard drive with the private details of 100,000 members of Army, Royal Navy and RAF personnel, of all ranks, had gone missing from the premises of contractor EDS in Hook, Hampshire.

London - British inflation rose to 5

London, Oct 14 : A new research has claimed to have found a possible new route taken by early modern humans as they expanded out of Africa to colonize the rest of the world, namely a “wet corridor” through Libya for ancient human migrations.

According to a report by BBC News, rivers once flowed from the central Saharan watershed all the way to the Mediterranean.

This might have enabled modern humans to spread beyond their ancestral homeland about 120,000 years ago.

London, October 14 : A team of French researchers has confirmed that "devils'' trails" preserved in volcanic ash atop the Roccamonfina volcano in Italy are the oldest human footprints, and that their owners were Homo heidelbergensis.

Study leader Stephane Scaillet, an expert from the Laboratory of Climatic and Environmental Sciences, has revealed that the research team used argon-dating techniques to verify the age of the prints.

"Their more rigorous methods confirm that these are the oldest human footprints ever found," New Scientists magazine quoted him as saying.

Based on when the volcano was thought to have last erupted, the researcher reckoned that the prints might have been between 385,000 and 325,000 years old.

London, Oct 14: Are we alone in the universe? Well, the mystery may be on the verge of being solved, for the Internet is buzzing with rumours that aliens are set to land on Earth today.

The rumours were triggered by American psychic Blossom Goodchild, who said the aliens had told her of their plans that a huge intergalactic spaceship will appear over the American desert.

She said they "come in love to help us and our planet move to a new higher vibration of love".

The rumour has promoted an unprecedented gambling rush, prompting bookmakers to suspend betting.