Los Angeles - David Beckham will return to the Los Angeles Galaxy next month after efforts to turn a loan at AC Milan into a transfer to the Italian giants fell through.

Galaxy general manager and coach Bruce Arena said on Friday that Milan had not submitted an improved offer for the England midfielder Beckham by a deadline on the day.

"Today's deadline imposed by Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber regarding a resolution of David Beckham's potential transfer to AC Milan has passed and we did not receive an acceptable offer for the player," said Arena.

Washington, Feb 14 : James Morrison and Nelly Furtado have topped the Europe

Washington, Feb 14 : Ashlee Simpson and hubby Pete Wentz have quashed rumours that their newborn son is nursing a broken arm, and have claimed that the baby is "fine".

Reports about their son Bronx Mowgli's bad health surfaced after the singer-cum-actress cancelled an appearance at an Eleven Spa Vegas party in Nevada on February
11.

However, according to E! Online, a representative for Simpson-Wentz has slammed the claims, blaming her no-show on scheduling issues.

"It''s not true. Everything is fine," Contactmusic quoted the spokesperson as saying.

Washington, Feb 14 : After reporting excess calcium as an indicator of prostate cancer, researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin have now identified an even more accurate biomarker of the life-threatening disease-high levels of ionised serum calcium.

The new finding can help provide some direction for men diagnosed with prostate cancer, about whether their cancer is likely to be fatal or not.

"Scientists have known for many years that most prostate cancers are slow-growing and that many men will die with, rather than of, their prostate cancer," said Dr. Gary G. Schwartz, senior author of the study.

Washington, Feb 14 : By tracking the migration of songbirds, scientists have found that they have, till now, underestimated the birds'' flight performance dramatically, and have determined that the species actually fly 3 times faster than expected.

Bridget Stutchbury, a professor of biology in University of York''s Faculty of Science and Engineering, and her team, fitted some songbirds with tiny geolocator backpacks, in order to track the migration route that the birds take.

"Never before has anyone been able to track songbirds for their entire migratory trip," said Stutchbury. "We''re excited to achieve this scientific first," she added.

Washington, Feb 14 : Brit singer M. I. A. has revealed that she is hoping to have her baby on St. Valentine''s Day, after she failed to go into labour at the Grammys.

The pop star had been performing at the Grammy Awards on February 8, along with Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, T. I. and Kanye West, when she started having contractions backstage.

As her fiance Benjamin Brewer was timing her contractions with a stopwatch, M. I. A. said backstage at the Grammys that if the baby was not born then, it might be born on St. Valentine''s Day.