London, Mar 27 : A team of Indian military boffins has been tasked with a particularly tricky mission: to develop a curry to be consumed by astronauts in space.

Last month India had approved a 1.1-billion pound manned mission, and plans to send a man into space by 2015 and hopes to send some familiar food with him.

However, making food that tastes good in space can be a tedious task, according to A. S. Bawa, the director of the Defence Food Research Laboratory (DFRL), who is tackling the project.

Bawa said his team faced several hurdles.

London, March 27 : US billionaire Charles Simonyi has become the first space tourist to make a trip to the International Space Station (ISS) twice.

According to a report by BBC News, Simonyi, aged 60, was part of the three-member crew aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket that blasted off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome.

The software tycoon, who has paid 35 million dollars (24 million pounds) for his trip, will be the last tourist for the foreseeable future.

London, Mar. 27 : Gurkha veterans, who have fought wars for Britain, will be given the right to stay in this country following a "legal first" in which the High Court had to enforce its own ruling against the Government.

The news came as the Gurkhas returned to court to enforce a legal victory they won last September, when a High Court judge ruled that the Government''s existing immigration policy excluding them was unlawful.

London, Mar 27 : Women who stop smoking early enough in pregnancy can cut the risk of having premature or small babies, says a new study.

The British Medical Journal study suggests that pregnant females who do not quit by 15 weeks, are three times more likely to give birth prematurely and twice as likely to have small babies compared to women who have stopped smoking.

London, March 27 : Scientists at NASA have identified dozens of mounds or domes in the northern plains of Mars, which they say bear a striking resemblance to mud volcanoes.

According to a report by BBC News, the domes on the Red Planet were detected using images taken by NASA''s Mars Odyssey spacecraft, and Carlton Allen and Dorothy Oehler of NASA''s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Infrared data also show the domes cool more quickly at night than the surrounding rock, as one might expect if they were made of sediment.

London, Mar 27 : Follow your mum's advice and drink tea five to ten minutes after making, for a new study has found, steaming tea increases the risk of throat cancer.

The British Medical Journal research claims that drinking very hot tea (70 degree Celsius or more) can raise the risk of cancer of the oesophagus, the muscular tube that carries food from the throat to the stomach.

Cancers of the oesophagus kill more than 500,000 people worldwide each year and oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is the commonest type.