London, Mar 25 : A Kazakhstan lady, who mothered ten children, will be celebrating her 130th birthday this week, making her the world's oldest person by 16 years.

Sakhan Dosova's age was discovered during a census in Karaganda in northern Kazakhstan, when the date of birth on her passport showed as 1879, which was the same year Edison invented the light bulb and Stalin and Einstein were born.

Dosova's age surprised demographers when they found that she had been on Stalin's first census of the former Soviet region in 1926, when her age was given as 47, and they are now trying to confirm the record.

London, Mar 25 : A Romanian teenager is auctioning her virginity online to pay her college tuition.

However, Alina Percea, 18, from Caracal in Olt county, Romania, has a long way to go before reaching her target of 50,000 pounds.

Alina is offering a weekend of unprotected sex but with just three days to go her highest bid is at 5,000 pounds.

The brunette posted her advert on a German dating website saying: "I want to meet a gentle, respectful and generous man.

"I have a gynaecologist's certificate proving I'm a virgin."

Providing the winning bidder has a health certificate showing that he is free of disease, Alina will forgo the use of condoms.

London, Mar 25 : French President Nicolas Sarkozy has continued the tradition of adding the `oomph' factor in his government. He has lined up glamorous TV news presenter Christine Kelly to replace Rachida Dati as the new face of ethnic diversity in the country.

Sarkozy has handpicked Kelly, 39, to become a leading figure in his government in his next reshuffle.

The move follows his decision to sack Dati, the 43-year-old justice minister and single mother who had been a role model for ethnic minorities.

London, March 25 : In a new research, scientists have suggested that alien worlds which are friendly to life could snap, crackle and pop, in the form of radio signals crackling from their magnetic fields.

According to a report in New Scientist, the research was conducted by Joseph Lazio at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC and colleagues.

When struck by high-energy particles in the solar wind, an exoplanet's magnetic field may produce radio signals from auroras in the planet's atmosphere.

London, Mar. 25 : A British Home Office counter-terrorism strategy report has warned that the country is at an increased risk of attack from nuclear and dirty bombs.

Terrorists "aspire to use chemical, biological, radiological and even nuclear weapons and explosives (CBRNE)," The Sun quotes the strategy paper, as saying.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith unveiled the document with the stark warning of the changing shape of terror threats.

London - Albania's former intelligence chief, who was wanted worldwide on torture and kidnapping charges, has been arrested in London, the BBC reported Tuesday.

Ilir Kumbaro, 55, had lived in Britain for 13 years under a false identity while receiving government assistance. He had convinced immigration authorities in 1996 that he was a refugee from Kosovo fleeing Serbian persecution.

He is accused of kidnapping and torturing at least three Albanians.