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London, Feb 04 : Only eight out of 74 biggest Chinese cities have met the government's basic air quality standards in 2014, the environment ministry said.

The most polluted cities of China were in north-eastern Hebei, the province surrounding the capital city of Beijing. While the northern industrial city of Baoding had the dirtiest air, the southern city of Haikou, in Hainan province, was found to have the cleanest air, reported the BBC.

Beijing and Shanghai failed the assessment that was based on readings of pollutants such as PM2.5, PM10, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide and ozone.

The statement was published on environment ministry's website and noted that the 2014 outcome was an improvement over the previous year when just three cities met the air quality standards.

Washington, Feb 4 : Charlie Hunnam has hopped aboard James Gray's upcoming project ' Lost City Of Z '.

Los Angeles - Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown and Nick Gordon are not actually married, says the former's lawyer.

New Delhi - Salaries of top executives are likely to see double digit rise this year with compensations of CEOs and Managing Directors expected to grow by 10.2 percent and of those in senior management by 10.5 percent.

According to global management consultancy Hay Group, compensation of CEOs and MDs are expected to grow by 10.2 percent in 2014-15, slightly higher than 10 percent in 2013-14, and senior management members are set to see a 10.5 percent rise in their pay, up from 10.4 percent last year.

As per the annual Top Executive Compensation Report 2014-15, benefits are increasingly becoming smaller components in the overall compensation structure as organisations are moving towards a cash based renumeration structure.

New Delhi - India needs to grow at 7-8 percent a year to create more job opportunities for young people and double the size of the economy in 10 years, Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha said.

"We want to put India on sustainable non-inflationary growth trajectory of 7-8 percent growth. We need to have 7-8 percent growth to provide employment to young people that join workforce every year," Sinha said at 15th Delhi Sustainable Development Summit Wednesday.

"7-8 percent growth will double size of economy in the next 10 years. For this we need to build our productive capacity, but also need to ensure that our growth is sustainable," he added.

The minister also stressed upon need to protect the environment.

London, Feb 4 : NASA has recently revealed its plans to seek life on Jupiter's Europa Moon with the help of a probe.