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London, Feb 26 : Kevin Spacey will be awarded with a special prize for his outstanding contribution to the Old Vic at this year's Olivier Awards.

Caro Newling, president of the Society of London Theatre said that the advocacy of the Oscar-winner, who became artistic director at London's Old Vic in 2004 has been a constant boon, and they will miss him as a valued colleague, the BBC reported.

The 55-year-old director's final performance as the Old Vic's artistic director will see him revive his title role in 'Clarence Darrow', and previously appeared in several Old Vic productions during his tenure, including Richard II, Speed-The-Plow and Richard III.

Washington, Feb 26 : Kim Kardashian has revealed that she and her rapper husband Kanye West are trying their best to giver their daughter North West a sibling.

Washington, Feb 26 : An intriguing member of the Black hole family tree has been discovered, which may help provide answers to some long-standing questions about how black holes evolve and influence their surroundings.

Mar Mezcua of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said that in paleontology, the discovery of certain fossils can help scientists fill in the evolutionary gaps between different dinosaurs and they do the same thing in astronomy, but they often have to "dig" up our discoveries in galaxies that are millions of light years away.

The intriguing object, called NGC-2276-3c, is located in an arm of the spiral galaxy NGC 2276, which is about 100 million light years from Earth. NGC-2276-3c appears to be what astronomers call an "intermediate-mass black hole"

London, Feb 26 : The world's first full-body transplant, in which someone's head would be sewn onto a donor body, will be possible within two years, it has been revealed.

Controversial surgeon Sergio Canavero of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group in Italy believes that this technique can save the lives of people riddled with cancer or whose nerves and muscles have wasted away, the Independent reported.

Canavero said that he thinks people are now at a point when the technical aspects are all feasible. If society doesn't want it, he won't do it, but if people don't want it in the US or Europe, that doesn't mean it won't be done somewhere else.

Washington, Feb 26 - A team of scientists has discovered the brightest quasar in the early universe, powered by the most massive black hole yet known at that time.

The quasar SDSS J0100+2802, which is the one with the most massive black hole and the highest luminosity among all known distant quasars, marks an important step in understanding how quasars, the most powerful objects in the universe, have evolved from the earliest epoch, only 900 million years after the Big Bang, which is thought to have happened 13.7 billion years ago.

The discovery of this ultraluminous quasar, by astronomers from Peking University in China and from the University of Arizona, also presents a major puzzle to the theory of black hole growth at early universe, according to researcher Xiaohui Fan.

London, Feb 26 - The two top HSBC chiefs have reportedly apologised for "unacceptable" practices at its Swiss bank that helped clients evade millions of dollars in tax.