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London, Sep 18: Dame Helen Mirren’s lucky charm – her "stripper's shoes" – has paid off by getting her an Emmy for the second consecutive year.

The British actress, who won the award last year as well, scooped an Emmy for the best actress in a TV miniseries or movie for ‘Prime Suspect: The Final Act’, and in the same pair of shoes.

The actress bought the Perspex six-inch high stilettos in frenzy hours before last year's ceremony after realising that she had forgotten her high heels.

Sofia, Sept 18: Bulgarian archaeologists have unearthed an ancient Thracian tomb during excavations near the village of Cherniche.

The team of Georgi Nehrizov, a specialist in Thracian history and culture with the Bulgarian Archaeology Institute, stumbled accidentally on the tomb.

According to a Sofia News Agency report, the two metres long, 1.8 metres wide and two metres high sepulchre is dated back to the 4-3 century BC, and it is completely intact, along with the two-slope surface of the walls.

London, Sept 18: A team of researchers at Washington University has revealed that socks with tight elastic bands may result in infants getting lesions on their legs.

Sock-line bands are raised, reddish markings in the region of the ankle or leg, which occur after wearing a tight pair of socks just once.

According to the study, the marks fade but the raised lines remain.

However, the lesions appear to be harmless.

Since the condition has only recently been recognised, it is unclear whether scarring will be permanent.

Srinagar, Sept 18: As part of the training co-operation between the British and the Indian armed forces, a company of UK Marines is being trained jointly with a company of Indian Army paratroopers in high altitude warfare in the Ladakh Himalayas.

The exercise that began on Monday, and codenamed Himalayan Warrior, "has been planned to focus on training in super high altitude areas."

The joint training is being conducted over a period of five-weeks around Leh.

Washington, Sep 18: Scientists have shed more light on the use of statins, by discovering how a statin drug used against heart disease helps to unclog blood vessels from an excess of cholesterol and fats.

Canadian researchers say that the results help explain how the drug works and may provide ways to improve similar drugs in the future.

London, Sept 18: ‘Foo Fighters’ frontman Dave Grohl is known for his nice guy image, but it looks like the mere mention of Paris Hilton’s name is enough to turn the rocker nasty.

Grohl is said to have had a run-in with Hilton at a restaurant a few years ago, when the rocker claims the hotel heiress put on ‘the full princess attitude with the nose in the air’.

Calling the socialite ’f***ing’ lame, Grohl said that nothing can be more offensive to him than Hilton.