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London, Sept 21: Menopause may be a nightmare for women who experience hot flashes, but a new study has revealed that it also means– freeing women to be good grandmums.

Data from Africa reveals that menopause creates grandmums without young children and can increase the survival chances of their daughters' kids.

In the study, scientists have tried to find what advantage giving up reproducing could have.

Washington, Sept 21 : Actress Katherine Heigl will be bringing ‘Lost & Found’ to the bring screen after securing the film rights to the bestselling dramatic novel.

Though it’s not as yet known whether Heigl will star in the movie, she will be producing it along with her mother and producing partner Nancy Heigl through her new production banner Abishag.

The book, by Jacqueline Sheehan, is based on a widowed psychologist who moves to a remote Maine island and works in an animal hospital after her husband dies, reports Variety.

London, Sept 21: Lava flow could have covered features on Mars that appear to have experienced catastrophic flooding, and this could make future landing missions for search of past water on the Red Planet more troublesome, according to a new NASA study.

The results follow the detailed examination for more than three months by the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of the valley system called Athabasca Valles, which has long been interpreted as having been carved out by sudden, catastrophic flooding.

Washington, Sept 21 : Isla Fisher has signed on to star in "Confessions of a Shopaholic".

The Touchstone comedy will be directed by P.J. Hogan, and is based on the novels by Sophie Kinsella.

Kinsella is the pen name for Madeleine Wickham - a U.K.-based financial journalist.

Scripting the movie will be Tim Firth, reports the Hollywood Reporter.

The plot revolves around a compulsive shopper in Manhattan, played by Fisher, up to her neck in debt who ironically becomes a financial advice columnist.

London, Sept 21 : Ever wonder what a young William Shakespeare would have looked like? Well, according to a police artist, he was a dead ringer for boy wizard Harry Potter.

Metropolitan police artist Cathy Charley used the process of “age procession” to create an image of a young Shakespeare.

With the help of portraits of the playwright, Charley used her knowledge of how faces change over time to create a picture of the Bard while young by going back in time, reports The Sun.

London, Sept 21: Lava flow could have covered features on Mars that appear to have experienced catastrophic flooding, and this could make future landing missions for search of past water on the Red Planet more troublesome, according to a new NASA study.

The results follow the detailed examination for more than three months by the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of the valley system called Athabasca Valles, which has long been interpreted as having been carved out by sudden, catastrophic flooding.