London, Oct 25 : Abba-themed musical ‘Mamma Mia!’ is all set to become the highest grossing film of all time at the British box office.

The film, set on an idyllic Greek Island, has so far taken 66.2 million pounds in the UK since its release on July 18.

"Mamma Mia! is pure escapism, providing a fun and inexpensive way to forget about the state of the economy for a couple of hours," the Telegraph quoted David Kosse, the president of Universal Pictures International, as saying.

The film, cost 28 million pounds to make, has taken 342 million pounds in box offices around the world.

London, Oct 25 : Popstar Cat Stevens alias Yusuf Islam has rebuffed claims that Israeli security services objected to his entry into the country, claiming that it was he who backed out due to other date conflicts.

The grapevine has it that Stevens, who converted to Islam in 1977, was invited to headline an October 27 peace concert to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Peres Centre for Peace, an organisation backed by Israeli President Shimon Peres.

Uri Savir, a former Israeli diplomat and negotiator who heads the Peres Centre, earlier said that when Stevens’ passport details were submitted for a "conventional security check", it sparked a "huge row".

London, Oct 25: The rise in demand of electronic products like plasma TV’s is resulting in a boost in atmospheric levels of a potent greenhouse gas known as nitrogen trifluoride (NF3).

According to a report in Nature News, nitrogen trifluoride is an extremely potent greenhouse gas used in the electronics industry, which is at least four times more abundant in the atmosphere than previously thought.

Scientists recommend that to better control its use, NF3 should be added to the list of gases regulated under future climate-change agreements.

Washington, Oct 25: Researchers at Queen Mary, University of London, have found that bumblebees use flower scent to guide their nest-mates to good food sources.

Creatures like bees, who generally have societies of their own, tell their peers about food-rich sites and ''recruit'' them to the search.

Honeybees use waggle dance to inform their nest-mates about the distance and direction of a food source.

However, bumblebees communicate geographical information by releasing a recruitment pheromone in the nest to encourage their colleagues to venture out in search of food.

London - British music company EMI reported a loss of 757 million pounds (1.2 billion dollars) in its first year as part of the private equity group Terra Firma, news reports said Saturday.

Revenues dropped by 19 per cent to 1.46 billion pounds in the business year ending on March 31, according to earnings data released the previous day in an annual review by Maltby Capital, through which investor Guy Hands' Terra Firma owns EMI Music.

London - London police gave the all-clear Friday afternoon after a suspicious piece of luggage had earlier forced the evacuation of the London City Airport.

Authorities said there was no connection to terrorist activity.

The airport was evacuated around 1330 GMT after several passengers began coughing and complaining of medical irritations. No passengers fell seriously ill and the airport was re-opened two hours after it was closed. Some flights were canceled or re-routed.