London - British retail giant Marks & Spencer reported Thursday a steep fall in sales over the summer months in a further sign of the economic downturn, figures showed.

London, October 2: Computers can read mammograms to spot breast cancer nearly as effective as experts, according to a new study.

Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Cancer Research UK study involved two teams for reading mammograms: first comprising a radiologist and a computer, while the second consisting of two radiologists.

Computer-aided detection found 198 out of 227 cancers as compared to 199 from double-reading during the study involving 28,000 women.

The researchers behind the study believe say that an efficacious computer-aided detection means that the same number of experts can read more mammograms in a given period of time, and thus screenings can be offered to more number of women.

London, October 2: In a new strategy proposed by NASA, astronauts would have to undergo a tough lunar endurance mission camp on the Moon before they are even considered for a mission to Mars.

According to a report in New Scientist, NASA chief Mike Griffin has outlined the punishing lunar endurance mission that would have to be completed before NASA could ever consider sending humans to Mars.

London, Oct 1: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s wife, Cherie Blair, has predicted that history will judge her husband as significant a world figure as Sir Winston Churchill.

Blair also admitted that she was not a success in her role as “First Lady”, and was ridiculed by Tory MPs for comparing her husband to Britain’s greatest wartime leader, The Telegraph reported.

London, October 1: Four never-seen-before letters written by Princess Diana to her ex-nanny have fetched a staggering 21,000 pounds.

The letters went under the hammer on September 30.

The highest bid of 9,200 pounds was made for the letter in which teen Diana confessed she danced like an elephant, reports the Sun.

However, it was Di’s letter to Mary Clarke, written six months past her wedding to Prince Charles, that sell for an amazing 8,000 pounds – four times higher than expected.

London, Oct : They say the spark of genius lurks hidden within all of us.