Paris, August 5 : ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) Rosetta spacecraft has started using its cameras to visually track asteroid Steins and eventually determine its orbit with more accuracy.

Rosetta started the optical navigation campaign on 4 August 2008, at a distance of about 24 million km from Steins.

Paris - A tornado in northern France has killed three people and injured at least nine, France Info television channel reported Monday.

Paris  - Two employees of the French aid organization Action Contre La Faim (ACF) who were taken hostage in Afghanistan two weeks ago were freed Saturday, the French government confirmed.

The two were "in apparently good health," French media reports said.

The two French nationals had been roused from their sleep by a group of armed individuals and abducted from their house in Nili in

the Day Kundi district of the central province of Uruzgan during the night of July 17-18.

Paris, August 1: Using the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) Mars Express has acquired the sharpest images of the Martian moon Phobos.

The images were clicked when Mars Express closed in on Phobos on 23rd July, flying past at 2.96 km/s, only 100 km from the centre of the moon.

Measuring 27 km × 22 km × 19 km, Phobos is one of the least reflective objects in the Solar System, thought to be a captured asteroid or a remnant of the material that formed the planets.

Gaydon/Paris - Pale white paintwork in a shade called Morning Frost Satin and with a seemingly silky texture is the most striking feature of a custom-made car by Britain's Aston Martin that was rec

Detroit - General Motors will unveil its new Chevrolet Cruze family saloon at the Paris Motor Show in October in the run-up to the European sales start in early 2009, the car maker announced recently.

The Cruze, which will also be sold on the North American market, is powered by a 1.4-litre engine with an output of 88 kW/120 hp and 103 kW/140 hp engine.

The saloon measuring 4.6 metres in length is part of GM's new strategy in building smaller more economical cars as petrol prices surge worldwide.