London, Nov. 11 : China has said that it will never accept the Dalai Lama''s calls for "high-level autonomy" in Tibet.

According to the Guardian, a leading expert on Tibet warned that it was "almost a point of no return" in the dialogue, and blamed Britain''s recent decision to explicitly recognize Tibet as a part of China for emboldening Beijing.

London, Nov 11 : The director of the latest Batman film is being sued by a Turkish mayor, who claims the helmer stole the name of his city.

The Mayor of Batman, an ancient oil-producing city in southeastern Turkey, is looking forward to get royalties if he is successful in suing Christopher Nolan, the director of ‘The Dark Knight’.

Hüseyin Kalkan, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party mayor of the city, claims that American producers used the city’s name without permission.

London - Manchester City midfielder Elano launched an stinging attack on manager Mark Hughes on Tuesday, demanding to know why he is being left out of the Premier League team.

"When I am playing I know what he wants and when I come off there is nothing from him," he told Sky Sports News.

"It's his right, he is the manager. I respect him and I will keep working, arriving on time and doing my duties at the club, but my sadness is not playing.

London, Nov 11 : Scientists at UCLA''s California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) have come up with a new method for the large-scale production of graphene sheets, which are used as nanomaterial.

Graphene is created when graphite is reduced down to a one-atom-thick sheet, which can be used as electrodes for solar cells, for use in sensors, as the anode electrode material in lithium batteries and as efficient zero-band-gap semiconductors.

London, Nov 11: They enjoy talking about the weather, getting drunk, moaning, are great at queuing and addicted to TV soaps – these are the traits of typical Britons.

That’s what a new survey conducted by onepoll. com, a global research company, suggests.

The study found that when Brits are not watching soaps, getting drunk or shopping for bargains, they are spying on their neighbours.

Top of the list was Brits’ obsession with the weather forecast, which got a 58 per cent vote on the nation’s defining traits.

More than half of the people polled said they are the politest nation when it comes to queuing and 48 per cent said sarcasm is the highest form of wit for Brits, according to the survey of 5,000.

Tokyo - Japanese chemical company Mitsubishi Rayon Co decided on Tuesday to buy Britain's Lucite International Group Ltd, which holds the world's largest share in the acrylic monomers market, the Japanese company said.

If the tender offer is completed, Lucite would become Mitsubishi Rayon's subsidiary.

Mitsubishi Rayon, which is the fourth largest firm in the market, is offering 1.6 billion dollars to buy all outstanding shares of Lucite to expand its business as the world's leading company for acrylic monomer.

The Japanese firm, which has suffered a slowing demand for acrylic fibers for clothing, hopes to expand its foothold in the acrylics monomers sector, it said.