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Fiona Bruce, Sophie Raworth to perform ABBA songs for Children in Need

Fiona Bruce, Sophie RaworthLondon, Nov 10 : BBC presenters Fiona Bruce and Sophie Raworth are all set to perform an ABBA song and dance routine for Children in Need.

The two ladies will be wearing flared cat suits to recreate a scene from ‘Mamma Mia!’ the hit musical and movie starring Meryl Streep, Julie Walters and Pierce Brosnan.

“I went to see the film with my seven-year-old daughter Mia and we absolutely loved it,” the Telegraph quoted Bruce as saying.

Parrots to help study evolution of human language

London, November 10 : A Scottish research team is gearing up to study parrots, ravens, and pigeons to discover how human language evolved.

Researchers at St Andrews University have revealed that their plan is to compare "highly intelligent" parrots and ravens with "cognitively normal" pigeons, which they believe may shed light on how human intelligence and language involved.

The team have secured a funding of 3.25 million pounds from the new European Research Council for their five-year study.

Patients urged not to rely on untested remedies advertised online

London, November 10 : Health experts are urging people not to rely on untested remedies advertised on the Internet, insisting that they sell “false hope”.

Backed by charity Sense About Science, the group of medical experts has revealed that the online promotion of treatments is increasingly exploiting vulnerable people.

According to them, many untested therapies being advertised on the Internet involve high costs, and do not work.

The experts say that such therapies are based on "unreliable" evidence.

Sense About Science says that people desperate for a cure are being targeted by hundreds of online advertisers.

Scientists place window in mice’s chests to follow cancer cell spread

London, November 10 : American scientists have devised a way to place a window in the chest so as to see the movement of cancer cells to other tissues.

Researchers at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York claim that they were able to keep a mouse alive for 21 days with the tiny piece of glass in place, and that they could watch during that period cells from a breast tumour as they spread to other tissues.

A report in the journal Nature Methods suggests that the cutting-edge research offers new opportunities to study the complex relationship between cancer cells and their surrounding tissue.

The poorly understood process whereby bits a tumour break away and travel to other parts of the body is called metastasis.

Canadian geese driving Ronaldo wild again

Portuguese striker Cristiano RonaldoLondon, Nov 10 : Foreign birds are driving ace Manchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo wild again after team’s training ground was invaded by Canadian geese.

The fowl keep dive-bombing Ronaldo and team-mates including Rio Ferdinand and Ryan Giggs as they practiced, The Sun reported.

The birds have achieved something that no footballer would ever dare to try — interrupting one of Sir Alex Ferguson’s training sessions.

Texan cricket tycoon Stanford at centre of Venezuelan spying row

London, Nov. 10 : Texan billionaire Allen Stanford is in the middle of an international spying row.

Stanford, who is the man behind the controversial 12 million pound winner-takes-all tournament that was recently held in Antigua, West Indies, has been caught out by Venezuelan military intelligence officials after a raid on a branch of one his offshore banks that revealed that its employees were paid by the CIA to spy on Venezuela.

According to The Telegraph, officials spent three hours searching files and documents at the Stanford International Banks'' offices in Venezuelan capital Caracas, removing several of them for closer inspection.

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