Washington, Nov 18 : Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has confirmed that she will be replacing Tom Cruise in the spy flick ‘Edwin A. Salt’.

While on an interview with BBC Radio, the stunner said, "I''m working on a film called Salt. And it''s with [Bone Collector director] Phillip Noyce. And that''s it."

Peshawar, Nov 18: After Pakistan’s Tribal Areas (FATA) and Balochistan province, Peshawar, the NWFP capital, too has become an off-limit area for foreign journalists working in the country. This was demonstrated by Friday’s incident wherein a couple of armed Taliban men made an unsuccessful bid to kidnap Afghan journalist Sami Yousafzai, reported the Daily Times.

The scribe is presently recuperating in a hospital with multiple bullet wounds in various parts of his body.

Washington, Nov 18: An international team of scientists has uncovered evidence that supports the idea that oceans once covered about a third of ancient Mars.

The scientists found the evidence by analyzing data from the Gamma Ray Spectrometer onboard NASA’s Mars Odyssey.

“We compared Gamma Ray Spectrometer data on potassium, thorium and iron above and below a shoreline believed to mark an ancient ocean that covered a third of Mars’ surface, and an inner shoreline believed to mark a younger, smaller ocean,” said University of Arizona (UA) planetary geologist James M. Dohm, who led the international investigation.

London, Nov 18: Ever wondered why is it easier to re-learn riding a bicycle, even if we haven''t practiced for years? Well, now scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology have provided an answer by showing what really goes on in the brain when it learns or forgets something.

They have shown that nerve cell contacts established during a learning process stay even when they are no longer required. The reactivation of this temporarily inactivated ''stock of contacts'' allows a faster learning of things forgotten.

Canadian researchers have said that women, with a family history of breast cancer, who test negative for two genetic mutations commonly linked to breast cancer, could still be at a high risk of developing the disease. The genes in question are BRCA1 and BRCA2, which are linked with particularly aggressive hereditary breast cancer and an increased risk of ovarian cancer as well.

Bigg Boss and controversies go side by side, and this time, the final contenders including Raja Chaudhary, Rahul Mahajan, Zulfi Sayed and Ashutosh Kaushik broke the most important house rule, of not leaving the Lonavala bungalow and tried to go out last night.

They all jumped the walls of the Bigg Boss house just because they were tired of home cooked food and wanted to taste food outside.

The source said, “They may have been forced to do so, as Zulfi the only guy who could cook refused to make food anymore.”