London, Aug. 20 : Zimbabwe''s official inflation rate has soared to more than 11.2 million per cent.

The Telegraph quoted Zimbabwe’s Central Statistical Office in Harare as saying that inflation in the year to June stood at 11,268,758.9 per cent, a rise of 9,035,045.5 per cent from May.

The monthly inflation rate stood at 839.3 per cent, it added.

The paper quoted John Robertson, an independent economist based in Harare, as saying: "The 11 million per cent they are suggesting seems rather low."

London, Aug 20 : Forget long walks and calorie-controlled diets, the sure shot way to live a longer life is: get a second wife.

That''s the conclusion of a new research, which has suggested that men from polygamous cultures outlive those from monogamous ones.

After accounting for socioeconomic differences, men aged over 60 from 140 countries that practice polygamy to varying degrees lived on average 12 percent longer than men from 49 mostly monogamous nations, says Virpi Lummaa, an ecologist at the University of Sheffield, UK.

London, August 20 : A Roman Villa, dating back to 1,800 years, which as big as an Olympic swimming pool, has been discovered in Britain.

According to a report in the Telegraph, shaped like a church, the building was discovered on the Isle of Wight, and has been likened to a medieval hall.

Its remains were discovered at the site of another Roman villa in Brading, and are believed to have been constructed 150 years before the other building.

The later Brading villa’s remains had disappeared from sight until 1879 when a couple of local men stumbled across them by chance.

London, Aug. 20: New figures show that the number of foreign workers in Britain has risen dramatically under the New Labour, with nearly 300,000 people coming from overseas to work here in the past year.

According to The Telegraph, this is the biggest annual influx of foreign workers into Britain since the Government started to keep count a decade ago.

The Tories said this exposed Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s claims that he was backing a policy of finding British jobs for British workers.

London, Aug 20 : Dungeon girl Kerstin Fritzl ripped out handfuls of her hair in frustration during her cellar ordeal, it has emerged.

Shocking details of the torment of incest dad Josef Fritzl’s cellar children have emerged for the first time. It has been revealed that they ripped out their hair, tore off their clothes and blocked their dungeon toilet in a bid to show their mental torture.

And at least one still walks with a back-breaking stoop from almost two decades of being unable to stand upright.

London, Aug 20 : Short women with long legs and large busts are the most sexually attractive to men, claim researchers at Brunel University.