London, Aug 7 : Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl''s crimes may never be known to the public because his trial will be heard in secret, it has emerged.

Daughter Elisabeth, 42, will testify against 73-year-old Fritzl behind closed doors to protect the six surviving children she bore him.

Elisabeth, who was imprisoned as a sex slave for 24 years below the family home, has already given a full statement to Austrian prosecutors about her ordeal, but her children have not, reports the Mirror.

Prosecutors are investigating whether it is possible to spare them the ordeal and if Elisabeth''s testimony is enough to lock up her father for the rest of his life.

London, Aug. 7 : Thailand’s former Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, has dismissed reports that he wants to sell the Manchester City football club due to financial difficulties.

Expressing his dismay over the way talks with potential commercial and business partners have been interpreted, Shinawatra, who has been charged with corruption back in Thailand, said that there was no truth to rumour that he was engaged in a sell out.

London, Aug. 7: British secret service agents played a key role in capturing fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, it was revealed yesterday.

According to The Sun, the agents tracked him down in Belgrade after being tipped off to his whereabouts by an informer.

Serb sources claimed a two-and-half million bounty placed on Karadzic’s head had been paid into a secret bank account in the British Virgin Islands by the US anti-terrorist network Reward For Justice.

And a Serb paper quoted a UK diplomatic source saying: “On the day of Karadzic’s arrest, secret service officials told me their informer had been paid and the operation carried out.”

London, Aug 7 : Digital cameras would soon be more humanised, what with a new technology that can produce images with a wider field of view, just like the human eye.

In a collaborative study, Yonggang Huang, Joseph Cummings Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and John Rogers, the Flory-Founder Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering have created array of silicon detectors and electronics that can be conformed to a curved surface.

Thus, just like the human eye, the curved surface can act as the focal plane array of the camera, which captures an image.

London, August 7 : A scientist has suggested that the world should be prepared to face an alarming increase of 4 degree Celsius in global temperatures.

A report in The Guardian said that this was suggested by agriculture and coastal erosion Professor Bob Watson, who is one of the UK government’s chief scientific advisers.

In policy areas such as flood protection, UK should plan for the effects of a 4C global average rise on pre-industrial levels, said Watson.

Globally, a 4C temperature rise would have a catastrophic impact.

According to the government’s 2006 Stern review on the economics of climate change, between 7 million and 300 million more people would be affected by coastal flooding each year.

London, August 7 : Scientists studying material collected by NASA’s Stardust mission during its seven years in space have been unable to find any sample of interstellar dust till date.

The Stardust probe launched in 1999 and visited a comet called Wild 2, collecting space dust in a honeycomb matrix of gel.

According to a report in New Scientist, new data showed that Stardust’s first six candidate dust particles originated much closer to home, with most coming from Earth or the spacecraft itself.

Most of the dust collected comes from the comet, but NASA scientists estimate it may have also picked up as many as 45 pieces of dust that originated outside the solar system.