London, Aug 6 : They say opposites attract, but a new research has challenged this notion by suggesting that like minds have a much better chance of getting married and living happily ever after.

According to the study, couples stay together longer if they share some common ground.

Beatrice Rammstedt of the Centre for Survey Research and Methodology in Mannheim, Germany, and Jurgen Schupp of the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin looked at the "big five" personality traits in over 6000 couples in Germany.

London - The first new Lotus in more than a decade, the Lotus Evora, was unveiled last week at the British Motor Show with the sports car manufacturer releasing more details of the car.

The Evora, which ran under the project called Eagle, will sell in Europe early next year for around 70,000 euros (109,700 dollars).

It enters the sports car market as the only mid-engined 2+2. Powered by a 3.5-litre V6 Toyota engine, the car has an output of 206 kW/280 hp.

The Department of Health of England will officially circulate letters to all parents informing them about the obesity level of their wards. The department of health has shown commitment to control the ever growing epidemic of obesity among its nationals.

London, Aug 5 : British consumers are the grumpiest in the Western world, according to BNP Paribas economists.

Reviewing barometers of consumer confidence in Europe and the United States, they concluded that: "If there was a competition for the country with the most pessimistic consumers, the UK would be the winner".

The Independent quotes the GFK/NOP poll of consumer confidence, published recently, as saying that British households were more miserable about their fortunes than at any time since the survey began in 1974.

The housing crash of the early 1990s, two miners'' strikes, various energy crises, the three-day week, 9/11, 7/7, and the threat of nuclear annihilation during the cold war all failed to shred our optimism as comprehensively as the credit crunch.

London, Aug. 5 : The British defence forces were prevented from participating in a battle for the Iraqi city of Basra thanks to a secret deal between their government and the notorious al-Mahdi militia.

The Times quotes American and Iraqi officers who took part in the assault as saying that 4000 British troops – including elements of the SAS and an entire mechanised brigade – watched from the sidelines for six days because of an “accommodation” with the Iranian-backed group.

US Marines and soldiers had to be rushed in to fill the void, fighting bitter street battles and facing mortar fire, rockets and roadside bombs with their Iraqi counterparts, they added.

London, August 5 : Scientists have discovered the hottest water on Earth, which is deep down at the very bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

According to a report in New Scientist, the water sits atop what could be a huge bubble of magma, at over 3 kilometers beneath the surface.

Found by geochemist Andrea Koschinsky from Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany, the fluid is in a “supercritical” state that has never before been seen in nature, spewing out of two black smokers called “Two Boats” and “Sisters Peak”.

Koschinsky said that it is somewhere between a gas and a liquid.