London, Aug. 4 : Oxford Professor and well-known atheist Richard Dawkins has criticised parents of Muslim children and the Government for accommodating religious views and allowing creationism to be taught in schools.

The Telegraph quoted Professor Dawkins as saying in a Sunday newspaper interview that: "Teachers are bending over backwards to respect home prejudices that children have been brought up with. The Government could do more, but it doesn''t want to because it is fanatical about multiculturalism and the need to respect the different traditions from which these children come."

London, Aug 4 : Dungeon dad Josef Fritzl’s son Felix, 6, is making miraculous progress after his horrific ordeal in the cellar, and can even ride a bike and swim.

According to reports, Felix rides his bicycle in the grounds of the Austrian hospital where he was taken along with his mother and other five siblings after being rescued by the police on April 26.

Now, the doctors have taught him various skills while he gradually re-adjusts to life after the dark years he was forced to spend in the cellar.

“They have been amazed at how Felix is adapting. He is really cheerful and fascinated by everything,” News of the World quoted an hospital insider as saying.

London, August 4 : Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany have analyzed that Arctic ice is continuing to thin down to alarming levels.

According to a report in New Scientist, Christian Haas from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, and his team, estimated the thickness of late summer ice at the North Pole in 2001, 2004 and 2007.

They found that the ice was on average 1.3 metres thick at the end of the summer in 2007. By contrast, its depth was 2.3 metres in 2001 and 2.6 metres in 2004.

Melbourne/London, Aug. 4 : Britain’s defence chiefs have admitted that their servicemen were exposed to dangerous radiation levels during nuclear tests in Australia and the South Pacific in the 1950s.

The admission, made after years of denials, features in papers filed with the High Court in London by Ministry of Defence lawyers.

The Sunday Mirror newspaper said the court papers revealed that the ministry now believed that nuclear tests were responsible for the deaths of some British servicemen.

The ministry insisted that only 159 men were affected out of the 20,000 who were present.

London, August 4 : Astrophysicists have determined that bright flares emitted by a retinue of captured stars could detect a black hole ejected from its host galaxy.

When two supermassive black holes collide, one or both may be hurled from the centre of the galaxy. Some such “recoiling” black holes can be detected by their accretion discs of swirling, glowing hot gas.

However, most black holes are stripped of their accretion discs as they are thrown into exile.

Even if they keep their discs, the black holes can consume them within tens of millions of years, leaving nothing behind but a naked, invisible black hole.

London, Aug 4 : Austrian prosecutors are mulling over whether to charge Dungeon dad Josef Fritzl, 73, with slavery to maximise the time he serves in jail.

Fritzl has admitted to having imprisoned his daughter Elisabeth for 24 years in a secret cellar beneath his home in Amstetten, where he fathered six children with her.

While he kept three of the incest children with him and his wife Rosemarie, 68, in their upstairs apartment, the other three lived with Elisabeth in the concrete bunker until police rescued them on April 26.