London, July 28 : Scientists have determined that hairs picked up in thick forest in the Garo hills in the mountains of Meghalaya in north-east India five years ago, is the best evidence yet of the existence of the mythical creature known as ‘Yeti or ‘Bigfoot’.

According to a report in The Independent, tests at UK’s Oxford Brookes University on hairs which local people believe came from a yeti in the Indian jungle have failed to link them with any known species and are said to bear “a startling resemblance” to those brought back from the Himalayas by Sir Edmund Hillary half a century ago.

London, July 28 : Skeptics might claim that ‘aliens don’t exist’ but majority of people in the UK believe that the extraterrestrial life subsists, according to a survey.

The poll of more than 1,500 adults revealed that 43 per cent of the people believe in alien life compared to only 36 per cent who insist they do not.

Nine per cent of those polled are convinced they have seen a UFO.

Men and women are equally likely to believe, as are people living in different parts of the country, reports The Sun.

London, July 28 : Four giant panda cubs were born within 14 hours at a breeding centre in southwest China over the weekend.

The birth boom began on Saturday at the Chengdu Panda Breeding Research Centre when Qiyuan, a nine-year-old bear whose name means Magic Luck, gave birth to female twins at 5:24 pm and 6:16 pm, Xinhua News Agency reported.

Eight-year-old Chenggong, or Success, gave birth to a cub a little more than an hour later, followed by 8-year-old Zhuzhu, or Pearl, who gave birth at 6:55 am the following morning, the centre''s expert Yang Feifei said.

The breeding centre is currently raising 71 pandas in captivity.

The giant panda is revered as an unofficial national symbol of China.

London, July 28 : All passengers flying to and from British airports will be fingerprinted from next year.

According to The Telegraph, the Home Office''s Border and Immigration Agency has confirmed that it is considering forcing airport operators to introduce this measure to increase security.

It is concerned that so-called ''common departure lounges'' could allow an incoming international passenger - possibly a terrorist or a criminal - to switch tickets with an accomplice booked on a domestic flight.

The international passenger would then be able to fly elsewhere in Britain and enter the country without being checked by immigration authorities.

London, July 28 : Dungeon dad Josef Fritzl’s devastated wife Rosemarie made her last visit to the horror house to pack her bags and never return.

In April, news broke that Rosemarie’s husband Josef had kept their daughter Elisabeth as a sex slave in a cellar beneath their ancestral home for 24 long years and fathered six children with her.

And now, 69-year-old Rosemarie, who was unaware of her daughter’s plight, is without any money and is struggling to survive on 300 pounds-a-month benefits.

London, July 28 : British Prime Minister Gordon Brown had to take on a new job recently – that of being a V. I. P. tour guide to presumptive US Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama.

As soon as he arrived in London and met Brown, Obama asked every tourist’s favourite question: “Can you show me where the Queen lives?”

The request prompted Brown to act as a VIP tour guide for the U. S. senator, reports The Mirror.

However, alarmed American and British secret service officials curtailed their walkabout after astonished tourists came to close to dignitaries outside Buckingham Palace.