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Sienna Miller keen to act with beau in flick?

Sienna MillerLondon, Dec 2 : Hollywood actress Sienna Miller is keen to act with ‘beau’ Balthazar Getty in a flick and the two are looking for a suitable project, according to sources.

However, the Sienna’s entourage feel that the pair would be as unpopular on screen as they are off it.

“Her advisers are warning how unpopular that would be. People haven’t taken to them as a pair due to the way they got together. They fear people will find it a bit too sickly — and as though they are rubbing his wife’s face in it,” The Sun quoted a source, as saying.

“But Sienna insists it could be movie gold and is looking for a script,” the source added.

Chinese man wakes wife from 10-year coma by biting toe!

London, Dec 2 : A Chinese man was left stunned when he woke his wife from a 10-year coma by nibbling on her toes.

New invention to neutralize hurricanes with help from supersonic jet

New invention to neutralize hurricanes with help from supersonic jetLondon, Dec 2 : Scientists have put forward a patent application about developing a supersonic hurricane neutralizer, which can put a spanner in the atmospheric works by flying supersonic jet aircraft in concentric circles around a hurricane’s eye, the calm area around which the storm rotates.

According to a report in New Scientist, the idea has been theorized by Arkadii Leonov at the University of Akron in Ohio, US, and his colleagues.

Only one in 10 Brit says thank you these days due to stress

London, Dec 2 : Only one in five Britons always make sure that they say please when asking for something, according to a new research, which also found that an ungrateful 91 per cent do not bother to say thank you.

According to the study, Britons are becoming ruder than ever because of their stressful and hectic lives.

They are forgetting the common courtesies such as please and thank you and other hallmarks of good manners, such as sending handwritten thank-you letters and holding the door open, are slipping, reports the Daily Express.

A spokesman for stationers Stabilo, who polled 2,000 in a survey, said: “Life is so fast-paced these days that people no longer make the time for social niceties.

Mel B’s butt airbrushed out of picture!

Melanie BrownLondon, Dec 2 : Former Spice Girl Melanie Brown has become a ‘butt’ of jokes after her hips vanished in an underwear advert due to ‘scary’ airbrushing.

The ‘Wannabe’ hitmaker, who donned red lingerie to promote Ultimo’s latest range, is looking rather funny in the advert as her hips look widely out of proportion with her full figure.

“Mel should shoot whoever did this. She looks like a cartoon,” the Daily Star quoted a fan, as saying.

Another fan said: “Tragic – they’ve taken away the curves that make her a top bod!”

Chemical reaction in landslide rocks may start wildfires

Wildfires London, Dec 2 : A new research has suggested that a chemical reaction in rocks in landslides may be responsible for starting wildfires.

According to a report in New Scientist, in August 2004, fire crews attending a wildfire near Santa Barbara, California, traced the source of the blaze to a recent landslide, but they had no idea how the fire got started.

A few weeks later, Robert Mariner of the US Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California, and his colleagues visited the site.

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