London, November 22 : A 13-year-old Italian boy was diagnosed with PlayStation addiction, when his father rushed him to hospital finding him unresponsive to his surroundings.

Lorenzo Amato father was afraid that the little boy had suffered a stroke or brain trauma.

Even doctors at Lecce hospital, Southern Italy, initially thought that Lorenzo was suffering from a severe brain disorder, as the teenager would not speak or understand anything going on around him.

London, Nov 22 : Actress Sadie Frost is to appear on the West End – 23 years after her last stage appearance.

The former wife of actor Jude Law will star in ‘Touched... For The Very First Time’, a one-woman play set in 1980s Manchester at the Trafalgar Studios in February.

Frost plays a character called Lesley, who becomes obsessed with Madonna after hearing the song Like A Virgin as a teenager, reports BBC.

The title of the play is taken from a line in the song, although Madonna has not endorsed the production.

Basra (Iraq), Nov. 22 : A senior Iraqi major general has accused Britain of allowing insurgents to rule Basra city for five years "without being punished or held to account".

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Major General Mohammed Jawad Humeidi said it was too soon for UK forces to be pulled out of Basra and called for the Americans to step in.

London, Nov 22 : Using DNA analysis, scientists have confirmed the discovery of a new third species of bottlenose dolphin in the waters off southern Australia, which is the only second new dolphin to be discovered in 50 years.

According to a report in New Scientist, Luciana Moller of the Marine Mammal Research Group at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and her colleagues, found the new species of dolphin.

The team was studying populations of what they thought were Indo-Pacific and common bottlenoses in southern waters.

DNA analysis, though, revealed that most the animals living close to the shores of the states of Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania were in fact a new species, belonging to a new genus.

London, November 22: With people calling him a mini-Barack Obama, a three-year-old boy has been encouraged to set his sights on becoming Britain’s first black prime minister.

Gramos Huxha is hooked on the U. S. President-elect’s catchphrase “Yes, we can”, and has perfected Obama’s finger-in-the-air pose.

The 3ft-tall lad even leaves the house in black shoes, a shirt, tie, and jacket — just like Obama does.

London, Nov 22 : NASA’s new water regeneration system, which has been delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) for recycling urine and other wastewater into drinking water for astronauts, has encountered glitches.

NASA delivered the water regeneration system to the 100 billion dollar ISS to prepare for its crew to grow from three members to six in May.

Residents of the station must recycle water because the space shuttles, which produce water as a byproduct of their electrical systems, will no longer fly to the outpost after
2010 and it is too expensive to haul as much water as the crew will need on unmanned cargo ships from Earth.