Washington, October 29 : Angelina Jolie left the crowd gasping at the Hollywood Film Festival Awards Gala with her surprise arrival to honour director Clint Eastwood.

The stunning actress presented the Oscar-winning director with the ‘Director of the Year’ trophy for ‘The Changeling’, which saw her in the lead role.

The mum-of-six, who recently returned from her philanthropic trip to Afghanistan, told the audience that Eastwood was an icon to many while being an inspiring leader at the same time.

Washington, Oct 29: Gwyneth Paltrow and Huey Lewis'' song ‘Cruisin'' in the film ‘Duets’, which once topped Australian charts, has been voted as the top flop duet of all time, by an online music magazine.

In a poll by Spinner. com, the duet that once reached the number one spot in Australia, has been declared as the worst vocal collaboration till date.

Standing second in the list is Paula Abdul''s pairing with MC Skat Kat for ‘Opposites Attract’, reports Contactmusic.

Washington, Oct 29 : Erstwhile James Bond star Sir Sean Connery has signed up to star in ‘Quest of Sheherzade’, based on the legendary 1001 Arabian Nights tale, alongside Orlando Bloom, according to reports.

The 78-year-old, who had turned his back on acting in recent years, has been missing from the big screen since 2003''s ‘The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’.

However, now the actor is back with a bang, and the news was revealed by the film''s female lead, Bollywood actress Celina Jaitley, who will play an Iranian princess.

"Sean Connery is there in the film and recently Orlando Bloom was also signed,” Contactmusic quoted her, as telling British publication The London Paper.

Washington, Oct 29: A new study has reported faint signs of a natural electric field in the thick cloud cover of Saturn’s largest moon Titan that are similar to the energy radiated by lightning on Earth, which suggests that it could spark life.

Lightning is thought to have sparked the chemical reactions that led to the origin of life on our planet.

“As of now, lightning activity has not been observed in Titan’s atmosphere,” said lead author Juan Antonio Morente of the University of Granada in Spain.

But, he said, the signals that have been detected “are an irrefutable proof for the existence of electric activity.”

Washington, Oct 29: Scientists have found that the much hyped dinosaur “mummies”, which are fossils with soft tissue and their last meals intact, were merely thick-skinned, suggesting that more may be found than paleontologists had previously expected.

Eric Lund of the Utah Museum of Natural History examined over a dozen newly discovered mummies in southern Utah.

According to a report in New Scientist, his analysis showed that these and other fossils all came from sand deposited in river beds that also contained remnants of wood and leaves - signs of a moist environment.

This means it was too wet to dry out and mummify a dinosaur carcass, Eric told the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Cleveland.

Washington, October 29: A novel influenza vaccine, which is delivered nasally, has been found to trigger robust immunity in ferrets, say researchers.

Experts at NanoBio Corporation have revealed that the immune responses elicited by the new vaccine were more than 20 times higher than those generated by two injections of the currently approved vaccines.

The researchers also revealed that their intranasal vaccine used only half the standard antigen dose to produce that effect.

According to them, their nasal vaccines exert adjuvant activity without the need for pro-inflammatory materials, toxins or cytokines.