New York, Mar 15 : The promotion company behind Michael Jackson’s concerts at London’s O2 arena is reportedly failing to line up an insurer to cover the seven-month run by the famously frail King of Pop.

According to the Daily Telegraph, promoter AEG Live has lined up insurance for the first 10 dates, but may be forced to self-insure the rest of the performances at the O2 arena between July and February.

Chief executive Randy Phillips said he isn''t worried.

New York, Mar. 15 : It’s a life he would have wished on his worst enemy, but fate and calumny has deemed otherwise.

Not long ago, mega-Ponzi crook Bernard Madoff, who has pleaded guilty to a 65 billion dollar scam, enjoyed the best of world cuisine, boarding and lodging, but now in jail for the next 150 years, he has to make do with frozen chicken patties and canned string beans.

Bernie is being made to tweak his taste for prime rib and cognac amid conditions that are decidedly less refined.

Washington, March 15 : A geochemist of Indian origin has determined that an active African volcano possesses the most fluid lava in the world, which points toward its source being a mantle plume that is in complete pristine condition.

The lava composition indicates that a mantle plume-an upwelling of intense heat from near the core of the Earth-may be bubbling to life beneath Nyiragongo, an active African volcano, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

"This is the most fluid lava anyone has seen in the world," said Asish Basu, professor of earth science at the University of Rochester, the geochemist who conducted the research.

Washington, March 15 : An experiment testing the effects of space radiation on human nerve cells was successfully flown more than 31 kilometers high (about 99,000 feet) and safely returned to Earth by researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville Space Hardware Club.

"We are asking if central nervous system cells are exposed to an array of radiation, will they exhibit markers of nitrous oxide and oxidative stress which lead to CNS disease or disfunction?" said Dr. Amy Bishop, an assistant professor of biological sciences, University of Alabama.

Washington, March 15 : An international team of scientists is studying cyclones on Earth to help them better understand ''superrotating'' vortices on the planet Venus.

At cloud top level, the entire atmosphere of Venus circles the planet in just about four Earth days, much faster than the solid planet does.

Despite this "superrotation," some dynamical and morphological similarities exist between the vortex organization in the atmospheres of Venus''s northern and southern hemispheres and tropical cyclones and hurricanes on Earth.

New York, March 15 : ''America''s Next Top Model'' audition in Manhattan took a nasty turn after fears of a bomb placed inside a car left several people injured.

Scores of aspiring catwalk queens had gathered outside the Park Central Hotel to audition for The CW show, open to women under 5-feet-7 for the first time.

Lined up models ran for their lives, subsequently tumbling over barricades after an overheating black BMW sparked shouts, "There''s a bomb!"