| Black Hole snacks on planet | | Astrophysicists have just witnessed the rare event of a black hole awakening from its slumber to snack on a planet-sized object in a galaxy 47 million light years away, the University of Geneva said Tuesday. | | Greenland getting green | | On the Arctic Circle, a chef is growing the kind of vegetables and herbs — potatoes, thyme, tomatoes, green peppers — more fitting for a suburban garden in a temperate zone than a land of Northern Lights, glaciers and musk oxen. | | Seeds of Lifting Hope | | The next book by primatologist Jane Goodall has been postponed because some passages were lifted from online sources and not properly credited. | | In Love and War | | Army wives and lives are a well-documented lot. The subject of plenty of public perception but little real empathy for their plight: dealing with the cons-tant reality of having their man live away from them, posted somewhere far away, doing his duty to the country. | | Dodo bone up for sale in London | | A rare four-inch fragment of a dodo bone will go on sale in Britain in April, around 300 years after the flightless bird and icon of obsolescence was hunted to extinction. | | Diana gowns get $1.2M | | Ten dresses worn by the late
Princess Diana, including a velvet, midnight blue gown she danced in with John Travolta at the White House in 1985, fetched more than £800,000 ($1.2 million) at a London auction on Tuesday. | | Ageing harder for American women | | Ageing is a concern for many Americans, particularly its impact on health, but men seem to have an easier time dealing with the hallmarks of passing years than women, according to a new survey. | | Purple Haze | | Jeet Thayil explores the narcotic-laced margins of Bombay’s underbelly in his much-lauded
debut novel Narcopolis | | Standing the test of time | | IT’S A MARK of how dicey a subject beauty really is, that people will — nine times on ten — go for the tried and tested route rather than experiment. | | Top 10 stopover stays | | Experience lavish pools, great cuisines, go souk shopping, relax in splendid spas, and even learn a martial art form or two, at these pick of places | |
