Car that uses 10,000 cups of espresso as fuel!

London, March 11: Jem Stansfield, a BBC presenter, will drive from London to Manchester to test an experimental car, which runs on coffee grounds.

BBC1's Bang Goes The Theory host will travel 210-miles in the car fuelled by 10,000 espressos.

Stansfield built the car to show how alternative energy sources can be harnessed.

The car, made from scrap, needs to be refuelled every 40 miles.

The vehicle features a system converting the grounds into flammable gases, which fuel the engine instead of petrol.

With his new invention, Stansfield aims to encourage young people to think about how we can tap into energy from waste products and new sources.

"Everyone recognises that coffee can give a person a bit of a boost, but many probably had no idea it had enough energy locked away to power a car," the Telegraph quoted him as saying.

"It's important for kids to understand that power is not something that is mystically there, simply at the flick of a switch or by pushing a pedal.

"With the energy challenge that is facing the world, the more we encourage children to think about alternative fuels, where energy is stored and how it can be released, the better," he added.

Ash visits Abhishek's grandmother despite illness

For Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai, her relationships seem to score over everything - so much so that even though she was unwell, she travelled to Bhopal to celebrate the 80th birthday of her husband Abhishek Bachchan's maternal grandmother.

According to a source close to Aishwarya, this was a commitment the couple had made to Abhishek's 'nani' (maternal grandmother) a while ago. And despite the high fever and sore throat that she has been suffering from since a few days, Aishwarya made sure she was there to fulfil her promise.

"Aishwarya is much much better, but still not 100 percent (fine). But she's my nani's favourite so she made the trip too. Should be back to fighting fit... in a day or two," Abhishek posted on social networking site Twitter.

Longest Solar eclipse of the millenium

15th January saw the first annular solar eclipse of the year, which is also the longest of the millennium.
An annular solar eclipse is seen formed over the skies in Southern part of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Thousands of people in southern India viewed the spectacle of an eclipse of the sun looking skywards through special filter eyeglasses as the moon crosses its path blocking everything but a narrow, blazing rim of light.