And now, a garden for Di's causeLONDON: A garden of remembrance to Diana, princess of Wales, may be created in front of London's Kensington Palace, where thousands of grieving people laid floral tributes in the days after her death. The Royal Parks Agency, which manages Kensington Palace gardens, said yesterday it had submitted a proposal for a garden to a government committee seeking ways of commemorating the princess's life. A spokesman for the agency refused to give details of the scheme, but it is thought to include lavish flowerbeds, a children's garden, walkways and locations where personal tributes can be left.(Sun)lighthouseCAIRO: A plan to resurrect the Alexandria Lighthouse, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, as an ultra-modern, solar-powered tourist complex has received tentative approval from Egyptian officials. The planned ``tourist and cultural complex'' would be fully solar-powered and stand opposite the site of the original Alexandria Lighthouseof antiquity, built in the third century BC. The Alexandria Lighthouse, which crumbled in an earthquake in the 14th century, was some 120 metres tall and was ranked by classical writers as one of the seven greatest architectural feats of its time.Titanic recordLOS ANGELES: Titanic soaked up 44.6 million dollars at the box-office over the long Christmas weekend, breaking two records, according to Exhibitor Relations figures. Director James Cameron's epic, which cost more than 200 million dollars to make, has hauled in 88.4 million dollars since its December 19 opening, according to Exhibitor, which tallies box office receipts. The movie, about the famous luxury liner that hit an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage in 1912, made 36 million dollars from Friday through Sunday. It broke the previous - and still fresh - three-day record set by Scream 2 earlier this month of 28.6 million dollars. It also set a one-day Christmas record of more than nine million dollars, topping Godfather 3.Artificial jointsKUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian scientist has developed a ceramic glass substance which can be used as artificial joint in the human body. The calcium phosphate glass was very much similar to the calcium deposit found in human bones, scientist Radzali Othman said. The ceramic glass was an improvement on the ceramic substance which he had previously developed as substitute to the human bone, Othman said adding ``this is stronger than the previous one as it is 50 per cent crystal and the rest glass; the previous was 100 per cent glass.'' Radzali said that metal was previously used as a substitute to human bone, but problems arose when the metal oxidised causing rusting.
