CAPE CANAVERAL - FUTURE space travellers may be drinking their own urine, thanks to the International Space Station's new water recycler, but they can now do so with a touch of class.

OSLO - US SCIENTISTS have figured out how icebergs break off Antarctica and Greenland, a finding that may help predict rising sea levels as the climate warms.

OTTAWA (Canada) - FAMED physicist Stephen Hawking has been appointed to the position of distinguished research chair at Canada's leading scientific brain trust, the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics announced Thursday.

The Waterloo, Ontario-based institute had been courting Hawking, best known for his book 'A Brief History of Time', for several months, said local media.