Smooth Criminals look out: Jackson scrap for Sale

On some point, flat Michael Jackson's kitchen sink will be up for sale

For now, however, it's still the good stuff.

really, another of the King of Pop's famous pattern, as well as a tip-worthy hat, could be all yours…

Darren Julien, founder of Julien's Auctions, tells E! News exclusively that his company is plotting a sale of valuable M.J. memorabilia in November at the Hard Rock Café in Times Square.

While none of the items included in the sale will come from Jackson's private estate—so much for that kitchen sink!—Julien promises a range of collectors' items from people who worked with and knew the star. He's keeping mum on what some of those might be, but teased to E! News that at least one of folk’s glossy gloves and "a very major hat" will top the bundle.

Jennifer Aniston gives for Her party to Have an extra Day Off

Jennifer Aniston is the personification of grand! She proved her charity last weekend on the set of her present film The Bounty.

Jen wanted to make sure that the whole cast and crew got a head on their Fourth of July plans, so she wrapped a day early, AND paid everyone on their day off!

so principally they all got rewarded to party! The film shut down production on Thursday July 2nd, rather than the 3rd. And the crew couldn’t have been better-off.

One gang member said, "Jen is such a genuinely good person. How many people in this world would pay for a whole movie set to have off for the day? Not just anyone does that. We're talking big currency."

Luckily, that’s something Jen has a lot of! But it’s so sweet to hear about a huge celebrity sharing the wealth like that.

'Offensive' French are most evil tourists

The French are seen by hoteliers as the world's worst tourists

French tourists are the most evil in the world, upcoming across as penny-pinching, rude and dreadful at languages, according to a new analysis.

The study by travel company Expedia asked 4,500 hotels international to rank tourists on their behavior.

Japanese tourists - seen as clean and tidy, polite, quiet and uncomplaining - came top for the third year running.

French travelers made amends on elegance - classed third - as well as for their discretion and cleanliness.

But the French were the least ready to try a new language, unlike US tourists who were most likely to swallow their pride and order a pizza, baguette or paella in the local lingo. US tourists also got top marks for generosity, as the biggest spenders and tippers.

But they fell short on other counts as the least tidy, the loudest, the worst complainers and the worst dressed.

Britons came second for their overall activities, politeness, tranquility and even elegance - second for outfit sense only to the Italians

Oldest dinosaur hole exposed

A burrow photographed from above, showing a cross section, with the entrance on the right side

and chamber on the left

The world's oldest dinosaur burrows have been discovered in Australia.

Three separate burrows have been found in all, the biggest 2m long, each built to a similar design and just big enough to hold the body of a small dinosaur.

The 106-million-year-old burrows, the first to be found outside of North America, would have been much closer to the South Pole when they were created.

That supports the idea that dinosaurs living in cold, harsh climates burrowed underground to survive.

The only other known dinosaur burrow was discovered in 2005 in Montana, US.

Described two years later, this burrow dated from 95 million years ago and contained the bones of an adult and two juveniles of a small new species of dinosaur called Oryctodromeus cubicularis.

It provides an alternative explanation for how small dinosaurs might have overwintered in polar environments Palaeontologist Anthony Martin

Now the older burrows have been found by one of the researchers who made the original Montana discovery.

"Like many discoveries in palaeontology, it happened by a combination of serendipity and previous knowledge," says Anthony Martin of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, US.

"In May 2006, I hiked into the field site with a group of graduate students with the intention of looking for dinosaur tracks. We did indeed find a few dinosaur tracks that day, but while there I also noted a few intriguing structures."

Martin returned to the site, a place dubbed Knowledge Creek that lies 240km from Melbourne, Victoria, to study these structures, once in July 2007 and again in May this year.

His first reaction was one of astonishment.

"I was scanning the outcrop for trace fossils, and was very surprised to see the same type of structure I had seen in Cretaceous rocks of Montana the previous year," says Martin.

That original structure turned out to be the burrow of O. cubicularis, which Martin described with colleagues David Varricchio from Montana State University, Bozeman, US, and Yoshi Katsura of Gifu Prefectural Museum in Seki City, Japan.

"So to walk up to the outcrop and see such a strikingly similar structure, in rocks only slightly older, but in another hemisphere, was rather eerie."news source- http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8144000/8144199.stm

Jackson stinking play 'not lined out'

The Top of Los Angeles police have refused to rule out put to death in the inquiry into the death of singer Michael Jackson, two weeks agoe

Police Chief William Bratton told US news journalist CNN that police were pending toxicology results.

"Are we dealing with a homicide or are we dealing with accidental overdose... I don't have that in sequence."

Meanwhile, Jackson's father, Joe, 79, talking about the death on ABC News, said: "I do think it was unclean play."

Jackson - who is due to attend a monument overhaul in the family's hometown of Gary, Indiana, later - has before said he had "a lot of concerns" over events surrounding his son's death, and that the family "suspected foul play somewhere".

The Los Angeles coroner has said that an autopsy the day after the singer's death revealed no evidence of foul play and that toxicology test results could take weeks to come back.

Extravagant family turns to Twitter

Buckingham Palace has exposed that the Royal Family has now joined the Twitter micro-bogging revolution .

The Twitter account @BritishMonarchy has just gone live, following several weeks of testing.

A spokeswoman said it had signed up to harness the popularity of Twitter to spread news about the Royal Family.

It will provide details of royal engagements as well as link to information about what members of the family are doing.

But the spokeswoman said neither the Queen nor other members of the Royal Family would be tweeting personally.

"The intention," she explained, "is that it is a news service rather than a personal voice."

But she said both the Queen and the Prince of Wales had been informed about the Twitter acccount.

Oversight of the @BritishMonarchy account will be split between Buckingham Palace and Clarence House.

The first "tweets" have already been sent and include links to a YouTube video of Prince William talking about the charity Skill Force, and pictures of the Queen receiving the new poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy.

In February 2009, an overhaul of the Royal.gov.uk website was completed that put more video and background material on the website. The Queen also has her own YouTube channel, launched in 2007, hosting video of key events such as the Christmas message. news update source -- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8144381.stm

Connolly to get sexuality honour , july 15,2009

Pamela Stephenson-Connolly, the partner of Scottish comic Billy, is to receive an voluntary degree for achievements in soul sexuality

She is being privileged by Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University for her "marked, sustained and international contribution" to the field.

RGU said the award also recognised Dr Stephenson-Connolly's career in TV, film, and literature.

Her husband will also attend the ceremony on Wednesday 15 July.

Dr Stephenson-Connolly teaches in advanced human sexuality and sex therapy.

She will receive an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science from RGU.

Her husband is one of Scotland's most famous sons thanks to his comedy, television and film career.