Washington, July 16 (ANI): Late singer Michael Jackson’s father, Joe, has sought out the help of Priscilla Presley and her daughter Lisa Marie Presley, Jacko’s ex-wife, to turn Neverland into something like Elvis Presley’s former home Graceland.

Joe Jackson, 79, is keen to turn the ‘Thriller’ singer’s former home into an attraction for fans, and he believes that Neverland could be as successful as Graceland.

“Joe secretly set about soliciting advice from ex in-laws Lisa Marie Presley and hard-nosed mom Priscilla Presley on how to turn the ranch into a perpetual money-machine, like Graceland – which has netted the Presleys hundreds of millions!” Contactmusic quoted the National Enquirer magazine as reporting.

Joe is said to be amazed at the amount of money Priscilla and her family have made from Graceland.

He is keen to buy the Neverland ranch, which Michael moved out of in 2005 following his acquittal of child abuse charges, from the mortgage company currently in charge of it. (ANI)

Washington, July 16 (ANI): Soccer ace David Beckham’s sons want to follow in his footsteps and get tattoos.

The 34-year-old England midfielder has three sons boys Brooklyn, 10, Romeo, six, and four-year-old Cruz with wife Victoria Beckham.

He said that his children are so impressed with his body art they are keen to copy it.

“One of them said to me recently, ‘How old do I have to be before I get my first tattoo?’ I was like, ‘A lot older than you are now!’ ” Contactmusic quoted him as saying.

Becks is famed for his intricate inkings, and sports sleeves of tattoos on both arms.

He has recently got a ring of roses emblazoned on his left arm. (ANI)

Washington, July 16 (DPA) Space shuttle Endeavour blasted off Wednesday on its sixth attempt to launch since June, headed to the International Space Station to expand Japan’s Kibo module.
The seven-member crew is to deliver an outside porch on the module at the station to expose scientific experiments to the extremities of space.

The mission has suffered a slew of delays that kept the craft on the ground for weeks longer than planned.

A planned Sunday launch was cancelled due to storms and a Saturday launch was also scrubbed due to lightning the night before that struck the launch pad, but spared the shuttle itself.

On Monday, stormy weather again grounded the spacecraft.

NASA was forced to postpone the launch twice in just four days last month, after technicians detected hydrogen gas leaks during fuelling, just hours before scheduled liftoff.

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A new airline just for  “Pets” officially took to the sky today, with (inaugural flight)  the husband-and-wife team’s Pet Airways, the first-ever all-pet airline, from Republic Airport in Farmingdale,outside New York City.

Pet Airways boasts that pets fly in the main cabin area, not in the cargo. It currently services at select airports in the following metro areas: Baltimore/Washington, Chicago; Denver; Los Angeles; and New York City.

Washington, July 12 (ANI): Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a 2,000-year-old cream, left almost intact in the cosmetic case of an aristocratic Etruscan woman.

The lotion, which was discovered four years ago in a necropolis near the Tuscan town of Chiusi, has been revealed now, only after chemical analysis has identified the original compounds of the ancient ointment.

The archaeologists found an intact tomb-dating to the second half of the second century B.C.-sealed by a large terracotta tile.

The site featured a red-purple painted inscription with the name of the deceased: Thana Presnti Plecunia Umranalisa.

And quite near to the tomb, they found a cosmetic case, richly decorated with bone, ivory, tin and bronze elements.

The feet of the box featured bone carved in the shape of Sirens.

The case was filled with precious personal objects- a couple of bronze finger rings, a pair of tweezers, two combs and an alabaster unguentarium vessel – a vase-shaped jar – of Egyptian origins.

“The entire content of the cosmetic case was found under a clay layer which deposited throughout time. This made it possible for the ointment to survive almost intact despite (the fact that) the vessel had no cap,” Discovery News quoted Erika Ribechini, a researcher at the department of chemistry and industrial chemistry of Pisa University, as saying.

The ointment, a solid, homogeneous and pale yellow mass, revealed fatty acids in high abundance.

“This is almost unique in archaeology. Even though more than 2,000 years have passed, the oxidation of the organic material has not yet been completed. This is most likely due to the sealing of the alabaster unguentarium by the clayish earth, which prevented contact with oxygen,” said Ribechini.

The analysis revealed that the contents of the vessel consisted of a mixture of substances of lipids and resins.

“The natural resins were the pine resin, exudated from Pinaceae, and the mastic resin, from Anacardiaceae trees. The lipid was a vegetable oil, most likely moringa oil, which was used by the Egyptians and Greeks to produce ointments and perfumes,” said Ribechini.

Moringa oil was one of the ingredients in a recipe for a perfume for ancient royalty.

Thus, the researchers believe that the lotion was imported.

The discovery has been detailed in the latest issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science. (ANI)