Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel, whose iconic Emmanuelle role symbolised the sexual revolution of the 1970s and who spent years fighting drug addiction, has died aged 60 after a battle with cancer.
“She died during the night during her sleep,” agent Marieke Verharen of Features Creative Management said of the 60 year-old actress who had been admitted to an Amsterdam hospital in July following a stroke.
Kristel was catapulted to fame by her first movie, Emmanuelle in 1974, which described the erotic adventures of a young woman in Asia. A worldwide success, it was shown in a cinema on the Champs-Elysees in Paris for 13 years.
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Scientists claim moon was made from earth
Washington: A new theory put forward by Harvard scientists suggests the moon was once part of the earth that spun off after a giant collision with another body.
In a paper published on Wednesday in the journal Science, Sarah Stewart and Matija said their theory would explain why the earth and moon have similar composition and chemistry.
The earth was spinning much faster at the time the moon was formed, and a day lasted only two to three hours, they said.
With the earth spinning so quickly, a giant impact could have launched enough of the earth’s material to form a moon, the scientists said in an explanation published on a Harvard website.
According to the new theory, the earth later reached its current rate of spinning through gravitational interaction between its orbit around the Sun and the moon’s orbit around earth. — Reuter