Old British surnames dying out or extinct

Britain's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has to worry more about his surname rather than his political future. Clegg is one of the British surnames that is in the endangered category.

British actress Dame Helen Mirren and Bill Nighy, star of Love Actually too have oldest surnames and are on the path to extinction.

According to a research survey conducted by ancestry.co.uk over 200,000 British surnames are either dying out or extinct. Chips, Hartman, Rummage, Nithjercott, Raynott, Temples, Jarsdel, Harred, Woodbend are some of the surnames that are already extinct.

In addition to Clegg surnames such as William, Cohen, Kershaw, Sutcliffe, Butterworth, and Greenwood are in danger of dying out, the study found.

The First World War played an important part in wiping out some names as specific battalions suffered many casualties during the conflict, with towns or villages losing a generation of young men, said the report.

How about going to Mars on a 16-month pleasure trip?

This may prove to be your lucky moment?

Former rocket scientist and space tourist Dennis Tito intends to raise 1.3 billion sterling pounds required for this spectacular round trip.

But only married couples are preferred for this fancy tour. Mr Tito will ask rich pals and charitable organisations to help towards the cost of building and launching the craft in five years. The former Nasa worker promised to fund the - Inspiration Mars mission for the next two years. The couple picked will have no luxuries or privacy during the 501-day trip in a cramped spaceship.

They'll also have to drink their own recycled urine. Jane Poynter of Paragon Space Development, an adviser on the mission, said that the man and the woman would have to be in a stable relationship. "The idea of a man and woman going on this mission is an important idea. It's important also that they are a tried-and-trusted couple," he said."It's also important that they are man and a woman because they represent humanity...and just as important they represent our children." It calls for a launch on January 5 2018, a Mars fly-by on August 20 2018, and a return to Earth on May 21 2019.

Schoolgirl, 12, beats Einstein in IQ

Neha Ramu, A 12-year old schoolgirl has achieved a score of 162 on a Mensa IQ test and was able to enter the top one percent of brightest people in the country. It means she is more intelligent than Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and even Albert Einstein, who are all thought to have an IQ of 160.

Neha's doctor parents, who lived in India before moving to Britain when their daughter was seven, had no idea their daughter was so gifted.

Although she had always performed well at school, it was only when she took an entrance exam for Tiffin Girls’, a high-achieving grammar school, and achieved a perfect score of 280/280 that they realised her capabilities.

Two years later, she took the test for Mensa, a society for people with high IQs, and achieved the maximum possible score for someone aged under 18.

Neha's mother Jayashree said: “At first I didn't really realise what she was capable of as she wasn't being stretched at school and when she joined primary school in the UK in year three we didn't really understand the system here.

“But then when she got the result of the entrance exam for Tiffin Girls’, I thought ‘OK, maybe she does have something special in her and I'm just not realising it.

“We found out she'd got in yesterday evening when my husband and I were both at work. Neha came home before us and opened the letter because it was addressed to her. She was shouting down the phone: ‘I got in, I got in'.

“I am so proud of her. Although she's being doing well at these kind of tests for sometime now this is just marvellous. I can't express the feeling.”

Whilst most children spend their summer holidays playing in the park or on their computer, Neha, who is in year eight at Tiffin Girls’ School in Kingston- upon- Thames, asked her parents last summer whether she could go to a three-week academic summer camp in America to learn about the brain and the body's nervous system.

Neha, who left her home in Surbiton and went to the camp alone, studied for seven hours a day, five days a week dissecting body parts such as the brain and eyes.Both her mother and her father Muniraju are eye specialists and Neha already has plans to follow in their footsteps into a career in medicine. Before that, Neha has already set her sights on a place at Harvard after taking her SATs- the American equivalent of A-levels- and achieving a score of 740 out of 800 in a test designed for 18-year-olds. The score would be sufficient to get her into any Ivy League university.

Einstein never took an IQ test as none of the modern intelligence tests existed when he was alive, but experts believe he had an IQ of around 160.The IQ test is designed to test a range of abilities to determine the intelligence level of the student. In the UK the average person achieves a score of 100.A spokesman for British Mensa said: “Neha scored 162 on the Cattell IIIB test, putting her within the top one per cent of people in the country.”