The Olympic Flame will be lit by the sun’s rays on the morning of May 10 in Greece at the start of its journey to the London 2012 Games, Lord Coe the London 2012 chairman announced yesterday.

An hour-long lighting ceremony amid the historic ruins of the home of the ancient Games at the Temple of Hera in Olympia will signal the start of an eight-day relay around Greece before the flame hits British shores, starting in Cornwall.

The flame is due to arrive at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens on May 17 where a London 2012 representative will be ready for the handover.

Once in Britain, the flame will be taken on a nationwide 70-day relay, ending with the lighting of the Olympic cauldron at the opening ceremony.

Hearing imagined speech

A first step has been taken towards hearing imagined speech using a form of electronic telepathy, it has been claimed.

Scientists believe in future it may be possible to “decode” the thoughts of brain-damaged patients who cannot speak.

In a study described by one British expert as “remarkable”, US researchers were able to reconstruct heard words from brain wave patterns using a computer programme to predict what spoken words volunteers had listened to by analysing their brain activity.

Woman guilty by gum

A woman who appeared not to have any teeth in surveillance photos from a bank robbery has confessed, apologised and said she planned the raid because she needed the money for dentures.

Evelyn Fuller, 49, from Pennsylvania, has been charged with robbing a First National Bank on January 20.

Ms Fuller said her pastor told her to tell the truth about what she did.

Stop the monkey business

A Chicago zoo is mounting a campaign to stop a company showing a Super Bowl American football final TV advert featuring mischievous suit-and-tie wearing chimpanzees playing tricks on their human colleague.

Lincoln Park Zoo fears images of the frolicking chimps do little to help conservation efforts, inaccurately portraying the animals as unthreatened and even as cuddly and harmless pets.

Beckham’s underwear line

David Beckham was greeted by hundreds of screaming fans at the launch of his new underwear collection.

The footballer appeared at the Regent Street branch of high street store H&M in London’s West End.

The shop displayed several giant statues of the former England captain modelling a pair of trunk briefs from his Bodywear range.

But the real-life Beckham was fully clothed, wearing a thick cream cardigan and blue jeans as he posed for photographers.

When the collection was first announced, he said: “Over the past year, I’ve been developing my Bodywear range with my team and I’m extremely positive about what we have designed and produced.”

Mr Beckham has previously modelled underwear for Italian fashion house Armani.