Astronauts headed to the International Space Station, all set to rocket off into the cosmos on Monday, might be away from their families for Christmas, but this has not dampened their spirits, and they are all excited, promising to being back "space sushi" and "tweets" from the cosmos.

A recently conducted LLP survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers has ranked Russia at top slot for white collar crimes including company frauds and extortions. The world's most fraudulent economy has done little as compared to other BRIC countries Brazil, India and China to stop such crimes during global financial crisis, the survey observed.

The recent increase in frauds is 12 per cent more from the last survey conducted in 2007.