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London, March 31 (DPA) Disruption continued at London Heathrow airport's new multi-billion-pound terminal five (T5) Monday with 54 flights cancelled and 50 more cancellations likely Tuesday, a spokesman for British Airways (BA) said. Meanwhile, the British government has said it can take a week to deliver a backlog of 28,000 ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 7:58 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 31 (IANS) Young Western women are being targeted in a "terrifying scam" on the beaches of Goa, a newspaper reported Monday as the mother of murdered teenager Scarlette Keeling left for Britain but vowed to return to expose an alleged drugs racket. "I've got to come back and ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 7:12 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 31 (DPA) The heir to the British throne, Prince Charles has asked the government to help in the fight to save Britain's fast-disappearing country pubs, news reports said Monday. Charles, 59, is seeking the help of Rural Affairs Minister Hilary Benn to halt the disappearance of Britain's country ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 7:08 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 31 (ANI): A child Math prodigy who won a place at Oxford University when she was just 13, is now working as a 130pounds-an-hour prostitute in Manchester, it has been revealed.
Sufiah Yusof, now 23, whose father Farooq is a Pakistani and mother Halimathon is from Johor, was ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 7:07 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 31 (ANI): The city of San Francisco may soon boast of the greenest buildings in the US, with the local government planning the toughest environmental construction standards in the country.
According to a report in New Scientist, last week, the local government took a decisive step towards ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 7:02 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 31 (ANI): Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have shown that chances of getting cancer depends on an individual's country, by finding that genes linked to the deadly disease do not affect all races the same way.
The research team discovered a genetic variation that raises the risk ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 6:54 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 31 (IANS) Young Western women are being targeted in a "terrifying scam" on the beaches of Goa, a newspaper reported Monday as the mother of murdered teenager Scarlette Keeling left for Britain, vowing to return to Goa to expose collusion between criminals and politicians. "I've got to come ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 5:22 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 31(DPA) Britain and the United States plan a joint Anglo-US financial working group to improve monitoring of the international financial system, the Financial Times said Monday. According to the paper, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling and US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson agreed last week to set ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 4:21 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 31 (IANS) Unusual rock formations, long suspected to be an outcome of volcanic activity in the British Isles, were caused by a massive meteorite hit 1.2 billion years ago, spewing debris over a 50 square km area near Scottish town of Ullapool. A research team from the universities ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 4:00 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 31 (ANI): British scientists have deciphered a mysterious ancient clay tablet, which they believe has helped them to solve a riddle over a giant asteroid impact more than 5,000 years ago.
According to a report in the Telegraph, t he circular clay tablet was discovered 150 years ago ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 1:48 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 31 (IANS) A simple screening chip developed by scientists would quickly identify bird flu, foot and mouth disease and other emerging viruses - some of the worst threats to farm workers and animals. Known as the new micro-array, the chip can detect up to 300 different viruses that ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 12:48 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 31 (IANS) Grammy winning singer Norah Jones is getting into acting. After her debut film "My Blueberry Nights", she is now eager to star in a zombie film. Jones clarified that she will not abandon her music career or move to Hollywood. But said she would love to ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 12:47 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 31 (IANS) Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger has warned fans that he will never write a autobiography because he hates thinking about his past. Jagger rejected a $4 million advance to a publishing house after he changed his mind about a memoir, contactmusic.com reports. And now that ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 12:46 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 31 (IANS) Actress Lindsay Lohan's father wants her to quit "Manson Girls", which is about mass murderer Charles Manson, because he feels it could end her career. Contactmusic.com reports that Lohan has agreed to play cult member Nancy Pittman in the film. Manson family members murdered seven people ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 12:45 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 31 (IANS) Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards does not want to completely stop doing drugs and says he smokes marijuana "all the time". Contactmusic.com reports that Richards was addicted to heroin in the 70s, when the band was at the peak of fame. He has had numerous bad ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 12:21 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 31 (IANS) Although laughing gas makes up only nine percent of total greenhouse gas emissions, it carries 300 times more global warming potential than carbon dioxide, according to a study. Yet, unlike carbon dioxide and methane, laughing gas, or nitrous oxide, has been largely ignored as a worrisome ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 11:47 am ICT by admin
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London, March 31 (IANS) Drinking green tea helps important antibiotics fight resistant super bugs, making the antibiotics up to three times more effective, according to a new study. In Egypt, where green tea is popular and where a lot of patients have it while taking antibiotics, researchers wanted to find ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 11:16 am ICT by admin
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London, March 31 (IANS) The head of Scotland's government says his province wants more skilled immigrants, opposing the British government's moves to clamp down on it. First Minister Alex Salmond buttressed his long-standing arguments for Scottish independence by saying his government differed with London over immigration.
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March 31st, 2008 - 2:20 am ICT by admin
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London, March 31 (DPA) All five occupants of a light aircraft that that crashed in a residential area south of London Sunday were killed, the police said. The twin-engine Cessna exploded as it crashed into a suburban residential district in Farnborough, Kent, setting a house on fire, witnesses said.
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March 30th, 2008 - 11:57 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 30 (DPA) A light aircraft believed to be carrying five or more people crashed in a residential area of south London Sunday, witnesses reported. The plane exploded as it crashed into a suburban residential district, striking two houses and setting them on fire, the witnesses said.
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March 30th, 2008 - 7:36 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 30 (IANS) Spin wizard Shane Warne, who will captain Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League (IPL), feels the cash-rich Twenty20 extravaganza will be a huge boost for cricket. "It is not a case of putting the Indian Premier League before my county. Yes, I am excited about ...
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March 30th, 2008 - 6:27 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 30 (IANS) The Professional Cricketers' Association has warned the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to soften its stance on million-dollar Indian Premier League (IPL) or else they may have to face a "catastrophic" situation in terms of losing players. "If the ECB ignores these opportunities for players, ...
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March 30th, 2008 - 4:49 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 30 (ANI): A pair of researchers from the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa has discovered that it hurts dolphins to swim faster than about 54 kilometres per hour near the surface, but tuna do not suffer the same problem.
Gil Iosilevskii and Danny Weihs conducted a ...
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March 30th, 2008 - 4:47 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 30 (ANI): A US scientist has used corn residues to develop a novel packaging film that could destroy Listeria monocytogene, a rod-shaped bacterium that causes food poisoning in animals and humans.
Tony Jin at the US Department of Agriculture in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, has created a biodegradable polylactic acid ...
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March 30th, 2008 - 3:12 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 30 (ANI): If you wish to know what loyalty and allegiance means, meet Julia McCarthy-Fox a British housewife who has travelled at least 500,000 miles and turned out at least 2,000 times to see the Royal Family.
In her 25-year journey as Britain's most devoted Royal watcher, Julia ...
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March 30th, 2008 - 3:01 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 30 (ANI): A Tory council in the UK has been lambasted for splurging more than 6,000 pounds on team-building exercises, particularly chocolate-making lessons for managers.
Chiefs of the Suffolk county council paid up for activity days for 50 senior staff in a bid to make them better ...
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March 30th, 2008 - 3:01 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 30 (ANI): A Tory council in the UK has been lambasted for splurging more than 6,000 pounds on team-building exercises, particularly chocolate-making lessons for managers.
Chiefs of the Suffolk county council paid up for activity days for 50 senior staff in a bid to make them better ...
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March 30th, 2008 - 1:54 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 30 (ANI): A new study has suggested that building and maintaining a hypothetical space elevator would be an even bigger challenge than previously thought, as it would need to include built-in thrusters to stabilise itself against dangerous vibrations.
According to a report in New Scientist, the idea behind ...
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March 30th, 2008 - 1:28 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 30 (ANI): Archaeologists have unearthed small Stone Age weapons in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, dating back to around 15,000-20,000 years, which suggests man's presence in the area much earlier than previously believed.
A report by BBC news stated that the artifacts were found during ...
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March 30th, 2008 - 1:22 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 30 (ANI): Reports indicate that an anti-landmine pressure group is going to campaign against military use of armed robots that make their own decisions about when to kill.
According to a report in New Scientist, the concerned group is known as "Landmine Action", and is based in London. ...
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March 30th, 2008 - 1:19 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 30 (ANI): Scientists have determined that solar flares in the Sun's outer layers that causes quakes, produce strong oscillations throughout the star the same way as the entire Earth is set ringing for several weeks after a major earthquake.
Christoffer Karoff and Hans Kjeldsen of the University of ...
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March 30th, 2008 - 1:12 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 30 (ANI): A new research has revealed that electric shocks can make plants produce more chemicals, which could be used to help increase yields of commercially useful biologicals.
According to a report in Nature News, researchers have long known that stressing plants can force them to take defensive ...
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March 30th, 2008 - 1:04 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 30 (ANI): She might be just three years old, but Leah Robbins is already a big name in the world of swimming by setting a new British record of swimming 500 metres.
The Gorleston-born water baby was just 13 months old when she passed her 5m badge - ...
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March 30th, 2008 - 12:50 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 30 (ANI): Aubergine has replaced sprouts as the vegetable children hate the most, according to a new survey.
The poll of 2,300 kids by Heinz found that some 39 per cent dislike the dark vegetable - two per cent more than sprouts.
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March 30th, 2008 - 12:47 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 30 (IANS) Guitarist Alison Mosshart, the bandmate of supermodel Kate Moss' boyfriend Jamie Hince, is unhappy because she can no longer spend enough time with the latter. Mosshart had earlier made it clear that she didn't want Moss anywhere on stage, mirror.co.uk reports. She has voiced her displeasure ...
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March 30th, 2008 - 12:46 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 30 (IANS) Pop superstar Madonna is upset that her song "Four minutes to save the world" has been cut almost by a quarter before it was aired on US radio. The song was almost pared down to three minutes, mirror.co.uk reports.
She angrily said: "It wasn't my idea. ...
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March 30th, 2008 - 12:42 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 30 (IANS) Sikh and Muslim leaders in Britain are to be taken to Northern Ireland - a province that is just emerging from decades of sectarian violence - to help ease religious tensions said to be rooted in events surrounding India's independence. Faith Matters, a ...
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March 30th, 2008 - 12:36 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 30 (DPA) Champions Manchester United extended their lead at the top of the English Premier League football to six points as they crushed Aston Villa 4-0 at Old Trafford. Ten-man Arsenal kept alive their title hopes with a stunning second-half comeback as they recovered from 0-2 ...
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March 30th, 2008 - 12:21 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 30 (DPA) Following are the results and standings in the English Premiership football: Saturday's results:
Birmingham City 3 Manchester City 1
Bolton Wanderers 2 Arsenal 3
Derby County 2 Fulham 2
Portsmouth 2 Wigan Athletic 0
Reading 0 Blackburn Rovers 0
Sunderland 2 West Ham United 1
Manchester United - Aston Villa 1715
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March 30th, 2008 - 12:08 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 30 (ANI): Despite his turbulent past with ex-wife Britney Spears, Kevin Federline has revealed that he wants to rekindle his relationship with the Toxic star.
According to reports, the rapper wants to get back with Spears after going through a bitter divorce and custody battle.
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March 30th, 2008 - 11:23 am ICT by admin
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London, March 30 (IANS) Cricket commentator Mandira Bedi can rest a tiny bit easy - thousands of miles away from India, British boxing hero Amir Khan too is facing a flag row. Controversial Muslim cleric Omar Bakri Mohammad, who lives in exile in Lebanon after leaving Britain in 2005, has ...
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March 29th, 2008 - 9:01 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 29 (IANS) Organisers of the Indian Premier League (IPL) championship have approached cricket bosses in England for permission to stage matches at Lord's and Brit Oval cricket grounds, a newspaper reported Saturday. The $1 bn IPL initial offers are being considered by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), which ...
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March 29th, 2008 - 7:37 pm ICT by admin
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London, March 29 (IANS) An NRI psychiatrist from Assam faces the sack after being found guilty of conducting unethical drug tests on mentally ill patients, according to reports Saturday. The General Medical Council has found Tonmoy Sharma, a former lecturer at the prestigious Institute of Psychiatry in London, guilty of ...
