London, Oct 28 : Ferrari believes that a move to use standardised engines would negate their reason for existing in Formula One. 

Ferrari warned on Monday that they could quit formula one if the sport’s governing body continues with its plans to slash costs, the Guardian reported. 

The famous Italian team, which has been in Formula One since its inauguration in 1950, sent a firm signal to the FIA president, Max Mosley, that his idea of introducing so-called standard engines into the sport would take away their raison d’être for competing in motor racing.

Putrajaya, Oct 28 : Eleven members of the banned Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf), who were arrested under the Societies Act after they held an illegal gathering outside the Prime Minister’s office on Thursday, have been released. 

Their release papers were signed at noon on Sunday by Kajang magistrate’s court registrar Bonney Empoh, The NST Online reported. 

Puchong Member of Parliament Gobind Singh Deo said they were released on 1,000-ringgit police bail each and would have to report to the police station in a month’s time.

“We were told that police were still investigating their cases before forwarding their recommendations to the Attorney-General’s Chambers.”

London, Oct 28 : British Airways has stopped being the UK’s national carrier and effectively become London Airways. 

Though the airline still operates flights from Manchester, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, but passengers choice of destination from these cities is limited: They can fly to any other city they like – so long as it is London, The Independent reported. 

At the weekend, the airline axed the last international flight that neither departed from nor arrived at one of the London airports, the 44-year-old link from New York to Manchester. 

The slots at JFK have been redeployed for a new BA route from Gatwick. 

London, Oct 28 : World’s most romantic couple Anette and Kenneth Lund have not only set up a record by marrying six times, they have also broken a world record by completing four ceremonies in a day.

The couple is so head over heels in love that they plan to keep tying the knot every year, until they die in a bid to keep the excitement of their marriage alive.

“When Kenneth asked me to marry him again and again, I loved the idea,” the Telegraph quoted Anette as saying.

"I''ll never get tired of marrying him, even when we''re old and grey. I''ll have a new dress, flowers and pictures every year. What bride wouldn''t love that?" she added.

London, Oct 28 : The UK ‘s military intelligence service is facing severe cuts that will reduce its ability to foresee future threats to national security and dangers to British forces abroad, a confidential Whitehall document shows. 

British analysis of Russia’s military capabilities and activities will be reduced as the Ministry of Defence slashes the size and budget of the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS), a senior officer has warned. 

The agency is losing more than one in five of its Whitehall staff and having its budget cut by nearly seven million pound as the Ministry of Defence cuts costs.

United Nations, Oct 28 : Mohamed ElBaradei, the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has said in a speech that the number of reports of nuclear or radioactive material stolen around the world last year was “disturbingly high.”

Dr. ElBaradei, in his annual report on Monday to the General Assembly, said nearly 250 such thefts were reported in the year ending in June. 

“The possibility of terrorists obtaining nuclear or other radioactive material remains a grave threat. Equally troubling is the fact that much of this material is not subsequently recovered,” The New York Times quoted him, as saying.