Saddam asked Bush for a billion dollars to go into exile

London, Sept.27 : Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who was hanged last December for crimes against humanity, is reported to have offered to step down and go into exile a month before the invasion of Iraq by Allied forces.

Anticipating defeat, Saddam is said to have approached U.S. President George W Bush with the offer that included going away for good in return for 500 million pounds (one billion dollars), the Daily Mail reports.

China’s Three Gorges Dam, a disaster in the making, say officials

London, Sept.27 : Chinese Communist Party officials have warned that the Three Gorges Dam project has the makings of a major environmental catastrophe.

In an unprecedented admission of blame, the officials called for the urgent introduction of preventive measures.

China has been promoting the world’s biggest hydroelectric project as the best way to end centuries of floods along the basin of the Yangtze and to provide energy to fuel the country’s economic boom.

Nazi doctors’ training college in Germany up for sale

London, Sept.27 : A manor house in an idyllic north-east German village, which was once used as a college to train Third Reich doctors’, is up for sale.

According to The Times, these trained doctors went on to sterilise “sub-humans” - the mentally and physically handicapped, and gypsy women, and ran a terrifyingly thorough euthanasia programme.

Now, the cash-strapped elders of Alt Rehse where the manor house, which trained about 20,000 doctors is located, want to get rid of the house.

UK watchdog raps ad ‘exaggerating’ health benefits of tea

London, Sept 27 : The Advertising Standards Authority has rapped the UK Tea Council for a poster that suggested drinking four cups of tea as a part of a healthy diet.

The council claimed that the beverage has abundant antioxidants that are found in vegetables and fruits.

"Five portions of fruit and veg plus four cups of tea. It all adds up to a healthy diet,” the BBC quoted the poster, as saying.

An independent expert told the ASA that the evidence about tea’s benefits is ‘promising but inconclusive’.

Madame Tussauds immortalises Camilla in wax

London, Sept 27 : Prince Charles’ wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, has been immortalized in wax by the UK outpost of Madame Tussauds.

The royal’s wax model will now stand alongside those of her hubby, and steps sons Princes William and Harry in the newly-refurbished Royal Zone.

Looking on is the waxwork of Diana, Princess of Wales - placed 15ft away, facing the Duchess.

For the model, not only did Camilla sit the sculptor at Clarence House, but also picked out her outfit and accessories.

Geelani condemns India-UK military exercise in Ladakh

Srinagar, Sept. 27 : The Chairman of the hardline faction of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Shah Geelani has condemned the high-altitude military exercise by India and Britain in Ladakh.

Geelani said Ladakh is part of disputed Kashmir and the joint military exercise is in contravention of agreements.

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