London, Nov 25 : A 68-year-old man in Johannesburg is facing prosecution for keeping his 8-year-old son hidden from friends and visitors in a garage for four years.

The boy, who was born to the former Austrian airline pilot''s black domestic worker, was kept in torn and tattered clothes.

Their identities have not been revealed, reports the Scotsman.

The child, currently, is undergoing assessment in the children''s psychiatric ward of a Johannesburg hospital.

London, Nov 25: Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the former driver and bodyguard of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, will be removed from Guantanamo Bay prison and sent to Yemen to serve the rest of his sentence, reports have said.

Hamdan has been held at Guantanamo Bay for five years. Now, he will be transferred to his native country to serve the final weeks of his sentence, sources said.

Sydney  - Britain's Richard Hickox embraced the "Australian- ness" of his role as musical director of Opera Australia, the company's head said Tuesday.

Hickox, one of the world's leading conductors, had a fatal heart attack in Britain at the weekend.

Hickox, 60, replaced Simone Young as Opera Australia musical director in 2005.

It’s been weeks since Chandrayaan-1, India’s first unmanned moon mission, entered the lunar orbit flawlessly, and now its the turn of United Kingdom. With the aim to study the phenomenon of mysterious moonquakes Britain is all geared up to unveil its maiden moon mission. 

A 100-million-pound unmanned mission, named ‘MoonLITE’ is being launched with the motive to better know the reasons behind the mysterious quakes that vibrate through the lunar rock. 

London  - The British government Monday unveiled plans to cut Value Added Tax (VAT) as part of a massive fiscal and financial package of 20 billion pounds (30 billion dollars) to stimulate the economy in the face of a looming recession.

The measures are expected to push government borrowing to 78 billion pounds this financial year and to 118 billion pounds in 2009, Alistair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, told parliament.

But he defended the Labour government's decision to respond to the impending recession by stimulating growth and increasing national debt to 8 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GdP) next year.

London  - The British government Monday set out plans for a massive 20-billion-pound (30 billion dollars) programme to stimulate the economy as it heads for recession.

It proposed to cut value-added tax (VAT) on consumer goods from 17.5 per cent to 15 per cent until the end of 2009, and announced an increase in the top tax rate for higher earners to 45 per cent.

The measures were aimed at tackling the effects of an "unprecedented global crisis," the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, told parliament.

They would make sure that the economic downturn would be "shorter and shallower" than would have been the case otherwise.