London, Oct 25 : Baghdad is unlikely to sign an agreement with Washington on the future of US forces in Iraq by a critical year-end deadline, Prime Minister of country’s largely autonomous Kurdish north has said.
London, Oct 25 : Once touted as the Prince''s new Poundbury, Prince Charles’ dream "Urban Village in St Austell" has now turned into a living hell for residents annoyed by drunk teenagers.
Urban Village, envisioned and partially designed by Prince Charles, was designed to be Britain''s first village in a town setting.
The 147-property village boasts its faux Victorian houses, man-made pond, and stream.
It promised streets "designed for people rather than cars", and homeowners were encouraged to start their own cottage businesses and create a real community, which was quickly nicknamed "Charlietown Two".
London, Oct 25: WAGS Alex Gerrard and Coleen Rooney became the latest victims of Fur campaigners, when a few caught hold of them at a fashion show.
Gerrard got the shock of her life when a campaigner dressed up as a bear and grabbed her as she made her way down the red carpet to the Grey Room in Liverpool.
Later, Coleen and her mum had to dodge a smack from a huge placard, as the Furfree Liverpool campaigners gave the girls a red card for shopping at the fur friendly store.
“It was crazy. The girls were really shaken when they got inside the venue,” the Mirror quoted a source, as saying.
London, Oct 26: Critics believe that the Preventing Violent Extremism Fund, which was started last year by former Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly to prevent teenagers turning to dangerous forms of Islam, is being spent aimlessly without achieving the desired objectives.
They say that large sums of money out of the Fund are being given to projects that do not meet its specific objectives, and are being handed out to community groups without councilors considering them first.
London, Oct 25 : English business magnate Sir Richard Branson’s attempt at a transatlantic record may be in jeopardy after “massive seas and very strong gales” swept away a life raft, and ripped the main sail.
Branson, his children Holly, 26, Sam, 23, and Olympic hero Ben Ainslie had set sail from New York on October 22 in an attempt to set a record for the fastest crossing.
The billionaire spoke via satellite from his 99-foot yacht Virgin Money, and revealed that the storms hammering the Atlantic “may have been too much for the boat and we may have pushed it too hard”.
London, Oct 25 : Sarah Palin, the Republican Party vice-presidential nominee for the US elections 2008, has failed in her aim to keep beluga whales off the endangered species list.
According to a report in New Scientist, the US government has added beluga whales in the Cook Inlet in Alaska to the endangered species list.
This is despite Palin’s efforts as state governor to prevent protection for this population being boosted.
London, Oct 25 : Baghdad is unlikely to sign an agreement with Washington on the future of US forces in Iraq by a critical year-end deadline, Prime Minister of country’s largely autonomous Kurdish north has said.
London, Oct 25: WAGS Alex Gerrard and Coleen Rooney became the latest victims of Fur campaigners, when a few caught hold of them at a fashion show.
London, Oct 25 : Sarah Palin, the Republican Party vice-presidential nominee for the US elections 2008, has failed in her aim to keep beluga whales off the endangered species list.
