London, October 22 : Enrique Iglesias, who was onboard a private plane, had to make an emergency pit stop owing to the plane’s engine trouble.
The Spanish singer, who was his way to Europe for the promotion of his ‘Greatest Hits’ album, reportedly had an air-scare when the jet’s engine ran into trouble and had to make an emergency landing at the Luton Airport in the UK.
The pop icon’s spokesperson reassured fans with an official statement ensuring the safety of the star and others on board.
“Yesterday Enrique Iglesias’s plane made an emergency landing at Luton Airport in the UK,” the Mirror quoted him as saying.
London - Britain's first atheist advertising campaign has beaten its fundraising target in its first day, media reports said Wednesday.
The campaign, which was launched by the Guardian newspaper and supported by the British Humanist Association and atheist campaigner Professor Richard Dawkins, had received pledges worth more than 28,000 pounds (46,000 dollars) by Tuesday, five times the 5,500-pound target, the Guardian and Daily Telegraph dailies reported.
The money is to be used to advertise on buses in response to a similar campaign by fundamentalist Christians in June that featured a website which said all non-Christians would burn in Hell for eternity, according to the British Humanist Association's website.
London, Oct. 22 : Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was working on a Big Brother-style cable television propaganda industry to be broadcast across Germany.
According to The Telegraph, researchers for new Russian documentary recently re-examined plans for the system that were left behind by Soviet soldiers when they entered Berlin 1945.
The Orwellian screens would have been set up in public places and would show "people''s television", depicting how the Aryan race should live, with the Nazis focusing on news, sport and education.
Ideas included building rooms beside laundries so women could gather round the TV to watch the broadcasts.
London, Oct 22 : A new survey has revealed that one in four trainee teachers struggle to spell even simple words.
The finding was made after more than 11,000 teachers, who started at schools this year, failed a basic test.
The inability to spell was just another finding added to the shocking statistic that was revealed last year after a whopping 20,000 were found to be duffers in arithmetic.
The student teachers were given an online test, which they can do as many times as they like, or until they pass, and it was discovered from the first test itself that the number of failures was 16 per cent higher than seven years ago.
London, October 22 : A 10ft high solar- and wind-powered home, which can stroll at walking pace across all terrains, may help deal with problems like floods and unfriendly neighbours in future.
The prototype home has been built on six hydraulic legs that can walk.
It has a living room, kitchen, toilet, bed, and wood stove.
A mainframe computer helps control the house’s legs.
The pod is all set to take its maiden stroll around rural Cambridgeshire at the Wysing Arts Centre in Bourn on Thursday.
Its makers — art collective N55 in Copenhagen, Denmark — developed it while working with engineers at MIT in Massachusetts, USA.
Ljubljana - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II was presented her own Lipizzaner horse when she visited a stud farm in western Slovenia on Wednesday.
