The independent reviewer of counterterrorism laws has implanted an attack on the plans to create a database of every phone call and email sent in Britain. According to Lord Carlile, the idea of a database was pathetic.
While in Canary Wharf, Home office secretary Jacqui Smith was quite busy defending the plans. She said, “Our ability to intercept communications and obtain communications data is vital to fighting terrorism and combating serious crime.”
The government is not determined to collect data related to the actual content but in fact collect the data related to calls and emails, such as the identity of the caller and where they are calling.
London, October 17 : A Brit couple jailed for three months for having sexual intercourse on a beach in Dubai have vowed to appeal against their sentence, claiming that they are “innocent”.
Michelle Palmer, 36, and Vince Acors, 34, were arrested in July with the police claiming that they had been having sex on the public Jumeirah beach.
Judge Hamdi Abul Khair at Dubai''s Court of First Instance sentenced them to three months imprisonment, fined them 155 pounds each for drinking alcohol, and ordered their deportation after their sentence.
The judge, however, did not specify whether the couple were sentenced for indecent behaviour, or for sex outside marriage.
London, Oct 17 : A British General who will take over as British Army’s new head in Afghanistan today, has demanded an increase in the number of troops in the strife-torn country by nearly 30,000 in order to combat the Taliban there.
General Sir David Richards, who will take over from General Sir Richard Dannatt, is believed to favour sending up to 5000 more British troops to Afghanistan on top of the 8000 already in the country. The other 25,000 troops would be made up of US reinforcements and newly trained Afghan soldiers. General Richards also believes that a negotiated settlement may be necessary to end the conflict, but that any talks must take place with the Afghan government and NATO in a position of strength, reported The Independent.
London, Oct 17 : Investigation by CERN has revealed that the major helium leak that caused the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to be shut down until the spring was caused by a faulty electrical connection between two magnets.
The LHC is the world’s largest and highest energy particle accelerator complex, intended to collide opposing beams of protons with very high kinetic energy.
The LHC circulated its first particle beams on 10 September 2008, but a few days later had to suspend operations due to equipment failure.
Cairo - A British citizen has handed in several small statues believed to be antiquities to Egyptian cultural authorities in London, expressing a wish that they be returned to their homeland, a news report said on Thursday.
"I received an email from a British woman called Rebecca Robinson saying she had several ancient Egyptian statues that she wanted to return to Egypt," Maysa Nasr Farid, the Egyptian cultural attache in London told Egypt's official Middle East News Agency (MENA).
London, Oct 17 : Investigation by CERN has revealed that the major helium leak that caused the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to be shut down until the spring was caused by a faulty electrical connection between two magnets.
Cairo - A British citizen has handed in several small statues believed to be antiquities to Egyptian cultural authorities in London, expressing a wish that they be returned to their homeland, a news report said on Thursday.
