Moscow, Aug 15 : Russian ambassador to Great Britain Yury Fedotov has said that London’s efforts to politicise the “death” case of Alexander Litvinenko’s a former officer of the Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), had resulted in deterioration of UK-Russia relations.

“It is precisely the Litvinenko case, or primarily London''s efforts to politicize it that have resulted in a visible aggravation of Russian-British relations. Meanwhile, there is a practical way out of the present situation that has been tested in international legal practices,” he said in an interview with the Interfax.

London, August 15 : A British academic''s claims that writer Franz Kafka had a penchant for hard porn has outraged German scholars.

Furious German academics were reacting to James Hawes’ claims in his book ‘Excavating Kafka’ that the writer was a subscriber to upmarket pornography.

They accused Hawes of prudishness, sensationalism, and even anti-semitism.

London, Aug. 15 : Manchester Police have arrested three young men from Blackburn on suspicion of terrorism charges.

According to the Daily Express, two of the three were arrested at Manchester Airport, while the third was picked up from the Accrington area this morning.

All three men are said to be of Asian origin and are aged 21, 22 and 23 respectively.

The officers are now searching two addresses in one street in the Audley Range area of the town. A third house in Whalley Range is also being searched.

London  - An English pub landlady has, in a bid to ease the pressure of the credit crunch, begun accepting local game and produce in exchange for beer.

Drinkers in "The Pigs", an ale-house in the Norfolk town of Edgefield, can quench their thirst in return for sacks of potatoes, freshly shot pheasants, pigeons or even the odd rabbit.

"If you have anything grown, raised, shot or stolen that fits our menu, bring it in and we'll do you a deal," reads a tongue-in-cheek sign on the pub door.

London, August 15 : Jailed paedophile rocker Gary Glitter, 64, may be arrested as soon as he returns to Britain next week, say reports.

A police source has revealed that Glitter, set for release from a Vietnamese jail next Tuesday, will be whisked to a police station to face a series of old sex allegations.

“For every parent worried Glitter will be wandering the streets, let me reassure you — that man’s in for a hell of a tough time. He’ll wish he’d stayed in jail in Vietnam when we’ve finished with him,” British tabloid The Sun quoted the source as saying.

London, Aug 15 : Modern Brit would prefer dating a DIY (do-it-yourself) handyman to rich office workers, shows a new research.

The study found that fifty-nine per cent of the total polled preferred hands-on blokes who can save cash by tackling jobs at home.

Sixty-five per cent would choose a gardener over a lawyer.

A staggering 95 per cent find men with no DIY skills a turn-off.

One in ten would dump them.

Julie Olsson, of woodcare firm Sadolin — which quizzed 3,000 women for the poll — said: “It’s an attractive quality to see a man putting time and care into a property’s upkeep.”