London - Britain's Prince Charles has warned against the industrial-scale development of genetically modified (GM) food in an unusually outspoken interview published on Wednesday.

Multinational companies developing GM crops were conducting a "gigantic experiment I think with nature and the whole of humanity which has gone seriously wrong," he told the Daily Telegraph.

London, Aug. 13 : ONE in three whites in the United Kingdom do believe they are victims of racism in key public services.

According to a government survey, there is a 50 percent increase in the number of people who think they face discrimination during the last eight years.

New figures show 29 per cent of whites consider they will be treated worse than other races in public services such as housing, schools, GPs and the police, reports The Sun.

The figures have rocketed since 2001, when only 20 per cent feared discrimination.

London, Aug 13 : Amid news reports that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf might put in his papers today or tomorrow, his political aides have reportedly said that he might resort to other options available with him, like stepping down or bring about a defection in the PPP, in order to avoid facing impeachment.

UK’s supermarket group, Tesco has announced to enter in a wholesale cash-and-carry business in India. The company would invest up to £60 million (Rs 480 crore) in the first two years.

Tesco is the third largest retailer in the world with sales of $99.9 billion. It has reported a 13.9% rise in sales with strong growth in Europe and Asia.

London, Aug. 13 : Britain’s Prince Charles has warned that GM crops could cause the world’s biggest-ever environmental disaster.

In his most outspoken intervention on the issue of GM food, the heir to the British throne said that multi-national companies were conducting an experiment with nature that had gone "seriously wrong".

In an exclusive interview with the Daily Telegraph, Charles also expressed the fear that food would run out because of the damage being wreaked on the earth''s soil by scientists'' research.

London, August 13 : The U. S. Air Force is planning to mount on a Hercules aircraft an airborne laser weapon called the "long-range blowtorch", which can hit a target without leaving any fragments of munitions.

The Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) will enable the U. S. to convincingly deny any involvement with the destruction it causes, a benefit that the Air Force experts have dubbed ‘plausible deniability’.