London, Aug. 8 : More troops may be sent to Afghanistan to help fight the Taliban, British Defence Secretary Des Browne has hinted.

Military chiefs have been in discussion to almost double troop numbers in Afghanistan, the Telegraph reports.

Senior military officers have held preliminary talks about troop strengths and believe increasing numbers up to approximately 14,000 from the current 8,200 may be necessary to defeat the Taliban.

London, August 8 : A new research has suggested that the fallout from Chinese industrial pollution could actually be reducing the country’s contribution to climate change from at least one greenhouse gas – methane.

According to a report in New Scientist, the research, conducted by a British team, added sulphate to laboratory rice paddies in an effort to mimic the effect of acid rain on Asia’s most important food crop.

“This equivalent of typical acid rain reduced methane emissions from flooded paddies by up to 25 per cent,” said Vincent Gauci of the Open University in Milton Keynes in the UK.

London, Aug 8 : A pub Down Under is drawing large number of people, not because it is serving free alcohol, but due to the antics of the bar landlord’s pet fish — it swims upside down.

The fish, named ‘Aussie’, has floated around with its white belly pointing upwards and its eyes staring down for the past four years down.

Customers at the Globe Inn, in Lympstone near Exeter, Devon, spend hours watching the fish and joke that it must be drunk.

Landlord Liam Matthews, 53, bought the goldfish in 2004 from a pet shop.

He says that it has become a tourist attraction since then and says it has since become a tourist attraction.

London, Aug. 8 : A poll has found that Lord Horatio Nelson continues to be the most loved military hero of a majority of Britons.

London, Aug. 8 : Two British graduates who were responsible for an audacious pro-Tibet demonstration on the eve of the Olympics returned home yesterday promising that theirs was the first of a wave of protests.

Lucy Fairbrother, 23, and Iain Thom, 24, were deported after Thom, an experienced climber, scaled a 120ft (35m) pylon outside Beijing’s Bird''s Nest Stadium on Wednesday morning and unfurled a giant banner reading: “One World, One Dream, Free Tibet.”

As the pair arrived back at London City airport to be welcomed by family and supporters, Fairbrother said: “We are only a very small part of this campaign and the ongoing struggle. There will be more protests.”

London, Aug 8 : British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has turned himself into a hero of his own children''s book.

Recalling his childhood days in the book, ‘When I was 10’, Brown revealed that he was highly fascinated by the stories of historic and sporting heroes.

"Like most boys of that age, I hadn''t travelled much and didn''t know much either. From my bedroom, or lying on the hearthrug in front of the fire, I went off on my travels again and again,” Telegraph quoted him, as stating in the book.