London, Mar. 21 : After reports of US security officials imparting training to the Pakistan military, it has now been revealed that a team of British military personnel is also working with the Pak Frontier Corps (FC), The Times Online reports.

"A small team of conventional British military personnel is working in a Frontier Corps training school, conducting mutual co-operation training to assist the Frontier Corps in enhancing its capability," a British High Commission spokesperson in Islamabad said.

London, Mar 21: Eight out of ten British kids are addicted to their mobile phones, a new survey has found.

According to www. youngpoll. com, one in three children feel "alone" without the phone and almost half sleep next to it.

Children spend nearly six hours on mobiles a day - talking, texting and playing music or games, the study found.

The survey also found that kids send as many as 19 texts and make eight calls a day.

London, Mar. 21: British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said that the Taliban has achieved a "strategic stalemate" in Afghanistan.

His statement came as he refused to say whether he wanted to reduce the number of British forces in the country.

London, Mar 21: Google has removed several images from its new UK Street View application.

The firm was forced to pull some of the images from the street-mapping facility following complaints.

It is thought that the pictures removed contained revealing images of homes, a man entering a London sex shop, people being arrested and a man being sick.

"We''ve got millions of images, so the percentage removed was very small," Google''s Laura Scott told the BBC.

London, Mar. 21 : British anti-terrorist officers have warned that luxury hotels in the country might be attacked on lines of the Mumbai terror attacks.

The officials have put this threat at the top end of `severe', the third of four risk levels which rate an attack `highly likely', sources said.

"The Government is right that the horrific events in Mumbai have highlighted the need for a different strategy in counter-terrorism. No part of the UK is free from threat - and we know that terrorists want soft targets," Deputy Home Secretary Chris Grayling said.

London, March 21 : A new study has warned that Africa might soon see its first bird extinction in about four years time.

According to a report in New Scientist, the bird in question is the Sidamo lark, which may become the first contemporary African bird to go extinct.

The lark is adapted to Ethiopia's "rangeland" - the savannah of native grasses that traditionally covered large parts of east Africa, but is now rapidly disappearing.