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Hitler ''planned propaganda cable TV''

London, Oct. 22 : Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was working on a Big Brother-style cable television propaganda industry to be broadcast across Germany.

According to The Telegraph, researchers for new Russian documentary recently re-examined plans for the system that were left behind by Soviet soldiers when they entered Berlin 1945.

The Orwellian screens would have been set up in public places and would show "people''s television", depicting how the Aryan race should live, with the Nazis focusing on news, sport and education.

Ideas included building rooms beside laundries so women could gather round the TV to watch the broadcasts.

One in four new UK teachers struggle to spell even simple words

London, Oct 22 : A new survey has revealed that one in four trainee teachers struggle to spell even simple words.

The finding was made after more than 11,000 teachers, who started at schools this year, failed a basic test.

The inability to spell was just another finding added to the shocking statistic that was revealed last year after a whopping 20,000 were found to be duffers in arithmetic.

The student teachers were given an online test, which they can do as many times as they like, or until they pass, and it was discovered from the first test itself that the number of failures was 16 per cent higher than seven years ago.

Queen Elizabeth receives gift of Lipizzaner horse in Slovenia

"Queen's dressmaker" files for administration in times of change Ljubljana  - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II was presented her own Lipizzaner horse when she visited a stud farm in western Slovenia on Wednesday.

The gift was however symbolic, as the stud, named 085 Favory Canissa XXII, remained in its Lipica stable, near Slovenia's border with Italy.

Now, a solar- and air-powered house that can ‘walk away’ from floods

London, October 22 : A 10ft high solar- and wind-powered home, which can stroll at walking pace across all terrains, may help deal with problems like floods and unfriendly neighbours in future.

The prototype home has been built on six hydraulic legs that can walk.

It has a living room, kitchen, toilet, bed, and wood stove.

A mainframe computer helps control the house’s legs.

The pod is all set to take its maiden stroll around rural Cambridgeshire at the Wysing Arts Centre in Bourn on Thursday.

Its makers — art collective N55 in Copenhagen, Denmark — developed it while working with engineers at MIT in Massachusetts, USA.

Madonna to continue her stay in London

Madonna to continue her stay in London Heart throb of millions, the pop icon ‘Madonna’ decided not to bid adieu to Britain even when she has broken up with her husband, British Director, Guy Ritchie. Madonna who is presently 50 years old, married the director(40), in December 2000 at Skebi Castle in the Scottish highlands.

Madonna who was supposed to leave for New York with her kids as soon as she gets divorce from Ritchie, now changes her mind as the British director admitted that it was in best of interests for the kids to remain in Britain.

Italian pilot describes near miss with a UFO

London, Oct 22 : For the first time in nearly 20 years, an Italian airliner pilot has opened up about a near miss with a UFO after a record of the encounter was released by the Ministry of Defence in London.

Captain Achille Zaghetti, who lives in Grosseto, Tuscany, was flying from Milan to Heathrow when he and his co-pilot saw a mysterious khaki-coloured, missile-shaped object streaking across the sky above the Kent countryside.

While recalling the incident that occurred over Lydd, Kent, in 1991, Zaghetti revealed that the 10ft-long UFO came so close to the airliner that he shouted "Look out! Look out!" to his co-pilot, who also spotted the object.

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