London, Oct 13: Nearly a third of celebrities

London - A British Airways (BA) Boeing was Monday forced to request a priority landing at London's Heathrow airport after fumes were detected in the passenger cabin, the airline said.

No one was hurt or taken ill as the Boeing 757, travelling from Nice in southern France with 137 passengers on board, landed safely just after 0700 GMT Monday.

"The crew asked for a priority landing after fumes were detected in the cabin. Our engineers are now inspecting the plane," a BA spokesman said.

London - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has promised an "end to rewards for failure" while annoucing details of a 37-billion pound (65-billion-dollar) bank bail-out package in London on Monday.

The package, which will see the British government taking significant ownership in the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and a merged Lloyds TSB and HBOS, comes with the proviso of no bonuses for the executives of banks that receive public funds.

London, October 13 : Former Cuban President Fidel Castro sees it as a "pure miracle" that U. S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has not been assassinated as yet.

He believes that most people in America cannot accept the idea of a black man winning the White House race.

"Profound racism exists in the United State,” the Telegraph quoted him as writing about the U. S. presidential race on the website Cubadebate.

London - The British government believes that the "decisive action" taken to stabilize leading banks will help it get through the current financial turmoil, Alistair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said Monday.

"The steps we have taken are pretty significant," Darling told the BBC. However, he insisted that the government did "not want to run banks."

"Our sole aim is to strenghten and rebuild British banks," he said.

London, Oct 13 : A new study has found that 173 miles of National Trust coastline and 2,105 acres of land in the UK could be affected in the coming decades by sea level rise, coastal flooding and increased erosion.

According to a report in the Daily Star, the National Trust has warned that miles of coastline, ancient monuments, listed buildings, a historic garden and the habitat at Brownsea Island are all at risk of erosion or coastal flooding in the South West.