London, Oct. 8: Hate preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed has divorced his wife and taken a new bride who is a year younger than his pole dancer daughter.

The tubby Muslim extremist dumped 48-year-old Hanah for a Lebanese beauty called Ruba, 26.

Frustrated Bakri, 50, declared: “I must have a woman!” after Hanah — the mother of his six children — refused to stay with him in exile in Lebanon.

According to The Sun, Ruba has shacked up with Bakri and his ten-year-old son Bilal at his luxury home in a suburb of Beirut.

London  - The British government pledged Wednesday to compensate some 300,000 savers who have placed their money with an Icelandic internet bank following the country's banking nationalization programme.

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling said Wednesday that the government would help savers with deposits in the bank Icesave, whose parent company Landsbanki was nationalized by the Reykjavik government.

"I am very aware of the fact that Iceland has, sadly, chosen to default on its obligations here. We are pursuing Iceland and we will pursue it vigorously to make sure that we get the money due to us back," Darling told the BBC.

London - Banking stocks rallied on the London stock market Wednesday following the announcement by the government of a massive bail-out for the banking sector.

Shares in Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) jumped by 27 per cent in early trading, after a slump of more than 40 per cent Tuesday.

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) saw its share price rise by 12 per cent after losses of 39 per cent during turbulent trading Tuesday.

London - The British government Wednesday announced a major rescue package for leading banks of 50 billion pounds (87 billion dollars) to stabilize the banking system, according to a statement to the London Stock Exchange.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, detailing the plan in a written statement to the London stock market Wednesday, has said it was aimed at placing the banking industry on a long term "sound footing."

London, Oct 8 : More than one in four takeaway curries contain illegal and potentially harmful levels of laboratory-created chemicals, a UK survey has found.

The researchers came to the conclusion after a survey of 66 curries, which found that 27 per cent used illegally high levels of artificial colour.

One contained five times the permitted amount of colouring –equivalent to 3.6kg (8lb) of brightly coloured sweets – the study found, reports the Scotsman.

London, Oct 8 : Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl will be told by late November what charges he is to face, it has emerged.

According to reports, doctors are about to finish a psychiatric report on him.

Prosecutors in Austria trying to decide exactly what he should stand trial for are “drowning” in evidence of kidnap, rape and slavery.

On October 2, it was reported that the 73-year-old retired engineer and property developer was looking to sell his properties in order to raise money for his tormented family, reports the Sun.