London, Sept 9 : With there being so many crime victims who cannot speak English, a new innovative way has been found to help cops deal with them – flash cards.

The method of using the thousands of individual pictures is said to save a lot of time and money in calling for interpreters.

As revealed by the Sussex force, who have 10,000 Eastern European immigrants on their patch, it is the easiest and fastest way.

The cards are carried by officers like WPC Emma Cruise on their belts, and each of them have more than a dozen flash cards, which include Guess Who? game style descriptions of suspects’ appearances.

“I believe they will prove useful,” the Sun quoted Sgt Danny West as saying on September 8.

Chennai, Sept. 9 : Canadian warships -- the HMS Calgary and the HMS Protecteur -- will make a three-day stopover in Chennai on Wednesday (September 10), as they embark on their return journey around the globe after a four month counter-terrorism deployment to the Arabian Sea as part of a multinational coalition known as Combined Task Force (CTF) 150.

The Commanding Officer of the multi-purpose frigate Calgary, Commander Kelly Larkin, will be available to speak to the press shortly after his ship''s arrival at approximately 11 a. m. There will also be an opportunity for members of the media to briefly tour the Canadian frigate after the exchange with the ship''s Captain.

London - A century-old pier in the seaside town of Fleetwood, north-west England, has been "completely gutted" by fire, police said Tuesday.

The fire was believed to have started near the front of the pier beside a former pub and cafe, investigators said. It was too early to say whether the blaze, discovered in the early hours of Tuesday, had been started deliberately.

The pier in the seaside resort, just north of Blackpool, originates from 1910, but was largely rebuilt after a fire in 1952. It had recently fallen into disrepair.

The blaze came less than six weeks after a fire destroyed a 104- year-old pier in Weston-super-Mare, in the south-western county of Somerset.

London, Sep 9 : With the demand of social networking sites growing worldwide, a new research has found that British bosses are more likely to curb the use Facebook and MySpace than their European counterparts.

According to a report by Ofcom, Britons spend more time on social networking sites than any of their European neighbours.

The report revealed that almost 40 per cent of British adults with internet access were found to use social networking sites compared with 22 per cent in Italy, 17 per cent in France and 12 per cent in Germany, reports Telegraph.

Washington, Sep 9: There is no quick way to wiping out militancy along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border areas, British envoy Rory Stewart has said.

Stewart, who is an expert on Pakistan and Afghanistan, also warned anti-terrorism coalition forces against pursuing any aggressive military policy in the Tribal Areas.

He said that “there is no silver bullet out there” to enforce full security and stability in a stipulated timeframe.

Nairobi/Kinshasa - The United Nations and the Democratic Republic of Congo have started a military operation directed against Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), news reports said.

Kony is refusing to sign a final peace deal after two years of negotiations and is believed to have been using the time to rearm.

The LRA, which is well-known for recruiting child soldiers, has in recent months been attacking villages and abducting people in southern Sudan, Congo and parts of the Central African Republic, United Nations and military officials said.