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Barnes nominated for Costa

BOOKER PRIZE winner Julian Barnes has been nominated for the prestigious Costa Book Awards for his novel, The Sense of an Ending.

Concern grows in U.K., U.S. over Somali-based militants

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In late October, two 18-year-old men from the Welsh city of Cardiff were arrested on Kenya's border with war-torn Somalia.

The father of one of them told the BBC he believed his son had been 'brainw

World stocks pressured by debt contagion fears

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World stocks dipped to a one-week low on Thursday and the euro held near a five-week trough while safe-haven German bonds rose, as concerns grew over spillover damage to U.S. banks from the euro zone

UK airline fiasco: more ordeal for NRI passengers

Hundreds of Indian-origin passengers with valid tickets on the Birmingham-Amritsar flight operated by an Austrian airline have been stranded in the two cities after the company ran into financial diff

British taxis to have spy cameras

Taxis in the famous British university town of Oxford will now be fitted with spy cameras to record images of passengers.

A total of 652 taxis licensed in the city are to be fitted with CCTV cameras,

Every international team fixed matches in 1990s: Condon

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Former ICC Anti-Corruption Unit chief Paul Condon has made a sensational claim that every international team was involved in match-fixing at some stage in the 1990s.

Condon, who was founding head of

I have an alien in my fridge: Russian woman

A Russian woman has claimed she has had an extra-terrestrial creature in her fridge for the past two years.

Marta Yegorovnam told investigators she found the alien at a crash site after hearing a lou

Airline holds UK-bound NRI passengers 'to ransom'

Angry passengers travelling by a private airline from Amritsar to Birmingham via Vienna, most of them of Indian-origin were forced to cough up 20,000 pounds over the weekend when the airline could not

Jaguar Land Rover turnaround accelerates in Q3

The turnaround at Tata-owned carmaker Jaguar Land Rover accelerated in the July-September quarter as booming demand in China helped drive a 30 per cent rise in sales, the company announced in a statem

Britain may deploy missiles for 2012 London Olympics

Britain may deploy surface-to-air missiles to protect London during the 2012 Olympics, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said on Monday, shortly after the government rejected reports of US security fea

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Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.