Sunday, May 3

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Kate’s Personal Royal Baby Pics To Be Published
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Kate’s Personal Royal Baby Pics To Be Published

    Photographs of Princess Charlotte and her older brother Prince George are to be released by Kensington Palace this evening. The pictures, taken last month by their mother Kate at the family's country home in Norfolk , will be the first public images of Princess Charlotte since the day of her birth on 2 May. The four photographs will be released via the media and tweeted by the Kensington Palace from 9pm. The planned publication of the photographs was announced by Kensington Palace on Twitter at 11am this morning. The tweet said: "We'll be posting a very special photo of Prince George & his little sister Princess Charlotte late tonight. Can't wait to share it with you!" The announcement led to a flurry of excitement on the social media network. Kensington Palace...
PM Urges G7 To Tackle Cancer of Corruption
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

PM Urges G7 To Tackle Cancer of Corruption

    The bribery scandal in FIFA should spur the international community to target the "cancer" of corruption around the globe, David Cameron will tell world leaders at a G7 summit this weekend. At talks in Bavaria, the Prime Minister will call for an international effort to root out corruption, claiming it is holding back economic growth and human development all over the world. Ahead of the G7, Mr Cameron said: "In the last fortnight we have seen the stark truth about FIFA. The body governing football has faced appalling allegations that suggests it is absolutely riddled with corruption. "And (Sepp) Blatter's resignation this week presents an opportunity to clean up the game we love. It is also an opportunity to learn a broader lesson about tackling corruption. "Just as...
Sunny Leone makes actors wives insecure
Asia, ENGLISH

Sunny Leone makes actors wives insecure

    The hot star of 'Ek Paheli Leela' Sunny Leone may feel upset that many in the industry want her to leave, but she sure can make anyone insecure, reports zeenews.com In a recent interview to a leading daily the starlet confessed that she does feel that there is insecurity among co-actors' wives. Although she also clarified that she is least interested in taking them because she has the most amazing husband in the world. The actress has been welcomed in the industry by new directors, but Leone confessed that the big production houses are wary of working with her. Sunny has been facing flak for her bold avatars and recently a case was filed against her to make her leave India in which she was accused of spreading obscenity. The actress is soon to be seen in 'Mastizade'
Pregnant Woman among with 68 People Locked In Container At UK Port
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Pregnant Woman among with 68 People Locked In Container At UK Port

    Seven people have been taken to hospital after dozens of suspected illegal immigrants were found crammed in a container at a port. The East of England Ambulance Service were called around 10pm about people locked in the container - thought to have come from Holland - at Harwich International Port in Essex. A total of 53 adults and 15 children from various countries were assessed at the scene, with seven taken to Colchester General Hospital as a precaution. Two of those taken to hospital were pregnant women. Four Polish lorry drivers have been arrested on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration. Matt Broad from East of England Ambulance Service told Sky News paramedics were on the scene within six minutes of getting a call from UK Border Agency staff. Two haza...
Brick Lane curry king and ex-Lutfur money man Shiraj Haque says Vote Biggs
London

Brick Lane curry king and ex-Lutfur money man Shiraj Haque says Vote Biggs

    Is there a shift or split within the hitherto solid Bengali Lutfurite vote? I ask this because over the past couple of days I’ve received the following three texts: 1. TOWER HAMLETS COMMUNITY LEADERS ENCOURAGE POLITICAL CHANGE IN THE BOROUGH The Stake holders and the community activists conference is taking place tomorrow the 3rd June 2015 at 6.30pm in the Amana Centre, 251 Commercial Road, E1 2BT (opposite Watney Market) Senior Tower Hamlets community leaders have come together to declare their support for mainstream political engagement in the borough ahead of the upcoming by-election for Executive Mayor on 11 June 2015. United Tower Hamlets task force has been set up to undertake and lead a campaign to re-unite the currently fractured community relation which is dam...
The Queen’s sovereign grant is under review because she’s making too much money
London

The Queen’s sovereign grant is under review because she’s making too much money

    The Queen will receive a 15% rise in her Sovereign Grant because of a clause in a piece of legislation that was negotiated by UK Chancellor George Osborne in 2011. However, this will be under review, after this year's Autumn statement, because she is essentially making too much money. Three years ago, the government forged a deal for Buckingham Palace, which meant they'd be shielded from any public funding cuts. The deal also agreed that the Monarchy would receive 15% of  the profits of the £9.9 billion Crown Estate, and the amount the Queen would receive would never be less than the amount received in the previous year. This saw a massive rise in what the Queen received over the last three years. She got £40 million in the last financial year, which is 29% above the ...
Rogue BBC tweet sparks global news alert about Queen’s health
London

Rogue BBC tweet sparks global news alert about Queen’s health

    A rogue tweet by a BBC reporter after an “obituary rehearsal” led several major international news organisations to wrongly report that Queen Elizabeth had been admitted to hospital. Buckingham Palace has denied any suggestion the monarch is unwell, after erroneous breaking news reports said she was staying at the King Edward VII’s hospital, a private facility in Marylebone, London. The BBC said it was carrying out a “category one obituary rehearsal’ when the reporter mistakenly sent the tweet. The news of her hospitalisation originally came from the Twitter account of a BBC Urdu reporter, Ahmen Khawaja. She later deleted the original tweet and called it a false alarm. A few minutes afterwards, she tweeted that she had left her phone unattended and said the tweet had ...
Rabina Khan vows to reopen gay venue in Tower Hamlets
London

Rabina Khan vows to reopen gay venue in Tower Hamlets

    Rabina Khan, the Muslim independent candidate for mayor of Tower Hamlets, has vowed, if elected, to reopen a gay venue in the borough. According to a report in the GayStarNews, Khan said the Joiners’ Arms, which closed its doors suddenly in January, should become a hub to provide advice for young people struggling with their sexual or gender identity. “The Joiners’ Arms has long been an important venue for the LGBTI community and its future should carry on in that tradition,” she said. “I believe the Joiners’ Arms would make a fantastic community hub offering support services for the LGBTI people and the wider community too.” Charlotte Gerada, a member of the group “Friends of the Joiners Arms,” said: ‘The Joiners is an incredibly crucial and valued community space, o...
US tried to bring down North Korean missile programme with computer virus
Asia, ENGLISH

US tried to bring down North Korean missile programme with computer virus

    The operation began in tandem with the now-famous Stuxnet attack that sabotaged Iran's nuclear program in 2009 and 2010 by destroying a thousand or more centrifuges that were enriching uranium. Reuters and others have reported that the Iran attack was a joint effort by U.S. and Israeli forces. According to one U.S. intelligence source, Stuxnet's developers produced a related virus that would be activated when it encountered Korean-language settings on an infected machine. But U.S. agents could not access the core machines that ran Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program, said another source, a former high-ranking intelligence official who was briefed on the program. The official said the National Security Agency-led campaign was stymied by North Korea's utter secrecy, as w...
Teesta: Sand in winter, flood in monsoon (video)
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

Teesta: Sand in winter, flood in monsoon (video)

S Dilip Roy: Ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bangladesh visit, the people living by the Teesta River are hopeful that the Teesta water sharing agreement will be signed during his visit. The people believe that the Indian premier, alike the Land Boundary bill, will show positive attitude towards the water sharing agreement. Thousands of people live in different basins (char areas) of the river in Lalmonirhat. Most of the people's livelihoods are dependent on the river water and their lives become vulnerable when the river dries up. The farmers cannot cultivate crops properly as they do not get enough river water due to the crisis. Not only the farmers but also boatmen and fishermen, who depend on the river for their livelihoods, become jobless for eight to nine months a y...