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London, March 17 (ANI): As many as 722 objects were said to have been left inside patients in 2008 alone, courtesy careless medical staff and botched operations.
Using a Freedom of Information request, a British tabloid investigated a long list of grave mistakes made by NHS staff in the past two years.
The Sun came up with [...]

London, July 5 (ANI): The credibility of Britain’s new chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, Sir John Sawers, is being questioned after his wife published family holiday photographs and other personal details on Facebook.

Currently Britain’s ambassador to the United Nations, Sir John will take up his post as MI6 head, in charge of Britain’s spying [...]

London, May 26 (ANI): More than half a million assaults were either carried out by a girl or woman last year or involved a female as part of a group – and the trend is increasing, the Daily Telegraph can disclose.

Women [...]

London, May 1 (ANI): British Police anti-terror stop and search powers trebled last year, prompting fears that the policy is alienating the country’s Muslim community.

According to The Independent, officers in England and Wales used Terrorism Act powers to search 124,687 people in 2007/8, up from 41,924 in 2006/7.

Nearly the Metropolitan Police, the country’s largest force, [...]

London, Apr 30 (ANI): British MPs belonging to the Labour Party and the Conservative Party have backed a Liberal Democrat motion by 267 votes to 246 to give Gurkhas the right to live in the UK, dealing a major blow to the Gordon Brown Government over his refusal to allow the veterans to live in [...]

REGIONAL AGENCY CHIEF ATTACKS LIMITATIONS
According to Peter Rogers, the chief executive of the London Development Agency (LDA), regional development agencies lack the flexibility to target funds quickly enough to help recession-hit companies. Rogers criticised regional agencies for acting as simple funders of “random regeneration”, rather than influential bodies that can help businesses and local [...]

London, April 7 (ANI): British Home Office has landed itself in a fresh trouble after a link on its official website took users to a Japanese pornographic site.

A public user was left facing explicit images while hunting for information on the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism website.

A spokesman for the Home Office confirmed the revelation, [...]

Chisinau – Exit polls showed Moldova’s ruling Communist party was well ahead after voting stations closed in elections for a national parliament held Sunday.
The party was on track to capture 45.5 per cent of the popular vote, some 3 – 5 per cent more than pre-election polls had predicted, according to a poll conducted by [...]

Washington, Mar. 25 (ANI): The UK government could soon start monitoring and saving web-profiles of millions of British social networking site users as part of its security upgradation endeavor.

“Social networking sites, such as MySpace or Bebo, are [...]

London, Mar.13 (ANI): Four secret Whitehall e-mails released yesterday suggest that a dossier for invading Iraq was “sexed up”.

According to The Independent, the e-mails disclose that the intelligence services were sceptical over the “iffy drafting” of government claims that Saddam Hussein could mount a missile strike on his neighbours within 45 minutes of ordering [...]

London, Jan.15 (ANI): Britain’s Business Minister and one of Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s closest allies, Baroness Shriti Vadera, has invited fierce criticism from certain quarters for claiming to see “green shoots” of economic recovery, even as the rest of the world continues to suffer from a meltdown.
On a day when thousands more job losses were [...]