Outrage over exotic cuisine for foreign criminals in UK detention centre

October 14th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - A Malaysian restaurant in London will host a "Banana Leaf Food Festival" in conjunction with Hindu festival Deepavali. The Awana Restaurant at 85 Sloane Avenue will organize the revelry till October 21 to promote Malaysian cuisine, in line with the 1Malaysia concept.

October 11th, 2009 LONDON - An investigation has revealed uncovered scores of cases where offenders from overseas, including killers and sex attackers, have been able to stay on in Britain despite strenuous attempts by the Government to deport them, reports The Telegraph. Criminals have reportedly been using the 1998 Human Rights Act to avoid being sent back to their homelands - despite a pledge by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to remove any foreigner who breaks the law.

October 6th, 2009 LONDON - When it comes to comfort eating, Britons love to gorge on a bacon sarnie on white bread, according to a new poll. With their sublime smell and terrific taste, the humble bacon sarnie is still the nation's favourite "guilty" food, despite the growing popularity of exotic, spicy dishes.

September 22nd, 2009 LONDON - The BBC has caused outrage after it allowed a leading academic to demand the age of consent be lowered to 13 on its show. Professor John Spencer stated on a BBC Radio Four programme that all teenagers should be free to have sex, and even argued that the current age of consent of 16 has turned half the population into criminals.

September 11th, 2009 CAMBRIDGE - In a shocking decision 4,256 offenders in Britain, including rapists and paedophiles, have been allowed to go free by Cambridgeshire Police with a caution, reprimand or final warning the last one year. In total 1,485 serious offences involving sex or violence went unpunished due to the decision, which included 10 criminals who were never brought to trial for sexual offences against children aged under 13.

August 16th, 2009 MEXICO CITY - At least 19 inmates of a prison have been killed in a clash in the northwestern Mexican state of Durango, officials have said. More than 26 were also injured in the brawl that broke out Friday night between rival groups in the jail in the city of Gomez Palacio, Jorge Torres, Durango's public safety secretary, told the press Saturday.

August 8th, 2009 UK says its embassy staffer on trial in TehranLONDON —Britain's Foreign Office says a staff member at its embassy in Iran has been put on trial in Tehran. The ministry says it saw Hossein Rassam pictured among those accused at a mass trial that began Saturday in the Iranian capital, though Rassam had been released from detention in July.

June 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - By the end of the year all criminals sentenced to death in Beijing will receive a lethal injection instead of being executed by gunshot. A lethal injection site has been built next to the city's No.1 detention house, which houses the majority of Beijing's condemned, in Dougezhuang town, the Beijing Youth Daily reported.

June 11th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Tariqur Rehman, one of the 10 Pakistan students arrested by British officials in a country wide terror crackdown has returned to Pakistan. Talking to media persons upon his arrival in Islamabad, Rehman charged the British officials with treating the students as hardcore criminals during detention.

May 19th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's banned Hindu Rights Action Force leader P. Uthayakumar will not be apprehended as no arrest order have been issued against him, police have said.

May 4th, 2009 LONDON - Heading to London? Well, here's a piece of information for you-the UK capital is Europe's dirtiest, most expensive and has the worst cuisine, according to a poll of travellers. The survey of 2,376 European travellers by the TripAdvisor company also called the British capital to inhabit the worst-dressed locals.

April 3rd, 2009 LONDON - The French chef, who will cook Nato lunch for Nicolas Sarkozy and Barack Obama, has said that Brit cook Jamie Oliver's palatable dishes are no match to the French cuisine, which he described as the "most exceptional in the world". When asked about Oliver's culinary talent, Emile Jung, who runs the celebrated Michelin two-starred restaurant, Le Crocodile, in Strasbourg, France, admitted that he had heard about Britain's best-loved chef.

March 26th, 2009 LONDON - Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has condemned Michael Jackson's apparent plans to feature a variety of exotic creatures onstage during his comeback concerts. The 'Thriller' hitmaker will kick off his 'This Is It' run at London's O2 Arena this summer (Jul09) and is reportedly working on ideas to make the 50-date tour as memorable as possible.

March 16th, 2009 LONDON - A move by police in Luton, Leicestershire, to provide a 24-hour VIP guard to a Muslim fanatic who branded British soldiers "criminals", has evoked outrage among locals and politicians. Yousaf Bashir yelled abuse at 200 heroic troops at their homecoming parade from Iraq.

March 13th, 2009 LONDON - Political leaders and relatives of dead and surviving soldiers, have expressed their outrage over the insults hurled at soldiers returning from Iraq, and have urged the British Government to crack down on the banned outfit al Muhajiroun. British soldiers recently faced a barrage of abuses from Muslim fundamentalists at a home-coming parade in Luton.