UK binmen refuse to empty bins three inches out of exact position!

September 2nd, 2009 LONDON - A senior architect in Britain has accused Prince Charles of "abusing his position" to influence planning decisions. Ruth Reed, the first woman president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), claims that the Prince of Wales used his royal status to interfere in the "democratic process".

August 5th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A freight train link between Islamabad and Istanbul via Tehran is to be launched Aug 14, Pakistan's independence day. The train will run from Islamabad's Margala Station to Istanbul's Haydarpasa Station via Tehran Station, APP news agency reported, quoting railway officials here.

July 31st, 2009 LONDON - A group of squatters in Britain are said to have sparked fury after they took over an empty tower block, and began staging sex sessions on its roof. Couples could be seen performing sex acts in broad daylight after carrying a sofa to the top of the five-storey building, while others were seen having full sex and dancing naked on the flat roof.

July 29th, 2009 UK teen who refused transplant has operationLONDON — British media outlets say a teenager who won the legal right to refuse a lifesaving heart transplant has changed her mind and had the operation. Fourteen-year-old Hannah Jones made headlines last year when she successfully fought doctors who went to court to force her into a hospital.

July 22nd, 2009 WELLINGTON - An earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale Wednesday pushed the South Island of New Zealand closer to Australia, scientists said. The epicenter of the quake was located at the Fiordland region of South Island.

July 22nd, 2009 PESHAWAR - As the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank continue with their damage assessment of the Swat region following the offensive against the Taliban, Pakistan has estimated that the reconstruction process of the militancy-hit region will take three years. "The two financial institutions' involvement will help speed up the process to estimate the exact cost of damages and needs," the Daily Times quoted Shakil Qadir Khan, a member of the government's Emergency Response Unit, as saying.

July 3rd, 2009 PARIS - The Air France flight that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean last month, killing all 228 people on board plunged vertically from the sky so suddenly that passengers and crew on board did not even have time to inflate their life jackets. The Telegraph quoted investigators as saying that the Airbus "descended vertically" and dropped 35,000 feet in a matter of seconds, hitting the water in its exact flying position.

June 26th, 2009 LONDON - A housewife in Britain discovered a 15th-century gold treasure depicting the Holy Trinity worth 250,000 pounds - using a metal detector. Mary Hannaby, from Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, found the relic while on a regular six-hour Sunday detecting walks carrying the instrument with her son Michael, a 33 year-old wood carver.

June 9th, 2009 LONDON - Chimpanzees have an inherent spatial memory that makes them remember the exact location of all their favourite fruit trees, according to a study. In fact, primatologists have found that their spatial memory is so precise that they can find a single tree among more than 12,000 others within a patch of forest.

April 20th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Former Pakistan President General (r) Pervez Musharraf has claimed that no child or woman was killed in the controversial military operation conducted in Lal Masjid in 2007. "It is time to end the lies.

April 20th, 2009 LONDON - Tilly the Chorkie, standing just six inches tall and measuring eight inches from nose to tail, is probably the smallest dog in Britain. Tilly, a cross between Yorkshire Terrier and a Chihuahua, was born on January 15 and she was around three inches long and weighing less than four ounces at the time of her birth.

April 8th, 2009 LONDON - Almost half of Brit women have "muffin tops", unsightly rolls of fat that bulge over waistbands, according to research. Compiled by weight management supplement LIPObind, the "Waist Lines" report revealed differences in the size of women's waists across UK.

March 27th, 2009 LONDON - British Foreign Office Minister Lord Malloch-Brown has warned leaders of the world's biggest economies yesterday to produce more than empty rhetoric at the crucial G20 summit in London next week. Plain speaking Brown is playing a key role in the negotiations ahead of the meeting, and said: "We can't again engage in meaningless, empty commitments which don't survive the flight home." According to The Independent, he said these leaders risked fuelling public dissent if they did not agree on action to tackle the recession.

March 13th, 2009 LONDON - The sleepy town of Devon in South West England has once again been spooked, after an elderly lady discovered what are said to be the Devil's footprints. Jill Wade, a pensioner, found the hoof-like marks in the snow in her back garden in Woolsery, and they were a repetition of the first marks recorded in 1855.

February 14th, 2009 LONDON - The 32-year-old actress Pia Glenn explains her relationship with the acclaimed 61-year-old author Salman Rushdie as a 'meeting of the minds'. According to dailymail.co.uk, Glenn in her first interview after the relationship became public said: 'I'm a very frank, realistic person.