UK weapons inspector was writing book on damaging government secrets before his death

October 13th, 2009 LONDON - After many denials, Max Mosley, whose 16-year tenure as the president of FIA would end this month, has finally decided to come out with an autobiography, which will reveal many secrets about him and the sporting world. Mosley is expected to write about his fascinating childhood and last year's sex scandal, which had claimed that he had enjoyed sessions with prostitutes.

October 6th, 2009 LONDON - The first chief of British intelligence agency, MI5, had conveyed the gravity of a Nazi threat to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain by saying that Hitler called him "a*******", a new book has revealed. Written by Cambridge historian Professor Christopher Andrew, 'The Defence Of The Realm' is the first of its kind book which reveals the secrets of 100 years of obscure world of spying in Britain.

September 24th, 2009 LONDON - Former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing has revealed that it was late Princess of Wales Diana who actually came up with the idea of the controversial romantic novel 'The Princess and the President'. Giscard d'Estaing, 83, revealed in an interview with Le Point, released on September 24, that Lady Diana came up with the book idea and encouraged him to set it down on paper.

September 4th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan military is closely evaluating a series of statements and interviews made by former Army officials in the recent past to ascertain whether they are guilty of breaching the Official Secrets Act of 1923 or not. Sources said the military top brass is reviewing all such statements of the former defence officials which seemed to have disclosed secret military information.

September 1st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A Q Khan, Pakistani nuclear scientist, widely regarded as the founder of Pakistan's nuclear program, is a free man again and many consider that he may share the secrets with establishments around the world. In January 2004, Khan had confessed to having been involved in a secret international network of nuclear weapons technology proliferation from Pakistan to Libya, Iran and North Korea.

August 25th, 2009 TRIPOLI - The Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, who was released on compassionate grounds by the Scottish Government, could cash in on his notoriety by publishing his 'tell all' autobiography. According to reports, Megrahi has begun writing the memoir, despite his insistence that he is suffering from terminal prostate cancer and has only three months to live.

August 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Harvard professor and CNN pundit David Gergen has been signed to write a book on how a US president's administration gets rolling and assumes office. Earlier, Simon and Schuster editor Alice Mayhew had said: "He's writing about this administration and how it takes office, but he's writing from the perspective of Gergen, which is unique, I think, as he has worked in so many administrations on the inside." When it comes to books revolving round Obama and his team, there's already been Richard Wolffe's "Renegade" and the campaign-focused book "Battle for America 2008" by Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson, Politico reports.

August 21st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Expressing solidarity with expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has criticized the BJP for throwing Singh out of the party for writing a book on Mohammad Ali Jinnah, saying if anybody would have written a book on Jawaharlal Nehru in Pakistan, it would have not created such a furor. Interacting with media persons here, PML-N Chairman Raja Zafarul Haq said Singh's expulsion has exposed the 'narrow-mindedness' of BJP towards Muslim leaders.

June 23rd, 2009 BEIJING - Chinese government officials will soon be required to think twice before connecting their flash-disks loaded with State secrets into unsecured computers, as they are likely to come under tighter surveillance to prevent leaks of confidential information. The top legislature was informed on Monday during briefings on amendments to the Law on Guarding State Secrets, that a tougher law was needed to cut access to the Internet or other public networks from secure computers, China Daily reports.

June 16th, 2009 NEW YORK - US President Barack Obama's half-brother, George Obama, is working on a book to be published by Simon & Schuster, the US publishing giant said in a statement Monday. George Obama, 27, is the youngest of the seven children born to Obama's father in Kenya and was recently arrested there for marijuana possession.

June 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - U.S. president Barack Obama's half brother, George, is writing a memoir to be published by Simon and Schuster in January next year.

May 10th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A new book has revealed damaging evidence that the fairytale romance between Crown Prince Frederik and Princess Mary of Denmark is not all what it appears to be. The couple are as per the book having marital problems, with Princess Mary struggling to cope with her husband's "playboy" ways, and the book's author Trine Villemann, has also criticised the pair's lavish spending on parties, holidays and home makeovers.

May 3rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has rubbished media reports that claim that it had shared its nuclear secrets with some Western countries to assure about the safety of its nuclear arsenal. Foreign Office spokesperson Abdul Basit termed the reports "totally baseless".

April 17th, 2009 LONDON - After writing poems about her life, British singer Amy Winehouse now wants to write a book for children and hopes to inspire youngsters with her literary offerings. 'Amy has been writing poems on a regular basis because she wants to write a children's book one day and for that she believes poems are a practice medium,' femalefirst.co.uk quoted a source as saying.

March 19th, 2009 LONDON - An antique desk on which renowned author Agatha Christie penned her novels is set to go under the hammer. It is expected to fetch around 1,000 pounds.