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Britain set for sweeping Internet, phone monitoring

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Britain is to allow one of its intelligence agencies to monitor all phone calls, texts, emails and online activities in the country to help tackle crime and militant attacks, the Interior Ministry sai

British student jailed for offensive tweets about footballer

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British university student was on Tuesday jailed for 56 days for inciting racial hatred, after posting offensive comments on Twitter about the collapse of Bolton Wanderers footballer Fabrice Muamba.

Mehta painting fetches $1.76million

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Yet another work of Indian painter Tyeb Mehta was auctioned for over $1 million as Untitled (Figures with Bull Head), which he painted in oil on canvas in 1984, was sold by Christie’s in New York for

Need to make visa process easier for students: British envoy

Underlining the need for ‘easier’ visa process for students, British Deputy High Commissioner for Western India, Peter Beckingham, has said that Indian students are safe in his country.

"The need of

Assad’s private mails turn public property

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The life of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his British-born wife Asma has been revealed in detail as thousands of emails, purported to be from private email accounts of the Assads and their clos

Obama greets Cameron with Air Force One and hot dogs

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British Prime Minister David Cameron skipped aboard Air Force One Tuesday and chomped on a hot dog alongside President Barack Obama at the start of his official visit to the United States.

Obama gave

50 pc Brits think Everest is UK’s highest mountain

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One in five British adults don’t know which countries make up the UK and more than 50 percent think that Everest, which is in the Himalayas, is UK’s tallest mountain, a new study has revealed.

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100 paedophiles chemically castrated in Britain

Around 100 paedophiles have been chemically castrated under a British government programme, a media report said on Tuesday.

According to the Daily Mail, the sex offenders volunteered to take the drug

UK government may not extradite Pervez Musharraf: Report

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The British government may not extradite former President Pervez Musharraf even if Pakistan obtains a Red Corner Notice against him from Interpol as the two countries do not have an extradition treaty

Aircel Maxis deal: CBI to send LRs to the UK and Bermuda also

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The CBI will soon send judicial requests to Bermuda and the United Kingdom seeking details of money trail in the Aircel-Maxis deal in which former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran is an accused.

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