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Spanish police have arrested 36 members of Segi, an outlawed youth group linked to the Basque guerrilla organisation ETA, in a sweep which is still underway, court officials said on Tuesday.

Britain has built the world's biggest DNA database without proper political debate and police routinely arrest people just to get their DNA profiles onto the system, the genetics watchdog said in a report on Tuesday.

Most Poles are opposed to Prime Minister Donald Tusk's proposals to strip the president of his power of veto and have him chosen by parliament instead of by voters, two opinion surveys showed on Tuesday.

London, Nov. 24 (ANI): People in Britain are routinely being arrested simply because police wants to record their DNA profiles on the national database, a new report has claimed.

London, Nov 24 (ANI): A Brit woman, who was cheated by her lover, decided to teach him and other love rats a lesson by starting a website where they could be exposed.

London, November 24 (ANI): French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni have become the latest high profilers to be parodied in the hit animated TV show The Simpsons.

Spanish police have arrested 36 members of Segi, an outlawed youth group linked to Basque guerrillas ETA, Spanish media reported on Tuesday.

London, Nov 24 (ANI): Prince William came face-to-face with a rather embarrassing situation when he bumped into naked All Blacks rugby team players during his New Zealand visit.

London, Nov. 24 (ANI): Former International Olympic Committee chief, Juan Antonio Samaranch, had close ties with the KGB, and his election for the top Olympic job was also influenced by the spy network, a new book has claimed.

London, November 24 (ANI): Guinness World Records has officially recognized a Nepalese man who climbed the Mt. Everest at age 76 as the oldest to conquer the world's highest peak.

Washington, Nov 24 (ANI): While much has been discussed about Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue', there are facets of her life mentioned in the tome that have not yet been unravelled to the public.

London, Nov. 24 (ANI): Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher came back to 10 Downing Street to attend the unveiling of her portrait.

Port-of-Spain, Nov 24 (IANS) The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) here will 'lead the way' for the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen next month, according to Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister Patrick Manning.

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Rome, 24 Nov (IANS/AKI) A public inquiry will investigate Monday's military plane crash at the airport of the central Italian city of Pisa which killed all the five people on board, a media report said.

The U.N. criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said on Monday former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic cannot appeal against the court's decision to appoint him legal counsel after he boycotted proceedings.

British police investigating possible criminal behaviour in a parliamentary expense scandal said on Monday they had sent files on four legislators to prosecutors.

Two Congolese warlords go on trial at the world's war crimes court on Tuesday on charges they had subordinates attack civilians, rape women and enlist child soldiers in "the greatest armed conflict" since World War II.

Air France unit KLM Royal Dutch Airlines was on Monday the first airline to make a passenger flight which partly used biokerosene.

Levels of happiness could help shape economic policy in the industrialised world in the same way such factors have gained prominence in developing countries, said economics Nobel laureate Amartya Sen.