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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.

The case against a senior official in Zimbabwe's MDC party is based on false evidence, his lawyers said on Monday in a trial which has raised tensions within the fragile unity government.

A Sudanese woman who was punished for breaching decency laws by wearing trousers has defied a travel ban by coming to France to publicise her new book.

London, Nov 23 (ANI): A Spanish conservative politician has come under fire for posing for December issue of Vanity Fair Espana.

London, Nov 23 (ANI): It has emerged that the compo claims made by Brit teachers last year has cost cash-strapped taxpayers 3 million pounds.

London, Nov 23 (ANI): A group of female ski instructors stripped off at snowy mountain peak to pose for a saucy Playboy calendar despite the chilling temperature.

London, Nov. 23 (ANI): Life has become a drag act for a TV presenter challenging homophobia in Pakistan.

London, Nov 23 (IANS) British police have charged four men, including a father-son duo, with attempting to wage 'violent jihad' after arresting them in northern England.

London, Nov 23 (ANI): Pakistani heart surgeon, whom Princess Diana dubbed her "Mr Wonderful", is all set to tie the knot with a medical colleague 21 years his junior.

London, Nov 23 (ANI): Pope John Paul II used to regularly whip himself in a sign of "remorse for his sins," a nun has claimed.

London, Nov 23 (ANI): Bristol has now become infamous as the UK's car crash capital with over a third of residents having met at least one accident in the last year, a survey has revealed.

With dreams in his eyes and £ 450 in wallet, 26-year-old Nathu Ram Puri arrived in Britain from Punjab. He carried on his young shoulders responsibility of his family back home.

London, Nov 23 (ANI): A psychic detective has claimed that he has helped Britain's biggest police forces to solve cases by contacting murder victims "on the other side".

London, November 23 (ANI): Etiquette authority Debrett's has handed out pointers to Christmas partygoers on how to kiss under the mistletoe while avoiding swine flu.

London, Nov 23 (ANI): It has emerged that Indian curries are fast becoming one of the favourite dishes on the British menu.