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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he understood the frustration of British teenaged girl Scarlett Kealing's mother Fiona Mackeown with police probe into her daughter's death and offered all possible help to her in her fight for justice.

The United States topped world competitiveness rankings for the 15th straight year, but its economy is showing the same signs of weakness that sank booming Japan in the early 1990s, according to an annual survey released on Thursday, which puts India at 29th place.

Moscow, May 15 (IANS) Advocating zero tolerance to terrorism, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee has called for adoption of a new comprehensive United Nations pact on terror.

London, May 15 (ANI): Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has been caught passing a flirtatious note during a parliamentary session to two young female politicians.

Edinburgh, May 15 (ANI): A row has broken out over the creation of Scotland's first faith-based police group.

London, May 15 (ANI): Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has married a woman 35 years his junior in a ceremony at the hospital where he has been undergoing treatment since February. Kohl, 78, who oversaw the reunification of Germany in 1990, married Maike Richter, a 44-year-old economist, last week at a hospital in Heidelberg in the presence of close friends.

London, May 15 (ANI): In the latest extract of her memoirs, 'Speaking for Myself,' Cherie Blair disclosed that she found love with her future husband on the top deck of a Number 74 bus. In her autobiography, Cherie Blair said that she was already seeing two boyfriends when she met Tony Blair and that their love blossomed during a journey home on a Routemaster.

London, May 15 (ANI): After strapping an 8ft jet-powered wing to his back, a former Swiss fighter pilot became a human 'rocket man' flying at 8,200ft for more than five minutes.

Brussels, May 15 (IANS) President of the European Commission (EC), Jose Manuel Barroso, has sent a message to the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressing 'shock and great sadness' over the bomb-blasts in Jaipur, EuAsiaNews reported Thursday.

Britain will get its first Asian woman Lord Mayor on Thursday when Ludhiana-born Manjula Sood will take over as the first citizen of the multicultural town of Leicester in the East Midlands.

Dharamsala, May 15 (IANS) Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama began his five day visit to Germany Thursday, a spokesman of the Tibetan government-in-exile said here.

London, May 15 (ANI): A shocking biography of the Nobel laureate Sir V.S.Naipaul, 'The World Is What It Is', which exposes his cruelty towards those closest to him, is tipped to win the Samuel Johnson prize.

London, May 15 (ANI): Madame Tussaud's has dropped plans to immortalise British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in wax.

London, May 15 (ANI): Austrian incest dad Josef Fritzl enjoyed romps with teenage rent-boys and transsexual hookers in a Thai sex paradise, it has emerged.

London, May 15 (ANI): Weeks after Josef Fritzl's crime surfaced, his family has for the first time expressed gratitude for the support they have received - and to wish for a "normal life" in the future.

London, May 15 (ANI): After being freed from the clutches of sex beast Josef Fritzl, his children have revealed their hopes for the future.

London, May 15 (IANS) The Indian-born mayor of one of London's largest boroughs has ended his tenure with a blistering record of attendance at well over 600 events in a less than a year.

Journalists from south Asia working in the Hindi, Tamil, Urdu, Tamil, Bengali and Sinhala sections of the BBC World Service in London have launched a campaign to protest against offshoring of programming to the Indian sub-continent.

Bill (Clinton) was just bloody stupid, Cherie Blair felt on hearing his exploits with Monica Lewinsky in the Oval office. Writing in Speaking for Myself, Cherie says: 'In January 1998 the Monica Lewinsky scandal finally broke and my heart bled for Hillary, coming on top, as it did, of the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit.

London, May 14 (IANS) British MPs belonging to the ruling Labour Party Wednesday issued a strong condemnation of the terrorist outrage in Jaipur, saying 'the palace of India will not fall' to terrorism.