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Tony Blair Faith Foundation. Skip related content Related photos / videos Tony Blair Launches Religious Organisation The former PM launched the organisation as he admitted that he did not pass a "single day" without reflecting on the aftermath of the Iraq war. In a lengthy interview Mr Blair said he hoped the group would promote understanding about the world's major religions. He spoke of his own religious faith being a ... Full story

Hundreds of officers carried out raids on 10 properties in the North-West of England and arrested 12 men - including 10 Pakistani nationals on student visas and one Briton. Sources said the raids - codenamed Operation Pathway - were brought forward after Metropolitan Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick was photographed carrying clearly visible papers relating to the operation as he arrived in Downing Street for a meeting ... Full story

Hospitals are spending up to seven times more on treating obesity than three years ago, according to new figures. Skip related content Related photos / videos Hospitals Spend Seven Times More On Obesity High demand for stomach surgery for obese patients as well as the cost of specialist equipment - such as larger examination couches - means the costs to primary care trusts (PCTs) have shot up. The new ... Full story

London, April 8 (ANI): An 'uncanny' glowing disc hovering above London has been captured by an amateur photographer.hmad Zaigham, 30, took the picture of the unidentified object from his home in South Harrow, North West London. "I was immersed in the TV programme when just by chance I saw this uncanny light in the sky and I ... Full story

Washington, April 8 (ANI): Scientists have completed the first study of microbes that live within the plumbing of deep-sea mud volcanoes in the Gulf of Mexico, where conditions may resemble those in extraterrestrial environments and early Earth. The study, which was partially funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), was conducted in an ... Full story

Lahore, Apr.7 (ANI): The Pakistan Supreme Court has returned the trial petition moved against former President General (retired) Pervez Musharraf with several objections. Supreme Court Registrar Dr Faqir Hussain returned the petition with four major objections. Dr. Hussain stated that the petitioner Zahid Malik has no locus standi to move the petition, the advocate-on-record did not specify whether the petition was the first of its ... Full story

New Delhi, Apr 6 (ANI): A group of people shouted slogans and set objects on fire outside a police booth in the Rajouri Garden area of West Delhi on Monday to express their rage on the deaths, which have taken place due to consumption of contaminated alcohol. According to media reports, at least ... Full story

London, April 6 (ANI): Surgeons at King's College Hospital in London have for the first time in Britain achieved a breakthrough in replacing a worn out prosthetic heart valve with a new one via keyhole surgery through the chest. The operation was performed on George Bott, 78, from south London, last month. Bott had his first artificial heart valve fitted in 2002, but it began to ... Full story

London, April 6 (ANI): Scientists have deciphered a major portion of the inscriptions on the 650-year-old Alhambra fortress-palace in Granada, Spain. Visitors to the Alhambra have for centuries been mystified by the Arabic inscriptions that adorn its intricately carved medieval walls. The script that winds round the filigree arches and pillared courtyards is so stylised that it's often difficult to disentangle words from images, and few can ... Full story

Washington/Seoul, Apr.6 (ANI): Military and private experts have said North Korea has failed to fire its Taepodong-II missile after reviewing detailed tracking data that showed the missile and payload falling into the sea. Some said the failure undercut the North Korean campaign to come across as a fearsome adversary. Looking at the launch from a purely technical vantage point, space experts said the failure represented a ... Full story

London, April 2 (ANI): Scientists have created tiny microbial fuel cells by encapsulating yeast cells in a flexible capsule, which can generate power from a drop of human blood plasma, and might one day energize implants such as pacemakers. According to a report in New Scientist, the cells, developed by a team at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada, can feed on the ... Full story

Dhaka, Apr.2 (ANI): The Government of Bangladesh has taken its first step towards tackling the menace of corporate corruption, which exists on a large scale in the country. Corporate corruption is a force that is as destructive as the cyclones that have ravaged the country's coastline in the past. Last week, Bangladesh's newly elected government took its first high-profile swipe at the problem. According to the ... Full story

Jakarta, April 2 (ANI): Archaeologists, in Indonesia, have recovered a rare 12th-century stone statue of Lord Ganesha, which is the only one in the country in which the elephant-headed deity is depicted as riding atop a mouse. According to a report in the Jakarta Post, a research team from the Mpu Purwa Historical Object Preservation Center in Malang, East Java, recovered the statue. "The mouse is ... Full story

London, Apr 1 (ANI): Manchester United star Ryan Giggs along with Olympic Gold medal sprinter Darren Campbell will today launch Reebok's new AF1 football range, which will put an end to arguments at kickabouts up and down the country over whether a goal should stand. Using NASA (New Advanced Sports Aerodynamics) technology, ... Full story

Moradabad, Apr 1 (ANI): Former cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin, who is the Congress party candidate from Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh in the ensuing general polls, staged a road show on Tuesday as a part of his campaigning. "I wish to play a long innings. I want to say that I will stay in Moradabad only and won't go anywhere else," he said. Azharuddin, a native of Hyderabad, ... Full story

Washington, Mar 31 (ANI): Actress Pamela Anderson has teamed up with fashion designer Richie Rich to launch an eco-friendly clothing line. The 41-year-old former 'Baywatch' babe, who's also an animal rights activist, is working with Rich to design a line of leather-free shoes and ... Full story

Washington, March 31 (ANI): Scientists have used fuel cells to power unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which would help tactical decision-makers gather critical information more efficiently and more quietly. Piloted remotely or autonomously, UAVs have long provided extra "eyes in the sky" especially for missions that are too dangerous for manned aircraft. This latest technology is showcased by Ion Tiger, a UAV research program at ... Full story

Washington, March 31 (ANI): Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) in Israel have developed a device, dubbed a 'bionic nose', which can be used to detect microscopic signs of cancer, bombs and impure water. Both cancer cells and the chemicals used to make bombs can foil detection because they appear in trace amounts too small for conventional detection techniques. But now, scientists at Tel Aviv University have ... Full story

Florida (US), Mar.31 (ANI): The head of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), General David Petraeus has said that while Washington will seek to build trust with Pakistan, the US military reserves the "right of last resort" to take out threats inside Pakistan. In an interview with FOX News, General Petraeus said the U.S. military is putting "additional focus" on rooting out ties between Pakistan's intelligence service ... Full story

New Delhi/Pune, Mar 31 (ANI/Business Wire India): Suzlon Energy Limited, the world's fifth leading wind turbine maker, entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with TERI University for setting up and offering an MTech Programme in Renewable Energy Engineering and Management. This MoU will facilitate Suzlon Energy to contribute to the Programme through exchange of ideas and expertise, and guest faculty. Since its inception in 1999, ... Full story