How We See The World

A three-hour Heroes episode and the last ever ER series have been announced as part of NBC's new TV show line-up. The US network has also commissioned a remake of 80s drama Knight Rider and a spin-off series to The Office, which will debut in February 2009. Actresses Molly Shannon and Selma Blair feature in the US version of Australian comedy Kath & Kim and new drama My Own Worst Enemy will star Christian Slater. Golden Globe winner Ian McShane has signed up to star in new drama Kings. ER favourite Noah Wyle will return as Dr John Carter in the 15th and final season. New series of Law & Order, Deal or No Deal and My Name is Earl have also been agre…

Nato has confirmed it will not yet offer membership to Georgia or Ukraine after the 26-member alliance was split amid strong objections from Russia. Moscow said Nato's promise that the ex-Soviet republics would join one day was a "huge strategic mistake". At a summit in Romania, Macedonia was also denied Nato entry but Albania and Croatia were given the green light. US and Czech officials agreed to base a missile defence radar on Czech soil, a plan that has also angered Russia. And President Nicolas Sarkozy indicated France would return next year to the Nato military command it left in 1966 in protest at the dominance of US commanders. He also said hundreds…

Woods won the last of his four Masters titles in 2005 Woods targets fifth Masters title Tiger Woods will take aim at an historic Grand Slam when the first round of the 72nd Masters begins at Augusta, Georgia, on Thursday. The world number one goes into the year's first major in dominant form with seven wins in eight events. Woods, 32, is also chasing a fifth Masters title but world number two Phil Mickelson has won two of the last four. Europe's charge will be led by Open champion Padraig Harrington and world number nine Justin Rose. Irishman Harrington finished seventh last year at Augusta, while Rose trailed by one shot with two holes to play before a…

THE railway station bar, once a classic venue for romantic encounters, has fallen victim to the health and safety police. When Michael Leventhal, a London publisher, wanted to impress his date on her birthday, the longest champagne bar in Europe seemed to be the perfect setting. So Leventhal, 35, made a booking at the new St Pancras station, whose 96-metre bar has been promoted as a perfect meeting point for lovers. He also e-mailed a request for help in arranging a birthday surprise. Leventhal asked whether he could bring a candle and have it surreptitiously placed on a cake, brought to the bar and presented to his companion when she was least expecting it. …

Hi! I need some help. I have a problem burning some cd's.. I've used Nero for ever.. and every cd that i burned was failed. so i decided to uninstal the software and install it again.. but when i did it i couldn't find the install software.. i was using Nero 7.1 or something like that (it was from the seventh version..) and i tried to download the seven version form teh net.. but i can't find it! every link about Nero 7.1 (or lowest versions) takes me to the eight version, but i can't use this version because my computer is too old and it has only 10 GB in its hard disk. so the eight version is too heavy please if someone has the 7th version or one older, or if you k…

A grandmother from Merseyside has submitted a planning application to bulldoze the luxury home of Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy - because his firm wants to flatten her house for a new supermarket. Angry Dot Reid, 58, paid £265 to submit the plans to knock down Sir Terry's £1.6 million mansion in leafy Cuffley, Hertfordshire. Her own £80,000 housing association end-terrace home would be demolished by his firm who plan to build a huge new shop and a new stadium for Everton FC, in Kirkby, on the outskirts of Liverpool. But Dot and around 500 people, supporters of Kirkby Residents Action Group, are against it. The grandmother of three has now put in plans to …

Been mugged or burgled? Well, don't consider yourself a victim of crime. To the police, you're actually a "customer". It is one of a string of examples of needless police jargon - or "ploddledygook" - which should be ditched, according to the Plain English Campaign. Force control rooms have been given the futuristic title "Citizen Focus Command". And it's not just constables, sergeants and inspectors working at force HQ anymore. Expect to find an office set aside for the Head of Protective Services, Head of Citizen Focus, Director of Criminal Justice Change and - most intriguing of all - the Director of Knowledge Architecture. The PEC said that enough was enou…

Max Clifford, the man who trades in others' secrets, has for the past six months been harbouring one of his own. "Last October I was diagnosed with prostate cancer," he says. "I've decided to go public because I am nearing the end of nine weeks of radiotherapy. "I was lucky to have had an early diagnosis. Without it I wouldn't make it beyond two years, but as a result of my treatment I stand a good chance of living for a long time. "I hope that by speaking out I can encourage other men to have a regular checkup and perhaps save their lives, too." His timing is particularly poignant as five years ago, almost to the day, his wife of 37 years, Liz, died of ca…

Most people dream of coming home to find a private plane sitting on their patio. But Graham Seymour was horrified when he returned from a shopping trip with his wife to find a mangled microlight had crash-landed in his back garden - with the pilot still trapped inside. Chris Harborne, suffering from a bleeding head wound, had to be airlifted to hospital after narrowly avoiding the 60-year-old's house and crashing into the rear garden last Friday. As neighbours frantically dialled 999, firefighters, paramedics and police officers dashed to the crash site. Harborne, a wealthy businessman, lived just 500 yards away from Mr Seymour and was attempting to …

THE Royal Navy, once the scourge of brigands on the high seas, has been told by the Foreign Office not to detain pirates because doing so may breach their human rights. Warships patrolling pirate-infested waters, such as those off Somalia, have been warned that there is also a risk that captured pirates could claim asylum in Britain. The Foreign Office has advised that pirates sent back to Somalia could have their human rights breached because, under Islamic law, they face beheading for murder or having a hand chopped off for theft. In 2005 there were almost 40 attacks by pirates and 16 vessels were hijacked and held for ransom. Employing high-tech weaponry, t…

ON the day he died Georgi Stoev, the author, knew he did not have long to live. “Something’s going to happen,” he told his lawyer as he left a cafe in Sofia, the Bulgarian capital, shortly after midday last Monday. Seconds later he was lying fatally wounded in the street in front of the Pliska hotel in the centre of the city. He had been hit by three bullets. This weekend police were investigating the theory that Stoev had been hunted by one of the characters from his nine crime books, including three about the country’s mafia “godfathers”. Stoev, 35, claimed that his books, which mixed fact and fiction to reveal the secrets of some of the country’s most notor…

Five British women have been killed and another 12 Britons injured in a bus crash in Ecuador. Gap-year students Indira Swann, 18, of Berks, Lizzie Pincock, 19, of Somerset, Rebecca Logie, 19, of Lancs, and Emily Sadler, 19, of Hertfordshire, all died. Warwick-based tour company VentureCo's guide Sarah Howard, 26, of Cheshire, was the fifth victim. Gordon Brown said his thoughts were with their families. The bus is thought to have collided with a truck near Jipijapa on Saturday. 'Deeply saddened' The victims' next of kin have been informed. Gordon Brown's spokesman said: "The prime minister was deeply saddened to hear of the deaths of five young…

PLANS for a third runway at Heathrow, the world’s busiest international airport, flout safety guidelines by placing a proposed crash-landing zone on top of a motorway junction. The mis-siting emerged in an investigation by The Sunday Times into the expansion of Heathrow. The investigation also revealed that figures for carbon emissions and the impact on air quality have been downplayed. The government is under pressure to rethink the £12.7 billion project. BAA, the airports operator, has decided that the risk of a plane crashing into the six-lane motorway, which rises to 65ft (20 metres), does not merit relocating the M25/M4 junction. Opposition to the scheme …

One of England's newest universities is offering tailor-made degrees in the management of selling beds. Buckinghamshire New University in High Wycombe is offering a retail management foundation degree developed in partnership with bed company Dreams. This is the kind of collaboration between industry and higher education the government wants to encourage. Most of the sector's expansion is through such two-year courses mixing academic and work-based learning. Like the much-publicised "McDonald's A-level", the Dreams degree incorporates the existing company training package. But Buckinghamshire New University vice-chancellor Ruth Farwell said: "Whilst we…

The London Marathon had to be rerouted 200m after a suspected gas leak in a pub in east London. Reports of a strong smell of gas at the Old Rose Pub on The Highway, Wapping, changed the course for the remaining runners at the 13 mile point. But engineers investigated and found no leak. The area has now been given the all-clear. About 35,000 runners set off on Sunday morning from south-east London and finish on The Mall, central London. London Fire Brigade said it was called at 0950 BST to reports of a strong smell of gas. Precautionary measure Spectator had to be moved and parts of the road closed as Transco investigated the leak. The pub was t…

Israeli defence chiefs have moved to tighten internet social networking rules after photographs appeared showing sensitive military subjects. A review of Facebook pages belonging to Israeli troops found that some had posted detailed pictures of air bases, operations rooms and submarines. "These are things we don't want the public to see for security reasons," an official source told the BBC. Posting photos of troops in uniform - a popular pastime - is still allowed. The new set of rules - which has not been made public - includes a ban on images of pilots and members of special units, and anything that shows specific military manoeuvres. Rite of pa…

The Chinese ambassador to London has accused the Western media of demonising China and says there are "complicated problems" in Tibet. Fu Ying also said that a young Chinese woman asked her: "Where is the gentlemanship?" after the protests during the Olympic torch run in London. Many of the visitors from China who were in London last week felt that Britain was against them, she added. Ms Fu said in the Sunday Telegraph that Tibet is "loved" by the Chinese. The ambassador wrote: "I am concerned that mutual perceptions between the people of China and the West are quickly drifting in opposite directions. China's objective "Of those who protested loudl…

The actress whose body was found in the home she shared with a CBBC host may have taken the wrong medication before she died, her fiance's mother has said. After Natasha Collins' death in London, her partner Mark Speight was arrested on suspicion of murder and supplying cocaine, which he vehemently denied. And he would never have "harmed Tash", Mr Speight's mother Jacqueline said. A mix-up with drugs prescribed for a medical condition may have led to the 31-year-old's death, she added. Talking to reporters outside her home in Wolverhampton, Mrs Speight said the couple had been together "for quite a while". "As far as I know, everything was OK between…

ARNHEM, the Netherlands, April 13 (Reuters) The Dutch championship match between Groningen and Ajax Amsterdam was postponed on Sunday after fans set fire to paper in the stands. One person was “lightly injured” due to burns, three others were taken to hospital for check-ups and a total of 19 people were treated for smoke inhalation, a spokesman for Groningen police said. The match, due to kickoff at 1230 GMT, did not start, with fans spilling on to the pitch to escape the smoke. “The clubs’ medical staff thought it was irresponsible to continue with the game,” Groningen trainer Ron Jans was quoted as saying in a statement issued by Ajax. Firefighters had pu…

By Michele Paduano BBC Midlands Today health correspondent Eight patients died from a superbug after a new strain was introduced to a hospital where soldiers injured in Iraq are treated, a freedom of information request by the BBC has revealed. The University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust revealed the deaths happened between 2005 and 2007. The T-strain of the MDR-AB superbug is believed by scientists to have been introduced to the Selly Oak site by injured soldiers. But the trust's medical director David Rosser has said the bug, which is still present in the hospital, is "not a significant problem". The bug - full name multi-resistant Acinetobact…

UK interest rates have been cut to 5% from 5.25% by the Bank of England in an attempt to spur the economy in the face of the global credit crunch. It is the central bank's third cut in interest rates since early December. The Bank said that disruption in financial markets and tighter credit conditions could lead to a slowdown in the wider economy. The largest mortgage lenders say they will pass on the cut to their mortgage customers who pay variable rates. Decision welcomed Business groups welcomed the decision and called for further cuts to shore up growth. "It is vitally important to ensure that problems in the financial sector and in the housing…

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Wombles warning over TV imports The Wombles of Wimbledon Common have moved to New York and adopted American accents in a protest against imported children's TV shows. The Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television (PACT) made the film to highlight what they warn is a threat to British programmes. The organisation claims just 1% of all new programmes are made in the UK. In the 90-second clip, Tomsk asks the other Wombles: 'What's going in the 'hood?', before being attacked. Bernard Cribbins - who voiced the original Wombles - offered his support to the campaign. At the end of the clip, he says: "Tell those Wombles in government we need to start making B…

Independent.co.uk Mobile phones 'more dangerous than smoking' Brain expert warns of huge rise in tumours and calls on industry to take immediate steps to reduce radiation By Geoffrey Lean Sunday, 30 March 2008 Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take "immediate steps" to reduce exposure to their radiation. The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, is the most devastating indictment yet published of the health risks. It draws on growing evidence – exclusively r…

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=4614004&page=1 Olympic Torch Emits 5,500 Tons of CO2 By DAVE DEMERJIAN April 9, 2008 Angry protesters, riot police, mass demonstrations, arrests for disorderly conduct -- it hasn't exactly been smooth sailing for the Olympic-torch relay. If people are looking for another reason to be pissed at China, how about this: By the time this pyro parade is over, it will have produced about 11 million pounds of carbon emissions. Chinese President Hu Jintao holds the Olympic torch after lighting the cauldron during the Beijing 2008 Olympic torch lighting ceremony, Monday, March 31, 2008, at Tiananmen Square in Beiji…