How We See The World

New proposals suggest no entry to England if you cannot speak English Last updated at 14:07pm on 21st February 2007 Comments (5) Foreign-born Britons are to be forced to speak English under new plans to slash translation services. The proposals, unveiled Wednesday by the Commission on Integration and Cohesion, are almost certain to be adopted by ministers in a drive to improve racial harmony. More here: • Five years to clear asylum backlog warns minister • Warning of 'backlash' against school Ramadan demands Councils, the NHS and the courts spend more than £100 million a year on interpreters and translating documents into foreign language…

Tuesday, 10 April, 2001 Rabbi Yosef is known for his outspoken comments The spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-orthodox Shas party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, has provoked outrage with a sermon calling for the annihilation of Arabs. "It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable," he was quoted as saying in a sermon delivered on Monday to mark the Jewish festival of Passover. Rabbi Yosef is one of the most powerful religious figures in Israel, He is known for his outspoken comments and has in the past referred to the Arabs as "vipers". Through his influence over Shas, Israel's third larges…

Girl loses court battle to wear veil in school Last updated at 13:38pm on 21st February 2007 The veil covers all of the face except the eyes (file photo) A 12-year-old Muslim girl today lost her High Court challenge to her school's ban on wearing the niqab full-face veil. Lawyers for the girl and her father had argued that the ban was "irrational" and a breach of her human rights. More here: • Warning of 'backlash' against school Ramadan demands • The veil is harming us, says Muslim peer • Schools accused of ignoring Muslim pupils' wishes • Veils thrown out of court But Mr Justice Silber rejected their plea for a judicial review. The gir…

The little girls 'sexualised' at age of five By FIONA MacRAE and NEIL SEARS - More by this author » Last updated at 18:08pm on 20th February 2007 Comments (22) Bratz dolls come dressed in hot pants, fishnets and feather boas. A generation of girls is being psychologically damaged by the sexualisation of toys, clothes and cartoons, experts have warned. Exposure to sexy images from an early age as a devastating impact on mental and physical health, leading to low-self esteem, depression and the onset of eating disorders such as anorexia, research has shown. It could lead to girls under-achieving in school and in the workplace and even contribute to pa…

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Yay, it's another David's random business related news threads :laugh3: March launch for Smith £20 note A £20 note featuring economist Adam Smith will be issued on 13 March, the Bank of England has said. The note will also include a number of new security features designed to tackle counterfeiting. While the Bank has yet to reveal the safety measures, they are thought to include a see through feature and a holographic strip. The current £20 note, which features composer Edward Elgar, will be phased out after the launch of the Adams note. Enhanced security "The introduction of the Adam Smith £20 from 13 March will be a major undertaking for us as th…

Court forces girl of 13 to have abortion Last updated at 09:55am on 21st February 2007 Comments (5) A 13-year-old girl has been forced to have an abortion after her mother took her to court to terminate the pregnancy. In a case that has shocked Catholic Italy, the girl's mother ordered her to have an abortion after discovering she was pregnant by her 15-year-old boyfriend, La Stampa newspaper reported. Turin's juvenile court had ruled the girl, named only as Valentina, must choose whether she wanted to terminate - but because she was a minor the decision was passed on to her mother. Since the abortion this month, Valentina has been recovering in a h…

Marriage rates fall 10 per cent after shams are exposed Last updated at 15:07pm on 21st February 2007 Comments Marriage rates have slumped by ten per cent to their lowest since 1862 after a clampdown on sham unions that bypass immigration laws. The number of marriages in England and Wales fell to 244,710 in 2005, down from 273,070 in 2004, raising concerns that up to one in ten unions in recent years could have been bogus. More here... • 16,000 gay weddings and most of them are male In the three previous years, the number of marriages had been rising against a longterm decline. However, the figures suggest the increase was down to immigration r…

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UK women are now officially the fattest in Europe Last updated at 23:08pm on 20th February 2007 Comments Tipping the scales: The UK is the heaviest nation The scale of the obesity crisis was laid bare last night when an alarming report revealed Britons are the fattest people in Europe. A quarter of women and a fifth of men in the UK are now so overweight that their health is at serious risk. British women head the EU league, with 23 per cent clinically obese, and men fare little better, with 22.3 per cent classified as obese -behind only Malta. The shocking figures, compiled by the British women are now officially the most overweight in Europe and…

Nolte down and out in Beverly Hills Last updated at 16:44pm on 20th February 2007 Comments (6) If there was ever a picture which perfectly illustrated life imitating art, this surely would win first prize. Troubled actor Nick Nolte who rose to fame in the film Down and Out in Beverly Hills, looks as dishevelled as one of the characters he played in his box office smash films. The red-faced, shorn haired actor, 66, emerges from a doctor's office wearing a trenchcoat over his pyjamas, slippers, and carrying a beat-up old bag. Nick Nolte: Pictured leaving a doctor's office still dressed in his nightwear. Inset: in better-looking days He looks a…

Half of women want plastic surgery Last updated at 17:51pm on 20th February 2007 Comments (6) Is beauty in the eye of the beholder? Half of women would like plastic surgery Half of all women - including some girls as young as 17 - would consider plastic surgery, a survey has revealed. And nearly a third of women who are a size 12 believe they are overweight or fat, according to the poll of nearly 25,000 people. More here... • John Lewis weighs into size zero row with size 12 swim model • Interest-free finance deals on plastic surgery Of those who are a size 14 - which is still a size below the UK average size 16 - two thirds think they need…

Why are women so untidy? By MARTIN NEWLAND - More by this author » Last updated at 18:00pm on 20th February 2007 Comments (1) Research from the University of Arizona, released last week, revealed that women's desks are dirtier than men's Forget the multi-tasking Domestic Goddess. New research proves what most men have suspected for years - women are messier than men Here is a useful exercise for men who find themselves accused by their partners of being disorganised slobs — or for those generally sick of the stereotype that men are untidy and women are fastidious little angels. Grab the nearest handbag — it might belong to your wife or to a friend …

'Kasper the Clown' faces prison for punching schoolboy Last updated at 19:42pm on 20th February 2007 As a child going to the circus, you might expect the clown to throw a bucket of confetti at you, or squirt you with water from the flower on his lapel. You certainly wouldn't be prepared for him to grab you by the scruff of the neck, punch and kick you and leave you needing hospital treatment for cuts and bruises. As these astonishing pictures show, that's what happened when 12-year-old Amos Lutz met Kaspar the Clown at a circus in Leipzig, Germany. Scroll down for more... Deranged: Kaspar the Clown lays into Amos, 12 Onslaught: Schoolboy Amos c…

EMI receives Warner bid approach Music group EMI says it has received an approach from US rival Warner Music that could lead to a takeover bid. The move is the latest twist in a battle which has seen both firms try to buy the other in the past seven years. The new approach by Warner Music comes after EMI issued a profit warning last week - its second of the year. Warner said it had approached EMI on 24 January about a deal, adding that it saw "compelling strategic, commercial and financial logic" in a tie-up. Warner - the world's fourth-largest music group - also said that it had the support of Impala - the trade group for independent music labels that has op…

The children of 12 in hospital for alcoholism By FIONA MacRAE - More by this author » Last updated at 00:08am on 19th February 2007 Comments (1) Some children are so addicted it is actually dangerous for them to stop drinking straight away In 2005, hospitals treated 5,717 under-16s for alcohol poisoning and other drink-related illnesses - nearly 20 per cent more than in the previous year. Girls outnumbered boys in every part of the country, heightening concern about the spread of the 'ladette' culture. The North West of England has the worst underage drinking problem, with 25 drunken youngsters admitted to hospital each week. Most of these are girls. …

EXCLUSIVE: Richard and Judy quiz scam You Say, You Pay...but you've no chance By IAN GALLAGHER - More by this author » Last updated at 09:49am on 18th February 2007 Comments (10) MPs are poised to investigate claims that Richard and Judy's quiz is cheating viewers.. Channel 4 faces damaging allegations that the Richard And Judy show is systematically cheating viewers out of tens of thousands of pounds in a premium-rate phone quiz scam. Every day an average of 15,000 viewers pay £1 a time to enter the programme's popular daily competition, You Say, We Pay. But emails leaked to this newspaper reveal that the husband and wife team encourage thous…

Video: How 100mph biker was caught by his own internet movie Daily Mail Reporter - More by this author » Last updated at 10:33am on 16th February 2007 Comments (28) A motorcyclist is facing prosecution after filming himself speeding at 100mph . . . and putting the evidence on the YouTube website. • Watch the footage here Jeremy Parrot, 37, was easily tracked down by police who accessed his short movie on the Internet — because it ended by showing him pull up outside his front door. Scroll down for more... Read more... • Push-me-pull-you-bike is far from straightforward The end: Parrot filmed pulling up outside his front door The…

THE PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION From now, we well see the most dangerous book ever. The book who made the leaders of Jews afraid when the content of this book leaked to the public. In this book you will see, read and know what the Zionism planning for. This book about the protocols of Zionists and no one can evaluate this book, except who read all these protocols word by word and connect what a the protocols saying and what happning indeed in reality. The first meeting of the learned elders of Zionism held in 1897, you will see some of their devilish plan to dominate the world. The Zionists fought this book by all their power to prevent anyone to…

Scientists use pig bladder to help man regrow his fingertip Last updated at 18:59pm on 19th February 2007 Comments Lee Spievack's finger has regrown thanks to powdered extract of pig bladder When Lee Spievack cried out in pain after slicing off his fingertip he had no idea he was about to find himself at the centre of a medical mystery that appeared to have more in common with Harry Potter than the British Medical Journal. Rather than follow his doctor's advice and have a skin graft to cover what was left of his finger, the 68-year-old shopkeeper sprinkled the wound with a powdered extract of pig bladder. Within four weeks, his finger had regained its…

The 15 ways in which too much TV wrecks your child's health By LAURA CLARK - More by this author » Last updated at 00:09am on 19th February 2007 Comments Pandoras's Box: Unlike reading, television fails to stimulate the brain The devastating extent to which watching television damages children's health is spelt out in a report today. It lists 15 ways that over-exposure to TV can harm youngsters - from fuelling obesity and shortsightedness to causing premature puberty and autism. Read more... • Emotional literacy 'can tackle gangster culture' • Half Term Fun with Colorelli • Eat fish to make your baby brighter, women told • Everyday chemicals 'c…

Tax on peace and quiet By BENEDICT BROGAN - More by this author » Last updated at 22:05pm on 18th February 2007 Comments Millions of householders could find themselves with sharply higher tax bills Homeowners face a massive increase in council tax if their houses simply enjoy 'peace and quiet', government documents have revealed. Houses in sought-after areas with a ' pleasant view' or 'good security' will be targeted by the army of valuation inspectors. An official handbook released yesterday shows what assessors are likely to look for when a new system is introduced. Read more... • 4,000 government 'snoopers' hired to check people's houses • …

An ugly duckling has made waves on a farm after being born with four legs. A rare mutation has left eight-day-old Stumpy with two extra legs behind the two he moves around on. Owner Nicky Janaway, of Warrawee Duck Farm in the New Forest, Hampshire, said she was gobsmacked when she turned Stumpy over to check his sex. "It was absolutely bizarre. I was thinking 'he's got too many legs' and I kept counting: One, two, three, four,'" she said. Mrs Janaway said the animal would not survive in the wild. "He's eating and surviving so far and he is running about with those extra legs acting like stabilisers," she said. "He's had so much attention he is having…

The Ministry of Defence has dismissed as "entirely speculative" claims that Prince Harry is to be deployed to Iraq. The Daily Mirror has reported that the 22-year-old will join British troops in Basra by the end of this month. The paper says he will take charge of 11 soldiers from his regiment, the Blues and Royals, performing reconnaissance work in the desert. But a spokesman for the MoD said the final decision had not yet been made about the next units destined for Iraq. He added that Parliament would be informed before the public. Troop Commander Prince Harry graduated from Sandhurst in April last year, becoming a 2nd Lieutenant in the Household C…

The extraordinary photo that reveals just how little MPs knew about the Iraq war UK Mail On Sunday Sunday, February 18, 2007 The extraordinary picture below lays bare just how much Tony Blair's Cabinet was kept in the dark as Britain went to war in Iraq. Rather than being told by the Prime Minister that the country was at war, they had been roused from their beds by policemen or phoned by journalists with news of the first American strikes. But at this moment, 7.55am on March 20, 2003, they know no more about the final decision to launch the attack than the rest of the British public tuned in to the early-morning news. Standing arou…