Facebook emerges as breeding ground for racists, extremists

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

London, Apr.23 (ANI): Facebook has become a breeding ground for racists and far-right extremists, according to immigrant leaders and anti-racism campaigners, who believe the site's owners are not doing enough to clamp down on cyber hate. More than 200 million people around the world belong to the social networking site, ...

Student visa scam in UK facilitated entry of Pak terror suspects

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

London, Apr.14 (ANI): A student visa scam has surfaced in Britain. A bogus college is reported to have sold places on fake courses to hundreds of Pakistanis seeking entry to Britain. According to The Times, the Manchester College of Professional Studies acted as a gateway to Britain for foreigners willing ...

11yr-olds get swearing lesson in UK school

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

London, April 4 (ANI): A school in England has come under fire for making kids as young as 11 shout obscenities during a lesson in swearing. A teacher at St Laurence School in Bradford on Avon, Wilts, wrote expletives like the F-word and C-word on a blackboard, and explained their meaning ...

Sacked Lankan origin postman says he has no regrets over his ‘English-only’ stand

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

London, Mar. 27 (ANI): A Sri Lankan-origin postmaster, who refused to serve non-English speaking customers and was sacked, has said he has no regret over the stand he took. Bosses of Deva Kumarasiri, 40, told him that his "services were ...

Soon, a virtual reality device that lets you see, hear, smell, taste and touch

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Washington, March 5 (ANI): Scientists are developing a virtual reality device that stimulates simultaneously all five senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and, touch, with a high degree of realism. The device, which is the first virtual reality headset, is being made by scientists from the Universities of York and ...

Taliban targets UK with heroin, calls it ‘chemical-jihad’

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

London, Feb. 23 (ANI): In a bid to wage a "chemical jihad" on Britain, the Taliban has planned to flood the UK streets with heroin. And to carry their terrifying mission forward, they are using hate-filled Muslim gangs as heroin dealers. Pakistan and Afghanistan based Al-Qaida and Taliban warlords have directed ...