Britain

Why a folding plug won last night's design awards.

Last night, Britain's most prestigious design prize was awarded to a plug. At a ceremony at the Design Museum, the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year award was carried off by an unknown Korean who only graduated from the Royal College of Art last summer. Min-Kyu Choi was probably not the first person to notice the disparity between his Macbook Air laptop (thin enough to slide into a manila envelope) and the plug attached to it (so bulky you need a duffel bag).

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There's no doubt in this world that women are under a lot of pressure in regards to their weight. Many young girls are affected by eating disorders and diets are the latest craze, all the while the obesity epidemic rages...Here are two articles (yes from the Daily Mail :P) outlining the two extremes: One about Britain's Girl band Girls Aloud and their rapidly shrinking figures

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What I don't get with this place of build it and they will come is that that want tourists to come and spend lots of money but leave your culture at home. Should Britain retaliate and arrest gulf arabs who come to London on holiday because they have more than one wife. After all that is illegal in Britain and against the culture......

Also what was this woman's kids doing up at 2 am! What morals is that?!??!?

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The Mexican telecoms magnate Carlos Slim Helu has been named the world’s richest man, with a net worth of $53.5 billion (£36 billion), the first time since 1994 that the No 1 spot has been held by a non-American.

The annual billionaires list published by Forbes magazine shows that the number of billionaires increased from 793 to 1,011.

Recovering financial markets and commodities and strong economic growth from some Asian-Pacific and Latin American economies helped to increase the collective wealth of the world’s richest by $2.4 trillion to $3.6 trillion. This works out at $3.5 billion each, up from $3 billion last year.

Industrialised countries should do more to cut the pay gap between men and women, the OECD said yesterday in a report which showed that women in rich nations on average earn nearly one-fifth less than men.

While female employment rates have risen in all member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), women still shoulder most of the burden of childcare, weighing heavily on pay prospects, the report said.

“As long as women rather than men take time off work to provide care, there will always be employers who perceive women as less committed to their career than men,” said Monika Queisser, head of the OECD’s Social Policy Division.

A five-year-old British boy has been kidnapped by robbers in Pakistan, local police have said.

Sahil Saeed, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, was taken from Jhelum where his family were on holiday.

Robbers broke into where they were staying, in the Punjab area, on Wednesday night and demanded a ransom of about £100,000.

The British High Commission is in touch with his family and local authorities have launched an investigation.

George Sherriff, a spokesman for the commission in Islamabad, said they were "continually monitoring the situation".

The spokesman said the family had been due to fly back to Britain on Thursday following a two-week visit.

The boy's father, Raja Naqqah Saeed, said he was visiting sick relatives in Pakistan with his son Sahil.

Using fossil fuel in vehicles is better for the environment than so-called green fuels made from crops, according to a government study seen by The Times.

The findings show that the Department for Transport’s target for raising the level of biofuel in all fuel sold in Britain will result in millions of acres of forest being logged or burnt down and converted to plantations. The study, likely to force a review of the target, concludes that some of the most commonly-used biofuel crops fail to meet the minimum sustainability standard set by the European Commission.

Teacher killed herself 'after ex-boyfriend posted naked pictures of her on Facebook'

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 3:13 AM on 25th February 2010

A teacher who died after drinking poison was living in fear because her ex-boyfriend had posted 'indecent' pictures of her on the internet, her mother claimed yesterday.

Emma Jones, 24, was working in an international school in Abu Dhabi - and was afraid she could be jailed over the images.

She had begun to pack her things ready to return to Britain but drank corrosive cleaning fluid and her body was found by a flatmate, an inquest heard.
Emma Jones, 24, killed herself while working in Abu Dhabi

Open verdict: Emma Jones, 24, killed herself while working in Abu Dhabi

Rape? It's the fault of the victims, say 50 per cent of women

By Rebecca Camber
Last updated at 12:02 AM on 15th February 2010

A victim of 'day-rape' or drugged rape. The CPS did not allow her case to go to court despite there being substantial evidence

A victim of 'day-rape' or drugged rape. The CPS did not allow her case to go to court despite there being substantial evidence

Half of women think that rape victims are to blame for their attack, a study has shown.

More than one in ten said that dancing provocatively, flirting or wearing revealing clothing made them partly responsible.

This blame culture is deterring victims from reporting the crime, according to the sexual assault clinics that carried out the poll.

Doha: Doha resident and dedicated bird photographer Dileep Kumar has scored a major achievement – with a photo taken in Qatar recently being chosen as among the top five out of 39,387 entries in BirdGuide’s online “Photo of the Year 2009”.

"The picture of the Greater Spotted Eagle"

Based in Britain, BirdGuide is a leading international birding site, and competition to be among the photographers whose picture is chosen gets more intense every year. Year 2009 saw a record number of entries.