Two men who posted messages on Facebook inciting other people to riot in their home towns have been sentenced to four years each in prison.
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/ 1 November 2010
Former UK prime minister’s sister-in-law has converted to Islam after having what she describes as a "holy experience" during a visit to Iran.
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/ 2 November 2005
A woman who was left infertile after chemotherapy to treat cervical cancer has a baby boy thanks to her two sisters — one of whom donated an egg and the other who acted as a surrogate. Alex Patrick’s twin sister, Charlotte Pestell (32), offered her ovum and her older sister, Helen Ritchie (35) carried the foetus through pregnancy.
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/ 18 February 2005
A survey released in London on Valentine’s Day indicates that the attitudes embodied in Sex and the City are over — and 2005 heralds a return to romance. Casual sex and pornography are no longer popular and singles are looking to be swept off their feet. Long-term relationships are also back in fashion, according to 73% of the 2 500 Britons interviewed.
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/ 26 September 2003
Rival companies have accused Microsoft of cynical commercialism for pulling the plug on its Internet chatrooms. MSN — the Internet arm of Bill Gates’s Microsoft empire — said it took the decision after a series of high-profile cases involving children being abused by adults they had met in chatrooms.
The notoriously crowded and sweaty basement club where the Beatles played
some of their first gigs is about to become a global brand, writes Helen Carter in London, and will soon be opening as far afield as Australia, Spain and Brazil.
Described as the karma of literature, book crossing is a phenomenon taking UK cities by storm, writes Helen Carter.