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London, Sept 13 A Chinese cosmetics company is using skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe, an investigation by the Guardian has discovered.

England's victorious cricketers were treated as national heroes by tens of thousands of cheering ... Dozens of police officers in fluorescent yellow jackets marched beside the slow-moving bus, followed by a similar bus with the English women's cricket team, as the parade moved past St Paul's Cathedral to Trafalgar Square.

The 50th international conference of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association starts from September 11-15 at London, United Kingdom at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre.

Defence Secretary John Reid has called for several thousand additional Nato troops to be deployed in post-Taliban Afghanistan.

The bodies of more than 40 mostly elderly patients were found in a flooded hospital, the biggest known cluster of corpses to be discovered so far in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans.2.7

International Platform for Music and Entertainment with 20 Per Cent More Exhibitors since Last Year -- Seven out of Every Ten Exhibitors Are from Abroad -- Another Attraction, in Addition to the Fair and ...

Italy's highest court has upheld the extradition to Britain of a suspect in the failed July 21 London bombing who was arrested in Rome, a lawyer said.4.5

Special Branch is closing down: A staple of romantic England in reality and fiction will soon be ... 8, Sir Ian Blair, the commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police, or Met, the biggest and premier police force in Britain, announced that Special Branch would be scrapped and replaced in part by an elite new 2,000-man strong Counter Terrorism ...

Have you heard the one about the disappearing warehouse? One day, it vanished—not from physical view, but from the watchful eyes of a well-known retailer's automated distribution system.

British and American arms companies have been criticized for marketing weapons used in Iraq at ... The campaigners also accused companies such as Lockheed and BAE Systems of "reveling" in the opportunity to sell equipment "battle-tested" in Iraq to those countries.2.9

Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown called for co-ordinated international action, including ... Brown's plan involves having the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) raise supply and obliging it to open its accounts to improve transparency about oil reserves, reducing speculation.2.9

Tessella Support Services plc, a British information technology company, has expanded into the region with the opening of Tessella Inc.

The Scottish Parliament and a Bute housing project are in the running for Scotland's biggest architecture prize.2.9

SmartVideo Technologies , today announced that it has entered into a worldwide exclusive two-year promotional agreement with SBG Global, to include the world's largest and most respected sportsbook and online ...

As reported in the IHG Plc. 2nd Quarter stock exchange announcement issued on September 8th, the Americas region of InterContinental Hotels Group, , the world's largest and most global hotel company, ...

Choose your contact carefully, preferably someone who stays calm and is aware of your medical history.

Please note: Either your browser does not comply with current Web Standards or it has been unable to load the stylesheet that accompanies this page.2.9

Northern Ireland's largest Protestant paramilitary group, the Ulster Defence Association , called ... The call for calm could help to defuse tension among the province's majority Protestant community, many of whom say the government has moved too fast to scale back security following a commitment by Irish nationalist guerrillas to disarm.2.9

Company: MapInfo Corp. Industry: Geospatial Technology Location: -, United Kingdom Confirm chosen to manage street assets in wide sweeping efficiency drive by Aberdeen City Council London - 13 September 2005 - ...

Finis Shelnudt, 53, sat in the street at a lone cafe table decorated with Mardis Gras beads and an empty bottle of champagne, ready for the party he believes will soon resume in storm-ravaged New Orleans.2.1

London - Britons have spent billions on household gadgets like sandwich toasters and bathroom scales that they ended up never or rarely using, a study said on Monday.2.7

Minister for Lifelong Learning Bill Rammell today welcomed the OECDs confirmation that overall the ... Early Years * The United Kingdom invests more money than any other country per child in the early years.2.7

U.S. computer giant Hewlett-Packard will cut 968 jobs in Britain over the next 12 months, part of 5,900 job losses across its Europe, Middle East and Africa region, it said on Tuesday.

England's victorious cricketers were treated as national heroes by tens of thousands of cheering ... Dozens of police officers in fluorescent yellow jackets marched beside the slow-moving bus, followed by a similar bus with the English women's cricket team, as the parade moved past St Paul's Cathedral to Trafalgar Square.2.9

"East meets West 2005" will see the best of Scotland's unsigned musicians take to the stage.2.7

The key trend in the non-alcohol drinks industry, according to the research analyst firm Euromonitor International, is consumer health and wellness products.

LOCAL yachtsmen took advantage of yesterday's fine weather to take a closer look at a massive drilling rig anchored off the North Wales coast.2.9

Worldwide cosmetic sales exceeded $230 billion in 2004 and more than $50 billion in North American, according to the Cosmetics, Toiletry and Fragrance Association, based in Washington D.C. Drug stores accounted ...

InBev Chief Executive Officer John Brock had been in the beer business a mere six months when he was handed the idea for a business combination with Brazil's Companhia de Bebidas das Americas , a move that ...

One hundred fifty people from 53 different nations will take an oath to become American citizens in a ceremony on Sept.16 at the Dole Institute of Politics on the University of Kansas campus.

NEWSPAPER publisher Daily Mail & General Trust today told of weakening advertising markets, with recruitment advertising at its Northcliffe regional publishing division at its lowest level in 15 years.2.7

The British Government has cancelled the visa applications for all the nation's 774 local government chairmen on a planned four- day capacity building conference in Manchester, United Kingdom.2.7

Harris Corporation , a leading supplier of secure, tactical radios for defense forces worldwide, ... The high-performance HF radios -- designed for the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence's Bowman Tactical Radio Programme -- are based on Harris' highly successful Falcon(R) II Tactical Radio product family, which is in standardized use by U.

Excerpts from an article , "Indian leather - winsome and weathered" by Hindol Sengupta, are reproduced - courtesy Indo-Asian News Service - for the readers to appreciate that how India is courageously shedding ...2.9

CANBERRA - Australia is to extradite a British businessman to Singapore to face trial for a double murder after Australia's highest court on Tuesday rejected his bid to avoid being handed over.2.7