London, Oct. 22: A minister in the Gordon Brown-led British Cabinet has warned that the country could be terrorized by radical young Muslims for the next 30 years.

Security Minister Lord West told the Commons Defence Committee that there were no fast track solutions to countering the menace.

"This isn''t going to change just like that. To stop this radicalisation of extremists is going to take about 30 years, I would think. But it will become a virtuous circle. It will start getting better and better," the Daily Mail quoted him, as saying.

The ex-Royal Navy chief, 60, also warned that security policies alone could not beat radicalisation.

London, Oct 22 : French President Nicolas Sarkozy has threatened to take legal action against makers of his voodoo dolls, sold with instructions on how to stick pins in it.

Each body part of the doll, developed by K&K Company, contains controversial quotes related to the president.

These include his campaign slogan "work more to earn more", or "platform heels" – referring to the president''s shoes designed to gain a few inches in height.

On his groin is written "scum", which is used to describe young suburban crooks before the riots of 2005.

Sarkozy''s lawyer Thierry Herzog has asked the makers to "immediately cease all distribution of this doll".

According to a new survey, 60% of British kids have seen disturbing images on the internet, which has actually raised concerns over the exposure of kids to the unsuitable material on net.

Keeping this thing in mind; the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) advices that new computers should be equipped with carry high-security “blocking” software; which could stop them from surfing through aggressive or vulgar material available over the vast world of Internet.

London, Oct 21: Women office workers prefer spending more time with their computers than their husbands or boyfriends, reveals a new American research.

The study found that the ladies spend almost three times as much time with their computer than with their partners.

According to a poll of almost 3,000 Americans, women spend an average of 9.3 hours a day with their PC, compared with 3.6 hours with their other halves, reports the Telegraph.

London, Oct 21: Eight out of ten parents think that the best disciplinary technique for badly behaved toddlers is not to smack but to ignore them, according to a new report.

The report, published by the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships at the University of Edinburgh, suggests that raising the voice or shouting is the next most effective action.

The report is an analysis of data from the Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) study and comes weeks after MPs voted against enforcing a UK-wide smacking ban.

The GUS study, commissioned by the Scottish Government, surveyed parents of 8,000 children about issues affecting their parenting style.

Amsterdam - Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, who was convicted for the so-called Lockerbie disaster, is terminally ill with cancer and expected to die within "weeks or months," a Dutch documentary filmmaker told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa early Tuesday.

Libyan former intelligence agent al-Megrahi, 56, was sentenced for life imprisonment in 2001 for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988.

A terrorist bomb on board the aircraft brought the plane down over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing some 270 people.

The Dutch documentary maker says he was given the information about al-Megrahi by "reliable sources close to a Libyan delegation."