The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine undertook the survey on Britons’ hand-washing habits. The survey shows many Britons don’t wash their hands properly after visiting the washroom.  

October 15, is considered as the Global Hand-Washing Day to promote clean hands to ward off infection, specifically in developing countries.

London, October 18 : U. S. experts are urging cell phone users to exercise the same caution with their mobiles that they do to protect their computers from spam and virus attacks. 

The Georgia Institute of Technology Information Security Center (GTISC) says in its annual Emerging Cyber Threats Report that mobile devices can become targets for hi-tech criminals.

The report suggests that with the rise in the number of smartphone users, more applications will allow financial and payment infrastructure that employs them, and cyber-criminals will try to obtain such sensitive data.

Johannesburg - Britain's Princes William, 26, and Harry, 24, started a 1,700-kilometre rally in aid of charity through South Africa Saturday.

The two set off from Port Edward on the east coast of the country with some 80 others in the early morning sunshine on the eight-day Enduro Africa 2008 trek.

Each participant paid 1,500 pounds (2,600 dollars) to take part in the event, raising 300,000 pounds for charities such as Harry's Sentebale (don't forget me), founded in 2006, which helps AIDS orphans in the mountainous kingdom of Lesotho.

London, October 18 : Children exposed to black-and-white films and television programmes are more likely to dream in greyscale throughout their lives, say researchers.

Eva Murzyn from the University of Dundee, UK, asked 60 subjects, half of whom were under 25 and half over 55, to answer a questionnaire on the colour of their dreams and their childhood exposure to film and TV.

She also asked the participants to record different aspects of their dreams in a diary every morning.

London - The London stock market rallied at the end of a volatile week Friday, as the Financial Times Share Index (FTSE) gained ground to close 5 per cent, putting it above the crucial 4,000-point mark.

The FTSE held firm in afternoon trading, despite early falls on Wall Street following more dire news from the US housing market.

The London index was up 201.6 points at 4,063 points at the close, ending what one stockbroker described as a "neurotic week."

London - The credit crunch is slowing down peacemaking in the world's conflict zones by undermining the economic development of war-torn countries, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Martti Ahtisaari said in London Friday.

"It will not help us to solve conflict with no economic development in those countries...We are avoiding taking the tough decisions that are needed," the former Finnish president told foreign journalists.

However, the 71-year-old said he basically remained optimistic about the future of world peace.