London, Sept. 5: Senator Barack Obama's team has built a reputation for discipline over the past 20 months, but Republican rival John McCain’s maverick selection of 44-year-old Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, has reportedly created an atmosphere of uncertainty about what lies ahead in the run-up to the November 4 presidential poll.

The Palin phenomena, a prominent Democrat said on Thursday, would make the presidential race closer.

London, Sept. 5: Another British icon has gone the Chinese way. We are talking about taxis.

They are now not being made in Britain, but at a sprawling factory in the lush green suburbs of Shanghai.

Young Chinese workers have been roped in for the full-scale production of one of Britain's most emblematic vehicles.

London Taxi International, which will continue to build nine out ten cabs used in Britain at a factory in Coventry, could not expand at its small-scale, high-cost plant. So it turned to China to drive overseas expansion.

London, Sept. 5 : Another British icon has gone the Chinese way. We are talking about taxis.

They are now not being made in Britain, but at a sprawling factory in the lush green suburbs of Shanghai.

Young Chinese workers have been roped in for the full-scale production of one of Britain''s most emblematic vehicles.

London Taxi International, which will continue to build nine out ten cabs used in Britain at a factory in Coventry, could not expand at its small-scale, high-cost plant. So it turned to China to drive overseas expansion.

London, Sept 5: A new arsenal of police weapons has come to town that
surely will sound the death knell for criminals – they include stink
bombs, a glue gun and a Spider-Man-style web.

The surprising devices are among an armoury of “less-lethal” crime-fighting tools being considered for use by police chiefs.

According to a report by the Home Office’s Scientific Development
Branch said one of the most effective could be the vile-smelling stink

London, September 5: A septuagenarian man mistakenly declared dead eight years ago has been reunited with his family after his son spotted him by chance on a TV programme about missing people.

John Delaney, 71, went missing eight years ago, and due to spent the intervening years living in a care home using a different name because he could not remember his own due to amnesia caused by a head injury.

Staff at the care home, who called the old man David Harrison, have revealed that he retained a strong Irish accent from childhood and made regular references to "Tipperary" and "boxing".

London, September 5: A septuagenarian man mistakenly declared dead eight years ago has been reunited with his family after his son spotted him by chance on a TV programme about missing people.

John Delaney, 71, went missing eight years ago, and due to spent the intervening years living in a care home using a different name because he could not remember his own due to amnesia caused by a head injury.

Staff at the care home, who called the old man David Harrison, have revealed that he retained a strong Irish accent from childhood and made regular references to "Tipperary" and "boxing".