London, Sept 5 : Large number of brothels in London offer full sex for as little as 15 pounds and employ women from more than 75 different nationalities, a new report has found.

In a bid to make the findings, researchers from the Poppy Project, which campaigns against the trafficking of women, acted as clients looking for sex and telephoned adverts listed in local newspapers.

The research team found 921 operational brothels across the capital, offering full sex for between 15 and 250 pounds.

They estimated that at least 1,933 women aged between 18 and 55 were working in the establishments, an average of two per brothel.

London, Sept 5 : Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl may face manslaughter charges following a breakthrough in the four-month investigation against him.

The 73-year-old retired engineer and property developer had imprisoned his daughter, Elisabeth, and fathered seven children with her during 24 years of sexual abuse, reports TimesOnline.

Sydney - Quentin Bryce was Friday sworn in at Parliament House in Canberra as Australia's 25th governor-general, as the first female to fill the position.

London, Sept 4 : A pair of twins who have spent over seven years suffering from leukaemia have finally recovered from the disease completely, and returned to school

Katie and Chelsea Young, 11, had contracted the disease within weeks of each other even though the chances of both getting it were nine million to one.

Their family feared that one or both of them could die.

However, upon their recovery, there was no one happier than their mother Sheena, 42, who for the first time felt "fantastic" as she waved them off to school.

London - A female Scotland Yard officer who once served as a bodyguard to ex-prime minister Tony Blair left her semi-automatic gun behind in the loo of a central London cafe, the police force said Thursday.

Confirming a report in the Sun newspaper, Scotland Yard said the incident, which happened on August 29, was being investigated.

The semi-automatic Glock 17 pistol was found by a member of the public in the toilet of a cafe of the Starbucks chain, where it had been lying for about 20 minutes.

The officer, in her 30s, had taken off the belt holding the firearm when she used the toilet and then bought a coffee, forgetting she had left the gun behind.

Belfast/London - The formerly terrorist Irish Republican Army (IRA) has relinquished its leadership structures and would no longer be able to wage a terrorist campaign, an independent report on the disbanding of the organization said Wednesday.

The report by the Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC), set up to monitor paramilitary groups under the 1998 Belfast Peace Agreement, also stated that the IRA Army Council - the organization's ruling body - had "become redundant and serves no function."