London  - Seriously ill British train robber Ronnie Biggs is seeking parole ahead of his 80th birthday, according to media reports quoting his son Sunday.

His request is to be decided at a parole board meeting on Thursday, the reports said.

"We are hopeful that he will be freed but we're trying not to count on the egg before it leaves the chicken," Biggs' son Michael was quoted by the BBC as saying. He gave July 3 as the planned release date.

London, Apr 19 : The world's first stem cell therapy to cure the most common cause of blindness has been developed by British researchers.

The research team believes that the procedure, which can tackle age-related macular degeneration (AMD), will become a routine, one-hour method that will be generally available in six or seven years' time.

A recent study revealed that many people don’t know about the calorie content of alcohol. The research conducted by the Department of Health carried was based on the data collected from 2,000 adults in England.

42% women during Government's Know Your Limits campaign said they had no idea that a glass of white wine had the same calories as a bag of crisps. Survey showed that 40% men were unaware that a pint of lager had as many calories as a sausage roll.

London - British police confirmed Saturday they were probing yat another case of possible excessive use of force in crowd control during the recent G20 summit in London.

A Scotland Yard spokesman declined to give details, but local media reports said it appeared to involve claims by a man who had been hit on the head and thrown to the ground by police.

Confirmation of the latest probe followed a report Friday that a second postmortem had revealed that man a who died after being pushed to the ground by police at the London summit died of internal bleeding, not a heart attack as previously said by police.

London - Middlesbrough's hopes of avoiding relegation from the English Premier League suffered another blow on Saturday as they were held to a goalless draw at home by Fulham.

Victory could have lifted them out of the bottom three, but with Sunderland beating Hull City 1-0, they are now still four points away from safety, although they did move above Newcastle United into 18th place.

Djibril Cisse's goal, just before half-time, gave Sunderland all three points against Hull, who are now just two places above the bottom three themselves.

London, Apr. 18 : Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney has been ruled out of tomorrow's FA Cup semi-final amid fears he that has a fractured metatarsal.

Club coach Alex Ferguson is set to throw in Federico Macheda for his first start at Wembley.

Ferguson admitted that he would make changes after the midweek Champions League win over Porto - in which Rooney was seen limping briefly - with one eye on next Wednesday's league game against Pompey.