London, Nov. 14 : Britain’s Prince Charles is to be known as the Defender of Faith to reflect the country’s multicultural society.

According to The Telegraph,, this move by Charles, who turns 60 today, would mean the monarch, as Supreme Governor of the Church of England, would no longer be known as Defender of the Faith for the first time since the reign of Henry VIII.

London  - Britain could send a further 2,000 troops to Afghanistan next year in response to an expected request by the US under its next president, Barack Obama, the BBC said Friday.

The broadcaster said ministers were considering sending reinforcements to Afghanistan, following requests from Afghan leaders.

The British government insisted after talks in London Thursday between Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Afghan President Hamid Karzai that troop levels had not been discussed.

London, Nov. 14 : Former England Test and one-day player Mark Ramprakash has said that the present squad needs to take steps to restore some pride and quickly rebuild their tarnished reputation after the Stanford Twenty20 shambles in the Caribbean.

London, Nov 14 : In a rather sordid instance of cyber life ruining real-life, a woman is divorcing her husband after she found his online avatar cheating on her in the virtual reality game ‘Second Life’!

Players of the game create online alter egos who live full lives, including having jobs, relationships and children.

David Pollard’s wife Amy caught his randy computer “self” having sex with other player’s busty two-dimensional hooker.

Shocked Amy walked out on him in tears after she came to know that her besotted husband had asked the creator of the busty virtual character, a woman from US, to be his second wife.

London, Nov 14 : Monty Python''s famous Dead Parrot sketch is actually a lot older than it is believed – it dates back to Greece in the 4th century.

According to historians, the famous Dead Parrot sketch was written 1,600 years ago in Ancient Greece.

Scholars say it is in the world’s oldest joke book — entitled Philogelos, or The Lover of Laughter.

In the fourth-century gag, a man goes up to a slave trader and moans: “The slave you sold me died.”

London, November 14: Dutch researchers have developed a mind-reading software program that can scan a brain to decipher the sounds spoken to a person, and even who is saying them.

Neuroscientists at Maastricht University in The Netherlands say that they trained the software by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to track the brain activity of seven people, while they heard three different speakers saying simple vowel sounds.

Telling about their observations, the researchers said that each speaker and each sound created a distinctive "neural fingerprint" in a listener''s auditory cortex, the brain region that deals with hearing.