London - More than 100 men and women clad just in their underpants trooped on to the concourse of a central London train station Thursday hoping to set a new world record for a bizarre gathering of this kind.

The effort, entitled Pants to Poverty, was organized by the Fair Trade Organization to mark Guinness World Records Day.

A total of 116 men and women turned up for the event on a cold and rainy day at St Pancras train station in London, from where the Eurostar train also departs.

London - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday in London that he does not see security worsening in Afghanistan, even as the British death toll in the conflict rose to 124.

"Violence is not getting worse. It is the same level as it was for the past year or two. The whole effort is to make it better and to bring violence down," he said.

London - Amnesty International has called on the government of Afghanistan to repeal the death sentences against 111 people who are on death row.

In a statement released in London Thursday, to coincide with a visit to London of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Amnesty said it feared that the reported executions of nine people since last week would be followed by further death sentences being carried out.

London, Nov. 13 : Politically-correct British Government rule-makers have banned a string of words to get religious fanatics on their side.

The move, however, has been slammed for causing confusion in the war on terror, a Daily Star report claims, adding that there still some Muslim hate clerics who are allowed to preach death in the UK.

London - British Telecom (BT) said Thursday that it would cut a total of 10,000 jobs in the current financial year, as part of an ongoing efficiency programme.

The news came after a string of similar job-cutting announcements by major British in the last fortnight, including Virgin Media, which shed 2,200 jobs, construction firm Taylor Wimpey and pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline.

Figures released Wednesday showed that Britain's unemployment total reached an 11-year high of 1.82 million in the three months to September, a figure that is expected to rise to 2 million by Christmas.

London , Nov 13 : The BBC’s plan to expand its local news coverage online could “kill off” regional newspapers, shadow Culture Secretary of Britain has warned the corporation’s governing body.

In a letter to Sir Michael Lyons, the chairman of the BBC Trust, Jeremy Hunt said it would be “a disaster” if the corporation’s proposed new online service led to the death of local newspapers, The Telegraph reported.