London, Nov 11: Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl is to be formally charged this week following authorities’ announcement that the case against him was complete.

The 73-year-old, who imprisoned daughter Elisabeth, now 42, in a cellar for 24 years, and fathered seven children with her, will be told of the charges in the middle of this week.

Possible charges of kidnap, rape, causing permanent psychological harm and assisting death by negligence over a baby boy born with breathing difficulties and allowed to die have been examined by the prosecutors.

London, Nov 11: People who live close to pylons and high-voltage cables double their risk of dying from Alzheimer’s disease and senile dementia, a shocking new study has claimed.

According to boffins, a direct link between the electromagnetic fields created by power lines and all types of dementia has been found.

The study has been conducted by doctors at Bern University’s Institute of Social and Preventative Medicine in Switzerland.

London - At the packed Remembrance Day service in the chapel of the Royal Hospital Chelsea for War Pensioners in London, 8-year-old Emily squeezed her grandmother's hand as rousing hymns were sung and the Last Post was rendered for the victims of war.

It may be 90 years since the guns fell silent in the "war to end all wars," but this year's anniversary of the end of World War I has brought Britons of all ages and generations together like never before to commemorate past and present conflicts.

London - The Republic of Maldives, known to most as a holiday paradise in the Indian Ocean, will set aside a proportion of its annual tourism revenue to buy land as an insurance policy against climate change, its president-elect has said.

Mohamed Nasheed, due to be sworn in Tuesday, told Britain's Guardian newspaper that the chain of 1,200 islands and coral atolls 800 kilometres from the southern tip of India was likely to disappear if climate change continued at the current pace.

He said a gradual rise in sea levels caused by global warming means the 300,000 Maldives islanders may eventually be forced to resettle elsewhere.

London, Nov 10 : American singer songwriter Katy Perry showed her possessive side at the MTV Europe Music Awards when she caught her boyfriend Travis McCoy being surrounded by girls.

McCoy, who fronts Gym Class Heroes and had presented the Rock Out Award to 30 Seconds To Mars, seemed bemused as the girls attempted to touch his piercings and inspect his tattoos.

Perry, 24, lost her cool when she saw a gang of women trying to flirt with her boyfriend in the VIP area backstage.

London, Nov 10 : English comedian Russell Brand has revealed that his infamous broadcast with Jonathan Ross had been toned down to take out the “more personal stuff” before it went on air.

The broadcast had caused a huge controversy when listeners to Brand''s BBC Radio 2 show heard them leaving obscene answer phone messages for the actor Andrew Sachs.

According to the Observer, Brand believed Sachs had agreed to let the show go out if they toned it down, which they did.