London - More than two-thirds of Britons want their country's troops to withdraw from Afghanistan within a year, an ICM poll published by the BBC Thursday has found.

Of 1,013 people polled, 68 per cent said troops should come home within 12 months. The proportion of women advocating a withdrawal was 75 per cent, while 59 per cent of the men asked wanted the troops to return.

New York, Nov. 13: New Yorkers were surprised recently to read a report in the New York Times that said that the war in Iraq has ended. An enthusiastic man was hawking the paper on W. 33rd St., just a few blocks south of the Times headquarters.

“Very special edition, New York Times!" he shouted. "IRAQ WAR ENDS," read the lead story headline, while other pieces included an apology from Condoleezza Rice for lies about WMDs and the indictment of President Bush for high treason.

It turned out to be a prank paper, but the stunt took six months in the making, with 1.2 million copies printed.

Madrid - The Spanish government is preparing to toughen the country's anti-terrorism laws as the hunt for fugitive ETA member Ignacio de Juana Chaos in Ireland continued Wednesday.

The daily El Pais reported on Wednesday that new government measures will mainly target members of the militant Basque separatist group ETA, and are intended to bring the penalties for terrorism offences as close as possible to life imprisonment, which is deemed incompatible with the Spanish constitution.

London, November 12 : Feargal Sharkey, the former the vocalist of pop punk band The Undertones, feels that anti-terror laws are being used to crack down on live concerts.

He says that small venues and new performers have been affected by the 2003 Licensing Act.

Local councils and police go “over the top” in enforcing the Act, he adds.

The Act requires venue owners to fill in a three-page application form and pay the prescribed fee to obtain a licence for a gig.

Those filling in the forms must disclose names, birth dates, addresses, and phone numbers of every performer.

China has rejected India’s assertion that Arunachal Pradesh was its integral part. Rather Beijing said that  McMahon Line is “illegal” and the status of the border state was “never officially demarcated”.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang said on Tuesday that New Delhi had not taken into account “historical facts”. “We deeply regret the Indian side’s remarks that take no regard of the historical facts,” Qin said.

“China and India have never officially settled demarcation of borders, and China’s stance on the eastern section of China-India borders is consistent and clear-cut,” Qin said at a regular bi-weekly news briefing.