London - A highly-sensitive row over alleged racial discrimination in Britain's top police force escalated Tuesday with the suspension of Tarique Ghaffur, Scotland Yard's most senior Muslim officer.
Ghaffur, a Ugandan Asian who joined the force at 16 and is an Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police (Met), has accused the force of racial discrimination and is taking his case to an industrial tribunal.
Scotland Yard chief Ian Blair, the chief target of Ghaffur's allegations, said Tuesday that the officer's "temporary suspension" had "nothing to do" with the employment tribunal case.
The British Government is reportedly planning to lift the ban on liquids being carried by passengers in their hand bags by early next year, as over the past two years (since the ban was imposed in August 2006), the country had been incurring heavy costs to the tune of “tens of millions” of pounds in paying for the nearly 
London, Sept 9 Two Indian writers are among the six shortlisted novelists for the 2008 Booker Prize, according to the list of names which was released on Tuesday.
London - A three-year-old British girl who survived being sucked into a flooded storm drain and swept 70 metres through an underground concrete pipe before being rescued by her father became an undisputed media star Tuesday.
London, Sept. 9 : French President Nicolas Sarkozy faced an embarrassing split in his Cabinet on Monday over a computer system that the new French internal intelligence service will use to spy on the private lives of millions of law-abiding citizens.
