London, Sep 9 : British police and prosecutors were locked in crisis meetings last night after what they believed to be the strongest terrorism case ever presented to a court was rejected by a jury, which will prove to a severe blow to Britain’s anti-terrorist effort.

At the end of a 10 million pound investigation and trial lasting more than two years, jurors were unable to decide whether or not a group of British Muslims were part of a plot to blow transatlantic airliners out of the sky, The Times reported.

The outcome of the case - which featured al-Qaeda-style martyrdom videos made by six defendants - will be seen as a severe blow to Britain’s anti-terrorist effort.

London, September 9 : You may fail your driving test just in case you drive through the water, and splash the pedestrians around.

Well, that was exactly what happened with Michelle Kelly, 31, after she passed a bus stop in Blackley, Manchester, spraying a man who was standing there.

The mother-of-two revealed that her examiner told her at the end of the test that she had failed because she should have stopped, and exchanged details with man.

The examiner was of the view that her actions constituted an accident, she said.

Kelly, who works for a funeral director, described the decision as "ludicrous" after failing.

London, September 9 : The United Nations (UN) has said that it may act against Britain for failure to protect the heritage sites in the country, by threatening to put the Tower of London on its list of world heritage sites in danger.

According to a report in The Guardian, the warning has come after experts accused the UK of damaging globally significant sites such as Stonehenge, the old town of Edinburgh and the Georgian centre of Bath.

UNESCO, the UN’s cultural agency, has told ministers in London and Edinburgh that it wants urgent action to protect seven world heritage sites which it claims are in danger from building developments, and said in some cases the UK is ignoring its legal obligations to protect them.

London, Sept 9 : Forget Batman, or GI Joe, the latest action doll to rule store shelves has arrived in the form of Sarah Palin, the Alaska Governor who John McCain has chosen to be his Republican presidential running mate.

Toy company, http://www.herobuilders.com, has launched two variations of the popular vide presidential candidate— Sarah Palin, the Executive, available for 27.95 dollars and Sarah Palin, the Super Hero, costing just two dollars more.

Washington, Sep 9: There is no quick way to wiping out militancy along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border areas, British envoy Rory Stewart has said.

Stewart, who is an expert on Pakistan and Afghanistan, also warned anti-terrorism coalition forces against pursuing any aggressive military policy in the Tribal Areas.

He said that “there is no silver bullet out there” to enforce full security and stability in a stipulated timeframe.

London, Sept 9: A Polish man has been arrested on suspicion of keeping his daughter imprisoned for six years and raping her repeatedly – a case that recalls the Austrian cellar fiend Josef Fritzl.

The 45-year-old man, whose identity has been kept under wraps, was held in the town of Siedlce after his daughter, now aged 21, reported the alleged abuse.

According to the police officials, she gave birth to two children in 2005 and 2007, adding that "they were probably a result of rape".