London, Sept 8 : A YouTube spoof video posted by the brother of an Al-Qaeda terrorist, in which he boasts how to make a bomb, is making rounds of internet circles.

The video shows Musa Ahmet, 47, chillingly looking into the camera saying: “Hi everybody. I’m going to show you how to make a deadly bomb in two minutes.”

Then he is shown fiddling with components out of view and finally holding up a sign with “Deadly Bomb” scribbled above a rough sketch of a device.

Musa is the brother of Atilla, 44, hook-handed cleric Abu Hamza’s personal bodyguard who called himself “the No 1 al-Qaeda in Europe”.

London, Sept. 8 : Security chiefs in the West are claiming that Islamist terrorists are developing a ''dirty'' bomb for use against Western targets.

According to them, at least one plot has been uncovered involving Pakistani-based terrorists planning to use nuclear material against a major European target.

The Telegraph also quoted them as saying that other militant Islamist groups in Pakistan, such as the newly formed Pakistani Taliban, have also shown an interest in developing weapons with a nuclear capability, according to Western security officials.

Security chiefs now fear that the mounting political instability in Pakistan will make it easier for militant Islamist groups to develop a primitive nuclear device.

London - Shares in leading British banks rallied strongly on the London Stock Exchange Monday following news of the US government's bail-out of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

London, Sept 8: Women get finicky over typical male chauvinists, goes the common notion. But not knowing a man is far more unnerving for the ladies than his overtly sexist views, according to a new study.

In fact, the ignorance of a man’s views can even make the women perform worse in exams.

During the study, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton at the University of California, Berkeley, gave a written test to 170 female undergraduates.

Prior to the test, the students were assigned to one of three empty offices, which they were told belonged to their male examiner.

London - Britain's leading building society, Nationwide, said Monday it would merge with two smaller lenders facing growing pressure from the credit crunch.

The Nationwide Building Society said the merger with two of its smaller rivals, the Derbyshire and Cheshire Building Societies, would take place with the approval of financial regulators.

The Derbyshire and Cheshire had approached the Nationwide to help them survive the tough economic climate.

Both firms said they expected to make a loss in the first six months of 2008 as a result of the declining property market.

The Derbyshire has assets of 7.1 billion pounds (12.6 billion dollars), 50 branches and 485,000 members.

London, Sept 8 : He might have led Britain to victory in the Second World War, but for kids, Prime Minister Winston Churchill is the name of a nodding dog in insurance adverts, a new survey reveals