London, Aug 6 : A Pakistan national and taxi-driver by profession allegedly used his deceased daughter’s passport to try and smuggle a girl orphaned in the 2005 earthquake into the UK.

After being held guilty, he was given a four-month prison sentence and suspended as a taxi driver for 18 months, besides being ordered to do 200 hours of unpaid work.

Identified as Saftain Mahmood, the taxi driver applied for a passport using his deceased daughter Farah’s details, but enclosed pictures of the other child, reported the Daily Times.

Farah had died of a brain haemorrhage eight years ago. Her father attempted to deceive the authorities after a recent visit to Pakistan to help victims of the 2005 earthquake.

London, Aug. 6 : The leadership change plot in Britain is gathering momentum with Foreign Secretary David Miliband reportedly projecting Alan Milburn to be next Chancellor of the Exchequer if he (Miliband) replaces Gordon Brown as Prime Minister.

According to the Daily Telegraph, Brown, who is currently on a holiday, has failed to get Milburn’s support ahead of a tentative cabinet meeting on September 8. Miliband on the other hand has privately talked to the former health secretary about taking on a senior role in a government headed by him.

London, Aug. 6 : Security flaws have emerged in new micro-chipped passports that were introduced to protect against terrorism and organised crime.

In tests that The Times was privy to, Jeroen van Beek, a computer researcher at the University of Amsterdam, took less than an hour to clone the chips on two British passports and implanted digital images of Osama bin Laden and a suicide bomber. The altered chips were then passed as genuine by passport reader software used by the UN agency that sets standards for e-passports.

London, Aug 6 : They say opposites attract, but a new research has challenged this notion by suggesting that like minds have a much better chance of getting married and living happily ever after.

According to the study, couples stay together longer if they share some common ground.

Beatrice Rammstedt of the Centre for Survey Research and Methodology in Mannheim, Germany, and Jurgen Schupp of the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin looked at the "big five" personality traits in over 6000 couples in Germany.

London - The first new Lotus in more than a decade, the Lotus Evora, was unveiled last week at the British Motor Show with the sports car manufacturer releasing more details of the car.

The Evora, which ran under the project called Eagle, will sell in Europe early next year for around 70,000 euros (109,700 dollars).

It enters the sports car market as the only mid-engined 2+2. Powered by a 3.5-litre V6 Toyota engine, the car has an output of 206 kW/280 hp.

The Department of Health of England will officially circulate letters to all parents informing them about the obesity level of their wards. The department of health has shown commitment to control the ever growing epidemic of obesity among its nationals.