London, Mar 5 : Hugh Rodley, who has been nicknamed the "Lord of Fraud," has been convicted of plotting to carry out the world''s largest ever bank raid.

The fraudster, who called himself Lord Rodley after buying a title, was the mastermind behind a plan to hack into the computers of a City bank and transfer 229 million pounds to accounts set up across the world by a Soho sex shop owner.

He along with his close aides targeted the accounts of technology firms Casio and Toshiba at Sumitomo Matsui bank in the City.

The thug and his gang used a crooked security guard to disable the CCTV systems and let in a group of hired "hackers" via a back door.

London, Mar 5 : When it comes to telling someone if one has read a book or not, more than half of Britons are happy to lie and claim they have, reveals a survey.

In the survey on the World Book Day website, Britons were asked if they had ever claimed to read a book when they had not, and 65 percent of respondents said yes.

And the book most people falsely claim to have read is George Orwell''s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’, which has topped a poll of the UK''s guilty reading secrets.

In fact, 42 percent of those quizzed said that they had falsely claimed to have read Orwell''s classic to impress others.

London, Mar 5 : Robots may soon replace army medics on the battlefield, say researchers.

Scientists hope to replace Mobile Army Surgical Hospital with "Trauma Pod" including robot surgeons and nurses, in the next 10 years.

The three-armed surgical robot, being developed by Pentagon''s Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) is currently under trials.

It is assisted by 12 other robotic systems, including a voice-activated "Hot Lips", the nickname given to chief nurse Major Margaret Houlihan in 70s hit TV series M*A*S*H.

Its single arm passes instruments to the robot surgeon and disposes of used equipment.

London, Mar 5 : It was certainly a case of an intoxicating intimate moment turning sour, when a woman bit off her boyfriend''s tongue during a drunken kiss on his birthday, a court has heard.

A jury at Newcastle Crown Court was told that Tracy Davies deliberately bit down hard on Mark Coghill''s tongue during the kiss and cut off the front third of the organ.

Davies and Coghill were in a relationship for nearly four months after they met through a lonely-hearts advertisement in a local newspaper.

London, March 5 : TTYL8R, CSThnknAU, ROTFL, TTFN - these are not signs being used by aliens for communication but some of the most despised text and e-mail phrases which drive Britons crazy, reveals a new study.

According to Paul Cockerton, of the text question and answer service AQA 63336, weird acronyms used in modern slang left eight out of ten people confused.

London, Mar 5 : A motorist was stopped by a police officer and questioned because he was laughing while driving.

Gary Saunders, managing director of Spontex Workwear, of Liverpool, was using a hands-free phone when he burst out laughing at a joke told by his friend, who he was talking to.

However, Mersey Tunnels Police failed to see the funny side and ordered the Liverpool businessman to pull over.

When Saunders got out of his car, the policeman told him: "Laughing while driving a car can be an offence."

After lengthy questioning, the officer concluded there was nothing he could book Gary for and let him go.