London, Dec 4 : A Muslim barrister in Britain has won a 75,000 dollar payout from her former legal firm after a senior partner and deputy district judge referred to her as “Mother Teresa” and “tent head”.

Saleca Faisal-Parkar, 31, was harassed, overlooked for jobs and training and was even branded lazy after she became seriously ill while pregnant, The Telegraph reported.

Stephen Jones led the abuse, who then headed litigation at the leading law firm Shakespeares, also referred to her as a “flipping nun”.

He was also a deputy district judge and a member of the Solicitors Disciplinary Panel, but has resigned both positions in the light of the scandal.

London - Japanese investment bank Nomura said Thursday it would axe 1,000 jobs at the

London, Dec 4 : English actress Myleene Klass has been spotted flaunting her shiny hair ever since she became the new global ambassador for Pantene Pro-V shampoo.

London, December 4 : Thousands of Harry Potter fans, including those who especially flew down from around the world, had lined up until midnight to grab the new book in the series.

Voracious readers flocked to London to get hold of the first copies of author J. K. Rowling’s ‘The Tales of Beedle the Bard’, which is expected to become an international best-seller.

The collection of short stories mentioned in the final book of the boy wizard series has had a global print count of nearly 7.5 million copies, reports the Telegraph.

London, Dec 4 : Hollywood actress Sadie Frost has posed fo

London, Dec 4 : German soldiers in Afghanistan have been accused of being “too fat and too drunk” to fight Taliban fanatics.

According to a report, last year 3,500 German troops in Afghanistan downed 1.7million pints of beer and 90,000 bottles of wine.

MPs have said that these soldiers live on ‘beer and sausages’.

The report also revealed that more than 40pct of the troops are overweight.

German troops were given the task of training Afghan police. But General Hans-Christoph Ammon, the commander of the special commando unit, the KSK, called the efforts as “a miserable failure.”