London, November 29 : Guy Ritchie’s latest flick ‘Sherlock Holmes’ has been dubbed ‘cursed’ following a series of serious accidents on the film’s sets.

The Brit director’s cast and staff have reportedly had enough of their hands to question if they had a mystery to solve after Robert Downey Jr was made to see the stars by a 7ft wrestler.

London, Nov. 29 : Better intelligence could have nixed the plans of the terrorists that struck Mumbai, causing the death of about 195 people and injuries to about 300 more, say terrorism experts.

While acknowledging the remarkable bravery and professionalism of Indian Special Forces, the experts believe the attacks should and could have been thwarted by better intelligence.

London, Nov. 29 : British police have flown to India to establish whether any of the terrorists who killed 150 people in the Bombay massacre had links to the UK.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said two "British-born Pakistanis" were among the eight gunmen captured alive during bloody shoot-outs with soldiers.

The Daily Telegraph has also learnt that the terrorists monitored international reaction to the attacks on British newspaper websites and on Arabic websites popular in the north of England.

London, Nov 29 : With the discovery of a lump of lead, a mineralogist has proved that the Hope Diamond, a star exhibit of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, is the long-lost gem looted from Louis XVI in 1792.

It had long been suspected that the Hope, which was given to the Smithsonian in 1958 by the jeweller Harry Winston, came from the Diamant Bleu that was looted in Paris in
1792, when King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were being held prisoner.

London, November 29 : A 101-year-old “impoverished” woman has stunned locals near the nursing home in Cornwall where she lived by leaving 1.7million pounds in her will, as thrifty villagers would often club together to buy her groceries.

Nancy White’s only luxury, which people knew about, was a pony called Gipsy, who lived to be 42.

It is now believed that the old woman had inherited money, possibly from her family''s timber business that had closed in the 1930s, and invested wisely.

Heather Fraser, a woman from St Mawes who knew Nancy for over six decades, says that people were shocked by the pensioner''s wealth.

London, Nov 29 : The remains of the palace of a medieval Bishop have been uncovered by a team of archaeologists digging at the site of a Roman temple in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England.

According to a report in Hereford Times, historians have been searching for the place from the past 300 years, but its exact location has eluded them till now.

Both the palace and the Roman digs owe their exposure to John Kyrle, an English philanthropist.

“What’s been uncovered is a lost palace and a hidden legacy. John Kyrle now has as much a part to play in the future for Ross as he has had with its past,” said Herefordshire county archaeologist Dr Keith Ray.