London, Nov. 20 : Over 75 percent of citizens have not been able to correctly identify the three countries that make up Great Britain, according to a new survey.

More than half wrongly believe that English is the most common language, while just over a third (37 percent) correctly identified it as Mandarin Chinese, The Telegraph reports.

And less than a quarter correctly identified England, Wales and Scotland as being the countries that make up Great Britain.

The poll of 2,000 adults was commissioned by geographic technology company ESRI UK to mark Geography Awareness Week.

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London, November 20: British Secret Intelligence Service MI6 has shed its image as an overwhelmingly white male agency of wannabe James Bonds by setting out to recruit officers from ethnic minorities.

The agency has launched a recruitment campaign in this regard.

It’s head of recruitment, who is known as "John", said that the agency’s "rather comfortable cold war existence" had exposed it to different threats, and that is why there was a need to be "more flexible, more adaptable".

He said that that purpose could be served by having people from more diverse backgrounds.

London, November 20 : A 50-year-old British man beheaded himself using a chainsaw because he did not want to give up his repossessed home.

Winchester Coroner''s Court was told that David Phyall tied the chainsaw to a leg of a snooker table in his sitting room using string, taped up the on button, and plugged it into a timer.

He then laid face up under the snooker table putting the chainsaw against his neck, the court heard.

Phyall had had a small amount to drink, but he had not taken any drugs.

He used a piece of the tool''s cardboard box to cushion the blades from his neck, and set the timer to start up the chainsaw for 15 minutes.

London, Nov. 20 : Buckingham Palace officials have been put in a spot after it emerged that a store man and a retired porter of the palace were members of the British National Party (BNP).

Paul Murray, 52, and a retired palace porter are both on the list of 12,000 secret members of the BNP, reports The Sun.

Many others exposed on the register hold responsible, respectable jobs. They include cops, soldiers, doctors, prison officers — and even vicars. Some of the jobs ban them from being BNP members.

London, November 20 : Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University say that they have developed a computational model that can prove helpful in understanding how the brain makes sense of the natural scenes surrounding any individual.

Michael S. Lewicki, associate professor in Carnegie Mellon''s Computer Science Department and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, says highlights the fact that a type of visual neuron called simple cells can detect lines and edges, but the computation they perform is insufficient to make sense of natural scenes.