United Kingdom

Borat deception charges thrown out by US judge

London, Sept 11 : A US judge has dismissed legal claims by a driving instructor and two etiquette teachers who accused the makers of ‘Borat’ of deceiving them.

New York judge Loretta Preska, said in a ruling last week, that the film-makers do not hold any liability towards them because they had accepted money and signed agreements prior to any problem.

According to the report by the Associated Press news agency, the judge also pointed out that the plaintiffs have also agreed to appear in a "documentary-style" film.

Starring British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat has raked in 150m dollars at the box office, reports BBC.

Usain Bolt could have run 9.55 seconds in Olympic final: Scientists

Usain BoltLondon, Sep 11 : Scientists believe that Jamaican Usain Bolt could have run 9.55sec at the Beijing Olympics if he had not started celebrating before the finish line.

Bolt set a world record of 9.69 in winning the 100metre, but slowed down in the last 10metre, slapping his chest as he crossed the line.

Australia’s national sprint coach Paul Hallam agrees with physicists from the University of Oslo, Norway, who through a series of calculations have come up with the figure of 9.55.

Senior British cop wears bin Laden costume

Al Qaeda chief Osama bin LadenLondon, Sep 11 : A senior British police officer who visited the annual 9/11 memorial service in New York two years ago has been castigated for attending a Cornish village fete dressed as terror mastermind Osama bin Laden.

Terry — a Devon & Cornwall officer currently working in Afghanistan — also wore a white turban, scarf and Arab robe.

11month baby girl helps unconscious mum by answering cell phone!

London, September 11 : Eleven-month-old baby girl Amelia Boyle might not be old enough understand what cellular phones are meant for, but she recently helped raise the alarm that her mother had collapsed unconscious by using a mobile.

Millie, as the baby is lovingly called, picked up the ringing mobile and answered the call when her mother Elizabeth, 20, fainted in the hall of their home.

The dialler was Millie’s grandmother Linda Wright, who knew that the baby was not allowed to play with the cell phone.

She immediately understood that something wrong might have happened with Elizabeth, who has a history of fainting and fitting, and dialled 999.

Now, Met''s top MUslim woman cop sues for ''racism''

London, Sept. 11: The London Metropolitan Police has been rocked again by a racism charge.

This time, a senior Muslim woman cop is suing the force for racial discrimination.

Yasmin Rehman, the second most senior Muslim woman in the force, claims she was subjected to racist bullying, the Sun reports.

Rehman is the head of community partnerships and diversity in the Met’s Territorial Policing uniformed command, but has been off sick for a year with stress.

Friends say she is planning to file a claim with an employment tribunal within the next few days.

‘Bionic arm’ women begins feeling sensation in lost limb

London, Sept 11 : A woman marine, who was given a "bionic arm" controlled by thought, has got an odd side-effect of her surgery—she can feel hot and cold sensations in her lost limb.

Claudia Mitchell, who has been nicknamed the ‘Bionic Woman’, lost her arm in a 2004 motorcycle accident.

She volunteered to be fitted with the limb in 2006 after she got frustrated with a standard prosthetic, and thus became the first woman to receive a bionic arm, fitted with a pioneering surgical process called ''targeted reinnervation''.

So, the surgeons took nerves from her shoulder and embedded them under muscle in her chest, enabling her to control her hand’s movement by thought via tiny electrical impulses.

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