London - British prosecutors Wednesday applied for a retrial of seven men accused of having planned to blow up airliners with liquid bombs after a jury failed to accept the proof of a link to airliners in controversial verdicts earlier this week.

The Crown Prosecution Service said its application for a retrial would "include a count that each defendant conspired to detonate improvised explosive devices on trans-Atlantic passenger aircraft."

Amritsar, Sept 10 : Public Diplomacy Officers from US Embassy Lisa Swenarski said on Wednesday that US is ashamed over the killing of the Sikhs in America post September 11 due to hate crime.

“We feel great shame over the killing of the Sikhs in US post 9/11 due to hate crime,” said Swenarski while talking to media at Amritsar today.

A delegation of American embassy is currently on a visit to Amritsar under “America Day” program initiated by the US Embassy in New Delhi.

London- US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama enjoys the support of large parts of the global population and is seen as preferable to his Republican rival, John McCain, a poll published by the BBC suggested Wednesday.

Backing for Obama is, not surprisingly, strongest in European countries, but otherwise ranges from just 9 per cent in India to 82 per cent in Kenya, where the 47-year-old Illinois senator was born.

Phnom Penh - A delegation from Iraq's national landmine authority is touring some of Cambodia's former Khmer Rouge strongholds as part of a bilateral effort to share expertise, a senior Cambodian government official said Wednesday.

Cambodian Mine Action Authority deputy director-general Heng Ratana said the Iraq delegation would visit former Khmer Rouge stronghold of Pailin on the Thai-Cambodian border, about 400 kilometres from the capital, as part of a fact-finding mission.

"We hope to arrange an exchange programme so each country can experience conditions in the other and we can share information and all our lessons learned," he said by telephone.

Washington, Sep 10 : The intelligence and security committee of Britain has shelved a critical report on the conduct of the police and MI5 in the run-up to the July 7 attacks on London for legal reasons.

The Guardian reported that the intelligence and security committee, which consists of senior peers and MPs, was due to have published its report today.

It is understood to relate to communications between MI5 in London and West Yorkshire police.

The committee, known as the ISC, undertook to draw up a report last year after concluding that it was possible the chances of preventing the July 7, 2005 attacks in London “might have been greater had different investigative decisions been taken in 2003-05.”

Stockholm - A US diplomat Wednesday urged Sweden to "take the lead" in efforts within Europe to reduce dependence on energy supplies from Russia.

Stockholm should also "carefully consider" plans by a consortium to build an underwater Baltic Sea gas pipeline from Russia to Germany, the US ambassador to Sweden, Michael M Wood, said in an op-ed article in the Svenska Dagbladet daily.