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Measures include increasing the length of time child sex offenders can be banned from travelling abroad from six months to up to five years. Ms Smith said the changes would bolster the UK's already "rigorous system" for managing sex offenders, which ...

Laws tighten on paedophile travel - BBC News

CARROLLTON, Texas, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- T.G.I. Friday's restaurants today announced the "Friday's(R) Awesome BBQ Sweepstakes" (http://www.fridays.com/sweeps) with a Grand Prize that includes a trip for two to the 20th anniversary of the Jack ...

T.G.I. Friday's(R) Restaurants Announce 'Friday's(R) Awesome BBQ ... - Forbes

TALENTED Thomas Crew is primed to take the biathle world by storm in the World Championships this autumn. The South Dorset Tornado will travel to South Africa in November knowing that, despite high-calibre opponents, his chances of returning home ...

Crew ready to take on the world - This is Dorset

HI-TECH face scanners are being used at a British airport to help stop terrorists and criminals from entering the country. Manchester Airport is trialling the new facial recognition scanners, which aim to improve security and reduce long queues at ...

Hi-tech face scanner on trial at airport - News.com.au

Archive photo showing French soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on patrol in Kabul in May. Taliban fighters have killed 10 French NATO soldiers and wounded almost 30 in an ambush east of the Afghan capital of ...

FIGHTING IN AFGHANISTAN - Der Spiegel

Gary Glitter was expected to arrive back in Britain this morning after being released from the Vietnamese prison where he has spent nearly three years for child sex offences. The disgraced former rock star, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was expected ...

Glitter 'happy' to be returning to Britain - The Independent

The Taleban have staged two of their most spectacular operations in Afghanistan, killing ten French troops in a battle just outside Kabul and launching a frontal assault on a big US base near the Pakistani border. The attacks, which began on Monday ...

Resurgent Taleban kill 10 French troops and assault US base - Times Online

IN 1973, an expatriate American novelist possessed of great ambitions, pretty good reviews and slender means set out from London's Victoria Station to circumnavigate the great Eurasian land mass, mostly by train. Two years later, he published an ...

'Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway ... - Los Angeles Times

HELSINKI, Finland - Nokia and travel information company Lonely Planet said Tuesday they are joining forces to sell maps and city guides that can be accessed on mobile phones. The world's largest handset maker said users of Nokia Maps can now ...

Nokia joins Lonely Planet to provide city guides for mobile phone ... - Minneapolis Star Tribune

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama gave his clearest signal yet that he has settled on a running mate when he announced Tuesday he would appear Saturday in this city where he launched his campaign. Presumably, the ...