March 11, 2010

The elephant carcass provided a vital source of food, and hundreds of desperate villagers in the Gonarezhou National Park descended on the dead animal within minutes of its discovery.
The ceremony, which was attended by the Prime Minister, Tory leader David Cameron and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, was held to rededicate a memorial wall to 179 people who lost their lives.
Keith Owen, 44, made an estimated £3million from his family-run egg packing business after masterminding what was described as the biggest food industry fraud investigators had ever prosecuted.
The council met Health Secretary Andy Burnham last week to demand an end to the ban on checks - but were told it could mean fines from Brussels.- Nine members of a Russian white supremacist group are jailed for up to 22 years in connection with the killing of an African man.

Top lawyer Michael Mansfield said he was sure Diana's killers had no intention of ending her life in a Paris tunnel in August 1997 and simply wanted to scare her.
The Sentencing Advisory Panel called for judges and magistrates not to hand down prison sentences to ordinary burglars who were responsible for 'minimal loss'.
Schools Secretary Ed Balls said town halls should investigate one in ten applicants at random to deter school place cheats.- Time.com - Anger is rising in Greece a week after leaders announced a new austerity package to rein in the deficit, with protesters taking to the streets and workers walking off the job