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Three against one on UK rebate at EU budget talks

Agence France-Presse
Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:00 EST

France, Germany and Spain presented Friday a joint proposal including a permanent cut to Britain's EU rebate, at talks in Brussels on resolving the European Union's budget deadlock, a Spanish official said.

Dutch teen arrested for school shooting

Xinhuanet
Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:00 EST

Dutch police arrested a 14-year-old boy on Thursday for allegedly shooting at children playing in the yard of a primary school in the Dutch city of Roermond, Dutch news agency ANP reported on Friday.

Begging legalized in Norway

Xinhuanet
Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:00 EST

Stockholm -- Begging will no longer be banned in Norway as the country abandoned a century-old vagrancy law on Thursday.

Associated Press
Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:00 EST

Rome - Lance Armstrong has been ordered to stand trial in Italy on charges of defaming cyclist Filippo Simeoni. Armstrong's lawyer in Italy, Enrico Nan, said Thursday that the seven- time Tour de France champion was indicted Wednesday and scheduled to go to trial on March 7.

Nan said Armstrong does not face jail time, but he could be fined if found guilty.

Reuters
Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:00 EST

Moscow - A small explosion near a western Russian nuclear power station has injured three people, local media reported on Friday, but there was no radiation leak.

Meyer was warned over memoirs

Patrick Wintour
The Guardian
Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:00 EST

Sir Christopher Meyer, Britain's former ambassador to Washington, was repeatedly warned by the head of the Foreign Office that he could not publish his controversial memoirs without submitting the book for his prior approval, letters released yesterday show.

Letters over the summer warned him that publication would breach Diplomatic Service regulations. He circumvented FO demands by taking the memoirs to the Cabinet Office. The new cabinet secretary, Sir Gus O'Donnell, said he was disappointed that Sir Christopher was publishing the book, but had no other comment.

Associated Press
Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:00 EST

Three terrorism suspects were arrested overnight in France as part of a crackdown on a group alleged to have "indirect links" to the al-Qaida in Iraq leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Police said today that the arrests near Paris were connected to a similar operation on Monday near the capital and in the northern Oise region that led to the arrests of 25 terrorism suspects.

During the overnight sweep, police found a stash of weapons in a garage in the Parisian suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, a police source said.

Elizabeth Davies
UK Independent
Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:00 EST

A sparrow shot dead after flying into the middle of a Dutch world record attempt and knocking over 23,000 dominoes with one flap of its tiny wing is to be given pride of place at Rotterdam's Natural History Museum.

The bird, whose killing last month in the northern Dutch city of Leeuwarden enraged animal rights activists, will be placed on top of a box of dominoes at an exhibition.

The gesture will be greeted by many as a fitting tribute to the posthumously celebrated animal who almost ruined a painstakingly prepared world record dominoes attempt but was shot with an air rifle before it could wreak more havoc on the televised event.

Comment: Oy. So many people upset by the killing of a sparrow because it knocked down dominoes, and they can't find it in their hearts to be upset over the killing of tens of thousands of Iraqis and Palestinians... and other genocidal acts by world governments... What kind of people would spend so much time and effort setting up dominoes, when the REAL dominoes of Global destruction have already fallen?

Nigel Morris
UK Independent
Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:00 EST

Four men deprived of their liberty for four years on suspicion of being international terrorists disclose today that they have not once been questioned by police or security services since being arrested.

The four, who were among 16 suspects detained without trial under post-11 September terror legislation, later overturned by the law lords, give harrowing accounts of the treatment they have suffered. All are now under virtual house arrest. Although three face deportation, The Independent has learnt that there is no prospect of the men ever being questioned over the offences they are alleged to have committed.

Stephen Castle
UK Independent
Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:00 EST

American-style product placement - or "stealth advertising" - took a big step closer to Europe's television screens when formal proposals were tabled to allow its use in broadcasting.

If the plans are approved, a new and more subtle form of advertising, in which film-makers are paid to feature specific products, could become a common feature in almost all programmes on commercial terrestrial TV.

Yesterday's proposal from the European Commission is part of a package of revisions to broadcasting rules that would scrap a daily cap on time devoted to advertisements, as well as some rules on space between commercial breaks.

In the United States, product placement is already common, growing at the rate of 21 per cent a year between 1999 and 2004, and worth 1.7 per cent of the total broadcasting revenue of free-to-air broadcasters.

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