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A fire engulfed a warehouse used by Emirates Airline at Heathrow Airport outside London on Friday,a fire brigade spokesman said....

Big warehouse blaze at Heathrow,flights normal

LONDON: A fire engulfed a warehouse used by Emirates Airline at Heathrow Airport outside London on Friday,a fire brigade spokesman said,but flights from the busy British international air hub were not affected. A significant part of the building is alight,the brigade spokesman said. A gas cylinder explosion was believed to have started the fire.

Tainted dairy products seized in western China,reports Xinhua

BEIJING: Two years after a national health scare over melamine-tainted milk products rocked Chinas dairy industry and called food safety here into question,inspectors in western China8217;s Qinghai Province have seized another 76 tonnes of dairy ingredients laced with the same industrial chemical,the state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.

Pope names Vatican official to run Legionaries

VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI on Friday named a senior Vatican official to run the scandal-plagued Legionaries of Christ after an eight-month investigation of the order. The Vatican announcement said Archbishop Velasio De Paolis,who heads the Holy Sees financial office,will serve as papal delegate for the Legionaries.

Top Dhaka professor being interrogated over terror links

Dhaka: A Bangladeshi court on Friday remanded a top professor of a Dhaka University in three-day police custody for quizzing over his alleged links to banned Islamist militant group Hizbut Tahrir. Syed Golam Mawla,an associate professor of Dhaka Universitys Business Studies Faculty,was arrested on Thursday.

Berlusconi in TV ad to promote Italys artistic beauties

Rome: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has now become a spokesman for the countrys natural and artistic beauties. The Premier lent his voice to a TV ad by the Tourism Ministry,urging Italians to spend their holidays exploring an extraordinary country you have yet to discover. Berlusconi does not appear in the 30-second Magic Italy ad,which features images of some of the countrys artistic landmarks and views of its coastline. The ad,presented this week,will appear on Italian TV throughout August.

Lindsay Lohan turns to Buddhism for inner peace

London: Lindsay Lohan has turned to Buddhism to get her through the 90 days behind bars. The actress,who was sentenced for violating the probation terms of her 2007 drugs and alcohol case,has decided to seek solace in the religion in a bid to conquer her demons,Daily Star reported online. Lindsays been fascinated in the Buddhist faith for a while as several of her inner circle follow the teachings of Buddhism. Lindsays devastated8230; and has been crying non-stop. Shes been told to seek spiritual guidance, a source said.

Anne Frank,now a novel

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AMSTERDAM: The Anne Frank House Museum launched a graphic novel version of the teenage Jewish diarists biography on Friday,hoping to bring her story and death in a Nazi concentration camp to a wider audience. Spokeswoman Annemarie Bekker said the publication is aimed at teenagers who might not otherwise read The Diary of a Young Girl,already the most widely read document to emerge from the Holocaust.