Briefly World

Blair used cash for kids to set up office: Report

LONDON: Former British premier Tony Blair allegedly used 400,000 from a fund for poor children to set up an office in American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem,the Daily Express reported. Blair spends time there as Middle East peace envoy.

Einsteins visa papers turn up 80 yrs later

LONDON: Albert Einsteins immigration papers have turned up 80 years after he fled to Britain from Nazi Germany,Daily Mail reported. Border chiefs at Heathrow airport were stunned by the papers marking his arrival on May 26,1933.

Magistrates cancer for democracy: Berlo

MILAN: Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi branded magistrates a cancer of democracy Monday. There is something incredible about this whole trial, Berlusconi said at hearing of a case in which he is accused of bribing British lawyer to give false evidence about his business interests.