Briefly World: Kenyan cops kill three suspects in al Shabaab raid

Scotland Yard bans tattoos on officers

London: Scotland Yard has banned recruits from having visible tattoos after complaints from victims that some young officers appeared thuggish. Scotland Yard Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe said body art that can be seen by the public damages the professional image of the service. He also ordered a tattoo amnesty in which anyone who already has tattoos must declare them or be sacked,Daily Mail reported.

Daily multi-vitamin may reduce cancer risk: Study

NEW YORK: Researchers announced Wednesday that a large clinical trial of nearly 15,000 older male physicians followed for more than a decade found that those taking a daily multi-vitamin experienced 8 percent fewer cancers than the subjects taking dummy pills. The paper was published online in The Journal of the American Medical Association.

UK cops apologise for using gun on blind man

London: British police,which had used a Taser gun on a blind man whose white stick they mistook for a samurai sword,Wednesday regretted the incident saying it had clearly put the man through a traumatic experience.