The Government issued warnings yesterday about the dangers of drinks being 'spiked' with drugs. The fear is that when the smoking ban comes in, people will leave their drinks to go outside to smoke...
An Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Iraq in February has been freed, Iran's official news agency, Irna, says. Iranian officials blamed the US for the abduction, saying Jalal Sharafi was taken by an Iraqi...
The Government issued warnings yesterday about the dangers of drinks being 'spiked' with drugs. The fear is that when the smoking ban comes in, people will leave their drinks to go outside to smoke...
anotheoldgit asks: The British are constantly being criticised by some on AB, but having witnessed the scenes of violent protests outside the British Embassy in Tehran, and calling for the British to...
The hounding of Prince Harry continues. Apparently, when told he was to be posted to Iraq he did what any normal young man would do - he went out and got very p*ssed. For which he will be given a...
Central Scotland Police said the raid that recovered the stolen goods marked "the culmination of a highly successful surveillance". Karen Stenhouse is facing a jail sentence. One of Stenhouse's...
The Ausralian tourist board has been ordered to remove posters because they use the slogan "Where the bloody hell are you!" People have been deeply offended and complained....
The US has amassed its largest force in the Gulf since the invasion of Iraq. Blair has warned of a 'different phase' if negotiations to free the sailors fail. Are the two things connected? Is it just...
Pc Shaun Pennicott discovered that it was possible to claim loyalty points fraudulently at Tesco stores. He visited stores repeatedly so he could exploit a loophole in the Tesco Clubcard scheme that...
Alcohol and tobacco are more dangerous than ecstasy, LSD and cannabis, according to a new drug classification table proposed by leading experts. Ecstasy, currently a class-A drug, possession of which...
Dave the Cameleon was caught well off his guard by Brown. Apparently not having anticapted any Brown Budgetry trickery, he looked like a startled rabbit in the headlights. Having no plan B, the best...
The Milk Snatcher is about to get a film made about her. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/64697 83.stm Would ABers like to suggest a title and plot. I hear that Jo Brand is hotly tipped for...
Most councils are set to adopt a system of empying bins fortnight. A collection of recycleables will now take place on the 'missed' week. There have been concerns about hygiene, but the government...
At least 2.2 million migrants will arrive in the rich world every year from now until 2050, the United Nations said yesterday. Britain's population will rise from 60 million to approaching 69 million...
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a partial transcript from a closed-door hearing in Guantanamo Bay is apparently confessing to a long list of plots which he personally planned for Osama Bin Laden. The US...
It is nice to see that that mad dog Gaddafi is really just a poodle after all. Why else would the former appeaser, funder and apologist for terrorists be signing a deal for the US to build a Nuclear...
Do ABers agree with the follow assessment from some diplomat in an opinion piece in the Sunday Times? "The people of the UK have been led in Iraq into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with...