Irving, who was jailed in Austria for
denying the Holocaust, said on Tuesday
he was in Poland to lead a tour of World
War II sites, including the former
Treblinka death camp. Holocaust survivors
and anti-racism groups have
slammed Irving's plans, even calling on
Polish authorities to ban his visit which
is also scheduled to take in a visit to the
former local headquarters of Hitler.
PAKISTAN POLICE: A 70-year-old British
man has been held in a Pakistani
jail for nearly a month after being arrested
in the lawless tribal belt on a journey
to Afghanistan, officials said on
Tuesday.
GREENPEACE: Greenpeace activists
had occupied an oil drilling ship
anchored off the Shetland Isles to push
for a ban on deepwater drilling in the
North Sea, the environmental group
said on Tuesday. Two activists used
speedboats to reach the 228-metre long
ship and climbed up the rungs of the
anchor chain before hanging off the
side in tents suspended on ropes.
CAIRN ENERGY: Cairn Energy,
renowned for a major oil find in India,
said on Tuesday that it had discovered
pockets of oil and further evidence of
gas in offshore Greenland. The group
said it had found two types of oil after
drilling in the Baffin Bay Basin.
FTSE: London shares ended slightly
weaker despite a strong start to the
week and ahead of a key meeting of the
US Federal Reserve expected to shed
light on the outlook for the US economy.
The FTSE 100 index fell 0.47 per cent
to 5,576.19 points.
ALZHEIMER'S: The number of
Alzheimer's sufferers worldwide will
double within 20 years to more than 65
million, according to a study published
on Tuesday to mark World Alzheimer's
Day. The cost of the disease and other
forms of dementia will cost one percent
of global gross domestic product this
year and the problem is set to grow
massively in the next two decades as
people live longer.
FERRY INSULT: The Dutch director of
Stena Line apologised on Tuesday for
calling British sailors "fat and covered in
tattoos" after a furious union boss
demanded that he retract his comments.
Pim de Lange also claimed it
was hard to find British crew who were
young and fit enough for the job.
MI6: The UK's foreign intelligence
agency MI6 published the first authorised
history of its early years on Tuesday,
revealing the exploits of both reallife
James Bonds and its worst ever
traitor. "MI6" was written by Keith Jeffrey,
a history professor at Queen's University
in Belfast who was granted
access to unseen archives from the
shadowy agency's creation in 1909 until
the start of the Cold War in 1949.
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