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British commando killed in Afghanistan during operations on rescuing the captured militants journalist.

On Saturday, journalist The New York Times Stephen Farrell and his interpreter Sultan Munadi kidnapped members of the movement Taliban. NATO forces succeeded in freeing the journalist, but the translator was killed. Also killed one British soldier.

After the operation, stasis Farrell got in touch with his editor and said that he was released. According to the journalist, when British troops attacked the Taliban, he and his friend jumped out of the room where they were held. Munadi, move forward, came under fire and was killed.

Gordon Brown said that the killed during the operation a British soldier, whose name was not reported, showed great courage and that his feat will not be forgotten.

To Farrell it was the second abduction, the first occurred in 2004 in Iraq.

As announced by Minister of Internal Affairs of the UK Alan Johnson, out of house arrest, was released one of the most important in the country suspected of terrorism, writes The Times. This was done to avoid leakage of sensitive information.

A man called AF, under the control of the ministry since 2006, when he was suspected of having links with Islamic terrorists. In this case, formal charges, he had not been filed, but his case was not heard at public hearings.

Last week, the body was shot AF electronic chip that tracks its location, although the government still believes that the suspect poses a threat.

AF has British and Libyan citizenship. Contents under the supervision of his and two other suspects without charge were convicted by the House of Lords.

United Kingdom offered to the leader of Libya Muammar Gaddafi 14 million pounds for refusing to support the Irish Republican Army (IRA), writes The Independent. Information was obtained from the newly disclosed archival documents, the terms of this agreement.

To date, the transaction value, which presumably could be carried out in the late 1970s, approximately 500 million pounds. This step was to appease the Libyan leader and help to establish trade relations between the powers.

It is not known whether the proposal was accepted the Libyan side, but the fact of the possibility of such deals in the UK was subjected to criticism. Thus, a parliamentarian Daniel Kavtszinsky said: We should not try to take away any country aside from terrorism, by offering them taxpayer money.

The British Foreign Ministry and Defense Ministry stated that no information about what the deal was not there.

Privacy statement UK Ministry of Defence, purpose to prevent the leakage of information, she was in the public domain, writes The Times. It was published on the website Wikileaks, advocating for freedom of information.

The Ministry, however, said that serious damage to the security incident has not caused, as the document is dated 2001 and is outdated.

Instructions on how to obtain said information used for anti-government and terrorist organizations, as well as journalists, leading the investigation.

The document introduces the techniques used by intelligence services of world powers, including China and Russia. Chinese agents, according to the instructions, great flatterers, perfectly familiar with the softening effect of alcohol and food. In addition, the Chinese do not distinguish between simple information and intelligence.

Regarding Russian paper claims that the FSB has actively use a variety of tracking devices and can often listen to all the telephones of the hotel, which stops foreigners. A room can be hidden and video cameras.

Former vice-mayor of London Ian Clement Westminster, was sentenced by the court to a 12-week suspended prison sentence for being fraudulently copied their personal expenses on the budget.

Vice Mayor three times to pay for lunch at a restaurant public money, spending 156 pounds sterling.

In addition to probation, Clement was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and fined 1,000 pounds.

Himself convicted, said: I could not meet the high standards that are expected of me. He resigned as assistant to the mayor in June 2009.

Ed Miliband, British Minister for Energy and Climate Change, who came to Russia to discuss the problem of global warming, found his distant relative.

The program Echo of Moscow phoned an old woman: I - Sofia Davydovna Miliband, and I'm your cousin. Stunned by the Minister did not have time to answer anything - was interrupted by a phone conversation, fearing that it would draw.

But it was not a hoax. 86-year-old Sophia Davydovna has long been a leading expert on Iran at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Academy of Sciences.

Miliband telephoned his mother in Britain, and learned that his grandfather was the brother of prapradedushka Sophia. They were both born in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw, but Ed Miliband ancestor moved to Belgium and then in the United Kingdom, while the grandfather of Sophia moved to Russia.

Y Davydovna Sophia had no children, it last, who was a Russian Miliband. As Ed Miliband said after meeting with Sophia on the radio station BBC Radio 4, it is - an amazing woman.

Assistant Deputy of the Conservative Party, was arrested on charges of stealing a bottle of champagne worth ? 150 at the Party Conference, writes The Daily Mail.

27 years Philip Whittington was arrested in a hotel Midland Hotel, where he also stopped many of his party members, who arrived in Manchester.

Arrested Whittington, however, was soon released because he told officers he intended to pay for the champagne, which he took from the hotel fridge.

It is interesting that the Conservatives drank champagne, despite the fact that the party leadership called on all its members to refrain from drinking this beverage during party events, because of the crisis, it can badly affect the image of the party in the eyes of voters.

Whittington was henceforth forbidden to appear at party conferences.