Firefighters sift through hotel debris by Delia Cruceru

Sunday, a powerful blaze transformed to debris the Penhallow Hotel from Newquay, Cornwall. A 43 year old is believed that jumped from the second-floor after fire broke out Saturday at midnight. Almost eighty persons, mostly elderly, were evacuated from the hotel, but two are still recorded as missing. Four people are in the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro and their condition is improving except for one of them, which is in a critical but stable condition. Police thinks that the two people missing, one of them believed that is related to the 43 year old man, are dead. Their family has been informed about this. A police spokesman said: "The search continues for the other unaccounted for person and any relevant evidence to assist the investigation." Until yesterday afternoon, the firefighters and the police had not been able to get into the smouldering wreckage. Although it is not presumed to be arson, police declared the fire as a major crime scene "until evidence to the contrary". Detective Chief Inspector Darren Lockley said: "We are looking to trace people that have images or recordings of what happened on that night. We are trying to establish what happened and those images will be of vital importance." A team of 20 people are already searching through the hotel's ruble hoping to find some useful information that will lead to the cause of the fire.

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Blair on sale by Claudia Sonea

It is of course a joke; the former Prime Minister is thinking to write his memoirs from the time he was at the country's charge. Although it comes as no surprise to anyone, the newspapers already are making a big fuss over the whole issue. Rumor has it that Robert Barnett, the famous lawyer who handled the contract of Bill Clinton for his memoirs, getting him a record deal of 12 million dollars. The ex-US President released his autobiography titled My Life and appointed the lawyer to take care of the financial aspect of talking with publishers on his behalf. A spokesman doing his duty as a diplomat stated that Blair is collaborating with the publisher to the creation of his biography- a smooth way of making public that an autobiography is on its way. However, the success of the book might be compromised by the fact that Alastair Campbell, former media chief of the Blair years, has already written a book about the Labour government. Also John Prescott is supposed to write a book. The former Prime Minister, presently Middle East peace envoy for the Quartet - the EU, US, UN and Russia, stepped down on June 27 with the sympathy of most of the British people, despite that in the last years a lot of them were against his attitude of following Bush in matters of foreign policy. Will his book get a similar contract as Bill Clinton's? Industry insiders say it will. Stay connected and find out how everything will turn out.

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Madeleine"s disappearance by Claudia Sonea

The girl that disappeared a hundred days ago, on May 3, is still missing and there are no clues of her whereabouts. Recently, "Jornal de Noticias", one of the top-selling daily newspapers published a report in which appeared the information that British sniffer dogs had detected traces of blood on a wall in the hotel room in Praia da Luz in Portugal's Algarve region. However, police has refused to comment and did not deny or confirm the rumors. Portuguese media have received information from a person close to the investigation that a British laboratory was analyzing blood samples. Also the theory of Madeleine's death in an accident or murdered was brought forward. Gerry and Kate MacCann refuse to believe such theories and say that Portuguese police did not stated even once that their daughter might be dead. Chief inspector Olegario Sousa, a Portuguese police spokesman, in a statement to Lusa news agency said that the parents are not suspects and a lot of people will be interrogated in the following days. Until now the only suspect is the 33-year-old British national Robert Murat. David Hughes, the family spokesman, told reporters that the couple met with Portuguese police in the southern fishing port city of Portimao to discuss about how the investigation is going. They both regret very much that they left their children unsupervised. Although they checked on them every half-hour, they could have hired a babysitter because the resort had a babysitting service. In one of Europe's top tourist destinations happened the tragedy and despite the fact that police is still searching the chances for her to be alive are very little, because there are 100 days already since she went missing. Let's hope she is alright and say a pray for her and for her parents.

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Expensive charity by Claudia Sonea

National Audit Office said in a report that charity organizations have to deal the problem of funding that has a very complex system and needs to be solved. Parliament's spending watchdog criticized too the funding arrangements for national charities that have become complex due to the fact that a single charity receives a small amount of money from various bodies including central government departments, local authorities and primary care trusts. This affects not only the quality of the service, but also the taxpayer value. The charities have around 4,000 separate funding arrangements that require £400,000 every year. Joe Cavanagh, NAO business development director, described funding arrangements as often unnecessarily complex and costly and the solution put forward was that public bodies collaborate among each other and make sure the funding is practical, in order for their value to remain unspoiled by bureaucracy. Shadow charities minister Greg Clark revealed the failure of the government's strategy in the third sector and that is the reason why it was brought before Parliament just before the Summer recess. According to him, Ed Miliband as the cabinet minister responsible should solve the mess and do some changes. Twelve large charities, including the British Red Cross and Citizens Advice are in this awful situation and they are struggling to function despite the chaotic system. Although Office of the Third Sector and the Treasury had begun to work on these issues, there is an urgent need for something more to be done. Until further news about the solutions found, surf some more and enjoy.

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David Cameron is very unpopular by Ana Maria Ciobanu

A wealthy backer withdrew his support in protest at David Cameron's "arrogant" old Etonian style of leadership. This caused the Conservative party to lose potentially thousands of pounds. Sir Tim Cowie said he is "very, very disappointed" with the Conservative party and no longer wants to make any further donations. He has given over £630,000 to the Tories over the past six years. Sir Tim was very critical of the Conservative's support for city academies and decision not to build anymore grammar schools. He stated that if Mr. Cameron and his inner circle had benefited from privileged education this doesn't mean they can simply overlook the benefits of grammar schools. Sir Tim Cowie seems to make a point and most Tory party supporters agree with him in a very important matter: the new Tory party has no idea how real people live, what schools they attend, what they need etc. What makes a disaster of a leader from Mr. Cameron is his strong desire to be loved by everyone, even though he has no idea who everyone is. The Tory party needs a leader who will stand up for Britain and its people, for their cultural identity and listen to their needs and fears.

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Madeleine"s disappearance by Claudia Sonea

Four months ago the McCann family went to Portugal for their holiday, but instead of having the time of their life, they lived their worst nightmare. Their three years old daughter disappeared from the villa Casa Liliana, in the resort of Praia da Luz in the Algarve, Portugal, where she was left unsupervised together with her two-year-old twin siblings. This happened on 3 May 2007, nine days before her birthday. Since then British and Portuguese police are cooperating in order to find what happened to her. All the criticism towards the so-called cooperation it turns out to be true. After four months, the police discovers that on the walls is blood and there were attempts to wash it away. They mad a big fuss over the abduction of the child and investigated Robert Murat, the son of Jenifer Murat, the villa's owner, who lost custody of his daughter who looked just like the missing one. Sergey Malinka was another suspect that was put in connection with Robert Murat. Chief Inspector Olegário de Sousa ran in circle and had not succeeded to bring forward any viable suspect and elucidation. So far the only thing that the press got news of was the supposed blood; the rumor has not yet been confirmed by the official authorities handling the case. The parents refused to comment on the information, saying that they will not do anything to harm the integrity of the investigation or their daughter. No matter how much we pity them and how sorry we feel for their loss, there is no doubt that they have mad a huge mistake living their children unsupervised, in a foreign country and going to eat at a nearby restaurant. Let's say a pray for the toddler and hope she is still alive. Until further notice, God be with you!

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Foot-and-mouth situation still under control by Corina Ciubotaru

After the discovery of the foot-and-mouth disease in Britain, authorities are taking measures to ensure the virus doesn't spread across the country. Some say it came from the Pirbright laboratory in Surrey, which apparently contained 5,000 strains of this virus in its laboratory. The Pirbright facility receives samples of viruses that cause animal infection from all over the world and security measures will have to be strengthened if evidence that a strain of the virus has escaped. This type of disease only affects cattle and other farm animals and rarely harms people and at the time the crisis started, a pharmaceutical company was researching a vaccine against it. Keeping in mind the last outbreak in 2001 that led to the destruction of more than 6.5 million animals, British authorities aren't taking any chances and have created a protection zone around the area where the disease has been discovered. They have also placed a voluntary ban on exports of cattle, pigs and sheep, even before the European Commission had asked for such a measure. This will cost the UK billions of pounds and cause a decrease in tourism rates, as was the case in 2001, but authorities put the safety of population first. Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, along with Conservative Party leader David Cameron have interrupted their holidays to get involved in ending the crisis. Both of them have high hopes that the situation will not get out of hand and the damage will not be as great as six years ago.

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Britain 'could lose security council seat' by Delia Cruceru

Lord Malloch Brown, the new Foreign Office Minister, suggested Britain to hand over the seat at the UN Security Council to the European Union. According to a report from EU Observer he said the EU was gradually heading towards one seat within the UN organisations. "I think it will go in stages. We are going to see a growing spread of it, institution by institution. It is not going to happen with a flash and bang," Lord Brown said. But Conservatives are not very happy about his affirmations, William Hague the Shadow Foreign Secretary, said: "It is alarming that Gordon Brown has chosen to put in charge of UN reform the man who thinks we should give up our UN Security Council seat to the EU." "The new Treaty, like the old, could automatically let the EU foreign minister speak for Britain at the UN Security Council in certain situations. This is clearly the thin end of the wedge for an EU take-over of our UN seat." Although the Government has tried to delete a clause that allowed the EU to speak at the Security Council on some matters, it failed. The comments were made by Lord Brown during a visit to diplomats in Brussels last year, before he became a member of the Government. He caused a controversy when he suggested that Britain and US would no longer be "joined at the hip"

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Another cruel murder in Lodon by Ana Maria Ciobanu

The 17'Th teenage murder in London this year happened last week. The teenager isn't just a sad number, his name was Nathan Foster and he was 18 years old. The boy was dedicated volunteer on helping other young people escape violent street gang culture. His friends said Nathan worked for the X-it project in Brixton and was also a member of the Ebony Horse Club, which organizes riding lessons for inner-city teens. He was shot Friday night in South London after he tried to stop a row over a piece of jewelry when another teenager passed by on a moped fired on a group of youths close to Brixton Tube station. The suspect is believed to be about 18 years old (just like his victim), was riding a blue moped and was wearing a helmet. What's happening is dreadful- teenagers' killing each other, what's next? Dreadful events should go with drastic measures. Police should guard all the hot spots in London and a long term strategy should be developed for preventing this horrible tragedies. If nothing is done we'll end up like wild animals but way more perverse and cruel. May Nathan rest in peace and may God comfort his family and friends!

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The foot-and-mouth virus strikes back by Ana Maria Ciobanu

Officials working on the case of the foot-and-mouth virus believe it escaped from a facility dedicated to eliminating the animal disease. The laboratory considered to be responsible for this accident is a government research center and a company that makes foot-and-mouth vaccine. If we look at the full side of the glass we'll have to be glad that the virus wasn't spread by other animals and can be contained. This information isn't unfortunately 100 per cent confirmed. The agriculture department said that the particular strain of the highly infectious disease was identical to one used at the lab. The government is working on discovering the transmission mechanism and isn't ruling out any sources. British livestock, meat and milk exports have been stopped and the movement of cattle, sheep, goats and pigs nationwide has been halted. The British have confronted before with this problem, in 2001 when carcasses of the 7 million culled cattle were burned on huge pyres. The farming industry had a lot to suffer and rural tourism was almost dead. The general elections were postponed for a month because of the tragedy back then. The virus isn't dangerous for humans although they can very rarely be affected through contact with sick animals. The foot-and-mouth virus is sensitive to stomach acid and it cannot spread to humans via consumption of infected meat.

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