A correspondent reveals that, in a striking coincidence, Samar Alami, who was convicted of detonating a car bomb outside the Israel embassy in London in 1994, attended the same Engineering Faculty at University College London as the Christmas Day ?underpants bomber? Umar Abdulmutallab. Alami, a Lebanese-Palestinian woman, gained a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from UCL in 1987, followed by an M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College, London in 1988.
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January 4th, 2010
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January 4th, 2010
Bullying of the clergy is 'rife' with priests and vicars routinely picked on by their bishops and parishioners, according to Unite who are calling for greater protection.
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January 4th, 2010
Wootton Bassett called for politics to be kept out of its commemorations of Britain?s Afghan war dead today as a Muslim extremist group threatened to hold a demonstration in the town.
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January 4th, 2010
A senior GP arranged an illegal late-term abortion for her teenage daughter in Spain, a hearing was told yesterday.
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January 4th, 2010
Today is known as D-Day in the legal business - with the 'D' standing for Divorce. The number of couples seeking a divorce is set to peak today - the first working day after the Christmas and New Year break - according to research.
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January 4th, 2010
A new blasphemy law went into effect in Ireland with the new year, and it was greeted with a certain amount of bemusement.
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January 4th, 2010
Anti-defamation group catalogs top 10 list of bigotry, discrimination.
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January 4th, 2010
The past decade spelled success in research with adult stem cells.
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January 4th, 2010
A leading physician has hit out at Britain's growing drinking culture for the 'immense strain' it is putting on the NHS - which is struggling to cope with the 'unsustainable burden' placed upon it by problem drinkers.
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January 4th, 2010
The cost to the NHS of excess drinking has doubled in five years, a report from the NHS Confederation and the Royal College of Physicians shows.