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LONDON - Billionaire businessman Mohamed Al Fayed yesterday said he sold the upmarket Harrods in frustration after the government-appointed pensions trustee prevented him from "taking my profit".

LONDON - Fugitive former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has described the terrorism charges inflicted upon him as politically motivated and denied stirring up the violence by anti-government protestors in Bangkok.

LONDON - A historic hotel in Scotland has left its staff baffled after a ghostly figure was caught roaming its grounds on CCTV.

LONDON - From crashing into a policeman, to crying in public, former first minister Jack McConnell spoke of some of the most comical gaffes former US President Bush exhibited in public.

LONDON - Three important works by LS Lowry were sold for more than 1 million pounds when they went under the hammer in Sotheby's sale of 20th century British art in London.