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LONDON - Five abducted Afghan campaign workers of Fauzia Galani, one of the few female candidates contesting the parliamentary election in September this year, have been reportedly shot dead and their bodies recovered from the western Herat province.

LONDON - A new world record time has been set by a Welsh bog snorkeller at this years World Championships at Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys.

LONDON - Foreign diplomats are taking undue advantage of their immunity to keep domestic help as slaves in Britain, an investigation has revealed.

LONDON - A British civil servant is suing his government department for 300,000 pounds after he fell off a chair.

LONDON - Former spy and novelist John Le Carre has claimed that Britain's intelligence services had carried out assassinations and did "some very bad things" during the Cold War.