Saudi Arabia's fine balance, between muttawas and internet cafes
``Cover your head!'' As we walked down a central street in Saudi Arabia's capital last morning, one of my journalist colleagues nudged me and muttered, ``It's the muttawwa,' the religious police, they're here''.



British passport to Srichand Hinduja sets off controversy
Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker has sought an investigation to find out whether Peter Mandelson, Northern Ireland Secretary, had helped Srichand Hinduja and his brother to obtain British citizenship after they agreed to donate one million pound to bail out the millennium dome in London.



Lanka pressures UK to ban Tamil rebels’ groups
Sri Lanka on Sunday urged Britain to ban the Tamil rebels groups operating in UK under new Anti-terrorism Laws. Making a strong call to proscribe the LTTE, Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar in an interview to the the Sunday Observer said the LTTE’s record of terror is long and horrible.



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