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He fell short in the admittedly herculean task of converting 300 million Americans to healthy eating, so perhaps it's no surprise that Jamie Oliver's next project is both more modest and safely within his culinary comfort zone: a celebration of traditional British pub-style food.The announcement of the TV chef's next outing – a six-part Channel 4 series and accompanying book – comes just three weeks after the latest series of his Food Revolution programme was moved to a different time slot after poor US ratings.More humiliating still was that the ABC network replaced it with reruns of the US equivalent of Strictly Come Dancing.Now, having dressed as a root vegetable to persuade sceptical US children that their dietary options extend beyond pizza, Oliver has decided to return to his roots with...
Thursday, 26 May 2011
BBC to launch controversial bomb disposal unit comedy
BBC will risk controversy with the release of a new comedy about bomb-disposal units based in Afghanistan and Iraq where hundreds of lives have been lost tackling explosives. The contentious series will be screened on BB3, which is directed to a younger audience. The announcement of the pilot for the show comes as the body of the latest death from an improvised explosive device (IED), Colour Serjeant Kevin Fortuna, from 1st Battalion The Rifles, is repatriated today.He died on Monday on patrol in Helmand.The BBC said: "It's a show about something the public easily forget: soldiers really enjoy being soldiers."This sitcom shows us why, as it takes the audience from moments of intense action to the fractious camaraderie as the unit waits around for their next tasking."The dangers faced by bomb...
Sunday, 15 May 2011
Slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden had prepared a blueprint how to assassinate US President Barack Obama
Slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden had prepared a blueprint how to assassinate US President Barack Obama and disrupt the 2012 American elections, media reports have said. US officials analysing the data found in bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad during the raid that killed him found a diary in which the terror leader had jotted his musings on how to kill the US President, ABC News reported. London-based Sunday Times also had a similar report. Osama "jotted his musings" in a diary "on how to kill President Barack Obama, but not Joe Biden, the vice-president, who, he wrote, was not worth the trouble," The Times said. "I think what this new information indicates is that he was more involved than people realise," said Steve Jones, an analyst with RAND Corp. US agents have had their first access...
TWO imams at South Florida mosques are among six people indicted on federal charges of providing financial support and encouraging violence by the Pakistani Taliban.
The indictment charged Hafiz Muhammed Sher Ali Khan, 76, the imam at the Miami Mosque.The indictment also charged two of the imam's sons. All three men are American citizens who are originally from Pakistan.The four-count indictment charges the Khans and three others living in Pakistan with conspiring to provide material support to a conspiracy to murder, maim and kidnap people overseas, as well as conspiring to provide about $45,000 in financial support to the Pakistani Taliban from 2008 to 2010.Each of the four counts in the indictment carries a maximum 15-year prison term. Prosecutors said the indictment did not charge the mosques. They added that the defendants were charged ''based on their provision of material support to terrorism, not on their religious beliefs or teachings''.The charges...
