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A man has pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder people in a series of bombings which were intended to be carried out in the US and Britain, Woolwich Crown Court heard today.

Dhiren Barot, of north London, planned to use a radioactive “dirty bomb” to cause “injury, fear, terror and chaos”, prosecutors said.

Barot, 34, also allegedly plotted to cause explosions at several US financial buildings all of the attacks were planned to cause maximum destruction. Poise found the evidence of all of the plots on Barot’s computer.

Barot, a Muslim convert looked relaxed in court as he tapped the keys of his lap-top, he spoke only to affirm his guilt of the charges.

The plans were for attacks on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank buildings both in Washington, the New York Stock Exchange and Citigroup buildings in New York and the Prudential buildings in Newark, New Jersey.

Survivors of the last years earthquake, in the foothill of the Himalayas in Pakistan, have not only lost their families, homes and possessions, they have been cheated by their government.

Today hundreds staged an anti corruption protest, accusing the
reconstruction officials of swindling them.

Waving placards reading “Stop taking bribes”, “Spend the winter with us” and “Build our homes before snowfall”, the demonstrators marched from parliament to the office of the state Earthquake Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Authority (ERRA).

Tomorrow is the first anniversary of the quake, which registered 7.6 on the Richter scale. Its legacy was a death toll in excess of 73,000 people, but it also left approximately three and a half million homeless in Pakistani Kashmir and the North West Frontier Province.

That figure is apart from any loss of life in its neighbouring country India.

We all know that trans fat are bad for us, they cause heart disease and other health problems.

Unfortunately trans fats are also the cheapest fats to buy and they are the most frequently used in the catering industry. They are used in the production of bread and cakes, and in restaurants to make chips, amongst other uses.

Now New York health authorities want the cities 20,000 restaurants to radically change their ways.

Yesterday they produced a plan which will debate whether or not to force restaurants to switch to oils, and margarines with less than 0.5 grams of trans fat per average serving.

Restaurants would be 18 months to make sure all food items complied with this amount of trans fat, before any legal sanctions would be taken if the food outlets to comply.

Canadian MP Belinda Stronach, 40, has reportedly cheated with Canadian hockey star Tie Domi.

Domi and his wife were in court today getting divorced and both have now reached a temporary settlement in their divorce proceedings, less than an hour before the case was to be heard before Toronto’s Superior Court. Stronach is refusing to comment on the divorce or say if she “wrecked” Domi’s marriage.

“If it wasn’t for my husband’s affair with Belinda, we wouldn’t be getting a divorce,” Leanne told the Toronto Star in an interview last night.

Domi’s wife claimed that the former Toronto Maple Leaf player told her if she did not hire a lawyer he would give her $1 million in cash and a $1.5-million house if she kept quiet about his affair with Stronach. If she contacted a lawyer, however, she “would get nothing.”

It’s been nearly a month now since the crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin was killed in a tragic incident when a stingray pierced his heart with its barb.

There has been massive worldwide media attention around the incident; with many celebrities paying tribute to Steve’s wonderful life.

Despite all of the media attention, one person has kept a pretty low profile during these recent events, and that’s Steves wife, Terri Irwin.

In an interview shown on Australia TV Show 20/20 and covered on ABC News Terri Irwin describes the day that Steve died as they day she lost her prince

Asked how she survives after the loss of her husband of 14 years, Terri says:

“One minute at a time. Sometime an hour at a time. With great faith, great determination

Well, since our launch at the beginning of this year there have been quite a few news stories posted here at Newsgab

Some stories have been sad, some have been strange, whilst others have given our readers a nice warm glow

This story, for me at least, certainly falls into the latter category as it just so happens to be the 1003′rd ‘gab’ posted on our site.

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Happy gabbing

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I guess I forget sometimes that Newsgab is effectively a blog where folks come together and write about news stories of interest.

I come across many a Blog, which I think is pretty newsworthy or worth a mention so I thought that I’d create a new Blogosphere category.

The first post in this category is all about perspective and the realisation that your life, however hard you find it may not really be all THAT bad after all.

An Army blogger, back from Afghanistan due to an illness in his family, gets the worst possible news.

What now… That’s the question we’ve been facing for the last several days. We’ve come to the acceptance that within a year, I’ll likely be a single father. By acceptance, I don’t mean to imply happiness or anything like that. More like many, many tears.

I’m please to annouce the launch of our forums which you can access by clicking here

Where detailed in the forum description, some of our forums sync with appropriate Usenet communities. Never heard of Usenet? Then click here for more info.

Any posts made in these groups will sync with the appropriate forums in newsgab, in the same way any new posts made on our forums or any replies to the usenet posts will be sync’d back to usenet.

This give us instant access to a community thousands strong and we’re already seeing hundreds of new posts made every single day.

We have set up forums in the following categories:

Celebrity Gossip, At the movies, Sky TV, Sony Playstation, Microsoft XBOX, Gamecube, Handheld gaming, Freeware, shareware, Microsoft Security and Virus Protection.

We will add more appropriate forums as the community matures, in the meantime please take the time to register with us and join our new community.

Hey all

Just back from my holidays hence the lack of updates. Been to Australia so very very jet lagged. I’ll start catching up soon enough and will post any interesting snippets that I find

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Hi Guys

Well, just a short note to wish you all the best for 2006.

I hope 2005 has been a fun and eventful year for you all. I’m sure 2006 will be even better.

Have a beer or 5 for me

Mark (Chief).

PS. If you think I’m sad enough to be writing news items on the strike of midnight, your wrong. I’ll probably be pretty pissed by now. The joys of software that enables you to program the release of new articles I guess

At least I remembered!

Cheers!

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