French President Nicolas Sarkozy's centre-right party faces is revealed to face massive defeat in regional elections on Sunday, expected to affect the reform as its endeavours begins prior the 2012 presidential campaign.
 
The centre-right encountered the worst losses in years in the first round of the ballot, with Sarkozy's UMP party registering 26 percent compared to 29 percent for the Socialists and 50 percent for leftist parties combined.
 

It is reported that anti-fascist demonstrators launched a rival protests against members of English Defence League in Bolton. Police claim to have arrested 74 people, including at least 55 protesters from UAF and their organiser Weyman Bennett, as well as a number from the EDL and several injured during clashes in a rally organised by a much controversial rightwing group in Lancashire yesterday.
 

Maternity services for obese women are revealed as incompetent and inadequate, and in addition are believed to render mothers-to-be at risk, experts warn.
 
NHS maternity units are reported to be struggling to meet with the unceasingly surging number of obese pregnant women.
 
Moreover, very few possess all the specialist equipment required to deal with complex deliveries or emergencies, a report has claimed.
 

Robbie Williams whose own drug and alcohol addictions were flashed in the past years, while performing a small gig in London made jokes about his former Take That band mate Mark Owen's. Before beginning into his first song, Bodies, he told a an audience of 300 that, ''This is going to be one of the best nights of my life, do you know, it's nice to be one of the only ones out of Take That not in trouble this week?, that's a surprise, isn't it?''.

The Girls Aloud and X Factor star Cheryl Cole is firm to file a divorce from cheating husband Ashley this week. She believes there’s no looking back now.
As reported by a source to Sunday Mirror, "Cheryl has turned a corner and is now ready to move on. But she doesn't want a messy divorce - it must be as quick and as amicable as possible”.
However, Cheryl is not expecting a penny from the £82,000-a-week defender who cheated her with five other women.

In the budget that will be presented on Wednesday, it is expected that Alistair Darling will make a call to the MPs regarding slicing the deficit to half by 2013-2014 and will state that Plans to slash the annual level of Government borrowing are invariable. It is also expected that the budget will offer detailed proposal for tax on banks to blanket cost of current bailouts.

Results of two opinion polls released on Sunday show that the most likely outcome of the forthcoming British election is a hung parliament. People think that no party will win an overall majority in the upcoming elections, the survey suggests.
According to an ICM poll carried out for the News of the World, the Conservatives went down three points to 38%, ahead of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's ruling Labour Party, which went up one point to 32%.

The Office of Fair Trading regulators, who are competitors to Britain, are all set to make a full-size investigation into investment banking profits which would be its first huge query in to City practices for more than ten years.

Philip Collins, Chairman of the Office of Fair Trading said in the coming few months the company would be looking at the industry’s charging.

For MNBA, who are one of the biggest issuers of credit card cheques, it’s an end to their technique of laying awful strategies for its credit card users. The extremely high-interest charging firm is soon going to be exterminated.

However, MNBA has agreed to stop sending out unsolicited credit card cheques to customers FROM March 31.

On an average, 28% of the cheques issued by MNBA have been criticized for charging higher interest rates compared to normal credit card purchases.

Lloyds Banking Group revealed yesterday that it will return to form making profits again this year after taking strict cost-cutting measures and making improvements in its bad debt rates.

Owing to the sudden announcement, shares in Lloyds Banking Group soared 8%, and racked up almost £3.5 billion in the stock market value of the company.

Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of one of the most famous characters in video game history, Mario, told the AP today that his main focus is to get children and teachers to use Nintendo's Wii in schools as educational aids or even teaching tools.

Integrating applications in video games for education “is maybe the area where I am devoting myself the most”, said the designer of the historical game character.

MySQL on Friday revealed that Marten Mickos, the longtime CEO of the company, who eventually sold the open-source database company to Sun Microsystems for US$1 billion, is now the CEO of Eucalyptus Systems.

Eucalyptus designs an open-source software platform for developing private clouds, or data centers in which workloads can be moved around across different systems with an aim to maximize efficiency.

A recent report from Web metrics group Hitwise reveals that Facebook users are comparatively more loyal to news and media Websites than are visitors from Google News, pointing that the leading social networking site is a strongly drives traffic beyond its walled garden.

Hitwise accumulated the data in the first week of March, observing unique viewers to these sites and where they were directed from thereby determining how many visited multiple times from the same source.

UK reality TV star Jade Goody's doctor in a TV special to air on Sunday (GMT) claimed that her death occurred after being let down by "incompetent and negligent" National Health Service (NHS) staff.

Dr. Ann Coxon condemned medics who allegedly examined Jade when her tumor was the size of a Tangerine, however, missed it, The Sunday reported.

In addition, they are accused that they failed to realize her symptoms - which Dr. Coxon said were "glaringly obvious" as pointed to cervical cancer.

Electronics giant LG has come under fire for using dishonest practices clearing Energy Efficiency Testing.

Some models of LG fridges far exceed Energy Star requirements for electricity consumption. It means the concerned two models of the LG fridges consume far more energy than their rating in common use.

LG fitted its fridges - models L197NFS and P197WFS with an illegal device that activates an energy-saving mode when it spots room conditions similar to those in a test laboratory.