Britons most distrustful t

LONDON: Britons are among the world's most dissatisfied, distrustful and pessimistic people, a poll conducted In Britain. Germany. Japan and the United States reported on Saturday, says Reuter.

Results of the poll of more than 5.500 people Interviewed about their view of the world between March 5 and 11. were published simultaneously in Britain’s Guardian newspaper. Germany's Der S Piegel. Japan's Shimbun and the New York Times.

It found that 85 per cent of Britons were dissatisfied with the general situation of the world compared with 82 per cent of Germans. 67 per cent of Americans and 66 per cent of Japanese, the Guardian said.

Only 13 per cent of British people were optimistic that things would Improve in the next five years, against 16 per cent of Japanese. 18 per cent of Germans and 19 per cent of Americans.

Britons were also the least likely to trust people in other leading countries. 50 per cent distrusting Germans. 55 per cent distrusting the Japanese and 67 per cent distrusting the Chinese.

The paper said the poll painted a depressing picture, showing that most people in each country believe the world has become a more dangerous place since the end of the cold war.

Naked man wanted !

LEBANON: A man who pumped a buck's worth of gas in the nude is'wanted by police who say they identified him from a videotape, reports AP.

The security videotape showed the naked man pay a gas station attendant I dollar, said patrolman Mark Tibbs. It also showed the attendant do a double-take early Sunday when he saw the man pumping gas in the town 35 miles (55 kms) from Indianapolis.

Authorities issued an arrest warrant Thursday on indecent exposure charges for Erik Jacobsen. 45. of West Lafayette.

Gay couple in TV ad

PHILADELPHIA: The TV advertisement, just like lots of others, shows a couple shopping for a new dining room table. What's different about this ad is that both the shoppers are men. reports AP.

The spot, for the Sweden-based furniture chain IKEA, is believed to be the first on US television to target gay shoppers. It first aired Wednesday evening in New York. Houston, Philadelphia and Washington.

We don’t think it's taking a chance to use a gay couple in 1994," IKEA marketing director Peter Connolly said.

The spot shows two men shopping for the table at IKEA, then sitting at their new table at home. They do not say they are gay or discuss their lifestyle but mention having a longterm relationship.

You know, we went to IKEA because we thought it was time for a serious dining room table." one of the men says. . "We have slightly different tastes," the other says, adding that they met at his sister's wedding.

The ad is probably the first on television targeting the gay audience, said Larry Gross, a communications professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Previous ads depicting gays have been confined to newspapers. magazines and billboards, he said.

'E-mail means emergency mail'

NEWARK. N.J. : There have been romances by e-mail, support groups by e mail and fund-raising by e-mail. Now. Jack Miller has received lifesaving medical help using his electronic computer mail, reports AP.

The computing analyst — stricken in his work cubicle with increasingly severe chest pains and losing consciousness — punched a few keys on his terminal and sent an SOS to coworkers at Wltco Corp

They came running and administered CPR while waiting for paramedics to arrive.

"For me, e-mail means emergency mail." Miller. 56. told the Daily News of New York from his Paramus home, where he Is recuperating. T was going and nobody would have noticed." ,

2nd set of triplets in 5 months I

NICOSIA. Cyprus A doctor In the southern Iranian province of Khuzestan this week delivered her second set of triplets in Just over five months, according to an Iranian newspaper' reports AP

Leila Nayabzadeh gave birth to a boy and two girls by caesarean section last Monday tn the city of Behbehan under the care of Dr Anjana Pankaj, an Indian gynecologist, the Tehran Tlrnen said

Panka) of Luc know in Uttar Pradesh had already delivered two girls and a boy last November 23. also by caesarean, the newspaper said

All six infants and the two mothers were healthy, the Times said In an article to be published Sunday An advance copy was made available Saturday to the Associated Press