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Fatwa against Queen Elizabeth?
LONDON: The official Libyan news agency Jana said on Saturday that Queen Elizabeth II should have been stoned to death for having had her daughter-in-law Princess Diana murdered, reports Reuter.
A commentary by Jana's foreign editor on the British monarch's 50th wedding anniversary was broadcast on Libyan television and monitored by the BBC in London. .
He expressed surprise the anniversary should be celebrated at all so soon after Diana's death in a car crash on August 31 and reiterated Libyan allegation that the British royal family had had her killed.
"Is it not astonishing that England and the queen, whose criminal and scandal -ridden throne is collapsing, celebrate this event?," the Jana foreign editor said.
"The Queen, by committing this horrible crime together with her family, should have been stoned rather than allowed to celebrate this event."
According to strict Islamic law, the punishment for murder is stoning to death, though it is carried out very rarely.
No spokesman for the royal household. Buckingham Palace, was immediately available for comment.
But allegations in some middle eastern news media that Diana was murdered to prevent her being converted to Islam by her boyfrined. egyptian-born Dodl Al Fayed, have been generally ignored or ridiculed in Britain.
Mr Bean's bad idea
NEW YORK: Rowan Atkinson did all his own comedy stunts in "Bean." including wearing a turkey carcass on his head, reports AP.
The British actor behind the goofball Mr Bean even tried using a real, uncooked turkey as a prop despite the "high risk of salmonella poisoning."'
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"It's horribly bloody and bony inside." Atkinson says in the Dec 1 People magazine. "You don't want that next to you earlobes. So we userTa fake turkey. It was just as heavy, but not as ^^^Before the film. Atkinson performed as Mr ^ean"on his own BBC television show. "Bean" is an international hit, having sold $130 million in theatre tickets before opening In the United States. It's done well since its US debut, too. finishing in the top five in its first two weeks of domestic release.
Charles Spencer begins to like the media
CAPE TOWN. South Africa: The brother of Princess Diana, who accused the media of making her miserable while she was alive and pursuing her to her death, is slowly re-emerging as a media figure himself, reports AP.
Earl Charles Spencer attended a gala ballet performance Saturday to raise money for emergency hot lines, his second appearance in three days to promote charities.
The media-wary earl told a crowd of 800 Cape Town dignitaries that he had been Inundated with requests to do charity work after Diana's death, and had received 200.000 letters of sympathy. „ . . _
Saturday's visit followed an appearance Thursday at Cape Town's plush Mount Nelson Hotel, where Spencer dedicated a fund-raising campaign for local hospices to Diana.
Spencer slammed the press at Diana’s funeral, accusing it of making her "the most hunted person of the modern age." She died in a Paris car crash on Aug 31 — paparazzi photographers in pursuit.
Postmortem report of Alexander the Great
HYDERABAD: More than 2,300 years after his death, doctors seem to have found how and why Alexander the Great died, reports PTI.
In a poster presented at the recent 38th Annual National Conference of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology here. Dr Propedeutic of Greece says that the great king of Macedonia died of acute pancreatitis, secondary to heavy alcohol consumption and very rich meal.
Dr Propedeutic, who works in the Department of Surgery. University of Thefsaloniki. Ippokratein Hospital. Greece, said that he had arrived at his "postmortem findings after carefully reconstructing the last two weeks of Alexander s life
The conqueror of an empire that covered much of Asia. Alexander suffered from depression following a mutiny in his army that prevented him from advancing to the Ganges after he had defeated Porus in 327 BC.