Irishman wins 46,000 Euros for missing home

DUBLIN: A filmmaker has won 46,000 Euros in damages after his Irish island home was transformed into a parking lot while he was overseas. Neville Presho successfully sued Patrick Doohan, owner of a Tory Island hotel off Ireland’s northwest coast, after he returned from New Zealand to find no trace of his six-bedroom house. In its place stood a septic tank and parking lot for Doohan’s business. Fire was set to his house while Presho, his wife and two kids were away.

Remains of lost Persian Army found

LONDON: One of archaeology’s biggest mysteries may have been finally solved after researchers claim to have located the remains of a mighty Persian army which set out on foot in Egyptian desert in 525 BC and then disappeared. A team in Italy has uncovered bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones found in the Sahara desert, raising hopes of finding the lost army of Persian King Cambyses II.

Brown apologises for poor handwriting

LONDON: Prime Minister Gordon Brown has apologised to the mother of a solider killed in Afghanistan after she complained that the condolence note he sent her was full of spelling errors. On Tuesday, Brown regretted the distress caused to Jacqui Janes, mother of Jamie Janes (20) due to his poor handwriting. “The last thing on my mind was to cause any offence,” he said. Janes had called the handwritten note, which mis-spelt her son’s surname, a hastily scrawled insult.