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By Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) - A waxwork of Adolf Hitler will return to Berlin's new Madame Tussauds as soon as experts have restored the head ripped off by a demonstrator on its opening day, the museum said on Monday. Just minutes after the museum opened its doors to the public on Saturday, a 41-year-old man scuffled with security guards and leapt over a rope barrier into t ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The government said on Monday it would not permit badger culling to tackle tuberculosis (TB) in cattle, risking the anger of farmers. Instead, Environment Secretary Hilary Benn announced fresh investment for vaccinations for cattle and badgers. "Our policy will be not to issue any licences to farmers to cull badgers for TB control, although we remain open to the po ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Motor racing chief Max Mosley launched legal action against a tabloid newspaper on Monday, denying involvement in a "sick Nazi orgy" but admitting an interest in sado-masochistic sex. Mosley, 68, president of Formula One's governing body the International Automobile Federation (FIA), is suing the News of the World over a story which claimed he had taken part in a Nazi-the ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A 14-year-old boy has died in a London hospital after being stabbed last month, police said on Monday. Knifed in Great Dover Street after an altercation with a group of youths on June 17, David Idowu of Southwark is the 19th teenager to die violently in the capital this year. "Nearly three weeks after the attack on David he has lost his life, and this will now be a ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Conservative leader David Cameron has called for anyone caught carrying a knife to be jailed, as another Londoner died from stab wounds on Monday. Cameron's custodial sentence demand goes one step further than Prime Minister Gordon Brown who said last month there should be a presumption to prosecute those aged 16 and 17 caught with a knife, rather than merely cautioning t ...

By Rob Taylor CANBERRA (Reuters) - A photograph of a nude 6-year-old girl on the cover of a high-brow Australian art magazine on Monday sparked an uproar after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd called it disgusting, infuriating liberal art critics. This month's taxpayer-funded Art Monthly Australia magazine placed the photograph of the young dark-haired girl on the cover, sitting and with on ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has distanced himself from the idea that he should become a vegetarian as a way of highlighting the dangers of deforestation in his role as a climate change campaigner. Blair, who is backing a plan for the world to halve greenhouse gases by 2050, said deforestation was responsible for producing four times as many as emissions as the airlin ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britons can help bring food prices down by cutting the amount they waste every year, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday. Brown was speaking to reporters travelling to the Group of Eight summit in Japan where the rich nations' club is meeting to discuss rising fuel and food prices as well as global warming. "If we're to get food prices down, we must do more  ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Police have made a second arrest in their investigation into the murder of two French students in a frenzied knife attack in London after a man handed himself in to police, authorities said on Monday. Bio-engineering students Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both 23, were bound, gagged and repeatedly stabbed in Bonomo's south London apartment in what police said were the ...

Over the last three years, I spent thousands of hours interviewing missile crisis veterans and combing through archives in the US, Russia, Cuba, and Britain to assemble a minute-by-minute account of the crisis. In the process, I uncovered numerous examples of bad information flowing into, and out of, the White House. "What the president didn't know, and when he didn't know it" was a recurring theme in my research. My conclusion: the beginning of wisdom for any president - from John F Kennedy ...