A rare computer virus case involving the Managing Director and an employee of Trans World Movers, a freight moving company, will procede for trial after a Colombo Magistrate upheld an objection by the complainant over the Attorney General intervening in the case.
The Attorney General had sought to discharge the accused without trial by terminating the proceedings. Counsel for complainant, Global Trans World Relocation had challenged the AG’s orders. Colombo Magistrate Manjula Thilakaratne issued this order considering an application made by Counsel Jeevantha Jayathilake and assisted by his junior Thilanka Polgampola …

The British government has denied a formal request for information on the whereabouts and status of a group of Afghan youths who were detained at RAF Lakenheath earlier this year.
Stars and Stripes filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the British Home Office on Nov. 1 following several failed attempts to obtain information about the eight Afghan youths.
The Home Office, which handles duties roughly equivalent to those of the departments of State and Homeland Security, said releasing information on the Afghans would violate the country’s data protection statutes.
“It is …

What led you to founding the business?
I began researching skincare formulations in the 1980s, after rekindling a lifelong passion for natural medicine by studying aromatherapy and herbal medicine. Motivated by the lack of products suitable for my own and family and friends’ sensitive and eczema-prone skin, I set about creating formulations based only on organic herbs, plant oils and other phytobotanicals that are skin-friendly and offer excellent results. In 2003, with the help and encouragement of daughter Abi and husband Colin, Essential Care was born.
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