The third North Carolina Turkish Festival on Saturday attracted thousands through the door to enjoy music and dancing, food and shopping, and most of all, a lot of friendly Turkish hospitality. Even visitors from Turkey attended the Turkish Festival in the Expo Center on the North Carolina State Fairgrounds.

It kicked into high gear with cultural performances and music to entertain all day long. The entire day was devoted to all things about Turkey as I strolled among the Turkish food, small bazaar and cultural events excited by the familiar sounds and tastes of my adopted homeland, Turkey.

A co-conspirator, Peter Kemp, 52, who  had already pleaded guilty to the same charges was given four and a half years. Thet were found guilty of conspiring to defraud thousands of holidaymakers on February 26.

Two car bombs killed more than 50 people in Sunni Arab areas of Iraq on Tuesday, a sudden spasm of violence in places which had been comparatively quiet while battles raged in the Shi'ite south. Suspicion in the attacks will fall on al Qaeda, given the Sunni Arab militant group's history of using car bombs. In one of the deadliest strikes in months, one car bomb killed 40 people and wounded 80 outside a provincial government headquarters in Baquba, local capital of Diyala province north of Baghdad, police said.

Police said the blast killed people on the busy streets and in their cars as they were passing the location. Women and children were among the victims.

The recent travel chaos at London Heathrow Airports new Terminal 5 which resulted in 10 days of massive delays and over 20,000 pieces of misplaced luggage has convinced British Airways to delay the planned move of the carrier’s remaining flights from Terminal 4, until the beginning of June 2008.

Originally, the second phase of the move was scheduled to take place at the end of this month. As such, the majority of long-haul flights including transatlantic routes will continue to land at, and take off from Terminal 4.

Leaflets have been handed out in Dewsbury Moor - the home of Karen Matthews who appeared in court on Wednesday charged over her daughter's disappearance. Just hours after appearing in court, contractors began boarding up her semi-detached council home in Moorside Road. West Yorkshire Police have been distributing leaflets to local residents insisting they will "find out the truth".

The leaflet also urged residents not to take the law into their own hands and not to "jump to conclusions about people who may be involved in the inquiry".