A young British man used nail clippers to circumcise himself, he was taken to a hospital, the Telegraph reports.
The unnamed young man was taken to the Lister Hospital in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, where he had the wound cleaned and disinfected.
“This is something we would advise men never to attempt,” a medic said, “The results can be quite horrific and long-lasting and have quite an affect on a man’s sexual performance. Using a pair of nail clippers …

Both Vodafone and Orange want to buy T-Mobile UK, according to sources, Orange is in advanced talks with T-Mobile and Vodafone is trying to gatecrash the deal, the Times reports.
Vodafone, the country’s second-biggest mobile operator, revealed yesterday that it had made a preliminary approach to the German group.
The rumoured price-tag for T-Mobile is around £3 billion.

British citizens will never be forced to carry ID cards as Home Secretary Alan Johnson said that a trial scheme that was to force some airport staff to carry the controversial cards has been scrapped, the Daily Mail reports.
It means that carrying an ID card will now never be made compulsory for members of the general public.
Insisting that ID cards should be voluntary, Johnson said: “Holding an identity card should be a personal choice for …

A man in Guatemala, Jean Anleu, has become one of the first people in the world to be arrested for using Twitter, the Telegraph reports.
He was so tired with corruption in his country that he decided to vent his feeling with a 96-character message on the social-networking site. He urged depositors to pull their money from Guatemala’s rural development bank, whose management has been challenged in a political scandal: “First concrete action should be take …

It seems from the news that the protests in Iran are dying down and the oppressive regime gets another green light to perform its atrocities on people. However, the defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi is still calling his supporters to maintain peaceful protests, despite that the government confirmed the election result.
The candidate’s supporters were urged in a web message to continue confronting the regime without provoking bloodshed, the Telegraph reports. Among the recommended tactics …

World’s first, 56” cinema TV goes on sale in the United Kingdom today, the Daily Mail reports. The new Phillips set has super-widescreen display, which accurately mirrors the shape of a movie screen.
The super-telly, however, has a hefty price tag priced from £4,500.
Traditional widescreens have an aspect ratio of 16:9, the Philips TV, however, is able to display the entire picture as it would appear at the movies. Some 8.3 million pixels – more than …

The world media is full of statements by country leaders condemning the “coup” in Honduras and calling for restoration of “democracy” and reinstating the President. What none of those seem to understand is that what happened in Honduras was democracy in action.
The core of the political crisis in this Central American country 7.5 million is the fact that a left-wing President, Manuel Zelaya, tried to pull an illegal “non-binding” referendum on changing the constitution. The …

A five-year-old child survived the crash this morning of a Yemeni airlines Airbus A310 which hit the Indian Ocean with 153 people aboard as it was attempting to land on the Comoros islands, the Times reports.
The child was plucked from the water off Moroni, on Grand Comore island as rescue boats collected bodies in high seas.
The Yemenia Air flight was an elderly airliner which was on a flight from Sanaa to Moroni on the final …

I like films where one can learn something from. “Angels & Demons” was one of those films.
Professor Robert Langdon, known to us already from “Da Vinci Code”, is asked to come to Vatican after it seems that the secret society of Illuminati have appeared again after centuries. He decides to fly in, and a whole lot of action is going to happen.
It’s the time of the conclave and the Illuminati have kidnapped four cardinals, who …

The Spanish crackdown of supposedly illegal “land grabs” have reached the rich and famous. Antonio Banderas and his wife, Melanie Griffith have been ordered to hand over a huge chunk of their £5 million beachfront home, the Daily Mail reports.
The Hollywood actors have been ordered to hand over 14,000 square feet of land, according to the report. The confiscated strip will allow public access to the beach – but will wreck the couple’s 40ft swimming …

Nicolas Cage, as he has got older, has found himself a new niche – playing in films that are kind of surreal, to say the least. Well, the pattern actually started with “Face/Off” already, but more recently he has starred in both “Next” and “Knowing“, two years apart, and they both are quite similar.
When in “Next”, Cage’s character could see the future, then in “Knowing” he finds a letter from the past – a row …

The UK economy shrank 2.4% in the first quarter, its largest contraction since 1958, The Telegraph reports.
The decline in gross domestic product (GDP) was greater than an earlier estimate from the Office for National Statistics of 1.9% as the recession deepened, hitting industries from manufacturing to services, according to the report.
The drop on the quarter was the biggest since 1958.
You’re the right man for the job, Gordon? Really?

Indians have now reached New Delhi with ther name change efforts to wipe out “colonial” names and expect, naturally, the whole world to start using the new names, without considering the fact that even if they change the official names of their places, in other languages, like, in English, for example, the names could still remain old and pronouncable.
Their latest bid is to change the name of New Delhi to more “Indian” Dilli. “When we …

Britain enjoyed the hottest day for three years on Monday, temperature in St James’s Park in London was 30.4°C, the Telegraph reports.
The Met Office is forecasting that temperatures in southern England will top that level for much of the week, potentially reaching 33°C by Wednesday or Thursday.
Although thunderstorms are expected to bring cooler temperatures by the end of the week, the long range forecast for a hotter than average summer remains and some bookmakers have …

58% of Scots want a referendum on independence next year, BBC poll shows, but 54% of people say they don’t believe Scotland should become independent.
The poll of 1,010 people, carried out between 22 and 24 June by ICM, found 58% of respondents were in favour of the idea of holding a referendum next year on whether Scotland should become independent, with only 37% against.
When asked “In a referendum on independence for Scotland, how would you …

Yemenia’s Airbus A310 with 153 people on board crashed in the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros yesterday.
The aircraft was approaching the main island, Grande Comoro, when it disappeared from radar screens, the Times reports.
The first bodies were recovered from the site of the crash early today.
The plane, carrying 11 crew and 142 mainly French and Comoran passengers including three babies, left Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport on Monday and travelled to Marseille, then on to …