An 89-year-old white supremacist and Holocaust denier opened fire in Washington’s Holocaust Museum today, wounding at least one before being shot in the head by security officers, the Times reports.
James W von Brunn, who was charged and convicted in 1981 for running towards the boardroom of Washington’s Federal Reserve building with a shotgun, entered the Holocaust Museum just before 1pm and opened fire “indiscriminately” with a long rifle, according to …

Social networking site Facebook starts giving out “vanity” domain names, or rather /usernames, on Saturday, Fox News reports. The giveaway starts at 12:01AM American Eastern Daylight Time on Saturday, that means the time in Blighty will be 5:01AM.
According to Fox, that means that “Joe Smith’s Facebook page will no longer be just “http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=123456789″ — it can be something a lot easier to remember, like “http://www.facebook.com/joe.smith,” http://www.facebook.com/smitty or “http://www.facebook.com/joeyboy”.”
There are three catches: No. 1, it’s first-come, …

Conservative leader David Cameron has attacked Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s proposals for electoral reform and stressed that the answer to “discredited politics” is not proportional representation but an immediate General Election.
David Cameron warned that proportional representation is “a recipe for weak, coalition governments” and accused Brown of discussing it only because “he’s worried about losing under the existing rules”.
Cameron emphasised that “we should not take away from the British people the right to get rid weak, tired …

According to many newspapers and portals, British actor Liam Neeson is in negotiations to play John “Hannibal” Smith in the big screen version of the 80ies cult series “The A-Team”.
The Sun even reports that Liam neeson “is to star” in the film. The 57-year-old star of “Schindler’s List” and “Taken” will be playing the role played by the late George Peppard in the series.
Also according to the Sun, Woody Harrelson is to play madman Murdock …

Perhaps it’s one of the differences between Jews in Israel and Jews in Diaspora, but for some reason the latter always seems to be making decisions that are ultimately harmful to Israel. Like the majority of American Jews supported and still support President Obama, despite of his constantly growing anti-Israelism, the Jews in Iran tend to vote for anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Ynet reports that among 46 million Iranians who are voting at the presidential …

A headteacher spent ten minutes calmly finishing her lunch, while a pupil was in agony with a broken leg, Daily Mail reports. The teacher, Rowena Brace, just kept eating her lunch when a few pupils knocked on the staff door and said, “quick, quick!”
Former acting deputy head at the school, Isobel Hollins said, “But Mrs Brace continued to eat her lunch and only left the staff room 10-15 minutes later.”
“The pupil was lying on the …

For long it has been claimed that Airbuses don’t crash. Well, they do now. And in addition to that, there are also other issues to take a look at:
An Airbus A320 with 180 Norwegian tourists has been forced to return to Gran Canaria island shortly after take-off amid passenger claims that one of its engines caught fire.
The Spanish airport authority AENA said that the plane, which belonged to the Spanish airline Iberworld, …

It doesn’t only happen in Lambeth:
A council has refused to back down after a pensioner was given a parking ticket, for stopping on her own driveway.
Grandmother-of-two Christine Whaling, 64, left her Daewoo Lanos on her drive after nipping home for ten minutes.
But when she returned to the vehicle she was shocked to find a warden had slapped a £70 parking ticket on the windscreen.
The parking warden explained that because she was not entirely on her …

The 48-hour strike that hit London Underground yesterday affects the lives of millions of people in London. It also badly affects the lives of tens of thousands of businesses and it’s feared that the two day stoppage will cost the economy 100 million pounds.
The Telegraph reports that commuters in London faced cramming into buses and overground trains during rush hour as a walkout by Underground staff brought the Tube to a standstill.
Transport …

Prime Minister Gordon Brown seems to want to save his premiership and Labour reign at any cost possible. The latest method is to try to abandon the first past the post voting system and replace it with proportional representation, according to Daily Mail.
Some ministers still want to consider holding a referendum on the day of the next General Election or even earlier on the move. But it’s thought more likely, according to the newspaper, that …