Not only men get grey hair when they become President of the United States, but they apparently also tend to start forgetting things about their previous lives. At least that’s the case with Barack Obama, who suddenly forgot where he met his wife.
Obama said in the speech he gave in Moscow’s New Economic School that he doesn’t know if “anybody else will meet their future wife or husband in class like I did” – but …

A 54-year-old carpenter Stuart Keen of Wantage, England, accidentally cut off his own penis while working with a saw and having been drinking, UPI reports.
Keen’s mother, Edna, said that her son had been cutting wood for a cabinet when “the saw inflicted” the horrific injury, according to the report. Surgeons were able to reattach the severed appendage, she said.
And as if the whole thing weren’t funny enough, according to his mother, “these things happen all …

Ireland will hold a second referendum on the EU’s controversial Lisbon Treaty on 2 October, the BBC reports. The treaty which is widely regarded as European Constitution that would, among other issues, create an unelected presidency of the EU, was rejected by Irish voters in June last year.
Irish PM Brian Cowen has now secured binding EU guarantees that Lisbon Treaty will not affect Irish sovereignty over key issues such as military neutrality and abortion. These …

A small Australian town of Bundanoon in New South Wales became the first place in the world to ban bottled water, the Times reports.
Businesses in the town of 2,500 people will stop selling bottled water and visitors will be discouraged from drinking it. Instead, they will be provided with bottles labelled with the slogan “Bundy on tap” that can be re-filled with tap water.
And what is even more astonishing that the idiocy of banning bottled …

North Korea is suspected of cyber-attacks against several US Government agencies and also sites in South Korea.
The Treasury Department, Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission and Transportation Department websites were all down at varying points over the holiday weekend and into this week due to cyber-attacks, the AP reports.
South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, the nation’s main spy agency, told a group of South Korean lawmakers Wednesday it believes that North Korea or North Korean sympathizers in …

I think it was in the 1980ies when I saw “The Prisoner” for the first time. And as I was less than 10 at that time, I probably didn’t understand any of the allegory of the show. I probably even had nightmares of Rovers suffocating me or at least chasing me. But I was sold from the beginning – I was an instant fan.
After that, I’ve watched the entire series of “The Prisoner” many, many …

Low-cost airline easyJet has finally announced plans to fly to Israel six times a week starting from 2nd November, the Jewish Chronicle reports.
The airline will fly between London Luton and Tel Aviv Gen Gurion, and single fares will start from £71.98, return from £102.98, according to the report. Flights are on all weekdays except Friday, and tickets will go on sale on www.easyjet.com later today.
The Tel Aviv route is one of 23 new easyJet services …

British scientists at Northeast England Stem Cell Institute have created human sperm using stem cells in a medical first that could revolutionize fertility treatment, the Telegraph reports.
Within 10 years, the scientists say the technique could also be used to allow infertile couples to have children that are genetically their own. It could even be possible to create sperm from female stem cells, they say, which would ultimately mean a woman having a baby without a …

Food prices are rising at more than three times the rate of pay – food price inflation is at 5.6%, while average pay rise just 1.8%, the Daily Mail reports.
The British Retail Consortium said food price inflation came down from 6.4 per cent in May to 5.6 per cent in June. Total shop price inflation, including all other goods, came down from 1.3 per cent to 0.7 per cent, according to the report.

Taxpayer had the “pleasure” of paying more than £16,000 for ex-Mayor Ken Livingstone’s restaurant bills.
Red Ken’s official credit card bills reveal that he was a regular visitor to Le Pont de la Tour restaurant, described as combining “the very best of modern French cuisine with elegant, luxurious surroundings and magnificent river views”, the Daily Mail reports.
In January 2007, he ran up an extraordinary £1,267.59 bill there – the largest single expense in the credit card …

Google are developing their own operating system (OS) – Google Chrome OS – for personal computers, in a direct challenge to market leader Microsoft and its Windows system, the BBC reports.
Chrome OS will be aimed initially at netbooks, and netbooks with Chrome OS could be on sale by the middle of 2010.
“We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds,” Sundar Pichai, …

Foreign and Commonwealth Office minister Lord Malloch-Brown is to leave the Government in the next few weeks, that is a serious blow for Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the Times reports.
The former UN Deputy Secretary-General, who was appointed by Brown when he became Prime Minister in June 2007, insists that he had made clear he would only serve for “a couple of years”. “I remain completely loyal to the Prime Minister,” he said, according to the …