14 people have died from swine flu in Britain and health officials warn of an epidemic, but at the same time NHS radio ads say it’s a mild illness that will go away itself and one should just stay indoors.
The Daily Mail reports that swine flu deaths have doubled in just two days to 14 and that London is just days away from an epidemic.
Officials said today that the number of confirmed cases of the …

Jaguar will unveil their new model – the XJ sedan – at a ceremony in London today, the BBC reports.
The XJ sedan has been designed at Whitley in Coventry and will be built at the Castle Bromwich factory near Birmingham.
The original XJ model dates back to the late 1960s and has been a flagship of Jaguar since then.
The current XJ model was launched in 2003 and underwent a makeover in 2007.

Despite of the fact that Tehran governor Morteza Tamaddon warned that any protests in the city would be “smashed under the feet of our aware people”, hundreds of young men and women chanted “death to the dictator” on Tehran’s streets today, confronting police wielding batons and firing tear gas, the AP reports.
“If some individuals plan to carry out any anti-security actions by listening to calls by counterrevolutionary networks, they will be smashed under the feet …

The death of Michael Jackson has received so much excessive coverage on the internet that it’s the second biggest story of the 21st century, only the election of Barack Obama as US president received more coverage.
Global Language Monitor (GLM) found that Jackson’s death received more coverage than Iraq War, 11th September terror attacks, global financial crisis, Beijing Olympics, hurricane Katrina, the death of Pope John Paul II, and the tsunami that hit Asia, the Telegraph …

Google released names of nine of their initial partners they have enlisted to develop and market their Chrome operating system to the masses as early as the second half of 2010, the IT Pro Portal reports.
The hardware partners are: Acer, Asus, Toshiba, HP, Lenovo, Freescale, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments. Adobe is the software partner which means that Flash will be bundled with Chrome OS at launch.
Dell are missing from the list and they told PC Pro …

A Lotus Esprit Turbo from the James Bond film “For your Eyes Only” is to be sold at auction, the BBC reports.
The car which appeared in the 1981 film starring Roger Moore is expected to fetch over £100,000 when it goes under the hammer at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire on the 18th of July.
Reportedly the car has a very sophisticated burglar alarm system – if someone tries to hotwire it, it, according to the BBC …

The circus – it’s hard to call it anything else – at Formula One seems to be continuing as the idiots at FIA just can’t honour previous agreements and are trying to throw further oil into the fire – now they’re claiming that the eight “breakaway” teams of Formula One Team Association (FOTA) don’t have a say over technical and sporting regulations, because, get this, they are not officially entered into 2010 championship.
The boss of the …

The Guardian newspaper claims that News of the World reporters paid private investigators to “hack into phones”, many of them owned by politicians and celebrities; the police are to examine those claims.
The Guardian alleges former Deputy Prime minister John Prescott Prescott, London Mayor Boris Johnson, former Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell and actress Gwyneth Paltrow were among “two or three thousand” public figures that were targeted by the hacking operation.
The BBC says that if the newspaper …

The evening before day 3 we got acquainted with local Welsh insects. Mosquito-like bugs who suck blood and leave behind incredibly itchy bitemarks, but are are a lot smaller than mosquitoes. (Later I googled and I think those insects were biting midges. If you disagree, please let me know what were they really.)
Anyway, due to that, after waking up in the morning of day three, I was thoroughly eaten all over, especially bad on my …

Scientists have created a miraculous “elixir of youth” pill that could extend the human life span by more than a decade – the pill was created from a chemical found in the soil of Easter Island – one of the most remote and mysterious places on Earth, the Daily Mail reports.
According to the report, in tests on animals, the chemical increased life expectancy by a staggering 38 per cent.
The drug, rapamycin, is already used to …

More than one million jobless Britons have been living off state handouts for more than 12 years – a hardcore army of unemployed have failed to find any sort of work since Labour came to power in 1997, the Daily Mail reports.
A further 1.9million have been on benefits for seven years or more, according to the Department of Work and Pensions.
The 1.1million unemployed since 1997 amounts to more than a fifth of the 5.2million currently …

Britain’s biggest building society Nationwide launched a 125% mortgage for home owners trapped in negative equity who were keen to move house, the Telegraph reports.
It is being offered only to the society’s existing mortgage customers whose house value is less than the mortgage on the property, but who are looking to move home and borrow more.
The product’s availability comes despite the much tighter lending criteria introduced by virtually all lenders in the wake of the …

Supermarket chain Asda cut their petrol and diesel to 99.9p per litre, saying there was “little justification” for charging more than £1 at the pumps, the Telegraph reports.
The price cut was made on fuel at the company’s 176 forecourts on Thursday.
“There is no justification for any major retailer selling fuel above £1 per litre – that is why we are delighted to be able to reduce both petrol and diesel to 99.9p per litre for …

A senior Conservative MP, shadow solicitor general Jonathan Djanogly claimed £13,000 for au pair who lives in his London home, but cleans his second residence 100 miles away, the Daily Mail reports.
Djanogly claimed up to £640 a month to pay a series of students as cleaners. The student currently employed is a Pole, who also advertises herself elsewhere as an au pair. However, using parliamentary expenses to pay for childcare is banned under Commons rules.
Djanogly …