A multi-millionaire Tory MP, shadow solicitor general Jonathan Djanogly claimed £77,000 of taxpayers’ money to fund his second home while living rent free in a mansion owned by his parents, the Daily Mail reports.
Djanogly enjoyed the £4 million London property on the cheap while he ran up a small fortune in second homes allowance on his constituency home.
Djaonogly, who is worth around £8 million, has already been forced to pay £25,000 – the most of any …

Azad Ali, a Muslim civil servant suspended after comments appeared on his personal website justifying the killing of British troops in Iraq, has returned to work at the Treasury, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Ali, an IT worker and president of the Civil Service Islamic Society, was suspended on full pay for six months following comments on his blog.
In one post Ali said he found “much truth” in an interview with an Islamic militant who said: “If …

The NHS are telling schoolchildren that they have a right to an enjoyable sex life in a leaflet being sent to schools, and the NHS recommend pupils have an orgasm a day to reduce risk of heart attack and stroke, the Daily Mail reports.
And if they can’t get sex, the leaflet says children should consider masturbation.
The advice appears in guidance circulated to parents, teachers and youth workers. It says experts have for too long concentrated …

Australian Mark Webber won his first Formula One race today at Germany’s Nurburgring after eight years in the sport.
32-year-old Webber started at the pole position and despite of the drive through penalty (for colliding with Brawn’s Rubens Barrichello at the start) he won the race 9.2 seconds ahead his team mate, German Sebastian Vettel. It was third double win for Red Bull this season.
Webber’s pole position was also the first of his career.
The last time …

Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday called on Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to meet with him as soon as possible in order to renew peace talks, the Jerusalem Post reports.
“Let’s make peace – both diplomatic peace and economic peace,” Netanyahu said at the start of a cabinet meeting in Beersheba that was held there as an act of solidarity with the Negev capital. “There is no reason why we can’t meet, the Palestinian Authority …

The first female president of Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskaite, took office Sunday, promising to use her financial experience to help the Baltic state tackle one of the worst economic crises in the European Union, the Wall Street Journal reports.
In her speech after the inauguration ceremony, Grybauskaite, a former finance minister and EU budget commissioner, called on Lithuanians to take a long-term view as they worked to implement reforms in the country.
Grybauskaite’s presidency represents a generational shift for …

Scientists have discovered that uttering swear words can help to lessen the feeling of physical pain, the Telegraph reports.
The study by researchers at Keele University found that volunteers were able to withstand pain for longer when they swore compared to when they used words which were not offensive.
The researchers tested 64 students’ tolerance to pain by asking them to submerge their hand in a tub of ice water for as long as they could while …

The NHS is preparing to vaccinate the entire population against swine flu, the Daily Telegraph reports.
It comes after an Essex man was confirmed on Friday as the first person without underlying health problems to have died from the virus.
A new vaccine could be ready in just five days and ministers predict that as many as 20 million people could be inoculated before the end of the year, the report says.
Ministers have secured up to 90 …