Hospital officials say Felipe Massa is in “life-threatening” condition after undergoing emergency surgery on a skull fracture following a violent crash at Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying, the Canadian Press reports.
Officials at the AEK military hospital said Massa will be kept sedated on a respirator overnight in the intensive care unit.
Medical director Peter Bazso said at a news conference that “Massa’s condition is serious, life-threatening but stable.”
Bazso and chief surgeon Lajos Zsiros said they expect Massa …

Felipe Massa suffered a fractured skull in today’s accident at Hungaroring, and he had an operation in a Budapest hospital.
According to Budapest Times, he came out of surgery in the Honved Hospital in Budapest on Saturday evening. Spokeswoman of the hospital, Judit Bozi Pacser said that an announcement on his condition will be made on Sunday.
Associated Press said that 28-year-old Massa sustained a fractured skull.
Massa would remain in intensive care, although the team did not …

Felipe Massa will miss Sunday’s Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix after crashing heavily in Saturday’s qualifying session at the Hungaroring circuit, DPA reports.
“He is conscious, which is the most important thing,” Ferrari spokesman Luca Colajanni said.
Massa crashed heavily into a tyre wall in second qualifying after being hit on the helmet by a piece of flying debris believed to have come from the Brawn GP car of Rubens Barrichello.
Massa was treated at the track’s medical …

Spaniard Fernando Alonso grabbed pole for Renault in a chaotic qualifying session that was delayed when Felipe Massa crashed head on into a tyre wall, the BBC reports.
The session ended in confusion after a computer timing system failed leaving drivers unsure of their final places. Eventually it emerged that Red Bull duo Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber would start second and third in Budapest.
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton qualified in a season’s best fourth position while Brawn’s Jenson …

Felipe Massa was involved in an accident during Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying which caused the final session to be significantly delayed, the BBC reports.
The Ferrari driver applied his brakes but went head on into a tyre wall at Turn Four after a piece of debris on the track appeared to hit his helmet.
He was treated by medical teams before being airlifted to hospital, as is standard procedure in Formula 1. Ferrari confirmed that Massa was “stable” …

David Walliams, the co-creator and star of British comedy favourite “Little Britain” announced that there are to be no future series of the show, the Daily Mail reports.
“The BBC and HBO both asked us to do more shows but we feel it’s time to do something else before people get sick of you,” Walliams said. “Sometimes you give people what they want too much and they end up sort of not liking it any more. If …

The last British survivor of the World War I trenches, Harry Patch, has died at the age of 111, the BBC reports.
Patch was conscripted into the Army aged 18 and fought in the Battle of Passchendaele at Ypres in 1917 in which more than 70,000 British soldiers died.
The oldest WWI veteran Henry Allingham, who served in the Royal Navy and the RAF, died at the age of 113 a week ago.
Patch served as a private …

The Daily Mail has a magnificent reportage on how thousands of illegal immigrants try to get to Blighty and are prepared to do anything to reach their “promised land” – despite that no one has really promised it.
The newspaper says that some try to get through by clinging to the undercarriage of lorries, others have been found hidden in “coffins” – plastic containers with tiny air vents – close to death.
Either way, …

A Russian warship preparing for a holiday celebration accidentally fired a dummy artillery shell into the courtyard of an apartment building on Friday, the AFP reports.
Nobody was hurt but the shell’s impact broke windows and left a small crater outside the nine-storey apartment building in Vladivostok, a port city on Russia’s Pacific Ocean coast close to China and Japan.
“There were no explosives in the dummy shell,” Roman Martov, a spokesman for Russia’s Vladivostok-based Pacific Fleet, …

Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson, famous for his hatred towards the “one-eyed Scottish idiot”, called Prime Minister Gordon Brown a “c***”, although it occurred while off the air.
The Daily Mail reports that on Wednesday, Clarkson is understood to have told fans: “I get into trouble talking about Gordon Brown, he is a silly c***.”
Although some of the audience burst out laughing at his comments, BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow later gave Clarkson a “dressing down” in …

Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki suggested on Thursday that US troops could stay in the country beyond 2011 under agreements between the two countries, Foxnews reports.
“The security relations between the Americans and the Iraqis … is a relationship based on co-operation and all the foundations and rules that were put forth in the agreements,” he said in a speech at the US Institute of Peace. “Nevertheless, if the Iraqis require further training and support we …

Prime Minister Gordon Brown is being given until the autumn to turn Labour’s fortunes around in the wake of another by-election disaster, the Daily Mail reports.
After Thursday’s crushing defeat in Norwich North by-election, ministers now expect Labour MPs to reopen questions over Brown’s leadership later this year, unless the party’s standing improves.
Backbenchers plan to urge Cabinet colleagues to talk him into leaving “with honour and dignity”, having rescued Britain’s banking system from collapse, in favour …

Almost three quarters (74 per cent) of people want doctors to be allowed to help terminally ill patients to end their lives, support is particularly strong among those aged 55 to 64, The Times reports.
Six out of ten people also want friends and relatives to be able to help their dying loved ones to commit suicide without fear of prosecution.
Changing the law has always been opposed strongly by doctors, with two out of three against …

London Mayor Boris Johnson started fulfilling one of his campaign promises yesterday – to get rid of bendy buses.
Johnson wrote in his blog yesterday that “the bendy buses serving route 507 will slink away into the depot for the last time”. Saturday ”morning, fifteen brand new single deck buses will appear in their place”, he wrote.
“We’ve taken the opportunity to improve the service too,” Johnson said. “It will be the first time a weekend service has …