HTC’s new smartphone HD2 has a 4.3 inch touchscreen, which is the largest in any smartphones and now it’s dubbed as yet another “iPhone killer”.
HTC HD2 goes on sale in the UK at the end of this month, the Daily Mail reports. Its touchscreen resolution is 480×800, which dwarfs the iPhone.
The device can easily download new software, although there are fewer applications available than for the Apple’s handset. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are all integrated …

British scientists have developed a drug that shrinks lung cancer tumours, in trials the drug destroyed tumours in 50% of mice, the Mirror reports.
In other animals, it stopped tumours from growing and becoming resistant to chemotherapy treatment.
Researchers at Imperial College London are now hoping to test the drug on humans.
If successful, the treatment could save thousands of lives every year. The drug targets small cell lung cancer, an inoperable form of the disease which affects …

Microsoft are cutting off up to one million Xbox 360 users who modified their consoles to play pirated games over Xbox Live, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Any Xbox owners shown to have “violated terms of use” by installing hardware to play illegal games will be disconnected from the Live service – which allows multiple players to compete with each other over the internet.
Microsoft said that only a “small percentage” of the 20 million Xbox Live players …

A Twitter feed featuring pearls of wisdom from a 73-year-old father could become a family comedy on US TV, the BBC reports.
Jason Halpern, 29, has become an internet star with more than 700,000 followers since he began posting his father’s often profane words of wisdom. The comments include: “The baby will talk when he talks, relax. It ain’t like he knows the cure for cancer and he just ain’t spitting it out.”
Halpern will co-write the …

A former UKIP MEP has been sentenced to two years in jail for fiddling his expenses, politics.co.uk reports.
Tom Wise, 61, who lost the UKIP whip and turned into an independent until leaving the European Parliament in June, admitted to the charges last week. He becomes the first British politician to go to jail for expenses claims.
Wise stated his £3,000 “secretarial assistance allowance” was being sent to his researcher, but in fact used the money to …

Sky have launched the first ever live television iPhone application which allows users to watch live TV coverage any time and anywhere they want.
The Sky Mobile TV App uses a WiFi internet connection to stream channels including Sky Sports, Sky Sports News, Sky News, ESPN and At The Races, Sky News reports.
It is free to browse the schedule and programme guide on the Sky mobile service but a subscription to watch live television will cost …

A teenage sex attacker kidnapped and raped a five-year-old boy eight days after a judge spared him custody for another rape, the Daily Telegraph reports.
The 16-year-old was given a three-year community order in June for the rape of a seven year-old boy in Tameside. The original sentence handed down by Judge Adrian Smith provoked outcry from the victim’s family at the time and a legal challenge.
Just eight days later the boy committed an appalling offence …

The famed Navajo Code Talkers, the elite Marine unit whose unbreakable code stymied the Japanese in World War II, fear their legacy will die with them, Fox News reports.
Only about 50 of the 400 Code Talkers are believed to be still alive, most living in the Navajo Nation reservation that spans Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Many are frail or ill, with little time left to tell the world about their wartime contribution.
But today, 13 …

Here’s a little video of a song called “The London Underground Song” by Amateur Transplants. Enjoy!

The Bank of England today surprised economists by raising their forecasts for economic growth over the next two years, stating that the weak pound and their £200 billion money printing scheme should help restore confidence, The Times reports.
Unveiling their Inflation Report, the Bank stuck to a previous prediction that economic growth would return at the start of next year but raised their forecast for the speed of recovery. The Bank said that gross domestic product …

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on the US to choose between Israel and Iran yesterday, the Jerusalem Post reports.
Ahmadinejad said that for a real change in relations to take place, a choice must be made. ”The support of both Israel and Iran can’t go hand in hand,” he said. “No change is made unless great choices are made.”
“We would welcome the changes, and wait for big and correct decisions to be made… We will clasp any …

The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh led the nation in observing two minutes of silence today before a memorial service to mark the passing of the First World War generation, The Times reports.
A year ago, the last three Great War veterans living in the UK each laid wreaths at the Cenotaph as Britain marked the 90th anniversary of the moment when the guns fell silent on the Western Front.
William Stone died in January aged 108, …

Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah’s missiles have now the capacity to reach Israel’s central region, including the capital Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv, Arutz 7 reports.
A small percentage of Hezbollah’s current arsenal of tens of thousands of missiles can reach almost 190 miles, IDF Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi said yesterday, well over the distance from southern Lebanon to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
Last week, Israel’s Military Intelligence chief Major General Amos Yadlin said that terror organizations …

The jobless rate climbed by 30,000 to 2.46 million between July and September, youth unemployment rate reached a record high of almost 20 per cent today, the Daily Mail reports.
Other figures showed that the number on jobseeker’s allowance rose by 12,900 in October to 1.64 million, the 20th consecutive monthly increase, giving the worst total for 12 years.
The number of people classed as economically inactive, including those on long-term sick leave, looking after a relative or …

According to BeautifulPeople.com, the website that only allows beautiful people to join, Britons are among the ugliest people in the world, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Fewer than one in eight British men (12 per cent) and just three in 20 women (15 per cent) who have applied to BeautifulPeople.com have been accepted as members.
Existing members of the website rate how attractive potential members are over a 48 hour provisional period, when applicants upload a recent photograph …

The European Union will hold a special summit on 19th November to decide the new top jobs of EU President and foreign policy chief, the BBC reports.
The appointments will be made by the leaders of the 27 member states, by a qualified majority vote.
On Monday Sweden’s Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said he was half-way through consultations with the governments on their preferred candidates.
Under the Lisbon Treaty, the President of the European Council will be appointed …