NASA’s LCROSS probe discovered beds of water ice at the lunar south pole when it impacted the Moon last month, FoxNews reports.
“Indeed, yes, we found water. And we didn’t find just a little bit, we found a significant amount,” Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist and principal investigator from NASA’s Ames Research Center, said.
The LCROSS probe impacted the lunar south pole at a crater called Cabeus on 9th October. The $79 million spacecraft, preceded by its Centaur rocket stage, hit the lunar surface…

A boy who was hit 11 times with a metal bar by another child when they were both three-years-old has won the right to criminal compensation despite the age of his attacker, The Times reports.
Jay Jones, of Wirral, Merseyside, was left covered in blood and needing stitches to his head after he was attacked while the boys were alone in a car two years ago.
His mother Renai Williams said today that the Tribunals Service ruled …

Self-proclaimed 9/11 terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court, Fox News reports.
Bringing such notorious suspects to US soil to face trial is a key step in President Barack Obama’s plan to close the terror suspect detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Obama initially planned to close the detention center by 22nd January, but the administration is no …

The socialist government of the Spanish region of Extremadura, otherwise known as a bunch of idiots, have launched a 14,000 euro (£12,600) campaign aimed at teaching children “self-pleasure”, or, more bluntly, masturbation.
“Pleasure is in your own hands” is the slogan of a campaign that has sparked political controversy and challenges traditional Roman Catholic views on sex, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Despite the opposition to advertising masturbation and spending taxpayers’ money, officials from the neighbouring region of …

The weekend will be washed out by the worst storm of the year so far, with gale-force gusts and heavy rain on its way, the Independent reports.
Weather experts are advising those planning Saturday shopping trips and days out to postpone them and stay indoors as Britain is buffeted by winds of up to 70 mph.
The winds will be strong enough to cause damage, including bringing down trees and branches.

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan began legal action yesterday to seize properties in Queens, New York, and across the country where several mosques are located, in a broad move against a nonprofit organization that were accused of illegally providing money and other services to Iran, the New York Times reports.
The organization, the Alavi Foundation, own the land on which the mosques sit, as well as a majority interest in an office tower at 650 Fifth Avenue …

Prime Minister Gordon Brown downplayed the issue of corruption in Afghanistan today as he demanded that other NATO countries come forward with thousands more troops, The Times reports.
Brown professed his confidence in Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s desire to end corruption and insisted that allied forces operating in Afghanistan could muster an additional 5,000 troops in addition to the US troop surge being debated in Washington.
Only a week ago Brown cautioned Karzai that unless he quashed …

Formula One driver Kimi Räikkönen’s move to McLaren took a step forward earlier this week when his management team reportedly visited McLaren’s Technology Centre in Woking, PlanetF1.com reports.
Räikkönen’s future in Formula One is on shaky ground after the Finn ended his Ferrari contract a year early, leaving him without a race-seat for next season. His options are sorely limited, mainly because he has stated that the only team he will race for next season is …

Latvia’s former President and the country’s candidate for European Union’s first President, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, said that the appointment is being conducted with Soviet-style secrecy and contempt for the public, the Daily Telegraph reports.
71-year-old Vike-Freiberga attacked the EU for operating in “darkness and behind closed doors”.
“The European Union should stop working like the former Soviet Union,” she said.
She is the only person to have openly declared herself as in the running to become EU President, a …

The number of families raking in more than £20,000 a year in benefits has trebled since Labour came to power, the Daily Mail reports.
Britain’s culture of spiralling welfare dependency means 300,000 households now receive that figure or more in benefits – up from 100,000 in 1997. A worker would have to earn £27,000 a year to take home £20,000.
The figures also shown that the number of households receiving more than £15,000 a year from the …

Russia’s President Dmitri Medvedev has proposed reducing the number of time zones spanning his vast country that currently has 11 time zones, the BBC reports.
He did not say by how many, however.
In Konigsberg, the Russian western enclave between Poland and Lithuania, the time zone is GMT+2. In Kamchatka, in the far east, the time zone is GMT+12. In between the two ends of this, the world’s largest country, lie another nine time zones.
Medvedev said that …

A survey conducted by the Dialog polling institute revealed this week that support for the political right has continued to grow in Israel since the election of right-wing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Arutz 7 reports.
Sixty-five of the Knesset’s 120 seats are currently held by politicians considered to be on the right of the political spectrum, but if elections were held today, that number would rise to 72.
On the nationalist end of the political spectrum, the …

Britain’s police forces have received a 93-page guide on how to ride a bicycle, including advice on the need to carry out a risk assessment before removing one’s helmet, the Daily Telegraph reports.
The two-volume tome offers lengthy guidance to constables on skills that most children have mastered by the age of 12, such as how to maintain balance at corners. It even reminds officers that they must not attempt to detain suspects while in the …

At least 37 BBC executives earn more than the Prime Minister, it was revealed yesterday, as the corporation disclosed the scale of their senior salaries for the first time, The Times reports.
The broadcaster said that their 107 “most senior decision makers” earn £22 million a year and said that the disclosures made it the nation’s most transparent public body. This claim was undermined when it emerged that hundreds of their highest earners were hidden from …

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has reiterated his belief that the burqa, the head-to-toe veil worn by some Muslim women, has no place in secular France, the Daily Telegraph reports.
“France is a country where there is no place for the burqa, where there is no place for the subservience of women,” he said in a speech on French national identity.
France, home to Europe’s biggest Muslim minority, has set up a special panel of 32 lawmakers to …

Labour claimed victory last night in the Glasgow North East by-election which was sparked by the resignation of former Commons Speaker Michael Martin, the party won the race with a huge majority of over 8,000 and 59.3 per cent of the vote, the Daily Mail reports.

Party candidate Willie Bain hailed the result, saying that it’s “a great endorsement for Gordon Brown in his efforts to set the economy back on track and it shows the General Election is very much game on”.