US President Barack Obama, whose team used social media as a campaign marketing tool during last year’s election campaign, admitted today that he has actually never used Twitter.
“Let me say that I have never used Twitter,” he told students in Shanghai, the Daily Telegraph reports. “I noticed that young people are very busy with these electronics. My thumbs are too clumsy to type in things on the phone.”
Interestingly, Obama has a “verified account” …

Labour candidate for the next year’s local elections, Peter White, has described the Queen as “vermin” and a “parasite”, the Daily Mail reports.
White, who is standing in next year’s local elections, posted the republican diatribe on the social networking site Facebook. His offensive outburst came as he expressed his opposition to a campaign launched last week by Tory MP Andrew Rosindell to have the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, in 2012, declared a public holiday.
Last night White …

German car giant Mercedes have bought the Brawn GP Formula 1 team in a move that is likely to see this year’s world champion Jenson Button join McLaren as Lewis Hamilton’s team-mate, the BBC reports.
Mercedes will buy 75% of Brawn in partnership with an Abu Dhabi investment company, but will continue as McLaren’s engine partner until 2015.
Brawn, who won both world titles in their debut season in 2009, will be rebranded as Mercedes Grand Prix.
Nico …

Israeli Environment Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) said that if the Arab leadership in Judea and Samaria unilaterally declare a new Arab state, Israel may annex parts of Judea and Samaria – especially the parts where Jewish villages and towns are located.
Unlike Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, Judea and Samaria are not annexed by Israel, but remain under military rule. All Jewish residents in Judea and Samaria have the same basic rights as other Israelis.
“If the …

The British actor Edward Woodward, who started his career treading the boards in Shakespearean rep but went on to become an iconic television hard man, has died at the age of 79, The Times reports.
Woodward found fame in the late 1960s with the TV spy series Callan, in which he played a reluctant professional hitman.
His greatest commercial success came almost two decades later in the American series The Equalizer in which he played Robert McCall, …

This year’s Formula One champion Jenson Button appears increasingly likely to move to McLaren and form an all-British dream-team partnership with his predecessor as world champion, Lewis Hamilton, the Daily Telegraph reports.
An announcement is unlikely today – and there is many a slip twixt cup and lip in F1 – but it is increasingly clear that Mercedes, the German manufacturer which are negotiating a takeover of Brawn GP, are not inclined to build their team …