Sunday, 19 August 2012

Tory reshuffle stalls as Ken Clarke refuses to quit job as 

Justice Secretary

Fighting back: Ken Clarke is refusing to step down as Justice Secretary

The reports come as the Prime Minister uses his summer holiday 

in Spain to put the finishing touches to his first major Cabinet 

shake-up since he won power in 2010.







'I am not fighting or battling cancer - it is fighting me': Last words 

of author Christopher Hitchens as he faced the end

Witty: Writer Christopher Hitchens wrote of his cancer using a hospital food tray for his desk

Hitchens used a hospital food tray as a desk for his computer to record his last 

thoughts about the illness which claimed his life at 62.







How F1 wizardry that helps Jenson Button go faster is saving children 

in intensive care

Jenson Button podium

The computer software, which is being used in medicine for the first time, can alert 

doctors if a critically ill child starts to deteriorate far earlier than conventional systems

 used in NHS hospitals.






Body of missing City AM media tycoon 'found in Russian woods' as his mother claims he was a victim of a KGB plot after revealing Putin corruption

A body discovered in woods in Latvia is thought to be that of missing tycoon Leonid Rozhetskin

The mystery of disappeared media magnate Leonid Rozhetskin (above centre) may have been solved following the discovery of a body in a remote forest. His mother Elvira Rozet (inset) claims the Russian-born British tycoon was the victim of a KGB plot because of his commitment to exposing corruption in Vladimir Putin's government



Iran leader Ahmadinejad brands Israel an 'insult to humanity' in 

explosive rhetoric

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad describes Israel as an 'insult to humanity' in an address to demonstrators at a pro-Palestinian rally in Tehran

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered one of his sharpest attacks 

on the Jewish state yet in an address that followed pro-Palestinian rallies 

across Iran on Friday.