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One mother's fight for justice for her late son who was killed in the Hillsbrough disaster of 1989. She has brought the case to the European Court of Human Rights after exhausting all avenues in her home country. For nearly 20 years she has fought. The official inquiry deemed her son's death as accidental. No one was blamed. No one was charged. This mother, along with others, wants to change all that.

The footie blog for chicks. There's nothing related to actual football - just the players, how their abs look, how tight their buns are, how bitchy their wives act and so on. It's still in interesting read though.

The Global Fan Survey carried out by ING and F1 Racing magazine is the only worldwide poll of grand prix fans. The survey offers you a unique opportunity to share your opinions on everything from your favourite drivers to next year's exciting new rule changes with the key decision makers of the sport.

Bernie Ecclestone has hit back at Ferrari boss Luca di Montezemolo who said the Singapore GP was like a "circus". Ecclestone thanked him and said "we have to be grateful to him for providing the clowns". Hahaha!!

Like the Billboard charts for gadgets

Looks like a really cool app. Twittering by video. Not for me, though, knowing how camera-shy I am!

Are these the same people who renamed the sprinter, Tyson Gay as 'Tyson Homosexual'?

Here's a facepalm moment …. an Austrian artist named Natascha Stellmach, and she says she has some of Cobain's charred remains (whether they're the same remains that were taken from Love–or whether Stellmach is actually telling the truth–is unclear). In a piece called "Set Me Free," part of a series on death, Stellmach has rolled the ashes into a joint and placed it in an antique case. And if that weren't freaky enough for you, Stellmach plans to smoke the thing in an undisclosed Berlin location. This act will set Cobain free, she claims, "into the ether from the media circus." Crazy bitch!

Well, you just can't please them, can you? Metal fans saying a Metallica album is too loud. Hahaha!

One of the reasons why Newcastle United are languishing at the bottom of the table - Stephen Carr. What?? You would have thought they'd bring in someone who can actually get them results, but Stephen Carr??

The F1 teams are considering proposals that would see a complete overhaul of grand prix weekends, including the introduction of a $1million Friday jackpot. At present the Friday of a F1 grand prix weekend consists of two hour-and-a-half hour-long practice sessions, where the teams put in a lap after lap trying to find the optimum set-up for qualifying and the race. The sessions don't attract many spectators compared to a Saturday and a Sunday as there little to play for, it's just the teams putting in the mileage. However, under one proposal that the new Formula One Teams' Association (FOTA) is considering, a $1million Friday jackpot will be offer to the winner of a special shoot-out session.

Bruno Senna, the nephew of the late racing great Aryton Senna may win a spot to drive for the Toro Rosso team as a test driver in 2009. Will he carry on the legacy of his uncle, who is possibly one of the greatest Formula 1 drivers ever? Quite big shoes to fill!

India's debut on the Formula One calendar has been put back by a year to 2011, the sport's commercial impresario Bernie Ecclestone has announced. Construction on a new circuit 30 miles south-east of the Indian capital Delhi will start next month and finish in time for the start of the 2010 season. But Ecclestone said at the Singapore Grand Prix: "2011 is what I want".

Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time in Friday's free practice sessions for the inaugural Singapore Grand Prix. In the first ever night session in Formula 1 history, Lewis completed 20 laps and set a time of 1m45.518, which was the fastest time of the day.

Children who develop autism have "supercharged" brains that are so clever and sensitive that they make everyday experiences utterly overwhelming, new research claims. According to a theory developed by Swiss neuroscientists, the condition is not caused by a brain deficiency but by a system overload which causes the world to seem frightening and overly intense. Husband and wife team Kamila and Henry Markram of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, believe the idea could explain the erratic nature of the condition. "Our hypothesis is that autistic people perceive, feel and remember too much," Kamila Markram told the New Scientist. Faced with this "intense world" , autistic infants withdraw, with serious consequences for their social and linguistic development, she added. Repetitive behaviours such as rocking and head-banging, meanwhile, can be seen as an attempt to bring order and predictability to a "blaring world". Most of the theories surrounding autism involve the id

Both Mclaren drivers reckon adjusting their body clock will probably be a bigger challenge than racing under artificial light.

“Our training programmes ensure that over a race weekend we are at peak performance during the afternoons and as a result we are going to be staying in European time so this doesn’t get disrupted.

“Apparently not acclimatising is much harder than adapting, because your body naturally wants to change.

“For the drivers, our meal, waking and sleeping rhythms will all be in European time; for example we will get up early afternoon for breakfast, have supper at 1am and go to bed at around 3am.

“It will be very different preparation to any other race but we’ll try and do the best job we can.”

Women donors get paid a little over 3 quids for 14oz of their breast milk and a Swiss cheff will use it in his dishes.

"One can cook really delicious things with it. However, it always needs to be mixed with a bit of whipped cream, in order to keep the consistency."

The food control authority in Switzerland was initially confused by the apparent loophole in local legislation regulating the use of human milk and it was not clear whether Mr Locher could actually be banned from serving his specialities.

"Humans as producers of milk are simply not envisaged in the legislation.

"They are not on the list of approved species such as cows and sheep, but they are also not on the list of the banned species such as apes and primates," Rolf Etter of the Zurich food control laboratory said.

Author Candace Bushnell is writing two books on the life of Carrie Bradshaw during her teenage years, called the Carrie Diaries, expected to be released in 2010.

Cool extensions for Google Reader, one of the things I religiously use on a daily basis.

Well that was fast! I guess the funny man's not so funny to Microsoft now, huh?

The amazing photography of a 15 year old girl from England.

Terrorism fears were totally unfounded, and quite frankly a little funny as the police cordoned off a section near Washinton's Columbia Heights Metro station for what appeared to be a bomb threat, but was in fact …. a mannequin dressed to look like a bear rummaging through a trash bin.

Duh!!

"Nowadays, my advice to friends is: never Google a date. No Facebook, MySpace or Technorati, either. There’s something to be said for the spontaneity and authentic facial expressions of utter ignorance. I realize it’s hard to resist the impulse when we live in an age of nonstop access. If you’re a skilled time-waster with high-speed cable, it is nearly impossible not to know more than you should about anyone with a searchable name. But in the long run it’s a little less interesting, isn’t it? Just as when you turn the corner and find yourself face to face with your cute new neighbour."

Yeah …. how true. There's nothing like hearing something from your date and not reading about it on the net. It's kind of like snooping and destroys the joy of discovering the person whom you'd like to be with.

The New York Times present an interactive graphic showing the reduction in market capitalization of some of the biggest companies on Wall Street. On Oct 9 2007, total stock market value at its peak was US$19.1 trillion. On Sept 12 2008, it was down to $US15.1 trillion.

Based on the pre-bankruptcy assets of the companies in question, Lehman Brothers leads the way with pre-bankruptcy assets worth US$639 billion. Coming in a distant second is Worldcom with US$103.9 billion.

As a defender, the Spainiard may send shivers down an attacker's spine, but he ain't looking very tough with that man purse he's clutching.

Monkey see, monkey do. Wanna relieve stress? Hug a friend.

Great blog by a freelance photographer based in San Diego, Robert Benson.

Expect the prices of your favourite Hershey's chocolates to increase in the coming months due to the increas in prices of raw materials used to make those yummy chocolates. The good thing is that they're not DECREASING the size of their products and at the same time INCREASING the price, like some other food manufacturers are known to do these days.

At long last, under tremendous pressure, President Pervez Musharraf is finally stepping down. The president has been granted "safe passage" out of the country — a means to avoid impeachment, which would be the first in the country's history.

Oh for fuck’s sakes, a child gets injured on an escalator and yet again Crocs are to blame. It has nothing to do with the kid’s footwear! It’s most likely caused by unsupervised usage of the escalator by the child. Crocs are harmless!!

A new category of internet celebrity has emerged - individuals who have had a huge effect on our lives by starting websites, founding new companies, writing about the way everything is changing, or transforming the way people work.