China spends a billion blasting a man into space
The Chinese government yesterday launched their first ever space mission.
The Shenzhou V space vehicle was successfully launched at an estimated cost of over $1,000,000,000.
"China has today joined the exclusive club of countries able to spend a billion dollars to catapult a heap of useless and un-reusable junk into space." Chinese premier Wen Jiabao told BIGfib. >>>

US refuses to condemn Israeli Nuclear attacks
US secretary of state, Colin Powel yesterday refused to condemn or intervene in the conflict that resulted last week in Israel dropping five 100 megaton nuclear weapons entirely obliterating Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Yemen.
"We cannot randomly go around condemning Israel..." He told a press conference. >>>

The secretary involved in the scandal over payments made by Conservative party leader Iain Duncan Smith yesterday lit the touch paper which may just burn the opposition leaders career for good.
"Betsy", who received, it has been claimed, exaggerated payments for her work for IDS yesterday announced to the press that the payments received were indeed for services rendered, though not for the services of report-writing as IDS has claimed.
"The payments were for sex." Betsy told the press. "It's been going on for years..."
Iain Duncan Smith refuted the claims, "I have never ever slept with Betsy." He told journalists at a press conference yesterday.
Betsy however was adamant: "Let's face it, it's not something one is going to make up, he's so revolting... And it's not something anyone could imagine doing for pleasure... We did have sex on a number of occasions and he did pay me for it."
These latest claims by Betsy Duncan-Smith are, his opponents claim, likely to be the final nail in the coffin of the troubled leader.