The seven deadly sins Illustrator: Landry Stark A version of the Black Death is still present today, DNA tests on 109 skeletons of plague victims in a medieval London mass grave found part of the same gene sequence as the modem bubonic plague. “This part of the genetic information has barely changed in the past [...]

A belly dancer and a regional councillor entertained controversial Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi with a “lesbian kiss” at his infamous “bunga bunga” parties, a court has heard. Karima El Mahroug was just 17 when she put on the show with former dental hygienist turned politician Nicole Minetti, 25, who is said to have recruited [...]

Agency: Ogilvy & Mather Singapore Photographers: Jimmy Fok Somali children have been given guns, grenades, cash and religious books for winning a contest on a radio station linked to al-Qaida. The BBC reports the winner of the contest, in which kids recited the Koran on air, received an AK-47 and 0, the runner-up got an [...]

Weeds. Seriously good shit. Agency: Le Bureau, Stockholm, Sweden Holidaymakers heading for France are being warned to beware of killer seaweed. Officials have issued an alert after a huge increase in algae that gives off a gas as poisonous as cyanide as it rots. The weed has been made even more toxic by waste from pig [...]

Weeds. Seriously good shit. Agency: Le Bureau, Stockholm, Sweden Holidaymakers heading for France are being warned to beware of killer seaweed. Officials have issued an alert after a huge increase in algae that gives off a gas as poisonous as cyanide as it rots. The weed has been made even more toxic by waste from pig [...]

Weeds. Seriously good shit. Agency: Le Bureau, Stockholm, Sweden Holidaymakers heading for France are being warned to beware of killer seaweed. Officials have issued an alert after a huge increase in algae that gives off a gas as poisonous as cyanide as it rots. The weed has been made even more toxic by waste from pig [...]

Agency: Euro RSCG, Prague, Czech Republic Photographer: Milos Nesic Michael Jackson drank intravenous drugs, it is to be claimed in court. The late singer’s personal physician Dr Conrad Murray faces trial next week over the involuntary manslaughter of the Jackson who died of acute propofol intoxication in June 2009 and his legal team are reportedly planning to [...]