In Room 41

Italian fashion house Versace has apologised to China for selling T-shirts that identified Hong Kong and Macao as countries, after a backlash over the perceived challenge to Chinese territorial integrity. Both are former European colonies that were returned to China in the late 1990s.The offending T-shirt identified Beijing and Shanghai as in China but Macao and Hong Kong as separate countries

A group of boys filmed themselves harassing and punching shoppers  as they rode their bikes through Asda store in Brighton.  The purpose?  To capture the footage for their YouTube channel, they cycled through the aisles performing wheelies and tricks all the while winding through other people's trollies   forcing other customers to jump out the way and getting into a fight with an elderly woman. 

The former Birmingham city football club manager   is backing Tottenham to come much closer in this season's Premier League title race - but is urging punters to back Liverpool this season o over champions Manchester City. 

You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again. — Benjamin Franklin

Man circumcised by mistake at Leicester hospital gets £20,000 compensation. Terry Brazier went to Leicester General Hospital in September 2018 expecting to undergo a cystoscopy, a procedure to help with urinary incontinence.   The procedure involves a thin camera being inserted in the bladder and thereafter  Botox injected into the bladder wall.   Mr Brazier said he had been so distracted talking to a nurse that he did not notice something was wrong until it was too late. After it was all over, staff told him they could not "send me back to the ward and they needed to talk to me".

A Brazilian gang leader clauvino da Silva, 42, tried to bust out of Rio’s Gericino - a high security prison pretending to be his19-year-old – who he was going to leave behind, authorities say.

The former Deal Or No Deal presenter has received an apology from the group for the “distress” he suffered over the HBOS Reading fraud. The TV star said a scam involving staff at the Reading branch of HBOS, which was subsequently bought by Lloyds, destroyed his business Unique Group.

A WOMAN from Poole, Dorset, has been left with the word Adidas burnt onto her leg after wearing the sportswear company’s leggings out in the sun. She didn’t realise that the sun was so strong that the thin material did not fully protect her from the intense rays of temperatures of more than 30C. 

The Waffle 'Moon Shoe' was one of the first to be created by Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman and was designed for runners at the Munich Olympic trials.

Green peace activists attempt to stop Boris Johnson's convoy from entering Buckingham palace.  Boris Johnson's needs to formally ask the queen's permission to form a government before assuming office as Prime Minister of the United kingdom. 

A Contract programmer is facing 10 years in Jail for inserting a "logic bomb" into a spreadsheet that caused one company to keep rehiring him.  Logic bombs are bits of malicious code that disrupt the program when specific conditions are met, like a specific time on a specific date. David Tinley, 62, had been hired by a US unit of Siemens, the German-based tech conglomerate, to create custom automated spreadsheets. The company used these spreadsheets to manage orders for electrical equipment. He planted the bomb to force his employer to be dependent on him, and was discovered when the program glitched while he was on vacation and had to give employees password to fix the problem.  He pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of intentional damage to a protected computer, and now, he's facing up to 10 years in prison, as well as a fine of up to $250,000.

Portuguese / Juventus F.C soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo will face no charges in connection with a 10-year-old sexual assault allegation because the case cannot be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, prosecutors has said. 

TOURISTS have reportedly been hospitalised after swimming in a Spanish toxic dump because the water looked amazing.  Visitors desperate for the perfect Instagram pictures jumped in what appeared to be pristine waters.  The turquoise lake in Galicia, Spain, also known as “Galician Chernobyl “ is actually the site of an old tungsten mine dating from World II and has been abandoned since the 1980s.  

BBC has confirmed Darcey Bussell’s replacement on their hit show strictly come dancing.  Oti Mabuse’s Sister Motsi Motsi will join the panel when the show returns to our screen later this series, having already served as a judge on the German version of the show since 2011.

Boris Johnson: ignore the pessimists if we can put a man on the moon, we can solve the Northern Irish border problem. Boris Johnson the front runner to succeed Theresa May as British prime minster on Tuesday the 22nd has insisted, Brexit can be a done-deal by October 31 if the UK rediscovers it’s “sense of mission “.  He firmly believes if man could find a way to the moon and back 50 years ago, then we certainly have the technology to solve the Northern Irish boarder problem -  the one thing standing in the way of a Brexit deal.

Happy posthumous birthday to Florence Onyebuchi "Buchi" Emecheta OBE a Nigerian-born British novelist.  She was a prolific writer, who published 16 novels, three children’s stories, numerous articles and television plays during her career spanning 30 years.  Buchi received several prestigious awards in her career.  In 1977 she received the Jock Campbell New Statesman award for the Slave Girl; in 2013 she was included in Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists, and in 2005 she was made an OBE for her services to literature.  She would have been 75 today. 

Tomb raider actor Simon Yam stabbed in the stomach while speaking at an event in southern China. Police say his injuries are not life-threatening and t he 64-year-old actor is currently undergoing "a minor operation" at a hospital in Zhongshan city.

Google has agreed to pay $11 million to end a lawsuit accusing the internet company of discriminating against older job applicants. About $2.75 million from the accord will go to attorney fees, with an average payout of almost $40,000 for 227 people who joined the class action.

A mother who was wrongly diagnosed with breast cancer underwent a double mastectomy and chemotherapy before the NHS hospital realised its mistake. 

A British flagged tanker 'Stena Impero' has been seized by Iran after taking a very sudden turn into Iranian waters despite her original destination being Saudi Arabia, according to data relayed by maritime tracking service in escalation of Gulf tensions. 

Chevy unveils it's new 2020 Corvette Stingray with first mid-engine design. The Stingray is fitted with a 6.2-liter  V8 derived from the LT1 used in the current car, it has a sub 0-60 mile-per-hour (96 kilometers per hour) time of less than three second and all for a base price below $60,000.  

A Florida woman thought she was being scammed when she received a letter imposing a fine of over $90,0000 for stagnant pool and overgrown grass in her property located in Dunedin, a small seaside city outside Tampa. Kristi Allen received the letter saying she owed $92,600  in fines for overgrown vegetation and a stagnant swimming pool at a house she no longer owned and given two weeks to pay.  

At least 17 people seriously injured at a car admiring  event.  No less than 17 people have been injured, some seriously, after two cars crashed and ploughed into bystanders. The crash happened on the A602 in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, on Thursday evening as hundreds of people gathered to admire cars.  The charity event turned into a nightmare when both cars collided with pedestrians. Footage posted on social media showed one car emerging onto the main road while another vehicle was passing at speed.  They collided, causing both cars to hit bystanders on the side of the road and on the central reservation. 

25 year old Chioe Haines, had to be restrained and strapped to her seat mid air after she allegedly tried to open the emergency exit door mid-flight in front of terrified passenger and apparently sent one attendant “flying across the plane” allegedly storming towards the cockpit screaming “I’m going to kill everyone”.

Teenage girl Disowns Her Dad over viral Photo of Him Kissing Wife Next to Dead Lion.  The Canadian couple Darren and Carolyn Carter recently went to South Africa on a trophy hunting trip, where they shot and killed at least two lions.  The pair, who run a taxidermy shop, posted the pictures of their kill on social media were they received heavy backlash from the public. They captioned one of the photos. “A monster lion.”

The pilot of a plane which crashed October last year killing two people asked a friend to illuminate the airfield using his car headlight.  Pilot Richard Lewis, 76, who was unqualified to fly at night, and passenger Tony Cook, 79, were killed when the Reims Cessna aircraft  they were travelling in went down near the Beverley airfield in East Yorkshire.  The two men were returning from a day trip to Scotland and technical delays forced Mr Lewis to fly at night despite no night flying experience recorded in the pilot’s logbook. Mr Lewis held a private pilot’s licence for 25-years but did not have a night rating which would have permitted him to fly in darkness. 

An arson attack at an animation studio in Kyoto Japan has killed at least 33 people.  One of the Fire department officials Satoshi Fujiwara said a further 36 people were injured in the blaze, some of them critically with many of them suffering from burns.  It is believed a man started the blaze that  broke out at 10:30am local time after he burst into the Kyoto Animation studio and reportedly shouted "die!" as he poured what appeared to be petrol around the studio.

The European Parliament has confirmed Ursula von der Leyen, Germany’s defence minister, as president of the European Commission. It was a tight race for the German as she needed the support of at least 374 MEPs and was backed by 383. Ahead of the result, Mrs von der Leyen said she was ready for another extension to the Brexit deadline, beyond October, should it be needed. 

A criminal case of alleged sexual assault against actor Kevin Spacey out of Nantucket has been dropped due to  "the unavailability of the complaining witness." In 2017, former Boston TV news anchor Heather Unruh held a press conference to share her son's allegation of sexual assault against Spacey. Her then 18-year-old son, she claimed, was sexually assaulted by Spacey inside the Club Car Restaurant. Mr Spacey 59,  pleaded not guilty to felony indecent assault and battery, which he was charged with last December.

The building with parts of the lead ripped off the roof. Northumbria police are investigating the theft of lead roof flashing from a vacant doctor's surgery due to be converted to a YMCA in Sunderland The perpetrators are still at large and enquiries ongoing. 

A Mum has been sent to jail in Sunderland for assaulting a police officer and a social worker. The lady who has previous convictions for assault spat on the social worker's hair and the police officer's neck saying to the officer ' I will bite off your nose' after been asked to leave a substance misuse appointment due to her behaviour. The police officer said she was disgusted to be spat at and would rather be punched in the face. The offender Elise MacDonald was sentenced to a total of ten months behind bar.

Marijuana in recent times is no longer seen as just a recreational drug. Ongoing research is proving the medicinal use of marijuana to be very effective for the treatment of conditions such as epilepsy,post traumatic stress, and some cancers. The state of Pennsylvania in the US is adding anxiety disorder and Tourette's syndrome to the list of conditions that prescription of medical marijuana can be obtained. The aim according to the state's health secretary is for doctors to prescribe its use together with traditional therapeutic approaches. About 111,000 people are currently participating in the state;'s medical marijuana program.

This is quite an interesting study carried out by some professors at the University of Texas. The study used data from a sample of 3724 men aged 20 and above and found that 42 percent of the men who drank at least 2 cups of coffee a day which provides between 85 and 170 milligrams of caffeine were less likely to report cases of erectile dysfunction regardless of weight and level of blood pressure as opposed to the non-coffee drinkers. This according to the researchers is probably due to the fact that the caffeine which is naturally present in coffee triggers a series of pharmacological effect that relaxes the arteries and muscle thereby increasing blood flow to the penis. According to the NHS about half of men aged between 40 and 70 will have erectile dysfunction to some degree. To read up more on the study check out the Plos one site  . It may be  still worth bearing in mind that some other researches say that too much coffee in the system could jeopardise on

Equanimity the 300 ft long super yacht at the centre of the world's biggest financial scandal is available for hire for $1.25M dollars a week. The yacht linked to Low Taek Jho, often called Jho Low, a  37 year old Malaysian fugitive sought by the authorities of Malaysia,Singapore and the USA for money laundering  was sized

The US women soccer team have successfully defended their title as champions of female football, sparking the topic of equal pay once again. The male team have never gone past the quarter final but earn significantly more than the players in the female team, with female players earning just 38 percent of what the male player earn. Lunar Bar  its nutritious partner is giving $718,750 a pay-gap donation across the board to make up the difference between the female team and male team bonus. This donation comes amid the lawsuit filed by the United State Women;s National Soccer Team (USWNT) against the US Soccer Federation alleging gender discrimination and unequal pay. The United States women's national soccer team is the most successful in international women's soccer, winning four World Cup Titles.

Camel milk has been a staple of the Bedouins for as long as camels have been domesticated but just starting to gain popularity in the west with suggestions it could become the new super food although many still believe its just a passing Fad. Camel milk has a host of benefits, it has very high vitamins, mineral, and immunoglobulin content. It has more iron and vitamin c than cow milk. Camel milk has enough nutrients to sustain a person for weeks

Ride-share Titan Uber is expanding its Uber Copter service, starting this July Uber will begin offering its Platinum and Diamond members the option of expedited travel from Lower Manhattan to JFK airport beating the New York traffic by air.

"LIMEX" is a novel material mainly made from limestone and PP, it is manufactured with no wood and water. The water resistant and durable product is currently used for the production of paper and plastic containers.

                                                                                                                                                                             

It was tough luck for three senior Chinese officials caught gambling at a hotel in the Shaanxi province of china under the most bizarre circumstance. Gambling is officially illegal