The 2010 BRIT Awards, presented by the British Phonographic Industry, is an annual award ceremony for music artists. This year, the competition took place in the Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London, England. The event started taking place in 1980, with this year's event being the 30th BRIT Awards. This year, the programme was broadcast live - although with a short delay to allow censorship of strong language - on ITV1 from 2000-2200 GMT on Tuesday. 5.8 million viewers watched it, which was an audience share of 21.9%.
The BBC have broadcast the first ever live episode of television soap-opera EastEnders, a fictional programme set in London, England. The show, celebrating 25 years since the broadcast of the first episode, was aired on BBC One at 8pm UTC yesterday.
Tiger Woods while playing golf in 2007
Image: Keith Allison.
American golfer Tiger Woods delivered a speech on Friday where he apologized for his recent marital infidelities. Before an audience of the press, family, and friends, Mr. Woods admitted that he did indeed have a Sex addiction. He said that he would one day return to golf, although he did not specify when.
South Wales Police are on the scene at a Tesco in St Mellons, Cardiff, Wales in case a pyjama flashmob turns rowdy.
In the National Football League, the New Orleans Saints defeated the Indianapolis Colts, 31-17, to win Super Bowl XLIV.
Class of 2010 Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith did the coin toss. The Saints won toss and elected to receive. It was the thirteenth straight time that the NFC won the Super Bowl coin toss. The Saints got the ball first inside the 25, and went three and out. The Colts' first play was a first down pass to Dallas Clark. The first penalty comes with 8:36 left in first quarter, a false start on the Colts. Their third 3rd down of the drive failed, and kicker Matt Stover's 38 yard field goal was good, giving the Colts the first score of the game, 3-0.
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Clare Short, the United Kingdom's then-Secretary of State for International Development, appeared before the Iraq Inquiry yesterday, and told the panel that the Cabinet was "misled" about the Iraq War's legality prior to the 2003 invasion. The three-hour session was held in the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London's City of Westminster.
Clare Short speaking at a rally in Birmingham.
Image: Faizan Bhat.
A court in Poland has issued a European Union arrest warrant for 34-year-old Anders Högström, the alleged mastermind involved in the theft of the infamous Arbeit Macht Frei sign from Auschwitz. The sign, later recovered cut into three pieces, was stolen from the entrance of the death camp in December last year. Five Poles have been arrested for the arrest of the sign, that translates to "work sets you free". The wrought-iron sign weighs 40kg and is five metres long, and was unscrewed and ripped from above the gate of the infamous site in the heart of Poland. The theft caused outrage around the world, in particular in Poland and Israel.
The University of Oxford is preventing students from accessing the legal, peer-to-peer online music service Spotify. Officials in the university's Computer Services department (OUCS) say too much of the network's bandwidth is taken up by people using such services, slowing down the network for others.
Al-Qaeda's notional leader Osama Bin Laden has released a new audio tape in which he delivers a message he describes as from "Osama to Obama". Bin Laden tells the US President that Americans can expect further attacks.
In the tape, aired by al-Jazeera, Bin Laden describes Umar Farouq Abdulmutallab, who tried to blow up a US airliner on Christmas day, as "a hero" who was reaffirming the message of the September 11 attacks. He commented that "If it was possible to carry our messages to you by words we wouldn't have carried them to you by planes."
The United Nations has announced that the government of Haiti has put an end to its efforts to rescue survivors of the earthquake that hit the region eleven days ago. The announcement comes just a day after two people were found alive.
Downtown Port-au-Prince after the earthquake.
Image: UNDP Global.
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The UK's Home Secretary said today that Britain has raised its terrorism alert level to "severe", the second-highest level, which indicates that an attack is "highly likely". The highest level, "critical", means that an attack is believed to be "imminent".
A 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which claimed that the glaciers in the Himalayas were likely to melt within thirty years, was at least in part not based on scientific data.
The Big Switch is a frighteningly epic depiction of how technological innovation has moulded our society, from the Ford Model T, Industrial Revolution, Thomas Edison and electricity to Cloud Computing, data privacy, terrorism and Artificial Intelligence. This is a must read by anyone with an interest in Computing, Business, Internet, Economics, Science or History. Nick Carr delivers a crisp, broad minded insight into the potential digital utopia or virtual wasteland that we are creating for ourselves.
Teodoro García Simental, alleged to be a major kingpin in Mexico, has been arrested by Federal Police in southern Baja California.
"No shots were fired. It was a very fast operation. The investigation has been going on for a long time," an unnamed police officer told Reuters. Simental was handcuffed and swiftly flown to Mexico City.
Teodoro García Simental (DEA)
I got my current desktop just over two years ago. In that time, I have developed the kind of bond with it you might aliken to an omnipresent friend who has a habit of offering awkward contributions to conversation that seem to get in the way of you and your friends enjoying themselves.
Although I had begrudgingly rescued my friend through its embarrassing viral infections and from the brink of blue screen death, it had become increasingly lame, weighed down by the weight of countless programs, background processes, and a morbid acceptance of its inevitable obsolescence. I therefore took the difficult decision of giving it a fresh start, i.e. reformatting the hard drive and erasing all data, like getting a friend sectioned then having him lobotomised.
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