One honeymoon, several deaths and a victory for stem cell research…

Good Saturday,

Just to get The Royal Wedding out of the way: the happy couple are off on their honeymoon. No, we don’t know where to – but we do know that it will be short and sweet. William has apparently promised to be back at work (for the RAF) on Tuesday. Move along now, nothing else to see here.

The situation in Libya – which has been ugly for a while – just got uglier. Nato has struck very close to home for Gaddafi (literally) and killed another of his sons in an air raid on his compound. Not only his son, but three of his grandsons too.

At around the same time as the fatalities occurred; Gaddafi had released a live, televised speech: “The door to peace is open” he said, “Why are you attacking us?!” Gaddafi denied any wrongdoing on his part but said that he was ready to negotiate and agree to a cease-fire. Words we’ve heard before. Nato has insisted that they won’t cease anything until Gaddafi relinquishes power.

Over in Afghanistan, the Taliban has warned of more attacks on ‘foreign invaders’ – i.e. Brits and Yanks. They have gone so far as to tell all Afghans to keep away from future ‘gatherings, convoys and centres’ so that they don’t get absolutely decimated in any upcoming acts of terrorism on the part of the Taliban. Thoughtful.

The death toll in Southern America has now reached 340, which makes this tornado the second deadliest in the history of the region.

Finally, the practice of stem cell research has won yet another legal battle in America. Plenty of Americans have their knickers in a twist about the scientific practice; which uses human embryos to investigate new medicines – and thus causes huge ethical problems, mainly of a religious nature. I should point out here, that experimenting on human embryos (which don’t even posses brains) is almost undisputedly less savage than experimenting on chimps (who have the mental capacity of a young human child).  But I digress. Stem cell research has been given the go ahead in this instance – which has lead to irate Christians and very happy Scientists.

Until tomorrow….