06-May-2014 19:50

A futile war on drugs that wastes money and wrecks lives - Financial Times :: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f40fe61c-d228-11e3-97a6-00144feabdc0.html

Iraq inquiry: The time has come for Sir John Chilcot to publish and be damned - Telegraph.co.uk (blog) :: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100270109/the-time-has-come-for-sir-john-chilcot-to-publish-and-be-damned/

Video: Watch Jeremy Clarkson use n-word in unseen Top Gear footage - Mirror.co.uk :: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/video-watch-jeremy-clarkson-use-3481201

Royal Sussex County Hospital's £420m revamp approved - BBC News :: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-27241516

'Retro rubbish' washed up on UK beaches - BBC News :: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-27227481

Amazon smartphone pictured for first time with 'floating' display - Daily Mail :: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2618012/Amazons-holophone-pictured-time-looks-four-facing-cameras-used-create-floating-display.html

Ukraine's revolution still deserves our support - Financial Times :: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a72e9c48-d161-11e3-bdbb-00144feabdc0.html

Manchester City yet to agree punishment with Uefa over FFP - The Guardian :: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/05/manchester-city-settlement-uefa-financial-fair-play

Why does the Government cheer on Pfizer as it rampages like a pre-crash ... - Telegraph.co.uk (blog) :: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/iainmartin1/100270171/why-does-the-government-cheer-on-pfizer-as-it-rampages-like-a-pre-crash-banking-behemoth/

An ethnic question for universities - The Economist (blog) :: http://www.economist.com/blogs/blighty/2014/05/universities-and-race?fsrc%3Dgn_ep

Germany issues travel warning for Ukraine; Slavyansk death toll rises - The Globe and Mail :: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/thirty-pro-russian-insurgents-killed-during-fighting-around-rebel-held-city-ukraine-says/article18477565/

Scotland's teenage voters hesitant about independence - Reuters UK :: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/05/06/uk-scotland-independence-youth-idUKKBN0DM0K020140506

Video: Veteran broadcaster Stuart Hall admits sex assault on girl new The 84 ... - Belfast Telegraph :: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/video-news/video-veteran-broadcaster-stuart-hall-admits-sex-assault-on-girl-30248473.html

Barclays profits fall, hit by investment bank - Washington Post :: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/barclays-profits-fall-hit-by-investment-bank/2014/05/06/25f295a2-d53b-11e3-8f7d-7786660fff7c_story.html

Boris Johnson: 'eel-like' Tony Blair will avoid being imprisoned over Iraq war - The Guardian :: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/06/boris-johnson-eel-like-tony-blair-iraq-war

Antivirus is dead, says maker of Norton Antivirus - PCWorld (blog) :: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2150743/antivirus-is-dead-says-maker-of-norton-antivirus.html

Out with the old, in with the new at Ireland's Sinn Fein - but not yet - Reuters UK :: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/05/06/uk-northernireland-adams-leadership-idUKKBN0DM19P20140506

Ice sheet melt threatens coastal chaos - New Zealand Herald :: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/environment/news/article.cfm?c_id%3D39%26objectid%3D11250652

Tesco to launch smartphone - Financial Times :: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a19ecfc6-d532-11e3-adec-00144feabdc0.html

Skull Cracker 'travelled to London' - Belfast Telegraph :: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/skull-cracker-travelled-to-london-30244296.html

Heart surgery forces Lord Patten to step down as chairman of the BBC Trust - The Independent :: http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/heart-surgery-forces-lord-patten-to-step-down-as-chairman-of-the-bbc-trust-9328070.html

Sketch: On Pfizer we're keeping our optionalities open - Telegraph.co.uk :: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/pharmaceuticalsandchemicals/10811754/Sketch-On-Pfizer-were-keeping-our-optionalities-open.html

UPDATE 3-AstraZeneca fights Pfizer bid by predicting sales surge - eventually - Reuters :: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/06/astrazeneca-pfizer-idUSL6N0NS33720140506

GDP Forecasts Are Lowered by the OECD - Bloomberg :: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/gdp-forecasts-are-lowered-by-the-oecd-JO8n1PoURQWtlD5ZjrhYWw.html

Ukip MEP who said homosexuality was 'abnormal' is party's candidate in Newark ... - Telegraph.co.uk :: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/10811738/Ukip-MEP-who-said-homosexuality-was-abnormal-is-partys-candidate-in-Newark-by-election.html

Man Gets Accidental Vasectomy After Doctors Operate On 'Wrong Site' - Huffington Post :: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/06/accidental-vasectomy-wrong-site_n_5273865.html

Pressure builds on Nigerian government to find kidnapped girls - Financial Times :: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b7f0eba6-d537-11e3-adec-00144feabdc0.html

Madeleine McCann: Police confirm Portugal 'activity' - BBC News :: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27300312

Oscar Pistorius 'tried to intimidate Reeva Steenkamp's friend during murder trial' - Daily Mail :: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2621244/Oscar-Pistorius-live-housekeeper-wont-called-evidence-slept-gunshots-screams-night-athlete-killed-Reeva.html

Freddie Star will not be prosecuted - BBC News :: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27292964

Federal report: Warming disrupts Americans' lives - Salt Lake Tribune :: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/world/57909322-68/report-climate-heat-says.html.csp