Punk fans are hoping to make 1970s group the Sex Pistols number one during the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
Campaigners want the band’s controversial single God Save The Queen to top the singles chart during celebrations in June. The “alternative national anthem” is being re-released 35 years after it originally hit the charts.
The track was released during the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977. But many media outlets refused to play the controversial single even though it outsold the number one single The First Cut Is The Deepest by Rod Stewart. Picture shows Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon during a gig in Manchester.
Buying online while walking
If you think texting while walking is dangerous, just wait until everyone starts wearing Google’s futuristic, internet-connected glasses.
Directions to your destination appear literally before your eyes. You can talk to friends over video chat, take a photo or even buy a few things online as you walk around.
Google gave a glimpse of Project Glass in a video and blog post this week. Still in an early prototype stage, the glasses open up endless possibilities – as well as challenges to safety, privacy and fashion sensibility.
Free uniforms to students
North Korea has handed out free uniforms to all students in the communist state to celebrate the 100th birthday of its deceased founder Kim Il-Sung, Pyongyang has said.
The official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said free uniforms were being distributed to all students of elementary, middle and high schools and universities to mark the “Day of Sun” yesterday.
It said the uniforms had been prepared thanks to the “fatherly benevolence” of late leader Kim Jong-Il, who died in December last year. He was succeeded by his youngest son Jong-Un.
“Thanks to Comrade Kim Jong-Un, new school uniforms are being provided to students, embracing them in the Great General’s warm love, even after he left us,” it said.
Fiat 500 ‘most vandalised’
The most-vandalised car in Britain is not a luxury model but the “everyday” Fiat 500, it was revealed yesterday.
The Fiat 500 had a 3.62 per cent chance of being targeted by vandals in 2011/12, according to claims data from car insurance company swiftcover.com. Next on the vandals’ list was the BMW Z4, with a 2.97 per cent chance of being vandalised, followed by the Peugeot 207 (2.39 per cent).
In contrast, the UK’s best-selling car in 2011 - the Ford Focus - had a vandalism “score” of just 0.58per cent.
Other cars in the vandalism top 10 included the BMW X5, the Land Rover Range Rover and the Volkswagen Beetle.
Toys with Happy Meals
Children in California will still be able to get toys with their Happy Meals after a San Francisco judge dismissed a proposed lawsuit that sought to stop McDonald’s from using toys to market its meals in the state.
The suit claimed the hamburger chain was violating consumer protection laws and exploiting children’s vulnerability by using toys to lure them to eat nutritionally unbalanced meals.