VIDEO GAME TETRIS has been named the world’s most popular mobile phone game. The application accumulated over 100 million paid downloads since 2005.
EA Mobile, the firm which owns the rights to the puzzle game, said that the game had been adapted for touch screen phones as well as traditional mobile phone keypads.
A study last year found that people who played Tetris regularly increased their general efficiency and had a thicker cortex in areas of the brain related to critical thinking.

Robin Hood steals - but doesn’t share the spoils with the poor. At least, Robin Joshua Hood of Colorado. Colorado police revealed that Robin J Hood found a wallet in Denver and began using the man’s name in order to avoid being arrested on an outstanding warrant. Hood (34) was finally charged with identity theft and impersonation.

Prizes for good driving Police in New Zealand have added a new string to their bow in the fight against speeding motorists and dangerous driving. Officers on the North Island’s Waitarere Beach will issue liquorice chocolate logs as a reward for good driving!

Gays may be executed
Homosexual individuals would be subject to the death penalty in Uganda if new laws recently proposed there come to pass.
The laws also mean that family and friends of gay Ugandans could also face a prison sentence of up to seven years if they fail to report their relative to the authorities.
Gay rights activists say the proposed laws, which have prompted huge international opposition, simply promote hatred. Activists believe that the laws are part of a continent-wide backlash because Africa’s gay community is becoming increasingly vocal.