This Week According to BBC News

Ever since it became known that rock stars in Europe die faster than there American counterparts, I've been trying to listen to my mp3 player a little quieter (I don't suppose, by the way, that that research will be of much comfort to the Fossetts.). I'm beginning to wonder why I should bother. I mean, Luciano Pavarotti didn't die from anything like this, and neither did Jane Tomlinson. And anyway, it seems like nothing a good pint of Guinness can't sort out. It's all getting me down a bit. I just try and remember that things could be worse (I haven't, for example, carried out a crime and then left person details on a wall).

Yours, wherever you may be,
Daniel C. Wright