News of the Day 1.13.10

• Study finds green tea protects against lung cancer.
• Google considers saying no to censorship and pulling out of China. China, meanwhile, scratches its head as the White House throws its support behind the search engine.
  
• NYC cabbie returns loads of money and jewels to an old Italian granny, thereby restoring a sparkle of hope in the world.
  
• 'Dinosaur huge' shark takes tourist off Cape Town.
• Stonehenge makes 'most endangered' world wonders list.
• Lamenting our pets.
• Nikica, the little Montenegrin hippo that could, escapes submerged zoo and wanders amongst the people.
• Monkey talk, in other animal kingdom news.
  
• Bless. Gordon Brown knocks David Cameron over the airbrushed campaign poster during PMQs. Prime Minister's Questions, a weekly 30 minute installation where the British PM faces down the House of Commons, should be exported to America. We already steal our fair share of their television programming. Anyway, a certain Ms Palin might think twice about running for higher office in this case, and perhaps the public would be more inclined to elect politicians who can string together actual sentences.