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iFive: Oil Spill Underestimated, Tunerfish TV App Launches, Teenage Sailor Found, Mandela Mourns, Banksy Caught on CCTV
While you were sleeping, innovation was hanging outside a pub, spray can in hand, tagging "Up All Night And Still Going Strong" on the wall.
1. As the situation [3] in the Gulf of Mexico continues, revised estimates of the true size of the oil spill are coming in [4], and it doesn't make for pretty reading. At least two Olympic-sized swimming pools per day, according to one team. The Swedish chairman of BP--seen here [5] redesigned for Greenpeace--has been summoned [6] to the White House to be chewed out by the administration, although in some good news for the firm, its share price is looking stronger [7]. The British PM, who yesterday visited [8] scary [9] Afghanistan, is being conciliatory [10] towards the U.S., while some commentators are decrying [11] Obama's butt-kicking attitude.
2. Teenager Abby Sunderland has been found safe and well, 24 hours after she sent out a distress signal from her boat, Wild Eyes. A spotter plane pinpointed her position [12], and she should be picked up within the next 24 hours. The 16-year-old sailor had prepared for all eventualities, even painting a red heart on the bottom of her boat [13] should she capsize.
3. Former South African President, Nelson Mandela, and the world's most incredible living person, is to miss the World Cup after the tragic death [14] of his great-granddaughter in a car accident. If you want a feel of the atmosphere, the Guardian is liveblogging [15] the build-up. Diego Maradona [16], Argentine idiot-savant footballing idol is about to kick off his presser. Should be entertaining, after he made his team line up in goal [17] and have footballs fired at their asses.
4. Earlier this week, we wrote about the social TV app [18] business. Possibly the best connected is Comcast's Tunerfish, and it has just gone live [19]. So, if you're following the footie on your cell [20], and you want someone to talk to, try it out.
5. When it comes to top-notch graffiti, people usually say, is it a Banksy. Today we ask, is this [21] man--yes, the one dressed in a cagoule [22]--Banksy? He was caught by CCTV as he sprayed the wall of a pub in London's Primrose Hill.
