London, April 14 : Pals of Jack Tweed, who has been struggling to cope with the tragic death of his wife Jade Goody, fear he may crack if he is sent to prison again.

The grieving widower, who lovingly cared for his cancer-stricken wife till she passed away on March 22 aged 27, was temporarily released from jail.

The 21-year-old had been found guilty of drunken assault on a taxi driver after losing his temper over the fare.

He was given a reminder that he would not be provided any special treatment despite the media circus around his late wife.

London, Apr 14 : Queen of pop Madonna sacked her nanny just because she didn’t know French.

Australian nanny Angela Jacobsen was on holiday in Thailand when she was sacked by the ‘Material Girl’.

The 29-year-old had formed a close bond with “amazing” Madonna’s adopted son David Banda, who is enrolled at a French school in New York and insists she misses him a lot.

“I miss him so very much. He meant the world to me,” the Daily Star quoted Jacobsen as saying.

Washington, Apr 14 : Researchers from University of Utah have found that lack of proper nutrition in the womb may cause permanent genetic changes in the offspring.

In the study conducted using rats, the researchers found that fetuses receiving poor nutrition in the womb become genetically primed to be born into an environment lacking proper nutrition. As a result, the rats were likely to grow to smaller sizes than their normal counterparts.

Washington, Apr 14 : Although laptops are getting smaller and easier to use day by day, they still get overheated causing circuits to melt and the hardware to fail. But, such problems may soon be history.

Thanks to Slava Rotkin, an assistant professor of physics, whose research team have developed a new cooling method for laptops that dissipates heat by overcoming low rate of thermal coupling between carbon nanotubes and substrate.

London, Apr. 14 : A humiliated British Prime Minister Gordon Brown voiced “great regret” last night over his key aide Damian McBride’s sick plot to smear top Tories, but refused to apologise.

With a successful G-20 summit under his belt, Brown was hoping next week’s Budget would boost his dismal showing in the polls, but instead, he was engulfed by strategy chief McBride’s putrid conspiracy to smear top Tories.

Brown was forced to spend yesterday sending “personal” letters to the victims of this appalling plot — David Cameron, George Osborne and MP Nadine Dorries, reports The Sun.

Canberra, Apr 14 : More than 100 Tamil protesters have converged on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s Canberra residence, demanding that Australia play a greater role in ending the violence in Sri Lanka.

The protesters want Australia to use diplomatic channels to push for a permanent ceasefire in the conflict between Sri Lankan government forces and the Tamil rebels.

There are about 150 protesters just metres from the walls surrounding the Lodge, including three men who began a hunger strike on Friday, with up to 100 more expected to arrive soon.