Day 24 – Today’s Total: 89, Overall Total: 897

It’s been a strange last few days. Apparently swine flu isn’t as bad as once thought. Or was that bird flu? Wait wasn’t that SARS? Looks like crisis over anyway, although I’m sure the media will run with the story until Winehouse burps the national anthem or something crude and not-newsworthy.

Well we can start with some good news. Two pitiful excuses for human beings have been arrested for the Death of the man run over in Leeds last Friday. I know, ‘innocent before proven guilty’ and all that; but sod it, if they did it then they deserve the clowns pocket they’ll get in prison, and a lot more.

Back to the news, and the BBC News website have reported on six people dying in Austria after an avalanche occurred in the Alps region of the country. What a horrible way to go.

Well you think you can’t get much more bad news from the Middle-East, and then you hear about a tragic bus crash in the Iranian city of Tehran, killing 26 people. A mechanical problem was apparently to blame, which caused the bus to smash into a building at high speed, something that really should not be happening with the global technology we have on hand today.

This occurred on the same day that another tragic accident, this time in the Indian-controlled area of Kashmir, saw 27 people dead, as their bus veered off a mountain side, plunging into a river.

There is still violence in Iraq. This time, an Iraqi dressed in his nation’s army uniform has shot dead two US soldiers is Mosul. It really does seem like an impossible task out there, to group such a clearly divided country under one very unstable roof.

The widely reported Gaza unrest at the end of last year seems to have died down now. However, this does not mean the fighting has fully stopped. A report yesterday told of an Israeli air strike killing two people on the Gaza side of the Gaza-Egypt boarder.

Unfortunately, unrest continues in other places of the world, with a roadside bomb exploding on the streets of Zabul and Laghman provinces of Afghanistan, killing a total of 25 civilians. What is worse is that reports say one of the suicide bombers was just 14-years-old.

The whole world seems to be in civil unrest, international war, or technologically suffering. So, we come to the UK, where the main report is that the body of a man has been found in a river, which was last seen ‘intoxicated and unsteady on his feet’. There’s a sad sense of irony here. Really, our lives are only bad if we make them bad.