24 Hours stories:
Cumbria floods: there's more where that came from
Nov 20th, 2009 - Telegraph
It seems unfair, if you are already officially the wettest place in Britain, to be dowsed with the most rainfall ever to fall over 24 hours. But that's what has just happened to the hamlet of Seathwaite...
Activision: Modern Warfare 2 earned $550 million in first five days
Nov 18th, 2009 - Joystiq
Activision has announced that, according to its internal estimates, Modern Warfare 2 has racked up $550 million in its first five days on the market. Considering that $310 million of that was in the game's first 24 hours...Home alone: the house where binge mother left children
Nov 17th, 2009 - guardian.co.uk
An empty carton of milk sits on the worktop next to a plastic box containing only discarded wrappers. A dining room chair has been pulled up to the worktop to allow little arms to reach cupboards that would be otherwise be impossibly high...Twins separated after marathon Australia surgery
Nov 16th, 2009 - Yahoo! News
MELBOURNE (AFP) – Australian doctors on Tuesday successfully separated joined-at-the-head Bangladeshi twin girls after more than 24 hours of surgery, describing the moment as "surreal".
Mother left four children home alone for 24 hours
Nov 16th, 2009 - guardian.co.uk
A mother who abandoned her four young children to go on a 24-hour drink and drug binge was given a suspended jail sentence today. Rebecca Stevenson, 22, of Blackburn, Lancashire...




