Britain's Poet Laureate wishes he didn't write a rap to celebrate Prince William's 21st birthday. Andrew Motion - who steps down as royal writer on Thursday - is not happy with all of the rhymes he wrote while in office.

He said: "Overall, I think of them as left-handed poems written by a right-handed poet. Some of them don't work at all well. I tried to write something for Prince William's 21st birthday in the style of a rap, because I thought 'he's a young person and I'll do it in a kind of humorous way.'"

Noel Gallagher and Russell Brand phoned U.S. President Barack Obama to quiz him about soccer. The pair made a call to the American leader during their radio show on British station talkSPORT, which aired Sunday night, to discover if Obama's confession he is a fan of English Premier League team West Ham United is true.

Russell - who supports the East London club - phoned the White House, and when he didn't get through left a voicemail message.

A university professor, who is organizing a protest at next week's G20 summit, was suspended from his job after warning bankers "could be hanging from lampposts."

University of East London professor of anthropology Chris Knight said during an interview with the BBC that demonstrators would be "hanging a lot of people" during the summit.

Medical research from Johns Hopkins University of more than 3,000 men in Uganda found that those who are circumcised have a significantly lower risk of contracting a sexually transmitted disease.

Specifically, the researchers said that circumcised men had a 25-percent lower risk of catching herpes and a 35-percent lower risk of contracting the human pappilomavirus.

Australia's largest newspaper group on Sunday publicly apologized to politician Pauline Hanson for printing nude photos it erroneously claimed to be hers.

Editors from News Limited group, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, admitted the pictures they published in several newspapers on March 15 were not Hanson. The photos were published in the state of Queensland, where Hanson ran and lost as an independent lawmaker.