Eight Independent Community and Health Concern candidates will be doing their best to keep alive the flame of people power which famously flared eight years ago at Wyre Forest, when opposition to the downgrading of Kidderminster Hospital led to the election of the Independent MP Richard Taylor and swept the party to control of the district council there.

BBC: BNP to target recession hit towns

Though many issues remain unresolved, and the emotions from decades of conflict are still raw for many, power-sharing has so far proved flame-proof against all challenges.

ECONOMIST: Northern Ireland

Moscow-based cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab said that the latest malware discovery, known as the Flame, is not only similar to the Stuxnet worm that infiltrated Iranian nuclear power plants in 2010, it was more than likely created by the same entities.

FORBES: Kaspersky Lab: Same Countries Behind Stuxnet And Flame Malware

Kaspersky Labs' namesake Eugene Kaspersky is worried that widely distributed and potentially state-sponsored malware like Flame and Stuxnet pose dire threats to often lightly protected infrastructure like communication and power plants -- whatever your nationality, it's clearly bad for the civilian population of a given country to suffer even collateral damage from cyberattacks.

ENGADGET: Kaspersky Labs preps its own OS to guard vital industry against cyberwarfare