This Week's News: The Odds

Latest betting odds quoted by William Hill: Jo Moore to make gaffe: 5/1 George W. Bush to make gaffe: 2/1 Prince Philip to make gaffe: 1/4 fav Quiz shows to remain on television: 15/1 Robert Mugabe to win next election: 1/1,685,212 Chesney Hawkes to have new hit single: 1/only 1:55pm to occur during day: 5/2 1:55pm to occur late: 3/2 Surrealism to be revived as artistic movement: fish/1 Space shuttle to launch: 109876543/1 Children to learn to count: 1/345 Men in desperate situation to take outside chance that might just work: 1,000,000/1 Odd numbers to disappear from existence: evens England football team to beat Germany: 5/1, 5/1, 5/1 Arthur C. Clarke to write ground-breaking science-fiction bestseller: 2000/1 Arthur C. Clarke to shamelessly cash in on vast success of ground-breaking science-fiction bestseller: 3000/1 Illuminatus trilogy to be republished: 23/1 Douglas Adams to return to life and be depressed about it: 42/1 Entire hippy population of Earth to merge into: 1