Nostradamus once predicted that "from the calm morning, the end will come when of the dancing horse the number of circles shall be nine." That's all bollocks because the one thing the prediction hasn't delivered on is an apocalypse. But Gangnam Style has become the first video to clock up more than one billion views on YouTube. The South Korean dance track was posted online in July, propelling pop star Psy to worldwide fame. It has inspired hundreds of parody clips, including but not limited to videos from members of the British army, Thai navy, and Minecraft gamers. YouTube's owner, Google, said the video had been watched seven million to 10 million times a day on average. It overtook the previous record holder - Justin Bieber's music video Baby - on 24 November. The graph at the top of this post will clearly illustrate that PSY is the better musician. And speaking of music, a British diplomat is having to face the music over his country's Antarctic claim. The UK ambassador to Argentina has been summoned to explain to officials in Buenos Aires why part of Antarctica has been renamed in honour of the Queen. John Freeman was handed a formal protest note "strongly rejecting" the UK's claim to a piece of land known as the British Antarctic Territory. The southern section was named Queen Elizabeth Land by Foreign Secretary William Hague on Tuesday. The note claimed the area was part of the Argentine Antarctic sector. It stated that the Argentine government "strongly rejected" Britain's right to rename the area.
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