Jacko 'is biological dad of kids'

Tito Jackson said the children all bore a family resemblance, with Blanket - whose real name is Prince Michael II - having the same eyes as the singer.

He told the Daily Mirror: "They are all his children. Blanket is Michael's, I can tell. Those eyes don't lie. Them eyes are Michael over again. I see a lot of Michael in him."

He also dismissed suggestions that the children were too pale to be Jackson's.

"Just because they look white doesn't mean they are not his. Prince looks just like my grandfather. There's no question they are Michael's. They are 100% his...They remind me of me and my brothers when we were growing up," he told the newspaper.

But he said nobody, including himself, knew the identity of Blanket's mother, describing it as the "million dollar question". Blanket was born to a mystery surrogate mother the singer never even met.

Despite growing up in the glare of the media spotlight, the children were all "very, very normal," Tito, 55, added. He said they enjoyed wearing masks when they went out and that they knew that they and their father were famous.

His comments came as pictures emerged that were said to depict needle puncture marks on the star's ankles and a large wound on his right shin - thought to have been caused by his injection of drugs.

Meanwhile a magazine obtained video it said shows never-before-seen footage of Jackson's head catching fire during filming of his 1984 Pepsi advert.

Jackson suffered severe burns after a pyrotechnics accident set his hair and scalp alight. The video on Us Weekly's website showed the moment Jackson's hair caught on fire and the top of his head became engulfed in flames.

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Ricky Hatton In Hospital With Chest Pains

The boxer has been treated at Tameside Hospital in Greater Manchester.

He complained of feeling unwell on Monday and was admitted to hospital on Wednesday morning, sources said.

Doctors have carried out tests on the former light-welterweight champion and think the most likely cause is food poisoning.

They have ruled out swine flu.

Hatton is said not to be seriously ill but he could be kept in hospital for a couple of days as a precaution.

Hatton, 30, was on a theatre tour in Ireland last week and attended a boxing event on Saturday that he was promoting.

Meanwhile, promoter Frank Warren said he would like to see Hatton fight Amir Khan, who faces his maiden world title challenge against Ukrainian Andreas Kotelnik on Saturday.

While 22-year-old Khan and his trainer Freddie Roach have spoken at length about a showdown with Hatton, promoter Warren has kept his cards closer to his chest.

Mr Warren believes Hatton should retire following an emphatic defeat by Manny Pacquiao earlier this year.

But he admitted if the Mancunian does fight on, he would be open to a fight between the two.

Mr Warren said: "Let's see if Amir gets the belt first. But it's a great fight.

"I think personally Ricky Hatton should retire but if he wants to fight, then why not? It's a great fight."

Asked if he would be confident of Khan beating Hatton, Mr Warren added: "I think so, I think he is the man of his time but he's got to get through Kotelnik first. That's the most important thing."

Carmen Bousada, who was single, died on Saturday from a cancer which was diagnosed just one year after she gave birth to Cristian and Pau, daily Diario de Cadiz reported citing her brother.

She gave birth to the twins on December 26, 2006 at Barcelona hospital after undergoing treatment at a US fertility clinic, sparking a worldwide debate.

Bousada admitted to lying to US doctors at fertility clinic about her age, saying she was 55, so as to not be rejected as a patient.

Spanish law does not set an age limit for fertility treatments but the majority of clinics turn away women who are over 50.

"Everyone should have children at the appropriate moment," Bousada said in an interview published in British tabloid News of the World one month after she gave birth to the twins.

She said she had waited until the death in 2005 of her mother, who she had looked after for several years, to carry out her dream of becoming a mother, 18 years after going through menopause.

Bousada told the newspaper she was confident she would live as long as her mother, who died at the age of 101, and become a grandmother.

After she was diagnosed with cancer, she told Spanish television that her nephew and their godfather could look after the twins if she died.

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World's cheapest car passes Euro test

The Tata Nano has passed a round of European crash tests - putting it a huge step closer to going

on sale in the UK.

The Nano went on sale in India in March for the equivalent of around £1,400, making it the world's cheapest car and prompting a frenzy among buyers, resulting in a reported three-year waiting list. But because safety regulations are tougher in Europe than in India there were fears that the stripped-out

Nano would be deemed unsafe for UK roads.

But those fears were allayed when a 'European spec' Nano passed side and front impact tests

witnessed by an inspector from the UK's Vehicle Certification Authority. One of the tests was a frontal collision at 35mph, and although the car is yet to go through full Euro NCAP testing, the results bode

well. Tata chiefs predict a four-star rating for the car when it eventually goes in sale outside India,

though it still won't come to the UK until at least 2012.

Mark Nichol