Word Soup

Remember, your day could always be worse:

" A U.S. man given up for adoption at birth has spoken of his anguish at discovering that his long-lost father is notorious serial killer Charles Manson.

Matthew Roberts said: 'It was like finding out your father is Hitler'.

The 41-year-old DJ made the discovery after tracing his mother and learning she had been raped by Manson during a drug-fuelled orgy nine months before he was born in 1968.

'I'm a peaceful person - trapped in the face of a monster.'

He added: 'My hero is Gandhi. I'm an extremely non-violent, peaceful person and a vegetarian.

'I don't even kill bugs,' he told The Sun.