News at Sever-Thirty highlights: welfare recipients increased by 3.5 percent; students may need to find internship from mainland; HSBC is cutting 1200 jobs in Britain; Obama seeks power to regulate financial institutions; Czech government has collapsed; patient complained regained consciousness during surgery; York Chow has not indentified people reponsible for the drug incidents; Alice Tai criticised government’s poor departmental coordination; Rugby Sevens begins on Saturday; green turtles laid eggs in HK.