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225,613 | b02398b51c88dcabc9f537f92ef4d892a9e96630 | By . Lizzie Edmonds . PUBLISHED: . 16:20 EST, 3 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 20:20 EST, 3 January 2014 . A group of street children in Old Delhi have opened their own bank. The bank, known as the Children's Development Khazana (CDK), was set up and is now run by children in the Fatehpuri neighbourhood of Old Delhi. The bank was established on the principle the children would make all the rules and . decisions. Show them how it's done: Street children queue up at the counter to deposit money at their very own bank . Deposit: Children wait to deposit their earnings at the bank - called the Children's Development Khazana . NGO volunteers from child rights organisation Butterflies, however, assist the day-to-day running of the bank and sort out any logistical issues. Children . aged nine to 18 can deposit a small amount and get 3.5 percent on their deposits. It is open seven days a week and is run by perhaps the youngest manager in the world - 13-year-old Sonu. He said: 'I ran away from home and started working at a tea stall. It was bad. Then I met some volunteers who told me about the bank. I came here. Now I go to school and I am the (bank) manager also. Patience: Those who hold an account may deposit a small amount and get 3.5 per cent interest . Earnings: The bank is managed by 13-year-old Sonu (left) who joined the bank after running away from home . 'Kids make deposits. They can withdraw anytime if they have to buy something like clothes or eatables. The bank is open seven days a week.' Fourteen-year-old Sheru, who lived on a railway platform, is a regular. He said: 'I . have started saving money in the Children's Bank. I sell water bottles. I put all the money that I earn into my account. I have saved Rs 5000-6000 so far. I want to save more in the future.' Work: Sonu worked briefly in a tea stall before joining the bank - which is overseen by charity Butterflies . Saving up: A child makes a deposit. Some members have saved up as much as £50-£60 through the bank . Open all hours: Sonu runs a tight ship and his bank is open seven days a week . Sheru says he wants to become a photographer when he grows up. He hopes to save enough to buy a camera one day. Raheemam, 15, who works as a rag . picker, also has an . account. She . said: 'I used to lose my money. One day, I met a sister (NGO . volunteer). She told me about the children's bank. So I came here. 'Now I . work more freely. I know my money is safe. I can withdraw money when . the need arises.' Paperwork: Four members show their pass books - which are needed to make a deposit . Pass book: Information such as name and date of account opening is included in the document . Charity program manager at Butterflies, Shashidhar Sabnavis, said:"Street children were telling us that they lose their money. Or they tend to spend their money here and there. "So, we at Butterflies decided on the idea of operationalizing a bank for them. "They use their savings in the khazana . (bank) to meet their future needs. "Some of them use their money to go . for higher education, or vocational training. Some of them use it to . start small business enterprises.' The charity also provides education, shelter and care for Delhi's vulnerable children. Future: It is hoped the members, two with passbooks pictured, learn life skills while staying at the shelter . Education: The NGO also runs classes for the children (pictured) and offers them shelter and food . Learning: Many of the children were not in school - one class pictured - before they joined the NGO . A teacher working for the organisation Firdaus Ahma said: 'Some kids here have jobs. They work in shops or tea stalls. We talk to those kids and motivate them to study and join our classes. 'This helps us bring them into the mainstream. 'When kids start depositing their earnings in the bank. That is an education for life. They will inculcate the habit of making savings. This will become a habit and help them in the future.' The CDK initiative has won numerous accolades, leading to them expanding the scheme to other parts of Delhi. Studies: A class takes place inside the shelter - which has won numerous awards for its work with children . Facilities: The children are given computer training (pictured) while at the shelter . Now Butterflies plan to introduce the initiative in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh as well as some parts of Africa. Sharon Jacob, a child rights activist, said: 'This program has to go out and reach as many needy kids as possible. It can change lives. 'This is a bank for the kids who live their life on the streets. The bank motivates these kids - it offers them a future.' | Street children in Old Delhi have opened the bank for nine to 18-year-olds .
Members can deposit a small amount and get 3.5 per cent interest .
Bank, called Children's Development Khazana, is managed by Sonu, 13 .
Overseen by NGO Butterflies, which also provides schooling and shelter . |
280,204 | f6ff03106aaba2d5f9f3b42546b5a8b1a32456e3 | (CNN Student News) -- May 27, 2011 . Download PDF maps related to today's show: . • Bosnia • France • Joplin, Missouri . Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: It's Friday -- awesome! -- and I'm Carl Azuz. First up today, a headline that some people have waited 15 years to hear. First Up: Ratko Mladic Captured . AZUZ: Ratko Mladic, the former commander of Serbian forces in Bosnia, has been arrested. This conflict in Bosnia happened back in the 1990s. It was the deadliest war fought in Europe since World War II. And Mladic was the highest ranking war crimes suspect who hadn't been caught. Bosnia was part of the former country of Yugoslavia. The war there lasted from 1992 to 1995. Serbians, Croats and Muslims fought against each other for control of territory. Serbian leaders, like Mladic, are accused of genocide, attempting to wipe out the other groups. Mladic was the leader of Bosnian Serb forces who allegedly attacked the city of Srebrenica and killed thousands of Muslims. Only one other top Serb leader is currently held and awaiting trial. And with Mladic now in custody, Hala Gorani looks back at some of the reaction to what could be the end of this dark chapter in history. (BEGIN VIDEO) HALA GORANI, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: After almost 16 years on the run, one of the world's most wanted alleged war criminals is finally captured. Serbian authorities arrested Ratko Mladic Thursday. They reportedly caught up with him in Lazarevo, a village near the northern town of Zrenjanin. Mladic was a Bosnian Serb general during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, and the highest-ranking Yugoslav war crimes suspect still at large. He's wanted for genocide, extermination and murder, and is accused of masterminding the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica. LORD DAVID OWEN, FORMER EU ENVOY TO FORMER YUGOSLAVIA: General Mladic has a very heavy responsibility for what was a tragedy in Bosnia-Herzegovina for many years, but particularly for the massacre of over 8,000 Muslim males, which has already been judged to be a genocide. GORANI: The capture was praised internationally as a victory for the rule of law in Serbia. ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN, NATO SECRETARY GENERAL: The arrest of Ratko Mladic is a very important step towards full integration of the entire region in our Euro-Atlantic community. GORANI: Mladic now faces extradition to the Netherlands and will eventually be tried by an international criminal tribunal. JAMES RUBIN, FORMER U.S. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE: When I was the State Department spokesman back in the late '90s, journalists every day would often ask what's happening with Mladic, what's happening with Karadzic, and all I could say at the time was his day will come. And his day has finally come. OWEN: I expect to see him in the Hague very soon, and I think that justice will then be done. GORANI: Hala Gorani, reporting. (END VIDEO) Shoutout . SHELBY ERDMAN, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Ms. Hendrich's social studies classes at Elton Gregory Middle School in Redmond, Oregon! Nicolas Sarkozy is the president of what country? You know what to do! Is it: A) Russia, B) France, C) Canada or D) Greece? You've got three seconds -- GO! Mr. Sarkozy has been the president of France for four years. That's your answer and that's your Shoutout! G8 Meeting in France . AZUZ: Right now, President Sarkozy is welcoming other world leaders as France hosts the annual meeting of the G8, or Group of Eight. Along with France, the G8 includes the U.S., Britain, Canada, Japan, Germany, Italy and Russia. These are the world's biggest economic powers. They meet every year to discuss major issues happening around the globe. The group got together yesterday in France. And in addition to big topics -- like the global economy, the environment, terrorism -- the recent Japanese earthquake and tsunami also came up. Japan's prime minister thanked President Obama for America's help in recovering from that disaster. Immigration Law . AZUZ: The U.S. Supreme Court is ruling on whether state or federal laws take priority when it comes to immigration reform. A majority of the court ruled in favor of an Arizona law. It punishes businesses that don't use a federal system to check a potential employee's immigration status. Other groups had argued that the system is supposed to be voluntary. There are several cases involving this "state versus federal" question, so we could hear more on this very soon. Why So Many Tornadoes? AZUZ: Officials in Missouri have released a list of more than 230 people missing since a tornado hit the city of Joplin on Sunday. They're asking anyone with information to call in and help. The tornado in Joplin was just one of the storms that has torn across the U.S. Rob Marciano is here to explain the science behind how these twisters form. Rob? ROB MARCIANO, CNN WEATHER ANCHOR: The set-up across the U.S. is different from any other place in the world, where you have cold Canadian air that comes down from, obviously Canada. And this time of year in May and April, we still have cold air at the upper levels of the atmosphere, because it's not quite totally warmed up. And we have warm humid air coming in from the south, and then also dry air coming in from Mexico. It makes this year a little bit different. At least earlier on, we have this La Nina that we've talked about, and what that does it really starts to kink up the jet stream a little bit more than usual, and that gives it more energy. That allows more cold air to drop down, and that allows the battleground to light up a little bit more. Blog Promo . AZUZ: On our blog at CNNStudentNews.com, you'll see a list of this school year's top stories. Severe weather is definitely one of them. We want to include your thoughts in our year-end wrap-up. Go to the blog, leave your comments on these stories. You might see them in our show next Friday. Don't Fry Day . AZUZ: Today, obviously, is Friday. But some organizations have dubbed today "Don't Fry Day." Hmm? Brooke Baldwin is going to shine a light on what this is about. (BEGIN VIDEO) BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: The National Sun Safety Day, also known as "Don't Fry Day," is a campaign by the EPA and members of the National Council on Skin Cancer Awareness. Now in its third year, Don't Fry Day is aimed at educating the public about skin protection in the sun. It's held just before Memorial Day weekend. DRUSILLA HUFFORD, EPA: Our hope in holding it on the Friday before Memorial Day really has been to peg to the expectation in most American families that that is the gateway to summer. As of now, 1 in 5 Americans is expected to be diagnosed with skin cancer over a lifetime. So, EPA and the National Council are asking folks to remember to slip, slop, slap and wrap. First, slip on some protective clothing. Secondly, wear sunscreen. Next, slap on a hat. Finally, wrap on some sunglasses. BALDWN: Dermatologist Rutledge Forney says sunscreen is key. DR. RUTLEDGE FORNEY, DERMATOLOGIST: The first thing they ought to look for is a large number. We really believe that 30 or higher is very important. The second thing is that they need to have a broad spectrum, that is UVA and UVB coverage. (END VIDEO) Is This Legit? ERDMAN, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Is this legit? Memorial Day used to be known as Decoration Day. This is true! And the holiday always falls on the last Monday in May. Honoring the Fallen . AZUZ: The holiday that Americans observe on Monday goes back almost 150 years. It was named Decoration Day because the first people who observed it would decorate -- put flowers -- on the graves of troops killed in the U.S. Civil War. So why late May? Well, it's believed this time of year was chosen because flowers are in bloom all across the nation. This is Arlington National Cemetery. It's where the first major Decoration Day observance was held in 1868, though smaller observances were made throughout the country before that. Instead of flowers, today's military usually places small American flags beside more than 250,000 graves at Arlington. The flags will stay there through Memorial Day. But Decoration Day, Memorial Day, how did we get from one name to the other? The Great War, the war to end all wars; what's known today as World War I. It not only changed the world, it changed how the U.S. remembers its fallen troops. After this brutal event, Decoration Day became Memorial Day to memorialize Americans killed in any of the nation's wars. This is what distinguishes this holiday from Veterans Day, which honors anyone who's served in the U.S. Armed Forces. And while Memorial Day's traditions have changed over the years, its significance remains. At 3:00 p.m., wherever you are on Memorial Day, there's a National Moment of Remembrance. It encourages you to pause for one minute in honor of those who've died fighting for the country. Before We Go . AZUZ: Well, before we go today, we have proof for you that one person really can make a difference. The flag flying over the pier in Oceanside, California was pretty torn up. So, Luke Smith decided to do something about it. He wrote a letter to the mayor. The eight-year-old said that flying a torn flag was disrespectful to the country and its troops. He asked the mayor to replace it. Done! New flag flying, all thanks to one person's determination. Goodbye . AZUZ: Time for us to wave goodbye. No show on Monday due to Memorial Day. Enjoy the long weekend. For CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz. | Serbian authorities arrest an alleged war criminal from the Bosnian War .
World leaders gather to discuss global issues at the G8 Summit in France .
Officials declare "Don't Fry Day" to raise awareness about exposure to sun .
Use the weekly Newsquiz to test your knowledge of stories you saw on CNN Student News . |
84,196 | eec66561cb512e6149dd59b88928014c936f6aef | By . Jill Reilly . PUBLISHED: . 15:49 EST, 25 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 15:49 EST, 25 June 2013 . From the moment of birth to adolescence to becoming a woman, the relationship between a mother and daughter is complex, sometimes challenging and constantly evolving. Photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten has explored the dynamic bond in a poignant series of work entitled Mothers and Daughters. She enlisted dozens of mother and daughter pairings to pose for her work, but was mindful of creating a superficial environment. Exploration: From the moment of birth to adolescence to becoming a woman, the relationship between a mother and daughter is complex and constantly evolving . Familial ties: Photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten has explored the familial bond in a poignant series of work entitled Mothers and Daughters . Series: She enlisted dozens of mother and daughter pairings to pose for her work, but was mindful of creating a superficial environment . 'I only needed to orchestrate the . sitters moderately to show the essence of their emotional bond. They . created their own small world together, at the same time, through the . staging of the scene, reviving my memories of my own family's . relationships,' she told My Modern Met. She told the website that the photos show the full cycle of the relationship - 'the babe-in-arms is fully dependent on the . mother, but at the other end of the age sale, the mother often becomes . dependent on her daughter to satisfy her emotional needs.' The project was inspired by the German photographer's past - she reflected on her mother's relationship with her three daughters as well as their grandmother. Ms Fullerton-Batten was born in Bremen and spent most of her childhood in Germany and the . United States, before moving to the UK when she was 16. She now lives in . London and studied studied photography at the Royal Berkshire College of Art . and Design. She started her professional career in 2001 and is now a . well-established professional photographer, rapidly developing a . reputation as one of the leading young photographers in Europe. Artistic touch: 'I only needed to orchestrate the sitters moderately to show the essence of their emotional bond,' she said . World: The subjects 'created their own small world together, at the same time, through the staging of the scene, reviving my memories of my own family's relationships,' she told My Modern Met . Mothers and Daughters: The project was inspired by the German photographer's past - she reflected her mother's relationship with her three daughters as well as their grandmother . Past: Ms Fullerton-Batten was born in Bremen and spent most of her childhood in Germany and the United States, before moving to the UK when she was 16 . Glamorous: A daughter stretches out on a bed as her mother looks on in a bedroom setting . Flying the nest: A daughter looks away wistfully as mother splays out on a mattress - perhaps the daughter is contemplating leaving home . Bond: The photos are designed as a snapshot into the lives of women who have the strong bond of being a mother and daughter . Seasonal fun: A mother and daughter dressed up for a Halloween celebration . Changing: A mother and daughter get ready for a dip in a swimming pool. The daughter stand proud as the mother looks anxiously at the pool . Not always plain sailing: Some of the photos aim to reflect the more difficult stages in the relationship between a mother and daughter . Differences: A daughter slumps on a chair as her mother stands in the kitchen holding the washing-up, looking pained . True to life: The photos aim to show milestones in the relationship between a mother and a daughter . Reflection: A mother looks at her daughter in the mirror as her daughter looks directly back at her . Cycle: She told the website that the photos show the full cycle of the relationship - 'the babe-in-arms is fully dependent on the mother, but at the other end of the age sale, the mother often becomes dependent on her daughter to satisfy her emotional needs' | Photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten has explored the familial bond in a series of work entitled Mothers and Daughters .
Enlisted dozens of mother and daughter pairings to pose for her work in their own environment . |
143,507 | 459729e17d02457ab23b3d567b60834b3401d20f | An Egyptian administrative court issued an order Tuesday banning virginity tests for female detainees, months after several women alleged they were subjected to such examinations following a March protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square. The ruling comes in the case of Samira Ibrahim, a 25-year-old marketing manager who took the country's military led-government to court in August, alleging she was among those subjected to the test after her arrest during the March 9 protest. She said she faced death threats after bringing the case. "Justice has been served today," Ibrahim told CNN. "These tests are a crime and also do not comply with the constitution, which states equality between men and woman. I will not give up my rights as a woman or a human being." Aly Hassan, a judicial consultant affiliated with Ministry of Justice, said the order only affects the use of such tests in military prisons and on women in temporary detention. "Those tests are not considered a crime or else the file would be in the Criminal Court," Hassan said. "It's the circumstances of the alleged test that may be in question here." In March, the human rights group Amnesty International reported that Egyptian troops beat, shocked and strip-searched women arrested during the protest in Cairo and forced them to submit to virginity tests. Egyptian authorities initially denied requiring virginity tests, but in May, a senior general who asked not to be identified acknowledged the practice. The general said the tests were performed as a safeguard against the women accusing authorities of sexual assault, and he defended the tests. "The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine," the general told CNN at the time. "These were girls who had camped out in tents with male protesters in Tahrir Square, and we found in the tents Molotov cocktails and (drugs)." But Ibrahim said her treatment clearly showed the tests were meant to "degrade the protesters." "The military tortured me, labeled me a prostitute and humiliated me by forcing on me a virginity test conducted by a male doctor where my body was fully exposed while military soldiers watched," she said. Another protester arrested in the March 9 protest, Salwa Hosseini, offered a similar account, according to an Amnesty International report on the allegations. In addition to Ibrahim, a member of the No to Military Trials to Civilians group, Maha Mamoun, joined the legal action even though she was not subjected to a test, said Ahmed Ragab, an attorney with the Hisham Mubarak Law Center who handled Ibrahim's case. Ragab said government lawyers initially denied that the tests were administered and the case was repeatedly delayed before Tuesday's ruling. | Ruling involves military prisons and temporary detention, governemnt consultant says .
Woman who says she was subjected to virginity test says justice has been served .
"I will not give up my rights as a woman or a human being," Samira Ibrahim says .
Women arrested during March protests say they were subjected to the examinations . |
61,767 | af75191de5cb3eeb4e9e49eef1095a64f9ef6268 | By . Emma Glanfield . Frisbee catching has been banned from a country dog show today on the grounds of health and safety amid fears the pets could injure themselves when taking part. It is one of three events to be either dropped or altered at Scruffs Dog Show in Keswick, Cumbria, after organisers cited health and safety concerns. Show organisers took the ‘bizarre’ decision to drop both the 'highest frisbee jump' and the 'highest biggest catch' categories over fears the competing dogs could injure themselves. The Kennel Club, which has named the town the UK’s most dog-friendly on two occasions, supported the decision. Frisbee catching has been banned from Scruffs Dog Show in Keswick, Cumbria today on the grounds of health and safety amid fears the pets could strain or injure themselves when taking part (file picture) Tony Lywood, one of the show’s organisers, said a third category – 'best biggest catcher' – had also been toned down for safety reasons. Instead of jumping to catch the biscuit, dogs will instead be sitting down when taking part. Mr Lywood said the decision was made after fellow organisers raised concerns about the competing dogs’ wellbeing. He said: ‘In shows elsewhere there have been occasions where dogs have jumped high and twisted their back, and there was one where the dog had to be put down. ‘The committee made the decision reluctantly, we were advised it was a better thing to do even though it sounds counterintuitive and bizarre. ‘I think we probably made the right decision, we just want to avoid any dogs getting hurt. ‘Health and safety has finally hit dogs.’ Organisers decided to drop both the 'highest frisbee jump' and the 'highest biggest catch' categories over fears the dogs could get hurt. More than 500 people are set to attend the show in Keswick, Cumbria (above) The Kennel Club endorsed the show's decision. A spokesman said: ‘The Kennel Club encourages fun sports and activities for dogs in order to keep them fit and healthy. ‘But it has concerns about the game of frisbee, particularly in its more extreme forms. ‘While it can be safe in controlled conditions, if it is thrown at great heights or awkward angles, leading the dog to jump and twist, it can cause strain and injury on landing so care should always be taken.’ More than 500 people are expected to descend on Fitz Park in Keswick today for the dog show, which will see 28 dogs taking part in 24 different categories. Other categories will see prizes awarded to the dog with the most appealing eyebrows, the waggiest tail, the longest tongue and the one which most looks like its owner. | 'Highest frisbee jump' category dropped from Scruffs Dog Show in Cumbria .
'Highest biggest catch' also dropped over health and safety concerns .
Organisers said 'best biggest catcher' also amended so dogs don't jump .
Decision taken over concerns dogs could strain or injure themselves . |
13,049 | 2507ba0e89b444c20f6c0e3d50734629f55b15e2 | Grand Canyon visitors are being forced to wait their turn at some of the national park’s drinking stations after thirsty elk figured out how to help themselves to water. The crafty animals are surprising tourists by lifting spring-loaded levers with their noses to get a refreshing drink. But the animals are being overly protective and have acted aggressively toward hikers, forcing Grand Canyon officials to take steps to elk-proof at least one water station. Water you doing? Elk interact with visitors at the South Kaibab water station at Grand Canyon National Park . After banning disposable plastic water bottles and installing water stations in an attempt to reduce waste, park officials are now experimenting with a cage around the spouts at one water station and will change the way it is turned on. Around a dozen of the filling stations are set up, but the elk favour one at South Kaibab Trail because it allows them to easily duck back into the woods. The elk don't always back down when visitors approach. Instead, they take a firm stance, particularly when protecting calves or during fall rutting season. Chief resource officer Martha Hahn said: ‘They got a little aggressive about it. They were pretty protective of that water and wanting to get it first.’ Elk have figured out how to use the water stations by lifting spring-loaded levers with their noses . Flagstaff, Arizona resident Ian Tong was hiking rim to rim at the canyon with three other people in 2012 when they saw an elk guarding the water station at South Kaibab Trail. The elk tried to intimidate the group by making clicking sounds with its mouth and following them on either side of the filling station, he said. Tong said: ‘It definitely was a “go away” kind of thing. She wasn't wanting to share.’ Still, he said elk encounters are part of experiencing nature and he saw no problem with them at the watering stations. Park officials say elk have been guarding one water station and intimidating visitors who approach it . There have been no reports of visitors being injured, but the elk have charged at wildlife biologists trying to disperse herds by staring them down or shooting them with paintball and water guns, said wildlife biologist Brandon Holton. He said: ‘Some move, some don't. Sometimes when you shoot them with water guns, they open their mouth.’ If the new water station design works, it will be used at the rest of the stations. | Crafty animals are lifting spring-loaded levers with their noses .
Elk are being overly protective and have acted aggressively toward hikers .
Park officials are taking steps to elk-proof water stations . |
81,638 | e7577621e224f150b3609f52ef11c45b1ce5557c | Their official wedding date is set for May 24 in Paris, France, but Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are already married, according to new reports. The couple tied the knot earlier this week in Los Angeles, a source tells Life & Style. 'Kim and Kanye are now married on paper. They got their license in California over the past few days,' the source said. 'Kim and North are on their way to NYC now.' Scroll down for video . Come . fly with me! Kim Kardashian and Kanye West were like chalk and cheese . in their decidedly differing styles as they arrived at LAX on Saturday . for their Delta flight . The couple were spotted at LAX as they made their way to New York on Saturday ahead of Monday's Met Gala, although their 10-month-old daughter North wasn't seen with them and neither Kim nor Kanye were sporting wedding rings. Rumours have been swirling in recent weeks that due to a hiccup regarding French law - which requires couples to live in the country for 40 days prior to marrying - the pair would marry in private in a civil ceremony in the States ahead of their extravagant ceremony and reception in Paris later this month. However, it seems that so intimate were . their nuptials that they managed to get away with keepingthe wedding a . secret... until now. Mission . accomplished! The mom-of-one appeared to have well and truly shed the . final 5lbs she was eager to drop ahead of her May 24 wedding, looking . svelte and toned in black dress pants that clung to her trim thighs . The MailOnline reached out to Kim's rep but received a 'no comment'. Meanhwile Kim appears to have well and truly shed those last stubborn 5lbs she was eager to ditch before her wedding. The 33-year-old was all class in her stylish, business-like ensemble, which perfectly accentuated her enviable figure. She opted for black dress pants that clung tightly to her trim thighs and flared out from the knees down, mostly obscuring her pointy black stilettos. She added a sexy, risqué factor in the form of her skin-coloured top, which, from a distance, made it appear as if she wasn't wearing anything at all. Completing her dressy look was a black boyfriend-style blazer that fell just below her ample derrière, featuring satin lapels and pointed padded shoulders. Va-va-voom! The star added some wow factor to her ensemble with her flesh-coloured tight top, which made it appear as if she was wearing nothing at all from a distance . Airport chic: The 33-year-old completed her classy ensemble with a black boyfriend-style blazer that fell just below her ample derrière, featuring satin lapels and pointy padded shoulder detail . It was, in . fact, the same jacket she was wearing when she jetted home from France . on Thursday following a whirlwind 24 hours in the country as she . reportedly attended her final wedding dress fitting. While . the blushing bride-to-be is keeping everyone guessing as to which . designer she's chosen to wear on her big day on May 24, the lavish . Parisian affair will follow a much more low-key civil ceremony in the . States, rumoured to be taking place this week. Indeed, . Kim and Kanye could well have been making their way to a secret . destination on Saturday to exchange vows in private, although it seems . more likely that the ceremony will take place in LA, where the reality . star's large family is based as they will surely attend. Opposites . attract: While Kim opted for chic attire, her fiancé kept it casual in . ripped pale blue jeans, a white T-shirt, grey hoodie and tan suede boots . Why the long face? The rapper couldn't seem to muster even the slightest enthusiasm as he hopped out of his chauffeur-driven SUV and made his way into the terminal, carrying a dark brown woven leather tote . Follow . my lead: The Grammy-winner hopped out of the car first, leading the way . into the terminal, before letting his fiancée walk ahead as they . made their way to check in for the flight . The couple aren't able to legally wed in . Paris due to French marriage laws which stipulate either the bride or . groom must be resident in the country for at least 40 days before the . ceremony. With the pair expected to attend the 2014 Met Gala in Manhattan on Monday, their destination was almost certainly New York. 'Kim and Kanye are going to the Met Gala next week,' a source confirmed to HollywoodLife on Tuesday. A . year after her disastrous debut appearance at the exclusive fashion . event, when the then-heavily pregnant star was widely criticised for her . all-encompassing Ricardo Tisci floral gown, Kim has a lot to prove . second time around and is no doubt feeling the pressure to impress. Despite . her dressed-up appearance for her flight, the star wore not a lick of . make-up on her face, on which she sported a fresh golden fake tan. Lip service: Kim's plump pout, which appeared to have been kept bare except for some questionable lip liner, sparked speculation that she had had some pre-wedding fillers . You can't teach an old dog new tricks! The 36-year-old has quite the reputation for being glum and it seemed that Saturday's excursion was no different despite the couple being on the final countdown for their wedding . Helping . hand: The pair left the heavy lifting to their security team, who . wheeled their Louis Vuitton suitcases as they trailed along behind . She . shielded her eyes behind large black shades and wore her glossy dark . brown tresses pulled back into a simple low ponytail with a heavy side . part. Kim . gripped her favourite black Hermès Birkin bag firmly in her right hand . as she strutted into the terminal, while the couple's security detail . diligently wheeled the pair's Louis Vuitton suitcases. As . always, Kanye was looking glum as he emerged from their chauffeured . black SUV, unable to muster even the slightest enthusiasm. The . 36-year-old was in stark contrast to his lady love in the style stakes, . too, dressed down in ripped pale blue jeans, a white T-shirt, grey . hoodie and tan suede boots. Hardly the picture of happiness: With their civil ceremony reportedly taking place this week ahead of their lavish Parisian celebration on May 24, you would think the couple would look happier . Not ready for her close-up? The reality star kept her large dark shades on even inside the building, covering her make-up-free complexion, which was glowing thanks to a freshly applied fake tan . Gearing up for Kim's arrival? On the same day, Vogue editor Anna Wintour was spotted out in NYC also preparing for the MET Gala . The rapper donned several layered necklaces and carried a dark brown woven leather tote as he made his way into the airport. Though . the couple's 10-month-old daughter, North, didn't join her parents for . the trip, doting mom Kim made sure to keep her close, wearing her . precious gold 'Nori' nameplate necklace in tribute. With . just 20 days to go until their wedding, the couple will likely soon . head to Paris to finish final preparations for their ceremony and lavish . reception. Fanfare: Despite their attempt to fly under the radar, so to speak, it was impossible to miss the star couple's arrival . Star treatment: The A-listers were swiftly led through to the security checkpoint by their burly bodyguard . All . eyes will be on the pair come May 24, eager to see just who had the . honour of designing Kim's one-of-a-kind gown as much as anything. While . the star has already locked down her dress and designer, during her . trip to the French capital last week, she teased fans with trips to . Balmain, Azzedine Alaïa and also Lanvin as she attempted to throw . everyone off the scent. As . E! News reported at the time, the brunette beauty is said to have . chosen a design she 'beyond loves' and is no doubt eager to wow her . designer beau come their big day. Going incognito: The father-of-one emerged from his home with his hood pulled up as they pair were collected for their flight earlier that day . Keeping Up With Bruce: While Kim jetted out, her step father Jenner was seen leaving a church in Calabasas . His invitation must have got lost in the post: It appears Bruce Jenner is definitely not attending the MET Gala this year . | Couple heading to New York amidst reports they have 'already married in civil ceremony in LA' ahead of Paris celebration later this month .
Rapper and reality star expected to attend Met Gala in Manhattan . |
102,854 | 10911c9356e6defdb10b9b490ac98f2d185cd8ce | United Nations (CNN) -- The United Nations Security Council agreed Wednesday to send the Palestinian application for statehood to its admissions committee for review. The first meeting of that committee, which includes all 15 members of the council, is set for Friday. The debate is expected to be largely symbolic in the face of a promised U.S. veto. But the permanent observer of the Palestinian Authority to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, held out hope that the application would be accepted. "As you see, the process is moving forward step by step, and we hope the Security Council (will) shoulder its responsibility and approve our application and send a recommendation to the General Assembly for the admission of Palestine into the United Nations," Mansour said Wednesday. He also sharply criticized Israel's approval Tuesday of the construction of 1,100 homes in a southern Jerusalem neighborhood that was seized by Israel in 1967. The Palestinians claim the land Israel occupied in East Jerusalem and the West Bank after the 1967 war as part of a future Palestinian state. Mansour said the settlements were "1,100 answers of saying no" to peace talks by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "This speaks clearly that Israel is not interested in negotiating with us." But Israeli Ambassador Ron Prosor said it was the Palestinians who were trying to circumvent negotiations with their statehood campaign. "We are not against a Palestinian state," he said. "The thing is how to get there. We should be talking with each other, not over each other." Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas made the bid for the United Nations to recognize an independent state of Palestine on Friday, a move Israel says is premature without direct talks that address its longstanding security concerns. Abbas drew applause when he raised the document at the podium during his speech at the 66th annual session of the General Assembly. The time has come for a "Palestinian Spring" to join the Arab Spring in reshaping the Middle East, he said. "My people desire to exercise their right to enjoy a normal life like the rest of humanity." But Netanyahu, later taking his turn to address the General Assembly, said Palestinians are looking for a "state without peace," ignoring security concerns important to Israel. He said Palestinians are armed not only with their "hopes and dreams," a phrase Abbas had used in his speech, but with "10,000 missiles, and Grad rockets supplied by Iran, not to mention the river of lethal weapons flowing into Gaza." "Palestinians should first make peace with Israel and then get their state," he said, adding that peace must arrive through a two-state solution that recognizes Israel as a Jewish state. If that occurs, Israel "will be the first" to recognize Palestinian statehood, the prime minister said. U.S. President Barack Obama has said he supports Palestinian statehood but reiterated a longstanding U.S. position that Israel must be part of the discussions. While a U.S. veto would block the bid for full U.N. membership, the General Assembly could still vote to upgrade the status of Palestinians, who currently hold the status of non-voting observer "entity." The body could change that status to permanent observer "state," identical to the Vatican's standing at the United Nations. | The U.N. Security Council sent the application to its admissions committee .
The committee is slated to meet Friday .
The United States, however, has promised to veto the bid . |
224,910 | af3bddeb95b991941a703fd32df60163a9783321 | Mahela Jayawardene will say goodbye to supporters in Colombo by making sure he enjoys himself, as he always has on a cricket pitch. Jayawardene, one of the outstanding batsmen of his generation and alongside Kumar Sangakkara a pillar of Sri Lanka's middle and top order throughout his 17-year career, is to retire after this winter's World Cup. The 37-year-old's 434th one-day international, against England at the Premadasa Stadium on Tuesday, will be his last on home soil and in his native city. Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardene (centre) plays a shot during the fourth one-day international against England . Jayawardene will make his 434th and final home one-day appearance for Sri Lanka in his native Colombo . Sangakkara, who may play on in Tests only after Sri Lanka's campaign in the global tournament in Australia and New Zealand, signed off in his final ODI on his home ground at Pallekele on Saturday with a match-winning century to seal the series against England. Jayawardene, of course, would love to follow suit. But most of all, he is determined to play the game as he always has - with style, and a smile on his face. Asked for his favourite recollections of an international career which has so far brought him more than 25,000 runs across the formats, he said: 'I think the best memories will be the fans, the music, the rhythm. 'I grew up with that, playing for my school, always had it when we played the big matches. 'To finish it off in that same rhythm, you can't ask for anything else.' Jayawardene believes the same joyful crowd involvement is the essence of his sport in his country. 'That's the uniqueness about Sri Lankan cricket. That is the flair we grew up playing with,' he said. 'That is what we've managed to improve on. We haven't gone away from that flair, just kept on improving it. Batsman Jayawardene has fired over 25,000 runs across all formats of cricket during his 17-year career . 'What we would like to leave for the next generation is that challenge to keep doing that.' Sri Lanka is a country of cricket enthusiasts, and for that he is forever grateful. 'The fans have been fantastic,' he said. 'We've probably got the best - they do criticise us, but it is with a good heart. 'They don't go overboard. They know it's just a game, and they keep turning up whether we do well or not, and they're always behind us. 'To say thank you tomorrow will be a great, great honour.' Sri Lanka have already clinched the series, after their 90-run win at the weekend gave them an unassailable 4-2 lead with just the final ODI to play. Sri Lanka have already won the seven game series as their 90-run win at the weekend gave them a 4-2 lead . Jayawardene prizes another victory above a farewell century. 'I just want to go out and enjoy myself. That's what I've done throughout my career, and it won't change just because I'm playing my last game (here),' he added. 'We have already wrapped up the series, so there is less pressure on all of us, but we want to finish on a high. 'It's important we keep winning ... a good habit to have.' His preference will be to open again, as he did two days ago, but he will be happy too if asked to drop down again into his more accustomed middle-order role. Wherever he bats, he will inevitably have to deal with heightened emotions. 'It probably will get to me at some point - I hope not during the game,' he said. Jayawardene (right) will bring his career to a close after Sri Lanka's campaign at the cricket World Cup . 'But having prepared for this, I think I know where I am mentally. 'When I retired from Test cricket, that game was very emotional for me - that last Test match. 'Knowing I still have the World Cup to play, I don't think this game will be that emotional. 'But playing in front of your home fans for the last time, there might be a bit.' | Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardene is going to retire after the World Cup .
His final ODI at home will be against England in Colombo on Tuesday .
Jayawardene determined to hit a century and increase England's woes . |
271,934 | ec40835812cffc3df37b57942524d16ec627232f | It's a brave man who swims up to a shark to rub its snout. But this is exactly what underwater whisperer Jorge, was able to do to tame the 8ft-long creature - causing the animal to become overwhelmed by the stimulation. Having calmed the shark, the stunning images show Jorge gently grasp its body and turn the predator so it is upright. Scroll down for video . Underwater animal whisperer: Jorge tames a silky shark, a species which has been known to behave aggressively toward divers . Double trouble: As long as you 'stay humble' you can enjoy a shark dive without any danger . The amazing moment was witnessed by French marine biologist Mathieu Foulquie, 39, just five metres underwater on a dive in the Gardens of the Queen National Marine Park in Cuba. 'I felt a mixed feeling between fascination and excitement whilst I was underwater watching the incredible moment,' Mathieu said. The shark's trance-like state is known as "tonic immobility", a temporary paralysis caused by rubbing the animal's nose. Mathieu, of Montpellier, France, explains: 'By rubbing the shark's snout, our guide was able to overstimulate its sensory organs, called the ampullae of Lorenzini. 'We were not in any danger at all, but an ordinary diver should never try to catch a shark or even to play with one. Jorge and the shark, pictured during a dive in the Gardens of the Queen National Marine Park in Cuba . Predator: A striking silky shark, as photographed by French marine biologist Mathieu Foulquie . 'This kind of manipulation can be made only by experienced divers who know how the shark is going to react.' The state of paralysis lasts for an average of 15 minutes, but most guides hold the shark for just two to three minutes. This allows enough time for divers to approach the shark and touch the smooth texture of its skin. Diving with around 20 sharks, Mathieu was able to watch as his guide carefully interacted with each of them. High risk: The large size and cutting teeth of the silky shark make it a potentially dangerous species . Tranquil: The state of paralysis lasts for an average of fifteen minutes, but most guides hold the shark for just two to three minutes . The large size and cutting teeth of the silky shark make it a potentially dangerous species. Mathieu says: 'We were totally safe and secure during the experience, as long as you stay humble and keep in mind you're just a guest, you can enjoy the dive without any danger. 'When people see these photographs they feel sheer amazement and astonishment, as it's not something you see every day. 'Sharks are incredible and beautiful creatures, much more sensitive, fragile and vulnerable than we can imagine.' | The diving guide, known as Jorge, leaves creature completely docile .
Is able to rub shark's nose - causing it to be overwhelmed by sensation .
Trance-like state is known as 'tonic immobility', a temporary paralysis . |
283,650 | fb72ac5b84046d651766dd9f124fa731d464279d | Detectives investigation sexual abuse allegations against Rolf Harris flew to Australia as part of the inquiry, according to a Sydney television network . British police inquiries into sex abuse allegations against entertainer Rolf Harris have stretched to Australia, a Sydney television network claimed today. Channel Seven said that at least two Scotland Yard detectives flew to Australia in late March as part of their investigations into the allegations against 83-year-old Harris. Harris has a brother who lives in Australia, but it is not known whether he was questioned. The news of the international inquiries came as Coronation Street actor Bill Roache was arrested over claims he raped a 15-year-old girl in 1967. Roache was not held by detectives from Scotland Yard's Operation Yewtree, which is investigating ‘historic’ sex crimes in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal. Channel Seven said it was not clear whether any formal interviews were conducted while the Harris detectives were in Australia. The claims of police inquiries in the country were later reported by at least one Australian newspaper chain, quoting the channel. Sydney's Daily Telegraph said that Scotland Yard would not comment on the investigation. But the paper said the visit by the detectives was reportedly made two weeks before Mr Harris's identity was made public by a British newspaper. Harris' lawyers attempted to bar the . media from reporting on his arrest, but his identity was revealed by . multiple sources two weeks ago. Harris has not been charged with any offence and he has strenuously denied allegations of sexual misconduct. He was arrested in March, but he was released on bail to face further investigations in Britain this month. Roache and Harris are just the latest in a long string of veteran celebrities to be arrested on suspicion of sex offences allegedly committed over the past few decades. Max Clifford, left, has been charged with 11 counts of indecent assault under Operation Yewtree. He denies all allegations. Bill Roache, right, today became the latest veteran celebrity to be arrested on suspicion of historic sexual offences . Convicted paedophile Gary Glitter was . arrested in October last year as part of Operation Yewtree, which was . launched in response to the revelation that entertainer Jimmy Savile had . molested dozens of young girls before his death in 2011. Comedian . Freddie Starr was arrested in November and April,over claims he once . groped a 14-year-old girl in Savile's dressing room. Former DJ Dave Lee Travis was arrested in November and March, on suspicion of offences that he says are not related to children. Jim Davidson, the controversial comedian and TV presenter, was arrested in January in relation to alleged sexual offences. He has denied the allegations. Publicist Max Clifford was arrested in December and last week was charged with 11 counts of indecent assault. He denies all the allegations against him. All of these celebrities were arrested under Operation Yewtree, except Roache. Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article. | Two Scotland Yard detectives reportedly flew to the country in late March .
Harris has not been charged and denies allegations of sexual misconduct . |
145,818 | 488de43af6a1b8ecf1753bca41145d65593eb2b5 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . Last updated at 3:14 PM on 8th July 2011 . A man has died after an apparently unprovoked attack by a brick-wielding attacker as he popped out to buy some milk. Umess Chaudhari, 41, was attacked in his street in Croydon, South London, in broad daylight as he walked to his local shop at 7am on Wednesday. He was pronounced dead in hospital the following afternoon and a murder investigation has now been launched. 'Unprovoked attack': Umess Chaudhari was attacked in Dennett Road, Croydon, in broad daylight . An 18-year-old man was arrested at the scene and has since been sectioned under the Mental Health Act. Members of the public called the police after they spotted Mr Chaudhari with serious head injuries lying in Dennett Road, Broad Green, just after 7am. A post-mortem will take place today. Detective Inspector Bob Campany of the Homicide and Serious Crime Command said: 'The victim left his home in Dennett Road shortly after 7am. 'A short time later he was assaulted by the suspect. At this early stage in the investigation it would appear this was an unprovoked attack. 'I would like to appeal to anyone who may have witnessed the assault and hasn't yet spoken to the police to contact us. 'I would particularly like to hear from anyone who may have witnessed any part of the victim's and suspect's movements immediately prior to the assault.' Chief Superintendent Adrian Roberts, Croydon borough commander, said: 'I would like to take this opportunity to extend my deepest sympathies to the family of the man who tragically lost his fight for life. 'As borough commander of police in Croydon I would like to reassure everyone living, working and visiting the borough that whilst the early details of this tragic incident are horrific, thankfully incidents like this are rare and I hope that some reassurance can be gained from the fact my officers arrested a suspect immediately, and that suspect has been sectioned under the mental health act.' | 18-year-old suspect has been arrested and sectioned under the Mental Health Act . |
209,246 | 9af854b6d5a7072892f23e68f2e9605dce406712 | Sandy Springs, Georgia (CNN) -- During the week before Halloween each year, Lt. Steve Rose of the Sandy Springs Police Department in Georgia knocks on the doors of every registered sex offender in his jurisdiction. Rose set out in his unmarked Dodge Charger Wednesday with a printout of 20 names to verify that the people on the list live where they say they live. His mission brings him and members of his force to subdivisions, houses, hotels and and apartment buildings in this Atlanta bedroom community of about 85,000 people. "We do this to give people a level of comfort so they know we're keeping tabs on them," said Rose, a former sex crimes detective with 34 years of police experience. Sandy Springs is one of many local law enforcement agencies across the country taking extra steps this Halloween to assure the community that the agencies are keeping track of the sex offenders living among them. There are 686,515 registered sex offenders in the United States, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The Houston, Texas, Police Department says members of its Juvenile Sex Offender Registration Unit performed checks on the residences of registered sex offenders to ensure they are in compliance with the provisions of their parole or probation. They were also told not to decorate their homes, distribute candy, turn on their porch lights or answer the door. Similar restrictions are in place in Nashville, Tennessee. "This is a proactive effort on our part to ensure community safety," said Melissa McDonald, spokeswoman for the Board of Parole and Probation. Some registered sex offenders in parts of Arkansas, Texas and Illinois must report to mandatory meetings, which critics have mockingly nicknamed "sex offender Halloween parties," for a few hours on Saturday evening. In Rose's experience, however, most sex offenders keep to themselves on Halloween. In some areas, they cannot attend Halloween parties or events such as haunted houses or corn mazes. "They just want to stay out of trouble," he said. "But it's still incumbent on us to provide the community with the most up-to-date information about these people who are living in here." Technically, Sandy Springs police are not responsible for verifying the addresses for the state's sex offender registry. As soon as all the addresses are verified, Rose says he includes the information in his weekly newsletter to the local homeowners' associations. He'll also notify the Fulton County Sheriff's Office, whose jurisdiction includes Sandy Springs, of any incorrect listings. After maneuvering through traffic for nearly three hours in the sprawling suburb, Rose had visited five residences. He spoke with one man, who calls a room at the Intown Suites home. Weekly rates start at $199. "They don't have to worry about background checks in places like these," Rose said as he made his way down the fluorescent-lit hallway, the faint scent of fast food wafting through the vents. He knocked twice, announcing himself as Sandy Springs police, and a tall, thin man opened the door, revealing a sliver of the pitch black room as he rubbed sleep from his eyes. "Just checking in to verify your address. Has anyone else been by lately? Sheriff or probation?" Rose asked. "Yes. Sheriff. I'm off probation," answered the man, who was convicted of receiving child pornography in 2001. "Everything OK here?" "Yes sir." "OK then. Have a good day." "Thank you sir," the man said, closing the door. In two other stops, Rose confirmed with the leasing offices that the offenders were no longer living at the listed addresses. He failed to gain entry to another, and spoke with the roommate of another. "We'll go back until we find them," he said. Such measures, which have been part of the season for years now, are widely perceived to provide the community with a sense of comfort, said Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. "We applaud and understand the vigilance that these jurisdictions want to take, and I don't think it hurts anything, but I think it's important not to feel a false sense of security just because registered sex offenders in the community are required to stay home with their lights off or at a counseling session. It's not a panacea, it's not a guarantee," he said. Allen said there is no evidence of higher incidence of sex offenses against children on Halloween. On its Web site, www.missingkids.com, the center provides parents with tips on how to keep their kids safe on Halloween, from supervising them on rounds to teaching children to be cautious and alert. "The most important thing for parents is to use this time to talk about safety with their children and share common sense lessons, like only go to homes of people you know, be aware of your surroundings." | Police in Georgia take it upon themselves to check sex offenders' addresses .
Sex offenders in parts of Arkansas, Texas, IIllinois must attend meetings Halloween night .
Keeping tabs on sex offenders provides community with sense of comfort, police say .
Measures can create false sense of security, president of child safety group says . |
208,650 | 9a2972743b2038fd9762dd174956abd8f75a33ca | U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel visited the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning at the Yuchi Naval Base at Qingdao on Monday, becoming the first foreigner allowed on board. The Department of Defense confirmed that the trip happened because of a U.S. request. "The secretary was very pleased with his visit today aboard the carrier Liaoning," Pentagon Press Secretary Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby said in a statement. The Secretary was impressed with the professionalism with the ship's officers and crew, Kirby added, and said that Hagel understood the significance of the PLA's granting of his request. The tour lasted about two hours, and included a briefing, after which Hagel saw medical and living quarters, as well as the flight control center and bridge. Hagel also took a walking tour of the flight deck and launch stations. Hagel's visit suggests that U.S. efforts to encourage greater U.S.-China military ties are bearing some fruit. "He hopes today's visit is a harbinger of other opportunities to improve our military-to-military dialogue and transparency," the press secretary said. The visit comes as China has deployed a huge force to aid in the hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane far from its territorial waters. In late 2012, China announced that it had landed a fighter jet on the deck of the aircraft carrier for the first time. The Liaoning will be able to carry 30 J-15 fighter planes and will have a crew of 2,000, according to a People's Daily Online report published when it completed its first sea trials in August 2011. China bought the shell of the carrier, then called the Varyag, from Ukraine in 1998. Its construction began under the Soviet military before the breakup of the Soviet Union. Asian superpowers jostle to join the aircraft carrier club . | Hagel visited the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning on Monday .
Trip described as "significant," U.S. asked for visit .
The Liaoning aircraft carrier will be able to carry 30 J-15 fighter planes, Chinese media reports . |
35,750 | 6590af32e6d3a8e5117f36e7cfafb73b0d9c42dd | By . Bianca London . Some women endure years of staggering and stumbling to master the art, while others’ efforts simply fall flat. But help is afoot – with classes in how to wear high heels. Clinician Martin Bell is so fed up with treating women for joint pain caused by their favourite footwear that he has devised a course to teach them to walk properly in their shoes. Clinician Martin Bell said he is inundated with complaints from women suffering back and knee pain caused by their high heels . Walk this way: Martin Bell, left, gives client Fiona Campbell tips on how best to walk in her killer heels . Mr Bell, 40, has been inundated with . women complaining of back and knee pain triggered by the ‘wonky’ way . they stand in high heels. He claims to have already helped hundreds by teaching them to use their leg muscles properly and ‘fight’ bad habits. And he warned that unless women learn to walk correctly in high heels, many more could end up with chronic joint problems. Mr Bell, a clinical orthotist who works with doctors to make and fit . braces and splints for patients, said: ‘When I see girls who wear heels . some of the most frequent problems related to them are weak knees and . back pain. ‘I work with them to look at their physical strength and muscle tightness. ‘Our legs are shock absorbers, so if we aren’t walking properly they are going to hurt.’ Martin is keen on changing women's posture early on to avoid long-term damage . Mr Bell, of Clifton, Bristol, has introduced a ‘Perfectly Poised’ class . which involves filming a client walking in heels and using the footage . to analyse her walk. He examines each woman’s gait and posture and gives her exercises to help strengthen any weak muscles and ease pain. For those hoping for a shortcut to painless strolling in stilettos, he . warned there is no single approach that will suit everyone – but said he . generally encourages his clients to stand straight and avoid slouching, . which often involves tightening up leg and bottom muscles. Martin created 'Perfectly Poised' after he was inundated with women complaining of back and knee pain . Mr Bell added: ‘The difficulty is if a girl has never trained to improve . their muscle control and suddenly jumps into a pair of heels. The body . cannot understand what has happened and she runs the risk of going head . over heels like a newborn calf.’ But the good news is that he doesn’t advocate women ditching their heels entirely. He said: ‘From asking the girls they have all said that heels can give . extra height and confidence. They said it is head-turning, dynamic and . more powerful. ‘They just need to know how to walk in them properly.’ He said that unless women walk in high heels correctly they could end up with chronic joint problems which could take years to resolve . | Martin Bell, 40, launched course to help women correct their posture and avoid injury .
Clinical orthotist has helped hundreds of women to use leg muscles correctly . |
82,706 | ea84b5418b5025ff987b677940932b00460b6136 | Romance, emotion, tears and lots of cringe-worthy moments - that's what to expect at your average wedding, according to a new survey. The poll of 1,500 newlyweds found that the mother of the groom comes top of the list of most embarrassing people on the big day, while the mother of the bride cries on average six times. Inappropriate jokes and fashion faux pas are also regular wedding features with the best man cracking two below the belt gags and, more often than not, two guests turning up in the same outfit. Scroll down for video . Tradition is still key for British couples tying the knot with 39 per cent serving a traditional Sunday Roast for their wedding breakfast and 35 per cent sticking with a traditional theme . And that's not where the cringe-inducing moments end. Twenty two per cent of couples now choreograph a special routine for . their first dance and 15 per cent of couples . are so proud of their achievement that they also share the dance on . YouTube. The new wedding report, commissioned by QHotels, also found that there is on average one unexpected romance at every wedding and five people who can't hold back the tears. British couples still hanker after tradition at their nuptials with 39 per cent serving a traditional Sunday Roast for their wedding breakfast. But only 28 per cent of British couples stick with a traditional church . wedding, compared to 33 per cent who opted for a registry office. The mother of the bride will cry a lot but the mother of the groom is said to be the most embarrassing . Thirty five per cent of UK couples opt for a traditional decor and feel and couples also play it safe when it comes to the weather. Half of all weddings take place in summer, with the other half spread over the rest of the year. The report also found that couples chose . an average of two bridesmaids and two groomsmen. Of the couples . surveyed, all said the people they chose to honour were childhood . friends. The wedding tunes making the big day playlist include Savage Garden's Truly Madly Deeply (chosen by eight per cent polled), The Goo Goo Dolls' Iris (favoured by seven per cent) and both Jason Mraz's I’m Yours and Amazed by Lonestar chosen by five per cent. But however good the music not all wedding guests stay for the long haul - designated drivers call it a night at 11.55pm, although only 55 per cent of couples noticed them leaving. | During the average UK wedding there is one unexpected romance .
Five people cry, including the mother of the bride who cries six times .
More often than not two people turn up in the same outfit .
The best man’s speech contains an average of two inappropriate jokes . |
141,679 | 433715aafc0e2c9a79ceff09395f041f80126ab5 | (CNN) -- His name is synonymous with cinema. Egyptian actor Omar Sharif started his celebrated career in 1953 in the Egyptian-made film "The Blazing Sun". He made the move to the international screen in 1962 as Sharif Ali in "Lawrence of Arabia", a role which earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Egyptian actor Omar Sharif tells MME films made today aren't as accomplished as those made in the early years of cinema . A Golden Globe award for Best Actor soon followed for his starring role in "Doctor Zhivago". At the age of 75, Omar Sharif is still making films. His latest, prehistoric epic "10,000 BC", opens worldwide in March. After more than 50 years in the film industry, MME's Schams Elwazer (SE)asked Omar Sharif whether anything had changed. Omar Sharif (OS): I think that film making has changed all over the world -- not only in the Middle East -- because the films reflect the society that we live in. The society has become more violent, there are more people living in the world, and people are having a hard time making a living, and also the audience of the films has become much younger. The old people don't go to the cinema anymore. SE: Some Hollywood films have recently come to the region to film here and also have begun to base some of their plots in the Middle East. How does Hollywood view the region as a place to do business? OS: It's a question of cost. It costs less to make films in the Middle East, for instance now Morocco has got a big studio in a place called Warzazat which I have made already 2 or 3 films there. They have everything, they have every facility. Tunis has already got a beautiful studio in Hammamet in which I made a film recently. They built a whole of ancient Rome there and you can go there and shoot films about ancient Rome without having to build a set or anything. SE: How would you characterize the health of the homegrown film industry in the region? OS: When I was younger, when I started in the Egyptian film industry, we used to produce about 120 films a year. Now we produce about 20 maximum, 15 to 20 films a year. First of all we used to be the only country that made Arab speaking films in all the Middle East. All the Arab speaking films came from Egypt. We were the Hollywood of the Middle East. Nowadays all the other countries are making films. Lebanon is making films, Syria is making films, Palestinians are making films. SE: You are the honorary President of the Cairo Film Festival which has recently wrapped up. Cairo Film Festival was the first and is the oldest in the region. But now we are seeing them pop up all over the place, from Dubai to Marrakech. What do you make of this trend? OS: You know every country wants a bit of publicity. You get people to come and it will encourage tourism. You know we do this for various reasons, we don't do it just for the art of cinema. SE: We are seeing a new emergence of arts and culture, or attempts at investing in arts and culture in the Middle East. Specifically in the Gulf countries such as Dubai, such as Abu Dhabi, such as Qatar. They're bringing in educational institutions like the Louvre, museums like the Guggenheim. How do you see these investments as benefiting the film industry in the future? OS: There are very few films that are like films used to be. So can you say that the film industry today is better than the film industry 50 years ago or 30 years ago? No. The films they made were masterpieces in those days. Where do you see masterpieces today? What films get the big prize at all the festivals? Do you know what Iranian films, Japanese films, Chinese films have? The most countries that have had the most prizes in the big festivals in Cannes in Venice, in everywhere, have been Chinese or Japanese or Indian or something. They are not American films anymore. Where do you see an American film getting a prize in Cannes film festival or the Venice film festival. I haven't seen one for ages now. Have your say. Email us at [email protected], or send an i-report. E-mail to a friend . | MME speaks with screen legend, star of "Dr Zhivago", Omar Sharif .
Won Oscar nomination for first international role in "Lawrence of Arabia"
Sharif tells MME the film industry has changed over the past 50 years .
Says the film industry isn't producing masterpieces like it used to . |
277,870 | f3f849ae611a5b0bca427594b8570efa427310ae | (CNN) -- As yet another presidential election cycle ends, it's a good time not only to tally wins and losses, but to reflect on the nature of the American political system and why it so often disappoints voters and presidents alike. Think of the extravagant hopes and promises that attended Barack Obama's election in 2008. Obama surely had good historical grounds for thinking that the seismic financial upheaval of 2009 presented him with opportunities to transform America for the better. And so it did, to a degree his own reelection campaign somewhat mysteriously chose not to emphasize, by creating the political space for major legislative victories like the Affordable Care Act and the Dodd-Frank financial reforms. But those achievements fell measurably short of candidate Obama's aspirations, and were matched by precious few other initiatives that met the expectations arising from the 2008 campaign. Opinion: Five things Obama must do . This time around a chastened Obama notably failed to offer a grand vision for the American future and instead contented himself with delegitimizing Mitt Romney and dwelling for the most part on small-bore issues. What is it about the American presidency, anyway? Every four years, Americans become besotted with presidential politics. Indeed, in the media-marinated age of the "perpetual campaign" the besotting has no fixed cycle, quadrennial or otherwise. Though for more than a century near majorities of eligible voters have not bothered to cast ballots in presidential elections, none today can escape the saturation news coverage, ubiquitous advertising, and relentless prattle of the chattering classes that attend the contest for the White House. No other country spends so much of its time choosing its top-level political leadership. The British and the Australians usually get the job done in less than six weeks. The French, as a rule, take no more than three. Canada's longest campaign ever, in 1926, lasted just 74 days. And no other people pour such vast buckets of money into their electioneering as the Americans -- some $6 billion in the current round. Perpetual presidential politicking is as American as apple pie -- and a darn sight more expensive. And as for the candidates, what makes them run? In a nation long schooled to believe that any child can grow up to be president, an astonishing number of men of outsized ambition (and at least a few women) have taken the lesson to heart. News: Romney only prepared a victory speech . They have devoted virtually their entire adult lives to seeking the presidency. They have plotted, maneuvered, schemed, bargained, cajoled, begged, exalted and often humiliated themselves in pursuit of the prize. Once in hand, the long-coveted office has sometimes made but more frequently broken them. Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt, two examples of the relatively few presidents who can be counted as successful, largely realized their grandest aims -- though in both cases the presidency cost them their lives, one by assassination, the other through catastrophic overwork and consequent self-neglect. More often, in the case of otherwise accomplished and respected men, the presidency has merely cost them their reputations. For the likes of Ulysses Grant, Herbert Hoover and Lyndon Johnson -- each of them celebrated masters of their pre-presidential domains -- the presidency proved a career-killing heart-breaker. Sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue has been the scene of many bitter disappointments, as well as some tragedies of epic, Shakespearean proportions. In light of that dispiriting history, why would anyone wish the travails of the presidency upon himself? As President James Garfield put it in 1881, after just a few months in office: "My God! What is there in this place that a man should ever want to get into it?" Yet men have wanted it, desperately, including Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. Both of them might answer Garfield's question by saying, simply, that the Oval Office is a matchless place from which to serve one's country. But as Garfield and other presidents -- including Obama -- learned, the American presidency is a truly peculiar institution, with less power in actuality than folklore has it. The president and vice president are but two of the 537 elected officials in Washington. Surrounding the White House is a political playing field mined with enough vetoes to stymie even the most ambitious of men. News: GOP expands majority in governor's mansions . Yes, modern presidents oversee a vast 21st-century machinery of state whose operations touch almost every corner of American life. But they share executive authority with 50 governors; and many government entities, such as the Federal Reserve system, are formally independent of presidential control. The president has no official voice in the legislative process, save for his own veto, which can be overridden by congressional super-majorities. He can nominate federal judges and Supreme Court justices, but they must receive Senate confirmation, and in any case serve for life in a proudly independent judiciary. He is the commander in chief, but the Constitution reserves to Congress the right to declare war. It is not simply the lust for power, however constitutionally jacketed it might be, that fuels men's and women's appetites for the office; it deserves to be acknowledged that love of country is among the reasons that so many good people, including Obama and Romney, have pined for the opportunity to serve. Yet contrary to the balladeer's promises, in politics no less than in romance, love is not enough, and it rarely, if ever, conquers all. Opinion: Obama will get little time to celebrate . This is the hard lesson that Obama has learned in the last four years as president. He is a devoted patriot who in his 2009 inaugural address praised the Founders, whose "ideals still light the world." He excited effusive affection among his countrymen on his way to winning the presidency in 2008. But the last four years have seen no deepening love affair between the president and his people. On the contrary, the ardor of his supporters has measurably cooled, and some have jilted him altogether. His detractors have multiplied and hardened against him. And events have tempered even his extravagantly idealistic vision of his country. The president's frustrations have derived not simply from the septic political climate of our times, but at least as much from a set of mechanisms carefully crafted by those same hallowed Founders more than two centuries ago. Generations of schoolchildren have been taught to reverence the "checks and balances" the framers stitched so artfully into the Constitution. Less frequently noted are the liabilities that were integral to their design. They deliberately constructed the American governmental system so that it would be difficult to operate, the presidency in particular. What do you think of the election results? Share your reaction. Their colonial experience with the British crown and royal governors made them especially wary of executive power, and though the presidency was one of their cleverest innovations in that long-ago Philadelphia summer, they hedged it about with constraints and counterbalances to ensure that no president would ever accrue anything remotely resembling monarchical authority. Small wonder that over the arc of American history only a handful of presidents can be said to have effected truly lasting transformational change -- Lincoln, FDR, Lyndon Johnson and perhaps Ronald Reagan make the short list, but few others do, and that's no accident. Americans may yearn for strong leadership, but in their stubborn contrariness they do not want truly powerful leaders. They may want effective government, but they apparently like divided government even more, when neither party simultaneously controls House, Senate, and presidency -- the situation we've been saddled with for 31 of the last 43 years. So it should not be surprising that Obama's accomplishments marked the narrow limits of the achievable. They triggered a vicious political backlash in the 2010 election, ushered in yet another round of divided government, and may yet prove but short-lived reminders of the young president's aspirations, not permanent features of the American landscape. We are a democracy, and cannot escape the logic of the venerable maxim that we have the government we have chosen and that we deserve. Like it or not, Obama's first term confirmed that our inherited governmental system worked according to its design specifications. The season of effective, vigorous presidential leadership had but the briefest half-life; the wheels of the constitutional machinery designed to hem the president in began to turn almost from his first day in office, as did the gears of our often perversely contradictory political culture. Within two years we had stalemate, and the blame game began in earnest. Analysis: Obama won with a better ground game . But in the last analysis we have no one to blame but ourselves, and our inherited political system -- and we have no plausible reason to expect anything substantially different in Obama's second term. From all appearances we are most probably in for a repeat performance of the last two years: a remarkably disciplined and decidedly intransigent Republican party dominating the House, a paper-thin and fragile Democratic majority in the Senate, and a diminished, dispirited, and check-mated president with little or no room for maneuver -- and this in the face of perhaps the greatest fiscal challenge in the history of the republic, an increasingly volatile international environment, and a raft of unfinished business like devising coherent national energy and immigration policies. So why do we get so overheated about the presidency? Why don't we generate some heat about the antiquated system of which the president is but one, too often hapless, part? What is it about divided government, anyway? If even as committed a change agent as Obama is doomed to four more years of nothing more than Lilliputian, small-beer tinkering; if the self-described greatest power in the world is so powerless to put its house in order, isn't it time for a thorough overhaul of our manifestly antiquated political machinery? The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of David M. Kennedy. | David Kennedy: Barack Obama's achievements fell short of his aspirations .
Kennedy: American political system often disappoints voters and presidents .
He says the presidency has less power in actuality than folklore has it .
Kennedy: In a second term, Obama faces a divided, bickering government . |
155,778 | 555beb1f2ec150eb5b33cde82e310624b12fcef1 | After letting her 7-year-old son walk from their home to a park to play, a Florida mother faces up to five years in jail for child neglect. Nicole Gainey, 34, was arrested on July 26 after her son, Dominic, was found by police alone in a park less than a half-mile from her Port St. Lucie home. On Saturday afternoon, Gainey had given Dominic permission to walk to Sportsman's Park, a route he's familiar with since he uses it to ride his bike to school, her lawyer said. On the way, he passed a public pool, and someone asked him where his mother was. "They asked me a couple questions, and I got scared, so I ran off to the park and they called the cops," Dominic Guerrisi told CNN affiliate WPTV. An officer arrived at the park where Dominic was playing a short time later. "Dominic checked in with his mom a few minutes before the police came and was getting ready to go home for dinner," said Gainey's attorney, John Whitehead, founder of the Virginia-based civil liberties group the Rutherford Institute. He always has a cell phone with him and was wearing it in a case around his neck that his mother had made. According to Whitehead, the phone had fallen out of his pocket recently and she didn't want him to lose it. When the officer asked Dominic whether his mother knew where he was, the child told him that she did and he'd just spoken to her on the phone, according to the police report. Dominic told the police his name, address and mother's name but wasn't able to answer when asked for his date of birth. He was then driven home. Mom arrested after leaving 9-year-old alone at park . "When I saw the police cars pull up in my driveway, and the officers started asking me about Dominic, I was frantic to know whether he was OK," Gainey told CNN in an e-mail. According to the report, Gainey told the officer that she let her son go to the park alone once or twice a week. The arresting officer said that Gainey had failed to provide her son with care and supervision by allowing him to cross the street and go to the park alone. According to the report, he told her that there had been recent criminal activity in and around the park and a number of sex offenders lived nearby. Gainey was arrested on a felony child neglect charge and taken to jail, leaving Dominic and her 17-year-old daughter at the house with her boyfriend. She was released seven hours later on $3,750 bond. The Port St. Lucie Police Department has not responded to requests for comment. As of Thursday afternoon, Gainey's attorney still hadn't received notice of a preliminary hearing. A representative from the Florida State Attorney told CNN that the case hadn't been assigned to a prosecutor yet. "This is a small town and a safe area," Whitehead said. "Nicole knows she's not guilty of anything, and she'll plead that way if it comes to it." On Wednesday, Gainey met with an employee from the Florida Department of Children and Families who told her the charges would likely be dropped, according to Whitehead. "I'm really sad about how this has already impacted our family," Gainey wrote in an e-mail to CNN. "My son is worried that I'll get in trouble if he goes outside. I'm even worried about getting in trouble if I let him walk down my driveway alone." A number of child neglect arrests are gaining attention nationwide, with some onlookers arguing local authorities are overstepping bounds in arresting parents for childrearing decisions that wouldn't have merited notice a generation ago or which plunge families close to the poverty line into even more dire situations. "Something has shifted and now we're in the middle of a dangerous societal trend of arresting parents for noncriminal activities," Whitehead said. Does leaving kids alone make parents criminals? In early July, Debra Harrell of South Carolina made national news after being arrested after letting her 9-year-old daughter play unattended in a nearby park while she worked. She lost her job at McDonald's but has since gotten it back and regained custody of her child, according to her attorney, Robert Verner Phillips. She's awaiting trial, and the Department of Social Services case against her is still open. In March, Shanesha Taylor was arrested in Scottsdale, Arizona, on two counts of felony child abuse after leaving her two children in her Dodge Durango for about an hour while she interviewed for a job. On July 18, she reached a settlement with the Maricopa County Attorney's Office dismissing her case if she completes a diversion program. Along with parenting and substance-abuse classes, Taylor is required to establish education and child-care trusts for each of her three children, two of which are still in state custody. Florida's child neglect statute has no age written into the law. Many states do not specify an age at which a child can be legally left at home or allowed to go places alone. This leaves some parents unsure of when it's appropriate or even legal to leave a child unsupervised. The Florida Department of Children and Families said in a statement that people who believe they've witnessed a case of neglect can call a hotline to report it. "The hotline can be called when a child of any age is without adult supervision or arrangements appropriate for the child's age or mental or physical condition, so that the child is unable to care for the child's own needs or another's basic needs or is unable to exercise good judgment in responding to any kind of physical or emotional crisis," according to the statement. But the resource is little help to parents who are trying to figure out at what age they can legally allow their children to go out into the world alone. "Parents I talk to are nervous about doing anything, thinking they could get charged for something without knowing what they're doing wrong," Whitehead said.Do you think authorities are simply doing their job by arresting parents who let young children go places alone, or are they overreacting? Share your opinion in the comments section below. | Florida mom was arrested after letting her 7-year-old walk to the park alone .
Her attorney believes the charges will be dropped .
State's Attorney hasn't assigned a prosecutor to the case .
State law doesn't specify an age at which a child can be left alone . |
126,169 | 2f150300ed04f7a7d18cdb3bed59fcc802e3f313 | Planets in solar systems that have two suns - similar to the fictional Tatooine planet from the film Star Wars - have more potential for supporting alien life than planets with single suns, according to an astronomy student. Joni Clark from New Mexico State University simulated various types of systems including binary - systems with two suns - to test whether the planets within these systems were more or less capable of being habitable. She discovered that in binary systems, the gravitational pull of the two suns orbiting around each other reduces the threat to those planets from solar winds, for example, increasing the chance of life surviving and water sources forming. An artist's impression of Kepler-35 b - a planet that orbits around a pair of sun-size stars. The discovery of Kepler-35b and another twin sun planet, Kepler-34 b, was announced in January 2012. Planets in solar systems that have two suns - similar to the fictional Tatooine planet from the movie Star Wars - have more potential for supporting life than planets with single suns, claims an astronomy student . A binary system is a system of two objects in space - traditionally stars - which are so close that their respective gravitational pulls causes them to orbit around each other. They do this because they orbit around a central mass that keeps them in a fixed position. Binary suns and star systems are featured heavily in the Star Wars in the system in which the planet Tatooine is located. In the Discovery program Alien Planet, the planet Darwin IV orbits a binary system. In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the planet Magrathea orbits a binary system. In Escape To Witch Mountain and Return From Witch Mountain, Tony and Tia's home planet orbits two suns. In Star Trek Voyager, there is a system with two suns and in Doctor Who, Gallifrey -the home planet of the Time Lords- has two suns in its planetary system. Clark told Space.com: '[The stars] calm each other down. 'It's like a really good marriage. They vent to each other, and they're not focused on anything else. 'They slow each other down and that causes increased magnetic protection of the planets.' After modeling a variety of systems, Clark, along with astrophysicist Paul Mason from the University of Texas concluded that stars 80 per cent as big as the sun, if close enough together, could increase the chances of being able to sustain life. An example of an existing planet in a binary system is the Kepler-35 b - a planet that orbits around a pair of sun-size stars. The discovery of Kepler-35b and another twin sun planet, Kepler-34 b, was announced in January 2012. Another binary system is the Kepler-47 system. It is a star system with at least two planets in orbit around the pair of stars located 5,000 light-years away from Earth. When the suns in a binary system occupy a similar mass they orbit each other in a way that reduces the amount of solar wind they create. Solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the upper atmosphere of a sun. It is mostly made up of electrons and protons and this stream of particles can vary in temperature and speed. The particles escape a sun's gravitational pull because of their high kinetic energy and the high temperature of the plasma around the sun - called the corona. This diagram shows the Kepler-47 system. Kepler-47 is a binary star system with at least two planets in orbit around the pair of stars located about 5,000 light-years away from Earth. This image shows a habitable zone in which planets that may support life could reside. Clark's study found that the habitable zone in binary systems is 40 per cent larger than in single-star systems . If the suns are similarly matched . their speed and temperature is more regulated. This reduces how many . particles escape which in turn leads to less solar wind. Clark's stars also need to fully orbit one another within 10 to 30 days . to extend the wider habitable zone - dubbed the 'Goldilocks Zone'. The planets within . these binary systems would still die out at a similar rate to those . within single-starred systems, yet the 'habitable zone' increases by . around 40 per cent. However, Clark claims that if they drift too far apart, this puts a . significant gravitational strain on the orbiting planets within that . system. Clark's findings were reported in Astrobiology Magazine, a web-based publication sponsored by the NASA astrobiology program. She also found that some 'p-type' planets - planets that orbit both stars within the same binary system were hit with 0.7 percent less flux from solar winds than Earth is currently exposed to in our single-star system. Although this level of flu depends on the planets' position within their binary solar system. Planets that only orbit one of the . suns in a binary system are more at risk, and in cases where the two . suns are too far apart or greatly differ in mass to create a synchronised movement, the planet orbiting the second sun can be hit . with double the amount of solar flux it gets hit . with. This is because these planets . are more prone to be tidally locked in one position, usually with one side permanently turned . toward its sun.This side then receives the full brunt of any solar flux. In binary systems, like the artist's impression pictured, its more likely that rocky planets with water sources can form because they're not at as much risk from solar assaults, compared to planets in systems with single stars. This means such planets could house alien life . Planets that orbit the first sun in a binary system, though, behave in the same way planets do in a single star system. In binary systems its more likely that rocky planets with water sources can form because they're not as much risk from solar assaults, compared to planets in systems with single stars. Living conditions on these planets would vary because of cloud cover. Planets with high cloud cover would be insulated and protected from ultraviolet radiation. 'It also leaves the potential open for smaller planets that have less magnetic field protection to remain habitable because in a sense they don't have to protect themselves from as much as they would in a single star case,' continued Clark. | Astronomy student Joni Clark created simulations of a variety of so-called binary systems - solar systems with two suns - to see how far habitable zones within them could spread .
This is because the two suns orbit each other and create a safe zone which reduces the threat to those planets from solar winds .
This gives those planets within such binary systems more potential to be habitable than those in single sun set-ups . |
202,759 | 928735874b30bfcf88cd0223800bd8f5495a3369 | The Royal and Ancient has voted to allow women members for the first time in its 260-year history. The club in St Andrews, Fife, known as the 'home of golf', voted by a simple majority in favour of allowing women members. Around 85 per cent of the club's 2,500 global members said they thought women should be able to join. The Royal & Ancient has voted in favour of allowing women to become members, after 260 years of only men . Peter Dawson, secretary of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club (R&A), said: 'I am very pleased indeed to announce that the membership of the R&A of St Andrews has voted overwhelmingly in favour of welcoming women members. 'More than three quarters of the club's global membership took part in the ballot, with a decisive 85 per cent voting for women to become members. 'This vote has immediate effect and I can confirm that the R&A of St Andrews is now a mixed membership club.' It had been widely expected that members would back their committees' call to move with the times, but it was by no means a foregone conclusion. Last year, members of Royal Burgess golf club in Edinburgh were presented with a similar opportunity, but voted 69-64 against admitting women. The R&A had resisted moves to admit women to its membership, but matters escalated when major Open Championship sponsor HSBC said it was uncomfortable with the major being held at an exclusively male club. While the R&A's members have access to the clubhouse behind the first tee at the Old Course, they belong to a club, not a golf course. The seven golf courses at St Andrews are open to the public. Around 85 per cent of the club's 2,500 global membership voted in favour of the change . Earlier this year, Professor Louise Richardson, the first woman principal of St Andrews University, spoke out against the ban on women. She has until now been denied honorary membership of the club, an honour given to her predecessors in the post. Professor Richardson claimed the snub meant she was unable to entertain university donors at the clubhouse, traditionally an important part of the principal's role. 1734: The organisation is founded as The Society of St Andrews Golfers, a local golf club. 1834: King William IV becomes patron of the club, now known as the Royal and Ancient. 1893: Overcrowding leads to the club buying land off the town council for £5,000 to make another course. It is aptly named the New Course. 1897: The Jubilee Course, which has 12 holes, is built. Six holes are added in 1906. 1913: An Act of Parliament allows the club to charge green fees to people using the Old Course, allowing it to raise enough money to open a fourth course - the Eden. 2004: The club hands over its role as one of the governing authorities of the game to The R&A - a namesake group of companies. 2012: Gordon Brown calls on the club to abandon its policy on all-male membership. 2014: The club votes to allow female members, with 85 per cent of its 2,500-strong membership voting in favour of the change. Annika Sorenstam, the winner of 10 majors, is also expected to be among the first women to join the club. Mr Dawson added that there could now be certain women 'fast-tracked' into membership. He said: 'The membership has also acted to fast-track a significant initial number of women to become members in the coming months. 'This is a very important and positive day in the history of the R&A. 'The R&A has served the sport of golf well for 260 years and I am confident that the club will continue to do so in future with the support of all its members, both women and men.' Cabinet Secretary for Sport and Equalities Shona Robison said the decision was a 'step on the road' to full equality for women . Cabinet Secretary for Sport and Equalities Shona Robison has heralded the club's decision. Miss Robison said: 'In the week before Scotland welcomes golf fans from across the world for the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles, this decision by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St Andrews to admit women members is another step on the road to full equality in sport and society. 'This decision by the world's most exclusive and prestigious golf club sees real progress towards making golf a more equal sport which is very important. 'We firmly believe that there should be no barriers at all to being involved in sport with everyone able to participate in and enjoy sport - whoever they are and whatever their background. 'I hope this welcome development leads to the few remaining single-gender golf clubs to take a similar path.' Three all-male clubs are on the British Open rotation - Royal St George's, Royal Troon and Muirfield - but they may soon also change their membership policies. The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers is set to begin its review process on the issue of men-only membership at Muirfield, East Lothian, in late September. There are also increasing signs of movement on the matter at Royal St George's in Sandwich, Kent, which hosted the 2011 Open. South Ayrshire's Royal Troon - which is scheduled to stage the 2016 Open - appears to have no plans to move from single-sex membership. However, it points out that the town's ladies club use the course - despite having their own clubhouse, captain and committee. | Women will be allowed to join the Royal and Ancient Golf Club, St Andrews .
The club had a men-only membership policy for 260 years - until tonight .
Around 85 per cent of its 2,500 global members voted for the change . |
275,840 | f15678bfa6ba0c37b0171fafcda3749106da310d | Problem: American teens have some of the highest rates of binge drinking in the developed world . American teenagers have the highest rates of drug and alcohol abuse in the developed world. And they are far more likely to be killed by violence than peers in Europe. This lost generation, whose unemployment rate is 20 percent, leads the modern world in some of the most dangerous and irresponsible behaviors, according to a new study released by the Lancet medical journal. The shocking data was released to highlight cultural neglect occurring in the adolescents and young adults -- too many of whom die young, according to the researchers behind the publication. Not all the news is bad. American teens appear to have the highest rates of exercise in the developed world. Despite this, American teens, age 13 to 15 are dramatically more likely to be overweight, leading the western world, according to the data. Among the most startling discoveries of the Lancet data is how much higher the rates of teen violent death are in the US than the rest of the developed world. About 17 in 100,000 teen boys age 15 to 19 are killed by violence. The next two closest countries are Israel and Switzerland, with four. Britain's rate is just one. The teen drinking statistics come with an important caveat. Some 30 percent of American 13 to 15 year-old-girls reported binge drinking in the last 30 days -- more than any other developed country. However, several nations -- among them Britain -- were not included in the data. Britain has the third highest proportion of sexually active teenagers in the world as well as some of the worst levels of harmful underage drinking. The research found that sexual activity among 13 to 15-year-olds was highest among girls in Denmark followed by Iceland, the UK and Sweden. Greece and Denmark had the highest rates among boys. The lowest rates in boys were in Belgium, and for girls Israel. US rates of young teen sex were about average for the developed world, with about 25 percent of boys and 26 percent of girls saying they had sex before age 15. Boys in the United States, age 15 to 19, are more than four times more likely to be killed by violence than the next-most violent industrialized country. Here is the list of the Western nations with the highest rates of violent death per 100,000 teens: . 1. United States -- 17 . 2. Israel -- 4 . 3. Switzerland -- 4 . 4. Canada -- 3 . 5. Ireland -- 3 . 6. New Zealand -- 3 . 7. Estonia -- 2 . 8. Sweden -- 2 . *United Kingdom -- 1 . England had the fourth highest percentage of youngsters who have been drunk by the age of 13 in a league table of 40 mostly high income countries. Wales was fifth and Scotland eighth. Wales was third for those drinking weekly at the age of 15, with England fourth and Scotland again eighth. The figures are taken from 2006, the last year with internationally comparable data, with new estimates in the coming months set to provide an opportunity for the UK to assess whether policies to reduce harmful drinking among teenagers have had any impact over the past five years. Teenagers' general well being has . improved far less over the last 50 years than that of children under 10 . with evidence suggesting adolescence is not the healthiest time of life, . as is often assumed. A . lack of focus on adolescent health could be described as a 'missing . link' in the approach to health, an international team of scientists . warn. The statistics are revealed in two . studies by Professor George Patton, of the University of Melbourne in . Australia, and colleagues which was published in The Lancet Series on . Adolescent Health. The . first paper says even the explosion in social media such as Facebook and . Twitter has both good and bad points for young people. While it enables them to be catalysts . for community change, as happened in the uprisings of the Middle East . and North Africa, it also exposes adolescents to new risks such as . cyber-bullying, and sexting, the act of sending sexually explicit or . pornographic messages by mobile phone. There . are now some 1.8 billion adolescents aged between ten and 24 in the . world today, comprising more than a quarter of the population. Peer pressure: Statistics published in the medical journal the Lancet show that youngsters are more at risk from drug taking and sexually transmitted diseases than ever before . Teen girls in the United States have the highest rates of binge drinking in the developed world, according to the survey. It should be noted, however, that the results for several nations were not included in the survey -- most importantly, Britain. The following is data shows the percentage of girls, age 13 to 15, who reported binge drinking at least once in the last 30 days: . 1. United States -- 30 percent . 2. Ireland -- 29 percent . 3. Austria -- 28 percent . 4. Iceland -- 26 percent . 5. Malta -- 21 percent . 6. Switzerland -- 16 percent . 7. Luxembourg -- 13 percent . 8. France -- 12 percent . The . researchers said with longer periods in education, and significant . delays to marriage or settling down, the period during which young . people are exposed to the risks of adolescence has extended . significantly. Such behaviours include harmful alcohol consumption and illicit drug use with peers, and sex with more casual partners, increasing the risk of sexually transmitted infections. Prof Patton said: 'The present . generation of young people will take a different path through . adolescence from previous generations and will face new challenges to . their health and well-being along the way.' Programmes to promote maternal, . newborn and child health across countries of all incomes have led to . more children surviving and the current adolescent population boom, . known as the 'youth bulge'. Over . the same period digital media, industrialisation, globalisation and . urbanisation have changed traditional family and community influences, . resulting in less 'social scaffolding' of adolescents. The . researchers said many health-related behaviours that usually start in . adolescence such as smoking and drinking, obesity and physical . inactivity contribute to the epidemic of non-communicable diseases . including heart disease, cancer, diabetes and lung disease. New threat: The explosion in social media exposes adolescents to new risks such as cyber-bullying . More American boys age 13 to 15 say they get more than an hour of exercise per week than teens in any over developed nation. 1. United States -- 35 percent . 2. Canada -- 31 percent . 3. Czech Republic -- 28 percent . 4. Austria - 27 percent . 5. Ireland -- 27 percent . 6. Belgium -- 24 percent . 8. Finland -- 24 percent . 9. Iceland -- 24 percent . 10. Israel -- 24 percent . 11. Netherlands -- 24 percent . 12. United Kingdom -- 24 percent . Studies . on adolescent brains suggest they are more affected than adults by . exciting or stressful situations when making decisions. Increased . activity in the nucleus accumbens, a reward and pleasure centre, appears . linked to this. While the death rate among under fives has declined by 80 per cent or more in many countries in the past fifty years, adolescent mortality has only marginally improved. The major causes of disability-adjusted life years (DALYS), a measure that combines burden of mortality and disease, in adolescents are alcohol use (seven per cent), unsafe sex (four per cent), iron deficiency (three per cent), lack of contraception (two per cent) and drugs abuse (two per cent). Prof Patton said: 'Irrespective of region, most adolescent deaths are preventable and thus strongly justify worldwide action to enhance adolescent health. 'In view of their dynamic and challenging health profile, the contribution of adolescent health to the global burden of disease, and the important effect of adolescents and their health across the life course, adolescents should be more prominent within future global public health policies and programming.' The second paper revealed the UK had the fifteenth lowest rate for adolescent mortality in a league of 27 high income countries. The UK was also mid ranking for both boys and girls in cannabis use. Surprisingly, despite its obesity epidemic, boys aged 13 to 15 in the USA exercised more than boys in any other of the 16 countries reporting data, and American girls had the second highest levels of exercise behind Ireland, which was in second place for boys. The UK finished eighth best for girls in the amount of exercise they did, and fifth best for boys out of sixteen countries reporting data. Prof Patton added: 'For the largest generation in the world's history, the available global profile of youth health is worrying.' | Youngsters 'more at risk from binge drinking, drug taking and STDs than ever before'
Lancet report identifies new risks including cyber-bullying and 'sexting' |
128,576 | 3224d2247aefaa000a2a61b4724221a7057f2b66 | Wakefield's revival under rookie coach James Webster continued with a hard-fought win over Widnes at the Rapid Solicitors Stadium. The victory, which came thanks to tries from Tim Smith and Nick Scruton — both converted by Paul Sykes — keeps the Wildcats in the play-off hunt. The Vikings, who took the lead early on through Danny Tickle, fell behind in the second half. A 68th-minute try from Stefan Marsh ensured a grandstand finish but Wakefield held on. Try hard: Wakefield's Nick Scruton is congratulated by team mates after his scoring against Widnes . Widnes, who stay eighth, spurned first-half chances to establish a commanding lead and went in at the break just 4-0 ahead thanks to Tickle, who touched down after a collecting a clever pass from Joe Mellor. Tickle spurned the conversion and Widnes were nearly made to pay for their profligacy when Richard Owen looked to have pinched an equaliser for Wakefield on 38 minutes. Victory: Wildcats' Tim Smith (L) celebrates scoring to extend their winning run . However the video referee deemed that Owen’s knee had touched the line and it was ruled out.Wakefield were soon level after the break — Smith capitalising on a defensive error. Soon after, Scruton bullied his way through a sea of players to extend the home side’s lead. Marsh ensured a frantic finale, but Wakefield claimed the win. | Wakefield Warriors defeated Widnes Vikings 12-10 in Super League game .
Tim Smith and Nick Scruton scored tries to extend unbeaten run .
Warriors have won five consecutive games under coach James Webster . |
47,884 | 8725c755ed312d897fd2aafd0596164e61db52e8 | Two policemen have been charged with brutally beating a man, leaving him with broken bones and needing stitches, after his girlfriend found a video which showed they had savagely attacked him. Najee Rivera was left covered in blood and with an eye swollen shut after police claimed they had been forced to restrain him after he slammed one into a wall when they pulled him over in North Philadelphia. Officers had believed Kevin Robinson and Sean McKnight's version of events until Mr Rivera's girlfriend investigated the incident herself and found it was in fact the two police officers, rather than her boyfriend, who had been violent. Najee Rivera was left bruised after he was beaten by two police officers who stopped him in Philadelphia and falsely claimed he had been violent, until Mr Rivera's girlfriend found a video proving police attacked him . Both have been charged with aggravated assault, conspiracy and related crimes. The video, found by Mr Rivera's girlfriend Dina Scannapieco at a barber's shop, showed the two policemen punching and using batons to beat the 23-year-old, the Inquirer reported. Police admitted the incident had not been investigated and the two officers had been believed without question. They may now review the way they deal with situations where someone arrested has been injured. On May 29, 2013, Mr Rivera was pulled over by police for for running a stop sign on his scooter near Seventh and Cambria Streets in Fairhill. Seeing the two officers armed with batons, he fled and they chased him. On the 2700 block of North Sixth, a surveillance camera caught them knocking Rivera from his scooter, then grabbing and hitting him with fists and batons. During the video Mr Rivera's screams can be heard. The officers had claimed that Mr Rivera had fled after being stopped and then lost control of his bike, falling off in North Sixth. They then said he had slammed Robinson against a wall and attacked them 'with elbows.' He was then taken to Episcopal Hospital and the two officers' filed charges against him for assault and resisting arrest. Kevin Robinson (left) and Sean McKnight (right) have been charged with aggravated assault and suspended . Mr Rivera was left needing stitches to his face and with a broken bone in his eye socket. But when Miss Scannapieco went to the hospital and found her boyfriend beaten and covered in blood she did not believe the police's version and decided to turn detective herself. She went back to the 2700 block of North Sixth and found her boyfriend's blood covering the pavement. After asking around she managed to get hold of a surveillance video from a barber's shop which showed the brutal attack by the two officers. They eventually handed themselves in and were suspended from duty and are likely to be dismissed. District Attorney Seth Williams said: 'This type of behavior has absolutely no place in our city, and I will prosecute these two officers to the fullest extent of the law.' In August 2013 all the charges against Mr Rivera were dropped. Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said before the video surfaced the officers' version of events had been accepted without question. He admitted the department should have investigated the area after the incident - a process which usually only takes place after an internal complaint is made. He said McKnight and Robinson do not represent the majority of officers on the 6,500-strong force. But, he admitted, he could not guarantee all officers stick within the parameters of the law. He said: 'We've got to root them out.' Mr Rivera said he has struggled to move on since the attack and had lost his job. He added: 'Every time I get next to a cop or a cop is behind me, I get a little panic attack. And it's sad, because every cop ain't bad.' Public Defender Bradley Bridge said his office is now to review arrests made in the past in light of the charges against the two officers. In 2012, Robinson was accused of beating 28-year-old Darren Trammell during an arrest. Robinson was cleared by the Internal Affairs department but months later Trammell was also cleared of any wrongdoing. The city settled the case for $125,000. | Najee Rivera was arrested by police in 2013 and was left badly bruised .
Officers claimed he had resisted and slammed one into a wall on arrest .
But Mr Rivera's girlfriend did not believe her partner had attacked an officer .
She went back to scene in Philadelphia and found his blood on pavement .
A surveillance video captured the officers beating Rivera with their batons .
Both charged with aggravated assault and conspiracy for the assault .
Police said they should have investigated how Rivera came to have broken bones and bruising after arrest and will change the approach to incidents . |
125,012 | 2d98187d389dcbe1f31fdd16403f18c1699d68b9 | By . Chris Kitching for MailOnline . Adventurous World Cup fans have slept in favelas in Brazil, campsites in South Africa and airports or train stations around the globe while following their national teams around a host country. They will have another unusual choice when the colossal event is staged in Russia in 2018. To accommodate an influx of tourists in Saransk, one of 11 host cities, there are plans to set up a 'portable hotel' during the 32-day tournament. Scroll down for video . Special delivery: Snoozebox has signed a preliminary deal to provide a 'portable hotel' for a World Cup city . Pop-up hotel: The modified shipping containers can be stacked to accommodate more guests . FIFA World Cup organisers in the city 400 miles east of Moscow have signed a preliminary deal with London-based Snoozebox to provide a temporary complex called Snoozebox Football Village, the Moscow Times reported. The pop-up hotel – a series of modified shipping containers that can be stacked on top of each other – will have 2,000 rooms and be situated on the shore of the Lukhovka reservoir in the city of 300,000. The reservoir is located near Saransk Airport and about 10 minutes from the site of a 45,000-seat stadium that is being built for the World Cup. To keep visitors busy, Snoozebox Football Village will include restaurants, shops, a large screen that will show World Cup matches, and venues for entertainment and recreation, Interfax reported. Snoozebox guest rooms include two beds, an en-suite wet room, wireless internet access, a safe, flat screen television and key card entry. Tight squeeze: Snoozebox rooms contain two beds, wifi, a flat screen television and an en-suite wet room . Location, location, location: The portable hotel in Saransk will be set up 10 minutes from a World Cup stadium . The UK company has provided temporary hotels for travellers at a number of major events, including the London 2012 Games, Glastonbury Festival and this summer’s Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in Normandy, France. As it is with every World Cup, the availability of affordable accommodation is one of the concerns for tourists and organisers. Fans will also face vast distances between host cities in a country that is facing increasing doubts about whether it should be allowed to host the tournament, given the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine and long-standing complaints about racism and anti-gay discrimination. | London-based Snoozebox has signed on to provide the hotel in Saransk .
Pop-up hotel is a series of modified shipping containers that can be stacked .
Guest rooms include two beds, en-suite wet room, wifi and flat screen TV . |
110,882 | 1afa07a58d7fd0c35e3b51240782b28ca86fed4a | By . Anna Hodgekiss . At least 1,000 hospital patients in England die each month from avoidable kidney problems, according to a new study commissioned by the NHS. Researchers found that acute kidney injury (AKI) causes between 15,000 and 40,000 excess deaths every year. The condition refers to a loss of kidney function and can develop very quickly. Danger: Thousands of patients are dying from acute kidney injury each month - something which could be avoided, experts have warned . It can occur in people who are already . ill with conditions such as heart failure or diabetes, and those . admitted to hospital with infections. AKI can also develop after major surgery, such as some kinds of heart surgery, because the kidneys can be deprived of normal blood flow during the procedure. Severe dehydration is one of the main causes of the condition. AKI costs the health service over £1 billion every year and is responsible for nearly eight times as many deaths as superbug MRSA at its peak, according to a study commissioned by NHS Improving Quality. The research, carried out by kidney disease experts and Insight Health Economics, found that AKI is five times more prevalent in English hospitals than previously thought. Severe dehydration is one of the main causes of acute kidney injury . Report co-author Professor Donal O'Donoghue, consultant renal physician at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, said: 'We know that at least a thousand people a month are dying in hospital from AKI due to poor care. 'These deaths are avoidable. This is completely unacceptable and we can't allow it to continue. Good basic care would save these lives and save millions of pounds for the NHS. 'Doctors and nurses need to make elementary checks to prevent AKI. In general, people who are having surgery shouldn't be asked to go without water for longer than two hours. 'Sometimes that is unavoidable but then medical staff need to check their patients are not becoming dehydrated. They also need to be aware that some common medications increase the risk of AKI.' Marion Kerr, health economist at Insight Health Economics, said: 'AKI costs the NHS more than £1 billion every year. That's more than we spend on breast, lung and bowel cancer combined. 'Every day more than 30 people are dying needlessly. Compare that to MRSA which was killing about four people a day at its peak. 'Simple improvements in basic care could save the NHS £200 million pounds a year and, more importantly, save thousands of lives.' | Acute kidney injury (AKI) causes up to 40,000 excess deaths every year .
New report warns this figure is FIVE times higher than originally thought .
Severe dehydration is one of main causes of the condition .
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176,491 | 707e26e603e58673ca9762fbcbcbf651e7e4cc17 | By . Kerry Mcdermott . PUBLISHED: . 07:56 EST, 17 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:59 EST, 17 April 2013 . Domain names linked to the tragic events at the Boston Marathon are being bought up to keep them out of the hands of 'conspiracy kooks'. Visitors to bostonmarathonconspiracy.com will find only a message asking them to 'keep the victims... in your thoughts', after a man purchased the web address to prevent it becoming a forum for rampant speculation over who was responsible for the bombings. Jaimie Muehlhausen's 'impulsive action' has inspired others to buy up similar addresses in the same way, after conspiracy theorists suggested U.S. government forces could have been behind the atrocity. 'Keep the victims in your thoughts': Jaimie Muehlhausen said he bought the domain name out of respect for those affected by the 'horrible tragedy' 'Buying the domain name was an impulsive action in anticipation of the inevitable reaction from a certain group of people, nothing more,' Mr Muehlhausen, from California, told the New York Daily News. He added that he did not do it for media . attention, but rather 'out of respect for the victims and the families . of those affected by this horrible tragedy'. Mr Muehlhausen cited the '9/11 conspiracy nuts' and the 'heartless and sick Sandy Hook conspiracy theorists' in an e-mail to Slate.com. The message that appears on the homepage initially read: 'I bought this domain to keep some conspiracy theory kook from owning it. Please keep the victims of this event and their families in your thoughts. Thank you.' Message on bostonmarathonconspiracy.com . The first line of the text has since been removed. Similar messages now appear on bostonmarathonconspiracies.com and bostonconspiracies.com after people inspired by Mr Muehlhausen bought the domain names. Conspiracy theorists began speculating about the Boston Marathon bombings just hours after the blasts brought carnage to the city on Monday. In the first press conference after the explosions that left three dead and scores more injured, a conservative blogger asked whether it was a 'false flag staged attack'. The term false flag refers to instances where covert government forces set up violent incidents in order to scare citizens into handing over control to federal authorities. Dan Bidondi of right-wing site InfoWars posited the loaded question, implying that the bombing was designed to increase federal authority. Conspiracies: Right-wing radio host tweeted about the possibility of a 'false flag' scenario in the wake of the Boston bombings . 'Why were the loud speakers telling people in the audience to be calm moments before the bombs went off? Is this another false flag staged attack to take our civil liberties and promote homeland security while sticking their hands down our pants on the streets?' Mr Bidondi said. His suggestion was flatly dismissed by Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick. Meanwhile right-wing radio host Alex Jones tweeted: 'Our hearts go out to those that are hurt or killed #Boston marathon - but this thing stinks to high heaven #falseflag'. 'Conspiracy kooks': Dan Bidondi, left, quizzed Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick about the possibility of a 'false flag' attack after Monday's bombings, while radio host Alex Jones, right, said it 'stinks to high heaven' A massive investigation is ongoing in Boston as detectives trawl a 12-block crime scene in the city following the blasts on Monday afternoon. The two explosions, which erupted close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon shortly before 3pm, claimed the lives of eight-year-old Martin Richard, restaurant manager Krystle Campbell, 29, and Chinese student Lü Lingzi, 23. The latest figures emerging after the attack indicates that the number of people injured stands at 183. | Jaimie Muehlhausen bought domain name bostonmarathonconspiracy.com .
Said he didn't want a 'conspiracy kook' using the domain name .
Site show simple message urging visitors to 'keep victims in your thoughts' |
14,488 | 29174d069e4dbb798cffd3b0835bd36fe8d12f84 | Olympic and Paralympics dominate the Sport & Live Event category . Downton Abbey snubbed, while Call The Midwife only has one nod . Olivia Colman up for acting accolades in Twenty Twelve and The Accused . In it's first year it was nominated in the Best Drama section and in it's second year Dame Maggie Smith won a nomination for best supporting actress. But this year Downton Abbey has failed to pick up a single nomination at the BAFTA Television Awards. The lack of acknowledgement for the third series, which received a mix reception at the time, has led to speculation that the fourth series of the stately home drama will be it's last. Scroll down for a list of nominees . No acknowledgment: The latest series of Downton Abbey did not receive any BAFTA nominations for the first time . It is thought that the show, which was one of the most-watched throughout the whole of 2012, has suffered after a number of the key stars have left, including Dan Stevens who played Matthew Crawley. The news comes as the BBC has overtaken ITV in terms of nominations, receiving five times the amount of the channel on which Downton is aired, with TV film The Girl and crime series The Accused leading the nominations. The BBC-HBO co-produced movie The Girl, about the tumultuous relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock and actress Tippi Hedren, has received nods in four categories. Sienna Miller is up for Leading Actress, Toby Jones for Leading Actor and Imelda Staunton for Supporting Actress for her role as Hitchcock's wife Alma. Snubbed: It is thought Downton failed to win any nominations after key characters have left the show . Acclaimed: The Girl, starring Sienna Miller as Tippi Hedren and Toby Jones as Alfred Hitchcock is up for four BAFTA TV Awards . Crime drama series The Accused is also up for nod, including Leading Actor for Sean Bean, Supporting Actor for Stephen Graham and Supporting Actress for Olivia Colman. Olivia is up for two accolades, including Female Performance In A Comedy Programme for Twenty Twelve. BBC comedy series Twenty Twelve has a total of four nods in three categories, with Olivia set to battle co-star Jessica Hynes for Female Performance In A Comedy Programme. What a day! BBC coverage of the London 2012 Olympics 'Super Saturday', which saw Jessica Ennis win gold, is up for Sports & Live Event . Hit: Stephen Graham is up for Supporting Actor and Sean Bean for Leading Actor for The Accused . Downton wasn't the only surprise snub, hit BBC series Call The Midwife only had one nod for the Radio Times Audience Award. However, Downton star Hugh Bonneville has been acknowledged for his performance in Twenty Twelve with a Male Performance In A Comedy Programme nod. Parade's End is up in two categories, including Leading Actress for Rebecca Hall. Leading ladies: Sheridan Smith in Mrs Biggs and Rebecca Hall in Parade's End are both up for Leading Actress . She will compete with Sienna, Sheridan Smith for Mrs Biggs and Anne Reid for Last Tango In Halifax. Unsurprisingly, the London 2012 Games feature heavily in the Sport & Live Event category, including the Olympics 'Super Saturday', Opening Ceremony and the Paralympic Games. Danny Boyle's Opening Ceremony is also up for the Radio Times Audience Award, which is voted for by the public. Funny: Olivia Colman and Hugh Bonneville have both been nominated for Twenty Twelve . The star-studded ceremony will be host by Graham Norton, who himself is up for Entertainment Performance for his BBC chat show. The winners of the Arqiva British Academy Television Awards will be announced at London's Royal Festival Hall on May 12. Popular: The Great British Bake Off, starring Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood, is up for Features and the Audience Award . Leading Actor: . Ben Whishaw - Richard II (The Hollow Crown) Derek Jacobi - Last Tango in Halifax . Sean Bean - Accused ('Tracie's Story') Toby Jones - The Girl . Leading Actress: . Anne Reid - Last Tango in Halifax . Rebecca Hall - Parade's End . Sheridan Smith - Mrs Biggs . Sienna Miller - The Girl . Supporting Actor: . Peter Capaldi - The Hour . Stephen Graham - Accused ('Tracie's Story') Harry Lloyd - The Fear . Simon Russell Beale - Henry IV, Part 2 (The Hollow Crown) Supporting Actress: . Anastasia Hille - The Fear . Imelda Staunton - The Girl . Olivia Colman - Accused ('Mo's Story') Sarah Lancashire - Last Tango in Halifax . Entertainment Performance: . Alan Carr - Alan Carr: Chatty Man . Ant and Dec - I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! Graham Norton - The Graham Norton Show . Sarah Millican - The Sarah Millican Show . Female Performance In A Comedy Programme: . Jessica Hynes - Twenty Twelve . Julia Davis - Hunderby . Miranda Hart - Miranda . Olivia Colman - Twenty Twelve . Male Performance In A Comedy Programme: . Greg Davies - Cuckoo . Hugh Bonneville - Twenty Twelve . Peter Capaldi - The Thick of It . Steve Coogan - Welcome to the Places of My Life . Single Drama: . Everyday . The Girl . Murder . Richard II (The Hollow Crown) Mini-Series: . Accused . Mrs Biggs . Parade's End . Room at the Top . Drama Series: . Last Tango in Halifax . Ripper Street . Scott and Bailey . Silk . Soap & Continuing Drama: . Coronation Street . EastEnders . Emmerdale . Shameless . International: . The Bridge . Game of Thrones . Girls . Homeland . Factual Series: . 24 Hours in A&E . Great Ormond Street . Make Bradford British . Our War . Huw Wheldon Award for Specialist Factual: . All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry . The Plane Crash . The Plot to Bring Down Britain's Planes . The Secret History of Our Streets . Robert Flaherty Award for Single Documentary: . 7/7: One Day in London . Baka: A Cry from the Rainforest . Lucian Freud: Painted Life . Nina Conti – A Ventriloquist's Story: Her Master's Voice . Features: . Bank of Dave . Grand Designs . The Great British Bake Off . Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs . Reality and Constructed Factual: . The Audience . I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! Made in Chelsea . The Young Apprentice . Current Affairs: . Britain's Hidden Housing Crisis (Panorama Special) The Other Side of Jimmy Savile (Exposure) The Shame of the Catholic Church (This World) What Killed Arafat? (Al Jazeera Investigates) News Coverage: . BBC News at Ten: Syria . Channel 4 News: Battle for Homs . ITV/Granada Reports: Hillsborough – The Truth at Last . Sport & Live Event: . The London 2012 Olympics: 'Super Saturday' The London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: 'Isle of Wonder' The London 2012 Paralympic Games . Wimbledon 2012 – Men's Final . Lew Grade Award for Entertainment Programme: . Dynamo: Magician Impossible . The Graham Norton Show . Have I Got News For You . A League of Their Own . Comedy Programme: . Cardinal Burns . Mr Stink . The Revolution Will Be Televised . Welcome to the Places of My Life . Situation Comedy: . Episodes . Hunderby . The Thick of It . Twenty Twelve . Radio Times Audience Award: . Call the Midwife . Game of Thrones . The Great British Bake Off . Homeland . The London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony . Strictly Come Dancing . | Olympic and Paralympics dominate the Sport & Live Event category .
Downton Abbey snubbed, while Call The Midwife only has one nod .
Olivia Colman up for acting accolades in Twenty Twelve and The Accused . |
263,228 | e0f20174e9bc9c72df4ff40aab1d9da2d1c2cda0 | By . Jim Van Wijk, Press Association . Osi Umenyiora still has unfinished business in the NFL with the Atlanta Falcons, but would one day relish the opportunity to be at the forefront of any permanent expansion into London. Umenyiora, brought up in Golders Green before moving with his parents back to Nigeria, is hoping to again be involved when the Falcons take part in NFL International Series, which for the first time will see three regular-season matches played at Wembley. Oakland will 'host' the Miami Dolphins on September 28, before the Detroit Lions against the Atlanta Falcons in October followed by the Dallas Cowboys facing the Jacksonville Jaguars at the start of November. Brit of all right: Umenyiora (left) lines up with fellow NFL players at Wembley on Wednesday . It has been suggested the NFL is considering the viability of a franchise in Europe, with London the most likely hub city given the huge success of the sell-out games at Wembley, where the Jaguars have signed up for one 'home' fixture through to 2016. However, the logistics of getting players across the Atlantic on a regular basis and the physical toll that would take remains a subject for debate, but it is a future scenario Umenyiora, a two-time Super Bowl winner with the New York Giants, would welcome. 'There would be some complaints at first, but they (players) would get over that. They (NFL) would make it work - this is what we love to do, play football and we are getting paid extremely well to do it,' Umenyiora said. Success story: The Jacksonville Jaguars run out to take on the San Francisco 49ers at Wembley last year . 'I see what the NFL is doing, and they are not going to leave me behind, I am going to be on the forefront of coming out here, broadcasting and bringing the game to the audience out here, with the fact I was born here in London and have been doing some of the things I have been able to do in the NFL.' Umenyiora may turn 33 later this year and have also played in the Pro Bowl twice, but for now at least, his only focus is on more game time as the Falcons look to mount a push for the play-offs in 2014 after a hugely disappointing 4-12 record last season. 'Sometimes you do think about that (why continue on), but then there are still some things you need to accomplish,' said Umenyiora, who played at Wembley for the Giants against the Dolphins in 2007. Having a ball: Detroit Lions linebacker Stephen Tulloch (left) and Umenyiora pose for a photo at Wembley . 'That is the only thing which keeps me going, because I feel I can get better, so that is what I am going to try to do. 'I think we have a good chance this year. 'In the NFL, the difference can be just 10 seconds worth of plays, that is all it is, one missed step here or a catch there, the games are so close. 'Any team can go from being bad one season to good, and from being good to bad - and that is something which makes the NFL so dramatic.' Reaching out: The NFL are looking to gain more support from across the globe . Umenyiora intends to make the most of a welcome break from the rigours of pre-season training. 'I left London when I was really young, so I don't have too many concrete memories here, but coming back has been great,' said Umenyiora, now in his second season at the Falcons. 'My sister is going to school out here, so I will be seeing her, along with some friends I grew up with in London and Nigeria. 'Nobody knows anything about you here, which in a way is great, so you can just show up and enjoy yourself.' | Wembley to host three NFL games for the first time this season .
British-born Atlanta Falcons star Osi Umenyiora joins calls for London-based franchise . |
97,653 | 09b7d64ab6cc7a0d351c0302208df0a621eed91d | By . Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor . PUBLISHED: . 04:23 EST, 25 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 05:00 EST, 25 June 2013 . Britain’s top politicians are not as well-known as they might like to think. A damning new poll reveals the public cannot correctly name most of the Cabinet or party leaders – with hilarious results. Labour leader Ed Miliband suffers the indignity of being mixed up with Bert from Sesame Street while Chancellor George Osborne is confused with Hollywood actor Tom Hanks and Home Secretary Theresa May is mistaken for comedian Sarah Millican. Muppet: Only 77 per cent of people could name Ed . Miliband (left) with most confusing him with brother David, and some . thinking he was Bert from Sesame Street (right) Recognition: David Cameron received a boost from the poll which showed 94 per cent of people correctly identified him, but it was only just ahead of his rival Boris Johnson who had 91 per cent recognition . Pollsters gave more than 8,000 people . photographs of 10 of the country’s most high profile politicians and . asked them to name them. David Cameron was recognised by an impressive 96 per cent of people, with 94 per cent able to name him. Pollster . Lord Ashcroft said: ‘This is as close to a unanimous response as you . get in political research, but still means that more than one in twenty . of our fellow countrymen and women could in theory bump into David . Cameron and not be at all sure who he was. ‘This . ought to be a salutary thought for those in the political world who . imagine that the rest of the electorate follow events in Westminster as . closely as they do.’ But in a worrying sign for the Prime Minister, his great rival Boris Johnson was almost as well known. The Mayor of London’s appeal stretches beyond the capital, recognised by 94 per cent of people. It means he was as well-known as the Foreign Secretary, Health Secretary and the Defence Secretary put together. Hollywood: Chancellor George Osborne (left) was correctly named by just 62 per cent of people, with the rest muddling him up with Ed Miliband and actor Tom Hanks (right) But the results were less reassuring for the other big beasts of Westminster. Eighty-nine . per cent of people said they thought they knew who Labour leader Mr . Miliband was – but only 77 per cent got it right. Two . and a half years after his surprise victory in Labour’s leadership . contest, Mr Miliband is still most often confused with his brother . David. Humiliatingly, the Labour leader was also mistaken for Bert from Sesame Street. Funny: Theresa May, the Home Secretary, is the most powerful woman in British politics, but only 55 per cent of voters know who she is, with some thinking it was comedian Sarah Millican . Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg was less well known than Mr Miliband, despite spending three years as Deputy Prime Minister. Just 72 per cent of people named him correctly, with most muddling him up with Chancellor George Osborne. Mr Clegg was also mistaken for businessman Peter Jones from BBC TV show Dragon’s Den. The idea that politicians are all the same even seems to extend to their faces. Hard man: Foreign Secretary William Hague (left) was mixed up with TV actor and presenter Ross Kemp (right) Mr Osborne was confused with Mr Miliband as well as Forrest Gump star Tom Hanks. Foreign Secretary William Hague, . correctly named by 64 per cent, was confused with Cabinet colleague Work . and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith. The bald former Tory leaders are in good company – Mr Hague was also wrongly identified as TV hard man Ross Kemp. As . Home Secretary Theresa May is the most powerful woman in British . politics, and in recent months has made little secret of her leadership . ambitions. But only 55 per cent of people questioned knew who she was, with most confusing her with Labour’s deputy leader Harriet Harman. More worryingly, some thought she was stand-up comedian Sarah Millican. Security: Defence Secretary Philip Hammond, . recognised by just 10 per cent of people, was mistaken for Wikileaks . founder Julian Assange (right) Confusion: Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg was recognised by three-quarters of people while the rest confused him with Chancellor George Osborne and Dragon's Den star Peter Jones (right) Education Secretary Michael Gove is seen as one of the big stars of the coalition, pushing through major reforms of schools. But only 29 per cent of people knew he was, mixing him up with UKIP leader Nigel Farage and John Gummer, a minister in John Major’s government. Health Secretary Jeremy fared even worse, correctly named by only 18 per cent, with most thinking he was former althete and London Olympics chief Seb Coe. Oddly some named him as Bob the Builder. Defence Secretary Philip Hammond suffered the indignity of being confused with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange by some of the 90 per cent of people who had no idea who he was. | Pollsters asked people to look a photographs of politicians and name them .
9 out of 10 people correctly identified David Cameron and Boris Johnson .
But the results will make for grim reading for the rest of our top MPs .
Lord Ashcroft's poll questioned 8,051 people between 26 April and 6 May . |
242,633 | c60ef328f4e5441d30ad84cb53e37a81604513e1 | Former England boss Terry Venables has called on Premier League managers to stop interfering with the selection of their top international stars. Liverpool have been in the spotlight recently after media reports suggested Brendan Rodgers asked Roy Hodgson to rest Raheem Sterling for England's Euro 2016 qualifying fixture against Estonia last week. Rodgers denied those claims and played down any club-versus-country row, but writing in the Independent on Sunday, Venables said Hodgson should not have to consult Premier League managers when selecting players. Former England assistant manager Terry Venables (pictured next to Steve McClaren) has told Premier League managers to let Roy Hodgson decide who is selected for the national team . Venables was in charge of the England national senior team between 1994 and 1996 . Brendan Rodgers and Roy Hodgson have clashed over the handling of Liverpool starlet Raheem Sterling . 'I am sick of Premier League managers dictating who should, or who shouldn't, play for England,' writes Venables. 'Country comes before club, end of. 'There are no conversations to be had with club managers trying to stop England picking their players. 'When I became England manager I never experienced any player saying to me: thanks for picking me boss but I don't fancy it this time, maybe next game perhaps,' wrote the 71-year-old. 'If I had, then that player would never, ever, have been part of my England squad again, no matter how important he could have been. 'To be selected for England is the ultimate accolade. I was the first footballer to play for England at every level possible - schoolboy, youth, amateur, under-23 (as it was then) and full. Liverpool boss Rodgers believes England manager Hodgson could have dealt with Sterling differently . 'Can you imagine how proud I feel today just thinking about that? Nothing would have stopped me playing in any of those games.' Venables, who guided England to the semi-finals of Euro 1996 where they were knocked out on penalties by Germany, said he never came under pressure from managers during his two-year spell in charge. 'I never tolerated a situation where managers were telling me publicly who I could, or could not, select,' the former Tottenham Hotspur manager added. 'That would have totally undermined my position and made the job of running England impossible.' | Former England boss Terry Venables believes international football is just as important as the Premier League .
Playing for your country should come before club, according to Venables .
The 71-year-old says being selected for England is the 'ultimate accolade' |
97,986 | 0a2609855bb8cbd03146d9cdf55a7833f6426294 | Haifa, Israel (CNN) -- On a cool January morning, Israeli ambulances sped to the site of a simulated terrorist attack in Haifa, the country's largest port city. In keeping with the script for the long-planned civil defense exercise, emergency workers responded to a suicide car bomb with one element the country has not experienced in the dozens of real terrorist bombings over the years: this simulated attack dispersed nuclear materials, a "dirty bomb" laced with radioactive Cesium 137. While life went on around them in an otherwise normal day, paramedics rushed the "victims" to area hospitals, where doctors and nurses in protective gear moved to decontaminate and treat their injuries. Elsewhere, authorities assessed the public health effects and the psychological impact on the public of hearing the words "nuclear" and "bomb" used in the same sentence referring to an attack close to home. It was not a simulation of an atomic bomb, but of a "radiological dispersal device," a much less destructive conventional weapon with some nuclear materials in the mix -- enough to spread a small amount of radiation and a great deal of panic. Nobody talked about Iran during the event. But, as with so much of what goes on in Israel these days, thoughts of how the conflict over Iran's nuclear program might ultimately unfold lurked in people's minds. For all those involved in the exercise, it was an opportunity to prepare for another one of the many disturbing scenarios that come up whenever Israelis ponder what the future may bring. Dr. Lion Poles, one of the organizers from the Ministry of Health, called it "a hypothetical but plausible scenario." When word came out months ago that the Israeli military was preparing the exercise code-named "Dark Cloud" -- the first ever drill for nuclear terrorism in the country -- authorities tried to downplay its significance. Perhaps that's why Dark Cloud received so little media attention. But Defense Minister Ehud Barak has often said that the greatest risk from Iran's nuclear program is not that Tehran will launch an atomic bomb against Israel, but that it might send a dirty bomb to explode through cargo arriving at a crowded port. After years of worrying about Iran -- and about other threats in the neighborhood -- Israelis have developed a cool and tense fatalistic attitude. Conversations with every day people show a mix of resignation, bravado, fear and a suspicion that there may not be good options. In Jerusalem, Uri Margalit, a 57-year-old salesman, says he doesn't think Israel will attack Iran, but concedes that the uncertainty of what might happen has made him and his friends nervous. "Everybody's a little afraid," he admits. Others, like Hanna Ofner, are less pessimistic. "I count on the government to do the right thing," she says, adding that she believes Europe and the U.S. understand just how risky a nuclear-armed Iran would be for the entire Middle East and the rest of the world. Polls show the public is divided about whether or not Israel should attack Iran to keep nuclear weapons out of its hands. Given that Iran's leaders have openly proclaimed their wish to see Israel destroyed, most Israelis believe a war will happen. Some Israelis tellingly confess they have restocked their bomb shelters with fresh water and other supplies. The January 18 radiological drill barely made the news in a country where national exercises to prepare for conventional missile attacks, in addition to biological and chemical weapons, have become routine in recent years. The need to prepare more actively became clear after the 2006 war with Lebanon's Hezbollah, when Hezbollah's rockets -- many of them made in Iran -- hit a greater portion of Israel than ever before, forcing more than 300,000 Israelis to evacuate their hometowns and sending about a million of them into bomb shelters. Lebanon was also affected: at least a million people were displaced during the 34 days of fighting. If the conflict with Iran does escalate into open warfare, the widespread expectation is that Hezbollah, a close ally of Iran, will attack Israel from Lebanon, while Hamas, another friend of Tehran, will do the same from Gaza. The U.S. believes Hezbollah alone has an arsenal of about 50,000 rockets and missiles, some capable of reaching practically all of Israel. While the radiological drill did not garner a lot of attention, there was another exercise -- one that did not happen -- which made large headlines. The U.S. and Israel has been preparing to hold their largest joint military maneuvers in the history of their alliance, a missile defense drill code-named "Austere Challenge 12," in April. As military officials on both sides were busy arranging for thousands of American soldiers to deploy to Israel, word came out that the war games had been postponed. The circumstances behind the sudden change of plans remain something of a mystery, with officials offering reassurances that there is no reason for concern. For Israelis, however, one of the greatest fears is that they will be abandoned to face Iran without international support. It came as some comfort that President Obama just told Time Magazine that he "will take every step available to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon." Israelis hope that will be achieved without the need for war, but they believe it is a near certainty that a military operation against Iran would result in attacks against Israel by Iran's allies. Just in case, they are preparing for any conceivable scenario while carrying on with their daily lives and hoping for the best. Follow CNN Opinion on Twitter . Join the conversation on Facebook . The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Frida Ghitis. | Israel has been exercising drills that simulate "dirty bomb" attacks .
Frida Ghitis: Many ordinary Israelis are worried about a nuclear attack from Iran .
Obama said he "will take every step available to prevent Iran" from getting nuclear weapon .
Ghitis: Israelis continue to prepare for possible scenarios just in case . |
18,012 | 3307cf4eb9655e8febd912cd654d9ce4de2dcbaf | By . Jennifer Newton . A court in Egypt has sentenced 10 Islamist supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood to death for inciting violence and blocking a road. The men were sentenced in absentia at a court in the Nile Delta town of Banha following the incident last July. Judge Hassan Fareed, presiding over the court, referred the sentence to the Grand Mufti, the highest Islamic authority, which is a legal requirement usually considered a formality. Scroll down for video . Supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohammed Morsi, who have been charged with violence pictured earlier this year. Today ten supporters were sentenced to death for inciting violence and blocking a road last year . The remaining 38 on trial in the case will be sentenced at the next hearing next month. Among them are Brotherhood supreme guide Mohammed Badie and former Brotherhood lawmaker Mohammed el-Beltagy. They also include Salafi preacher Safwat Hegazy and Bassem Auda, the supplies minister under the former president, who was overthrown by the military last year following massive protests against his year-long rule. The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's most well-organised opposition movement during decades of autocratic rule, was propelled to power by the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak. The 10 Islamists were supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, led by ousted president Mohammed Morsi, pictured . The trials are part of a fierce government crackdown in the months following Morsi's overthrow, during which the group was outlawed and then declared a terrorist movement. Hundreds of Morsi supporters have been killed in clashes with police, at least 16,000 have been detained by the military-backed government and hundreds referred to trial. Elsewhere, an appeals court today overturned the sentences given to four police officers over the deaths of 37 detainees, most of them Morsi supporters, Egypt's state news agency MENA reported. The prisoners suffocated in an overcrowded police truck where they had been packed for hours when the police threw tear gas canisters into the cramped space. A military vehicle keeping guard in front of the supreme constitutional court in Cairo in preparation for the inauguration of Egypt's new president, retired Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah El-Sissi . The court had handed a 10-year prison term to one officer and one-year suspended sentences to three in March, a verdict that outraged lawyers and families of the victims. The court said the case will be referred back to prosecutors and a retrial will be held after an appeal by the convicted police officers. It was the first trial and conviction of police officers in connection to a crackdown on Islamists since Morsi was ousted. Brotherhood supporters have witnessed a series of mass trials, the largest of which saw 529 sentenced to death in one session in southern Egypt. Under Egyptian law, those sentenced in absentia will have a new trial if they are arrested or surrender to authorities. The sentences come on the eve of the inauguration of Egypt's new president, retired Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah El-Sissi, who led the overthrow of Morsi. | Group were supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood .
Men were sentenced in absentia at a court in the Nile Delta town of Banha .
Another 38 men will be sentenced at a hearing next month .
Comes on the eve of the inauguration of Egypt's new president . |
250,408 | d01227bf1bf1c9ae024efe77633162465093617a | Yemen says it has foiled an audacious Al . Qaeda plot to blow up oil pipelines and seize key ports, as US special . operations forces reportedly prepare for action in the country. Security forces thwarted a plan by terrorists to take over oil and gas export facilities and a provincial . capital in the eastern part of the country, a government official said . today. Rajeh Badi, press advisor to Yemeni Prime Minister Mohammed Salem Basindwa, said the plot involved dozens of Al Qaeda militants dressed in Yemeni army uniforms storming the facilities on the night of the 27th of the Muslim month of Ramadan, which was on Sunday. The plot was apparently discovered after . US intelligence officers intercepted a conference call between senior . leaders of Al Qaeda. Scroll down for video . Sanaía International Airport in Sanaía, Yemen: American and British diplomatic staff were urged to leave Yemen before news of the foiled terror plot emerged today . The political temperature has hotted up in the Yemen in recent days and there is a heavier military presence on the streets . More than 20 operatives were involved in . the call, which mainly involved Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, and . Nasser al-Wuhayshi, the leader of Al Qaeda’s affiliate based in Yemen, . according to The Daily Beast. Badi said: 'The plot aimed to seize . the al-Dabbah oil export terminal in Hadramout [province] and the Belhaf . gas export facility, as well as the city of Mukalla [Hadramout . provincial capital].' He said the bid was prevented by . Yemeni forces deploying extra troops around the targeted facilities and . banning anyone from entering.[related] . News of the foiled plot emerged after the United States evacuated some . American diplomatic staff out of Yemen and told nationals to leave the . country immediately after warnings of potential attacks that had . prompted Washington to shut missions across the Middle East. Britain, France, the Netherlands and Norway also closed their embassies . in Sanaa and some evacuated their staff. It was not immediately clear if the foiled plot was linked to these security measures. Exodus: Western citizens make their way to the airport after the State Department ordered the evacuation of all non-essential personnel . Bomb fear: Al Qaeda terrorists may have developed a new liquid explosive that can be applied to clothing and is completely undetectable by current airport security systems . Yemen, one of the poorest Arab . countries, is the base for Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), one . of the most active branches of the network founded by Osama bin Laden, . and militants have launched attacks from there against the West. It emerged today that officials are . investigating the theory that Al Qaeda terrorists could try to bring . down planes using an undetectable explosive soaked into their clothes. The . organisation’s bomb-makers are reportedly developing an ‘ingenious’ system whereby shirts and trousers drenched in the explosive could be . ignited when dry. Mastermind: The new explosive is believed to be the work Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri known as Al-Qaeda's bomb-maker in chief . It would . be undetectable under current security measures and remove the need for . terrorists to mix liquid explosives on board, security sources told the . American TV network ABC News yesterday. The latest threat to air passengers is . one of the reasons behind the current global terror alert, according to . two senior US government officials. British bomb expert Sidney Alford . confirmed that the new method was possible using easily available . chemicals, but pulling it off would be tricky as the soaking process . would dilute the explosive. He said: ‘The clothes act as a diluent and reduce the power of the explosives.’ However, igniting treated clothes . could be done simply with a match. Passengers are allowed to carry a . single box of safety matches or a cigarette lighter on flights. The new explosive has reportedly been . developed by the notorious bomb-maker Ibrahim al-Asiri of Al Qaeda in . the Arabian Peninsula, who made the device used by convicted ‘underwear . bomber’ Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in his attempt to blow up a plane on . Christmas Day in 2009. Other reports have suggested that Al-Asiri is developing bombs that could be sewn under the skin of terrorists. The level of ‘terror chatter’ being . monitored by security services has been described as one of the most . serious threats to American and Western interests since the 9/11 . attacks. In response, the Foreign Office last . night evacuated all staff from the British embassy in Yemen. The U.S. State Department, based at the White House, Washington (pictured), has instructed its embassies and consulates in the Muslim word that would normally be open on Sunday to close this weekend amid reports of an unspecified threat . Checkpoint: A policeman searches a car at a post close to the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen . Those . posted in Sana’a, the capital – including ambassador Jane Marriott, who . has only been there a month – were told to return to the UK because of . ‘increased security concerns’. The US also ordered all non-essential . personnel at its Yemeni embassy to get out, and American citizens still . in the country were flown to safety by military aircraft. Dozens of Al Qaeda operatives are said . to have streamed into Sana’a in the past few days, forcing the . country’s military to use ‘extraordinary and unprecedented’ security . measures to protect official buildings. At the same time, at least four . suspected terrorists have been killed in an American drone strike in the . eastern Marib region of Yemen. The drone fired a missile at a car carrying the four men, setting it on fire and killing all of them, the officials said. On Sunday 20 US embassies and consulates were closed after conversations between two senior al-Qaeda figures. The U.S. Embassy in Amman (pictured), the capital of Jordan, is among those closed . In Kabul, Afghanistan, where thousands of U.S. troops remain stationed, the U.S. Embassy (pictured) will also be closed this Sunday . Speaking . on condition of anonymity because they are not allowed to talk to the . media, the officials said they believe one of the dead is Saleh Jouti, a . senior Al Qaeda member. It's the fourth drone attack in the past week to hit a car believed to be carrying Al Qaeda members. On . Sunday 20 US embassies and consulates were closed after conversations . between two senior al-Qaeda figures, including top leader Ayman . al-Zawahiri, were intercepted. Western embassies in the capital of Sanaa are also being protected. The State Department said in a travel . warning that it had ordered the departure of non-emergency U.S. government personnel from Yemen 'due to the continued potential for . terrorist attacks' and said U.S. citizens in Yemen should leave . immediately because of an 'extremely high' security threat level. 'As . staff levels at the Embassy are restricted, our ability to assist U.S. citizens in an emergency and provide routine consular services remains . limited and may be further constrained by the fluid security situation,' the travel warning said. Electronic communications were picked up several weeks ago . between Ayman al-Zawahri (left) - the head of the global terror network who . succeeded Osama bin Laden - and Nasser al-Wuhayshi (right) The BBC reports that the White House and the US state department say the current threat comes from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), but have refused to release further details. The UK Foreign Office said in a statement: 'Due to increased security concerns, all staff in the British embassy have been temporarily withdrawn and the embassy will remain closed until staff are able to return.' Several European countries have also temporarily shut missions in Yemen. Known as Al-Qaeda's bomb-maker in chief, Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri is believed to be behind a range of explosive devices including pant bombs and liquid explosive implants which contain no metal parts making them virtually undetectable. Al-Asiri, 31, who is linked to the Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) group, was reported to have recruited his own brother Abdullah al-Asiri as a suicide bomber in a failed 2009 attempt to assassinate Saudi Arabia's Deputy Minister of the Interior. An early version of his pant bomb was used in the the 2009 Christmas Day bomb plot, when a Nigerian man attempted unsuccessfully to detonate the device aboard a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. An updated version, which incorporated fail-safe triggers and used a new kind of explosive that was even harder to detect was supplied for a terrorist attack in May last year to mark the anniversary of Osama Bin Laden’s death. That plot was foiled when the suicide bomber turned out to be a double agent and handed the device to the FBI . He is also believed to have been behind an intercepted pair of explosives-laden printers that were mailed from Yemen to the U.S. in 2010. In September last year he was reported as having been possibly killed in a drone strike together with other AQAP suspects but a Yemeni government official later denied the claim. He is currently considered to be one of America's most wanted men. 'He’s the main guy,' said one counterterrorism official. 'He’s the top of any list.' Al-Asiri has been described as a critical component of al Qaeda's activities in Yemen and his death would be a significant blow to the organization. | Security forces uncovered plans for an attack in the poorest Arab country .
Dozens of Al Qaeda militants were to dress in Yemeni soldier uniforms .
Yemeni PM's spokesman says they also aimed to seize the city of Mukalla .
American special forces are now said to be preparing for action in Yemen .
US and UK embassy staff have been warned to leave the country . |
202,496 | 922b1092189b8691782e89d872394c344878419f | With her perfectly coiffed locks, smart, tailored dresses and Mulberry handbags, Kim Sears always look immaculately stylish when she watches fiance Andy Murray play at Wimbledon. But the 26-year-old showcased a more dressed-down look when she watched him win his second round match against Marinko Matosevic on day three of the Australian Open. The artist from Surrey looked casual in a cropped T-shirt with the slogan 'I Shih Tzu Not' yesterday. Scroll down for video . Casual Kim: She wore shorts and a T-shirt with the slogan 'I Shih Tzu Not' on day three of the Australian Open . Budget buy: The dog-themed T-shirt is £16 from online retailer ASOS . The fiancee of Andy Murray still showed their wealth with a £895 Bayswater Mulberry on her arm . Sparkler: Her diamond engagement ring is estimated to be worth £200,000 . She teamed her Tee, which is available from ASOS for £16, with white shorts and flat roman sandals. Given the temperatures in Australia at this time of year can rise to 40 degrees, it's not surprising that Kim, who is expected to marry Andy in October, opted for cool, summery clothing. But it's a far cry from her usual look when she takes to the family box at Wimbledon to watch Andy, 27, play. Wimbledon winner: Kim wore this £925 dress by Victoria Beckham when Andy won the tournament in 2013 . The designer dress was worn as pictures of Kim were beamed around the world after Andy's historic victory . High end High Street: On day one of Wimbledon 2014, Kim this white lace sleeved Reiss 'Jennifer' dress, £225 . Designer day: Kim wore this pink fitted £440 dress from Goat, Burberry wedges and a £1395 Aspinal Marylebone tote bag to the Wimbledon quarter finals in 2014 . On those occasions, she has chosen to wear a number of fitted, pretty dresses from a mix of High Street and designer stores. She's often accessorised with a belt to cinch in her waist and worn heels or Burberry wedges to elongate her figure. Her favourite High Street retailers include the more expensively priced Hobbs, Ted Baker, Zara and Reiss - stores also favoured by another English style icon, the Duchess of Cambridge. Kim's most expensive outfit worn to Wimbledon was a mint, £925 crochet dress by Victoria Beckham which she wore when Andy won the grand slam in 2013. Smart: For the Wimbledon final in 2012 she looked like she could be headed to the office in this high-waisted skirt, white blouse, wedges and Mulberry Bayswater bag . Pretty print dresses: At the fourth round of Wimbledon 2013 in a £49.99 Zara dress, left, and a £129 swallow print dress from Hobbs at the 2014 tournament, right . On the seventh day of Wimbledon 2014 in a pink leopard dress by Whistles and her Aspinal tote . At the final the year before, when the outcome had been quite different for Andy as he lost to Roger Federer, she had dressed smartly in a fitted high-waisted skirt and white blouse with leopard print wedges. She's never without her collection of designer handbags as she either has her £895 Bayswater Mulberry, £1,500 Mulberry Willow Tote or £1,100.00 Mulberry Alexa on her arm. At Wimbledon last year, she was rarely seen without her Aspinal Marylebone tote bag - which costs an eye-watering £1395. The tailored looks contrast to Kim's more laidback appearance down under yesterday - perhaps chosen as she feels she isn't as much in the lime light when her fiance isn't playing in front of a home crowd. Bright and breezy on day three of Wimbledon 2013 in a yellow dress by Ted Baker . Another dress from Hobbs, the £129 'Ada' worn to the Wimbledon semi finals in 2013 . Her outfit still had a hint of glamour thanks to her carrying her Bayswater Mulberry and dazzling engagement ring, thought to be worth £200,000. Kim shared a picture of her T-shirt on her Instragram account with the caption: 'My current clothing obsession #shihtzu #asos.' She usually uses the account to show off her own drawings of dogs as she works part-time doing pet portraits. At Wimbledon 2012, she wore this long sleeve navy dress with co-coordinating belt and Mulberry bag . | Kim looked casual in 'I Shih Tzu Not' T-shirt from ASOS and shorts .
Watched Murray win second round match at Australian Open .
At Wimbledon, she's worn designer Victoria Beckham and Goat dresses . |
281,437 | f88d23de6e7622b3bc8220912b465aebb55104e7 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 19:59 EST, 5 March 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 19:59 EST, 5 March 2014 . Jailed: Thief Adrian Robertson, 40, had previously robbed a partially-sighted musician . An 81-year-old woman had her handbag stolen after she stood up from her church pew to take communion. Silvia Federicei-Palmieri, a Brazilian believed to be on a long holiday in the UK, was at a morning church service on her birthday when a couple snatched her bag. Adrian Robertson, 40, was sentenced to five months in jail on Tuesday for the theft. Rebecca Mills, 32, pleaded guilty last month and was handed an eight-week sentence. The couple walked into a Sunday service at Our Lady Immaculate RC Church in Surbiton, Surrey, on January 19, the court heard. Congregation member Deborah Roberts said she saw Mills take the bag from the pew. She told Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court: ‘As they were about to go to sit down, she seemed to bend down and grab something. 'They walked back out of the pews together while he was looking over his shoulder.’ Churchgoers including Sunday school pupils chased the pair down the road but did not catch them. They were later arrested by police. Sunday school teacher Rachel Street told the court: ‘They were getting away. I was shouting at them, “I’m from the church, you have taken the bag”.’ Robertson, of West Ewell, Surrey, claimed he did not know Mills had taken the bag until after they left. Mills, of Epsom, Surrey, said she had not planned to steal it, but was drunk and ‘saw the opportunity’. Sentencing Robertson, District Judge Ken Grant described the theft as a ‘joint enterprise’, adding that stealing from an 81-year-old woman in church made the crime ‘particularly unpleasant’. Robertson, who stood trial at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court, is already serving a 13-week sentence for an earlier theft, and in 2009 was jailed for two and a half years for robbing a partially-sighted musician in Epsom. Communion: The theft took place during a morning service at Our Lady Immaculate Church in Surbiton . Congregation member Deborah Roberts, who gave evidence behind a screen, said she saw the pair enter the pews and thought they were going to sit down as people went up for communion. She said: 'As they were about to go to sit down, she seemed to bend down and grab something then they walked back out of the pews together while he was looking over his shoulder.' Ms Roberts said she pursued the pair out of the church and called after them but they walked away quickly and broke into a run. She said: 'She had gone to take communion, she had left her handbag in the pew to walk down the central aisle.' In the dock, Robertson claimed they only went into the church in order to use the toilet after sleeping rough under a flight of stairs the previous night. He claimed he did not know Mills had taken the bag until they had left the church. He said: 'I think she picked the bag up, it was by mistake. Nothing was taken from the bag. It was a drunken mistake.' Callous: The 81-year-old worshipper from Brazil stood up to take communion and left her purse behind . Robertson denied being on the look-out or playing any part in the theft. He said: 'Why would I want to take a bag when I was on the way to my Mum’s for Sunday dinner? 'That’s totally wrong. I’m Catholic myself. I did not see no bag or anything when I was in the church.' He said they walked out of the church, adding: 'The only time I ran is when I ran across the road and I stopped after that. I had no need to run.' While giving evidence Mills, who had a ponytail and navy top, said she did not plan to take the bag but just 'saw the opportunity' while under the influence of drink. She said: 'It was on the floor. I just picked it up. I went round the back towards M&S and threw it down because I thought it was wrong. I didn’t even open it.' She added: 'I threw the bag because I felt guilty. I took the blame and said I’m really sorry. You can’t blame someone else for what I have done.' After giving evidence she whispered to Robertson: 'I love you.' | Silvia Federicei-Palmieri, 81, believed to be on a long holiday from Brazil .
She was praying at Our Lady Immaculate RC Church in Surbiton, Surrey .
Churchgoers chased Adrian Robertson, 40, who was jailed for five months . |
166,279 | 630110dfda4fb234a81c5495b634e6f27cb0ae5d | Editor's Note: The staff at CNN.com has recently been intrigued by the journalism of VICE, an independent media company and Web site based in Brooklyn, New York. VBS.TV is VICE's broadband television network. The reports, which are produced solely by VICE, reflect a very transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process. We believe this unique reporting approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers. Four Corners region of U.S. (VBS.TV) -- Earlier this fall, VBS.TV went to the Four Corners region of the United States to hang out with indigenous cowboys of the Navajo (Diné) tribe. These riders were all from the Triple B Association -- a bronc-riding, bull-riding and barrel-racing league catering to the Native American community of the U.S. Southwest. Given the difficult economic circumstances under which most of these cowboys and their families live, it's an unusual portrait of Americana in the 21st century. Early this year, it was reported that more than 56 percent of Navajos live below the poverty line, one of the highest rates in the U.S., even among the traditionally marginalized indigenous communities. Add to that a frightening unemployment rate climbing above 50 percent --disconcertingly higher than the national rate, which hovers around 9.5 percent --and the picture is extremely bleak. Many of these families throughout New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado also lack electricity, running water or telephones. Still, theirs is a spiritually rich culture, based on family-operated, small-scale farming and ranching. See more of this story at VBS.TV. Though the professional rodeo circuit offers a slight opportunity for some of the best riders, by and large members of this community are relegated to the Navajo league. The best many can hope for is a berth at the Indian National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, Nevada, each year. The winnings are not high and neither is the exposure compared with many of the larger stadium rodeo events. Triple B, like several other rodeo associations, provides young riders with an opportunity to sign up and compete against each other from March to November each year. The cost to enter can be high, and if you don't win, you have to find a way home, struggle to get back in the circuit in upcoming weeks and somehow find the resources to feed the livestock that await back home. The Navajo riders have managed to get a degree of mainstream exposure over the years, mostly because bull and bronc riding are becoming a big-bucks industry elsewhere in the U.S. Over the course of a week, we tailed several of the group's riders all across the region, accompanying them during training and traveling with them to and from assorted events. Over that time, we came to know their families, witnessing as they coped with personal struggles and sharing in occasional successes. For more on this story, head to the VBS.TV site. | VBS.TV spends time with Navajo cowboys who are part of a bronc and bull riding league .
VBS.TV says it's an unusual portrait of Americana in the 21st century .
Navajo riders face difficult economic hurdles as they seek success in rodeo circuit .
Navajo riders have managed to get some mainstream exposure . |
83,514 | ece71a2f9b9cf1bbc7899c4f07cbb95737856ed1 | New York (CNN) -- A 35-year-old woman on a first date plummeted to her death early Thursday morning when she fell from the balcony of her 17th floor New York City apartment. Jennifer Rosoff went outside on her balcony around 12:50 a.m. Thursday to talk and smoke a cigarette with her date when the balcony's railing broke, according to police. It's unclear whether Rosoff leaned on the balcony, causing it to give way. She landed on a second-story construction scaffolding of the building and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Rosoff's employer, online advertising startup TripleLift, released a statement expressing sorrow at the news of her death. "We are all deeply saddened by the sudden and tragic loss of our dear friend and co-worker," the statement said. "Her tremendous energy and humor brought so much joy to the office." Richard Dansereau, managing director of Stonehenge Management LLC, the company that manages the building, also released a statement. "This is a tragedy, and our sincere condolences go out to the family and friends of Ms. Rosoff," he said. "We are cooperating fully with the investigation into the cause of this terrible accident." A statement provided to CNN from the New York City Department of Buildings said the agency is investigating and issued a vacate order for all balconies in the building as a precaution. According to her Linkedin profile, Rosoff worked as director of sales at TripleLift for the past five months and had previously held positions at The New Yorker, Conde Nast and Cosmopolitan magazine. | Jennifer Rosoff was on a date when they stepped out to her 17th-floor balcony .
Police say the balcony's railing broke and she landed on construction scaffolding .
Property manager of building: "We are cooperating fully with the investigation"
As a precaution, residents of building told to stay off their balconies . |
96,665 | 0863b08e886239aca008cfb4388daa17f87ae4a7 | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his concern over the potential of a nuclear-armed Iran during meetings with top congressional leaders Tuesday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks Tuesday with Reps. John Boehner, left, and Nancy Pelosi. He met with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee first, followed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader John Boehner. An Iranian regime armed with nuclear weapons "is a great danger to all of us, to Israel specifically and to the moderate Arab regimes, [and] to America," Netanyahu said after his meeting with Pelosi and Boehner. "Especially if this regime were to arm itself or arm terrorists with nuclear weapons, the consequences could be unimaginable." Netanyahu also reiterated his call for normalizing relations between Israel and the "broader Arab world" while moving forward on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Watch where Mideast flash points could be » . "We have to do this in tandem," he said. "That's going to be our policy. ... If we do it together, we'll get a lot further, a lot faster." Pelosi said she endorsed a two-state solution for the Israelis and Palestinians, but emphasized that it "must be a solution that provides for a democratic Jewish state of Israel living side by side with her Palestinian neighbors." "The question of Iran is one that is of concern to us in Congress," she said. "... It is an issue for the world. It is important for all of us to work together to be sure that Iran does not develop a weapon of mass destruction." Netanyahu is on his first visit to Washington since becoming prime minister earlier this year -- his second time as head of Israel's government. He met Monday with President Obama at the White House and dined with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Obama offered the hawkish Israeli leader a small diplomatic victory, warning that he would not allow Iran to drag out talks as a way of buying time while it develops nuclear weapons. Speaking at an Oval Office news conference, Obama again refused to commit to an "artificial deadline" for Iranian negotiations. But he also warned that he would not allow such talks, which he expects to accelerate after the Iranian presidential election in June, to be used as an excuse for delay. Watch Obama start the clock on Iran » . "We're not going to have talks forever. We're not going to create a situation in which the talks become an excuse for inaction while Iran proceeds with developing ... and deploying a nuclear weapon," he said. He said the United States is not "foreclosing a range of steps, including much stronger international sanctions, in assuring that Iran understands that we are serious." The issue of Iran's nuclear ambitions has become increasingly urgent in recent months. Netanyahu wanted a time limit for negotiations relating to such ambitions, with the threat of military action if no resolution is reached. Both Israel and the United States believe Iran is seeking nuclear weapons under the guise of a civilian nuclear energy program; Tehran denies the accusation. Israeli leaders have pointed to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's calls for the end of Israel as a Jewish state, and argue that quick action is needed. Clinton and Netanyahu also talked about Iran, among other issues, during a 90-minute working dinner Monday night, according to a senior State Department official. "Clinton's messages were entirely consistent with President Obama's," the official said. "She reiterated our support for a two-state solution, and explained our strategy for direct engagement as a means to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapons capability." In his appearance at the White House, Netanyahu emphasized that while "the common goal is peace ... the common threat we face are terrorist threats and organizations that seek to undermine [that] peace and threaten both our peoples." The prime minister called Iran the biggest threat to peace in the region. "If Iran were to acquire nuclear weapons, it could give a nuclear umbrella to terrorists, or worse, could actually give [them] nuclear weapons. And that would put us all in great peril," he said. Obama is considered to have a more conciliatory approach to the Arab and Muslim world than Netanyahu. Obama supports the idea of a Palestinian state alongside a secure Israel. Netanyahu has not endorsed the idea, arguing that Israel first needs security guarantees and a clear Palestinian partner for peace talks. The Palestinians issued a statement after the meeting criticizing Netanyahu for failing to more explicitly endorse a two-state solution. Netanyahu "missed yet another opportunity to show himself to be a genuine partner for peace," said chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat. "Calling for negotiations without a clearly defined end goal offers only the promise of more process, not progress." Watch how hard-liners have driven breakthroughs for peace » . Despite their differences, Obama and Netanyahu agree on numerous key issues, such as U.S. military and financial support for Israel. Obama also supports funding for Palestinian entities not controlled by Hamas, which controls Gaza and which the United States labels a terrorist organization. Before making his trip to Washington, Netanyahu met with leaders of Jordan and Egypt, viewed as potential partners in the effort to bring peace to the region. Obama will host Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on May 26 and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on May 28. CNN's Paula Hancocks contributed to this report. | Israeli PM meets with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader John Boehner .
Iranian regime with nuclear weapons "is a great danger to all of us," Netanyahu says .
He calls for normalized relations with Arab world, peace process with Palestinians .
U.S. leaders also express concern over Iran's nuclear intentions . |
282,536 | f9f331fe7f50ba7b25fb6bf2cb1642e06b85a590 | Born three and a half months premature, baby Ward Miles did not have the easiest start in life but thanks to the love of his parents and endless dedication of doctors and nurses, the . little fighter pulled through. His father, Benjamin Miller who is a photographer that works under the name Benjamin . Scot, captured his son's first year in a moving short film, beginning with those difficult, early days in the NICU and following Ward as he goes from strength to strength at home. The video begins with new mom Lyndsey gingerly picking up her son, who weighs under 1.5lbs, four days after he was born 15 weeks early at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Mother Lyndsey holds her son for the first time, four days after he was born three and a half months premature . The proud mother holds her little son who weighs just under 1.5lb at this stage . The new mother is overwhelmed by the moment as she holds her tiny son in the NICU . Little Ward Miles spent the first 107 days of his life in the NICU with a host of machines to help him survive . With the help of the nurses moving wires and medical equipment, Lyndsey eases into a chair and holds her tiny son to her chest. She smiles for the camera and then the new mother becomes overwhelmed by the moment and bursts into tears. The moving scene is just one of many in the couple's emotional roller coaster following the birth of their premature son on July 16, 2012. It has been captured beautifully in the seven-minute Vimeo film which Mr Miller dedicated to his wife and to the doctors and nurses who were constantly by their side. Mr and Mrs Miller, both from central Ohio, have been married for four years and live in Columbus. Mrs Miller watches her son inside the incubator at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio . Baby Ward's tiny toes wriggle as he fights for survival during his first 107 days of life in the NICU . Ward's tiny head is cradled by a nurse as a procedure is carried out in the early days of his life . Ward is given breathing apparatus to help him survive in the specialist baby unit . Their first child Ward was born 15 weeks early at Riverside Methodist Hospital, weighing . just 1lb 13oz. He was transferred four days after he was born to . Nationwide Children's Hospital to undergo a procedure and remained in the hospital's NICU fighting for his life for the next 107 days. 'There were two very scary moments that stand out among the rest,' Mr Miller said. 'The . first was when they did his first brain scan looking for bleeding. There are 4 grades, 1-4 with 4 being the worst. The results came back and he had a grade 2 . on one side, and a grade 4 on the other. 'Lyndsey . called me at work ( I had just gone back) and the second I picked up, I . knew something was wrong. She told me what they found out and I . immediately left to be with them. Mr Miller said in the early days he and wife Lyndsey went through some dark moments when they feared their son would left severely handicapped from his premature birth . The new mom cuddles her tiny son during his early days in the NICU hooked up to life-saving equipment . Benjamin Miller and wife Lindsey with baby Ward Miles in the ICU at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio . He continued: 'I cried and prayed the whole way down. The bleeds could lead to severe problems down the road. He may not be . able to walk. He may have cerebral palsy. He may be mentally . handicapped. The list goes on and on. 'When I got there we just embraced . and cried together. He looked exactly the same. He had no idea that some . test was done. He was still Ward. 'I felt so bad for him. It wasn't his . fault. He couldn't do anything to fix it. We couldn't do anything to fix . it. The doctors couldn't do anything to fix it. It was a horrible . feeling. All we could do was pray.' Mr Miller shared with MailOnline the thoughts that he put down in his journal, when during one of the new parents' darkest hours, their son offered them a glimmer of hope. He wrote: 'At . the 6 oclock care time, we were holding his hand, looking at him, . talking to him. His CPAP mask was off, and his feeding tube was out as . well. Baby Ward smiles as his mother holds him close as he goes from strength to strength . The baby boy is wrapped tightly in a swaddle after having most of his medical equipment removed . Ward lets out a healthy cry as he sits up in his baby seat after being taken home . Ward giggles on his play mat clearly showing that vast improvements in his weight and health . 'While we . were watching him, he turned his little head towards us, and then opened . his eyes. We know he can't see at this stage, but the fact that he . opened them, and opened them so wide we had not seen before. He stared . right at us. He held our gaze. Just looked right at us. Didn't blink. I . had enough time to get a photo of it. After a little while he shut his . little eyes and turned his head back to the ceiling. I will never forget . that moment. I feel as if he was telling us 'I'm okay!!! Don't give up . on me!' The new father noted a few lines later: 'We won't.' In the next few days, the parents were given the reassuring news that the bleeding had stopped. Mr Miller's video soon changes from images of the NICU to capture his young son's developing personality (including some hilarious facial expressions) Lyndsey brings baby Ward in for kiss as he grows stronger with every month . Ward goes from feeding via a tube to taking his own bottle in his crib at home in Columbus, Ohio . Thankfully, the video soon takes a turn and there are fewer tubes and beeping monitors. After his first 107 days of life in the hospital, Ward Miles finally went home on October 31, 2012. His father said: 'It was such an amazing feeling to have him . home, where he belonged. The dogs had no idea what to think. 107 days is . almost 1/3rd of a year. 'Being able to come home from work and not have . to drive down to the hospital to see our son was such a huge blessing. We certainly will never take that for granted.' Although the little boy still has some feeding issues, Mr Miller said that doctors are in disbelief when they find out his healthy son was born 15 weeks premature. A giggling Ward with his mother Lindsey astounds doctors when his parents tell them he was born 15 weeks premature . Ward digs into some birthday cake on a much celebrated first birthday on July 16, 2013 . So when it came to celebrating the special young man's first birthday, one cake just wasn't enough. His father said: 'He sort of had four first birthday parties. Was bored with the cake by the 4th one!' Mr . Miller said that the family could not have coped with their ordeal . without the love and prayers from family and thousands of friends and . supporters, some of whom they had never met. He made the video to commemorate his son's first year and as a birthday present for his wife. He added: 'I want to thank all the doctors, nurses, and staff all over the world . that make it their life's mission to help babies get better! It's . because of you that my son ever stood a chance to make it home.' Mr Miller shared the adorable video of the family's journey to inspire others and in tribute to the work of medical teams all over the world working to save premature babies . Ward Miles, who is now 16 months old, continues to go happily from strength to strength . Ward Miles - First Year from BenjaminScot on Vimeo. | Ohio photographer Benjamin Scot made the film in tribute to his wife Lyndsey and all the doctors and nurses who took care of their son . |
235,323 | bca2821cae0bdf30efde6edb2db8b82158ae409d | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 00:53 EST, 10 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 00:53 EST, 10 March 2013 . The CEO of Delta Air Lines is asking the head of the Transportation Security Administration to reverse the agency's decision to allow small knives on commercial flights. CEO Richard Anderson expressed his concern in a letter to TSA Administrator John Pistole, saying the new policy could jeopardize the safety of passengers. The TSA said effective April 25, it . would allow small knives with blades that are 2.36 inches or less in . length and less than 1/2 inch wide. Safety first: Delta Air Lines CEO Richard Anderson (in Dec. 2011) has written to TSA head John Pistole to ask that the agency not allow knives on commercial flights . Travelers will now be allowed to bring . golf clubs, ski poles and even small knives on planes with them since . aviation officials have announced significant security changes. Other items that will be allowed on . board again as part of a passenger's carry-on luggage include billiard . cues, ski poles, hockey sticks and lacrosse sticks. Items that had been prohibited like razors, box cutters or knives with a fixed blade are still not allowed on board. The restrictions about liquids are . still in place as well, meaning that anything under 3-ounces must be . declared at the security checkpoint. New rules: Flight attendants are balking at the new changes that will lift a number of prohibited items and allow travelers to carry on small knives on board . Remaining restrictions: TSA officials hope that by keeping some banned it will instill less fear in flyers . The TSA's announcement of the new policy has upset many families who lost loved ones in the 9/11 terror attacks. 'I'm really horrified and I would say . the majority of 9/11 family members are really shocked by it,' said . Sally Regenhard, the mother of firefighter Christian Regenhard who died . trying to save people in the World Trade Center. In addition, the Association of Professional . Flight attendants said it 'categorically rejects a proposal to allow knives of . any kind in the cabin,' and they don't understand why 'such a momentous . decision' was made without any consultation. As . for some of the larger items that they will now allow, like the sports . equipment, increases 'the potential for passengers getting hit with . these items during boarding and deplaning. It's a recipe for disaster,' said the APFA representative. 'This is part of an overall Risk-Based . Security approach, which allows Transportation Security officers to . better focus their efforts on finding higher-threat items such as . explosives,' he said. Specific: The TSA says that the changes reflect the findings of their recent review of security measures . Exemptions: Only certain bats are allowed but many think it is premature to allow any at all . The . Flight Attendants Union Coalition, which represents nearly 90,000 flight . attendants from carriers across the country, called the decision a . 'poor and shortsighted decision' by the TSA. 'As . the last line of defense in the cabin and key aviation partners, we . believe that these proposed changes will further endanger the lives of . all flight attendants and the passengers we work so hard to keep safe . and secure,' the coalition said in a statement.TSA spokesman . David Castelveter said the decision was made to bring U.S. regulations . more in line with International Civil Aviation Organization standards . and would also help provide a better experience for travelers. Loosening the reins: TSA officials have changed their stance on certain banned objects which will now be allowed on planes starting on April 25 . Many were surprised this week when the former head of transportation . security said the new policy . doesn't go far enough, and should include weapons such as 'battle axes' and 'machetes.' Kip Hawley, the former chief of the . Transportation Security Administration, said anything that wouldn't be . able to harm an aircraft's functionality should be allowed on board. 'In retrospect, I should have done . the same thing,' Hawley told CNN of the rule. 'The . air marshals and the flight attendants have legitimate concerns, . certainly, for their own safety, but the threat of taking over a plane . with a small, sharp instrument is zero,' Hawley said. 'You cannot . necessarily prevent violence on an airplane, but that is not the TSA's . mission. TSA's mission is to prevent a successful, catastrophic . terrorist attack, and you cannot get a successful, catastrophic . terrorist attack with a small knife or a Wiffle ball bat.' No longer a threat? Billiard cues and lacrosse sticks will be allowed on board now . 'They ought to let everything on that . is sharp and pointy,' Hawley said. 'Battle axes, machetes ... bring . anything you want that is pointy and sharp because while you may be able . to commit an act of violence, you will not be able to take over the . plane. It is as simple as that.' Hawley added, 'So my position would . be, bravo on the 2.6 inch knife. But why not take it all the way and . then really clean up the checkpoint where officers are focusing on bombs . and toxins, which are things that can destroy an airplane. And it would . smooth the process, cost less money, and be better security.' Explaining why axes and machetes . wouldn't do harm on an airplane, Hawley said, 'What are you going to do . when you get on board with a battle ax? Are you pull out your battle ax . and say, "I'm taking over the airplane?" You may be able to cut one or . two people, but pretty soon you would be down in the aisle and the . battle ax would be used on you.' | TSA announced a new policy this week to allow small knives onto commercial planes starting in April .
Parents of 9/11 victims say they are outraged by the new policy .
The Association of Professional Flight attendants blasted 'poor and shortsighted decision' |
111,579 | 1be41d99e0ffb54d283244e2ad30084355c6e795 | This is the moment an excited young fan fell over in front of millions of viewers while trying to run alongside his heroes at the Commonwealth Games. The boy was running on the pavement beside the leading Kenyan competitors in the women's marathon in Glasgow. But as the excitable youngster, who was wearing jeans and a green top rather than Lycra running gear, got up to speed his joy became short lived as he was sent tumbling to the ground. Scroll down for video . The little boy, who can be seen on the right running along the pavement, tried to keep up with the runners . The Kenyan duo - Flomena Cheyech Daniel and Caroline Kilel - did not notice the embarrassing stumble and continued through the streets of Glasgow. The race was eventually won by Daniel, with her compatriot taking the silver medal, but there were no celebrations for their young fan, who onlookers said was taken away in tears. James Frost, 45, who was at the race, said the child’s father had to pick him off the ground. The IT worker added: ‘It was kind of funny as it happened, the kid was so excited when he ran with the Kenyans. ‘But all of a sudden he was on the ground. I think he just tried to run too fast, his legs seemed to go from underneath him. ‘His dad was over pretty quickly but the kid wasn't happy, I think he was crying as he was taken away, must have grazed his elbows.’ He got up to speed at first with the Kenyan runners taking part in the women's marathon in Glasgow today . It all quickly came crashing down for the young fan who's legs went from underneath him as he fell over . The runner's did not seem to notice the boy's tumble as his father came along to scoop him off the ground . Finley Stephens, 25, was watching the race on TV and added: ‘It was hilarious, but I can't imagine how embarrassing it will be for him. ‘Millions of people watching on TV, thousands at the race and he just stacked it. ‘We laughed when we saw it, but I think afterwards we all just hope he is ok. Maybe running isn't the career for him.’ Other viewers took to Twitter to talk about the incident. Tom Lochrie tweeted: ‘Anyone else watching the marathon and see that kid fall over? I'm in tears.’ While Emma Farquharson added: ‘Anyone else just see that wee boy who was running next to the marathon runners fall hahahaha.’ Gaia Rita posted: ‘So who else saw that little boy fall flat on his face trying to run with the women in the marathon? #CommonwealthGames’. | Boy was running on pavement beside marathon runners this morning .
He had been trying to keep up with Kilel and Daniel - who went on to win .
Onlookers said his legs went from beneath him and he crashed to ground .
Incident captured on camera and witnessed by millions of viewers on TV .
Viewers took to Twitter to see if anyone else had spotted the moment . |
111,044 | 1b30ed17546d63f5efb4f8f226b9efe28d1730c8 | By . Martin Robinson . PUBLISHED: . 09:32 EST, 7 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:30 EST, 7 November 2013 . Happier times: Beth and Michael Schlesinger on their wedding day, but their marriage has deteriorated and the former couple is in a bitter custody battle . A British woman who married a wealthy Austrian doctor has lost an appeal . for custody of their four year-old twins after a court ruled he is the . better parent. Cambridge graduate Beth Schlesinger fell in love with society doctor Michael Schlesinger, but after having sons Samuel and Benjamin their marriage fell apart. After he was given custody of their boys, the daughter of a successful Manchester solicitor has been fighting the decision for two years but has lost her latest appeal. She had moved to Vienna to marry him despite protests from her parents and being unable to speak any German. But, she said, the relationship began to wane after only a week and just eight months later the relationship was over. She claims he became so controlling he would not even let her go to the toilet at night. After . they separated and started a custody battle over the children, Dr . Schlesinger, 33, unsuccessfully attempted to have his wife sectioned. His . claims that she had a mental illness were dismissed in court, but an . Austrian judge still took the rare step of giving him sole custody of . the twins. Mrs Schlesinger now has visitation rights but can see her sons Samuel and Benjamin for only 20 hours a fortnight. She . has accused the court of unfairly favouring her ‘well-connected’ husband and has appealed to the Austrian high court, which failed today. She now plans to launch a final appeal with Austria's Supreme Court and claims the her sons have started self-harming. Bitter dispute: Samuel and Benjamin's case has benefited her estranged husband because he has friendships in the Austrian legal sector, Mrs Schlesinger claims . Still married: Mother of two graduated from Cambridge but gave up her place on a master’s course at a New York university after she fell in love with society doctor Michael Schlesinger, right, but they later split . 'There seems to be no justice in this country, that they can . deprive two little boys of their mother in such a barbaric way,' she said. 'It . contravenes all human rights. Sammy and Benji are two vulnerable little . boys who have a right to their mother in their lives. 'Everybody . involved in the story over here - from lawyers to journalists to social . workers are shocked and outraged at this decision. 'Why the . Austrian justice system refuses to acknowledge that simple truth is . beyond me. I only hope that sanity and justice are restored soon.' The twins: Mrs Schlesinger believes her boys Samuel and Benjamin should be with her, not her husband, but the Austrian courts disagree . Failed relationship: Mrs Schlesinger said the relationship began to wane after only a week and just eight months later the marriage was over . Mrs Schlesinger is still legally married and living in Vienna where . she feels 'marooned', fearing that by returning to the UK she will lose . her chance of seeing her twins for good. She has accused the court of 'xenophobia' and said her husband had benefited from friendships in the Austrian legal sector. She said: ‘It all seemed very romantic and a big adventure, but the marriage was terrible from the beginning. ‘Looking . back I realise that I never really knew Michael. I was so naive and I . fell for him as he was very charming and seemed like a caring, . trustworthy person. I was so wrong.’ Mr Schlesinger, 33, was unavailable for comment. | Beth Schlesinger, 29, and Dr Michael Schlesinger split after eight months .
Austrian court ruled she can only see her sons for 20 hours a fortnight .
After an appeal European judges ruled that her husband is a 'better parent'
Mrs Schlesinger says Samuel and Benjamin being 'deprived of human rights' |
227,807 | b2fafda1eb8ec4e96316392b9011d046b58c6b7a | Jeb Bush has surged into the lead in the Republican presidential candidate race according to the latest poll. The surge in popularity follows his announcement last week to 'actively explore' a bid to run in the 2016 race. According to the survey by CNN in conjunction with OCR, he is the choice of nearly a quarter (24 per cent) of GOP supporters interviewed and ten points ahead of his closest rival, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (13 per cent). Scroll down for video . Jeb Bush has the largest lead in the polls by a Republican presidential hopeful in two years. The former Governor of Florida is 10 points ahead of closest rival, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie . Physician Ben Carson came in third with 7 per cent of the support, while Senator Rand Paul and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee were tied for fourth with 6 per cent. It is the first time that a GOP potential has led beyond a poll's margin of error in the past two years. However, of the Republicans polled, some said they were less likely to vote for him on some of the issues he has encountered as the Governor of Florida. For example 42 per cent say his description of illegal immigration as an 'act of love' make them less likely to support Bush, but another 39 per cent say it makes no difference to them. In the Democratic race, Hilary Clinton is still the runaway favorite, with two-thirds of support within her party. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is the closest to her, but with a distant 9 per cent. Bush last week said that he is going to 'active explore' a bid to run for the White House. He has constantly been ahead of his competitors in 2016 polls . Last week Bush showed more signs he was preparing for a run at the White House. He stopped booking paid speeches, though he will follow through on previous commitments through early next year. After his father's loss Bush decided to stay in politics, first as a campaign manager for Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and later as a candidate himself. He failed at his first attempt to be elected to public office but succeeded at winning the governor's mansion on his second try in 1998. Two consecutive terms as governor later, Bush reentered the private sector in 2007 and joined the boards of Lehman Brothers, which was later absorbed in part by Barclays after the 2008 financial crisis, Swisher Hygiene, InnoVida, Rayonier and Tenet. | Survey by CNN/ORC shows he has taken 23% approval over other GOP potential candidates surveyed .
He's 10 points ahead of closest rival, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie .
Physician Ben Carson came in third, with 7% of the tallied vote .
It comes after Bush announced that he was to 'actively explore' a bid . |
148,169 | 4b9461d8e14c187b3e39e983342d1dcb2656c4c6 | Families are taking more holidays overseas, but they are spending less when they hit the attractions and clubs. The tightening of the purse strings which has brought reductions in supermarket spending at home appears to have continued once families board their flights for a summer break. Spending by UK residents while on overseas visits has dipped 16per cent in the first six months of 2014 compared with the same period last year, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has announced. Holiday: Families are taking more holidays overseas, but they are spending less once they get there, official figures suggest . The spending figure, at £12.83 billion, fell despite the number of visits abroad taken by UK residents rising four per cent to 27.14 million in the first half of this year. The fall appears to be at least partly a reflection of the fact that the pound has soared in value against most foreign currencies, which means British travellers get more for them money. The same ONS study found that spending by foreign tourists to the UK in the first six months of this year was largely the same as the same period last year at some £8.92billion. Spending less: The spending figure, at £12.83 billion, fell despite the number of visits abroad taken by UK residents rising four per cent to 27.14 million in the first half of this year . The first six months of 2014 have seen overseas residents making 16.41 million trips to the UK - an eight per cent rise on the January-June 2013 total. David Edwards, head of research and forecasting at VisitBritain, said: ‘Tourism is an essential part of the wider success of our economy and these first six months have set us up for what could be another record year for inbound tourism. ‘It’s also hugely positive to see growth both from our high-volume European markets and also emerging markets across Asia and Latin America.’ Tourism minister Helen Grant said: ‘It’s fantastic that Britain’s tourism industry is performing so strongly with a record number of visits for 2014 so far . It shows the Government’s tourism strategy is working - creating more jobs, encouraging greater spend and growing the economy.' | Office for National Statistics reveals British holidaymakers spending less .
Number of trips overseas rises 4% to 27.14 million in first half of 2014 .
Spending figure fall to £12.83 billion reflected in strength of the pound .
Overseas residents have made 16.41 million trips to the UK . |
259,737 | dc49e5171536562ef781c057c52782c4dbc2969a | A huge nugget of gold, nicknamed the Devil's Ear because of its peculiar shape, was found by miners in Siberia on Friday 13th, as a full moon shone over Russia. Initially the precious lump was cast aside by a sifting machine, but was later spotted by an eagle-eyed worker at the Ukhagan mine in the Irkutsk region's Bodaybinsky district. ‘Even the giant nugget's weight seems sinister - including three sixes - 6.664kg (14.69lb)’ reported The Siberian Times. A huge nugget of gold, nicknamed the Devil's Ear because of its peculiar shape, was found by miners in Siberia on Friday 13th, as a full moon shone over Russia. Depending on its purity, it may be worth £180,000 ($300,000) The Welcome Stranger Nugget is thought to be the biggest gold nugget ever found. Weighing in at 72.02 kg (158.78 lbs), it was more than ten times the size of the Devil's Ear nugget recently found by miners in Siberia. It was discovered near Dunolly, Victoria in Australia on 5 February 1869. The nugget was 61 cm (24 inches) wide. This compares to the Devil's nugget which is 21 cm (8.3 inches) wide. Soon after it was dicovered, the nugget was melted down into ingots and shipped to the Bank of England. Depending on its purity, this would make the nugget worth around £180,000 ($300,000). ‘The nugget was found on Friday 13 June, coinciding with a full moon,’ said a statement by local officials. ‘The weight also favours secrecy - there are three sixes - and the shape is very similar to a pointy ear. So miners immediately called the find the Devil's Ear.’ They admitted that the mine's machinery, meant to identify gold, cast the find aside. ‘A worker, who started to level the pile, found the nugget.’ Now there is added excitement at the Siberian mine. Such finds rarely come singly. 'If there is one, there will be a second and it is possible that very soon the Devil's Ear will have a brother.' Sergey Kozlov, Ugakhan director, said: ‘The nugget was found in a new mine that according to preliminary estimate doesn't have that much gold. ‘Now the miners are very hopeful that an old saying 'one nugget never walks alone' will work for them again. ‘But first we will have to check the dropouts more carefully - to see what else the clever equipment threw away.’ The Welcome Stranger Nugget is thought to be the biggest gold nugget ever found. Weighing . in at 72.02 kg (158.78 lbs), it was more than ten times the size of the . Devil's Ear nugget. Miners admitted that their machinery (pictured), meant to identify gold, cast the find aside. Instead, a worker, who started to level the pile, found the nugget . Even the giant nugget's weight seems sinister - including three sixes - 6.664kg (14.69lb). The largest nugget ever to be found - the Welcome Stranger Nugget - is around ten times larger at 72.02 kg (158.78 lbs). Pictured is the Irkutsk region where the Devil's Nugget was discovered . The nugget was found by an eagle-eyed worker at the Ukhagan mine in the Irkutsk region's Bodaybinsky district in Siberia. Miners are now hoping to find more gold nuggets in the region . | Precious lump was cast aside by a sifting machine at the Ukhagan mine .
Fortunately, nugget was spotted by a worker while he was levelling a pile .
Named Devil's Ear due to shape and the fact its 6.66kg weight features the 'devil's number'
Miners are hoping to find more gold nuggets in the Bodaybinsky district .
Devil's Ear is around ten times smaller than the world's largest nugget, Welcome Stranger, which weighed in at 72.02 kg (158.78 lbs) |
103,923 | 1218935ba6042ac4af6cb3dfd4bd6fdd685a05e6 | By . Sara Malm . One of France’s most successful rap stars has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a war of words with a rival got physical. Rohff, real name Housni Mkouboi, has admitted to being part of a a group of people who entered a Paris clothing shop, owned by another big-name rapper, Booba, and beat up a teenage shop assistant. The two rappers, or ‘rappeurs’ as they are known in France, have been embroiled in an online feud in recent months, a rivalry which has been going on for years, according to local media. In custody: Rohff, 36, real name Housni Mkouboi, has admitted to being part of a gang that entered a Paris clothing shop, owned by rival rapper Booba, and beat up a 19-year-old shop assistant . Rohff, 36, is said to have handed himself in after he was caught on CCTV in an Unkut shop – the clothing line owned by fellow hip hip star Booba, 37, real name Elie Yaffa. The group entered the shop in Halles, central Paris, on Monday afternoon, and after arguing with the teenage shop assistant, they assaulted the young man. ‘They asked to speak to an employee of the shop and a fight broke out,’ a source close to the police investigation said. The 19-year-old male employee was ‘kicked and punched’ and was rushed unconscious to the Beaujon Hospital in north Paris where he is in a life-threatening condition, French daily Le Figaro reported. Rohff entered a police station alongside his lawyer in the early hours of Tuesday and was placed into custody, appearing before a magistrate yesterday. Rivals: Rappers Rohff, left, and Booba, 37, real name Elie Yaffa, have been involved in a feud for two years, however until now it has been played out in their lyrics and on social media . The attack on the shop assistant supposedly followed a challenge by Booba, pictured, who, using Instagram, called Rohff a 'dirty queer' and told him to 'come and look for me in Paris' Rohff’s lawyer, Francis Terquem, said that his client admitted that he had ‘taken part in a brawl’ in the shop after being insulted by the assistant. ‘My client is pleased to know that the victim is recovering,' Mr Terquem told the Independent. ‘He says that what happened can be explained by a regrettable and passing fit of annoyance… It is to be hoped that this incident will bring a little calm to the rap world.’ The attack is the culmination of a two-year-long fight between Booba and Rohff, who both have millions in record sales, which has seen the pair exchange insults in their lyrics and on social media. It allegedly followed a challenge by Booba on Instagram after Rohff had made fun of him on Facebook. Booba posted: 'Trouve moi à Paname. Sale Pédale' which translates into 'come and look for me in Paris. Dirty queer'. Although mainly confined to words and threats, their fight has been compared to the infamous rivalry betweenTupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. in the mid 1990s. | French rapper Rohff handed himself in to police on Tuesday .
Admitted to 'taking part in a brawl' in rival rapper's Paris shop .
A 19-year-old sales assistant was left with life-threatening injuries .
Rohff, 36, and rival Booba, 37, have been in a feud for years . |
12,077 | 2244a269de367647df0d17c44d527753809b60c7 | New York (CNN) -- New York police arrested 50 protesters Saturday on what organizers from Occupy Wall Street were dubbing a day to "re-occupy," coinciding with the movement's three-month anniversary. Those arrested were charged with trespassing after they attempted to scale a fence belonging to a church in lower Manhattan, NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said. Browne added that the arrests "may have stymied plans to cut through the fence on multiple sides." The fence protected an area of Duarte Park that is owned by Trinity Church. Though supportive of the movement, the Rev. James H. Cooper, the rector of the church, said he does not believe setting up a tent city at Duarte Park enhances its mission or that of the protesters. "The vacant lot has no facilities to sustain a winter encampment," Cooper said in a statement Saturday. "In good conscience and faith, we strongly believe to do so would be wrong, unsafe, unhealthy, and potentially injurious." A spokesman for Occupy Wall Street expressed disappointment that the movement did not get more support from the church. "Churches have been supportive venues -- it is a shame that this came to this," Karanja Gacuca said. Protesters are looking for a new home after being evicted last month from the city's Zuccotti Park -- the movement's physical birthplace -- when a New York Supreme Court judge ruled that they could protest at the park, but not camp out. Upon hearing of the protesters' plan to set up camp at the church, officials from the Episcopal Church, which oversees Trinity, warned Friday that demonstrators would be subject to police and legal action should they attempt to trespass on the property. "In a country where all people can vote and Trinity's door to dialogue is open, it is not necessary to forcibly break into property," Archbishop Desmond Tutu said in a statement Friday. Gacuca said Saturday that protesters aren't "interested in seizing property -- we are interested in justice and expressing our frustrations." "The area we're talking about is empty and vacant. It is a tragedy because it is a waste of resource," he said. Earlier, Occupy Wall Street protesters gathered in Duarte Park for speeches and music. Protesters called Saturday "part of a call to re-occupy in the wake of the coordinated attacks and subsequent evictions of occupations across the nation and around the world," according to their website. It is unclear when the arrested protesters will be released. A smaller number of Occupy participants marched to Times Square on Saturday night. | Those arrested attempted to scale a fence belonging to a church, NYPD spokesman says .
The arrests "may have stymied plans to cut through the fence on multiple sides," police say .
Church rector says the lot is un-equipped for a winter encampment .
Occupy spokesman expresses disappointment with the church's position . |
76,175 | d80d2c311ab1d7cbf37725c0585acd04e4030c07 | Jose Mourinho has reignited his feud with Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini by claiming he ‘killed Mark Clattenburg’. Pellegrini criticised Chelsea’s manager after the 1-1 draw between their teams at the Etihad Stadium last Sunday and accused Mourinho of approaching the game ‘like a small team’. Mourinho finally responded yesterday by reminding Pellegrini —who rarely gets involved in confrontations — that he broke his own rules last season by criticising Clattenburg. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Jose Mourinho: Manuel Pellegrini killed Mark Clattenburg . Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has claimed Manuel Pellegrini 'killed' Mark Clattenburg earlier this season . Frank Lampard refused to celebrate after scoring for City against former club Chelsea in last week's 1-1 draw . Referee Clattenburg booked Lampard during Man City's 2-2 draw with Arsenal earlier this month . Man City boss Pellegrini claimed Clattenburg's performance had cost his side victory at The Emirates . The official was in charge when City lost 3-2 at Liverpool at the end of the season and when they drew at Arsenal in the title run-in. Mourinho said: ‘It was not one or two or three times that he told everyone he doesn’t speak about referees. He killed Clattenburg. ‘Three or four times he says he doesn’t speak about me or my teams — he did it once more. It’s for you to comment. When I said I don’t want to speak about him, that’s what I try to do . Mourinho and Pellegrini have never seen eye to eye, with the Chilean attacking the Chelsea manager's tactics . ‘Don’t speak with me. If you want a story, speak with him, not me. I follow my line. I don’t want to discuss any situation.’ Mourinho is preparing for today’s home clash with Aston Villa in the Barclays Premier League without Brazil midfielder Ramires. He has a groin injury and has already been ruled out of the Champions League group game against Sporting on Tuesday and next Sunday’s date with Arsenal. Mourinho hopes Ramires will be available after the international break. Yesterday, he also spoke about his concerns if Spain call up Diego Costa next week for their Euro 2016 qualifiers. The Chelsea forward missed the Capital One Cup win over Bolton on Wednesday but will be available for today’s clash with Paul Lambert’s third-placed Villa. Costa returned from the last round of internationals with a hamstring problem in his left leg, but Vicente del Bosque, Spain’s coach, still intends to call him up for games against Slovakia and Luxembourg. Like our MailOnline Sport Facebook page. Mourinho revealed Brazilian midfielder Ramires will miss Chelsea's clashes with Aston Villa and Arsenal . Mourinho said: ‘The moment a national team wants to select a Chelsea player, I’m nobody. It’s their decision. They can do what they want. It’s completely out of my control. What I think and what I feel doesn’t play a part. 'Everyone is working hard. He (Costa) is the first to do that. He’s working hard in his recovery with the medical staff and the conditioning staff. Mentally, he’s ready for every game. Physically he’s not. ‘I’m nobody to make that decision. Everybody knows what is going on with Diego. Everyone knows he’s in trouble for quite a long time. But I’m nobody. Diego Costa (left) has been in spectacular form since joining Chelsea this summer . Jose Mourinho hopes star striker Diego Costa is not selected for Spain for their upcoming internationals . ‘We can communicate, send exams and reports, but it’s their decision. After the game against Arsenal, or even before that when they make the pre-selection, everything is in their hands. I can do nothing.’ Costa, who has scored seven times already in the Premier League since his move from Atletico Madrid, starts against Villa. Mourinho fell out spectacularly with Lambert last season but claims he is now refusing to discuss other managers or players. Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho had a touchline falling out with Aston Villa's Paul Lambert . The outspoken Portuguese manager (right) is now refusing to discuss other managers and players . It appears the club, along with Mourinho, have made a policy decision to gag the manager after last season’s confrontations. Mourinho said: ‘I respect every opponent’s manager and, when I play at home, it’s my duty to wait for them in the tunnel when they come at the same time as me. ‘If they come later or earlier, I go to their bench and shake their hands. Tomorrow will not be different.’ VIDEO FFP penalties should be points - Mourinho . | Jose Mourinho reignites feud with Manuel Pellegrini by claiming Man City boss 'killed Mark Clattenburg'
Pellegrini criticsed the referee's performance during his side's 2-2 draw with Arsenal this month .
Chilean also claimed Chelsea played like a 'small team' as Blues drew 1-1 at the Etihad last Sunday .
Chelsea boss confirmed midfielder Ramires will miss Saturday's clash with Aston Villa and the following fixture against Arsenal . |
135,438 | 3b38b226846afd25bf1a604a7e82a9637b541491 | By . Ulla Kloster . PUBLISHED: . 15:27 EST, 24 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 15:38 EST, 24 July 2013 . A mother and son have been jailed for persistent and appalling neglect of animals at their family-run rescue centre. Angela Russell, 44, and Robert Russell, 25, were today sentenced to 26 weeks at Oxford Magistrates’ Court, after they were convicted of 16 charges under the Animal Welfare Act. The court heard a long list of abuse and suffering which had been inflicted on animals including dogs, rabbits, puppies, horses, ponies and goats at Crunchy’s Animal Rescue Centre at Longworth, near Abingdon, Oxfordshire. Angela Russell, pictured left, and her son Robert Russell were today jailed for their role in appalling animal neglect at their rescue centre in Oxfordshire . District Judge Timothy Pattinson listed a catalogue of neglect infliced on animals living in their own dirt: horses with overgrown hooves and dogs living in their own faeces . While sentencing District Judge Timothy Pattinson said: 'The . images which showed the suffering and appalling conditions endured by . those animals will be remembered by everyone who saw them for a very . long time. 'I’m thinking in particular of the . horses crippled by overgrown hooves, the horse trying to eat out of a . wheelie bin, the Staffordshire bull terrier in a cage which was almost . obscured by an enormous pile of faeces and the golden retriever, . Winston, delivered to you in perfect health, which was almost killed by . you as a result of starvation and neglect. 'If not for this prosecution by the RSPCA those animals would be continuing to suffer and, I suspect, die.' Mother and son were also banned from keeping animals for the rest of their lives. The RSPCA had issued warnings to the Russells, who ran the centre as a registered charity, as early as April 2010, urging an improvement in conditions on the plot . 78 animals were seized by the RSPCA along with the bodies of a horse and a rabbit. The picture shows aerial of Crunchys animal rescue . RSPCA officers had swooped on the site in January 2012 and welfare workers had described the scenario as the worst they had ever seen. Sentencing Angela Russell to the . maximum term allowed, the judge told . her he believed her to have been 'the prime mover' in the neglect. 'There is no way an animal lover could allow such profound neglect of this type,' he added. Four other family members were convicted of the charges. Mrs Russell’s elderly father Frederick Russell, 81, received a 26-week jail term, suspended for 18 months due to his age and was disqualified from keeping animals for life. He was also ordered to pay £1,000 . pounds in court costs plus a £80 pound victim surcharge. Daughters Louise, 22, and Kirsty Russell, 20, and niece Abigail McHugh, 21, were convicted of all of the charges. The RSPCA had issued warnings, but eventually swooped on the centre in January last year. Pictured: RSPCA Inspector Kirsty Withnall . Louise, was given a 12-week prison term, suspended for 18 months, placed under a three-month curfew and ordered to pay £1,080 in costs and surcharge. Wheelchair-user Kirsty Russell, was placed under a four-month curfew banned from keeping . animals for 10 years and ordered to pay £1,060 in costs and . surcharge. Abigail received 150 hours of unpaid work over 12 months and was told to pay £1,060 in costs and surcharge. All six were convicted after a three-week trial back in June when the court heard that the family members, who lived on the site, had played a greater or lesser role in its . operation. Animals at the centre had not been given enough food or water and were kept in inadequate accommodation or their enclosures were deep in their own waste. They were also found in poor health with little or no evidence of any veterinary care having been provided. A shih-tsu blinded by an eye condition had to be put down and a dead horse was found hidden under an old pick-up roof, in what the court accepted was an attempt to conceal it before its secret burial nearby. The dog Winston's owners, James and Sandra Luker, were in court to hear the sentences handed down to the family they had paid to board their animals, four dogs, two cats and a rabbit during a house move. Only two of their pets returned home. The RSPCA had issued warnings to the . Russells, who ran the centre as a registered charity, as early as April . 2010, urging an improvement in conditions on the plot. But when animal welfare officers . raided the site they found 'a horse eating from a . wheelie bin', 'dogs in cages of their own faeces' and 'horses with . hooves that hadn't been cut in three years', according to RSPCA . Inspector Kirsty Withnall. In all, 80 animals were seized, . although some are still 'missing, presumed dead', the judge said, while . the RSPCA believes some were removed from the site without its knowledge . over the course of its three-day search of the large rescue centre. On the day the site was raided, Robert Russell was found digging a grave for a horse which had died on the property. Once exposed, the family, particularly Mrs Russell, made a series of allegation against the RSPCA, and senior inspector Kirsty Withnall. She even alleged the charity had arrived with the faeces and urine and covered the site in it to discredit her. Mr Pattinson said he found those claims to be malicious. He told the family there were aggravating factors to their crimes. 'All of you inflicted this suffering in the name of a charity - a rescue centre, a sanctuary. Nothing could be further from the truth. 'You ignored advice and warnings given by the RSPCA. 'You received donations from the public, including a vehicle. In my view that money did not go towards looking after those animals.' He added nobody could fail to have been moved by an RSPCA video and photographs of the 'appalling' conditions at the site, which were shown in evidence. 'These images will be remembered by everyone who saw them for a very long time.' The Russells all lived at the charity in Oxfordshire, while Miss McHugh was from Pendennis Road, Swindon. Following sentencing RSPCA Inspector Withnall said: 'I’m delighted with the result, very pleased that the main defendants have been disqualified for life, meaning no other animals will suffer at their hands. 'The allegations they have made against the RSPCA and witnesses have been outrageous and I’m glad the judge saw through their lies.' The case is believed to have cost the charity £165,000 to prosecute. Nick White, of World Horse Welfare, also welcomed the outcome, saying: 'It sends out a strong message to other people with animals in their care to ensure their needs are met.' The judge said it was likely that many of the animals would be dead without the RSPCA's intervention. He said the case had several aggravating factors, with the Russells ignoring animal inspectors' repeated advice to improve conditions, evidence they had been selling kittens, puppies and rabbits for commercial gain, and the revelation the Russells had been receiving public donations to buy food, bedding and pay the site's overheads. Mr Pattinson added: 'In short, you exploited the animals and exploited the public - especially those people who made donations. 'That money clearly did not go towards looking after these animals.' Defending Angela Russell, Mr Patrick Duffy said his client was an animal lover and had not set out to neglect those in her care. She had been overwhelmed by the work she had, particularly given her poor health, he said. 'She is obese, has sores on her legs, suffers from diabetes and depression,' he told Oxford Magistrates Court. He also said she suffered from amnesia and 'confused the past and present'. 'She is now an elective mute and I have not been able to take instructions,' he said. Rebecca Vanstone, for Mrs Russell's son Robert, said her client had been taken out of school aged 14, and home-schooled by his mother and had no qualifications to his name. 'He was somewhat in the sway of his mother - this was her project,' she said. However, the judge said 'while not necessarily a prime mover' Russell had taken visitors around the site and taken an active role in its running. Following today's verdict, Mrs Russell's father Frederick Russell, spoke outside court saying he was 'really cross' about his sentence, denying he had had any involvement in the site's day-to-day operation. He added: 'I accept it (Crunchy's) should have been closed down a long time before - to be honest, I didn't realise what was going on.' Meanwhile, RSPCA Inspector Kirsty Withnall, who had led the action against the site, said she was pleased with the judge's sentences. 'We had given them warnings and offered them appropriate advice,' she said. 'We had offered them help before, none of which they accepted, they haven't listened to anything they were asked to do or to change and at no point seemed to understand how bad those animals' conditions were. 'The reason we take people to court is so they are disqualified from keeping animals. 'We do not want the Russells to have animals again, and so we're really pleased with the sentence today.' 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263,764 | e1995fbabe56b757f8d01fa61ce159422408953a | Pablo Zabaleta reckons Sergio Aguero can become Manchester City's first Ballon d'Or winner - but only if he can stay injury free. The Argentina striker hit 19 goals in 20 games this season before suffering a knee ligament injury in December - the latest in a long line of setbacks. And his international and club team-mate thinks that if he can repeat the form but not the setbacks he could be crowned the best footballer on the planet. Sergio Aguero (left) reels away in celebration as a dejected Danny Rose looks on at The Etihad Stadium . Manchester City ace Aguero was in fine former before injuring his knee in the December clash with Everton . 'Sergio is one of the best strikers in the world, for sure – he is in the top five,' Zabaleta told the Manchester Evening News as part of City in the Community's new Walking Football programme.’ 'As a City player I would love to see one of our players get nominated for the Ballon d'Or, and we have a very strong squad with top players. Former Manchester City star Mike Summerbee (left) takes on Pablo Zabaleta at a game of walking football . Cheeky David Silva (left) flashes his skills against participants taking part in walking football initiative . 'We know that (four-times winner) Lionel Messi and (back-to-back winner) Cristiano Ronaldo are probably the best two in the world, and Real Madrid and Barcelona are very lucky to have them. 'But we also have very good players and if Aguero can keep 100 per cent fit for the whole season, he will have a chance to be there one day.' Aguero was on the bench for City's 1-1 draw with Everton last weekend and is expected to start in Sunday's Premier League clash with Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium. Zabaleta (right) believes a fit again Aguero is good enough to be crowned a Ballon d'Or winner . Zabaleta is also looking forward to the challenge of facing the Gunners' Alexis Sanchez, a player his own manager Manuel Pellegrini described as 'player of the moment'. 'He has had a very big impact on the Premier League, and has probably been Arsenal's main player,' he added. 'He is fast, his technical ability is fantastic and he scores and assists goals – the complete player.' Arsenal recruit Alexis Sanchez has caused a storm since arriving in the Premier League from Barcelona . Argentinean striker Aguero takes a tumble after a challenge from Muhamed Besic and Seamus Coleman . | Sergio Aguero hit 19 goals in 20 games before sustaining ligament injury .
Pablo Zabaleta feels Aguero is one of the best in the world when fit .
Argentinean striker closing in on return for boss Manuel Pellegrini .
Zabaleta believes Aguero can take the Ballon d'Or from Cristiano Ronaldo . |
16,435 | 2ea4e20ec415a0bf311fb4c4d1539827146ec56f | (CNN) -- Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg will start the Brazilian Grand Prix in pole position after a breathtaking final qualifying session at Interlagos. Rosberg narrowly beat teammate and rival Lewis Hamilton in to second place on the grid after both drivers broke course records. In the end, Rosberg prevailed by just 0.033 seconds. The season has, in many ways, been defined by the bitter rivalry between, and dominance of, Rosberg and Hamilton. The former friends have locked horns, and clashed wheels, at a series of races, from Bahrain to Germany to Hungary to Belgium. But going into the penultimate race of the season, Hamilton is 24 points ahead. Most seasons this would put Hamilton in control of the championship. But not this season. Double jeopardy . The introduction of double points for the final race in Abu Dhabi has completely transformed the calculus. Neither driver can win the championship in Brazil but if Hamilton wins, and Rosberg fails to finish, double points means that the German could still steal the title from Hamilton despite being 49 points behind. "That was good and I am happy to be on pole," Rosberg said in a press conference after the race. "It is the best place to start the race, but I have to do better than I did last week in Austin and convert this into a win." Hamilton, for his part, was gracious in defeat. "Congratulations to Nico," he said. "He drove a really great lap and it was a truly thrilling session, just what qualifying is all about. Every time I went out I had to go faster and improve and so did Nico. I hope everyone enjoyed watching that." But the biggest cheers were reserved for the Brazilian driver Felipe Massa, who was third fastest for Williams. "That was very emotional for me," Massa said. "I really felt the crowd with me today." Crowd sourced racing? Meanwhile, off the track, Bernie Ecclestone denied that Formula One is in the midst of a financial crisis. Last week two teams effectively went out of business. Marussia folded on Friday whilst Caterham went in to administration. Neither team had appeared at the US or Brazil races. "People say F1 is in crisis ... absolute nonsense," Ecclestone told AFP. "We've had a couple of teams in crisis. People come and go. They need to know how much is coming in and how much is going out. Maybe the major four or five teams can make a contribution for one year only." The administrators taking charge of Caterham's financial affairs had announced an innovative plan to allow the team to race at Abu Dhabi: crowd source the necessary $3.7 million. Ecclestone, however, was not impressed. "It's up to the fans if that's what they want to do/ Maybe people will put investment in the team," he said. "I think it's a disaster." | Nico Rosberg clinches pole for Sunday's Brazil GP.
Beat teammate Hamilton by the narrowest of margins.
Rosberg must win as Hamilton leads championship.
Brazilian Massa takes an emotional third place on grid. |
36,045 | 6652b8684211e609c59ff0b661db3f23c2104b55 | By . Louise Saunders . PUBLISHED: . 09:27 EST, 6 September 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 03:08 EST, 7 September 2012 . Neighbours have told how they were woken in the middle of the night by Alex Reid attempting to force his way in to the Essex home he shares with Chantelle Houghton. And the stress of the last few days was clear to see on the 29-year-old reality star's face as she left her house for the first time since the dramatic incident earlier today (Thursday). There was no doubt the usually bubbly blonde looked a far cry from her normal self, with her downcast expression proving just how painful the experience has been for Chantelle. Pained: Chantelle Houghton looked downcast as she left her home in Brentwood, Essex, with daughter Dolly in tow earlier today (Thursday) Moving on: Alex Reid kept his head down as he stepped out for the first time since his arrest earlier today . But ever the doting mother, the former Celebrity Big Brother star lavished attention on her two-month-old daughter Dolly as she prepared to drive off in her Range Rover. Dressed in a pair of leather panel leggings with a black mesh long-sleeve top and simple flat sandals, the star was evidently determined not to let the events of the last few days get in the way of her mothering duties. With little Dolly in tow, Chantelle made her way to a local branch of Mothercare, where she picked up a birthday present ahead of taking her little one to a party later in the afternoon. Stressed: The worry of the past few days was evident on Chantelle's face as she stepped out for the first time since Alex Reid's arrest . Doting: Chantelle put on a brave face as she took little Dolly to a birthday party this afternoon . And despite putting on a brave face for the sake of her daughter, it was abundantly clear the main worry on Chantelle's mind was the state of her relationship. Alex also stepped out for the first time this afternoon, and made sure to keep his head down as he wandered through the streets on his mobile phone while attempting to shield his face with a baseball cap. The 37-year-old cage fighter was arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage at the couple's home in the early hours of yesterday morning (Wednesday) after local residents awoke to a 'screaming' commotion between the pair. One neighbour told the Daily Star: 'I could hear a man shouting and when I looked out I saw Alex Reid. Released without charge: Police have decided to take no further action after being called to the Essex home Alex Reid shares with Chantelle Houghton in the early hours of yesterday morning . 'He was screaming, "Let me in, f***ing let me in.’ Other people living in the street must have woken up because I saw a few lights go on".' Meanwhile, another neighbour near the couple's home in Brentwood, Essex, admitted to finding the incident 'quite frightening'. She added: 'I’m used to them making noise late at night but I only usually hear cars coming back and forth and sometimes a bit of loud talking. 'This time I heard banging and lots of shouting. I live on my own so it was quite frightening.' No comment: Alex Reid posted a statement about the incident on his official website . Alex has since been released by Essex Police without charge. In a statement on his official website, he said: 'In the early hours of this morning Alex was arrested at the address he shares with his partner, Chantelle Houghton after she called police following a disturbance. 'The reasons for Alex’s arrest have been widely publicised and in some cases inaccurate and based on conjecture. 'Alex considers this a private matter and therefore is not prepared to comment on it save to say that he assisted police with their inquiries and following that, the police have taken no further action.' Questions: Police were spotted leaving Alex and Chantelle's Essex home yesterday afternoon (Wednesday) Police arrested the reality star at 1.30am yesterday morning 'on suspicion of criminal damage and using violence to secure entry'. A spokesperson for Essex Police told MailOnline: 'Police were contacted just before 1.30am this morning with reports of a disturbance at a property in Spital Lane, Brentwood. 'A 37-year old man from Brentwood was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and using violence to secure entry, and is currently in police custody.' In recent weeks, the couple have made no secret of the fact their relationship has been under strain following the birth of their 11-week-old daughter, Dolly, in June. Chantelle told the new issue of OK! magazine: 'Things have been really strained. There's never a day without drama.' Testing times: Chantelle and Alex have made no secret of the fact that their 16-month relationship is somewhat turbulent at present . In an interview with New! magazine this week, Alex admitted he had made mistakes in his relationship with Chantelle: . He said: 'I’m doing everything in my power to make it work. I’ve made bad mistakes and choices.' The couple have been dating for 16 months, and have run into several problems throughout the course of their relationship. Chantelle was furious when she discovered Alex had been exchanging private, but innocent, Twitter messages with model Amy Willerton - former protogee of his ex-wife Katie Price. The former Paris Hilton lookalike also admitted she has also been upset by Alex being groped by a drag queen as he performed in a gay club. A few weeks before baby Dolly was born, Alex briefly moved out of the couple's Essex home, and again left the property for three days last month. New mum: Chantelle and Alex welcomed baby daughter Dolly into the world in June . | Neighbours called incident 'frightening' after being woken by a 'screaming' Alex 'banging on the door'
Cage fighter, 37, spent the night in custody after being arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage .
Alex said he 'assisted police with their inquiries' in statement online .
Police taking 'no further action' on the matter . |
36,600 | 67b11e21df7c577166ecb2c46a0b78aacd8d97c6 | By . Amanda Williams . PUBLISHED: . 10:43 EST, 13 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 01:05 EST, 14 June 2013 . A gang of scrap metal thieves have stolen 120ft of track from a volunteer run miniature railway. The thieves lifted the track from a miniature railway circling the 450-acre Mote Park in Maidstone, Kent. They then loaded it into a truck and speeding off in the early hours of Wednesday. Bosses at the Maidstone Model Engineering Society, which operates the railway - which costs 20p-per-ride - were horrified when they turned up to find a huge section of the track ripped up. The thieves lifted the track from the miniature railway which circles the 450-acre Mote Park in Maidstone, Kent, before loading it into a truck and speeding off in the early hours of Wednesday . Police are hunting a gang of scrap metal thieves after they pinched 120ft of track from the miniature railway . The ride has been running for decades and is run by volunteers from the society - which was set up in 1929. A spokesman for the Society said this week that it was ‘horrified’ at the theft and pleaded with witnesses to come forward. He said: 'Members of the Club were upset and horrified to discover over 120 feet of our railway track in Mote Park has been ripped up and stolen. 'If you walk through the park please keep your eyes open for us as possibly someone might have seen something. 'Although of little value, there will be a lot of work required by the members, who are all volunteers, in replacing the stolen rails.' He added: 'All the work is done by club members who are volunteers, and the majority of the locomotives are built by them, a labour of love sometimes taking many years. 'We enjoy sharing our hobby giving rides on Sunday afternoons to all generations and hopefully this will continue for many, many more years. Bosses at the Maidstone Model Engineering Society, which operates the railway, which costs 20p-per-ride, were horrified when they turned up to find a huge section of the track ripped up . 'We will aim to run some sort of train service giving rides this Sunday if we possibly can, as we do not want to disappoint anyone. 'We will do our best to get back to normal as soon as we can. Please bear with us through this difficult period, your support is valued.' Local Jonnie Jensen said: 'Stealing the track from the Mote Park model railway. 120 feet of it! The ride has been running for decades and is run by volunteers from the society - which was set up in 1929 . 'I was here about three weeks ago and the kids loved it and families queued to have a go - whoever did this were total scumbags.' Another Tony Henderson, 34, said: 'This ride has been going for years and now it’s ruined by a bunch of morons trying to make a bit of money from selling off the metal. 'They have ruined it for everyone, especially the kids who love the ride.' A spokesman for Kent Police said if was investigating the theft and appealed for witnesses to come forward. | Stolen track circles the 450-acre Mote Park in Maidstone, Kent .
The 20p-a-go ride has been running for decades and is run by volunteers .
Bosses ‘horrified’ at the theft and pleaded with witnesses to come forward . |
3,119 | 0904abc83358ec51ff04a92910e58a98f1f127c9 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 18:27 EST, 4 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 20:12 EST, 4 October 2013 . A Detroit driver allegedly shot and killed a man who told him to slow down because there were children playing in the area. Thyrone Evans, 32, was arrested and has been charged with first-degree premeditated murder and felony firearm charges. Evans is accused of shooting Cleveland Dunklin, 23, on September 30 in front of his home in west Detroit. Victim: Cleveland Dunklin, 23, was shot and killed on September 30 in front of his home in west Detroit . Shooter: Thyrone Evans, 32, is charged with first-degree murder for shooting Dunklin . 'Slow down': The area in west Detroit where Dunklin told Evans to stop speeding because children were playing . Dunklin had seen Evans driving an SUV . at a high rate of speed in the 13900 block of Braile Street about 7pm . and shouted at him to slow down because children were playing nearby, . according to the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office. The prosecutor’s office said Evans returned to the same block about 50 minutes later and allegedly shot Dunklin. Dunklin's devastated father, Cleveland Dunklin III, said the killing was 'senseless'. 'My boy didn't bother nobody,’ he said. ‘They had words and he went and changed cars and came back and killed my boy.’ Devastated: The victim's father, Cleveland Dunklin III, said the crime was 'senseless' With love: A makeshift memorial has been set up in front of Dunklin's home in the 13900 block of Braile Street . Memorial: Balloons and a cross mark the spot where Dunklin was shot dead on September 30 . A makeshift memorial of a wooden cross, balloons and candles sit outside the Braile Street home, marking the spot where he died. The family says Dunklin IV had a job working in demolition. He was a happy homebody who looked out for his friends and family, according to Local 4 Defenders. His sister, Shahara Horton, says her family is still trying to grasp the cruelty. ‘My two kids, all they talk about is my uncle D-house. My uncle D. That's the killer part,’ she said. Heart-broken: His sister, Shahara Horton, right, says her family is still trying to grasp with the fact that Dunklin, left, is gone . 'Where's Uncle D'?: Dunklin's sister cries as she tells how her children miss her dead brother . 'Good person': The victim's sister, Horton, right, said he was a 'happy homebody' who always looked out for friends and family . Dunklin III said: ‘All I know is I don't have a son no more. All I can do now is make arrangements to bury him properly because he is another victim that got killed for a senseless crime,’ he said. The victim was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead, according to the Detroit Free Press. Evans is scheduled for a preliminary examination on Tuesday. | Thyrone Evans, 32, has been charged with first-degree premeditated murder and felony firearm charges .
The victim, Cleveland Dunklin, 23, yelled at him to slow down .
Evans allegedly returned almost an hour later in a different car and shot Dunklin on the street in front of his home .
He was pronounced dead at a local hospital soon after . |
221,383 | aa939e4305bf8780b6c0ade66e6199bc8275266a | Charles Ashton, a funeral director, has admitted fondling a woman's breasts before the service . An octogenarian funeral director fondled a woman’s breasts minutes before a service, a court heard. Charles Ashton, 83, could face jail for the assault in which he made a series of inappropriate comments about the woman’s figure before grabbing her. The incident happened at the family funeral directors business which Ashton runs with his son. The pensioner, who is a former director and chairman of Castleford Rugby League Football Club, pleaded guilty to sexual assault at Leeds magistrates’ court. Robert Campbell, prosecuting, told the court: ‘There was a funeral about to take place and they were in a room [together] . . . He put his arm around her, kissed her on two occasions and fondled her breasts.’ Mr Campbell added: ‘He had also made inappropriate remarks about the size of her breasts.’ Stephen Swan, mitigating, asked for sentencing to be adjourned so that a report could be prepared into the circumstances of the case. He added that the assault was out of character for Ashton. Mr Swan said: ‘It is entirely out of character for this man who it’s fair to say is devastated about what’s happened. I think it’s a measure of him that he is so upset about what’s happened.’ Before leaving the hearing last week Ashton, of Castleford, West Yorkshire, told magistrates: ‘I am sorry to have troubled you.’ They warned that he could face jail for the offence. Earlier this year an undertaker who poured flour over a neighbour’s Mercedes for blocking in his hearse was jailed. Funeral director Julian Riley, 39, and Peter Elliot, 60, had argued for weeks over parking spaces after property developer Elliot bought a house opposite Riley’s business, a court heard. In September 2013 Riley was caught on CCTV emptying a 2lb bag of self-raising flour over Mr Elliot’s black Mercedes E-320. A court heard it set ‘like cement’ in the rain and removing it scratched the car’s paint. Police arrested Riley after following a line of white powder. The incident was said to be out of character for 83-year-old Ashton who could face jail for the sexual assault . | Charles Ashton, a funeral director, admitted sexually assaulting woman .
Pensioner fondled kissed and fondled her breasts before funeral started .
Leeds Magistrates' Court heard behaviour was 'out of character' for him .
Ashton was previously a director of Castleford Rugby League football club . |
262,327 | dfcb3c0f917ec9acf32159586700a73b05b39f8a | Dougie Freedman’s tenure as Nottingham Forest manager started on a positive note as goals from Danny Collins, Henri Lansbury and Ben Osborn pushed Brighton deeper into relegation trouble. The hosts had led through Lewis Dunk’s opener shortly before half-time, only for Collins to head Forest level almost immediately. Having struggled to impose themselves for long spells, Forest slowly grew in confidence after the break with Lansbury’s free-kick and Osborn’s late third putting them firmly in control. But they had to endure a nervy finale when Brighton debutant Beram Kayal headed late on and Jamaal Lascelles headed another Kayal chance off the line and onto the bar in stoppage time to preserve the points. Nottingham Forest's Ben Osborn fires the away sides third goal of the game against Brighton . Henri Lansbury finds the back of the net for Dougie Freedman's side at the Amex Stadium . Lansbury celebrates in front of the traveling away fans following his goal against Brighton . Freedman, who left his last job at Bolton by mutual consent at the start of October following a lousy start to the season, was brought in to replace Stuart Pearce in the aftermath of last weekend’s 1-0 home loss to Millwall. He quickly ripped apart an under-performing team that had slumped dramatically from league leaders at the start of the campaign. Five changes were made from Millwall, incoming were Karl Darlow, Eric Lichaj, Danny Collins, Gary Gardner and Michail Antonio. Chris Hughton, whose Seagulls side started the afternoon two points above the drop zone, replaced Jake Forster-Caskey with Liverpool loanee Joao Teixeira and Sam Baldock with Solly March after last weekend’s miserable loss at Blackpool. Freedman enjoyed the perfect start away at Brighton as Chris Houghton looks on at the Amex Stadium . Nottingham Forest's Danny Collins leaps highest to score his teams first goal of the game with a header . Freedman, wearing a club-branded jacket and tracksuit bottoms, never sat down during the entire match, standing sentinel on the edge of his technical area and frequently bellowing instructions. With just a few days available on the training ground, defending set-pieces was one area clearly not yet refined. Twice early on, Brighton players were afforded too much space inside the penalty area but twice Forest survived. First, Gordon Greer headed across the goal and off target after rising completely unchecked to meet a Danny Holla corner. Collins watches on as he waits for the ball to nestle in the net at Brighton's Amex Stadium . Then, on the quarter-hour, more slack marking from a Holla delivery allowed Dunk to leap at the back post and Darlow had to claw it to safety at point-blank range. Brighton looked much the brighter going forward, with Bruno supporting the attack at every opportunity and Kazenga LuaLua looking lively after he replaced the injured March early on. Inigo Calderon fired over the bar from just inside the box after Rohan Ince had shifted the ball to him before a Holla free-kick from about 25 yards out cracked the top of the post with Darlow well beaten by its swerve. Collins cups his ear as Forest turn up the pressure against Brighton at the Amex . Brighton and Hove Albion: Stockdale, Bruno, Greer (c), Dunk, Bennett, Holla (Kayal 84), Ince, Calderon (Best 65), O'Grady, March (LuaLua 18), Teixeira . Substitutes not used: Walton (GK), Hughes, Forster-Caskey, Mackail-Smith . Scorers: Dunk 42; Kayal 89 . Booked: Ince . Nottingham Forest: Darlow, Lichaj, Hobbs (c), Collins, Fox, Antonio, Gardner, Osborn, Lansbury (Lascelles 88), Burke, Assombalonga (Fryatt 79) Substitutes not used: De Vries (GK), Paterson, Blackstock, Vaughan, Tesche . Scorers: Collins 43; Lansbury 63; Osborn 86 . Referee: Christopher Sarginson (Staffordshire) Attendance: 26,267 (1,727 away) The game was screaming out for a goal. In the event, it got two within the space of 120 seconds and both as a result of dubious goalkeeping. The hosts gained a deserved lead three minutes before the break. Another set-piece wide on the left from Holla caused panic in Forest ranks and, after Darlow came for it and missed completely, Dunk diverted the ball home though it may have brushed Gardner on its way in. The joy was short-lived. Barely seconds from the restart, Forest won a set-piece of their own about 10 yards in from the touchline on the left. Osborn swung it in and Collins met the ball with a header that crept in off the inside of the post. David Stockdale had come out, hesitated and was left stranded as Collins made no mistake. Brighton continued to set the pace at the beginning of the second-half and Darlow spread himself to block Teixeira’s effort following Chris O’Grady’s flick from Joe Bennett’s cross. Rohan Ince (left) of Brighton battles for the ball with Forest's Michail Antonio . It was just after the hour mark when Ince, struggling to keep pace with the burly run of Antonio, brought him down a matter of millimetres outside the box. This was a situation that spelt trouble and so it proved as Lansbury lashed the ball low through a crowded box and into the bottom corner. Suddenly the game sprung into life. At one end, Antonio headed over the bar. At the other, the dancing feet of Teixeira worked space for a shot that took a hefty deflection and crashed back off the post. Forest wrapped up victory five minutes from time when Osborn rolled in from close range after Chris Burke weaved his way between two defenders to tee him up. But there was still a nail-biting finish for the travelling fans after Kayal headed in a LuaLua corner in the final minute but Forest clung on to ensure Freedman’s perfect start. Lewis Dunk bundles the ball home to hand Brighton the lead against Forest . | Lewis Dunk opened the scoring for Brighton at the Amex Stadium .
Nottingham Forest defender Danny Collins replied for the away side .
Ex Arsenal man Henri Lansbury gave Forest the lead in the second half .
Ben Osborn secured all three points for Dougie Freedman with a third .
Beram Kayal netted a consolation goal for Brighton in injury time . |
96,510 | 082c9d8048c57249f398fdd2e2e957f5dfb483c9 | (CNN) -- Los Angeles police are searching for a serial killer dubbed the "Grim Sleeper," who is thought to have killed 11 people. Alicia Alexander was one of the Grim Sleeper's victims in the 1980s. The killer, who police say murdered from 1985 to 2007, was nicknamed the Grim Sleeper because he seemed to take a break between homicides, police said. Authorities this week released a 9-1-1 tape recorded shortly after a killing in 1987, in the hope of producing clues. "Yes ... I'd like to report a murder," an anonymous caller says on the tape. "The guy that dropped her off was driving a white and blue Dodge van. He threw her out. ... He threw a gas tank on top of her. All that you can see sticking out is her feet." Watch the hunt for a serial killer » . Police found the scene just as the caller described and found the van. But they are still searching for the caller and members of the now-defunct church that owned the van. The killer is wanted in 11 deaths and another homicide attempt, police say. Detectives say they have the Grim Sleeper's DNA, and a $500,000 reward has been offered for information leading to an arrest and prosecution. The killer shot his victims, police said. Porter Alexander has waited two decades for the Grim Sleeper's arrest. His daughter Alicia Alexander became the Grim Sleeper's eighth victim in 1988, police say. "No one should have to face anything like this," he said. "To experience their daughters or sons taken away as early as she was." CNN's Kara Finnstrom contributed to this report. | L.A. police this week released old 9-1-1 call: "Yes ... I'd like to report a murder"
Police have Grim Sleeper's DNA and are offering $500,000 reward for information .
Nickname given because killer took a break between murders, police say . |
221,368 | aa8e1d4a7d7eb8a9d655109ab5fa8fb6e72b8245 | A retired teacher has discovered a new type of transparent sea anemone. Robert Durrant found the 6mm creature and posted a photograph on Facebook asking for help to identify it – but with no success. So he took a specimen from Hele Bay, near Ilfracombe, Devon, to his aquarium to observe it. Scroll down for video . Robert Durrant found the 6mm creature and posted a photograph on Facebook asking for help to identify it – but with no success . Then he had a breakthrough after taking a backlit photo showing it was transparent with tiny tubercules. This helped French expert Wilfried Bay-Nouailhat to identify the tiny creature. He said it is a new variety of Aiptasiogeton pellucidus, an anemone found in Dorset in the 1970s before disappearing. Mr Durrant said: 'It was found by accident at Hele Bay, really. I took a photo and posted it on Facebook and experts hadn't a clue. The retired teacher took a specimen from Hele Bay, near Ilfracombe (pictured), Devon, to his aquarium to observe it . 'So I decided to take a specimen for my aquarium at home to feed the anemone to see how it would develop - and get some more photos to try to identify it. 'I took a backlit photo which showed very clearly the transparency of the anemone as well as the tiny tubercules on it. 'I'd like to call it the fairy anemone, as it's so small, delicate and elusive.' However, the creature now has the scientific name Aiptasiogeton pellucidus var comatus. More anemones of the Hele Bay variety have been found at Newlyn, Cornwall. Dan Smith, from Devon Wildlife Trust, said: 'It's amazing that new animal discoveries can still be made right on our shores.' | Robert Durrant discovered the 6mm creature off Ilfracombe in north Devon .
The retired teacher posted photo on Facebook asking for help to identify it .
Had a breakthrough after taking backlit photo showing it was transparent .
This helped Fremch expert Wilfried Bay-Nouailhat identify tiny creature .
Mr Durrant called it 'fairy anemone' but scientific name is Aiptasiogeton pellucidus var comatus . |
134,726 | 3a40f4e45f1b25cf2533134c3107fda8d84191ef | By . Martha Kelner . Follow @@marthakelner . Danny Williams went from a large bowl of spaghetti bolognaise to Commonwealth gold in six days on a golden night on the mat for England. Williams, 25, was eating dinner a week ago when he got a phone call to inform him he was being called up to England’s judo squad. ‘I was eating a fairly large portion of spag bol and wholemeal garlic bread so I pushed that to one side and went down to the gym for the third time that day,’ he said. Winner: Danny Williams of England won gold at the Commonwealth Games in the under-73kgs final . Strength: Williams won England's eighth gold medal of the Commonwealth Games on Friday . Williams had to almost starve himself . and endure long sessions at the gym to shed the weight required to . fight in the under 73kg category. ‘I . was nowhere near the weight in all honesty,’ he said, ‘It’s been a very . hard six days. I don’t think people see that side. If you don’t make . the weight you don’t fight. I’m not going to say how much weight I had . to lose but it was a lot, most people would have cried. ‘I . did a lot of exercise before breakfast that sped my metabolism up. My . carbohydrate intake was almost zero and all I was eating was six tiny . saucers of food every day, drinking lots of water then starting the . dehydration process. It wouldn’t normally have been so drastic.’ Williams, . a sport coaching student at Anglia Ruskin University, was a late . replacement for his injured team-mate Ben Fletcher. He defeated New . Zealand judoka Adrian Leat by one Waza-ari score. ‘It . feels incredible,’ he said, ‘I think the medal is just a bonus, the . crowd were phenomenal. It could have been in England the way the crowd . got behind me.’ Champion: England's Williams beat New Zealand's Adrian Leat in the under-73kg final in Glasgow . Confession: Williams says 'I'm not going to say how much weight I had to lose but it was a lot' Williams . greeted victory by ripping open his Gi (the jacket-like outfits worn by . the judokas) to reveal his heavily-tattooed chest. Asked if he planned . any more celebratory tattoos, he replied: ‘They’re all planned so . there’s no more room.’ After . the biggest victory of his career, Williams said he planned to . celebrate with a ‘can of Fosters or maybe some Guinness’. He also paid . tribute to his coach Luke Preston, who also coaches gold medallist . Ashley McKenzie. ‘Luke brought me through,’ said Williams, ‘and I’m not . the easiest person to deal with.’ There was also gold for Megan Fletcher who beat six-time Oceania champion Moira de Villiers of New Zealand. And . there was a bronze for Katie Yeats-Brown, who until a few days ago, . planned to be at a local bowling alley last night. In fact she spent the . early part of last night beating Canada’s Beatrice Valois to win a . bronze medal. She said: ‘I got the call on Tuesday morning at seven. I . was quite annoyed because my mum said I could have a lie-in, then shook . me awake and asked if I would like to fight at the Games. I thought my . mum had lost the plot because selection was a couple of months ago. ‘But it was OK once I found out and obviously I’d choose a medal over Laser Quest.’ Bronze: Katie Yeats-Brown (in the blue) came third and said she got the call up at 7am on Tuesday . | Danny Williams wins Commonwealth Games gold against Adrian Leat .
Heavily-tattooed fighter was only called up less than a week before Games began, and admits: 'It's been a very hard six days'
Williams was out for six months with an elbow injury last year, and won England's eighth golf of the Games in Glasgow so far . |
121,881 | 298ea4d32484fb2abf9a8e1048dbe00f5eb8b642 | By . Mark Prigg . The world's last uncontacted tribes could be monitored using satellites and online service, researcher have said. A US team has already used Google Earth images to assess the demographic health of a village of isolated people on the border between Brazil and Peru. They say mapping sites could hold the key to remotely keeping an eye on the tribes without contacting them. Members of an uncontacted tribe in the Brazilian state of Acre, as seen from satellite images. Photo courtesy of Government of Brazil. The researchers were able to find the area on Google maps and estimate the population. Lowland South America, including the Amazon Basin, harbors most of the last indigenous societies that have limited contact with the outside world. Studying these tribes, located deep within Amazonian rainforests, gives scientists a glimpse at what tribal cultures may have been like before the arrival of Europeans. Researchers at the University of Missouri used satellite images to assess the demographic health of one particular village of isolated people on the border between Brazil and Peru. Remote surveillance is the only method to safely track uncontacted indigenous societies and may offer information that can improve their chances for long-term survival, the team claim. They used Google Earth satellite imagery to estimate the area of the fields and the size of the village belonging to the tribe. The team was also able to ascertain as the living area of the tribe’s temporary housing, and compared their data with similar estimates for 71 other Brazilian indigenous communities have have been monitored in the past. 'We found that the estimated population of the village is no more than 40 people,' Rob Walker, who led the study, said. Pictures from Survival International of what they say are uncontacted Indians seen from a Brazilian government's observation aircraft in the Brazilian Amazon. researchers are now using Google Earth to estimate populations . The Indians appear be to healthy and could be running from Peru due to a invasion of their lands by loggers. 'A small, isolated village like this one faces an imminent threat of extinction. However, forced contact from the outside world is ill-advised, so a non-invasive means of monitoring the tribe is recommended. 'A remote surveillance program using satellite images taken periodically of this group would help track the movements and demographic health of the population without disrupting their lives. Surveillance also can help locate isolated villages, track patterns of migration over time, and inform and create boundaries or buffer zones that would allow tribes to stay isolated, Walker said. 'Close to 100 uncontacted groups are thought to currently exist in Amazonia. 'Deforestation, cattle ranching, illegal mining, and outside colonization threaten their existence. 'Most of these tribes are swidden horticulturalists and so their slash-and-burn fields are observable in satellite images. 'But, they do move around, sometimes in response to external threats, and this movement requires constant monitoring if there is to be any hope of preserving their habitat and culture.' | 100 uncontacted tribes are believed to exist in the Amazon .
US team has already used Google Earth images to assess the demographic health of a village on the border between Brazil and Peru .
Exact location being kept secret to keep tribe secure . |
145,429 | 480f7314fdd60bbc34f708bca7c4dc7b949f424e | By . Daily Mail Reporter . Last updated at 7:54 AM on 3rd October 2011 . An NHS trust paid two temporary members of staff a combined salary of half a million pounds after they were hired for £1,000 a day. Luton Primary Care Trust paid Keith Edmunds £265,000 during his 12 months as ‘interim director of commissioning’. Colleague Chris White received up to £235,000 as ‘interim chief operations’ officer for just over a year. Criticised: Luton Primary Care Trust, based at Nightingale House in Luton (above), says the £500,000 payments to two temporary members of staff were justified despite claims it paid 'over the odds' They each received nearly double the £142,500 salary commanded by Prime Minister David Cameron. Robert Oxley, campaign manager for Taxpayers’ Alliance, said it was a waste of money. He said: ‘It’s unbelievable that . taxpayers are paying such a premium for staff who are supposed to be . interim, yet have been in post for an extended period. ‘It’s a waste of money and a management failure to be paying over the odds by so much for senior staff. ‘Reliance on temporary staff is a . clear sign the NHS has not got to grips with the problem of costly . executive pay. Cutting down on fat cats should be a priority.’ A permanent member of staff has been . hired as director of commissioning while the chief operations officer . role has been transferred to Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust. The £500,000 payments follow that of an NHS chief . executive who was paid £3,163 a day to work on a temporary basis at . cash-strapped Dorset County Hospital - nearly twice as much as a nurse takes home in a month. Derek Smith received £387,220 for the 141 days he worked. Over the odds: Derek Smith (left) was paid £3,163 a day by Dorset County Hospital. His salary and those of the Luton PCT bosses far exceed David Cameron's . When . he was hired, the hospital was £5.1million in the red and has since . reduced staff levels through natural wastage to cut costs. A spokesman for Luton Primary Care . Trust, based at Nightingale House in Inkerman Street, Luton, said the . salaries, revealed in an annual report, were justified. He said: ‘We paid the going daily rates to the interim agency for the levels of responsibility required.’ It has emerged that health trusts are . spending nearly £16million a year paying recruitment firms to hire . highly paid senior executives and bureaucrats. Last year, primary care trusts and . strategic health authorities spent an estimated £15.9million paying . recruitment firms to hire managers, Freedom of Information figures . revealed. Over the past three years they spent . nearly £50million – the equivalent of hiring 2,040 extra nurses, 650 . consultants or 1,300 midwives. Pledge: Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has vowed to cut NHS management costs by 45 per cent over the next four years . In one example, a primary care trust . paid a headhunting agency more than £111,000 trying to fill the post of . its chief executive – only to promote its own deputy into the role . months later. Solihull Primary Care Trust paid £110,919 to recruitment agency ATM Consulting over two years to find a chief executive. It later appointed its own deputy . Claire Molloy, who had been acting chief for those two years. She is now . on a salary of up to £125,000. Yorkshire and Humber Strategic Health . Authority spent £45,000 over two years paying the same firm to recruit . chief executive Bill McCarthy. He has a salary of up to £115,000 and pension pot of £1,001,000. And North East Lincolnshire PCT paid £167,500 trying to recruit a director of public health, on a £45,000 salary. Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has . pledged to reduce expenditure on managers and pen-pushers by 45 per cent . over the next four years, claiming the money saved will be ploughed . back into patient care. | Luton PCT accused of 'not getting to grips' with executive pay .
Trust say costs justified and were the 'going rate' |
50,399 | 8e955ce54662a15e6647fd7334c971865f52fb87 | (CNN) -- The search for a 2-year old boy who went missing in suburban Seattle more than a week ago continued Monday with no new suspects or information in the case, Bellevue, Washington, police said. Maj. Mike Johnson said his department had received 900 tips in the boy's disappearance, but none "have led to any high-priority actionable evidence." Though none of those leads has led to a breakthrough in the investigation, Johnson urged the public to continue providing information in the case. He said the case could eventually become a "criminal investigation," but "we're not there." "All theories are viable, " Johnson said. "We have not ruled anything out as a possibility in this case. ... The thing that we're lacking is evidence." Over the weekend, Johnson said police had expanded the search radius at the apartment in Redmond where toddler Sky Metalwala lived with his mother, Julia Biryukova, and the wooded area where she told police she last saw her son nine days ago. The brown-eyed boy with short, dark hair was last seen wearing a dark-green hooded sweatshirt and blue-and-gray-striped pants. On Friday, Johnson said the police were "frustrated by the lack of information we're getting" from the boy's mother. According to Johnson, Biryukova initially reported that she'd run out of gas early November 6 in Bellevue, just east of Seattle, leaving the toddler in the car while she took her 4-year-old with her to get help. Police later determined that the car had gas and was working. "I'll let the evidence speak for itself, which is: There was gas in the car; the car was able to drive and operate," Johnson said. "That's not what Julia told us." But on Monday, Johnson told reporters that he was "not comfortable calling her a person of interest or a suspect." He said the boy's mother "continues to cooperate," though she has not responded to requests issued through her attorney "to come and talk to us at length." "It's something we're going to keep trying to do," the police major said of the outreach efforts to Biryukova. Other than the boy's mother and his 4-year-old sister, no one has reported seeing the toddler in the past two weeks, police spokeswoman Carla Lafrate said last week. Attorneys for Biryukova have declined to comment to CNN about the case, citing the ongoing investigation. Repeated attempts to reach Biryukova by CNN affiliates in the Bellevue and Redmond area have been unsuccessful. The father, Solomon Metalwala, who is separated from Biryukova, told HLN's Nancy Grace on Monday that he'd taken two polygraph tests in recent weeks, declining to offer details on whether he'd passed them or what questions he answered. "He's always ready to assist law enforcement in any way," added his attorney, Leslie Clay Terry III. Solomon Metalwala said he hadn't seen the children since December, having lost custody of them. He added that he was getting ready for church the Sunday morning of November 6 when Biryukova reportedly woke the children up earlier to take his young son, Sky, for treatment at an area hospital. "We've tried since January to get the children out of (Biryukova's) custody," Terry told HLN. Court records indicate Sky's parents have had a tumultuous relationship. Biryukova has said she feared for her safety and that of her children around the elder Metalwala, according to records. "I am told by my husband Solomon (and) his family that if I take any action towards custody of our children he will take them out of the country (and) I will never see them again," she wrote in court papers. Metalwala responded in court filings that his wife suffered from mental health problems and was unable to care for the children on her own. Both parents were charged in 2009 with reckless endangerment for leaving then-3-month-old Sky alone in their parked car. Court records show they completed court-ordered parenting courses following the incident. | NEW: The missing boy's father takes polygraphs and is "ready to assist" authorities .
NEW: His lawyer says the father had not seen his two children since December .
Bellevue, Washington, police receive 900 tips, but nothing "actionable"
Sky Metalwala disappeared 9 days ago in suburban Seattle . |
250,382 | d00b7b514959f32d253ca54a96dac3fab0ac2b04 | (CNN) -- The Olympic Games have produced some of the greatest sports moments in history. And to go along with the great moments, there are often great photos: images that craft our memory of these moments. Click through the gallery above to see some classic Olympic photos and read about why they're great (be sure to toggle the hide/show caption button to see each frame in its entirety). Then put your own photo skills to the test with CNN iReport's sports photography master class. Also visit CNN's photo blog for more great Olympic shots, and check out our check out our tips for capturing great sports photos of your own. | Sports photographers will descend on London for the 2012 Olympics .
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56,811 | a0f00744681bd2535933d870693ec9393a55a85d | By . Lee Moran . Last updated at 10:40 AM on 6th February 2012 . Dozens of houses were destroyed and children were crushed to death when their school building collapsed after a devastating earthquake hit the central Philippines this morning. At least 13 people were killed, and 29 remain missing, after the 6.8-magnitude quake struck in a narrow strait just off Negros Island. A tsunami alert was issued after the disaster, but later lifted. Thousands of residents were trapped in their homes as a landslide hit the city of Guihulngan in Negros Oriental province. Chaos: Dozens of houses were destroyed and children were crushed to death when their school building collapsed after a devastating earthquake hit the central Philippines this morning . Escape: Filipinos came out onto open grounds in Cebu City following the quake . City Mayor Ernesto Reyes said: 'Their situation is bad because if you are covered by landslide for one hour, two hours, how can you breathe? But we just hope for the best, that there are still survivors.' He said rescuers were using picks and shovels to dig for survivors. Reyes said at least 10 people were confirmed dead in his city, including students at a college and an elementary school and others in a market that collapsed. About 100 were injured. The quake, which hit at 11.49am (0349 GMT), triggered another landslide in the mountain village of Solongon in La Libertad town, also in Negros Oriental. An unknown number of people were trapped, said La Libertad police chief inspector Eric Arrol Besario, who added: 'We're now getting shovels and chain saws to start a rescue because there were people trapped inside. Some of them were yelling for help earlier.' Three key bridges in the town suffered cracks and were no longer passable, he said. Philippine seismologists briefly issued a tsunami alert for the central islands. Terror: Residents ran for their lives as the earthquake hit in Cebu City . Running scared: At least 13 people were killed, and 29 remain missing, after the 6.8-magnitude quake struck in a narrow strait just off Negros Island . Five bamboo and wooden cottages were washed out from a beach resort in La Libertad by huge waves, but there were no reports of injuries, said police Superintendent Ernesto Tagle. Elsewhere along the coast, people rushed out of schools, malls and offices. The epicenter was closest to Tayasan, a coastal town of about 32,000 people flanked by mountains in Negros Oriental province. Two died there, including a child when a concrete fence of a house collapsed, said Benito Ramos, head of the Office of Civil Defence. Another child was killed in a church when a wall collapsed during a funeral in Negros Oriental's Jimalalud town, Mayor Reynaldo Tuanda said. Tayasan police officer Alfred Vicente Silvosa said aftershocks were preventing people from returning to their homes. Seismologists recorded nearly 45 aftershocks. Panic: Filipinos fled to the streets as the earthquake jolted central Philippines . Look-out: Filipinos surveyed the damage from the upper floors of Cebu City buildings following the quake . Silvosa said: 'We are outside, at the town plaza. We cannot inspect buildings yet because it's dangerous. 'I felt the building shaking, so I rushed out of the building. Our computers, shelves, plates, the cupboards, water dispenser all fell.' A three-story office building also collapsed in La Libertad, but occupants managed to run out. Negros Oriental police chief Edward Carranza said the temblor damaged many houses in Guihulngan and he ordered his men to help displaced residents find shelter. Officials in some areas suspended work and canceled classes. Power and telecommunications were knocked out in several places. Quake point: A Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) staff member points to the epicentre of the quake . Watching: The Philippines is located in the Pacific Ring of Fire where earthquakes and volcanic activity are common. A 7.7-magnitude quake killed nearly 2,000 people in Luzon in 1990 . Carranza said police rushed out of his building when the quake struck and added: 'All my personnel ran out fearing our building would collapse. 'Now it's shaking again,' he said as an aftershock hit, 'My keychain is dancing.' The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centred 44 miles north of Dumaguete city on Negros and hit at a depth of 29 miles. The area is about 400 miles southeast of the capital, Manila. The Philippines is located in the Pacific Ring of Fire where earthquakes and volcanic activity are common. A 7.7-magnitude quake killed nearly 2,000 people in Luzon in 1990. | 29 missing after 6.8-magnitude quake in narrow strait off Negros Island .
Tsunami alert issued... but was later lifted . |
101,730 | 0f1c9ead730b4eee665f24ea838508f77dc2f4a4 | By . Mark Duell . PUBLISHED: . 01:14 EST, 1 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 15:21 EST, 5 February 2013 . Using nothing but his hands and a rake, this artist's creations look amazing - until the tide comes in. Tony Plant, 50, of Newquay, Cornwall, drew these eye-catching pieces of artwork in the sand at Watergate Bay, Bedruthan Steps and the Great Western Beach along the Cornish coast. The father of two spends hours on different coastlines creating eye-catching geometric patterns that can be seen far into the distance from cliff tops - but are quickly washed away by the incoming tide. Scroll down for video . Up above: The full works of Mr Plant's creation on the Great Western Beach can be seen better from a distance . View from a cliff: This beach artwork was created at Bedruthan Steps in Newquay on the Cornish coast . He has been working on beaches for more than two decades to make this kind of temporary art, taking him from his native south-west England to the likes of Scotland, France, Spain and Sri Lanka. Mr Plant said: ‘I've been doing this a long time just for me with an audience of one. I just think of the art as non-precious things. 'They're temporary. The reason for being there is the landscape is constantly changing. Astounding: The 50-year-old father spends hours on different coastlines eye-catching geometric patterns . Swirling: Tony Plant drew this impressive piece of art in the sand at Watergate Bay in Newquay, Cornwall . From above: This is an alternative view of the 50-year-old father-of-two's work at Watergate Bay in Newquay . Rake and hands: Tony Plant, 50, can be seen working on sand at the Great Western Beach in Newquay . Experienced: Mr Plant has been working on beaches for more than two decades to make this kind of art . ‘I love that kind of interaction I've always worked with landscapes. 'My work is based in process so it leads me to different areas. It's a creative licence to do anything anywhere you want.’ He graduated from the Chelsea College of Art and Design - formerly known as the Chelsea School of Art - in central London with a fine art painting degree in 1990. Mr Plant's personal information area on his Facebook fan page says: 'Tony Plant creates unique interventions in the natural landscape to be seen and experienced.' | Tony Plant draws sand art along Cornish coast before it's washed away .
Fifty-year-old artist created these pieces at three beaches in Newquay .
Father of two has spent 20 years working on this kind of temporary art . |
72,064 | cc41336ad0bf29f5256aecd0e91f525c8cac5b4b | The words of Jose Mourinho still echo: 'This is end of career.' I can only hope Martin Atkinson was listening. The focus is on the referee and rightly so. He’s paid a minimum of £85,000-a-year to watch games and make decisions. Some are difficult, referees will make mistakes, but Atkinson was guilty of not watching the game when Chelsea and Burnley fought out a 1-1 draw at Stamford Bridge. It’s as simple as that. Some say it’s more proof that we need technology – indeed that is Mourinho’s view. But why are we paying referees a healthy salary – three times the national average – if they can’t even see what is right in front of them? Jason Shackell’s foul on Diego Costa, the obvious handball in the box from Michael Kightly, Ashley Barnes kicking Branislav Ivanovic, and then Barnes' challenge on Nemanja Matic. If we bring in technology, I’m assuming referees’ pay will be dramatically reduced. Martin Atkinson was guilty of not watching the game in Chelsea's 1-1 draw with Burnley at Stamford Bridge . Atkinson will be paid at least £85,000-a-year to referee - why pay it if he cannot see what's in front of him? Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho speaking on Sky Sports' Goals on Sunday programme during the weekend . Atkinson’s failure could have had horrible consequences. A Burnley player, Barnes, was allowed to get away with bending and nearly breaking a fellow professional’s leg. I don’t think Barnes is malicious, but I do think he is at best careless, and at worst reckless. But he is also a player who received a seven-match ban for deliberately tripping up a referee during a game he played for Brighton two years ago. The punishment has seemingly not registered as a deterrent. Some excessively physical challenges can be excused in the context of any given game, or the competitive spirit of the players. But Barnes on Matic was beyond any mitigation. This studs-up tackle from Ashley Barnes (centre) infuriated Chelsea midfielder Nemanja Matic . Some excessively physical challenges can be excused but Barnes on Matic was beyond any mitigation . The FA have hidden behind their own inadequate rulebook and so there will be no further action taken against Barnes. He is getting away with it for two reasons: firstly because the ref was so excruciatingly bad everybody is talking about him; secondly, Burnley are everyone’s favourite underdogs, and Sean Dyche is impossible to dislike. Barnes himself has done well as a professional footballer to lift himself up the leagues and make a mark in the Premier League, and I admire him for that. All of these reasons somehow come together to make it hard to criticise Burnley. Add to that the fact that your average football fan outside of Stamford Bridge dislikes Chelsea, and loves to see Jose Mourinho slip up, and it becomes easy to focus on the bad referee, rather than the naughty footballer. Sean Dyche is impossible to dislike and that is helping Barnes get away with his horror challenge . The average football fan is desperate for Mourinho to slip up and that also plays in Barnes' favour . If common sense were to be applied instead of the FA’s chopped logic, what would happen here? With his previous offence in mind, Barnes should be banned for the rest of the season. It would focus his mind in a way the previous ban didn’t. It would also send out a real message to professional footballers that they can’t get away with such challenges. They have a duty of care to fellow professionals. Atkinson should be put on gardening leave and his position reviewed in the summer. With his previous offence of tripping a referee in mind, Barnes (right) should be banned for the season . Atkinson should be put on gardening leave and have his position reviewed in the summer after this showing . Barnes (right) has done well to lift himself up the leagues and that makes it hard to criticise Burnley . My instinct tells me Matic was rightly sent off. He was aggressive and then violent with Barnes. But when you look at the circumstances, I think there is definitely a case in this instance for the FA to rescind Matic’s red card but warn him about his future conduct. He is a player with no obvious history of violent conduct on the pitch, but he is a man who objects strongly when someone tries to break his leg. He didn’t swing a punch, he just bundled Barnes over. After failing to deal with Barnes in an appropriate manner, the Football Association can redeem themselves here. So do the right thing FA, and let Nemanja Matic play at Wembley on Sunday. Matic may have been violent but the FA should do the right thing at let him play in the Capital One Cup final . | Martin Atkinson made four big mistakes in Chelsea's draw with Burnley .
Premier League referees are paid at least £85,000-a-year to watch games .
Refs make mistakes but Atkinson was guilty of not watching the game .
Atkinson's failures should see his position reviewed in the summer .
Ashley Barnes deserves a ban until the end of the season for his challenge .
Nemanja Matic was aggressive but should be allowed to play at Wembley . |
38,940 | 6e07de466072b8abe2587eb28b77d7a0c1f1f5cd | The pair abducted on May 29 in Chennai and held for a £300,000 ransom . By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 14:10 EST, 3 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:12 EST, 3 June 2013 . A British couple who were kidnapped in India have been rescued by police in a joint operation by Indian and English officers, it has tonight been confirmed. The pair were abducted on May 29 in Chennai and apparently held for a £300,000 ransom. The couple, from London, have not been named but are safe and well, a Scotland Yard spokesman said. The pair were abducted on May 29 in Chennai and apparently held for a £300,000 ransom . The Metropolitan Police launched a joint investigation with counterparts in Chennai after receiving a report the couple, reportedly of Sri Lankan origin, had been kidnapped. Tonight, Scotland Yard said: 'The Metropolitan Police Service have been working with Indian authorities to secure the release of two British nationals kidnapped in Chennai since 29th May. 'The investigation was led by the Chennai police with the MPS offering support to the family in London. 'The couple have now been rescued and are safe and well. 'This remains an ongoing investigation in both countries and therefore no further details are available at this time.' The Bangalore-based Deccan Herald reported that the couple’s daughter, who also lives in London, sparked the police investigation after receiving a telephone ransom demand for £300,000. The Metropolitan Police launched a joint investigation with counterparts in Chennai after receiving a report the couple, reportedly of Sri Lankan origin, had been kidnapped . The victims had reportedly flown to Colombo, Sri Lanka, for a wedding, before flying to India for a nine-day temple tour. The couple were lured into what they thought was a taxi, it was reported, which they believed had been sent by their hotel to collect them. A Chennai police commissioner said a gang operated from London and India to orchestrate the abduction. Several suspects are believed to have been arrested. A Foreign Office spokesman said: 'We are aware of the abduction of two British nationals. 'They are now safe and well. We are offering consular assistance to the victims and their families.'This incident remains a matter for the local police.' | The duo, from London, have not been named but are safe and well .
The pair abducted on May 29 in Chennai and held for a £300,000 ransom . |
224,518 | aeb44048f311d2c6b4aef035c1b423950d1cf821 | By . Associated Press . PUBLISHED: . 22:09 EST, 7 October 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 01:51 EST, 9 October 2012 . Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez drafted tanks soldiers wielding AK-47s into the streets yesterday as he won a historic third re-election after almost 14 years in office. The former tank commander increased security in capital Caracas amid fears violent protests might erupt at the end of a bitterly fought election campaign between him and challenger Henrique Capriles. Both camps had warned that the other was attempting to destabalise the country, sparking allegations of underhand tactics and vote-rigging from supporters of either side. Scroll down for video . Victory lap: Hugo Chavez waves a Venezuelan flag while speaking to supporters after receiving news of his reelection in Caracas . Celebration: A Chavez supporter revels in the streets after the vote in October . But in the end the polling booths remained mainly peaceful as Chavez clung on to power with 54 per cent of the vote. But despite his landmark victory, fears are growing for his ailing health which has been ravaged by cancer in recent months. While Chavez himself insists he has beaten the deadly disease after successive bouts of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatment, palace insiders have claimed it is terminal. The decision marks the end of a bitter campaign in which the opposition . accused him of unfairly using Venezuela's oil wealth and his near total . control of state institutions to his advantage. But Capriles' promises to seriously address violent crime that has spun out of control, streamline a patronage-bloated bureaucracy and end rampant corruption proved inadequate against Chavez's charisma, well-oiled political machine and a legacy of putting Venezuela's poor first with generous social welfare programs. Chavez rallied thousands of supporters from a balcony of the presidential palace, holding up a sword that once belonged to 19th century independence hero Simon Bolivar. 'The revolution has triumphed!' Chavez told the crowd, saying his supporters 'voted for socialism.' The crowd responded chanting 'Chavez won't go!' Chavez will now have a freer hand to push for an even bigger state role in the economy and continue populist programs. Six more years: The win gives Chavez another term to cement his legacy and press more forcefully for a transition to socialism in the country with the world's largest proven oil reserve . Jumping for joy: Supporters of Hugo Chavez celebrate in the streets as the longtime president won re-election . He pledged before the vote to make a . stronger push for socialism in the next term. He's also likely to . further limit dissent and deepen friendships with U.S. rivals. A Capriles victory would have brought . a radical foreign policy shift including a halt to preferential oil . deals with allies such as Cuba, along with a loosening of state economic . controls and an increase in private investment. At many polling places, voters lined up two hours before polls opened at dawn. Good feeling: Chavez gestures to supporters after casting his vote during the election in Caracas . Capriles had united the opposition in . a contest between two camps that distrust each other so deeply there . are concerns whether a close election result will be respected. The stakes could not have been higher. Many Venezuelans were nervous about what might happen if the disputes erupt over the election's announced outcome. 'I'm . really tired of all this polarization,' said Lissette Garcia, a . 39-year-old clothes seller and Capriles supporter who voted Sunday in . the wealthy Caracas district of Las Mercedes. 'I want to reconnect with . all my friends who are "Chavistas."' Chavez's critics say the president has inflamed divisions by labeling his opponents 'fascists,' 'Yankees' and 'neo-Nazis,' while Chavez backers allege Capriles will halt generous government programs that assist the poor. During Chavez's final rally Thursday in Caracas, he shouted to the crowd: 'We're going to give the bourgeoisie a beating!' Violence . flared sporadically during the campaign, including shootings and . rock-throwing during rallies and political caravans. Two Capriles . supporters were shot dead in the western state of Barinas last . weekend. Troops were dispatched across Venezuela to guard thousands of voting centers Sunday. Chavez, who says he has emerged successfully from long treatment for cancer, held an impromptu news conference Saturday night, and when asked about the possibility of disputes over the vote, he said he expected both sides to accept the result. Revelry: Chavez supporters celebrate at the Miraflores presidential palace after Chavez's victory was announced . Sadness: Supporters of Venezuela opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski cry after finding out the election results . Voting: A woman talks on the phone as people line up to cast their vote at a polling station in Caracas . 'It's a mature, democratic country . where the institutions work, where we have one of the best electoral . systems in the world,' Chavez told reporters at the presidential palace. But . he also said he hoped no one would try to use the vote to play a . 'destabilizing game.' If they do, he said, 'we'll be alert to neutralize . them.' His opponents mounted a noisy protest in . Caracas and other major cities on Saturday night, beating pots and pans . from the windows of their homes to show displeasure with Chavez - and . also their hopes for change. Drivers on downtown streets honked horns, . joining the din. The 40-year-old Capriles, a wiry former governor affectionately called 'Skinny' by supporters, infused the opposition with new optimism and opinion polls pointed to him giving Chavez his closest election. Some recent polls gave Chavez a lead of about 10 percentage points, while others put the two candidates roughly even. 'Chavez is going to fight until his last breath. He doesn't know how to do anything else,' said Antonio Padron, a bank employee backing the president. Padron expressed optimism that the 58-year-old Chavez would win, noting the leader's survival of a fight with cancer that included surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatment. Residents check for their names at the voters list at a polling station in the Catia neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela . VIDEO: Venezuelans vote in presidential election . | Chavez won with 54 per cent of the vote .
It was Chavez's third re-election victory in nearly 14 years in office .
But fears are growing for his ailing health which has been ravaged by cancer in recent months .
Many voters queued for up to two hours before polls opened at dawn .
Chavez told the crowd from his balcony: 'The revolution has triumphed!' |
55,065 | 9bfc1146b1316ebe99e885294ccd64b67f428783 | By . Tara Brady . Two pork-loving couples have tied the knot at a mouth-watering bacon festival in Des Moines, Iowa. Tricia Snider and Tom Watson were the first to wed on Saturday at the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival. Craig Rouch and April Davila got married at the same festival a short while later. Sizzling: With a bacon bouquet in hand April Davila weds the pork-loving man of her dreams Craig Rouch . Mr and Mrs Watson said the bacon festival was the perfect location to exchange vows because they enjoy eating bacon together every weekend. However, Mr Watson said his 41-year-old bride is nearly the number one love in his life. 'She's second only to bacon,' he said. The chapel where the couple married had a wall of windows that looked out over an arena full of vendors selling bacon-filled foods. Craig and April Rouch were the second couple to marry at the festival which celebrates everything bacon . Bacon forever: The happy couple look delighted to be tucking into their pork bouquet . They exchanged vows about staying together 'in good times and bacon' but for the most part they kept their ceremony traditional. After the service, a cake topped with a bacon-strip bride and groom awaited the couple and their guests. The couple and their guests enjoyed eating pork loins wrapped with smoked bacon and spent time touring the exhibit halls at the festival. Craig Roush and April DaVila get ready to walk down the aisle for their wedding during the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa . | Tricia Snider and Tom Watson married at the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival .
Craig Rouch and April Davila got married a short while later .
Mr Watson said his new wife was the second love of his life after bacon . |
84,880 | f0c913053d05e09d4746cf14603edd2f5bdfccac | By . Ryan Lipman . The Australian Commonwealth Games women's swim team uniform is a shock for all the wrong reasons - part of the country has been left off. After the team's formal uniform was slammed as being 'ugly' when it was first revealed last month, the latest problem is the state of Tasmania has been completely left off maps of Australia that are pasted on the women's swim team's one-piece swimsuit. The missing state has caused outrage in Tasmania, with many in the state still sensitive about a similar blunder 32 years ago, which saw the island state dropped from a map of Australia created by performers at the Brisbane Commonwealth Games in 1982. Uproar: Tasmanians have been left outraged that a map of Australia heavily featured on female swimmers' uniforms does not include the island state. Pictured is swimmer Leiston Pickett, left, getting help with her uniform from teammate Kotuku Ngawati during a training session . Australian swimmers Kotuku Ngawati (left), and Bronte Campbell (right), show off their swimming uniform during a training session on Tuesday . The Speedo design has even sparked the ire of outspoken Palmer United Party senator Jacqui Lambie, reported News.com.au. 'I hope that it was an oversight and not deliberate. Tasmania also disappeared from Olympic medals and posters for Baz Luhrmann’s movie Australia, so it's very disappointing that the same oversight has happened a number of times, she said. The senator has even suggested the state be compensated with $5 million for a tourism advertising campaign and money to lower the cost of sea travel to Tasmania. With funding cuts to Tasmanian tourism since 2008, Ms Lambie said an apology with a payment from the government would not be enough to rectify the error, especially for the impacted tourism sector. Tasmanians have hit out at the uniform, after the state was dropped from a map of Australia formed by performers at the Brisbane Commonwealth Games in a similar incident 32 years ago. Pictured is swimmer Cate Campbell helping sister Bronte adjust her swimsuit . While the women's uniform is plastered with the partial map of Australia, the male swimmers' trunks are not covered in the controversial pattern. Pictured is Emily Seebohm, left, and James Magnussen, far right, with Cameron McEvoy . 'Ordinary Tasmanians will be offended and feelings will be hurt. We're very proud of our state, however more than just feelings will be hurt,' she said. During the games, seven Tasmanian athletes are representing their state. In another shocker, Tie Me Kanagroo Down was not what Australian athletes expected to hear while heading to the flag bearer's ceremony in Glasgow. There are reports a Scottish bus driver played the song by paedophile musician Rolf Harris' as he drove the Aussie athletes on Monday, reported News.com.au. The track was stopped shortly after it started and was featured on an Aussie hits CD bought by the driver and was the third song after Land Down Under and I'd Love to Have a Beer With Duncan. Cyclist Anna Meares was unveiled as Australia's flag bearer during the ceremony. Anna Meares was announced as the flag bearer for the opening ceremony, during the Australian Commonwealth Games official team reception on Monday . Another blunder for the Commonwealth Games was that two unidentified Australian athletes set to compete at the games could have missed their chance at taking gold after a blunder saw them entered in the wrong event. The unaware pair have not been told of the error because it 'has nothing to do with the athletes' said Australian Commonwealth Games Association Chief (ACGA) executive Perry Crosswhite, who is refusing to confirm the athletes' identity or sport. 'One athlete was entered in the wrong event and the other was not entered for an additional event they should have been in,' he said. He also said it was possible the athletes involved do not know the were caught up in the oversight. The mix up saw 48 athletes from eight countries granted special dispensation by the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) so they can take part in their events, reported News.com.au. Entry deadline was June 11 and a CFG statement stated the athletes' administrators were behind the bungle which meant the athletes were not entered could have resulted in them not competing in their events. 'It was never an issue. They were always going to be in. We just had to go through a process that didn’t come out until yesterday,' Crosswhite said. 'Absolutely there was a mistake. The ACGA made an entering mistake and we admitted it straight away and we made sure it was corrected.' | Tasmania has been left off the Australian Commonwealth Games women's swim team uniform .
The uniform has sparked outrage from passionate Tasmanians .
Senator Jacqui Lambie has hit out at the uniform on behalf of the state .
The uniform is the latest blunder to dog Australian athletes before the opening of the games . |
139,591 | 4083074e7d1e32b4c59e54d83dab977f3184e8e3 | (CNN) -- The drug is finally in Josh Hardy's system, but his father says his ailing son is still looking at a very tough road. Josh's parents got what they'd been praying for this week: a chance to get medicine that could help their 7-year-old son survive. The Chimerix pharmaceutical company said Tuesday that Josh would receive medicine that doctors hope will help him. He got his first dose of the drug, brincidofovir, on Wednesday. The company had previously denied calls from the family to give him the drug, arguing that spending the time to help Josh and others like him would slow efforts to get the drug on the market. The boy's story drew national attention as his parents and supporters pushed the company to change its mind, through online and media campaigns. "Josh has a long road to recovery," Todd Hardy, Josh's father, told CNN in an e-mail Thursday. He said his son has stopped getting worse -- that he was deteriorating last week and now he's not. Josh is expected to take the drug for at least 12 weeks. He still isn't taking any food or drink by mouth, and his 5-year-old brother, Jude, "is purposely torturing him by drinking carton after carton of chocolate milk that's available in the ICU break room," Hardy said. Josh's journey began when he was diagnosed with a rare form of kidney cancer at 9 months old. Over the years, cancer turned up in his thymus, lung and bone marrow, and each time Josh beat it. But a bone marrow transplant left Josh without much of an immune system, and in February doctors diagnosed him with an adenovirus that spread through his body. Now he's in critical condition in a Memphis, Tennessee, intensive care unit as the virus ravages his body. Josh is in heart and kidney failure. A Facebook page dedicated to the online campaign to help Josh get the medicine posted a photograph of the boy, along with the message: "Please pray that the drug is as effective in combating this virus as we hope." CNN's Dana Ford and Catherine E. Shoichet contributed to this report. | 7-year-old Josh Hardy receives a drug his family hopes will save his life .
Company officials had first denied his family's request for the medicine .
They were pressured online and reversed course .
The boy is expected to take the drug, brincidofovir, for at least 12 weeks . |
74,444 | d30dc021ff9c8970028456b8455c9b28c0ae75a0 | By . Kerry Mcqueeney . PUBLISHED: . 03:28 EST, 19 October 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 06:08 EST, 19 October 2012 . For passengers on the early morning commute, it certainly brightened up their journey. A woman boarded the subway rail network in Vienna wearing nothing but a pair of knee-high leather boots and a smile. Passengers were stunned when the nude . woman got on the Vienna U-Bahn near the Kardinal-Nagl-Platz station and . stood in the middle of the carriage for several stops. Passenger bare: The mysterious woman's appearance on the train has sparked an appeal to track her down . And she appeared to have no qualms . about posing for pictures when several commuters reached for their . cameras and started snapping away at the modern-day Lady Godiva. She got off the train a few stops later without saying a word. Staff on the Vienna U-Bahn have been studying CCTV images of the woman - who has been dubbed the Vienna Venus - and the Austrian media has launched an appeal to track her down, Heute reported. Her full-frontal picture has been . published in several Vienna newspapers which have asked readers to . identify the mystery passenger. Dressed in only a pair of knee-high boots, the woman seems happy to pose as commuters take pictures of her . One publication has even offered to . feature the woman in a photo shoot - provided she identifies herself and . reveals her reasons for doing it. According to the Austrian Times, a . witness said: 'I couldn't believe it when she stepped on the train and . when some people grabbed their mobile telephones and started taking . pictures she didn't object. 'In fact she even seemed to be posing for the camera.' While the woman's actions have surprised many, most seemed more concerned with the fact she chose to bare all during snowfall and freezing temperatures in Vienna. Vienna's public transit operators Wiener Linien told the Austrian Times: 'We know that everyone has a different perception of temperature. We do not believe that it so warm in our subways that you have to undress.' | Austrian media launch search for the mystery nude woman . |
106,230 | 15066aa2d7d9c41dcd0246c99ce18e93178b0233 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 16:01 EST, 5 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 16:08 EST, 5 November 2013 . A 10-year-old girl whose malnourished body was found stuffed in a suburban Atlanta trash bin had tried to run away from home and showed up at school with bruises and welts on her body, police reports show. Emani Moss' stepmother also had been charged with child cruelty after beating the girl, according to the reports from the Gwinnett County Police Department. Moss' burned and emaciated body was found in a trash bin in unincorporated Lawrenceville on Saturday, police have said. The girl's father, Eman Moss, and the stepmother, Tiffany Moss, have been charged with murder, concealing a body, and child cruelty, and were being held without bond in the Gwinnett County jail. It's unclear if they have attorneys. Horrific death: Both Eman (left) and Tiffany Moss have been charged with murder, cruelty to children in the first degree and concealing a body. Tiffany had previously been arrested for beating her boyfriend's daughter . Horrific: Police found the body inside this trash can and said that there was evidence that it had been burned . Authorities conducted an autopsy on . Emani on Sunday and determined that her body was burned after she was . dead, likely in an effort to conceal the crime, said Gwinnett County . Police Cpl. Jake Smith. Emani . may have died as early as October 30 and was severely underweight when . her body was found, Smith said. He said the autopsy showed the girl had . been denied food for several days before her death. On . March 19, 2010, then-6-year-old Emani told a school nurse she was . afraid to go home with her bad report card because she was afraid her . parents would hurt her, according to one of the police reports. When the nurse investigated further, she found the girl had bruises on her body and reported it to police. Police . took Emani and her stepmother to department headquarters for interviews . that day and said Emani had severe bruises and welts on her chest, . back, shoulders, arms and legs, the police report said. Burned to death: Emani Moss was found burned to death, her father (left) and stepmother (right) are each charged with murder - leaving loved ones shocked . Tiffany . Moss told police she only hit the girl with a belt three times, the . report said. She was arrested on a child-cruelty charge. The . Georgia Division of Family and Children Services signed a 2010 plea . deal ordering Tiffany Moss to serve five years of probation for beating . Emani, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Monday. In July 2012, Emani tried running away from home, the police reports show. The . girl's grandmother, Robin Moss, was quoted by local news media on . Sunday and Monday as saying that she suspected Emani was being abused, . but couldn't persuade state authorities to grant her custody. Emani's . mother, Danita Leaks, told Atlanta FOX affiliate WAGA-TV on Monday that . she and Eman Moss fought over custody for two to three years and she . was unaware that her daughter was being abused. Disturbing call: The girl's father, pictured, told police he was suicidal and that his daughter was dead after drinking a chemical . ‘If . I would have known that him and his wife were abusing my baby, I would . not have let her stay over there,’ she told the television station. Authorities . initially said Eman Moss called police early Saturday saying he was . suicidal and that his daughter died after drinking some type of chemical . substance. Smith said . Monday that the detail about Moss being suicidal was a miscommunication . during the 911 call and was later clarified with the dispatcher. Police said they won't release audio from the call because it's part of the investigation and could be used in court. | Eman and Tiffany Moss were both arrested and face several felony charges in the girl's death .
First told police that Emani, 10, swallowed chemicals .
Investigators concluded she had not been fed since October 24 and her body had been burned after being stuffed in a garbage can .
Police report now reveals Tiffany Moss was arrested for abusing Emani in 2010 after a school nurse noticed bruises and welts . |
184,531 | 7affa36f68ab6d8cae339013160aab36f0e77322 | SEATTLE, Washington (CNN) -- Raul Flores thought federal agents had barged with guns drawn into his home in Arivaca, Arizona, in the middle of the night. Shawna Forde, 41, denies involvement in the shooting deaths of an Arizona man and his daughter. The woman and two men wore uniforms and identified themselves as U.S. Marshals. They claimed the house was surrounded. They said they were looking for an escaped prisoner, Flores' wife told a 911 dispatcher. But there was no backup waiting outside, and no fugitive. The marshals were imposters. They had targeted Flores because they suspected he was a drug trafficker and they wanted to rob and kill him, according to the Pima County Sheriff's Department. As the intruders searched his home, Flores asked one of the men why his handgun was taped. The man responded by shooting and killing Flores. "Someone just came in and shot my daughter and husband," Flores' wife frantically told 911. She tells the police operator that she was shot and left for dead with her husband, Raul Flores, 29, and daughter Brisenia, 9, who were both shot in the head. Police are not releasing the woman's name to protect her identity. But her 911 call, released to the media by the Pima County Sheriff's Department, tells the story of a deadly home invasion by a rogue band of impostors. As she describes the initial attack, the intruders return to the house. The door can be heard opening. "They are coming back in! They are coming back in!" the caller screams. She has armed herself with her husband's handgun. "Get the f--- out," she barks. The order is followed by the explosive sound of gunfire traded as the wounded woman and her would-be killers fire on each other. A man -- one of the intruders -- is hit and groans loudly. The attackers retreat and leave the woman alive and alone with her slain family. Hear gunfire on the 911 call » . Twelve days later police have the "marshals" in custody on charges of first-degree murder, burglary and aggravated assault. Police identified the suspects as Shawna Forde, 41, of Buena Vista, Arizona; Jason Eugene Bush, 34, of Kingman, Arizona; and Albert Robert Gaxiola, 42, of Tucson, Arizona. As police put her into a car, Forde told reporters, "I did not do it." The Pima County public defender's office, which represents Forde, Bush and Gaxiola, did not return CNN's calls requesting comment. Authorities from five different police departments in three states are investigating crimes allegedly involving the trio. Forde's arrest has had even greater reverberations across a community of private citizens who believe the government is not adequately protecting the nation's borders. Forde was a one-time member of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, a citizens group whose self-described mission is to secure the U.S. border, before she started her own smaller border enforcement organization. The accusations against her have given more fuel to Minutemen critics who say the groups dangerously blur the lines between law enforcement and vigilantism. Forde was well known in anti-immigration circles. She ran a failed campaign for City Council in her hometown of Everett, Washington, that touted her connections to the Minutemen. She posted videos on YouTube of her border patrols and was an outspoken fixture at Minutemen Washington meetings and rallies in Washington state. But even among this gung-ho group of self-styled border warriors, Forde was extreme, both Minutemen members and their critics agreed. Washington human rights advocate Luis Moscoso said he had a run-in with Forde during a protest he attended at a 2007 Minutemen conference in Bellingham, Washington. While other Minutemen engaged in a dialogue, Moscoso remembered Forde shouting insults at the protesters. Moscoso later was shocked, he said, to find his photograph and address on Forde's Web site. "It wasn't a bull's-eye but it was close enough," he said. The Web site was taken down after the arrests, so CNN cannot independently confirm Moscoso's account. Eventually, Forde's tactics alienated even the most stalwart proponents of border security. "The screaming, hollering, calling names, we don't do that," said outgoing Washington state Minutemen president Joseph Ray. "She broke standard operating procedure too many times, she was too damn unreliable." The Minutemen kicked Forde out of their ranks in 2007, Ray said. Around the same time, police said, Forde became embroiled in several bizarre incidents that remain under investigation in Everett. Forde's then-husband was shot in the abdomen by an unknown male assailant at their home. The couple later divorced. Forde next said she was the victim of a sexual assault. Later, Forde was found wounded in an alley where she told police she had been shot in the arm by an attacker. Speaking to the media about the attacks, Forde said she was being targeted by Mexican drug cartels for her work guarding the border. According To Sgt. Robert Goetz, spokesman for the Everett Police Department, Forde's sister and mother told police something very different. They believed she invented or played a part in the violence against her and her family. Cast out from the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, Forde formed her own organization called the Minutemen American Defense. Chuck Stonex was a member. Despite "her cloudy reputation" in Minutemen circles, Stonex said, he and Forde got along well. Still, he said he noticed during an operation monitoring the border in Arizona with her in 2008 that Forde was well funded for the leader of a tiny group on the fringe of the Minutemen movement. "She always had a lot of cash," he said. Cash was what led Forde, Bush and Gaxiola to Raul Flores' house on May 30, 2009, said Dawn Barkman, a spokeswoman for the Pima County Sheriff. Flores had a reputation for involvement in the narcotics trade along the border, Barkman said, and Forde devised a plan to bluff her way into his home and rob and kill him to finance her border patrol group. According to Barkman, it was Forde's plan but Bush allegedly fired the fatal shots inside the Flores home. It was not Bush's first slaying, police say. After his arrest in the shooting of Raul Flores, police in Wenatchee, Washington, charged Bush with the fatal stabbing of Hector Manuel Lopez Partida. Homeless and traveling through Wenatchee, Lopez Partida was killed in 1997, stabbed seven times, apparently as he slept on the ground next to a grain silo. Police in Wenatchee found a blood-soaked shirt near where Lopez was killed. Eight years later, advances in forensics testing indicated that Bush's DNA was on the shirt, a police affidavit said. Bush has "long-standing ties to Aryan Nations groups," the affidavit said, and he allegedly bragged to an unidentified police informant about killing "a Mexican," saying he and another man "stomped" and "stabbed" the man and "left [him] to bleed out." After the shooting at Flores' home, the crime wave continued, police said. A couple who are friends of Forde's mother was robbed at gunpoint of their $12,000 inheritance by men pretending to be U.S. Marshals, said Sgt. John Hubbard of the Shasta County Sheriffs Department. The victims, Hubbard said, identified Bush as one of the gunmen. Hubbard said police believe Forde helped carry out the robbery. In the next town over, Hubbard said, the home belonging to Forde's brother was robbed on the same day. The alleged crime spree leaves Forde's former compatriots feeling exposed and under attack. Stonex said he last saw Forde and Bush right after the shootout at the Flores home. Stonex helped patch a bullet wound to Bush's calf. "They said they were jumped by border bandits," he said. He said had he known about their alleged killing of Flores and his daughter, Stonex would never have had anything to do with Forde. Now, he said, he and other Minutemen have been forced to cancel border patrol operations and wait for the scrutiny to die down. "It's given us a lot of grief," said Stonex, "I'd build her gallows if I could." | Woman, two men allegedly posed as federal agents in home invasion .
Arizona man targeted because trio thought he was a drug dealer, police say .
Raul Flores, daughter, 9, shot dead; wire calls 911 .
Among trio of suspects are woman with ties to Minutemen groups . |
221,562 | aacd375df4c157098892edb99fca188fb5baef42 | (CNN) -- A man dressed as a priest caught at Amsterdam's airport with three kilos of cocaine under his vestments claimed to police that his packages contained "holy sand", Dutch police said. Security officials conducting a normal security check at Schiphol airport last year. Police stopped the man at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport as he was transiting on a flight from South America, Robert Van Aapel, a spokesman for the Dutch Royal Military Police told CNN by phone Saturday. "He refused to be searched saying that he was a religious person and it was not allowed," Van Aapel said. "However, this is normal procedure so our officers insisted. They asked him again and after the second time they carried out the search and discovered the man had packs strapped to his legs below his priest's clothes. He told us they contained holy sand," he said. He said the man, who is aged around 40 and a Bolivian national, was arrested Thursday after arriving in to the airport on a flight from Lima, Peru. He was attempting to transit on a flight to Milan when he was apprehended with the cocaine, worth around €105,000 ($155,000). The Bolivian appeared in court Friday on charges of drug smuggling, Van Aapel said. Dutch police are trying to establish if the man is a real priest after he claimed to be a senior member of the clergy in the Bolivian capital La Paz, he added. E-mail to a friend . | Police: Man stopped at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport dressed as a priest .
Initially refused to be searched, saying that he was a religious person .
Found to have $155,000 worth of cocaine strapped to his legs under his vestments .
Officers trying to establish whether the man, on flight from Peru, is a priest . |
266,922 | e5bb5096831c858ec287dbd30fd52cc73489aef1 | A longtime friend who visited To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee the day before the world learned she would release a sequel says she seemed perfectly sound of mind. Historian Wayne Flynt said communicating with Lee often involves shouting so she can hear. But he dismissed theories that Lee is senile and was manipulated into publishing the decades-old manuscript. 'As late as yesterday, she was quite lucid, because I was there talking with her,' Flynt told AL.com of the woman he calls Nelle, which is her first name. Scroll down for video . 'I'm happy as hell': Harper Lee's publisher has released a statement slamming claims she has been coerced into publishing Go Set A Watchman, the sequel to To Kill A Mockingbird, 60 years after it was written . He said the 88-year-old discusses the books of C.S. Lewis, reads with a magnifying machine and can crack jokes. Flynt visited with Lee on Monday at the assisted living facility where she lives in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. That was a day before HarperCollins Publishers announced the publication of 'Go Set a Watchman.' Flynt said Lee did not mention the new book during the visit. 'I didn't know a thing about it. I don't think any of her closest friends, and I know most of them, knew about it either,' he told AL.com. His words comes as Harper Lee's biographer, who suggested the novelist had been coerced into releasing a To Kill A Mockingbird sequel, changed his mind. Charles J Shields was among a throng of literary figures to suggest the reclusive 88-year-old may not have the capacity to make the decision herself. But after Lee released a statement on Thursday to say she is 'happy as hell' about the release, Shields told DailyMail.com he has backed down. However, doubts remain as a number of Lee's hometown friends maintain the novelist, who has been left blind after suffering a stroke, was 'manipulated'. Explaining his u-turn, Shields told DailyMail.com: 'You know what, I've decided I'm happy as hell too now. 'I believe that statement was genuine and, really, this can only be a good thing for the industry.' Shields initially said Lee was vulnerable to manipulation after her sister and lawyer, Alice Lee, died. Unaware? Harper Lee, pictured with Gregory Peck, who starred in the movie version of To Kill A Mockingbird, allegedly did not know the manuscript for her original version - Go Set A Watchman - survived 60 years . Alice, who died in November 2014 at the age of 103, was 'Harper Lee's buffer against the publicity hungry world,' he told the International Business Times. However, he told DailyMail.com: 'I expressed concerns about the book, the process, and the fact that it is unedited. 'But this is good news for booksellers. I hope we will all be reading the same book this summer and I hope it is Go Set A Watchman. 'At the end of the day, people are really looking forward to another story about Scout, and so am I.' Addressing his fellow critics, Shields said: 'I think the tide is turning.' However, that sea change has yet to reach Monroeville, where Lee grew up. Janet Sawyer, owner of the Courthouse Café and childhood friend of the Lee sisters, told AL.com: 'I don't think she agreed to do it. I think it's her attorney being greedy, because Ms. Lee was a very private person who didn't like a lot of publicity. 'She had a stroke several years ago and her mind is not in a condition to make these decisions, I don't think, personally. 'Tonja Carter [Lee's attorney] doesn't allow her to see her friends anymore. She's isolated her from the world in order to manipulate her.' Best-seller: After the publication of To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee did not publish again . Lee previously said she had not realized the manuscript of her new book had survived and that she was 'humbled and amazed' it was going to be published now. Adding to the outcry, Marja Mills, a friend of the Lee family and author of a Harper Lee memoir, told the New York Times: 'I have some concerns about statements that have been attributed to her.' She said Alice Lee, told her that Harper 'can't see and can't hear and will sign anything put before her by anyone in whom she has confidence.' Furthermore, publisher Jonathan Burnham acknowledged that the publisher has had no direct conversations about the new book with Harper Lee, but communicated through her Monroeville attorney, Tonja Carter, and literary agent Andrew Nurnburg. However, slamming the allegations of coercion, a spokesman for the publishing house claims Lee said: 'I'm alive and kicking and happy as hell with the reactions to Watchman.' The novel, called Go Set A Watchman, was written before To Kill A Mockingbird but was rejected by publishers who set her to work on the novel that made her famous. To Kill A Mockingbird, set around a rape trial in the racially-divided Deep South of the US, has sold more than 40 million copies since it was published in 1960. Its central characters, Scout, her brother Jem and their lawyer father Atticus, were brought to life in a 1962 film starring Gregory Peck. The new book revolves around the now-adult Scout's return to her native Alabama from New York to visit her father. A spokesman for her publisher said: 'Harper Lee still enjoys reading and uses a magnifying machine from the New York Institute for the Blind to read books, newspapers and documents.' Go Set A Watchman will be published on July 14 by William Heinemann, which was the original UK publisher of To Kill A Mockingbird. The publisher says Carter came upon the manuscript at a 'secure location where it had been affixed to an original typescript of To Kill a Mockingbird. Burnham said during a telephone interview that he had known both Carter and Nurnburg for years and was 'completely confident' Lee was fully involved in the decision to release the book. 'We've had a great deal of communication with Andrew and Tonja,' said Burnham, adding that Nurnburg had met with her recently and found her 'feisty and in very fine spirits. | Publisher claims Harper Lee 'said she is happy as hell' about new book .
Sequel to her only novel To Kill A Mockingbird will be released this year .
Biographer initially said Lee was manipulated but now supports her .
Friend who visited her said she 'seemed lucid'
He told DailyMail.com: 'I'm happy as hell too now, I'm looking forward to it'
But friend of the family says Lee is 'blind' and 'would sign anything'
Go Set A Watchman was written before Lee penned her masterpiece . |
69,028 | c3bdbd69893c7f41e61615cde3f78187a066571e | By . Luke Augustus . Follow @@Luke_Augustus29 . Ricardo Carvalho believes Real Madrid would have the most feared attack in football if Falcao were to join Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale to the Spanish capital next season. The Colombia striker, a firm favourite of Real president Florentino Perez, was a talismanic figure at cross-city rivals Atletico prior to his move to Monaco last summer. Reports in Spain suggest that the forward, who is currently watching his country star in the World Cup from the sidelines as he recovers from a cruciate ligament injury, is in negotiations with a move to boss Carlo Ancelotti's side. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Rumoured Madrid target Falcao trains alone on the beach . Missing piece: Ricardo Carvalho says Real Madrid would have the most feared attack in football if Falcao joins . Spot on: Carvalho (right) has hailed Falcao professionalism during their time together at Monaco . Speaking to Madrid-based paper AS, former Real defender Carvalho thinks the addition of the 28-year-old is the missing piece to making the Champions League winners an irresistible force next season. The pair are currently team-mates at Monaco with Falcao's professionalism impressing the 36-year-old last campaign. 'Everyone knows Cristiano Ronaldo is the best player in the world and also the best professional,' Carvalho said. 'In terms of professionalism, Falcao is the player who is closest. He will have a very long career because he takes so much care. 'Cristiano, Gareth Bale and Falcao would be the most feared three-man attack in football history. But it’s better [for Monaco] that Falcao stays. 'I think Falcao is the missing piece to make the Madrid attack perfect. Cristiano is the best player in the world, Bale is very good and Falcao is the best striker there is. I’m a defender and I wouldn’t want to face them!' Dynamic duo: Gareth Bale (left) and Cristiano Ronaldo (right) were pivotal in Real's Champions League success . VIDEO Ronaldo in devastating form . | Ricardo Carvalho believes Real Madrid would have the most feared attack in history if Falcao joins Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale at Real Madrid .
Falcao is reportedly in negotiations with a move to the Spanish giants .
Carvalho and Falcao are currently team-mates at French side Monaco . |
202,038 | 918e165bc0ff3a4dff472b58aa49ea50868fc34a | By . Associated Press . Jurors in Cheyenne are set to begin deliberating in the trial of a 75-year-old Missouri woman accused of killing her husband in Wyoming in the mid-1970s. Alice Uden, of Chadwick, Missouri, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Ronald Holtz. Jurors heard closing arguments Tuesday and the judge dismissed them for the day after they got the case Tuesday evening. Actions of the past: Alice Uden listens to the judge during jury selection last week. Uden faces one count of first-degree murder for allegedly killing her husband nearly 40 years ago. The jury are about to begin their deliberation . Prosecutors allege Alice Uden, 75, and husband Gerald Uden, 71, each murdered their spouses before later marrying each other, though the cases have not been officially linked . Uden testified she shot her 24-year-old husband at their Cheyenne home to stop Holtz as he was set to attack her 2-year-old daughter. Prosecutors say Uden shot her husband as he slept. Uden met Holtz when she was a nurse at a Veterans Administration hospital in Sheridan, and Holtz, who'd been a helicopter gunner in Vietnam, was a psychiatric patient. Uden's attorneys say Holtz became abusive soon after they married in September 1974, and Uden shot him in the back of the head when he was about to attack the little girl. Last week, prosecutors called Uden's . daughter, Theresa Twyford, 55, of Naples, Illinois, to testify. Twyford . said Friday her mother once told her, too, she shot Holtz as he slept. The 'matter of fact' conversation happened in Illinois, she said, where Twyford was living at . the time in the 1970s. Both she and her mother had been drinking, she . said. Reagan Uden, 10, left, and Richard Uden, 11, right, were shot in the back of the head by their stepfather Gerald Uden. He is now serving life in prison for their murders . Last fall, authorities arrested Alice Uden and her fourth and current husband, Gerald Uden, 71, in Missouri. Gerald . Uden subsequently pleaded guilty and is serving life in prison for . killing his ex-wife and her two children in central Wyoming in 1980, . however investigators haven't linked the two cases. Mr Uden's ex-wife Virginia Uden, 32, and her two sons, Richard, 11, and Reagan, 10, went missing in September 1980. A couple of months later, sheriff's deputies found the family's Ford station wagon, with blood stains in it, abandoned off the side of a mountain road. Uden told a courtroom in Lander he shot the three with a .22-caliber rifle before dumping their bodies first in an abandoned mine, then in Fremont Lake north of Pinedale in western Wyoming. Investigators spent a couple of days searching the 600-foot-deep lake last fall before calling off the search for the winter. The search for the bodies remains suspended. He is serving a life sentence, the same penalty Mrs (Alice) Uden could face. | Alice Uden, 74, and her husband Gerald Uden, 71, were both arrested at their home in Missouri and charged with murder last fall .
Authorities believe Mrs Uden killed her then husband Ronald Holtz in 1974 in Wyoming and hid his body in a mine .
She claims the killing was in self-defence after he threatened to kill their daughter .
Her current husband, Gerald Uden is now serving a life sentence for killing his own wife Virginia Uden and her sons in 1980 .
Gerald Uden shot them in the back of the head, put their bodies in oil drums and dumped them in a lake .
During the trial, their daughter Erica Hayes, 41, described her horror over her parents dark secrets but said 'they're still the people I love'
Their son, Todd Scott, 53, told the court his mother confessed to the murder in the 1970s . |
9,592 | 1b281d4630a5f53acbdf0add94372b0dbf52ccac | By . Damien Gayle . PUBLISHED: . 07:33 EST, 11 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:44 EST, 11 January 2013 . Archaeologists have uncovered treasure buried by the desperate citizens of a town under siege by the Roman army some 2,000 years ago. Hundreds of bronze coins, and various items of gold, silver and bronze jewellery were found beneath an ancient fortress in the Crimean settlement of Artezia, in modern day Ukraine. Researchers believe the loot was hurriedly buried by wealthy people sheltering from the attacking Roman legions who were backing one side in a civil war. Buried for 2,000 years: Archaeologists have uncovered hoards of buried treasure hidden beneath a Black Sea fortress by residents who were facing the might of Rome's legions during a destructive civil war . 'The fortress had been besieged. Wealthy people from the settlement and the neighborhood had tried to hide there from the Romans,' said Nikolaï Vinokurov, a professor at Moscow State Pedagogical University. 'They had buried their hoards inside the citadel.' As the Romans highly trained and well equipped soldiers attacked people huddled in the citadel for protection, however Professor Vinokoruv told LiveScience they knew they would not survive. At the time of the siege and fall of the fortress in 45AD, Artezian was a part of the Bosporous Kingdom where a rivalry was playing out between two brothers for political control. The elder, Mithridates VIII, wanted to win independence from the Roman Empire, while his younger brother Cotys wanted to keep the kingdom as a client state. Roman soldiers soon arrived to support Cotys' claims to the throne. They established his regime in the Bosporan capital and torched settlements controlled by his brother, including Artezian. Hellenistic culture: These two rings are engraved with the images of Greek gods. The people of the region borrowed many aspects of their culture from Greek colonists who had established outposts in the are hundreds of years before . A silver brooch depicts Aphrodite, goddess of love: Centuries earlier, at the height of classical Greek culture, sailors had navigated the Black Sea and created colonies to the east, intermarrying with the locals . Professor Vinokurov's team have been recruiting volunteers to study the town since 1989. It covered an area of at least 3.2 acrea, including a necropolis where many finds have been made. Archaeologists' work in the area has revealed that the people of Artezian followed a culture that was distinctly Hellenistic. Professor Vinokurov said that although the ethnicity of Artezian's residents was mixed, 'their culture was pure Greek. They spoke Greek language, had Greek school; the architecture and fortification were Greek as well. 'They were Hellenes by culture but not that pure by blood.' Write caption here . Ancient decorated spindles were also found on site: The Romans arrived in support of Cotys I, a usurper to the throne of the Kingdom of Bosporous, who asked for their help with deposing his older brother . Centuries earlier, at the height of classical Greek culture, sailors had navigated the Black Sea and created colonies to the east, intermarrying with the locals. Their customs and crafts seem to have endured through the intervening years despite being practised nearly 600 miles from Greece itself. This influence can be seen in the treasures the people of Artezia concealed as they waited for the final assault from their Roman enemies. Among the finds is a silver brooch engraved with an image of Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love, as well as gold rings set with gems on which are engraved images of Nemesis and Tyche, both also Greek deities. Dig: Nikolaï Vinokurov, a professor at Moscow State Pedagogical University, has been leading expeditions to the Artezian site for archaeologists and volunteers since 1987 . Peeling back the past: The fortress at Artezian was torched by the Romans in 45AD, then later rebuilt - but it's treasure remained undiscovered until now . Excavations of other portions of the site, which was razed to the ground by the attacking army, have revealed further evidence that the people of Artezia had a Greek culture. 'In the burnt level of the early citadel, many fragmentary small terra cotta figures were found depicting Demeter, Cora, Cybele, Aphrodite with a dolphin, Psyche and Eros, a maiden with gifts, Hermes, Attis, foot soldiers and warriors on horseback, semi-naked youths,' the researchers wrote in their paper, published this month in the journal Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia. The town was later rebuilt by Cotys I, who successfully managed to dispatch his brother with Roman help, but the treasures of its earlier inhabitants have remained untouched until now. | Hundreds of bronze coins and various items of gold, silver and bronze jewellery uncovered at site of Artezian in modern-day Ukraine .
2,000 years ago there stood a fortress there where residents of the area made an ill-fated last stand against invading Roman legions .
Research shows the people of Artezian had a culture derived from the Ancient Greeks and worshipped many of the same deities . |
126,168 | 2f14f1465b4354687ebddeba787a59d202fc4f6e | By . Anthony Bond . Britain's Paralympic team have yet another medal to add to their record-breaking haul after cyclist David Stone took gold this morning. The 30-year-old successfully defended his Paralympic Games title with victory in the mixed T1-2 road race at Brands Hatch. He was left disappointed with bronze on Wednesday after relinquishing his time-trial title. But Stone, who has cerebral palsy and rides a tricycle, bounced back in the 24-kilometre road race to win his third Paralympic gold medal, seven seconds ahead of Italy's Giorgio Farroni. Hero: Britain's Paralympic team have yet another medal to add to their record-breaking haul after cyclist David Stone took gold this morning . Success: Stone celebrates after his stunning victory . Winner: The 30-year-old successfully defended his Paralympic Games title with victory in the mixed T1-2 road race at Brands Hatch today. He is pictured crossing the finish line . David Vondracek of the Czech Republic was three minutes 17 seconds behind in third. Great Britain's Paralympians go into the . final weekend of a stunning games having won a record number of medals . in front of packed-out stadiums and unprecedented TV audiences. Swimming superstar Ellie Simmonds enters the pool later to cap what has been a memorable games for her, as she goes for her third gold in the 100m freestyle. The teenager has been one of the . standout performers of the games and has won the nation's hearts on her . way to wins in the 200m and 400m, as well as bronze in the 50m event. Champion: Stone, who has cerebral palsy and rides a tricycle, won his third Paralympic gold medal in the 24-kilometre road race . Competition: Stone, left, tracks Italy's Giorgio Farroni on his way to victory in the Mixed T 1-2 Road Race at Brands Hatch . She will aim to go one better than the . two golds she bagged at Beijing - which she won aged just 13 - as she . performs in the aquatics centre for the final time. Competitor: David Stone is pictured with his bronze medal which he won in the Mixed T 1-2 Time Trial on Wednesday . Oscar Pistorius, beaten by GB's Jonnie Peacock in a thrilling 100m final on Thursday, will provide the final showpiece as he competes in the 400m this evening. His appearance will be the final race in the stadium, which has seen some incredible performances over the last nine days. The . South African prompted a fierce debate after criticising the length of . Alan Oliveira's blades during his 200m defeat on Sunday. He . tweeted yesterday: 'Looking forward to stepping out tonight and . tomorrow for my last and favourite event, The Quarter-400m! The Final . event of London 2012.' The British gold rush is expected to continue tomorrow as David Weir competes in the London wheelchair marathon. Weir, . 33, known as The Weirwolf of London, won the 800m gold in a sensational . performance on Thursday as the raucous crowd sang along to his . trademark song Werewolves Of London. Fans will again be howling with delight as they line the city's streets to cheer him on to a quadruple gold crown. Peacock, 19, elevated himself to greatness after flying to victory in the 100m final. Channel . 4 said a record audience of more than six million tuned in to watch the . athlete's win - the biggest of the Paralympics so far. Going for gold: Swimming superstar Ellie Simmonds enters the pool later as she goes for her third gold in the 100m freestyle . Simmonds broke her own world record - which she set in the qualifiers - to take gold number two . It . smashed the previous highest for a live event, which was 4.4 million . for Sunday's 200m race in which Pistorius lost to Brazilian Alan . Oliveira. Josie Pearson, 26, yesterday won Britain's 32nd of the games in the discus final. The . Bristol-born athlete was just 17 and a promising showjumper when in . 2003 she was left paralysed in a car crash that broke her vertebrae. Tomorrow . a dramatic closing ceremony will bring the curtain down on what has . undoubtedly been one of the most successful Paralympics ever. Stars including Jay-Z and Rihanna will appear at the event, which has been shrouded in mystery. Coldplay are also set to perform at the ceremony, which is sold out and expected to be watched by millions world-wide. British stars of the Olympics and Paralympics will them celebrate their summer of success during a victory parade through the streets of London on Monday. | The 30-year-old successfully defended his Paralympic Games title with victory in the mixed T1-2 road race at Brands Hatch .
He was left disappointed with bronze on Wednesday after relinquishing his time-trial title .
But Stone - who has cerebral palsy and .
rides a tricycle - bounced back in the 24-kilometre road race to win his .
third Paralympic gold medal .
Great Britain's Paralympians go into the .
final weekend of a stunning games having won a record number of medals .
in front of packed-out stadiums . |
167,473 | 6499933963e54881df7297c2eda4af92216c6f97 | By . Damien Gayle . AT&T is in talks to swallow up DirectTV in a deal that could be worth close to $50billion, sources have revealed. The telecoms giant is said to be discussing an offer in the low- to mid-$90s per share for DirectTV, a satellite TV provider, which closed trading at $87.16 yesterday. A bid near $95 per share would value DirecTV at more than $48billion - a premium of more than 20 percent to its stock price before news of AT&T's interest first emerged on May 1. Predator: The AT&T logo on the facade of Whitacre Tower, the AT&T global headquarters building at One AT&T Plaza in Dallas, Texas. The firm is said to be in talks for a $50billion takeover of satellite TV firm DirectTV . The talks are the latest sign of a rising tide of potential megadeals in the telecoms, cable and satellite TV space, including Comcast's proposed $45billion takeover of Time Warner Cable. A tie-up between AT&T and DirectTV firm would create a pay TV behemoth close in size to a combined Comcast and Time Warner, which means the proposed merger could run into trouble with competition regulators. The consolidations come as television and other media industries face an uncertain future. Web-based TV and mobile internet are changing the way audiences consume products and slashing advertising revenue. AT&T, based in Dallas, Texas, is the second-largest provider of mobile communications and the largest provider of fixed telephone lines in the U.S. It is the the 20th-largest mobile telecom operator in the world, with over 250 million mobile customers. Its takeover target DirectTV broadcasts by satellite to nearly 20million U.S. customers and a nearly 10million across Latin America. A deal price has yet to be finalised and terms could still change, two sources told Reuters, adding that discussions are continuing. They asked not to be named because the matter is not public. Other details also have yet to be worked out, such as a break-up fee as well as a potential role for DirecTV Chief Executive Officer Mike White, the second person said. AT&T and DirecTV declined to comment. Bloomberg News earlier reported that AT&T was offering to pay around $100 per share for DirecTV, whose management team will continue to run the company as a unit of AT&T. On the up: DirectTV's share price has soared since news of AT&T's takeover bid first emerged on May 1 . The Wall Street Journal said a deal could happen in two weeks. DirecTV shares rose 6 per cent to $92.50 in extended trading on Monday. DirecTV is working with advisers including Goldman Sachs to evaluate a possible combination following a recent takeover approach from AT&T, Reuters reported last week. ReconAnalytics analyst Roger Entner said the time appeared to be right for an AT&T-DirectTV tie up, which could help both firms navigate the increasingly uncertain media landscape. 'This is not the first time that AT&T and DirecTV have danced around the fire and thought if they could give it a go,' he said. 'They both looked at each other for at least 10 years. Both kind of came to the conclusion that it was in the right environment. It makes a lot of sense to get together, but there was never the right regulatory environment for it.' A Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger would call for a counterweight like a combined AT&T-DirecTV, said Mr Entner. He added that the merger would make sense for DirecTV given the decline of satellite TV. 'They both see the Grim Reaper at the horizon. DirecTV hasn't gone out and bought spectrum. Dish has, so DirecTV needs to find a partner, and AT&T is that partner.' Some investors have also speculated about a potential tie-up of DirectTV and smaller rival Dish Network Corp. Dish Chairman Charlie Egan last week said his company, which attempted to buy DirecTV more than a decade ago, would not make a fresh approach at current prices even though he said such a tie-up would create many benefits. | Telecoms company said to be offering low- to mid-$90s per share in DirectTV .
Tie up would create pay-TV giant that might worry competition regulators .
Comes as merger discussed between Comcast and Time Warner Cable . |
97,436 | 0967614a921f21bbfa69136e80bcdf005bf9badf | By . Victoria Woollaston . PUBLISHED: . 10:39 EST, 30 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 11:57 EST, 30 January 2014 . Rumours about a Facebook news reader app have been circulating for years, and now they've not only come true, they could spell the end of the Facebook app as we know it. Paper is a news curation and reader app that pulls in stories, photos, videos and links from the user's Facebook feed - alongside Facebook's own notification bar and action buttons. All stories are displayed on a customisable picture-led grid, and the app has been designed to make it easier to share content with other people. Scroll down for video . Facebook Paper, pictured, is the first product to launch from the California firm's Creative Labs project. It's a news curation app that pulls in stories, photos and videos from a user's Facebook news feed. It additionally comes with Facebook's own notification bar and action buttons. The app is set to launch on 3 February . Facebook has a history of developing separate apps for new features, such as the Facebook Messenger and Camera apps. Like Paper, these apps linked with the original Facebook app but had their own set of features. Facebook Messenger lets people chat while using other apps, for example. Paper, on the other hand, includes many of Facebook's existing features. Users can also browse content and read stories from partner publications, as well as customise which categories they see. Paper is set to launch in the U.S. on 3 February. The app looks similar to news reader rivals Flipboard and Google Currents. Each section has a main screen with a cover photo at the top, and a row of content along the bottom. Users can scroll left and right from the main screen through these content cards to see new stories, photos, videos, and so on. Alternatively, with Paper, users can select a story to see it in fullscreen mode. The traditional Facebook notification . bar is shown in the top right-hand corner of the screen - including . friend requests, messages and other notifications. Each section on the Facebook paper app has a main screen with a cover photo at the top, and a row of content along the bottom, pictured left. Users can scroll left and right from the main screen through these content cards to see new stories, photos, videos and so on. These sections are all customisable, pictured right . The app looks similar to news reader Flipboard, pictured, as well as Google Currents. Paper users can browse content and read stories from partner Facebook publications, as well as customise categories . Facebook has a history of developing separate apps for new features, such as Facebook Messenger, pictured here being used with Instagram . When viewing individual stories, Facebook actions buttons are shown in the bottom left-hand corner, including like, comment and share. Similarly, users can post straight to Facebook from the Paper app - making the original Facebook app, in theory, redundant. All sections are customisable and users can change the cover photo, as well as the name of sections and the layout. When viewing content from select publications, users can filter by category and choose their favourite news outlets. Yet unlike other news reader and RSS apps, Facebook Paper will not let people add their own links. Paper is the first app to be developed in Facebook's Creative Labs that was set up last year. Facebook has a history of developing separate apps for new features, such as the Facebook Messenger and Camera apps. Like Paper, these apps linked with the original Facebook app but had their own set of features. Facebook Messenger lets people chat while using other apps, for example. Paper, on the other hand, includes many of Facebook's existing features. | Facebook Paper is a news curation app that will launch on 3 February .
It pulls in news stories, photos and videos from a Facebook news feed .
All stories are displayed on a customisable picture-led grid .
Users can also read stories by browsing content from partner publications .
It additionally includes many features found on the Facebook app - making the original somewhat redundant . |
167,648 | 64cee409772c537edef5aee20dfeec95c6b20a70 | (CNN) -- The Canadian government hopes to overturn a decision granting refugee status to a white South African who says he would face persecution at home, a spokesman for Canada's immigration minister said Friday. The Immigration and Refugee Board recently granted refugee status to Brandon Huntley, 31, a South African native who has been living illegally in Canada. The board decided to let him live and work legally in Canada after Huntley argued he had been the victim of racial violence and discrimination in South Africa. The board operates independently of the Canadian government. The ruling African National Congress in South Africa blasted the decision as racist and said it would "only serve to perpetuate racism." Watch how the South African government has condemned the ruling » . Now the Canadian government plans to ask federal courts to overturn the decision, said Alykhan Velshi, a spokesman for Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney. "It's important to stress that this isn't the minister's decision nor that of the government," Velshi said in a statement Friday. "It was a decision taken by the quasi-judicial, independent Immigration and Refugee Board. I will leave it to them to defend the quality of their decisions." He declined further comment "because the matter is now before the courts." A spokesman for the Immigration and Refugee Board earlier also had declined to comment on the grounds that refugee claims are confidential. However, a member of the board's Refugee Protection Division, William Davis, has written in The Toronto Star that the board found that Huntley's case demonstrated "a picture of indifference and inability or unwillingness" by South Africa to protect "white South Africans from persecution by African South Africans." About 79 percent of South Africans are black; 9.6 percent are white. Huntley's attorney, Russell Kaplan, said his client had been attacked seven times by black South Africans who called him a "settler" and a "white dog." "In each instance, there were racially motivated remarks that were made -- that's what distinguishes this case from ordinary criminality," Kaplan said. The African National Congress has a different view. "We find the claim by Huntley to have been attacked seven times by Africans due to his skin color -- without any police intervention -- sensational and alarming," the ANC said in a statement this week. Kaplan is a human rights lawyer in Canada who left South Africa 20 years ago to escape the apartheid government's discrimination against black South Africans. "Twenty years later, we have this case that involves the exact opposite," he said this week. Newspaper clippings were presented as evidence of life in South Africa during the August 18 hearing, South Africa's The Times reported. Kaplan's sister, who came to Canada last year, testified about "the torture and murder" of their brother, who was killed by robbers in 1997, the newspaper reported. The ANC said the current government under President Jacob Zuma is committed to fighting crime "regardless of color or creed." The South African government would have preferred Canada seek its view "before such a decision was made," South African Foreign Affairs spokesman Ronnie Mamoepa told The Times. "Quite clearly, the allegations are as preposterous as they are laughable -- which they would be if they were not serious," he told the newspaper. | Brandon Huntley says he faced racial violence and discrimination in South Africa .
Canadian immigration board recently granted refugee status to Huntley .
South African government blasted decision as racist .
Canadian government asks courts to overturn independent board's decision . |
191,509 | 84009258aa79236e18af3205a8440def43f74f59 | Louis van Gaal has admitted he does not have the final say on who Manchester United buy before the transfer window closes on Monday night. United have spent £132million so far this summer so far but still need key additions after making a woeful start under the Dutchman. The Red Devils are linked with a number of high-profile targets, including Arturo Vidal from Juventus and Ajax's Daley Blind, but Van Gaal will have no say in who arrives with chief executive Ed Woodward firmly in charge. Scroll down for videos... Silent partner? Louis van Gaal (left) revealed he plays no part in Manchester United's transfer discussions . Two up front: United strikers Wayne Rooney (left) and Robin van Persie (centre) speak to their manager . Smiling assassins: Angel di Maria (left) and Van Persie will be hoping to get United's first win of the season . Changing faces? Manchester United's squad could look very different after the close of the transfer window . Training day: (left-right) Tyler Blackett, Di Maria and Juan Mata are put through their paces . He told the Manchester Evening News: 'I don't know about transfers between now and Monday because I am not the one who can choose. 'I give my opinion and the player can do what he wants with that opinion. 'Of course I shall say which players I want and which are better to leave and Ed (Woodward) is doing the transfer market. I don't interfere in that process.' United's £60million man Angel di Maria is set to play against Burnley on Saturday but fellow new signing Marcos Rojo will not feature because of work permit problems. On Di Maria Van Gaal said: 'He is ready to play'. But he was more circumspect when talking about Rojo, saying: 'It's only a matter of time. I'm manager of the biggest club in the world, but I can't change the law in Argentina! 'We have to obey the law.' One in one out? Angel di Maria (R) has arrived while Danny Welbeck (L) has been linked with a move away . Great Scot: United vice captain Darren Fletcher (L) leads players during a training session at Carrington . New bow: Angel di Maria speaks with Juan Mata (L) and David de Gea (R) ahead of the game against Burnley . Coach trip: Louis van Gaal (R) speaks to his assistants, including Ryan Giggs (2L), at training . It can only get better! Ashley Young (L) and Wayne Rooney appear in good spirits despite United's slow start . It’s not too late to play MailOnline Fantasy Football… There’s £1,000 to be won EVERY WEEK by the highest scoring manager . CLICK HERE to start picking your Fantasy Football team NOW! There’s £60,000 in prizes including £1,000 up for grabs EVERY WEEK… . Main man: Chief executive Ed Woodward, pictured signing Angel di Maria, conducts transfer negotiations . Feeling Chile? United have been linked with a big money move for Juventus midfielder Arturo Vidal (2L) Going Dutch? Holland and Ajax utility player Daley Blind has been also linked with a move to Old Trafford . Incoming: Luke Shaw (L) and Ander Herrera (R) were signed early in the summer transfer window . | Louis van Gaal does not decide which players Manchester United sign .
Transfer negotiations are left up to chief executive Ed Woodward .
Red Devils have brought in Ander Herrera, Luke Shaw and Angel di Maria .
Arturo Vidal and Daley Blind have also been linked with move to Old Trafford .
Premier League transfer window closes on Monday September 1 .
Louis van Gaal is chasing a first competitive win when United face Burnley . |
163,756 | 5fc7671c9f6a3db0084c995612984b3be21ad492 | (CNN) -- A recent, widely discussed column in Slate rekindled an old debate about women, drinking and rape. It argued that young women should not become intoxicated because studies have shown that drinking, and the incoherence it produces, can lead to rape. Last week, in an article in USA Today law enforcement officials identified alcohol as "the No. 1 date rape drug," and health care providers urged women not to conduct themselves in ways that increase the likelihood of sexual assault. The conclusion that these articles draw from studies and health professionals show just how far we have not come in understanding the inextricable link between power, violence, misogyny and rape culture. Indeed, some who have contributed to this dialogue have come perilously close to blaming the victims of rape for their own attack. In The Daily Campus, Southern Methodist University's student-run newspaper, student Kirby Wiley last week, argued that "If the media would focus more attention on the fact that the majority of the women who are sexually assaulted are intoxicated, as opposed to stating and restating how horrible the perpetrator is, then maybe young women would start to listen." SMU student op-ed links drinking irresponsibly with rape . Focus more attention on the drinking habits of women than on the viciousness of rapists? As Jasmine Lester -- the founder of Arizona State University's Sun Devils Against Sexual Assault, a group that aims to cut sexual violence -- recently told me, "rapists are rapists, regardless, and it's dangerous to focus on telling potential victims what not to do rather than focusing on punishments for rapists." Warning women about heavy drinking places the burden of not being sexually assaulted squarely on the shoulders of victims, and when they are raped this twisted dynamic often leads them to blame themselves for their own mauling. This is particularly disturbing because there is no female behavioral pattern that will thwart an assailant who is determined to harm them. The bottom line is that the victims of rape should not be expected to have forestalled their attack, and are never to blame for it, even if they are a drunken "hot messes" at the afterparty. My mother and other feminist mentors taught me at a young age that rape is about power, control and the more widespread problems embedded in our enduringly misogynistic society. Many men believe that women, as allegedly weaker people, should be conquered, and that rape is merely an assertion of inherent masculinist supremacy. Many men simply do not subscribe to women's historian Gerda Lerner's "radical notion that women are," in fact, "human beings." We need to look no further for evidence of this than the Steubenville, Ohio, incident in 2012 in which a teenage girl was sexually assaulted, was dehumanized, and then blamed and vilified by some in her community and beyond, while others appeared to lament that the futures of her football-hero assailants were ruined by their rape conviction. In a similar case in Maryville, Missouri, this year, a teenage girl alleged she'd been raped, the sheriff "described it as a 'horrible crime'," declared that the perpetrators should be "punished," and then the county attorney declined to prosecute, saying "there was not a criminal offense." (The charges were dropped, but after a wide outcry, the case was, thankfully, reopened.) Despite these realities and the frequency with which women are subjected to sexual violence, the dialogue of late has recalled pre-feminist movement denunciations of "bad girls" who invite sexual assault by wearing provocative clothes, drinking too much and losing their wits. As a father of a young daughter, I find this very disturbing. Blaming excessive drinking for sexual assault among women is like blaming someone who left their keys in their car for the theft of their vehicle. Is leaving your keys in your car unwise? Yes. Is it the cause of your car being stolen? No. The person who stole your car is the responsible one. Besides, they do not need your keys to take your car. Sadly, the certainty of punishment for stealing a car is often much greater than the certaining of punishment for raping someone; 97% of rapists receive no punishment, according to an analysis by RAINN and the Justice Department. Even if someone is being "stupid" and leaving his or her car unlocked, and it is stolen, few people will respond by saying "we should not punish the car thief because who can blame him for taking advantage?" If we want to help protect women from sexual assault, let us do so by ridding ourselves of misogyny and moving against the source of the problem, not the victim. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Matthew Whitaker. | Matthew Whitaker: Articles said women could avoid rape if they didn't drink too much .
He says it's ridiculous to focus on women's behavior and not crime of the rapist .
He says women should not be expected to prevent their rape, made to feel guilt if they didn't .
Whitaker: This discussion is retrograde. To prevent rape, fix misogyny, not women's behavior . |
63,359 | b3f2bad37e2c369d36462e4b75963eb65216c02e | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 06:35 EST, 10 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 15:12 EST, 10 January 2014 . A massive chemical spill along a West Virginia river has triggered a tap water ban for hundreds of thousands of residents - shutting down schools, bars and restaurants and emptying stores of bottled water. Residents were told to not bathe, brush . their teeth or wash their clothes with tap water after 4-Methylcyclohexane Methanol, a foaming agent used in the coal preparation process, spilled on Thursday. President Barack Obama issued an emergency declaration for the state on Friday, ordering federal aid as residents raced to stores to stock up on bags of ice and crates of bottled water. FEMA is sending 75 trucks - each carrying 18,500 liters of water - will start arriving in the town on Friday evening. Scroll down for video . Panic: Grocery store shelves in South Charleston, West Virginia are stripped bare of bottled water . after authorities warned residents' tap water was no longer safe to drink following a chemical spill . Stocked up: Charleston resident Niru Parikshak loads up the back of her car with bottled water on Thursday . The accident unfolded on the Elk River in . Charleston, West Virginia's capital and largest city, just upriver from . the state's largest water treatment plant. It forced Governor Earl Ray Tomblin to . declare a state of emergency for nine counties as 300,000 residents were left without water. Health officials have advised residents to use tap water only for flushing toilets and fighting fires. 'West Virginians in the affected . service areas are urged not to use tap water for drinking, cooking, . washing or bathing,' Gov. Earl Tomblin said in a statement. 'Right now, our . priorities are our hospitals, nursing homes and schools.' A spokesperson with West Virginia American Water told WSAZ they are carrying out water quality testing every hour to figure out the level of concentration in the water. But she added that the company is unsure how much of the chemical seeped into the water, and said there is no timetable for when the water will be safe to use. Emergency workers were transporting water to distribution centers in the affected counties, according to the Charleston Gazette. Warning: Jimmy Gianato, director of WVA Homeland Security, speaks about the contamination . with (from left) WVA Water President Jeff McIntyre, WVA National Guard . Adj. Gen. James Hoyer and Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin . Following the chemical spill in the Elk River on Thursday, residents have been told not to use tap water for drinking, bathing or cooking, and were warned that boiling it does not remove the chemicals. The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources said symptoms include: severe burning in throat, severe eye irritation, non-stop vomiting, trouble breathing or severe skin irritation such as skin blistering, WSAZ reported. The company is unsure how much of the chemical - which is used in the coal preparation process - seeped into the water, and said there is no timetable for when it will be safe to use. Local media showed pictures of residents lining up at stores for bottled water, and shelves emptied of their supplies. At a Kroger supermarket in Kanawha City, a Charleston police officer stood guard as shoppers stocked up on bottled water. 'People have been grabbing it like . crazy,' Kerstin Halstead told the newspaper as she loaded two cases of . water into her SUV. 'Some people were getting - well, they could have . shared more.' The West Virginia National Guard planned to mobilize at an air base at Charleston's Yeager Airport on Friday to distribute bottled drinking water to emergency services agencies in the nine counties, Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety spokesman Lawrence Messina said. 'They're committing all necessary resources to help with this,' Messina said Thursday night. Messina . said the drinking water will come from several different suppliers. After distribution, the various county agencies 'will use their own game . plans to distribute it, with hospitals and nursing homes getting . priority,' Messina said. Desperate: . Tanaz Rahin and her mother Farri Rahin of Charleston drove across town . to find water following the chemical spill on the Elk River that . compromised the public water supply to eight counties on Thursday . Concern: Laura John of Charleston also drove across town to South Charleston to find water . Dr. Rahul Gupta, health officer for the Kanawha-Charleston and the Putnam . County Health Departments, ordered the closure of all restaurants and . schools receiving water from the West Virginia American Water company. Schools . would be shut on Friday across many counties, including Boone, Cabell, . Clay, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Pocahontas and Putnam, the West . Virginia Department of Education said on its website. Tomblin's spokeswoman, Amy Shuler Goodwin, said she did not know when the ban would be lifted. The spill originated with Freedom Industries, a Charleston company, according to Laura Jordan, external affairs manager for West Virginia American Water. It occurred above the intake of the Kanawha Valley water treatment plant in Charleston, which serves 100,000 homes and businesses, or 250,000 to 300,000 people, Jordan said. Pollution: A chemical spill along the Elk River in Charleston, West Virginia has triggered a tap water ban for up to 300,000 people . Clean up: A worker throws a boom into the Elk River Thursday, after the spill of chemical used in the preparation of coal . 'It could be potentially harmful if swallowed and could potentially cause skin and eye irritation,' Jordan said. The West Virginia Department of Environment Protection got a report of a strange odor on Thursday morning and visited the Freedom Industries site, where they found a leaking storage unit, Shuler Goodwin said. The company is working with state and federal authorities to get residents access to bottled water, and water distribution sites will be announced through local media, Jordan said. A representative for Freedom Industries did not respond to requests for comment. The company says on its website it is a producer of specialty chemicals for the mining, steel and cement industries. | Foaming agent used in coal preparation accidentally spilled into the Elk River in Charleston on Thursday .
As many as 300,000 people in the state have been hit with a tap water ban .
Stores sold out of bottled water as residents were urged not to drink or wash with tap water, while schools, bars and restaurants were closed .
The water company said there is no timetable for when the water can be used again .
President Obama has ordered federal aid for the state, and the National Guard is to mobilize at an air base at Charleston's Yeager Airport . |
252,632 | d2f388218a72df32886956f8601833990c241e8b | Washington (CNN) -- A man who jumped the White House fence on Tuesday was apprehended by uniformed Secret Service officers who approached him with guns drawn. The incident was broadcast live on CNN's "John King USA" program, which was produced from the North Lawn of the White House on Tuesday night. After the man jumped the fence, armed officers ordered him to lie down and then handcuffed him before taking him into custody. A backpack thrown over the fence and lying on the ground nearby was being checked by security officers, who locked down the area as a precaution. The incident ended shortly after 9 p.m. ET when authorities issued an all-clear directive at the White House. There was no immediate information on whether the intruder had represented a security threat. According to the Secret Service, the detained man is James Dirk Crudup, 41, who is homeless. He will be charged with unlawful entry and contempt of court because he previously had been ordered to stay away from the White House due to past incidents, the agency said. | NEW: All-clear given shortly after 9 p.m.
The suspect will be charged with unlawful entry and contempt of court .
The Secret Service identifies the suspect as a homeless man .
Part of the incident is broadcast live on CNN's "John King USA" program . |
180,824 | 7613f08cb4cd97ae2a33a34b3717673a9f0fda98 | Manchester United defender Phil Jones was left red-faced on his side's tour of the USA after fitness coach Tony Strudwick was forced to cover his expenses during an afternoon of shopping. Jones forgot to take any cash with him as the pair explored Washington, leaving Strudwick to pick up the cost of two taxi fares and a drink for the 22-year-old. Taking to Twitter to joke about the 22-year-old, Strudwick wrote: 'Had a good afternoon shopping with @PhilJones4. Paid his cab fares either way and bought him a Starbucks coffee. Shock he had no cash!' VIDEO Scroll down to watch Louis van Gaal give Phil Jones a double high five . Forgetful: Manchester United defender Phil Jones was forced to borrow money from fitness coach Tony Strudwick after failing to take any cash out with him during an afternoon off in America . Familiar problem: Jones, pictured here tussling with Liverpool's Raheem Sterling, is reportedly well known for forgetting his wallet . The United coach added: 'Should have paid me for his poor banter all afternoon.' It appears it isn't the first time the England defender has forgotten his wallet after United team-mate Ashley Young replied to Strudwick's tweet with: 'no shock there with @PhilJones4 haha' The fitness specialist responded to Young, adding that Jones had: 'Gave it the "My card doesn't work abroad shout"!' Jones, who is reported to earn around £50,000-a-week, didn't deny Strudwick's accusations and later tweeted: 'cheers Strudz' A source told The Sun: 'Phil has been getting some stick from the lads. 'He's pretty forgetful and always seems to have left his wallet at home when he's out. He's like the Queen because he never seems to carry any cash.' United completed their tour of the USA with a 3-1 victory against rivals Liverpool in the final of the International Champions Cup. VIDEO Van Gaal wants reinforcements . Generous: United coach Tony Strudwick bailed Jones out after he forgot cash and his bank card wouldn't work . Expected: Jones' team-mate Ashley Young (left) tweeted that is was 'no shock' the defender had no cash . | Strudwick paid for two cab journeys and a coffee for the United defender after he failed to bring any cash with him during a free afternoon .
The fitness coach took to Twitter to joke about Jones, who is well known for forgetting his wallet .
Ashley Young joined in the fun, tweeting that it was 'no shock'
Louis van Gaal's side completed their USA tour with victory over Liverpool in the final of the International Champions Cup . |
240,606 | c378d7fb74aaf32fdeb45f7bbfd1f363a523e3cc | By . Daily Mail Reporter . A new series of female action figures seeks to break the mold by creating hero archetypes with more believable bodies and a positive, nonviolent message for young girls. IAmElemental Action Figures for Girls has raised nearly triple its funding requirement on Kickstarter – due to its interest in creating a ‘positive and fierce reinterpretation of the traditional female action figure,’ its campaign explains. The idea for the line came about after its creators Julie Kerwin and Dawn Nadeau of New York ‘discovered that the typical female action figure on the market today is not actually designed for girls at all (or even boys). Instead, most are created for the adult male collector, decidedly more Hooters than Heroine.’ New world order: IAmElemental is a new range of action figures intended to send positive messages to young girls . Different body: The line seeks to retool the typical female figure form, which typically boasts a large chest and unrealistically small waist . In plainer terms, female action figures are typically outfitted with enormous breasts and a tiny waist. IAmElemental seeks to change this with figures that boast a more believable chest and body type. Ms Kerwin and Ms Nadeau have formatted their range of seven figurines as a periodic table of elements, called ‘The Elements of Power’. Each character is named for its positive, nonviolent superpower, including: Bravery, energy, honesty, industry, enthusiasm, persistence, and fear. The four-inch-tall figures have nine points of articulation – their neck, shoulders, elbows, knees, and hips all bend. Each one comes wearing armor, as well as a removable accessory and a shield. Its creators: The line is the brainchild of two New York City moms - Julie Kerwin (left) and Dawn Nadeau (right) Scientific approach: The seven figurines are members of their own periodic table of elements - which include behaviors like bravery and honesty . Their individual retail price has not yet been set. There is also no word of when they may hit store shelves. With still 19 days left of crowd funding left to go, IAmElemental has already raised more than $101,500 – nearly triple its $35,000 pledge goal. The brand’s inventors both attended Wellesley College. Ms Kerwin is a mother of two and works as a music producer. Ms Nadeau is also a mother of two and works as a marketing professional. | IAMElemental is a new line of action figures that are meant to have a positive impact on young girls .
The brand just raised nearly three times its pledge request on Kickstarter . |
248,313 | cd49721916005a4c0d846243c4c2596184547f3d | (CNN) -- Two Girl Scouts sprang into action when a man stole a cash box containing money from their cookie sales in the Houston area. The incident left one of the girls slightly injured after she held on to the getaway car to stop it from leaving the scene, CNN affiliate KPRC reported. It started when a passenger got out of a car Saturday and pretended to be interested in the cookies the girls were selling outside a grocery store, according to the affiliate. He grabbed the cash box and ran, leaving the girls stunned outside a Walmart store in Fort Bend County. Girl Scout Iravia Cotton pursued the man to his car. "I started hitting the boy in the passenger seat," Cotton told the affiliate. "So I think he learned his lesson a little bit ... and then they dragged my friend Rachel across the street." Rachel Johnson told the affiliate she got a few bumps and scratches when she held onto the back bumper to stop the car from driving away. "I hope your face hurts from where Iravia punched you, jerk, bam," Johnson said in a message to the thieves. "I hope your face hurts and I hope it leaves a scar. Who steals money from Girl Scouts, I mean, really?" The cash box contained about $200, according to the affiliate. Girl Scouts are financially responsible for any cookies they order, troop leader Jean Marie Johnson said. Authorities said the suspects covered their license tag during the incident. An investigation is under way. | Girl Scout pursues the man and punches him .
Another one holds on to the back bumper to stop the car from driving away .
Girl Scouts are financially responsible for any cookies they order .
The cash box contained about $200, CNN affiliate says . |
226,725 | b192f45f88eb6f3906fa7959359e881baa1a784b | An operator of a highly popular YouTube channel dedicated to high-powered guns and explosives was found mysteriously shot to death, authorities said. Keith Ratliff, who was a business partner at FPSRussia, YouTube's ninth most popular channel with more than three million active subscribers and a combined half billion views, was discovered on a rural road in Carnesville, Georgia. Ratliff had a single gunshot wound the head and police are treating his death as a homicide. Mystery: Gun enthusiast Keith Ratliffe was found shot dead in his Georgia office . Armed: Ratliffe had several weapons on him when he died . When authorities made the grisly discovery on Thursday, they noticed there were several guns near Ratliff, according to a local radio station report. 'For him not to pull out that gun and try to defend himself, he had to . feel comfortable around somebody. Either that or he was ambushed,' said Ratliff's heartbroken widow, Amanda. 'You know, it just doesn't really add up,' she told a television station. 'We all want to know and we all want justice to be done,' Amanda says. 'He had way to much to look forward to in his life.' Tragedy: Ratliffe had a wife and a two-year-old son . Amanda said their two-year-old son is having a terrible time adjusting to life without his father. 'It was really hard. To know that he's going to go the rest of his life without his dad,' Amanda said, as their child, Jayden, clutched a picture of his dad that was taken on Christmas Eve. Besides running the YouTube channel, Ratliff was also the owner of FPS Industries, which works in customized weaponry. It is located in Carnesville, which is about a 90 minute drive from Atlanta. Ratliff, who lived in Frankfort, Kentucky, with his family, wrote on his LinkedIn profile about his company, 'After a life of loving firearms and computers. I have combined both into . one great new business that offers both viral marketing and quality . firearms from one place.' FPS is short-hand for first person shooter amongst video gamers. Guns: Ratliffe ran another business where he customized weaponry . | Keith Ratliff was found shot to the head but had cache of weapons near him .
He ran YouTube channel with three million subscribers and all videos combined have been viewed more than a HALF BILLION times .
32-year-old man leaves behind a wife and two-year-old son . |
102,059 | 0f878410d60882d98050c83b19404273f7120f00 | The brother of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri is proposing to mediate a peace deal between the West and Islamists. In an exclusive interview with CNN, Mohamed al-Zawahiri unveiled his proposal for the first time, saying he is in a unique position to help end the violence and that both sides need to make concessions. As the al Qaeda leader's brother, he says they are ideologically inseparable, and that if anyone can talk his brother out of violence it's him. He is like so many former prisoners I've met -- calm, collected, focused and utterly convinced by long held views examined, tested and reforged in incarceration. Mohamed al-Zawahiri is not a physically imposing man. His long beard is shading from gray to white, his features and figure drawn. Ramadan is long over but he still fasts until the sun goes down. Mohamed spent 14 years in Egyptian jail on charges including terrorism and involvement in the 1981 assassination of President Anwar Sadat 1981. He denies the charges. On 9/11, al Qaeda looks to Syria to revive its fortunes . For five years he was in solitary confinement in a cell 180 centimeters by 180 centimeters (6 feet by 6 feet) where, locked in with his own thoughts, he had plenty of time to plan what to do when released. That day came a few months ago in May. He wants peace, he says, between Muslims and non-Muslims and has written a proposal that outlines the terms. He says he's offering to be an intermediary between Islamists and the United States and the West. "I don't represent a certain group. My role is a mediator between the West and them." A source with direct knowledge of Egyptian government talks with jihadists in the Sinai says al-Zawahiri is helping negotiations. The source says al-Zawahiri has the respect of the Islamists and the trust of the new government. Al-Zawahiri says his offer puts him at risk from radical Islamists, but says he is not acting from weakness or for personal gain. His six-page proposal offers a 10-year truce if the following terms are met. In brief they are: . • U.S. and West to stop intervening in Muslim lands• U.S. to stop interfering in Muslim education• U.S. to end the war on Islam• U.S. to release all Islamist prisoners. The document also calls on Islamists to change their behavior too: . • Stop attacks on Western and U.S. interests• Protect legitimate Western and U.S. interests in Muslim lands• Stop provoking the U.S. and the West . Through his steely determination to get his voice heard and his message out it is hard to gauge how much hope al-Zawahiri is really investing in his initiative. Is he trying to get back in the jihadist spotlight he once occupied before his incarceration? Al Qaeda diminished, but not gone . Back then he was military commander of Islamic Jihad that would later ally with al Qaeda. Back then he reportedly had disagreements with his brother about the way forward for the group. Then came his came his arrest, long before 9/11, picked up, he says, by Egyptian authorities in the United Arab Emirates. He says he told his interrogators he could work a truce with Islamists but he says his jailers didn't want to know. "If this idea had succeeded, September 11 would not have even happened in the first place. I hope this opportunity today is not wasted." Osama bin Laden had a similar proposal in 2004. It was followed a year later by the deadly 7/7 subway attack in London killing 52 people. Al-Zawahiri offers no guarantees that he has some quick fix. "This is a very tough mission. You have to be logical. If you want to live in peace then you must make others feel that they will live in peace." He says his brother will listen to him, but admits he hasn't talked to him in long over a decade. While he once had standing among his Islamist peers, the reach of his influence today is hard to judge; being connected by blood to one of the world's most wanted men only carries so much weight. The cost, he says, of getting out of today's conflict must be paid. "We want to turn this page and forget the past." It wouldn't be the first time the terms are unacceptably high. Analysis: Al Qaeda in Yemen suffers another blow as top Saudi member is killed . | Mohamed al-Zawahiri puts forward plan to end Muslim vs. West violence .
He is the brother of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri .
He spent 14 years in an Egyptian jail on terror charges that he denies .
Plan calls for Islamists and Western nations to make changes . |
196,385 | 8a28181490fdcd5a22107ee2d46503ac1be87d7e | (CNN) -- Anyone who's ever read a nutrition label knows that our food supply is full of hard-to-pronounce chemicals. Most are generally recognized as safe, as the Food and Drug Administration likes to say, but a few have given scientists cause for concern. Azodicarbonamide, for instance. Subway announced last week that it would be removing the controversial chemical from its bread. Generally used for strengthening dough, azodicarbonamide is also found in yoga mats and shoe soles, according to the Centers for Science in the Public Interest. One of the breakdown products is a recognized carcinogen. Though Subway is going to remove azodicarbonamide, there's a long list of other chemicals used in its bread: calcium carbonate, calcium sulfate, ammonium sulfate, DATEM, sodium stearoyl lactylate, potassium iodate and ascorbic acid, according to the restaurant's website (PDF). And Subway certainly isn't alone. What other chemical additives are commonly found in your food? Here are seven, picked at random as good practice for the upcoming CNN Spelling Bee (just kidding). 1. Tartrazine and other food dyes . When Kraft announced last year that it would be removing Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) and No. 6 from certain varieties of its Macaroni & Cheese products, advocates rejoiced. Blue 1, Green 3, Red 40 and others have been loosely linked to everything from hyperactivity in children to cancer in lab animals. Generally found in candy, beverages and baked goods, color additives are also used in cosmetics. But you knew that, right? Did you also know about the ground-up insects in your drinks? Cochineal extract is an approved artificial dye derived from a small bug that lives on cactus plants in Mexico and South America. As long as you're not allergic, you're safe to drink up, according to the Centers for Science in the Public Interest. Mmmm ... 2. Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) Well, that's a mouthful. BHA is used to preserve some cereals, chewing gum and potato chips, according to the centers. It's also used in rubber and petroleum products. Butylated hydroxyanisole is "reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen," according to the National Institutes of Health (PDF), because of animal studies that have shown that the chemical can cause tumors in rats' and hamsters' forestomachs (something humans don't have) and fish livers. 3. Propyl gallate . Propyl gallate is often used in conjunction with BHA and a chemical called butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT. These antioxidant preservatives protect oily products from oxidation, which would otherwise cause them to go bad. Propyl gallate can be found in mayonnaise, dried meats, chicken soup and gum, as well as hair-grooming products and adhesives. Some scientists believe that propyl gallate is an "endocrine disruptor (PDF)," meaning it can interfere with humans' hormones. Endocrine disruptors can lead to developmental, reproductive and/or neurological problems, according to the National Institutes of Health, including fertility issues and an increased risk of some cancers. But the link between propyl gallate and the endocrine system needs to be studied further. 4. Sodium nitrite . Sodium nitrite is most often used in the preservation and coloring of meats, such as bacon, ham, hot dogs, lunch meat and smoked fish. Without it, these products would look gray instead of red. Sodium nitrite is also found naturally in many vegetables, including beets, celery, radishes and lettuce. But the nitrite found in vegetables comes with ascorbic acid, which prevents our bodies from turning nitrite into nitrosamines. Nitrosamines are considered potentially carcinogenic to humans. So some companies are adding ascorbic acid to their meat products to inhibit nitrosamine formation, according to the Centers for Science in the Public Interest. However, the American Meat Institute points out the National Toxicology Program conducted a multi-year review in which rats and mice were fed high levels of nitrate and nitrite in drinking water, and a panel reviewed the findings and concluded that nitrite is safe at the levels used and not a carcinogen. 5. TBHQ (tert-Butylhydroquinone) This chemical preservative is a form of butane that is used in crackers, potato chips and some fast food. It can also be found in varnish, lacquer and resin. It helps prolong the shelf life of food and, if it's consumed at low levels, is considered safe. In higher doses -- above what the FDA says manufactures can use in food prep -- TBHQ has been found to cause "nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of suffocation, and collapse," according to "A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives." It may also cause restlessness and vision problems. 6. Silicon dioxide, silica and calcium silicate . Silicon dioxide, also known as silica, is a naturally occurring material (PDF) made up of shells of tiny single-celled algae. You might also recognize it as sand, the kind that gets stuck in your suit at the beach. Silicon dioxide is used in dry coffee creamer, dried soups and other powdery foods. It is also used as an insect repellent, removing the oily film that covers an insect's body, causing them to dry out and die. The EPA concluded that the human health risk is low and "not unreasonable." In rat studies, high-dose exposure has caused some lung problems. Another study of Chinese workers who were heavily exposed to the chemical showed a disproportionate number of deaths related to respiratory diseases, lung cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Silicon dioxide has also been associated with the risk of developing autoimmune diseases -- again only after heavy exposure. 7. Triacetin (glycerol triacetate) Triacetin, also known as glyceryl triacetate, has been approved and generally recognized as safe by the FDA as a food additive. In food, it is used as a plasticizer for chewing gum and gummy candy. It can be used to keep food from drying out and in some cookies, muffins and cakes. It is also used in perfume, cosmetics and cigarette filters and in drugs like Viagra. | Subway is removing azodicarbonamide from its bread; other chemicals remain .
There are seven color additives approved by the FDA for use in foods .
Propyl gallate, BHA and BHT are used to preserve oily products such as mayonnaise .
Silicon dioxide is used in coffee creamer, dried soups and insect repellent . |
202,664 | 92640276cf4446b75cd4a3317b6083228e21394f | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 07:49 EST, 31 October 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 09:07 EST, 31 October 2012 . A Mexican robber has admitted murdering a U.S. Border patrol agent whose death revealed a failed federal gun smuggling operation. Manuel Osorio-Arellanes pleaded guilty to killing agent Brian Terry in 2010 - the highest profiel conviction in the case which has embarrassed the federal government and prompted a series of congressional investigations. The killer also confessed to being part of a criminal gang who crossed into the country a week earlier to rob marijuana smugglers, stashing guns and food supplies. Manuel Osorio-Arellanes, pictured, has pleaded guilty to murdering U.S border agent Brian Terry and admitted being part of a robbery gang . Terry's death exposed the . government’s botched ‘Fast and Furious’ gun-smuggling investigation, . during which agents lost track of more than 1,000 guns. Two rifles bought by a smuggling ring were found at the scene of the shooting near the town of Nogales, Arizona. Of the five men charged with the murder, two are in custody and three are fugitives. Osorio-Arellanes is the first to plead guilty, but police are yet to reveal who they believe fired the fatal shot. Prosecutors . agreed not to seek the death penalty against Osorio-Arellanes, who . could be sentenced to life in prison for the first-degree murder . conviction. Federal . authorities have been heavily criticized for allowing suspected straw . gun buyers to walk away from shops with weapons instead of arresting the . suspects and immediately seizing the guns throughout the operation. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, pictured, was killed during an attack on him and three colleagues in 2010 . The . two rifles found at the scene of the shooting were bought by a straw . buyer for a smuggling ring suspected of purchasing guns for the brutal . Sinaloa cartel, according to investigators. Authorities have declined to say whether the murder weapon in Terry's death was linked to a purchase from the operation. Terry and three other agents came under attack in a canyon north of the Arizona border city of Nogales by Osorio-Arellanes and his four other gang members, investigators said. The shooting happened close to the U.S side of the Arizona border town of Nogales. Mexican territory is pictured to the left of the border . Osorio-Arellanes, of El Fuerte in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, was shot during the gunfight and has been in custody since the night of the shooting. He told investigators he raised his weapon toward the agents during the shootout but didn't open fire, the FBI said. Sentencing has been set for January before U.S. District Judge David Bury. ‘Today's plea is an important step in seeking justice on behalf of Agent Terry,’ Laura Duffy, the top federal prosecutor in San Diego whose office is prosecuting the case, said in a statement. ‘Operation Fast and Furious’ was launched in 2009 to catch trafficking kingpins, but federal agents lost track of about 1,400 of the more than 2,000 weapons - including AK-47s and other high-powered assault rifles. Some of the guns purchased illegally with the government's knowledge were later found at crime scenes in Mexico and the U.S. Critics have hammered federal authorities for allowing informants to walk away from Phoenix-area gun shops with weapons. Jaime Avila, 25, has admitted in court to buying the two guns and has pleaded guilty to gun charges in a smuggling case that's separate from the prosecution into Terry's death. Avila, who isn't charged in Terry's death, faces up to 10 years in prison when he's sentenced on Dec. 12. Authorities have offered a $1million reward for information leading to the capture of the fugitives. The FBI said it continues to aggressively pursue them. | Brian Terry was shot dead in 2010 near the U.S/Mexican border of city of Nogales, in Arizona .
Manuel Osorio-Arellanes, one of five suspected of the shooting, has pleaded guilty to murder .
Mr Terry's death exposed a failed government gun-smuggling operation which saw officers lose track of more than 1,000 guns . |
246,285 | cac1f24fc299397acd1b86c2bbc2b9e7523e46f1 | Enrique Iglesias' latest music video co-stars some of Galicia's most stunning landmarks but the fee local government paid for their inclusion has hit a raw nerve throughout the country. The Galician regional government paid Universal Music Spain €302,500 (£222,000) to lure the Spanish-American pop icon to the north-west of Spain for the filming of his new track Noche y día (Night and Day), reports thelocal.es. The opening moments appear to be money well spent, with helicopter shots of the Sil Canyon, Cabo Home lighthouse, Lugo's Roman walls and the stunning cathedral of Santiago de Compostela all taking centre stage. Galician officials paid Universal Music Spain €302,500 (£222,000) to get Enrique Iglesias video filmed there . The opening moments of the video feature landmarks including the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela... .. And the Cabo Home Lighthouse, but once the electronic dance track kicks in the video is indoors . Even after the star's name and those of his guest artists, electro Latino act Juan Magan and Puerto Rico's Yandel, are flashed on screen 'Galicia, Espana' gets its moment. But after the moody introduction the obligatory electronic dance track kicks in, the bevvy of beautiful young people multiplies and the sore point comes - the majority of the video to follow, barring the closing moments, is shot as a rave scene inside a beautiful but nondescript monastery. Spanish media say these scenes could have been anywhere and some calculate that less than a fifth of the video features the region - not enough bang for their euro in their view. An article by newspaper 20 minutos was headlined 'Enrique Iglesias y el presunto robo de 300.000€ Gallegos', which translates to 'Enrique Iglesias and the presumed theft of 300,000 Galician euros'. The Sil Canyon also appears in the opening shots but Spanish media say Galicia didn't get value for money . Iglesias' film clip for Noche y día (Night and Day), featuring Juan Magan and Yandel, was filmed in Galicia . Another of the papers, La Voz de Galicia, counts that while 10 recognisable locations are seen in the video they take up a paltry minute of the overall clip's four minutes and 43 seconds. The publication also worries that with the landmarks at the start and end of the clip – with the energetic middle element that also includes a women being oiled-up for a massage, happening mostly indoors – they could be cut out when it's shown on music video programmes. Iglesias' Twitter plugs his new video and its filming location: 'Video of day and night out on February 27. I leave you a "preview" of what we record in #Galicia! @xunta . Iglesias appears happy with the result, plugging its February 27 release to his Twitter (right) and Instagram followers, including a hashtag nod to Galicia and linking to the government Twitter profile. its February 27 release to his Twitter (right) and Instagram followers, including a hashtag nod to Galicia and linking to the government Twitter profile. The government argues that the money paid to the music label for the popular culture exposure pales in comparison to a regular advertising campaign that could cost well in advance of one million euros. | Galician government paid Universal Music Spain €302,500 to have Enrique Iglesias film the video for Noche y día (Night and Day) in the region .
Local media believe Galicia didn't get enough exposure for the fee .
Cabo Home lighthouse and Santiago de Compostela cathedral appear .
But the majority of the dance track is set as a rave in a monastery . |
271,068 | eb1d7cc77e198b1718c7ad845f4724365140bfe9 | It's been a strange weekend: Jose Mourinho put out a team that got a great away win by playing some terrific football, reminiscent of Arsenal circa 2004. Meantime Arsene Wenger put out a team that got a great away win by playing some functional, effective football reminiscent of Chelsea circa 2005. I know which I prefer. Jose Mourinho has replaced his old functional football at Chelsea with something far more spectacular . Diego Costa celebrates one of his two goals in Chelsea's 5-0 rout of Swansea City on Saturday . Oscar, who also scored two goals at the Liberty Stadium, celebrates with striker Costa after scoring . I wrote this about Jose Mourinho in my book Is He All That? (available in pound shops up and down the country): 'It's impossible to knock Mourinho's winning habit…(but) his style is rigid and formulaic. Sometimes it's labelled negative and defensive.' It was right at the time, but even those more critical of Mourinho than myself must surely now stand back and admire the change in this manager, and the style of his current Chelsea team. I have been to see Chelsea on numerous occasions this season. There is of course that defensive efficiency with which Mourinho's teams are synonymous (it went AWOL at Spurs), but further up the field things have changed. In his first spell at Chelsea he had a goalscoring midfielder in Frank Lampard and an out-and-out striker in Didier Drogba, but the rest were asked by the manager to be defenders. Mourinho was successful during his first spell in charge at Chelsea - but the football wasn't attractive . Mourinho's insistence on playing a defensive style infuriated big-name signings like Arjen Robben . Joe Cole was criticised by Mourinho for not having enough defensive discipline in a win at Anfield in 2005 . This is why players like Arjen Robben became frustrated. The Dutchman said this after leaving Mourinho's Real Madrid: 'He puts out a winning team, it does not matter if it's done with nice football or not.' Further evidence is when Joe Cole scored the winner against Liverpool in 2005. Mourinho said this in his post-match interview: 'I needed 11 players for my defensive organization, but I had just 10. Joe…has to improve when the team needs him to be part of a defensive organization.' Things have changed. I made the trip to Wales at the weekend to see a decent Swansea side ripped to shreds by some spectacular, sensational, sexy Chelsea football. Jose's players did their defending when out of possession of course, and Swansea weren't at their best, but Chelsea were a joy to watch. Andre Schurrle is congratulated by John Terry after scoring Chelsea's fifth goal at the Liberty Stradium . Diego Costa fires home Chelsea's second goal at Swansea following a dazzling move . How Chelsea's movement and passing unpicked the Swansea defence in a matter of seconds for 2-0 . It wasn't functional, it wasn't formulaic. It was bright, it was pleasing on the eye, and at the risk of enraging Mourinho, dare I say, it was like watching Pep Guardiola's Barcelona at their peak. Chelsea led 4-0 at half-time with some stunning flowing football and some wonderfully crafted goals. It could have been six or seven at the break. Take the second goal: when Cesc Fabregas receives the ball around 35 yards out, there are nine Swansea players between him and the goal. Four passes and less than six seconds later, Diego Costa has hit the back of the net. They eased off after the interval but still scored a brilliant goal in which Eden Hazard sparkled during the build-up. He won't like being called the new Arsene Wenger, he'll hate being labelled as the next Guardiola, but Jose Mourinho is certainly a manager reborn. Arsene Wenger stormed the Etihad on Sunday and watched Arsenal win ugly against Manchester City . | Chelsea played wonderful football in their 5-0 rout of Swansea on Saturday .
Jose Mourinho has cast aside the functional style of his first spell .
The manager now has his team playing spectacular football .
The defensive rigour of Mourinho's old teams remains in evidence .
But going forward they are a much more exciting proposition .
Click here for Chelsea transfer news . |
199,680 | 8e7dd2be301b0975f5f330a60c59f03362c75506 | A fuel with no greenhouse emissions or radioactive waste that is almost unlimited, sounds too good to be true. But scientists have taken one more step to make fusion power useful and affordable. Engineers have designed a concept for a fusion reactor which, when scaled up to the size of a large electrical power plant, would rival costs for a new coal-fired plant with similar electrical output. Engineers have designed a concept for a fusion reactor (pictured) that, when scaled up to the size of a large electrical power plant, would rival costs for a new coal-fired plant with similar electrical output . Until now no-one has come up with a fusion power plant design – dubbed the ‘holy grail’ of energy generation by many - that would produce fuel cheap enough to outperform systems that use fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas. Fusion, the process that powers the sun and other stars, entails forging the nuclei of atoms to release energy, as opposed to splitting them, which is fission - the principle behind the atomic bomb and nuclear power. Engineers from the University of Washington have published their design and analysis findings and will present them at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Fusion Energy Conference in St. Petersburg, Russia, this week. ‘Right now, this design has the greatest potential of producing economical fusion power of any current concept,’ said Thomas Jarboe, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the university. Other designs, such as the experimental fusion reactor project called Iter (its internals are pictured in a diagram) which is currently being built in France have to be much larger than the university's because they rely on superconducting coils that circle around the outside of the device to provide a similar magnetic field . Nuclear fusion is a process by which the nuclei of deuterium and tritium, both isotopes obtained from hydrogen, are fused together to create heavier particles. In theory, energy generated through fusion would leave no dangerous waste or pollute the atmosphere. And the fuel is found in abundance in seawater, which covers more than two-thirds of the planet. The process requires extreme temperatures and pressure equivalent to those found on our Sun and other active stars. While the idea started as a class project, Professor Jarboe and a doctoral student in reactor design, Derek Sutherland, refined the concept. The design builds on existing technology and creates a magnetic field within a closed space to hold plasma in place long enough for fusion to occur - allowing the hot plasma to react and burn. The reactor itself would be largely self-sustaining, meaning it would continuously heat the plasma to maintain thermonuclear conditions. Heat generated from the reactor would heat up a coolant that is used to spin a turbine and generate electricity, similar to how a typical power reactor works. Mr Sutherland said: ‘This is a much more elegant solution because the medium in which you generate fusion is the medium in which you’re also driving all the current required to confine it.’ There are several ways to create a magnetic field, which is crucial for keeping a fusion reactor going. The new design is known as a spheromak, meaning it generates the majority of magnetic fields by driving electrical currents into the plasma itself. This reduces the amount of required materials and allows researchers to shrink the overall size of the reactor. Other designs, such as the experimental fusion reactor project called Iter, which is currently being built in France have to be much larger than the UW’s because they rely on superconducting coils that circle around the outside of the device to provide a similar magnetic field. The researchers estimated the cost of building a fusion reactor power plant using their design compared to building a coal power plant (stock image). Mr Sutherland said: ‘If we do invest in this type of fusion, we could be rewarded because the commercial reactor unit already looks economical. It’s very exciting' When compared with the fusion reactor concept in France, the new design is much less expensive at roughly one tenth of the cost of Iter and would produce five times as much energy. The researchers estimated the cost of building a fusion reactor power plant using their design compared to building a coal power plant. They explained that building a fusion power plant producing 1 gigawatt (1 billion watts) of power would cost $2.7 billion (£1.7 billion), while a coal plant of the same output would cost $2.8 billion (£1.8 billion), according to their analysis. Mr Sutherland said: ‘If we do invest in this type of fusion, we could be rewarded because the commercial reactor unit already looks economical. It’s very exciting.’ The concept that has been created is around one-tenth the size and power output of a final product, which will take years to develop. IT was funded by the US Department of Energy. The researchers have successfully tested the prototype’s ability to sustain a plasma efficiently and as they further develop and expand the size of the device they can ramp up to higher-temperature plasma and get significant fusion power output. | Engineers have designed a concept for a fusion reactor .
When scaled up to the size of a large electrical power plant, it would rival costs for a new coal-fired plant with similar electrical output, they claim .
Design builds on existing technology and creates a magnetic field within a closed space to hold plasma in place long enough for fusion to occur .
Engineers at the University of Washington claim the design is cheaper than building a coal power station - but warn a full-sized version is years away . |
43,700 | 7b3ed9ee9b007c19bb3c8f67b052871025a43d57 | By . Ashley Collman . New York City Police are searching for a woman who was seen abandoning a baby girl on a hot subway platform Monday morning. Witnesses saw an unidentified African-American woman, believed to be in her 20s or 30s, pushing a stroller out of a northbound 1 train at Columbus Circle at about 11:50am. The woman then darted back on the train just before the doors shut, leaving the approximately 7-month-old baby girl on her own. Surveillance footage released by the NYPD shows the woman entering the subway with the baby in the stroller earlier in the day. Scroll down for video . Do you know this child? This seven-month-old baby girl was found abandoned on a New York subway platform Monday morning. Police continue to search for the child's mother . Who is she? Police released surveillance footage of the woman suspected of abandoning the baby pushing her stroller into the Subway earlier Monday . A 33-year-old bystander stayed with the baby for 20 minutes, waiting for the woman to return. When no one came to claim the child, the witness contacted police who took the baby to Transit District 1 Police Station. The baby was then taken to St Luke’s Roosevelt hospital for evaluation and to wait for officials from the NYC Administration for Children's Services. All alone: The baby was left on the uptown 1 train platform at New York's Columbus Circle station, pictured above . When she was found, the child had a rash on her face and bandages on her hand but is said to be in good condition. Neither the woman or the child has been identified yet. The baby was reportedly wearing a red and white blouse with red leggings and pampers. It’s unclear if the mother left her child on the platform on purpose or is something spurned her to run away. Anyone with information about the abandoned baby is being asked to call crime stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS. | An unidentified African-American woman in her 20s or 30s was seen pushing a stroller out of an uptown 1 train Monday morning .
She then darted back on the train, leaving the 7-month-old baby girl alone on the platform .
Police have yet to identify either the baby or the woman .
The child was taken to the hospital for evaluation where she is reportedly in good condition .
The baby was wearing a red and white blouse with black leggings when she was found . |
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