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By . Martha De Lacey . PUBLISHED: . 06:57 EST, 27 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:41 EST, 27 September 2013 . When Brenda Caunter finished tending to the cabbages on her allotment one afternoon in 1972, she was distressed to find her beloved wedding ring had slipped off her finger and tumbled into the plot. She and her husband Dave desperately scoured the muddy area of Mawnan Smith, south Cornwall, for days, eventually giving up and replacing the nine-carat gold band. So Brenda, 62, now has two wedding rings, thanks to a local amateur treasure hunter who this week found the lost one while searching for medieval coins using a metal detector and returned it to its original owner 41 years after it was misplaced. Buried treasure: Brenda Caunter her husband Dave and the wedding ring which was found four decades after it was lost . Back in its rightful place: Mr Caunter holds his wife's hand as she wears the ring which was lost for four decades . After giving up on the ring in the 70s, Brenda and Dave thought nothing more of it until this week when Dave strolled past the same area - now fields - and spotted a neighbour with a metal detector. He looking for ancient coins, but Dave left him with a description of the long-lost jewellery, and roughly where it was lost, just in case. The couple were stunned when the neighbour rang him a few days later to say he'd found the nine-carat ring. Incredibly, it was still in near-perfect condition, despite being buried beneath soil for 41 years. Dave said: 'Back then the ring cost me a fortune. When Brenda told me she'd lost it we went back up there with our own metal detectors. 'But they were not nearly as good as they are now and we didn't find it. Eventually we had to buy a replacement.' Reunited: Brenda Caunter's wedding ring which was found four decades after it was lost . Then and now: Mr and Mrs Caunter photographed left on their wedding day in September 1969, and right today in the field were the ring was found by a neighbour who'd been hunting for treasure with his metal detector . Explaining how he came across the . neighbouring treasure hunter, Dave said: 'I was going out in the village . and saw him up in the field, and when I saw his wife I asked her: . "What's he up to in the field with that metal detector? Tell him if he . finds a ring, it belongs to Brenda." 'Then I had a phone call telling me that he had found a ring. I couldn't believe it after all these years.' Dave had saved up to buy the ring for Brenda before the pair married in September 1969. She had only been wearing it for three years when she lost it while uprooting veg near their home on the outskirts of Mawnan Smith, Cornwall. But the treasure hunter managed to find the ring in almost exactly the same spot where Brenda had dropped it. Happy day: Incredibly, the ring was still in near-perfect condition, despite being buried beneath soil for 41 years . Mr Caunter's brother Arthur handing him the ring before his wedding: He had saved up for the 9-carat band . The couple took the ring to a local jewellers to have a small crack repaired but it's now as good as new and back on Brenda's finger. She said: 'I was working in the field when I took my gloves off, and that's probably when it came off. 'When we got the phone call to say it had been found I didn't know what to say.' The ring's locator, who wishes to remain anonymous, said: 'It was in absolutely perfect condition, despite the number of years it had been there. 'I'm interested in history and I have often found medieval coins which are absolutely fascinating. That's why I was up there.' | Green-fingered Brenda Caunter, 62, lost ring on her allotment in 1972 .
She and husband Dave, 69, scoured the plot but gave up and replaced it .
The allotment - on outskirts of Mawnan Smith in Cornwall - is now fields .
Amateur treasure hunter was using metal detector to find medieval coins .
Came across 9-carat ring and returned it to Brenda based on description . | 0a81f0e7d9387623110f39c4a3ef7b1a80528a69 | [
"By . Martha De Lacey . PUBLISHED: . 06:57 EST, 27",
"September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:41 EST, 27",
"September 2013 . When Brenda Caunter finished",
"tending to the cabbages on her allotment one",
"afternoon in 1972, she was distressed to find her",
"beloved wedding ring had slipped off her finger",
"and tumbled into the plot. She and her husband",
"Dave desperately scoured the muddy area of Mawnan",
"Smith, south Cornwall, for days, eventually",
"giving up and replacing the nine-carat gold band.",
"So Brenda, 62, now has two wedding rings, thanks",
"to a local amateur treasure hunter who this week",
"found the lost one while searching for medieval",
"coins using a metal detector and returned it to",
"its original owner 41 years after it was",
"misplaced. Buried treasure: Brenda Caunter her",
"husband Dave and the wedding ring which was found",
"four decades after it was lost . Back in its",
"rightful place: Mr Caunter holds his wife's hand",
"as she wears the ring which was lost for four",
"decades . After giving up on the ring in the 70s,",
"Brenda and Dave thought nothing more of it until",
"this week when Dave strolled past the same area -",
"now fields - and spotted a neighbour with a metal",
"detector. He looking for ancient coins, but Dave",
"left him with a description of the long-lost",
"jewellery, and roughly where it was lost, just in",
"case. The couple were stunned when the neighbour",
"rang him a few days later to say he'd found the",
"nine-carat ring. Incredibly, it was still in",
"near-perfect condition, despite being buried",
"beneath soil for 41 years. Dave said: 'Back then",
"the ring cost me a fortune. When Brenda told me",
"she'd lost it we went back up there with our own",
"metal detectors. 'But they were not nearly as",
"good as they are now and we didn't find it.",
"Eventually we had to buy a replacement.'",
"Reunited: Brenda Caunter's wedding ring which was",
"found four decades after it was lost . Then and",
"now: Mr and Mrs Caunter photographed left on",
"their wedding day in September 1969, and right",
"today in the field were the ring was found by a",
"neighbour who'd been hunting for treasure with",
"his metal detector . Explaining how he came",
"across the . neighbouring treasure hunter, Dave",
"said: 'I was going out in the village . and saw",
"him up in the field, and when I saw his wife I",
"asked her: . \"What's he up to in the field with",
"that metal detector? Tell him if he . finds a",
"ring, it belongs to Brenda.\" 'Then I had a phone",
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"couldn't believe it after all these years.' Dave",
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"while uprooting veg near their home on the",
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"still in near-perfect condition, despite being",
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"brother Arthur handing him the ring before his",
"wedding: He had saved up for the 9-carat band .",
"The couple took the ring to a local jewellers to",
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"was working in the field when I took my gloves",
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"we got the phone call to say it had been found I",
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(CNN)There was some good news this week. The New York state attorney general's office has told four major retailers --Walmart, GNC, Target and Walgreens -- to cease sales of their store-branded herbal supplements because their products do not actually contain the herbs purportedly listed on their labels. These herbal supplements contain mostly fillers and in some cases potential allergens. But other supplements are more worrisome. As a nutrition expert, I am horrified by the daily barrage of outrageous and unsubstantiated claims touting cures from everything from E. coli to Ebola. If you do a Web search on just about any disease, you will find carefully worded ads promoting unproven nutritional therapies. Worse, some of these can be harmful. For example, people have suffered liver damage from green tea extract that is so severe that they have needed a liver transplant. And the frequency of harm from dietary supplements is on the rise. Dietary supplements are not miracle pills. Extremely few of the claims are supported by good science, even when the substance on the label is actually in the bottle (which we've learned we don't know for sure), and many others have been proven ineffective. Fortunately, some recent developments are heartening. The Federal Trade Commission won a settlement against NourishLife, LLC and its owner, Mark Nottoli, who shamefully claimed that the company's dietary supplements, which are mostly fish oil, will treat speech problems in autistic children. The FTC also won a large settlement against Lindsey Duncan and Pure Health, LLC. This company is infamous for promoting its green tea product as a weight loss miracle by sending paid spokespeople disguised as objective experts to appear on "The Dr. Oz Show." The outrageousness of these claims knows no bounds. And there are no bounds since the law that regulates the industry, the Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act of 1994, took all control and oversight of these products away from the Food and Drug Administration. Powerful politicians, in partnership with the supplement industry, created ad campaigns so effective that more people wrote to Congress in support of the bill than wrote about the Vietnam War. As a result, there is little regulation of anything called a dietary supplement. It is left mostly to the FTC to prosecute companies for fraud for their unsubstantiated claims about supplements. These companies are crafty in how they make their claims when the health effect, and safety, of their supplements are unproven. But those of us in the health community are at least in part to blame for the confusion that drives the enormous market for alternative medicine. First, we contradict ourselves every time we issue a new set of guidelines. For example, the U.S. Department of Agriculture issues new dietary guidelines approximately every five years. Since the 1980s, there have been the Food Wheel, the Food Guide Pyramid, the MyPyramid Food Guidance System and MyPlate. Each of these guidelines has substantially changed how we are supposed to think about our diets. The Department of Agriculture plans to publish another guideline next year. And there are dozens of additional dietary guidelines published every year by professional organizations on everything from preventing cancer to controlling diabetes. Flooded with all of these different guidelines, consumers may feel overwhelmed and think that health experts do not have all the answers, hence they turn to health fads and supplements. Second, there are no controls in place, where supplements are concerned, to regulate how we might be biased by conflicts of interest. This is illegal when it comes to pharmaceuticals. Not so with supplements. For example, Duncan of Pure Health, LLC claimed to be a nutrition expert despite having no credible education or degree to support it. Currently, he is being sued by the Texas attorney general on allegations of falsely representing himself as a doctor. The authors and supporters of nutritional quackery are often quick to claim that there is little potential harm. After all, we are talking about nutrients. We all need nutrients, so of course they are safe, right? The magical thinking that nutrients or herbs that we take into our bodies have no potential for harm often goes unchallenged. But we have seen time and again that nutritional interventions that sound great can turn out to be harmful. For example, in large randomized trials, beta carotene increases the incidence of lung cancer. In other studies, vitamin E and selenium significantly increased the incidence of prostate cancer. Nutritional science is very complex. If these substances are effective, they are acting as drugs and should be regulated as such. Given the clear potential for harm, and even death, from these unregulated supplements, and the lack of ethics in the absence of strong prohibitions, it is time for better laws. But meanwhile, let the buyers beware. | New York attorney general told retailers to cease store-branded herbal supplement sales .
David Seres: Unregulated supplements make outrageous, unsubstantiated claims on health . | b35e241c953391562b06bb73f0c8a474b103c995 | [
"(CNN)There was some good news this week. The New",
"York state attorney general's office has told",
"four major retailers --Walmart, GNC, Target and",
"Walgreens -- to cease sales of their",
"store-branded herbal supplements because their",
"products do not actually contain the herbs",
"purportedly listed on their labels. These herbal",
"supplements contain mostly fillers and in some",
"cases potential allergens. But other supplements",
"are more worrisome. As a nutrition expert, I am",
"horrified by the daily barrage of outrageous and",
"unsubstantiated claims touting cures from",
"everything from E. coli to Ebola. If you do a Web",
"search on just about any disease, you will find",
"carefully worded ads promoting unproven",
"nutritional therapies. Worse, some of these can",
"be harmful. For example, people have suffered",
"liver damage from green tea extract that is so",
"severe that they have needed a liver transplant.",
"And the frequency of harm from dietary",
"supplements is on the rise. Dietary supplements",
"are not miracle pills. Extremely few of the",
"claims are supported by good science, even when",
"the substance on the label is actually in the",
"bottle (which we've learned we don't know for",
"sure), and many others have been proven",
"ineffective. Fortunately, some recent",
"developments are heartening. The Federal Trade",
"Commission won a settlement against NourishLife,",
"LLC and its owner, Mark Nottoli, who shamefully",
"claimed that the company's dietary supplements,",
"which are mostly fish oil, will treat speech",
"problems in autistic children. The FTC also won a",
"large settlement against Lindsey Duncan and Pure",
"Health, LLC. This company is infamous for",
"promoting its green tea product as a weight loss",
"miracle by sending paid spokespeople disguised as",
"objective experts to appear on \"The Dr. Oz Show.\"",
"The outrageousness of these claims knows no",
"bounds. And there are no bounds since the law",
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"away from the Food and Drug Administration.",
"Powerful politicians, in partnership with the",
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"support of the bill than wrote about the Vietnam",
"War. As a result, there is little regulation of",
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"mostly to the FTC to prosecute companies for",
"fraud for their unsubstantiated claims about",
"supplements. These companies are crafty in how",
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"and safety, of their supplements are unproven.",
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"example, the U.S. Department of Agriculture",
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"Food Wheel, the Food Guide Pyramid, the MyPyramid",
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"Flooded with all of these different guidelines,",
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"it. Currently, he is being sued by the Texas",
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"representing himself as a doctor. The authors and",
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"harm. After all, we are talking about nutrients.",
"We all need nutrients, so of course they are",
"safe, right? The magical thinking that nutrients",
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(CNN) -- You don't need to be a teenage boy to realize how scary girls can be. Girls know it too. Megan Fox plays a demonic cheerleader in "Jennifer's Body," written by Diablo "Juno" Cody. Certainly Diablo Cody does. The Academy Award-winning "Juno" scribe proves as much in her second screenplay, a horror comedy about BFFs Jennifer (Megan Fox) and Needy (Amanda Seyfried). These bosom buddies have a relationship that stretches back to the sandbox. They're inseparable opposites: Jennifer is a babe, head cheerleader and a bit of a snot. Needy is nerdy, conventional and a soft touch. Except that when we first meet her, she's locked up in the local mental hospital, kicking back at the guards and muttering darkly about the murders that put her here. Looking back, she dates this disastrous turn of events to the day Jennifer talked her into seeing an up-and-coming indie band at the roadhouse. The gig ends in a deadly inferno that claims the lives of several schoolmates, then Jennifer drives off with the band for an al fresco after-party involving satanic rites and virgin sacrifice. She survives on a technicality, but shows up later that night at Needy's place covered in blood, barfing blue goo and craving fresh flesh. In the days after the tragedy the entire school seems to be suffering from post-traumatic stress. Only Jennifer seems unfazed by the community's second sucker punch: the gruesome fate of the star quarterback in the woods. What's a girl to do if her best friend turns into a heartless boy-eating demon? Needy cleans up the mess and hopes it's just a phase. The last time a horror flick tried for a distinctly female point of view the result was "Twilight," which was more of a wan gothic romance than a chiller. Directed by Karyn Kusama, who made "Girlfight" and "Aeon Flux," "Jennifer's Body" isn't anything like that. It's a much edgier, snappier, bloodier film, aimed primarily at young hipsters and horror fans -- plus anyone else curious to see Megan Fox get nasty. (That's got to include a sizable chunk of the audience, surely?) So smoldering hot that at one point she coolly sets fire to her tongue, Fox makes a convincing vixen, callously picking up victims whenever her luster begins to fade. It's not hard to imagine she can have anyone who takes her fancy -- even Needy is not immune to her charms. Ironically, though, Jennifer is really the needy one here, while her friend eventually finds the self-possession to stand up to her. Similarly, you might come for Fox, but it's Amanda Seyfried's expressive range and toughness that leaves a more lasting impression. The "Mamma Mia" starlet is destined for good things. iReport.com: Share your review of "Jennifer's Body" The bitingly smart, funny teen-speak is carried over from "Juno," along with sharp pop culture references and a sassy feminist attitude, but the million-dollar question has to be: Is it scary? Only occasionally, I'm afraid. The gore scenes come with weird little flourishes: Jennifer's mounting body count attracts a crowd of curious woodland creatures, sounding a sweetly sick echo of "Bambi," and a climactic showdown is set in a spectacularly fetid abandoned swimming pool (don't they drain those things?). But the jokiness does tend to undercut the terror. I suspect the film will prove too freaky for "Juno" boosters, and could have used more straight-ahead scares and sustained suspense to appease the hardcore horror geeks. That said, this entertainingly oddball offering does twist fresh kinks into a genre that's always crying out for new blood. "Jennifer's Body" is rated R and runs 102 minutes. | "Jennifer's Body" is a horror winner with doses of comedy, says Tom Charity .
Film stars Megan Fox as a cheerleader who turns demonic .
Amanda Seyfried, playing Fox's friend, provides movie's standout performance .
"Jennifer's Body" was written by "Juno's" Diablo Cody . | c89e8f70881da52930f0adb8ad577d7a476a66b5 | [
"(CNN) -- You don't need to be a teenage boy to",
"realize how scary girls can be. Girls know it",
"too. Megan Fox plays a demonic cheerleader in",
"\"Jennifer's Body,\" written by Diablo \"Juno\" Cody.",
"Certainly Diablo Cody does. The Academy",
"Award-winning \"Juno\" scribe proves as much in her",
"second screenplay, a horror comedy about BFFs",
"Jennifer (Megan Fox) and Needy (Amanda Seyfried).",
"These bosom buddies have a relationship that",
"stretches back to the sandbox. They're",
"inseparable opposites: Jennifer is a babe, head",
"cheerleader and a bit of a snot. Needy is nerdy,",
"conventional and a soft touch. Except that when",
"we first meet her, she's locked up in the local",
"mental hospital, kicking back at the guards and",
"muttering darkly about the murders that put her",
"here. Looking back, she dates this disastrous",
"turn of events to the day Jennifer talked her",
"into seeing an up-and-coming indie band at the",
"roadhouse. The gig ends in a deadly inferno that",
"claims the lives of several schoolmates, then",
"Jennifer drives off with the band for an al",
"fresco after-party involving satanic rites and",
"virgin sacrifice. She survives on a technicality,",
"but shows up later that night at Needy's place",
"covered in blood, barfing blue goo and craving",
"fresh flesh. In the days after the tragedy the",
"entire school seems to be suffering from",
"post-traumatic stress. Only Jennifer seems",
"unfazed by the community's second sucker punch:",
"the gruesome fate of the star quarterback in the",
"woods. What's a girl to do if her best friend",
"turns into a heartless boy-eating demon? Needy",
"cleans up the mess and hopes it's just a phase.",
"The last time a horror flick tried for a",
"distinctly female point of view the result was",
"\"Twilight,\" which was more of a wan gothic",
"romance than a chiller. Directed by Karyn Kusama,",
"who made \"Girlfight\" and \"Aeon Flux,\" \"Jennifer's",
"Body\" isn't anything like that. It's a much",
"edgier, snappier, bloodier film, aimed primarily",
"at young hipsters and horror fans -- plus anyone",
"else curious to see Megan Fox get nasty. (That's",
"got to include a sizable chunk of the audience,",
"surely?) So smoldering hot that at one point she",
"coolly sets fire to her tongue, Fox makes a",
"convincing vixen, callously picking up victims",
"whenever her luster begins to fade. It's not hard",
"to imagine she can have anyone who takes her",
"fancy -- even Needy is not immune to her charms.",
"Ironically, though, Jennifer is really the needy",
"one here, while her friend eventually finds the",
"self-possession to stand up to her. Similarly,",
"you might come for Fox, but it's Amanda",
"Seyfried's expressive range and toughness that",
"leaves a more lasting impression. The \"Mamma Mia\"",
"starlet is destined for good things. iReport.com:",
"Share your review of \"Jennifer's Body\" The",
"bitingly smart, funny teen-speak is carried over",
"from \"Juno,\" along with sharp pop culture",
"references and a sassy feminist attitude, but the",
"million-dollar question has to be: Is it scary?",
"Only occasionally, I'm afraid. The gore scenes",
"come with weird little flourishes: Jennifer's",
"mounting body count attracts a crowd of curious",
"woodland creatures, sounding a sweetly sick echo",
"of \"Bambi,\" and a climactic showdown is set in a",
"spectacularly fetid abandoned swimming pool",
"(don't they drain those things?). But the",
"jokiness does tend to undercut the terror. I",
"suspect the film will prove too freaky for \"Juno\"",
"boosters, and could have used more straight-ahead",
"scares and sustained suspense to appease the",
"hardcore horror geeks. That said, this",
"entertainingly oddball offering does twist fresh",
"kinks into a genre that's always crying out for",
"new blood. \"Jennifer's Body\" is rated R and runs",
"102 minutes."
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Barcelona may have slipped from the summit of European football but this tie proved that Manchester City are still stranded half-way down the mountain. The Catalan giants arrived in Manchester on the back of a shock defeat to Malaga on Saturday that left them four points behind Real Madrid at the top of La Liga. And they were besieged by controversy about Lionel Messi’s visit to a casino in the early hours of Monday morning with team-mate Gerard Pique. Luis Suarez fired home from a tight angle after outwitting Vincent Kompany to put Barcelona ahead . Suarez (left) finishes off a lovely move from a tight angle to give City a mountain to climb . The City defence can only look back in anger after Suarez hit his second of the game to stun the hosts . But City soothed all their visitors' uncertainties away with a performance that was timid, insipid and ineffective. City were, quite simply, the dream opponents, supine and dull. Barcelona strolled through the first half as if it were a practice match. It felt as if they could not quite believe their luck. This is the kind of result and performance that could act as a catalyst for Barcelona as they try to reclaim their crown, at home and abroad. For a side that frets about its Messidependencia, this was a performance that suggested Barcelona are more than a one-man team. The old Holy Trinity of Messi, Xavi and Andres Iniesta is no more. Xavi was on the bench and there are doubts about the longevity of Iniesta. But even though Messi was sublime, there were signs a new Holy Trinity is emerging. Sergio Aguero, City's saviour in the group stages, gave his side a glimmer of home with this sublime effort . The Argentine striker was his bustling, energetic best giving Marc-Andre ter Stegen little chance . Aguero breathed life into the tie with his 69th minute strike pegging back an irresistible Barcelona . So far, Luis Suarez has been content to play a supporting role to Messi and feed the Argentine’s goalscoring genius. Those close to the team say Suarez has made a conscious decision to sacrifice individual glory in the pursuit of the trophies that have largely eluded him. Suarez knows that making sure Messi is functioning at his peak represents the team's best chance of being successful and he has resolved to do everything he can to assist him. It is one of the reasons why Suarez and Messi, who does not like to share the scoring spoils, get on so well. But on his first return to England since his £75million move from Liverpool in the summer, Suarez showed the match-winning talent that was his trademark during his time on Merseyside. Hart saves Lionel Messi's spot kick to hand City a Champions League lifeline . Time stands still as Messi throws himself at the rebound, but his diving header goes wide of the post . Manuel Pellegrini’s 4-4-2 system played into Barcelona’s hands by leaving City hopelessly outnumbered in central midfield where Barcelona literally ran rings around them. That was Barcelona’s foundation but it was Suarez, Messi and Neymar who ripped City’s defence to shreds. Barca’s front three were a joy to watch. Messi, listless and ineffective against Malaga, was back to his dazzling, dribbling, mesmerising best. He played the provider. It was his curling cross that flummoxed Vincent Kompany after 16 minutes and allowed Suarez to rifle in the rebound. And it was his beautiful run across the face of City’s box and his lay-off to Jordi Alba that allowed Alba to curl a cross into the path of Suarez that the Uruguayan touched home. The maddening thing for City and their fans was that this was an opportunity missed. Gael Clichy's reckless tackle on Dani Alves was rewarded with a second yellow of the night and an early bath . Hart and Lionel Messi share a light-hearted moment during a tense Champions League encounter . Barcelona are still a fine, fine side, of course. The fact that they had won 11 straight games before that defeat to Malaga tells you that. But they are vulnerable, too. Or they would have been if City had offered any type of threat. There was a reason why Messi’s casino visit caused a furore. There was a reason why the issue poisoned Barcelona coach Luis Enrique’s press conference here on Monday night. A few seasons ago, when Barcelona were sweeping all before them, the casino visit would have been ignored. But things are different now. Barcelona are different. Their dominance has gone and so has the confidence of their fans. They find more reasons to fret. Suarez's two-goal salvo silenced the Etihad and left City's Champions League hopes hanging by a thread . Kompany was at fault for the first and the City captain trudges ruefully to the half-way line . David Silva, Edin Dzeko and James Milner cut dejected figures after Suarez's second of the night . So after the defeat to Malaga on Saturday afternoon, the casino visit felt like a symbol of a team whose focus has slipped. And the Barcelona team that walked out on to the pitch at the Etihad was a team that has lost its assumptions of superiority. It is a team in transition. Some say it is at the beginning of a new cycle. Some argue it has not yet ended the old one. Against that backdrop, it turned out that a visit to the Etihad was exactly what Barcelona needed. It was the perfect tonic. By midway through the second half, most City fans were resigned to their team’s fate. Neymar was a nuisance and is pictured giving Pablo Zabaleta a run for his money . Messi was also outstanding and is manhandled by Fernando with Kompany and David Silva looking on . They gasped in awe when Messi took down a high ball that was falling over his shoulder and killed it stone dead. City forced their way back into the game with a goal from Sergio Aguero 20 minutes from time but that was largely because Barcelona had taken their foot off the pedal. When they pressed back down on it, City were chasing shadows again and would have gone further behind if Messi had converted either his injury time penalty or the rebound that he headed wide. It felt like we were turning back time to when Barcelona were revered as the kings of beautiful football, the epitome of everything that is good in the game. It was a time to sit back and marvel. | Manuel Pellegrini named an attacking line-up and his selection was punished .
His 4-4-2 system played into Barcelona's hands by leaving City hopelessly outnumbered in central midfield .
Luis Suarez struck twice in the first half hour to give Barcelona control .
Sergio Aguero hit back in the 69th minute to give City a Champions League lifeline .
Gael Clichy was sent off for a rash challenge on Dani Alves .
Joe Hart saved Lionel Messi's last-gasp penalty and the Argentine missed the rebound with a diving header . | 634e6847b4da1f91f321304d1ebb0583eb2bc0f0 | [
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(CNN) -- A Georgia man was sentenced to six months in federal prison on charges of sexually assaulting a sleeping passenger during a flight from Dallas to Atlanta, federal authorities said Tuesday. FBI agents arrested Ranchhodbhai Lakha of Alpharetta, Georgia, on October 4, 2010, after a 20-year-old woman filed a complaint about being inappropriately touched on the Delta flight. According to the federal indictment, the woman said she awoke during the trip to discover the 61-year-old former hotel owner touching her below the waist. She removed his hand and told him to stop, documents said. Lakha responded by asking her, "Is that OK -- you don't like that?" according to the complaint. The woman said no and recoiled her body to protect herself, but Lakha reached down and touched her again, the indictment alleged. After the woman got up and reported the assault to a flight attendant, authorities arrested Lakha on a federal criminal complaint of sexual assault. "This defendant thought he could get away with taking advantage of a defenseless, sleeping passenger sitting next to him. He was wrong. He will now serve time in a federal prison," U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said Tuesday. Lakha pleaded guilty to a charge of abusive sexual contact on June 29, 2011. In addition to serving six months in prison, he must serve one year of supervised release, and was fined $5,000. Lakha also is required to register as a sex offender. | Georgia man convicted of sexual assault of sleeping passenger .
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By . Steph Cockroft . A gang of masked robbers burst into a family's home and carried out a series of brutal attacks with a knife and a crowbar after mistaking their house for a drug dealer's. The weapon-wielding attackers broke into the Welsh Valleys home, before launching the terrifying midnight raid, which was described by the judge as 'everyone's nightmare'. In the attack - said to be like 'a scene from a horror film' - the mother was stabbed with a knife, while her daughter was hit with a crowbar and punched repeatedly in the face. The teenage son, who was stabbed twice in the leg while pleading for the attackers to leave his family alone, still cannot walk properly following the assault, the court was told. Scroll down for video . Christopher Edwards, 38, pictured left, and Mark Anthony Peacock, 39, right, were two of the masked robbers who broke into a family's home and carried out a brutal midnight raid after mistaking it for a drug dealer's . Shakira Jane Hellings, 29, pictured left, and Stanley Melville Carey Butler, 40, were another two members of the gang who carried out the attacks at the family's home in the Welsh Valleys . Now the four-strong gang, from Rhondda - who have a long list of previous convictions, including for assaults and burglaries - have been jailed for a total of nearly 40 years. Mark Anthony Peacock, 39, Shakira Jane Hellings, 29, Christopher Edwards, 38, and Stanley Melville Carey Butler, 40, all admitted aggravated burglary and four counts of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm when they appeared at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court. Jailing the gang, Judge Richard Twomlow said it had been an 'utterly appalling and frightening incident' which had had a devastating effect on the family. He said: 'It is hard to imagine a case which could be very much worse than this. 'This . was an utterly appalling and frightening incident involving serious . violence on a wholly innocent family in their own home. 'It has been . suggested that it is everyone’s nightmare. It is clearly true.' The court heard how the attack took place on June 5, as the family members - who cannot be named for legal reasons - were asleep at home. Rachel Knight, prosecuting, said the eldest daughter was woken up when she heard a man demanding money. When she heard the commotion on the landing, . she went out to find her brother being assaulted. Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court heard Christopher Edwards, 38, from Treorchy, has appeared in court on eight previous occasions for 16 offences, including assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Mark Anthony Peacock, . 39, from Tylorstown, had appeared in court on 36 occasions and has been convicted of 136 offences. This includes 20 convictions for dwelling burglaries or attempted burglaries and violence. Shakira Jane Hellings, 29, from Tyn y Bryn, who had been a law student at Bath University before turning to drugs, has been convicted of 15 offences from nine court appearances. Stanley Melville Carey Butler, from Tylorstown, has 37 previous convictions from 20 court appearances, including for affray, possessing offensive weapons, burglary and violence. The girl managed to grab one of the attackers but was pushed back and hit with a crowbar. She was then repeatedly punched in the face, the court was told. That attack woke up the children's mother, who got up from her bed to try and stop the assault. But, as she tried to reach her children, she was pushed backwards into a wardrobe and stabbed with a knife. Her attacker then made a demand for money before hitting her husband over the head with a crowbar. Ms Knight said the mother managed to strike the attacker with a hammer that had been brought to the scene. But when she went onto the landing, she saw her son being assaulted on the stairs by two of the defendants, one of whom was armed with a knife. The court heard her son was seen pleading with the attackers to leave the family alone. His mother then managed to kick the armed man down the stairs and the four robbers fled the scene. The court heard the burglary and assaults were witnessed . by the family’s youngest child who, although unhurt, was . seen screaming from the bedroom window for help. The robbers were caught less than one hour later after a neighbour saw the van used by the gang and heard the family's call for help. Ms Knight said: 'He said when he went inside it was a scene from a horror film. Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court, where the four robbers were jailed for a collective . 40 years, heard the family had been left traumatised by the incident, . which the judge described as 'everyone's nightmare' 'It was clear that they were targeting this property because they thought he was a drug dealer. That was wrong. They got the wrong house. It was as simple as that.' After the attack, the teenage son had to undergo general surgery and still does not know whether he will recover full movement. He also had to pull out of his college course, the court was told. Ms Knight also said the incident had left the family feeling unsafe in their own home. They were said to be anxious and nervous, as well as paranoid to the point where they have considered moving. 'It is hard to imagine a case which could be very much worse than this' Judge Richard Twomlow . She said: 'The father said that he had always felt safe in his own home but this had shattered that belief.' The court was told each of the four defendants had criminal records and were remorseful. Defending Edwards, a father-of-two, Ieuan Bennett said the carpenter had got his life on track before spiralling into drink and drugs when his relationship broke down. It was his works van that was used during the burglary, the court was told. Defennding Hellings, Jeremy Jenkins said she had been a law student at Bath University before dropping out because of an abusive relationship and getting hooked on drugs. He said: 'She has had a spectacular fall from grace. Drugs and drink have absolutely ruined her life.' Edwards was jailed for nine years, Butler . was jailed for 10 years and Hellings and Peacock were each jailed for . nine-and-a-half years. Each will have to pay a £120 victim surcharge. | Attackers burst into Welsh Valleys home in June this year while family slept .
Mother was stabbed by robber while daughter was attacked with crowbar .
Teenage son was stabbed twice in leg while pleading for attackers to leave .
Witnessed by youngest child who was seen screaming from window for help .
Described as an 'utterly appalling, frightening - everyone's nightmare'
Four robbers jailed at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court for total of nearly 40 years .
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By . Snejana Farberov and Helen Pow . PUBLISHED: . 16:58 EST, 16 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:53 EST, 17 January 2013 . Tiny the formerly obese cat has a lot to purr about these days. Not only has he lost half his body weight, the orphaned feline has found a new home. The pudgy pet was dumped outside the Fredericton SPCA in New Brunswick, Canada, just over a year ago weighing a whopping 30lbs. But, after sticking to a strict diet, the ironically-named feline is now fit and healthy and has been officially adopted by foster parent, Nancy Garon. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO . New life: Tiny, pictured, the formerly obese cat has found a new home after losing half his body weight . Garon even threw an adoption party for Tiny on Saturday, dressing the noticeably more slender cat in a sparkly bow tie. 'It was a nice way to celebrate all the work, dedication and time that went into Tiny,' LeeAnn Haggerty, the director of education at the shelter, told TODAY.com. 'She's really bonded with him and it's nice for everyone to know that he'll be doing well in Nancy's care.' The animal has a penchant or bow . ties, which are made by some of the many volunteers who have tracked his . weight loss progress on Facebook. Festive feline: Tiny, pictured, over the holidays is far more active now he's dropped the weight . Lighter: The pudgy pet was dumped outside the Fredericton SPCA in New Brunswich, Canada, just over a year ago weighing a whopping 30lbs but now weighs just 16lbs . Donations and sales of Tiny's Ties have already raised $10,000 for the Fredericton SPCA, Today reported. Tiny now ways 16 pounds and the weight loss has transformed his life. 'As soon as he lost the first six pounds you could start to see the changes,' Haggerty said. 'To . not be able to groom yourself must've been pretty frustrating. When he . walked, he used to take a few steps, but now he runs all over the place. He is a very playful cat.' Big surprise: Tiny, left, and his buddy, Rapunzel, arrived in a cardboard box at a Canadian animal rescue center . Fat cat: When Tiny arrived at the Fredericton SPCA, he weighed in at 30.2lbs, or about three times the size of an average house cat . Cat with a plan: Tiny was put on a calorie-controlled weight loss regimen . Baby steps: Initially, Tiny would hardly walk, and even swatting at a feather wand would wear him out . In . August, the cat had lost more than 10 pounds, weighing in at 19.1lbs. Haggerty said back then that it had taken a lot of hard work to bring . Tiny's weight down to that point. 'When he came to the shelter, we knew . this weight was a medical emergency, really that obesity in pets can be . fatal; his weight was quite a concern,' she told CBC News. Tiny, . who at that point was about three times the size of an average house . cat, was taken to Dr Nicole Jewett at Valley Veterinary Hospital, who . created a special calorie-controlled weight-loss plan for him at a . foster home. Breakthrough: On January 24, Tiny weighed in at just under 28lbs after shedding more than two pounds . Shedding pounds: Thanks to eating right and being more active, Tiny lost about 6lbs from his starting weight . On track: With his weight melting away, Tiny's coat became shiner and he started getting playful again . Getting trim: On June 12, The once-grossly overweight feline dropped to impressive 21.13lbs . The drastic weight loss has been . accompanied by a significant improvement in Tiny’s appearance and . well-being, according to his veterinarian. When the pet first arrived at the . center, his coat and eyes were dull, and he could only make a few steps . at a time before he would have to lie down. Thanks to his new svelte physique, however, Tiny has become more playful and active. 'He runs, he plays — it's amazing,' Haggerty said. Celebrity status: One of Tiny's supporters has created a clothing line for the shrinking feline . Force for good: The SPCA created signature Tiny ties, which they sell online to raise medical funds for animals . Milestone: On August 16, Tiny reached an important benchmark when he was weighed in at 19.11lbs . Another . fringe benefit that came as a result of Tiny's impressive slim-down is . popularity. Fans send in fabric to the SPCA, which . they use to make the signature Tiny ties and sell them on the site . Etsy.com to raise medical funds for animals. According . to Haggerty, about 40-60 per cent of North American pets are . overweight, and in cats, it can lead to diabetes, arthritis, organ . issues and even death. To donate money to the medical fund for animals in need, please click here. VIDEO: Watch Tiny the cat weigh in! | Tiny started out at 30.2lbs - about three times the size of average cat .
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Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Yemeni President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi dismissed the government Tuesday and agreed to a 15% cut in fuel prices, in addition to other economic reforms, seeking to end weeks of tense protests led by tens of thousands of Houthi loyalists in the capital, Sanaa. Houthis, also known as "Ansarullah," have rejected the initiative. Houthi representative Mohammed Abdul-Salam announced they will continue protesting in Sanaa and its outskirts since the government did not involve them in the initiative. "We do not agree with the initiative announced by the government committee, and we will stand with the Yemeni people in their call for their rights," he said. Tens of thousands of Houthi supporters have been rallying for weeks to demand that a recently approved oil subsidy reform be revoked and that the government step down before they agree to lift their tents from Sanaa and the outskirts. The President's initiative also calls on the Houthis to withdraw fighters from Amran province and an immediate end of clashes in the northern Jawf province. Ali al-Bukaiti, A top Ansarullah leader, said that Houthi supporters, who follow the Zaidi sect of Islam, will not be tricked by the government's light reforms and that their demands are clear. On Monday, hours after Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi announced escalating the protests, Hadi sent Sanaa Mayor Abdul-Qadir Hilal to Saada province to give dialogue a final chance. Government committees that held talks with Houthi leaders over the previous two weeks didn't resolve the political tension. In a televised speech Sunday, al-Houthi said that his supporters would continue to protest and that at the right time, he would announce more stages of escalation. "The final stage will be the hardest, and we will think of all ways to intensify our struggle and force the government to step down," he said. For years, Yemen has faced violent battles against Houthi rebels. | Houthi official says protests will continue, government did not involve Houthis in the initiative .
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By . Damien Gayle . Last updated at 11:18 AM on 24th November 2011 . Apple fans hoping for a bargain this Christmas have had their appetites whetted after details of the tech giant's so-called 'Black Friday' sale were apparently leaked. The sale, set to take place at Apple stores worldwide and online tomorrow, will include some of the deepest cuts ever made by the company. The best discounts will be on Apple's big-ticket items, with $101 knocked off the retail prices of the the Macbook Pro, Macbook Air and iMac. On sale: Tech giant Apple is set to discount a range of products for a special one-day 'Black Friday' sale, according to an apparently leaked sales circular . Leaked: Apple fansite 9-5mac.com claims details of the sale were leaked to them by a 'trusted tipster' The company's iPad tablet computers will be offered at lesser discounts of between $41 to $61, iPods with $21 to $41 off, and iPod Nanos will be discounted by $11. Fans of Apple's mobile phones will be disappointed, however, as it looks like there will be no discount on the iPhone 4S or any of its predecessors. Fan site 9-5mac.com claimed a 'trusted tipster' leaked the details of the 2011 sale prices to them. The site has published pictures of . what appears to be a printed brochure detailing the special discounts, . which are some of Apple's deepest yet. But news of the sale was met with mixed responses from online technology commentators. ZDNet's Jason O'Grady described the discounts as 'anaemic'. Best deals: The heaviest discounts will be on Apple's big ticket items, like this Apple Macbook Pro which will be sold for $101 off the usual retail price . In previous years Apple has resisted heavily discounting its products, relying on their brand's hefty consumer appeal to drive sales - even as rivals make heavy price cuts. The discounts come as the Consumer . Federation of America warned retailers face a tough festive season, with . a survey showing consumers feel the financial situation has . deteriorated over the past year. The group found 37 per cent of 1,011 . respondents said their financial condition is worse today than it was . this time last year, compared to 30 per cent who say their finances have . not changed since last year. Nevertheless, . some retailers have gone all out to try to lure more shoppers to their . doors, with special opening hours creeping further back into the . Thanksgiving holiday. Walmart and Toys'R'Us have pushed their opening times into Thanksgiving evening, opening at 9pm and 7pm respectively. Target has provoked the outrage of its staff with its opening time tonight. Tens of thousands of Target employees have signed a petition objecting to its 12am opening time tonight in anger at being taken away from their families on the Thanksgiving holiday. With household budgets already so stretched, 10 per cent more people are expected to shop for their Christmas gifts on Black Friday this year than last year, according to a National Retail Federation (NRF) survey. Retailers are hoping that a string of discounts will help to persuade shoppers not to cut back too heavily on Christmas purchases amid the gloomy economic outlook. The NRF's survey also found that 62.2 per cent of Americans said the state of the economy would have an effect on their plans for spending over the festive season, and most people said they would be hunting for sales and discounts. News of Apple's discounts comes as speculation grows that the company will add to its 358 outlets worldwide with its biggest yet at New York City's Grand Central Station. Reports suggest a new space in Manhattan bustling train terminus will top the size of the corporation's massive 25,000-square-foot Regent Street location in London. An online video appears to give a walk-through tour of the site - but the corporation was giving little away about rumours it would be officially opened on Black Friday. Midnight madness: Shoppers hunt for bargains at the Tyson's Corner Centre in Virginia on Black Friday, November 26, last year. Retailers are going all out to make this year's bonanza even bigger . | Website claims 'trusted tipster' leaked details .
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Treat 'em mean: Researchers say there are evolutionary reasons why we are standoffish to loved ones . For generations, suitors have suspected that playing hard to get is a feminine wile dreamt up solely to try their patience. It seems, however, that there are sound evolutionary reasons why treating a man mean is the best way to keep him keen. According to psychologists who examined a host of much-used strategies, women blow hot and cold with a possible partner to test his commitment and quality. Researchers analysed 58 infuriating strategies used by women playing hard to get. They ranged from flirting with others and being ‘snooty’ to letting a suitor’s call divert to voicemail. The study, reported in the European Journal of Personality, asked more than 1,500 men and women which tactics worked best. The most successful feminine wiles included appearing highly self-confident, talking to other people, withholding sex, sarcasm, sounding busy, teasing, flirting with others and turning down the first few dates. Overall, women were more likely than men to play hard to get, the researchers from the University of Western Sydney and Singapore Management University discovered. The researchers suggested that was because women are trying to ensure a potential mate will stand by them once they have a child. Phillip Hodson, a fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and author of Men, An Investigation into the Emotional Male, told The Independent: 'This study blends traditional thinking with some modern. 'To get her man in the 1950s movie The Pajama Game, professional virgin Doris Day withholds sex until her underlying contractual demands are met. 'But psychologists and therapists would call this strategy outdated on the grounds that she'd most likely attract an incompatible mate who would tire of her once the challenge had vanished.' Playing hard to get: Ignoring your loved one is just one of the power play tactics men and women use . | Men and women play hard to get to test their loved one's commitment .
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(CNN) -- As the sun sets over Seattle, Phoenix Jones straps on his bodysuit and pulls a black and yellow mask over his face. He is getting ready to venture into the night, looking for anyone who may be breaking the law. The 25 year old is not a policeman with a quirky dress sense, but one of the most prominent members of the real-life-superhero community, a movement of people who wear costumes inspired by comic book characters, trying to prevent crimes in their area. Jones patrols Seattle's more troubled neighborhoods five nights a week with his group, the Rain City Superhero Movement. His wider network, The Alliance, has 34 members across the United States, London and Dubai. His decision to become a real-life caped crusader came after his car was broken into, and his young son was hurt by the shattered glass. He said: "I decided to actively fight crime and threw myself completely into it. After my experience I just felt there was so much apathy around and wanted to do something to make my community safer." The masked adventurer has been voted Belltown Neighborhood Hero by Seattle Magazine readers' choice poll, and has been documented as stopping a car from being broken into with his group. An unorthodox superhero . Jones, whose day job is teaching autistic children life skills, says he didn't read many comic books when he was young, because he couldn't identify with the heroes. "It never appealed to me," he said. "For example Batman, he was this billionaire living in a mansion and I was just a broke kid." Then, at 14, he came across a little-known character called Nightwing who worked as a waiter during the day, and fought crime at night, and was hooked. "I fell in love with this idea, that you don't need to have a lot of money to go out there and make a difference," he said. Read more: At 75, is Superman over the hill? Jones doesn't tackle criminals unprepared. He is a former mixed martial arts fighter, and wears a $10,000 bulletproof, Kevlar reinforced, fire-retardant jumpsuit, made with D3L smart fabric which hardens on impact. His superhero activities landed him in trouble in 2011, when he was arrested for pepper spraying people outside a bar in Seattle. Jones said he was trying to break up a fight, and he was later released without charge. Helping abuse victims . The so-called "Guardian of Seattle" is married to fellow superhero Purple Reign, who uses her hero persona to raise awareness of domestic violence. She said: "I was in an abusive relationship, and a lot of people around me noticed but said nothing. Now I want to inspire others to be heroes and stop minding their own business when they see abuse, as well as speak up for victims who have not yet found their voice." In her purple superhero bodysuit and mask, she gives anti-bullying talks at women's shelters and schools, organizes city clean-ups, and runs a project against domestic violence. Her campaigning earned her the University of Washington Women of Courage honor last November. Purple Reign says her superhero name represents the transformation she underwent from a victim to survivor of domestic abuse. "Purple is a color which is very often used in domestic abuse awareness campaigns, and reign comes from the fact that I now reign over my own life," she said. "Wearing the suit has helped me feel more confident and in control, and move on from my past. I am not a victim any more, I feel powerful." She uses the skills developed in her day job as an accountant to bring a more organized approach to the Reign City Superhero Movement's crime fighting. She uses 911 call information released by the Seattle Police department to create crime maps which allow group to target troubled areas of the city. Watch: Where are the superheroines? Purple Reign also regularly patrols with the group, for which she maintains high levels of physical fitness, a condition her husband says is crucial for anyone who wants to be a real life superhero. Superhero requirements . In fact, Jones is adamant that only people of military, police or martial arts background should consider becoming superheroes because their training could help them deal with potentially dangerous situations. In order to be to admitted to The Alliance, the rules are even tougher -- potential heroes must have: a steady job, must not have committed any crimes of dishonesty, be able to run two miles in eight minutes and 30 seconds in full gear, and be able to train with Jones for three days a week during the trial period. Read more: The town where superman lives . For aspiring superheroes overseas, The Alliance fundraises over its Facebook page. Funds are used to help newcomers to travel to Seattle for a two-week intensive crash course in superhero crime fighting. In spite of being shot at and stabbed twice, Jones insists that Seattle heroes don't deliberately try to get involved in trouble. "Ninety percent of what we do is watching," he said. "If we see somewhere is being burgled, we will call the police and track the perpetrator. We don't intentionally go in to tackle someone, we are just regular people who want to help their community." When it comes to continuing to fight crime into his old age, Jones is pragmatic. "I don't think I will be doing it forever," he said. "When I hit 33 or 34 I will either have to stop, or have some amazing gadgetry." But he insists that it doesn't take a supersuit to be an involved citizen. "What Purple Reign and I are trying to do is promote community activism. 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They give talks at schools against bullying during the day and patrol Seattle streets at night .
Jones wears a $10,000 Kevlar reinforced superhero suit .
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By . Associated Press . PUBLISHED: . 06:34 EST, 23 April 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 09:49 EST, 23 April 2012 . A gift of balloons. That, prosecutors contend, is what sent Jennifer Hudson's then brother-in-law into such a jealous rage that he shot dead her mother, brother and seven-year-old nephew in a horrific act of vindictiveness in the home where the Hollywood star grew up. A prosecutor is expected to tell jurors that during opening statements at the trial of William Balfour - charged with three counts of first-degree murder over the October 24, 2008 slayings that generated nationwide headlines because of Hudson's fame. Tragic: Jennifer Hudson holding her Oscar with her mother other Darnell Hudson Donerson, 57, who was found dead at the family's home in Chicago in 2008 . The estranged husband of Hudson's . sister, Balfour believed the balloons he saw at the Hudson home came . from Julia Hudson's new boyfriend; driving away for her job as a school . bus driver, she glimpsed Balfour in her mirror still lingering outside, . prosecutors have said. They say Balfour went back inside the three-story house around 9am and used a .45-caliber handgun to kill Hudson's mother, 57-year-old Darnell Hudson Donerson, in the living room - then shot her 29-year-old brother, Jason Hudson, twice in the head as he lay in bed. Trial: William Balfour is on trial accused of murdering Jennifer Hudson's mother Darnell Donerson, older brother Jason and nephew Julian King . He allegedly drove off in Jason Hudson's SUV with Julia Hudson's son, Julian King, inside. Authorities say he shot the boy nicknamed Juice Box in the head as he lay behind a front seat. His body was found in the abandoned vehicle miles away after a three-day search. There are no known witnesses to the slayings, and it's unclear what physical evidence exists, be it fingerprints or DNA. Prosecutors say gunshot residue was found on the steering wheel of Balfour's car. But the defense says that and other evidence is circumstantial. Close ties: Jennifer Hudson offered $100,000 for the safe return of her nephew Julian King, seven (left) A gun, which Balfour allegedly stole months before from Hudson's brother, was recovered in a lot near where the SUV was found and will be presented as the murder weapon. Establishing motive may pose less of a challenge. A high-school dropout and one-time Gangster Disciple known by the gang name 'Flex', Balfour allegedly threatened to kill the Hudson family at least two dozen times, starting earlier in 2008 when he moved out of the house, lead prosecutor James McKay has said. Murder trial: William Balfour is the estranged husband of Jennifer Hudson's sister Julia. He is accused of killing her mother, brother and nephew four years ago . A day before the killings, on Julia Hudson's birthday, McKay says, Balfour told her, 'If you ever leave me, I'm going to kill you, but I'm going to kill your family first.' She didn't take him seriously, McKay said, because Balfour hadn't acted on the threats before. Court records indicate the now 34-year-old Julia Hudson's divorce from Balfour was finalized last year. If convicted of at least two of the murder counts, the 30-year-old Balfour, on parole at the time of the killings after serving nearly seven years for attempted murder and vehicular hijacking, would face a mandatory life sentence. Harrowing: Jennifer Hudson poses with her Oscar in 2008 and brother-in-law William Balfour. She could testify at his murder trial over the shootings of her mother, brother and nephew . Jennifer Hudson's name is among 300 on a list of potential witnesses, though it's not certain she will testify. The 2004 American Idol finalist and 2007 Oscar winner for her role in Dreamgirls is expected to attend each day of testimony, which could last up to a month. Judge Charles Burns has instructed jurors to set aside any sympathy for Hudson and decide a verdict strictly according to testimony. The panelists include a teacher, a trucker and two people who have had close relatives murdered. Proceedings: William Balfour's murder trial started this week at the Cook County courthouse in Chicago . Prosecutors have said Balfour claimed he wasn't near the Hudson home at the time of the killing, but they are expected to introduce cellphone records that allegedly prove he was in the area when two teenage girls who live nearby heard gunshots. The witnesses didn't immediately report the shots to police because the sound of gunfire isn't uncommon in the impoverished, crime-ridden Englewood neighbourhood, according to court filings. Troubled relationship: Jennifer Hudson's sister Julia with her estranged husband William Balfour who is standing trial for murdering her relatives . At a time when cities across the country have seen the number of homicides fall, sometimes dramatically, Chicago's jumped by a whopping 60 per cent the first three months of the year, and Englewood's violence was a big reason why. Since he took office last May, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has used the word 'Englewood' as almost shorthand for gangs, guns and the dangers facing the city's children. The deteriorating neighborhood has presented him with one of his biggest challenges, becoming a focus for his promise to deploy more police officers to the street while cracking down on Englewood's gangs. Violence: The boarded up former home of Jennifer Hudson and her family in Englewood, Chicago. There are thousands of boarded-up buildings in the city's most notorious neighbourhood . There are a host of reasons for Englewood's downward spiral. But they mostly boil down to an exodus of families from an area that was predominantly single-family homes, resulting in an explosion in the number of abandoned buildings, and an influx of gang members.Home to 100,000 residents in 1960, Englewood's population has dwindled. It had dropped to about 40,000 in 2000 and to 30,000 just 10 years later.Part of the reason is that families moved out to safer places and others lost their homes when they lost jobs during the recession.According to the police department, there are more than 4,100 abandoned buildings in Englewood, nearly 600 of them vacated in just the last 15 months. Neighbour: Englewood resident Antie Moore at the former home of Jennifer Hudson and her family in the troubled Chicago neighbourhood . | American Idol finalist expected in court throughout tragic case which is due to last a month .
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"gun, which Balfour allegedly stole months before",
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"presented as the murder weapon. Establishing",
"motive may pose less of a challenge. A",
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"allegedly threatened to kill the Hudson family at",
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"her mother, brother and nephew four years ago . A",
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"relatives . At a time when cities across the",
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"jobs during the recession.According to the police",
"department, there are more than 4,100 abandoned",
"buildings in Englewood, nearly 600 of them",
"vacated in just the last 15 months. Neighbour:",
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"of Jennifer Hudson and her family in the troubled",
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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Air traffic delays began to clear up Tuesday evening after computer problems left travelers across the United States waiting in airports, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Flights at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport were delayed Tuesday afternoon. Airports experienced hours of flight delays Tuesday afternoon after a communications breakdown at a Federal Aviation Administration facility, the administration said. The facility south of Atlanta had problems processing data, requiring that all flight-plan information be processed through a facility in Salt Lake City, Utah, overloading that facility. The two facilities process all flight plans for commercial and general aviation flights in the United States, FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said. Delays had begun to clear by 5 p.m. ET. By 6 p.m., the administration said minimal delays remained as the Salt Lake facility began processing requests closer to normal speed. "The situation is pretty much resolved," FAA spokeswoman Diane Spitaliere said. At about 9:30 p.m. ET, most major airports were reporting flights departing on time or with less than 15-minute delays. Newark International was still reporting delays of up to 1 hour and 45 minutes and LaGuardia Airport in New York reported 45-minute delays -- although weather problems were cited as the main problem. John F. Kennedy International in New York and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International were reporting delays of up to 30 minutes, although both of those airports also had experienced thunderstorms and other weather-related difficulties. The administration said there were no radar outages and said it had not lost contact with any planes during the computer glitch. The roughly 5,000 flights that were in the air when the breakdown happened were not affected, just those that were waiting to take off. iReporter stuck in Philadelphia . "This is really not a safety issue, this is an aggravation issue," CNN aviation expert Miles O'Brien said. Watch Miles O'Brien track the delays » . The problem appeared similar to a June 8, 2007, computer issue that caused severe flight delays and some cancellations along the East Coast. iReport.com: Are you stuck at the airport? iReporter Stephanie McCauley sat on the tarmac for more than an hour at Baltimore/Washington International Airport on Tuesday on a flight bound for Albany, New York. "It happens. It's just weird, because you're sitting, and you don't know if it's going to be 20 minutes or 2 hours," McCauley said. Cheryl Stewart, spokeswoman for Baltimore/Washington International Airport, said that as of about 3:40 p.m., some flights were being allowed to take off, but the FAA was no longer accepting new flight plans. "We're just kind of waiting for further word," Stewart said. On the FAA's Web site, delays were being reported at all 40 airports on the administration's primary flight information map. The worst delays were in the Northeast, Bergen said. Chicago's Midway and O'Hare airports in Illinois were reporting delays of up to 90 minutes. The Web site, which normally lists the length of expected flight delays, was no longer listing that information Tuesday afternoon. The total number of flights affected was unknown, although it was believed to be in the hundreds. Mark Biello, a CNN photographer sitting on a delayed flight at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta on Tuesday afternoon, said flights there were being cleared for takeoff one at a time. Watch Mark Biello at the airport » . "They're releasing the planes but on a one-by-one basis, so it's really backed the whole system up, at least in the Atlanta area," Biello said. At Philadelphia International Airport in Pennsylvania, iReporter Randy Hehn and his wife were on their way home to Denver, Colorado, after a trip to Europe. He said he'd left Stockholm, Sweden, 11 hours earlier. "I don't really want to spend the rest of the evening in the airport; I'm hoping they get this fixed," Hehn said in a video posted on iReport.com. "I see planes moving around, but I don't know. "We're just coming back from Europe, we're really tired, and this is bad news." | NEW: FAA says situation "pretty much resolved"
FAA facility south of Atlanta, Georgia, having problems processing data .
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By . Becky Evans and Ap Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 04:32 EST, 6 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 18:04 EST, 6 November 2013 . A former Black Panther, who hijacked a plane and forced it to fly to Cuba, is set to return to the U.S. to face justice today. William Potts said he is homesick and wants to return to America for the first time in almost three decades. Mr Potts, 56, who has been working with U.S. diplomats in Havana in recent weeks to get a passport, said they told him yesterday that his travel arrangements were made . and he could leave on a charter flight to Miami today. Scroll down for video . William Potts is due to return to the U.S. today for the first time since he hijacked a plane in 1984 and forced it to take him to Cuba where he has lived since . Mr Potts has worked with U.S. diplomats in Havana to secure a passport and return to Miami . Because the two countries have no extradition treaty, Mr Potts was beyond the reach of U.S. justice but he still faces an indictment for air piracy that could carry a 20-year prison sentence. He hopes the 13 years he served in Cuba for the hijacking will be taken into consideration by U.S. authorities but admits he may be sent to prison. Mr Potts said he seeks 'closure' by . facing the U.S. justice system. He argues that the time he served in the . Combinado del Este prison outside Havana should mitigate further . punishment back home. 'I'm . ready for whatever,' Potts said. 'My position is, of course, I did the . crime and I did the time, and the United States has to recognize that.' Mr Potts was jailed after hijacking a commercial plane in 1984 when he pulled a gun hidden in a plaster cast and forced it to land in Cuba, where he expected authorities to offer him guerrilla training. Instead he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Since his release, he settled down became a farmer and had two daughters with his second wife. Revolutionary Times: Armed members of the Black Panther Party leave the Capitol in Sacramento May 2nd, 1967 . He was granted permanent . residency in Cuba and he and his now ex-wife live in a modest Soviet-style . apartment block east of Havana. Mr Potts said: 'I've got kind of mixed emotions, let me say that at least, about touching American soil for the first time in nearly 30 years. 'So much has changed, and I'm just going to have to wait and see what it looks like when I get there.' The Black Panther Party was a revolutionary organization in the U.S. calling for empowerment of African Americans and protection from police brutality. Set up in 1966, the leaders of the group backed socialist and Marxist doctrines and eventually had affiliations with Communist Cuba. The organization created a Ten-Point Program that cemented its economic and political grievances and the party gained national prominence during the rest of the 1960s and 1970s. The party was officially disbanded in the early 1980s. Notable Black Panther members fled to Cuba, including Assata Shakur - the aunt of murdered rapper Tupac Shakur. She was accused of murdering two New Jersey State Troopers in 1973 and indited in relation to other crimes including attempted murder and armed robbery. She escaped from prison in 1979 and has been living in Cuba in political asylum since 1984. He said his understanding was that he would be escorted by U.S. officials and delivered into the custody of U.S. marshals on arrival in Florida. 'What happens after that I couldn't tell you,' he said. 'I hope to be arraigned soon.' In the 1960s and early '70s, there were dozens of American hijackings to Cuba. As a way of discouraging them, both sides signed a 1971 agreement under which each government agreed to prosecute hijackers or return them to the other country. The U.S. has limited travel to Cuba since 1960 when Fidel Castro came to power. The rules were amended in 2011 to allow all Americans to visit Cuba but direct flights by U.S. airlines are still illegal. It is unclear what stance U.S. authorities will take against Mr Potts as the U.S. Interests Section, FBI and Cuban officials did not have any comment on his case. U.S. authorities have aggressively prosecuted some returning fugitives, while others saw their sentences reduced significantly for time served elsewhere. Even though Potts intends to continue to call Cuba home for the foreseeable future, he decided to return to the U.S. and take his chances with the legal system. The pending case against him keeps him from living his life fully, he said. He said: 'It's time it had closure. Why leave it hanging, why leave this gaping uncertainty? 'So I want to resolve that because... having completed my sentence, I feel like I want to put all that stuff behind me. 'I don't want that lingering over or impeding anything I might want to do. Once you've paid your debt to society you're entitled to a fresh start.' | William Potts, 56, is due to land in Florida today for the first time in 30 years .
Hijacked plane at gunpoint in 1984 and forced it to fly to Communist state .
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"04:32 EST, 6 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 18:04",
"EST, 6 November 2013 . A former Black Panther,",
"who hijacked a plane and forced it to fly to",
"Cuba, is set to return to the U.S. to face",
"justice today. William Potts said he is homesick",
"and wants to return to America for the first time",
"in almost three decades. Mr Potts, 56, who has",
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"recent weeks to get a passport, said they told",
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"Potts is due to return to the U.S. today for the",
"first time since he hijacked a plane in 1984 and",
"forced it to take him to Cuba where he has lived",
"since . Mr Potts has worked with U.S. diplomats",
"in Havana to secure a passport and return to",
"Miami . Because the two countries have no",
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"sentence. He hopes the 13 years he served in Cuba",
"for the hijacking will be taken into",
"consideration by U.S. authorities but admits he",
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By . Sara Malm . She rises at 2.30am every morning to . prepare her morning egg whites. Just over an hour later, she puts on her . head lamp and heads out for her ten-mile run, accompanied by her husband. By 8am she is in the gym, and works out for just under two hours. This . sounds like the mad morning routine concocted by a 22-year-old fitness . fanatic, but it is everyday life for Ernestine Shepherd, 77 – one of the . world’s oldest female bodybuilders. Scroll down for video . Inspiration: Ernestine Shepherd, 77, from Maryland, U.S. is one of the world's oldest bodybuilders . The man who runs by her side is her husband of more than 55 years, Collin, 83. She . follows a rigorous daily routine, which involves drinking several . bottles of egg white per day as part of her 1,700 calories a day diet of . eggs, chicken, vegetables and pulses. Living . by her mantra; ‘Dedication, Determination, Discipline to Get Fit’, she . works as a personal trainer at a local gym, inspiring senior citizens – . her oldest disciple is 89 – to get healthy and exercise. Determined, Dedicated, Disciplined: Ernestine gets up at 2.30am every day, prays, prepares her first meal of scrambled egg whites and a handful of walnuts, and then runs 10 miles before she has her second meal and hits the gym . Mrs . Shepherd, from Randallstown near Baltimore, Maryland, first got into . bodybuilding aged 56, thanks to her sister and best friend Velvet, who . thought the pair needed to get healthy. Back then Mrs Shepherd was a . ‘sedentary, well-padded school secretary and slug', she says. It . became their goal to get into the Guinness World Book of Records as the . oldest bodybuilding sisters. But before their dream came true, Velvet . passed away after suffering a brain aneurysm in 1992. Mrs Shepherd was hit hard by her sister’s death, and found herself struggling to keep going. ‘After . my sister died, I ended up with high blood pressure, panic attacks, . high cholesterol, you name it, I had it,’ Mrs Shepherd recently told . TIME magazine. She describes . how the support of her family and her religion helped her get motivated . to start running again, and that training took away all the aches and . pain and lifted the veil of depression. ‘I . take no high blood pressure medication, no panic attack medication, . have no acid reflux. By going out running, the depression and anxiety . just left me.’ Today, her classes are mostly senior women, but Mrs Shepherd has found she now also has older men joining in her classes. ‘I started my class with ten people. Now some mornings people can't get in the room,' she told Prevention Magazine. Love and support: Ernestine with her husband of more than 50 years, Collin Shepherd, 83, who runs with her every morning, pictured on the porch of their home in Baltimore, Maryland . ‘Not everyone wants to be body builder - just find what you like to do.’ She contacted former Mr Universe Yohnnie Shambourger, and asked him to help her become a professional bodybuilder. And he did. In . March of 2010, Mrs Shepherd was awarded the title of World’s Oldest . Performing Female BodyBuilder by Guinness World Records. And although . she no longer holds the title, she is may gain it back one day, as she . has no plans of stopping. An . age-related problem with her oesophagus means she has to avoid acidic . foods and gluten, so her guilty pleasures have nothing to do with food. ‘You know what I like?,’ she told TIME. ‘I like wearing skimpy clothes. Oh, yes I do.’ Winner: Ernestine, pictured with her trainer, former Mr Universe Yohnnie Shambourger, at a bodybuilding show in 2010. She got into bodybuilding thanks to her sister Velvet, and took the dream further after her death . | Ernestine Shepherd, 77, is one of the world's oldest bodybuilders .
Only started working out when she was 56 thanks to her sister .
When her sister died, she got depression and high blood pressure .
But thanks to the support of her family, she began training again .
She is now free from all symptoms, including acid reflux and high cholesterol .
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By . James Rush . Cars were left teetering on the edge while other vehicles were washed away in a mountain mudslide in Japan. One person has been confirmed dead and 550,000 people have been told to evacuate after the car park was destroyed in the mudslide in Anan, Tokushima, Japan, yesterday. Guests at the YMCA Anan Kokusai Kaiyo Center were left trapped after the hostel's car park collapsed in the landslide. Scroll down for video . Cars are left teetering on the brink while other vehicles are washed away in a mountain mudslide in Japan . An evacuation advisory has now been issued to 550,000 people in the Kochi, Tokushima and Ehime regions. Devastation has struck across parts of south and eastern Asia in the last few days, with 410 killed in a devastating earthquake in China, while a landslide in Nepal has claimed the lives of at 19 people with more than 150 still missing. Rescue workers were forced to urgently evacuate tens of thousands of people in eastern India following the deadly landslide in neighbouring Nepal which blocked a river that could burst its banks and submerge scores of Indian villages. Authorities in Nepal said there was no hope that more than 150 missing people are still alive after being buried by piles of rocks, mud and upturned trees in Saturday's landslide in Mankha, about 75 miles east of Katmandu. Nineteen others are confirmed dead. But as disaster workers continued to clear the debris yesterday, the danger area moved downstream to eastern India, where 125,000 people are in peril. The landslide blocked a mountain river in Nepal, causing it to back up and form a massive lake that was threatening to overflow and flood the Indian villages. Guests at the YMCA Anan Kokusai Kaiyo Center were left trapped after the hostel's car park collapsed in the landslide . 'We are keeping our fingers crossed right now,' said Aniruddh Kumar, a senior disaster management official in India's Bihar state. He said it was not clear how much water might come down from the lake. The annual monsoon season, which runs from June through September, is vital for the largely agrarian economies of South Asia but every year also brings floods and landslides that kill thousands and submerge hundreds of villages. Another landslide hit in a village in eastern Nepal yesterday, killing four people and leaving six others missing. And the death toll from a massive landslide in western India last week rose to 108, according to rescue official Sandeep Rai Rathore. Meanwhile, some 10,000 troops used pickaxes and backhoes to clear roads and dig residents from collapsed homes today following an earthquake in southwest China that killed 410 people. Volunteer Jackson Zeng joined about two dozen classmates who headed to Yunnan province's Ludian county, where Sunday's 6.1-magnitude earthquake collapsed thousands of homes in an impoverished region of mountainous farmland. 'I grew up around here and these are my people. I'm not sure what I can do, but I will help any way that I can,' said Zeng, a third-year student at Kunming University of Science and Technology. A woman walks past a damaged bus yesterday following a landslide in Sindhupalchowk district, Nepal . Rescue teams search near damaged houses at the scene of the landslide in Sindhupalchowk district, Nepal . Zeng's black T-shirt contrasted with the scores of green fatigue-clad troops along the main road into the quake zone. Paramilitary personnel with a backhoe and other heavy equipment pushed earth from a stretch of road affected by a landslide while Zeng and other students used their hands to push rocks over a cliff. Many hundreds of volunteers have converged on the nearby city of Zhaotong en-route to the quake-hit areas - a typical phenomenon during disasters in China. Many came empty-handed but some were formed into company-sponsored units complete with uniforms and their own relief aid to distribute. The government also has sent thousands of tents, quilts, sleeping bags and cotton coats to the region, as well as folding beds, chairs and tables, and mobile toilets. The quake struck an area of steep hills and narrow roads not suited to all the traffic of the massive relief effort and heavy rain today added to the complications. Much of the damage was due to landslides. A rescuer walks past paramilitary policemen searching for survivors at a destroyed house following a massive earthquake in the town of Longtoushan in Ludian County in southwest China's Yunnan Province . Rescuers search for survivors following a massive earthquake in the town of Longtoushan in Ludian County in southwest China's Yunnan Province . The Yunnan Civil Affairs Bureau said that 410 people had been killed and 2,373 injured, with 12 people still missing about 48 hours after the quake. Rescuers pulled dozens of trapped people from the debris in the first couple of days. A five-year-old boy was dug from a collapsed home on Monday and state media today released a photo taken in a hospital of two pregnant women who comforted each other while trapped in the rubble before they, too, were rescued. Many of the homes in Ludian, which has a population of about 429,000, were rudimentary mud-brick structures that collapsed easily in the quake. Further from the worst-hit areas, landslides created barrier lakes where water levels were rising to pose a new threat to about 800 residents and seven power stations downstream, where sudden flooding could prompt power cuts, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. | One person confirmed dead and 550,000 people have been told to evacuate .
Japanese hostel guests left trapped after car park collapsed in the landslide .
Devastation has hit parts of south and eastern Asia in the last few days .
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By . Ashley Collman . A 28-year-old woman recounted the night she watched three members of her family die at the hands of her jealous fiance who accused her of cheating, as his murder trial began Wednesday in Cook County, Illinois . Prosecutors say D'Andre Howard, now 26, showed up to his girlfriend's family home in the early hours of April 17, 2009 and turned it into a 'house of horrors' - telling Amanda Engelhardt's family that he was 'going to make them pay' before fatally stabbing her sister, father and grandmother. Howard confessed to the murders, but his public defenders argue that he should be found not guilty by reason of insanity. Scroll down for video . Trial begins: D'Andre Howard (left) is currently on trial for the 2009 murder of Amanda Engelhardt's (right) sister, father and grandmother. Howard and Amanda were engaged at the time of the fatal stabbings, which allegedly started after Howard accused Amanda of cheating . Her side of the story: Howard's trial began Wednesday, and his public defenders are arguing that he should be found not-guilty by reason of insanity. Amanda was the first to testify, and is pictured on the left in court on Wednesday . Family photo: Amanda (bottom left) recounted in court the night she watched her fiance kill three members of her family. Father Alan, 57 (top left), sister Laura, 18 (center), and maternal grandmother Marlene Gacek were stabbed to death by Howard. Her mother Shelly, now 57 (top right), was also stabbed but survived and brother Jeff (bottom right) was away at school . 'He does have a mental illness preventing him from appreciating the criminality of what he was doing' Public defender Georgeen Carson said. Amanda was the first to testify Wednesday about the night of the murders, as her ex-fiance sat calmly in court. Amanda told the jury that she and her boyfriend of three years had gotten into a fight the night before, when he accused her of cheating on him at the apartment they shared with their then 8-month-old daughter. Howard allegedly ordered Amanda to leave and take the baby with her, so Amanda's parents Alan and Shelly Engelhardt picked her and the baby up and drove her back to their Hoffman Estates home. The fight: The night before the attack, Howard and Amanda allegedly got into a fight when he accused her of cheating. The two lived together with their then 8-month-old daughter. Amanda is pictured with their daughter in the above photo posted to Facebook . However, Howard showed up at the family home later, around 1:45am, when he continued to fight with Amanda. Amanda finally got some rest when she thought he left, but was awakened soon by Howard who was holding a knife to her throat. Howard then brought Amanda down to the home's den, where he tied her and her mother Shelly up and threatened to kill the rest of the family in front of them. 'He said because Amanda ruined his family, he was going to ruin ours,' Shelly, now 57, said in her testimony Wednesday. 'He told them he was going to make them pay,' Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney Kristin Piper said. He went on to wake up Amanda's 18-year-old sister Laura, and tied her up as well. At some point he untied Laura, and she quickly grabbed his knife and stabbed him. This caused him to react 'on a very primitive level,' his defense said. Fighter: Howard tied up Amanda, her mother, and then her sister Laura (pictured with their father above). He untied Laura at one point and she grabbed the knife and stabbed him. He fought the knife back and snapped - stabbing her several times. Laura did not survive . The two fought for the knife and Howard won. He 'became so angry, he repeatedly stabbed Laura in the chest, over and over and over,' Assistant State's Attorney Kristin Piper said. When mother Shelly started screaming, he also stabbed her and she would spent the rest of the bloodbath drifting in and out of consciousness. Her screaming caused both Amanda's father Alan, 57, and maternal grandmother Marlene Gacek, 73, to wake up and move towards the den. Protecting his family: Howard fatally stabbed Alan Engelhardt when he woke up and responded to his wife's screams. Pictured above in a family photo his widowed wife posted on Facebook . Howard first stabbed Marlene in the kitchen and then went on to slash Alan's throat. Laura, still conscious, and her sister started begging Howard to call 911, but he refused for an entire hour as their family members suffered painful deaths. Eventually Howard relented and called police, telling an operator what he had done. By the time police arrived, it was too late to save Amanda's sister, father or grandmother. Mother Shelly survived but was seriously injured. Too late: Howard eventually called police, and told a 911 operator that he committed the murders. By the time police arrived on the scene, it was too late to save Amanda's sister, father or grandmother . In her testimony on Wednesday, Amanda described her ex-fiance's behavior in the aftermath of the stabbings. She says he kept pacing between the den and the kitchen, apologizing 'off and on to everybody', saying 'he was very sorry demons had gotten him'. Howard allegedly tried to hide the murder weapon, but did not flee. When police arrived, they found him lying down between Shelly and Laura. Amanda also talked about her sister Laura's last words to Howard. She says he was laying down next to her when he apologized, and that Laura said 'that she forgave him'. Shelly also testified on Wednesday, and talked about her family's relationship with the young man. She said they treated him like another member of the family, and that he even lived with them for about a month at one point. The Engelhardts invited him to family events and church. One of the family: Shelly Engelhardt told the jury that she treated Howard like a family member, and that he was invited to family events and church. Frames memorialize the husband, daughter and mother she lost in the attack, as shared on Facebook . Howard's defense team is trying to win the case by proving he was insane at the time of the stabbings. He apparently tried to fire his defense team the day before the jury was seated. Public defender Carson says his mental illness 'boiled up and led him to kill the only family he ever had'. Howard remained calm as he listened to his ex-fiancée and her mother testify, but did cover his face at one point. Amanda's brother Jeff Engelhardt, who was away at school at the time of the stabbings, was in court on Wednesday to support his sister and mother. 'I am really proud of her,' Jeff told CBS Chicago of his sister. 'She was really brave and I knot it is tough for her.' Brother: Amanda's brother Jeff, who was out of town at the time of the stabbings, was in court on Wednesday to support his sister and mother . | D'Andre Howard killed three members of fiancée Amanda Engelhardt's family in the early hours of April 17, 2009 .
The 26-year-old's murder trial began Wednesday in Cook County, and Amanda was the first to testify .
She told the jury of the night Howard tied her up and stabbed her sister, father and grandmother to death and seriously injured her mother .
Howard, her boyfriend of three years and the father of their then 8-month-old daughter, had accused her of cheating .
His defense asked the jury to find him not-guilty by reason of insanity . | 20ebd87c948d87e659181d887a114e9dfdbc5950 | [
"By . Ashley Collman . A 28-year-old woman",
"recounted the night she watched three members of",
"her family die at the hands of her jealous fiance",
"who accused her of cheating, as his murder trial",
"began Wednesday in Cook County, Illinois .",
"Prosecutors say D'Andre Howard, now 26, showed up",
"to his girlfriend's family home in the early",
"hours of April 17, 2009 and turned it into a",
"'house of horrors' - telling Amanda Engelhardt's",
"family that he was 'going to make them pay'",
"before fatally stabbing her sister, father and",
"grandmother. Howard confessed to the murders, but",
"his public defenders argue that he should be",
"found not guilty by reason of insanity. Scroll",
"down for video . Trial begins: D'Andre Howard",
"(left) is currently on trial for the 2009 murder",
"of Amanda Engelhardt's (right) sister, father and",
"grandmother. Howard and Amanda were engaged at",
"the time of the fatal stabbings, which allegedly",
"started after Howard accused Amanda of cheating .",
"Her side of the story: Howard's trial began",
"Wednesday, and his public defenders are arguing",
"that he should be found not-guilty by reason of",
"insanity. Amanda was the first to testify, and is",
"pictured on the left in court on Wednesday .",
"Family photo: Amanda (bottom left) recounted in",
"court the night she watched her fiance kill three",
"members of her family. Father Alan, 57 (top",
"left), sister Laura, 18 (center), and maternal",
"grandmother Marlene Gacek were stabbed to death",
"by Howard. Her mother Shelly, now 57 (top right),",
"was also stabbed but survived and brother Jeff",
"(bottom right) was away at school . 'He does have",
"a mental illness preventing him from appreciating",
"the criminality of what he was doing' Public",
"defender Georgeen Carson said. Amanda was the",
"first to testify Wednesday about the night of the",
"murders, as her ex-fiance sat calmly in court.",
"Amanda told the jury that she and her boyfriend",
"of three years had gotten into a fight the night",
"before, when he accused her of cheating on him at",
"the apartment they shared with their then",
"8-month-old daughter. Howard allegedly ordered",
"Amanda to leave and take the baby with her, so",
"Amanda's parents Alan and Shelly Engelhardt",
"picked her and the baby up and drove her back to",
"their Hoffman Estates home. The fight: The night",
"before the attack, Howard and Amanda allegedly",
"got into a fight when he accused her of cheating.",
"The two lived together with their then",
"8-month-old daughter. Amanda is pictured with",
"their daughter in the above photo posted to",
"Facebook . However, Howard showed up at the",
"family home later, around 1:45am, when he",
"continued to fight with Amanda. Amanda finally",
"got some rest when she thought he left, but was",
"awakened soon by Howard who was holding a knife",
"to her throat. Howard then brought Amanda down to",
"the home's den, where he tied her and her mother",
"Shelly up and threatened to kill the rest of the",
"family in front of them. 'He said because Amanda",
"ruined his family, he was going to ruin ours,'",
"Shelly, now 57, said in her testimony Wednesday.",
"'He told them he was going to make them pay,'",
"Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney Kristin",
"Piper said. He went on to wake up Amanda's",
"18-year-old sister Laura, and tied her up as",
"well. At some point he untied Laura, and she",
"quickly grabbed his knife and stabbed him. This",
"caused him to react 'on a very primitive level,'",
"his defense said. Fighter: Howard tied up Amanda,",
"her mother, and then her sister Laura (pictured",
"with their father above). He untied Laura at one",
"point and she grabbed the knife and stabbed him.",
"He fought the knife back and snapped - stabbing",
"her several times. Laura did not survive . The",
"two fought for the knife and Howard won. He",
"'became so angry, he repeatedly stabbed Laura in",
"the chest, over and over and over,' Assistant",
"State's Attorney Kristin Piper said. When mother",
"Shelly started screaming, he also stabbed her and",
"she would spent the rest of the bloodbath",
"drifting in and out of consciousness. Her",
"screaming caused both Amanda's father Alan, 57,",
"and maternal grandmother Marlene Gacek, 73, to",
"wake up and move towards the den. Protecting his",
"family: Howard fatally stabbed Alan Engelhardt",
"when he woke up and responded to his wife's",
"screams. Pictured above in a family photo his",
"widowed wife posted on Facebook . Howard first",
"stabbed Marlene in the kitchen and then went on",
"to slash Alan's throat. Laura, still conscious,",
"and her sister started begging Howard to call",
"911, but he refused for an entire hour as their",
"family members suffered painful deaths.",
"Eventually Howard relented and called police,",
"telling an operator what he had done. By the time",
"police arrived, it was too late to save Amanda's",
"sister, father or grandmother. Mother Shelly",
"survived but was seriously injured. Too late:",
"Howard eventually called police, and told a 911",
"operator that he committed the murders. By the",
"time police arrived on the scene, it was too late",
"to save Amanda's sister, father or grandmother .",
"In her testimony on Wednesday, Amanda described",
"her ex-fiance's behavior in the aftermath of the",
"stabbings. She says he kept pacing between the",
"den and the kitchen, apologizing 'off and on to",
"everybody', saying 'he was very sorry demons had",
"gotten him'. Howard allegedly tried to hide the",
"murder weapon, but did not flee. When police",
"arrived, they found him lying down between Shelly",
"and Laura. Amanda also talked about her sister",
"Laura's last words to Howard. She says he was",
"laying down next to her when he apologized, and",
"that Laura said 'that she forgave him'. Shelly",
"also testified on Wednesday, and talked about her",
"family's relationship with the young man. She",
"said they treated him like another member of the",
"family, and that he even lived with them for",
"about a month at one point. The Engelhardts",
"invited him to family events and church. One of",
"the family: Shelly Engelhardt told the jury that",
"she treated Howard like a family member, and that",
"he was invited to family events and church.",
"Frames memorialize the husband, daughter and",
"mother she lost in the attack, as shared on",
"Facebook . Howard's defense team is trying to win",
"the case by proving he was insane at the time of",
"the stabbings. He apparently tried to fire his",
"defense team the day before the jury was seated.",
"Public defender Carson says his mental illness",
"'boiled up and led him to kill the only family he",
"ever had'. Howard remained calm as he listened to",
"his ex-fiancée and her mother testify, but did",
"cover his face at one point. Amanda's brother",
"Jeff Engelhardt, who was away at school at the",
"time of the stabbings, was in court on Wednesday",
"to support his sister and mother. 'I am really",
"proud of her,' Jeff told CBS Chicago of his",
"sister. 'She was really brave and I knot it is",
"tough for her.' Brother: Amanda's brother Jeff,",
"who was out of town at the time of the stabbings,",
"was in court on Wednesday to support his sister",
"and mother ."
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By . Claire Ellicott . and David Wilkes . Archived files have revealed how Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher considered deploying the army against striking miners . Margaret Thatcher planned to mobilise hundreds of troops and considered declaring a state of emergency at the height of the 1984 miners’ strike, previously secret files reveal. Another option was to switch to a three-day working week after ministers warned her that the lights could go out in Britain, according to the National Archives. As panic appeared to grip the government, Mrs Thatcher faced the possibility of defeat in the prolonged and violent strike that became a defining episode of her time in power. The dispute was triggered in March . 1984 by plans to close 20 loss-making pits. Arthur Scargill, leader of . the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), went into battle with the . Tories and a year-long war of attrition ensued. Mrs . Thatcher had been expecting the confrontation and preparing for it . since 1981. Publicly, she remained resolute, but the files show how, . privately, panic surrounded her. John . Redwood, head of the policy unit, warned that giving in to the unions . would be ‘the end of effective government’ in Britain. ‘The . Left’s aim is to pave the way for the ultimate defeat of the . Government by destroying its policies and its credibility,’ he wrote to . the prime minister. ‘Its purpose is to oppose and destroy.’ There was stalemate until July, when a dockers’ dispute escalated into a national strike, giving the NUM extra leverage. There were fears that power supplies would run out and the Ministry of Agriculture warned of possible panic-buying of food. As the pressure grew, Mrs Thatcher held a meeting on July 16 at which declaring a state of emergency was discussed. The . minutes noted: ‘It was not clear how far a declaration of a state of . emergency would be interpreted as a sign of weakness, nor to what extent . it would increase docker support for the miners’ strike.’ Scroll down for video . Miners from the Kellingley colliery march in support of the general strike in1985 . The files reveal that plans were drawn up for soldiers to transport food and coal. It was suggested that 4,500 military drivers would be needed. The Government suspected that the NUM was receiving hundreds of thousands of pounds from Russia during the miners’ strike. MI5 informed ministers in November 1984 that the Soviets were funding the union and it was reported in Russia that £500,000 had been raised by workers to support the strike. Officials suspected government involvement, with a briefing letter noting that it was ‘most unlikely that the Soviet miners’ union could have been given access to convertible Roubles without official permission’. But they had to admit that they were powerless to do anything about the funding and would have to rely on detecting a representative of the NUM ‘entering this country with a suitcase full of bank notes’. NUM leader Arthur Scargill has always insisted that the miners received no overseas money. In a letter from the Ministry of Defence to Andrew Turnbull, the PM’s private secretary, on July 11, 1984 the idea was dismissed on the grounds that it would cause panic. It said: ‘My secretary of state [Michael Heseltine] … supports the view that the use of servicemen to move existing coal stocks would raise the emotional temperature and recommends that it should not be considered any further at this stage in the dispute.’ The correspondence also reveals that one of the options being considered was a state of emergency – proclaimed by the Queen – if power supplies were interrupted. It spoke of using servicemen ‘as a last resort’. The concern at the heart of government was summarised in a letter to the PM from Norman Tebbit, the trade and industry secretary, warning her that ‘time is running out’. Dated July 25, 1984, he said coal . stocks would last until January, adding that the prospect would . strengthen the miners’ resolve. ‘I . have no wish to rock the boat, and believe it essential that we should . continue to present our existing public face,’ he wrote. ‘But it is just . as important that we should be utterly realistic among ourselves about . what is actually going to happen.’ Last night, Lord Tebbit recalled that the miners’ strike was a ‘close-run thing’ but said that Mrs Thatcher ‘never wavered’. The files reveal that plans were drawn up for soldiers to transport food and coal. It was suggested that 4,500 military drivers would be needed . ‘I was obviously concerned because I was looking after industry and people in industry were concerned so I was expressing those fears,’ he said. His letter alarmed the PM, but she was encouraged by the response of industry leaders following a hastily arranged meeting. The prospect of a three-day week remained on the table but in the end the strike failed to have a widespread impact. As support among miners and the public drained away, it came to a formal end on March 3, 1985. Margaret Thatcher did not mention Nelson Mandela’s detention during an official meeting with the former prime minister of South Africa – despite being advised to by the Foreign Office, documents reveal. Margaret Thatcher with South African Prime Minister P W Botha in 1984 . In a briefing paper written by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ahead of the four-hour meeting with P W Botha, it was suggested that Mrs Thatcher include Mr Mandela’s release as a ‘point to make’. The documents reveal that the ANC leader’s imprisonment was mentioned with ‘little success’ during a private, 40-minute ‘tete-a-tete’ with Mr Botha, ahead of the official meeting in 1984. 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Another option was to switch to a three-day working week .
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By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 07:02 EST, 22 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 05:36 EST, 23 December 2013 . Travellers on board a cross Channel ferry were left horrified yesterday, after an apparent suicide bid saw a 21-year-old woman leap off a ferry and into the icy sea. Shocked witnesses, including children she had accompanied on a school skiing trip to the mountains, saw the woman plunge 130ft into the freezing water of Calais harbour. According to detectives in the French port, the unnamed 21-year-old was in a ‘bad way’ after her ordeal on Saturday afternoon and was taken to hospital. Suicide bid: The woman jumped from the deck of Spirit of Britain but was rescued by quick-thinking crewmen . The woman, who has not been named, leapt from the Spirit of Britain, the largest ferry on the Calais to Dover route. Passengers raised the alarm as the woman floundered in the water and alert ferry crew members launched a fast rescue dinghy from the stern of the roll on roll off vessel. Bernard Barron, lifeboat chief at Calais paid tribute to the rapid reaction of P&O seamen saying it probably saved the distressed woman's life. She was recovered from the water in less than six minutes, he said. 'She could have easily have fallen victim to icy water with a temperature of only eight celsius. 'If they had not been as alert as they were she probably would not have survived.' A P&O spokesman added: 'Yesterday lunchtime, a young lady jumped from a ferry. We rescued her and she was taken to hospital. 'We managed to recover the lady within six minutes. We practise it and obviously speed is of the essence. Narrow escape: Bernard Barron, lifeboat chief at Calais (pictured) said the woman had been very lucky . 'The combination of impact of hitting . the water and the freezing temperature means that getting them out of . the water quickly is essential. 'If the ship had been out at sea, it might have been a different story.' Speaking . of the crewmen concerned, he added: 'They would tell you that it's just . what they do. I would say that it was quite a feat of seamanship. 'Undoubtedly, they saved that young lady's life.' A spokesman for the Maritime and Coastguard agency added: 'This time of year, had she stayed in the . water, she would have been washed out to sea. 'Not only are conditions . awful but temperatures are freezing too.' The woman suffered an injury to her right leg and was taken to hospital by ambulance for treatment. Investigators questioned witnesses to the incident and have established that the fall was not accidental, according to Calais sources. It remained unclear last night whether the woman accompanying the schoolchildren was a monitor or a teacher . | The woman fell more than 130ft from the deck of ferry Pride of Britain .
Ship was leaving Calais harbour at the time with schoolchildren on board .
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By . Chris Pleasance . A car bomb attack in Nigeria's capital city has killed at least 19 people and injured another 60, according to officials. The blast happened at a police security checkpoint near a bus station late last night in the city of Abuja. Nobody has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, but it bears the hallmarks of radical Islamic group Boko Haram, who set off another blast just yards away last month which killed a further 70 people. The attack comes just days before the . city hosts the World Economic Forum on Africa, which will attract . prominent figures from across the globe including former Prime Minister . Gordon Brown, who is listed as a speaker. Scroll down for video . A car bomb in the Nigerian city of Abuja has killed at least 19 and wounded another 60, officials say . The blast happened at a security checkpoint near to a bus station, just yards from the site of another attack last month which killed 70 . The Nigerian government is deploying 6,000 police to protect the event, from May 7-9, which is designed to discuss Africa's economic growth prospects. Witnesses said a car laden with explosives drove close to the checkpoint and a man jumped out and ran as it blew up. A deafening explosion was followed by smaller ones as other cars caught fire and fuel ignited, they said. Queues of traffic are normal at the checkpoint where soldiers and police search vehicles since the bombing two weeks ago. Two unexploded IEDs were found at the scene, according to a security official. Islamic militants in Nigeria often time secondary explosions to target rescuers and others drawn to a bombing. Charles Osueke, who was in the area at the time of the blast, told the BBC that it was just 650ft away from the 14 April explosion. 'People in the crowd were saying that a man parked his car, walked away and the next thing they know, the car blew up,' he said.'I'm worried about our security here. After the last explosion, the president said he would increase security.'There were policemen around when this explosion happened and they didn't manage to stop it.' Boko Haram, whose name means 'Western education is sinful', are a radical group trying to establish an Islamic state in Nigeria, claiming it would halt rife government corruption. Hours after the previous April 14 car bombing, which wounded at least 141 people, Boko Haram militants kidnapped more than 250 teenage girls at a school in the remote north-east, which is their stronghold. Nobody has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, but it bears all the hallmarks of Boko Haram, a group of radical Muslims attempting to establish an Islamic state in Nigeria . The blast comes on the eve of the world Economic forum in Abuja, which is expected to attract politicians, business leaders and philanthropists from across the globe to discuss Africa's economic future . About 50 of the girls escaped their captors, but 200 remain missing in a growing embarrassment for Nigeria's government and military. The US State Department says it is discussing the crisis with Nigerian officials, and will hep with the situation 'in any way we can'. The attacks have undermined government and military assurances that the Islamic extremists had been contained in a north-eastern corner of the country. Every time the military trumpets a success against the militants, they step up the tempo and deadliness of attacks. More than 1,500 people have died in the Islamic uprising this year, compared to 3,600 between 2010 and 2013. President Goodluck Jonathan told a May Day rally in Abuja earlier yesterday that the perpetrators must be brought justice. 'We shall triumph over all this evil that wants to debase our humanity or obstruct our progress as a nation,' he vowed. 'Those who want to re-define our country to be seen as a country of chaos will never succeed.' 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(CNN) -- Death Cab for Cutie, the Grammy-nominated indie band that shot to the top of the Billboard charts with its latest album, "Narrow Stairs," has come a long way since its basement-recording beginnings in Bellingham, Washington. Chris Walla, left, and Nick Harmer of indie band Death Cab for Cutie discuss their newly released EP. Together for more than 10 years and formed while its members attended Western Washington University, the band has six studio albums behind them, their songs have graced popular TV and film soundtracks, and their sell-out tours have brought the musicians all over the globe. But the success is not something the group takes for granted. "We never got into this for world domination. There were never designs to be 'rock stars,' " said Chris Walla, guitarist and producer. "The fact that I get to make a living doing something that I just passionately love to do is something that I wake up every day and am thankful for," added Nick Harmer, bass player. "It's not lost on me; it really isn't. It's phenomenal." Death Cab for Cutie, which is named after a song performed by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band in the 1967 Beatles film "Magical Mystery Tour," released "The Open Door EP" last month. It's a compilation of tracks that didn't find a home on "Narrow Stairs" but that the band didn't want to lose forever. Days before their most recent tour cycle ended and before the summer tour begins, Walla and Harmer -- two of the band's four members -- sat down with CNN to discuss the latest EP, the current bands that move them and the darkness that may or may not drive their music. CNN: Talk to me about the band's name, which was selected by Ben Gibbard, Death Cab for Cutie's founder. If you could turn back the clock, would you go with something different? Chris Walla: [Ben] was in a "Magical Mystery Tour" all-the-time kind of phase. He made a grand proclamation from the couch at one point that if he ever had another band, he was going to call it Death Cab for Cutie. Nick Harmer: Knowing what we know now, Ben has said that he would love to have shortened it somehow to a snappier name. We joke about changing it. CNN: To what? Chris Walla: Exactly! All the band names are taken. CNN: Why release an EP (extended play; more than a single but less than a full-on album) right now? Is it a taste of things to come? Harmer: We've always treated the EP as kind of a side dish to the main course during an album cycle. These are songs that were recorded at the same time as the songs that made the album "Narrow Stairs." They're sort of part of this chapter of the band. For us, it's a nice way to have some new songs to play on tour, kind of get some new material in the world and keep things interesting. We recorded them. They were finished. It would be kind of weird to leave them on a reel someplace. CNN: How has the state of the economy, if at all, affected your tour and plans? Walla: This tour has done really, really well for us. If anything, I think that we're more mindful of just the fact that in a world of so many entertainment choices how amazing it really is to be on a really successful, solid, good tour. Harmer: We really haven't seen an impact. I expected there to be one, to be honest, but all the numbers are pretty consistent with all the touring numbers we've ever done. CNN: Let's talk a bit about the persona of indie rock musicians: the depression, the melancholy, the darkness. What do your parents make of this? Are there any issues you'd like to discuss? Walla: Our parents are all terrible people. We all came from broken homes. (laugh) Harmer: We cry a whole lot ... (laugh) Walla: It's not by design. We have great families. We have great homes. It's sort of hard to explain, I guess. ... We do this because music totally moves us in a complete and absolute sort of way. It ends up just coming out in heart-on-your-sleeve, heavy, sort of really personal ways. Harmer: I've always felt like it's more about the bittersweet qualities of life than it is about the dark brooding. ... It's more about just being honest about the different stations that you find yourself in in life. CNN: What bands are you listening to these days? Who do you really like? Harmer: That's the thing about being on the road with so many people that are music fans. There's always a new record that someone's found that we're listening to. Ben is really kind of always combing through old records. I think [Walla] and I probably do more on the what's new and what's out in the world. The Gaslight Anthem, I hear them all the time now. Walla: Yeah, the Gaslight Anthem record's great. There's a band from Seattle called the Lonely Forest whose record I just picked up. They're a new band, it came out few weeks ago, and that's totally doing it for me right now. ... Telekinesis from Seattle, the new Metric record I think is great. Those are the big ones right now. CNN: Tell me about your political involvement and your backing of causes. (Walla, for example, got involved in the Obama campaign and has done some work for PETA.) Walla: It's little things here and there, which is sort of how I feel activism should work. You can't do everything all the time, but you can do what you can when you can. I wish I could do more, but ... not everybody can be Bono. | Death Cab for Cutie, the Grammy-nominated indie band, has a new EP .
Chris Walla and Nick Harmer discuss the music, their moods and bands they like .
Harmer: "Bittersweet qualities of life" and not "dark brooding" drive songs .
Walla on activism: "You can't do everything all the time. ... Not everybody can be Bono" | f0f8b6f04ebff4fddd9b2d29d423e162d57b5520 | [
"(CNN) -- Death Cab for Cutie, the Grammy-nominated",
"indie band that shot to the top of the Billboard",
"charts with its latest album, \"Narrow Stairs,\"",
"has come a long way since its basement-recording",
"beginnings in Bellingham, Washington. Chris",
"Walla, left, and Nick Harmer of indie band Death",
"Cab for Cutie discuss their newly released EP.",
"Together for more than 10 years and formed while",
"its members attended Western Washington",
"University, the band has six studio albums behind",
"them, their songs have graced popular TV and film",
"soundtracks, and their sell-out tours have",
"brought the musicians all over the globe. But the",
"success is not something the group takes for",
"granted. \"We never got into this for world",
"domination. There were never designs to be 'rock",
"stars,' \" said Chris Walla, guitarist and",
"producer. \"The fact that I get to make a living",
"doing something that I just passionately love to",
"do is something that I wake up every day and am",
"thankful for,\" added Nick Harmer, bass player.",
"\"It's not lost on me; it really isn't. It's",
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"Death Cab for Cutie's founder. If you could turn",
"back the clock, would you go with something",
"different? Chris Walla: [Ben] was in a \"Magical",
"Mystery Tour\" all-the-time kind of phase. He made",
"a grand proclamation from the couch at one point",
"that if he ever had another band, he was going to",
"call it Death Cab for Cutie. Nick Harmer: Knowing",
"what we know now, Ben has said that he would love",
"to have shortened it somehow to a snappier name.",
"We joke about changing it. CNN: To what? Chris",
"Walla: Exactly! All the band names are taken.",
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"on a reel someplace. CNN: How has the state of",
"the economy, if at all, affected your tour and",
"plans? Walla: This tour has done really, really",
"well for us. If anything, I think that we're more",
"mindful of just the fact that in a world of so",
"many entertainment choices how amazing it really",
"is to be on a really successful, solid, good",
"tour. Harmer: We really haven't seen an impact. I",
"expected there to be one, to be honest, but all",
"the numbers are pretty consistent with all the",
"touring numbers we've ever done. CNN: Let's talk",
"a bit about the persona of indie rock musicians:",
"the depression, the melancholy, the darkness.",
"What do your parents make of this? Are there any",
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"are all terrible people. We all came from broken",
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"(laugh) Walla: It's not by design. We have great",
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"more about the bittersweet qualities of life than",
"it is about the dark brooding. ... It's more",
"about just being honest about the different",
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"What bands are you listening to these days? Who",
"do you really like? Harmer: That's the thing",
"about being on the road with so many people that",
"are music fans. There's always a new record that",
"someone's found that we're listening to. Ben is",
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"great. There's a band from Seattle called the",
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"They're a new band, it came out few weeks ago,",
"and that's totally doing it for me right now. ...",
"Telekinesis from Seattle, the new Metric record I",
"think is great. Those are the big ones right now.",
"CNN: Tell me about your political involvement and",
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For those that didn't go out last night you can comfort yourself in the knowledge that you saved a fortune and didn't end up like this. Pictures from last night show that our drinking culture continues to get out of hand whenever there is an opportunity to let our hair down. From Swansea to Newcastle, Birmingham to Liverpool, partygoers can be seen looking drunk and dishevelled as they spilled out of bars, clubs and parties and onto the streets . Swansea . Ride home? A couple frolicking in a lane near Wind Street, the main pub and club district of Swansea, in south Wales early this morning . Take a pew: Couple take the weight off of their feet after a hard night at the bar . I never go out without my plant: A woman under the influence of alcohol dragging an uprooted plant through Swansea . The pair plough on past Subway, heads down, on a mission with that uprooted bush . Jealous lads? The woman keeps hold of her uprooted plant as she makes her way through the bar and club district of Swansea . A woman raises her hands to sing Happy New Year in Swansea last night . Two women collapse onto the pavement . In Swansea a drunken girl could be seen dragging an uprooted plant through the streets as a couple locked into a passionate embrace. A more sober affair, meanwhile, was . taking place along the Thames, as fireworks display kick-started . Britain's New Year celebrations last night. About 250,000 people lined the banks of the Thames to witness the incredible display of pyrotechnics and lights. Up . and down the country, millions of people packed into towns and cities . to celebrate 2013 following the astonishing success of 2012. Revellers came out in force to celebrate the New Year in Newcastle, where one girl dressed in a body hugging mini-dress fell into the window of a takeaway before collapsing, legs splayed, onto the pavement. The young woman, in high heels and red dress was helped away by a police officer in the city's notorious Bigg Market. As the clock struck midnight a young man clutched his bleeding face before also seeking the help of officers. Elsewhere, a reveller was attended to by paramedics before being stretchered into an ambulance and driven away. Newcastle . You naughty girl: Police lead off a Newcastle reveller who looks a little worse for wear . Overcooked it in Newcastle city centre last night . Taking a breather: One reveller takes five during the festivities last night . The excitement has got a bit too much for this partygoer as she sits up against a shop window . Police were called to a number of incidents involving drunk people across the city . One reveller leaves the party early by Ambulance . Drunken revellers caused emergency . service's phone lines to go into meltdown with a record five 999 calls . every minute in the West Midlands. The Ambulance Service were out in force across Birmingham as partygoers swamped the streets on the busiest night of the year. Between 8pm and midnight the service received a staggering 638 calls - a 15 per cent increase from the previous year. Between 1am and 4am the service received 1,291 emergency calls - an increase of nine per cent. In Birmingham alone, ambulance crews responded to a total of 623 calls after boozy celebrations spilled over into violence. Reveller, John Parsons, 36, added: . 'A lot of people had obviously . overdone it, there were people throwing up everywhere even before the . fireworks to celebrate the new year. 'I couldn't believe how many girls . were struggling to walk in their high heels, a lot had taken them off . and where trying not to stand on the vomit. Birmingham . 'You hold my shoes, I'll hold my drink': . Party people on Broad Street in Birmingham . Chloe Rowan,19, Alyson Steeley, 20, and Samantha Harris, 22, celebrate and welcome the New Year 2013 on Broad Street in Birmingham City Centre . A collapsed man on Broad Street in Birmingham City Centre . Police keep a closeeye on the action last night on Birmingham's Broad Street . 'There were a few fights around, but they were broken up by the police and people were pretty happy.' To help free-up availability of ambulances and capacity at A&E departments, a Temporary Minor Injury Unit (TMIU) was set up in Birmingham for the 6th year running. It provided immediate treatment for people who had suffered alcohol intoxication and other minor illnesses and injuries. Staffed by paramedics, technicians, nurses and doctors, St John Ambulance volunteers, British Red Cross volunteers and Community First Responders, the TMIU treated more than 80 people during the new year celebrations dramatically reducing A&E admissions. Chief Executive Anthony Marsh said: 'It comes as no surprise to us that New Years' Eve has been the busiest nights of the year for the Ambulance Service. 'It is a year in the planning for which as many staff as possible work through the night to ensure patient's get help when they need it the most. 'The way in which the Service deals with this traditionally busy night is a tribute to all the staff and volunteers who work through the night, often without the chance of a break. 'I am very proud of my staff and volunteers who gave up their night to ensure the safety of everyone in the West Midlands, regardless of whether or not they spent the night celebrating the coming of the New Year.' In Liverpool the streets where lined with extra police to control the crowds.In the concert square area of Liverpool, people could be seen vomiting in the street and collapsing having had too much to drink. Liverpool . A couple in Liverpool looking worse for wear last night . Pictured here is a man who was in a fight, lying in a heap, bleeding. He was taken away in an ambulance . Extra police were out in force last night to control the crowds but couldn't be everywhere at once . A young man, who was fighting, showing a policeman the amount of blood on his tissue . A policeman getting a New Year's kiss from a young reveller . Partygoers arriving to start their celebrations in Liverpool . | Images from Swansea, Newcastle, Birmingham and Liverpool reveal antics .
A drunken girl in Swansea seen dragging an uprooted plant along street .
A man in Newcastle bleeding from mouth and a girl slumped against shop .
A man passed out in Birmingham and being helped by a friend .
A man lying bleeding after a fight before being taken away by ambulance .
West Midlands emergency .
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- It took a U.S. former president with global celebrity status to free two American journalists from a North Korea prison. Former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore greets freed U.S. journalist Laura Ling. Laura Ling and Euna Lee arrived back in the United States Wednesday morning with former President Bill Clinton, who flew to North Korea to negotiate their release after they were sentenced to a labor camp. Iain Clayton said Wednesday that his wife, Laura, told him through a telephone conversation that the North Koreans were willing to grant the two journalists amnesty if a high-level envoy, such as former President Clinton, were willing to travel to Pyongyang. But there was no shortage of envoys ready to travel to North Korea and negotiate the women's release. Some heavyweights were turned down by the North Koreans: former Vice President Al Gore, a co-founder of the media outfit the women were working for when they were arrested, and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations whose previous missions to North Korea included negotiating the release of a detained American. Lower-level envoys such as former U.S. ambassador to South Korea and current Korea Society Chairman Donald Gregg, Sig Harrison, an expert on North Korean nukes who has traveled there several times, and Han Park, a scholar at the University of Georgia, all offered their services. Sen. John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was also closely involved in coordinating efforts with the White House and State Department to free the women. According to sources intimately involved with the efforts, Sen. John Kerry -- chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- received an official invitation to visit Pyongyang to facilitate their release and open a larger dialogue on the nuclear issue after several weeks of quiet direct diplomacy between Kerry and his aides and North Korea. In the end, it was Clinton whom North Korea wanted. Two senior Obama administration officials described on background how Clinton's mission to Pyongyang to secure the release of two U.S. journalists imprisoned by North Korea evolved. Officials said that while President Obama never spoke directly with the former president about this issue, negotiations were under way within the administration. During the weekend of July 24-25, Clinton spoke with National Security Adviser Gen. Jim Jones about his willingness to take on this mission. Clinton ultimately agreed to go on the mission but made it very clear in every communication that this was purely a humanitarian effort. Clinton also wanted to make sure, based on the due diligence of the national security team, that there was a high likelihood of success if he went. "We were convinced this would be the result, and based on that we could advise President Clinton that his trip was going to be successful," one official said. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said Wednesday that "we did our homework ... to make sure that if President Clinton did take this trip, that we would be able to ... win the freedom for these two." Kelly said that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also had a role in the mission, adding that "The State Department was very involved." More details, he said, will be released. Administration officials also said it was always made clear by Clinton and the national security team that this would be a humanitarian mission. "We had one goal in mind, which was in the U.S. interest, which was to seek the release of these two U.S. Americans," one of the officials said. 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On Wednesday, Obama thanked the former vice president, saying he "worked tirelessly in order to achieve a positive outcome." Clinton's humanitarian help was not lost on Obama -- who reached out to the journalists' families on Tuesday night. "I want to thank President Bill Clinton -- I had a chance to talk to him -- for the extraordinary humanitarian effort that resulted in the release of the two journalists," he said at the White House. "My hope is that the families that have been reunited can enjoy the next several days and weeks understanding that because of the efforts of President Clinton and Gore they are able to be with each other once again." CNN's Dan Lothian, Ed Hornick and Elise Labott and Jill Dougherty contributed to this report. | Former President Clinton talked with national security adviser before trip .
Clinton made it clear that his trip was strictly humanitarian, officials say .
Meetings with North Korean leader totaled a little over three hours .
Former VP Al Gore was "vigorously involved" in effort to free journalists . | 2832718781ff54a36095b1d3708ff0ea52ff6446 | [
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Police texted a bike thief demanding he hand himself in before calling his mobile phone, only to be told by the teenager: ‘Come and find me - peace out’. Drug user Axl Parker, 19, had been raiding his downstairs neighbours’ sheds in Ramsgate, Kent, before one of them told officers she thought he was the culprit, a court heard. The neighbour, Claire Bain, told police about a Facebook picture of Parker with an optic - used for serving measures of spirits - hanging up behind him, which had gone missing from her shed. Cocaine user: Axl Parker, 19, pictured, had been raiding his downstairs neighbours' sheds in Ramsgate, Kent, before one of them told police she thought he was the culprit after seeing a Facebook picture, a court heard . Police officers went to arrest Parker at his home but he was not there, Canterbury Crown Court was told. However Parker then posted a text message, sent to him by police, on Facebook - and it read: ‘Axl its (sic) Heidi from the police stn, im working today and can deal with u if u r ready 2 come in’. He wrote on Facebook in response: ‘Margate police no they can’t catch me lol’, before police called him to say they needed to talk - but he replied: ‘Come and find me - peace out’, then hung up. Parker was arrested soon after at his home - just upstairs from two of the six sheds he had raided for bikes, a leaf blower, tools and the optic, the court heard. When police raided Parker’s home they found the stolen items. This was after neighbours had been discussing who the culprit could be and came up with Parker’s name, Jim Harvey, prosecuting, said. He told the court: ‘She (Claire Bain) went onto Facebook to his page and on his profile picture, in the background she saw an optic which had been stolen from her shed.’ Contact: Parker posted a text message, sent to him by police, on Facebook - and it read as above . The case began when neighbour Tracy Adams alerted cops that her shed had been broken into and her 11-year-old son’s bicycle had been stolen in March this year. 'She (Claire Bain) went onto Facebook to his page and on his profile picture, in the background she saw an optic which had been stolen from her shed' Jim Harvey, prosecuting . She told officers that Parker’s bedroom overlooked her garden and that she was sure he was the culprit. Miss Bain also realised her shed had been broken into and spoke to other neighbours. Miss Bain - upon checking Parker’s Facebook page - found him posing in a picture with the stolen optic hanging up behind him, although the photo has now been deleted. She alerted police that she had ‘found evidence’ and officers set about arresting Parker. Police initially turned up at his house to arrest him but found that he wasn’t home in March this year. A statement from Ms Adams, read in court, said: ‘How can you tell your 11-year-old son that his bike is stolen? He has been greatly affected. Reply: He wrote on Facebook in response: 'Margate police no they can't catch me lol', before police called him to say they needed to talk - but he replied: 'Come and find me - peace out', then hung up . ‘His bedroom overlooks the garden and he no longer wants to sleep there in case this man comes back.’ 'I wonder if you ever stop and think about that 11-year-old boy or wondered how it feels to have your bike stolen. Or think about the widow whose late husband’s tools you took? How low does it get?' Judge James O’Mahony . Judge James O’Mahony, who heard how Parker was addicted to drugs, said that cocaine turned people into ‘low, nasty thieves who steal children’s bikes’. He told Parker: ‘I wonder if you ever stop and think about that 11-year-old boy or wondered how it feels to have your bike stolen. Or think about the widow whose late husband’s tools you took? How low does it get?’ Parker, who admitted theft, was handed a three-month jail sentence - suspended for two years - and ordered to take a six-month programme to deal with his drugs habit. | Axl Parker, 19, had been raiding neighbours' sheds in Ramsgate, Kent .
Neighbour Claire Bain showed officer picture of him with a stolen item .
Police couldn't find Parker at home so sent text message to his mobile .
But he posted message on Facebook and wrote: 'Police can’t catch me'
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(CNN) -- A specialized military unit has begun analyzing possible human remains recovered from wreckage of a cargo plane that crashed 60 years ago in Alaska, killing all on board. The C-124 Globemaster, near the end of a flight from Washington state to Alaska, crashed in November 1952 on Mount Gannett, killing 52. The debris was covered by an avalanche and not rediscovered until June 10, said Capt. Jamie Dobson, spokeswoman for the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command based in Hawaii. An eight-member team from the command flew to the site on Colony Glacier, several miles from where the plane went down. After the avalanche and over the years, some of the wreckage moved to the glacier, officials said. "We took back with us material evidence that could possibly make an identification," Dobson said Saturday. Besides possible human remains, the team recovered pieces of clothing with names, life-support equipment, such as parachutes and lifeboats, personal effects and survival kits with food, she said. Military units based in Alaska were back at the scene this week to recover and safeguard additional debris. Identification of remains typically takes months, but can take years, Dobson said. Dobson called the recovery site hazardous, marked by deep crevices and shifting pieces of glacier falling into a lake. Typically, about 10% of debris in such an incident will surface. The Alaskan Command, involved with the debris recovery, did not immediately respond to a message left Saturday by CNN. | A C-124 Globemaster cargo plane crashed in Alaska in November 1952 .
All 52 aboard were killed .
Debris from the crash was spotted last month on a glacier several miles away .
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By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 03:43 EST, 31 July 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 09:22 EST, 31 July 2012 . Seal flu could pose a new threat to human health, scientists have warned. A new flu virus identified in American harbour seals has the potential to pass to other mammals, including humans, say experts. The H3N8 strain was discovered after the death of 162 New England harbour seals last year. Post-mortem examinations of five of the animals showed they were killed by a flu infection. New threat: Flu killed more than 100 harbour seals in New England recently . The strain is closely related to one that has been circulating in North American birds since 2002. But unlike the bird strain, it has adapted to living in mammals. It has also evolved mutations known to ease transmission and cause more severe symptoms. Specifically, the virus has the ability to target proteins known as cytokines found in human lungs. This could cause the immune system to go into overdrive and attack itself, causing tissue damage. Dr Anne Moscona, from Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, who led the researchers, said: 'There is a concern that we have a new mammalian-transmissible virus to which humans haven't been exposed yet. It's a combination we haven't seen in disease before.' The warning is published in the online journal of the American Society for Microbiology, mBio. One cause for concern was the fact that few scientists had considered the possibility of a bird flu virus infecting seals, said the researchers. It highlighted the fact that pandemic influenza can appear in unexpected ways. 'Flu could emerge from anywhere and our readiness has to be much better than we previously realised,' said Dr Moscona. 'We need to be very nimble in our ability to identify and understand the potential risks posed by new viruses emerging from unexpected sources. 'It's important to realise that viruses can emerge through routes that we haven't considered. We need to be alert to those risks and ready to act on them.' As of January 2012, the World Health Organization has confirmed there have been 583 cases of H5N1 (avian flu) in humans leading to 344 deaths. There have been no human cases in the UK however the strain was found in a flock of turkeys in Suffolk in 2007 and in wild swans in Dorset in 2008. | The H3N8 strain was discovered after the death of 162 New England seals .
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A beauty therapist who posted dozens of 'selfie' pictures of her new slimline figure on Facebook said she was shocked and upset after being reported to the website for encouraging 'nudity'. Alyson Larkin, 33, gorged on junk food and fizzy drinks for years and saw her weight soar due to her unhealthy lifestyle. After failing to fit into her trousers before a holiday to Australia in 2012, the mother-of-one decided to change her life and set about transforming her body - losing three stone in less than a year. She regularly took to Facebook to document her changing physique but was reduced to tears after an anonymous 'nudity' complaint was made to the website about a photo in which she is wearing normal gym attire. Photo that prompted complaint: Alyson Larkin, 33, received a notification telling her that this photo of her in gym attire had been complained about by another Facebook user due to its level of 'nudity' The mother-of-one said: 'It actually made me cry as I felt hurt that people think I would do something wrong. How anyone could say that picture was encouraging nudity is beyond me.' Ms Larkin, of Inverclyde, Scotland, had lived on microwave meals and takeaways during her worst days - while drinking five cans of coke and downing a glass of wine every day. After realising some of her clothes no longer fit her, she embarked on a strict health mission - even selling her Vauxhall Corsa so that she was forced to walk everywhere. In less than a year, she lost three stone and dropped three dress sizes as well as joining an online weight loss programme which encourages people to eat healthily and exercise. Showing off: Ms Larkin said she is extremely proud of the way that she has transformed her body . Describing her Facebook weight loss pictures, she added: 'I'm not interested in promoting skinny bodies from fad diets. 'I'm just showing people how I look after changing my own lifestyle to one of eating healthy meals and regular exercise.' Ms Larkin received a message from Facebook notifying her an anonymous complaint had been made about one picture. The message said: 'Someone has reported your photo for displaying nudity.' The 'selfie' image showed a before and after image she had taken showing herself when she was heavier and how she appears now. She added: 'I post a lot of pictures of myself but that's because I've got them on my phone so it's easier to do, anyone who knows me in real life will know that I'm just pretty normal and have a smile for every person I meet. Series of selfies: Ms Larkin took to Facebook to document her progress in her mission to lose weight . Messages of support: Since the complaint became public knowledge, the mother has been flooded with messages from friends complimenting her 'beautiful' figure . 'I won't stop posting my pictures because of a minority. For every person who doesn't like it there's ten more message me on a daily basis to say they're great. 'I am proud of my body, I work hard at it and if I want to show people where a wee bit of hard work can get you I will. 'So my message for anyone who doesn't like it is delete me from Facebook and don't look at it.' Dozens of messages of support for Aly were left on her Facebook page by outraged friends. Bernadette Gillan said: 'They're just jealous honey you look beautiful, very proud of you. I love seeing your pictures, you work hard xxxxxxx.' Michelle Brown wrote: 'You shouldn't feel like you have to explain yourself and you certainly should be bloody proud of your body, you look fantastic and work hard for it! Xx.' Fitness regime: She embarked on the health mission after discovering she could no longer fit into her trousers - and even sold her car so that she would be forced to walk everywhere . Allowed to stay online: The new fitness fanatic received a notification saying her photo had not been removed by Facebook moderaters despite being the subject of a complaint . Andrea McAuley added: 'You should be proud you fitty! And fair play to you for promoting a healthy body image/confidence and hard work. Don't let others get you down. Chin up buttercup and stick at it.' Facebook rules state: 'Facebook has a strict policy against the sharing of pornographic content and any explicitly sexual content where a minor is involved. 'We also impose limitations on the display of nudity. We aspire to respect people's right to share content of personal importance, whether those are photos of a sculpture like Michelangelo's David or family photos of a child breastfeeding. 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Decided to embark on a fitness regime when her trousers no longer fit her .
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By . Ellie Zolfagharifard . PUBLISHED: . 06:37 EST, 22 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:52 EST, 22 October 2013 . Social media users should compose a ‘famous last Tweet’ to go out after they are dead, according to legal experts. Although it may sound grim, experts claim the move is only a digital extension of the last requests many people make in a will. This advice has been given in a new guide from experts SagaLegal.co.uk which advises people on how to sort out their 'digital legacy.' Social media users should compose a 'famous last Tweet' to go out after they are dead, according to experts . And it includes getting Facebook and Twitter users to prepare their final messages to go out to friends and followers from beyond the grave. That way, the news will go out far beyond immediate family and friends and could prevent accidental but insensitive messages on a social media page such as birthday greetings from those who did not know. As well as this, many people have a large online presence that may need to be sorted out once they die, said Sagalegal.co.uk's Digital Legacy Guide. This can include online subscriptions to clubs, retailers, websites and money being either paid or owed to the deceased from online betting sites and others. Emma Myers at Saga Legal said: 'In the same way you would not want your loved ones falling out or being inconvenienced over a missing will when you die, it's also imperative to plan ahead for the great internet cafe in the sky' Millions have accounts with sites like Amazon and others who would keep sending email offers to the address of the deceased unless the accounts are closed. A final tweet can go out far beyond immediate family and friends and could prevent accidental but insensitive messages on a social media page . Emma Myers, head of wills, probate and lifetime planning at Saga Legal said: ‘Being a relatively new invention, there are not yet any substantial legal procedures in place to protect your online presence and even less still when you die. ‘In the same way you would not want your loved ones falling out or being inconvenienced over a missing will when you die, it's also imperative to plan ahead for the great internet cafe in the sky.’ The group is advising the public to compile a secure ‘online directory#, detailing all active internet accounts along with requests for how each should be dealt with. ‘Given how new an invention the internet is, it's perhaps not surprising that many people are not yet familiar with the idea of a digital legacy,’ added Ms Myers. ‘Yet as we continue to live more and more of our lives online, it's become increasingly important to start planning for our virtual afterlife when we pass away. ‘Accounts registered with everything from social media pages, email providers, online retailers and online banking contain sensitive information that should be removed. This is especially true where banking information is involved." ‘With the internet still being somewhat of a legal grey area, we understand the importance of consumers being aware of the risks - emotional, practical and financial - of not properly setting your online affairs in order.’ | Could prevent accidental but insensitive messages on social media pages .
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The Ohio teen accused of stabbing a teenage girl to death stuffed her body in a playpen bag and brazenly carried it past her mother in 'a baby thing,' police said. Ricki D. Williams IV, 18, of Youngstown, was called 'evil' by the prosecutor after a Wednesday court hearing in the death of 16-year-old Gina Burger. Authorities claim said he confessed to killing the girl and dumping her body in a Pennsylvania landfill. Williams appeared to smirk as he was led out of court following the short hearing, after which the prosecutor said: 'There is evil in the world and he’s one of those evil people.' 'Evil': Ricki Williams smirks while being led away after being charged in the brutal murder of a 16-year-old girl . Innocent victim: Gina Burger, 16, was savagely stabbed to death and dumped in a landfill, police said . Williams was arrested Tuesday by federal Marshals and taken to suburban Youngstown, where he is being held without bond. Burger was stabbed inside an apartment at a complex in Austintown, where she lived with her mother, police said. Another woman helped Williams dispose of the body under threat of death, according to police. The teen, assumed by authorities to be homeless, is charged with aggravated murder and kidnapping. Authorities will seek the death penalty, an official told WPXI. Jaqueline Bacher reported her daughter missing around 11 p.m. on June 23, three hours after Burger had left their apartment to borrow bags for iced tea. A police report said Bacher told officers that while she waited outside for an officer to take a missing person's report, she saw Williams walk out of another apartment struggling to carry what appeared to be a bag used to store a portable playpen. Write caption here . Devastated: Jaqueline Bacher, Burger's mother, said her killer has no regard for human life . Bacher told police that Williams asked her if she 'wanted to buy a baby thing.' An officer soon arrived and Bacher did not see what Williams did with the bag, the police report said. She said she saw what appeared to be the same bag in a trash container outside the apartment complex the next day. A worker found Burger's body June 25 at a landfill in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, about 45 miles north of Pittsburgh. It is not clear how the homeless teen got the body to the landfill. 'She wasn’t just a piece of trash to be disregarded,' Bacher told KDKA. 'Then, to find her in a landfill; I mean, that’s someone who has no regard for life.' On June 26, police went to the apartment of a woman Burger sometimes visited. A manager of the complex let them inside and police discovered blood stains throughout the home. Investigators found the woman who lived . in the apartment the next day. She told officers she helped Williams . dispose of Burger's body in the bag for her son's playpen after Williams . threatened to kill her. Where it happened: Burger was murdered in this apartment complex just outside Youngstown, Ohio, police said . Where she was found: This landfill, in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, is where Burger's body was dumped . The woman said Williams forced her and Burger into the woman's bedroom and allowed them to smoke a 'last cigarette,' the police report said. Williams then tried to force the woman to stab Burger. When she refused, Williams grabbed the knife and stabbed the teen once in the chest, the report said. Both Williams and Burger knew each other, police said, but no further details were provided. 'She had a family,' Bacher told WPXI. 'People loved her and cared about her. 'She was a sweet, caring and trusting girl.' | Ricki Williams, 18, confessed to stabbing 16-year-old Gina Burger to death and dumping her body in a landfill, police said .
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Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt waited until closing arguments to speak in his own defense in his genocide trial in Guatemala City on Thursday. He denied he had any role as head of state in the atrocities the military carried out on indigenous Ixil Mayans during his brief rule from 1982 to 1983. "I never authorized, I never signed, I never proposed, I never ordered these attacks against a people, ethnicity or religion," Rios Montt said Thursday. Prosecutors have asked for 75-year sentences for the 86-year-old former leader and his intelligence chief, Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez. The landmark trial marks the first time a former head of state has been tried for genocide by his country's own judicial system. Guatemala confronts a dark chapter . While Rios Montt was in power, the military used the threat of leftist rebels as a guise to exterminate Ixil villages accused of harboring insurgents, prosecutors argued. According to prosecutors, the campaign led to the genocide of more than 1,700 Ixil Mayans. During his first and only address to the three-judge panel, Rios Montt said that the prosecution's contention that the chain of command places him at fault for the atrocities is false. He oversaw the day-to-day operations of the government, while the defense ministry had the final say over security matters, Rios Montt said. "The head of state is nothing more than a public servant," he said. "Each regional commander is responsible for what happens and what he lets happen in his territory." The former ruler said he does not accept the charges of genocide and crimes against humanity leveled against him. "I was not a commander; I was a head of state!" he shouted. Trial near completion . Closing arguments in the trial, which opened in March, are expected to conclude on Thursday. A verdict could come any moment after that. The first three weeks of the trial moved fast, with many Ixil Mayan witnesses testifying about rape, torture, killings and the razing of their villages. But a number of appeals and motions by the defense in several courts threatened to derail the process. At one point, a judge annulled the testimony in the trial. Legal wrangling over the insertion and ejection of lawyers on the defense side and whether certain evidence was admissible resulted in sometimes contradicting rulings from various courts. The trial was suspended at one point, as the country's Constitutional Court and an appeals court began untangling the mess. The genocide trial was effectively stalled for nearly three weeks before the judges ruled they were in compliance with all of the rulings from the other courts. Facing legacy of civil war . Rios Montt came to power in a coup and led a military junta while Guatemala was in a bloody civil war between the army and leftist guerrillas. The war did not end until 1996, leaving more than 200,000 people dead and 1 million as refugees. Prosecutors argued that Rios Montt was aware of the repressive strategies that the military was using against anyone suspected of being a guerrilla, such as killings, forced disappearances and kidnappings. His defense has argued that he never explicitly ordered the killings of the indigenous group. | Efrain Rios Montt of Guatemala addresses the court for the first time Thursday .
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If you fancy yourself as the next Bailey or Rankin, but only ever have your mobile phone to hand, all is not lost. The World Photo Organisation (WPO) has launched a new award to recognise excellent photographs taken on smartphones – and you can enter now. The London-based photographic authority has launched the award to celebrate the breadth and reach of images taken on phones, which can now take incredibly hi-resolution images. Atmospheric: The World Photo Organisation (WPO) has launched a new award to recognise excellent photographs taken on smartphones. The London-based photographic authority has launched the award to recognise the breadth and reach of images taken on phones (journalist's photo pictured, not entry) ‘Photography now exists in our pockets, and we want to celebrate this,’ it says. There are more mobile phones on Earth than human beings and the number of devices is growing five times as fast as the population. Smartphone cameras are increasingly being accepted as legitimate tools with which to take photos and now the WPO has confirmed this by adding an extra category to its 2015 Sony World Photography Awards. It says that the new category ‘allows us to look a little closer at those otherwise ordinary moments and to enjoy the creative freedom that mobile phone photography allows.’ Smartphone cameras are increasingly being accepted as legitimate tools to take photos - even without filters (example, pictured) The WPO says that mobile entries to the awards have ‘increased steadily year on year. ‘It was time for mobile phone photography to have its own dedicated platform, instead of taking the risk of losing some wonderful photos within the hundreds of thousands of entries we receive to the main awards.’ The organisation says: ‘We are asking for the extraordinary; to show us, through incredible mobile phone photography, the inspirational moments that life is capable of providing us.’ Anyone can enter up to three photos for free before February 27. The brief reads: ‘You get out of life what you put in. Push past the obvious and see the inspiration all around you. 'Discover the extraordinary by using your mobile phone to view the world through a different lens.’ Photographs must be shot with a smartphone and be high resolution enough – a minimum of 800KB - to be printed out and shown at an exhibition. Up to 20 photos will be shortlisted by a panel of judges, before being posted online between March 10 and 17, so the public can vote for the winner. The overall winner will receive a bundle of Sony Mobile products, including an Xperia smartphone and tablet, as well as attending the Sony Photography Awards gala ceremony. Runners-up will see their entry shown at the exhibition from April 14 to May 10 and will also win a smartphone. The WPO says that mobile entries to the awards have ‘increased steadily year on year. ‘It was time for mobile phone photography (two example shown) to have its own dedicated platform, instead of taking the risk of losing some wonderful photos within the hundreds of thousands of entries we receive to the main awards’ Acknowledging the new category may open the floodgates to hundreds of badly-shot images of coffee cup art, the WPO says: ‘We understand that the sheer number of mobile devices now at our disposal does not guarantee quality, but quite the opposite. ‘The democratisation of imagery, and our means of producing that imagery, leaves our medium more vulnerable than ever before to a flood of low quality, unintelligent photography that is neither sustainable in the long run, nor healthy in the short. ‘But through the versatility that our mobile devices offer, the Mobile Phone Award will strive to offer a platform for the peak of what’s achievable - the most inspiring, the most thoughtful, and even, just maybe, the most ground breaking.’ There are now more mobile phone devices on Earth than human beings and the number of devices is growing five times as fast as the population. Smartphone cameras (stock image) are increasingly being accepted as legitimate tools to take photos, as recognised by the introduction of the award . There are numerous entry requirements including that photographs (pictured) must be shot with a smartphone and be high resolution enough – a minimum of 800KB - to be printed out and shown at an exhibition. Anyone can enter up to three shots . | The World Photo Organisation has launched the category to recognise excellent photographs taken on smartphones .
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By . David Richards . UPDATED: . 10:12 EST, 29 October 2011 . Budget retailer Poundland has been forced to review its dress code after a row erupted on Twitter and Facebook following claims that it had banned staff from wearing remembrance poppies. In a statement on Facebook, Poundland said it was not against employees wearing a poppy, but they were not allowed to do so on the shop floor because it is not part of staff uniform. But the company said today that it will now allow workers to 'use their own discretion in wearing poppies' after hundreds of customers threatened to boycott its stores. The claims that Poundland had banned staff from wearing them sparked the row on Twitter and the store's Facebook page, with hundreds of people expressing outrage at the policy . It had been claimed on Facebook that one member of staff was sent home from work and faced losing her job after refusing to remove her poppy. But in a statement Poundland said: 'On Friday 28th October a situation in Northern Ireland was brought to the company's attention where a store colleague was politely asked to remove a poppy by our store manager in order to comply with company policy. 'The store colleague decided to walk out and stated that she would return on Monday next wearing her poppy.' Proud: Poppy-wearing Chelsea captain John Terry and Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger at the Stamford Bridge match this afternoon . The red poppy has become a familiar emblem of Remembrance Day and is worn as a mark of respect to servicemen and women who have been killed or injured fighting for their country. Poppy pride: David Dimbleby displays his one at Question Time . The claims that Poundland had banned staff from wearing them sparked the row on Twitter and the store's Facebook page, with hundreds of people expressing outrage at the policy. Comments included 'disgusting' and 'shameful', and some customers said they would no longer shop at the store, describing it as a 'disgrace'. One Poundland employee, Vicky Hill, left the message: 'I don't think this is right. It's a sign of respect. Everyone has the right to wear a poppy. 'Of course, I shan't be wearing my poppy at work simply because rules are rules, and at the end of the day I abide by them. But I am not pleased with this at all.' Shane Brown said: 'I'm a Poundland employee and I find this a disgrace tbh we should be allowed to wear them with pride and respect at ALL times!!!' Poundland customer Linda Williams wrote: 'So wrong of you! Have some respect for those who fought and died for this country.' Poundland responded on the website yesterday saying it listens to its customers and was giving their views 'serious consideration'. Today, chief executive Jim McCarthy said: "We have listened to the views of customers and colleagues and have, in light of their feedback, reviewed the policy. "We have decided in the case of the poppy appeal to allow store colleagues to use their own discretion in wearing poppies. "This change in policy is consistent with recent reviews of policy made by other leading High street retailers. "We apologise for any unintended offence that has been caused." The 2011 Poppy Appeal was launched on Thursday and is the culmination of the Royal British Legion's 90th anniversary year. Television presenter David Dimbleby ignored BBC guidelines and wore his poppy on Thursday night's edition of Question Time - 36 hours before the go-ahead from BBC bosses. David Jordan, director of editorial policy and standards, ordered that poppies should be worn on screen from 6am today until '23.59pm on Sunday November 13 — Remembrance Sunday.' Last year the Armed Forces charity achieved a record-breaking total of £36million and hope to improve on this in 2011 with a fundraising goal of £40million. | Massive Facebook storm after staff member claimed she'd been sent home after refusing to remove emblem . | 090d28f4564f8f1c1e9ce9e90e6574a01970abbd | [
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Volcanoes lurking hidden under the world's oceans may play a far greater role in climate change than previously thought, according to a new study. Scientists have found that underwater volcanoes, which were long assumed to ooze lava at relatively steady rates, in fact erupt in pulses. A new study has shown that these submarine eruptions follow regular cycles that can range from just a couple of weeks to 100,000 years. Scroll down to see a video of an underwater volcano erupting . Eruptions from underwater volcanoes, like this one in 2013 that formed a new island off the coast of Nishinoshhima in Japan, appear to wax and wane with changes in the Earth's orbit around the sun . The researchers claim these eruptions appear to be linked to changes in the Earth's orbit that occur over time. One of the most intriguing findings by the new study of underwater volcanic eruptions is that they appear to follow a seasonal pattern. Data collected by Dr Maya Tolstoy from Columbia University showed that almost all undersea eruptions recorded in the past 25 years occur in the first six months of the year. This may be because January is the month when the Earth is closest to the sun and July is when it is at it's farthest, creating slight squeezing and unsqueezing as it moves. This may be similar to the effect that Dr Tolstoy detected on longer timescales as the shape of the Earth's orbit changes. There may also be some affect caused by changes in sea level as water trapped in the ice around the Arctic and then melts. Dr Tolstoy said: 'If you look at the present-day eruptions, volcanoes respond even to much smaller forces than the ones that might drive climate.' Surprisingly the researchers also found that these eruptions also appear to be clustered during the first six months of each year. The findings may now mean that models predicting how human activity will change the climate will need to be adjusted. Volcanic eruptions are known to throw huge amounts of gas into the atmosphere, including carbon dioxide that are thought to increase global warming. However, volcanoes also release aerosol gases that are now known to reduce global warming by creating a reflective barrier against the sun. Dr Maya Tolstoy, a marine geophysicist at the Lamond-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, said: 'People have ignored seafloor volcanoes on the idea that their influence is small, but that’s because they are assumed to be in a steady state, which they’re not. 'They respond to both very large forces, and to very small ones, and that tells us that we need to look at them much more closely.' Underwater volcanoes are known to be widespread on the floor of the world's oceans at joins in the tectonic plates. Most are located in the deep ocean, where their activity can be difficult to measure, although some in shallow water can erupt with enough lava to create new islands. 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By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 19:41 EST, 9 March 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 02:36 EST, 10 March 2014 . Almost one million Britons alive today are of Viking descent, which means one in 33 men can claim to be direct descendants of the Vikings. Around 930,000 descendents of warrior race exist today - despite the Norse warriors’ British rule ending more than 900 years ago. A genetic study carried out by BritainsDNA compared the Y chromosome markers - DNA inherited from father to son - of more than 3,500 men to six DNA patterns that are rarely found outside of Scandinavia and are associated with the Norse Vikings. Scroll down for video . Amateur Vikings process around their longboat during the annual Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland . Records estimate that the first Viking longships landed in Britain in 793AD and that the Vikings went on to rule parts of England until the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066. Vikings left behind buildings, culture and words that are still used in the English language today. Key findings from the research include that men from the Shetland (29.2 per cent) and Orkney (25.2 per cent) Islands, heavily populated by the Northmen in the Viking Age, are most likely to have Viking in their bloodlines. South of Scotland Yorkshire (5.6 per cent) and Northern England (four per cent) are the most prominent areas of the country for Norse Viking ancestry with more than 300,000 Northern men able to claim direct descent - accounting for almost a third of descendants. Thanks to the recent DNA data, around 930,000 people can claim to be of direct Viking decent . Further south the percentage of Viking descendants drops significantly, with South West England home to as few as 40,000 father line descendants. Despite being a known hotspot for the Vikings when they first landed, Ireland has very little sign of a Norse genetic contribution today, with only 1.4 per cent of men from the Emerald Isle thought to have Viking connections. Leinster has a lower count of Viking bloodlines than any other part of Britain or Ireland. Doctor Jim Wilson, chief scientist at BritainsDNA, said: 'Despite arriving well over 1,000 years ago the Viking legacy still remains strong in Britain and Ireland. 'The research suggests that the concentration of Norse blood is quite variable, but as the Y chromosome only relates to the nation’s male population and only to one ancestral lineage for each man, there is a very real chance that many more of us are related to the Vikings.' Men from the far north of Scotland were most likely to provide a direct match with almost a third (29.2%) of the men from the Shetland Islands testing positive for Viking blood . Legends of the Norse warriors have become very popular since the drama series 'Vikings' began airing . Michael Hirst, creator and writer of the TV show Vikings, said: 'The research demonstrates the profound effect that the Vikings had on our country when they invaded centuries ago. 'To think that many of us may still have the blood of these feared and famed warriors flowing through our veins so long after their reign is an incredible and profound thought.' The Viking descendant population is much more prominent up in the northern parts of the British Isles . People dressed as Vikings carry burning brands as they take part in a Norse reconstruction festival . 1. Shetland - 29.2 per cent . 2. Orkney - 25.2 per cent . 3. Caithness - 17.5 per cent . 4. Isle of Man - 12.3 per cent . 5. Western Isles - 11.3 per cent . 6. North West Scotland and Inner Hebrides - 9.9 per cent . 7. Argyll - 5.8 per cent . 8. Yorkshire - 5.6 per cent . 9. North East Scotland - 4.9 per cent . 10. North England - 4 per cent . 11. East England - 3.6 per cent . 12. South West Scotland - 3.2 per cent . 13. South East Scotland - 2.7 per cent . 14. Central England - 2.6 per cent . 15. Central Scotland - 2.2 per cent . 16. South East England - 1.9 per cent . 17. South West England - 1.6 per cent . 18. Ireland (Ulster) - 1.4 per cent . 19. Ireland (Munster) - 1.3 per cent . 20. Ireland (Connacht) - 1.2 per cent . 21. Wales - 1 per cent . 22. Ireland (Leinster) - 1 per cent . | Around 930,000 people can claim to be of direct Viking descent .
A study compared Y chromosome markers to estimated Viking DNA patterns .
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(CNN) -- When a Phoenix teacher, way back in 2004, offered four students the option of learning marine science through textbook lessons or by building an underwater robot, the students chose the hands-on approach. It was a decision that revealed the power of experiential learning and created the opening scene for a Hollywood script. "I had nothing to do. I felt like a loser," one of the students, Lorenzo Santillan, told an Arizona newspaper in 2008. Without the robot club, "I would have probably just dropped out of high school." In fact, all four students graduated from high school. "All these kids have taken what they've learned and decided that they can be leaders in their community," the robotics teacher, Fredi Lajvardi, says in a new documentary film, Underwater Dreams. The film tracks four Hispanic students who started the robotics team at Carl Hayden High School in Phoenix, a decade ago. Working under gifted teachers, the guys build an underwater robot, nicknamed Stinky. The fun starts when they enter a national competition that pits their machine against robots from both high school and college teams. No need to spoil the finish. It's enough to say that the tale, with a tampon prominent in the construction of the robot, inspired a long-form piece in WIRED magazine, a new Hollywood feature starring George Lopez and Marisa Tomei, and the documentary film. As part of a deal with NBCUniversal and AMC Theatres, "Underwater Dreams" opens Friday, July 11, in Los Angles and New York, before rolling out to other cities. Underwriters include the Bezos Family Foundation, The Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund and the Virginia Piper Charitable Trust. While "Underwater Dreams" is a compelling tale about four kids who beat the odds, it carries a larger message about education reform. The need for reform is straightforward. In this century, economic growth depends on jobs for which Americans are not sufficiently trained, at least as compared to other countries. Absent reform, according to the The Jobs Council, U.S. firms will struggle to fill positions that require technical skill. How to implement reform is the sticky part. Reforming education means altering how teachers teach. When I took algebra, chemistry and physics, my teachers stood at the front of the classroom and lectured. If I learned anything, I learned by listening. Today, there is a belief that students learn more by doing. Sounds simple enough, but it's a challenge to reorganize instructional budgets, train new teachers, retrain veteran teachers and bring students and parents along. Instruction ends up looking different than your father's science class, as evidenced by the robotics poetry class offered at one innovative Pennsylvania middle school. "Underwater Dreams" adds weight to the argument in favor of hands-on, experiential learning by proving that it can be accomplished in a tough setting, without lots of new resources. The lesson is especially critical for STEM education -- science, technology, engineering and mathematics -- where we must set learning on fire for children who may otherwise disengage from school. I first heard about the Hayden robotics program shortly after the now-famous underwater competition, when the foundation where I work began making grants to support programs at the school. The students saw they could accomplish more than they ever could have imagined. Whether they went on to become an Army paratrooper like Oscar Vazquez or a chef, as Santillan has done, their high school experience helped. "With robotics, the kids fell in love with building, pure and simple," "Underwater Dreams" filmmaker Mary Mazzio told me in an e-mail. "They loved the kinesthetic learning of how things worked. Although they didn't call it engineering, that is what they fell in love with. Oscar first learned to make a catapult for Halloween -- and they concocted a giant catapult right out of Joan of Arc -- and had pumpkins smashing everywhere. He fell in love." From the film, I was struck by Dean Kamen's remarks on the need to develop talented young people. An inventor whose creations include the Segway, Kamen is also founder of FIRST robotics, which enables more than 350,000 students to build robots annually. I called Kamen to ask him whether the kids in "Underwater Dreams" represent a fluke, or whether all students could flourish this way. "You didn't find two needles in the haystack," Kamen said. "You found a stack of needles. They are all sharp. All they needed was a little guidance, a little support." Let's hope the release of "Underwater Dreams" leads to more schools uncovering more of these needles. Join us on Facebook.com/CNNOpinion. | A Phoenix teacher gave his students the option to learn by doing .
John Bare: The project motivated students to succeed and has important lessons .
He says America needs better education and training for job-related skills .
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By . Martha Cliff . Harry Hill is proving that he has a serious side by fronting a UK campaign which will grant £150,000 to UK charities supporting children with life-limiting conditions. The comedian is working with the Newman's Own Foundation, set up by the late Hollywood actor Paul Newman. He says: 'I am thrilled to be involved with . Newman's Own Foundation this year. When I heard about the great work the . charity does in the UK I wanted to get involved and help spread the . word about the grants that UK charities can apply for.' SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO . Earlier this year Harry Hill visited Roundabout, a drama therapy charity that has received £9,000 from Newman's Own Foundation . The comedian continued: 'Aside from Paul Newman personally being a huge inspiration to me, Newman's Own Foundation has inspired many others and helped countless charities through their continued charitable work.' Harry has personally experienced the good that the Newman's Own Foundation can do when earlier this year he visited Roundabout, a registered charity which provides drama therapy workshops to children in need across London, which was awarded a £9,000 from Newman’s Own Foundation. The Newman's Own Foundation is planning to grant UK charities £150,000 . Harry Hill has always admired the foundation and is thrilled to campaign on their behalf . Newman's Own Foundation has already donated over US$400 million (approximately . £236 million) around the world, including nearly US$1.7 million . (around £1 million) to various UK charities with this latest . initiative. Robert Forrester, president of Newman's Own Foundation, says children with life-limiting conditions were a cause particularly close to Paul Newman's heart. 'Supporting children with life-limiting conditions is a key focus area for Newman's Own Foundation because it is one of the areas that Paul Newman cherished, and one with opportunities for the Foundation to make a significant impact,' Forrester explains. 'We encourage charities that support or execute these programs to submit a request for funding.' To be considered for grants, organisations must be registered UK . charities providing support for children with life-limiting medical or . developmental conditions. Charities meeting the requirements are . encouraged to submit their requests before the application process . closes on 16 June, 2014. Final grants will be announced on World Charity . Day 5 September, 2014. Selected organisations will be contacted to receive a full application for funding from Newman's Own Foundation. Additional charity requirements may be found at newmansownfoundation.org/what-we-support/funding-guidelines/. Grantees will be announced on World Charity Day, 5 September, 2014. To find out more visit www.newmansown.co.uk . | The Newman's Own Foundation is donating £150,000 to children's charities .
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By . Shari Miller . PUBLISHED: . 06:04 EST, 28 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 02:01 EST, 29 July 2013 . Tina Nash, who was permanently blinded by her former boyfriend after he gouged both her eyes out, was attacked by her new partner, Roland Alli . A young mother who was blinded when . her violent boyfriend gouged out both her eyes in one of Britain's worst cases of domestic abuse has revealed how she has since been attacked by her new partner. Mother-of-two Tina Nash, 33, was permanently blinded in April 2011 after Shane Jenkin subjected her to a terrifying 12-hour ordeal. During that attack, she was beaten unconscious and told: 'You’re never going to see your kids . again.' Jenkins, 34, was jailed for life in a secure mental health unit and ordered to serve . at least six years before being considered for release. But just over two years later, Mrs Nash was again the victim of a brutal assault when her new partner, Roland Alli, 32, threatened her with a knife in her own home. Recalling the moment of terror on June 16, which took place in her house in Penzance, Cornwall, Mrs Nash told how she heard the sound of knives clinking in the drawer and knew that Alli was about to attack her. 'It was happening again and my body shot into survival mode,' she told The Sunday Mirror. Truro Magistrates Court in Cornwall heard last that week Alli subjected the 'extremely vulnerable' Mrs Nash to a 'sustained' attack. He was due to stand trial for common assault, but changed his plea and was jailed for . 14 weeks. Alli, from Plymouth, Devon, was also handed a restraining order banning him from going anywhere near Ms Nash's home or contacting her again. Ms Nash's latest turbulent relationship comes despite her becoming a high-profile campaigner against domestic violence in the wake of her blinding. She has spent the last two years trying to overcome the trauma left by her ordeal at . the hands of cowardly Shane Jenkin, who beat her unconscious and poked . out her eyes while she was asleep at her home in Cornwall. In her book, Out of The Darkness, she recalls how she woke up 'smothered in blackness' to find the 18st thug squeezing her . neck until 'my head felt like it was going to explode' and passed out . three times in quick succession. She also wrote: 'I sat up and reached my hand to my face... and felt my eyeball hanging halfway down my cheek. 'I touched my slippery eyeball, like I couldn’t believe it was real. My other eye was swollen to the size of a tennis ball.' The emotional and physical toll of her attack left her reluctant to start a new relationship. But she thought she had found a loving and trustworthy partner in Roland Alli. The couple met on Facebook last Christmas and at the time, Mrs Jenkins believed the trainee forklift driver was someone she could build a new life with. She was cautious and even asked the police to carry out a background check on Alli, to assure her that he . did not have a previous record of abuse towards women. Only then did she embark on a relationship with him. But by May, she had reservations when she discovered Alli was drinking heavily and was becoming possessive. Desperate to continue the relationship, he agreed to join Alcoholics Anonymous and the pair became friends. Their relationship resumed within the month, but his jealousy resurfaced and Mrs Nash claims, he accused her of rekindling her relationship with the father of one of her sons. Recalling her second ordeal of terror, Mrs Nash told The Sunday Mirror that on the night of the attack she had just returned from a visit to her ex-partner's home to drop off her son - and Alli began demanding what had happened. She claims an argument followed and she eventually went upstairs to bed. But Alli followed her into the bedroom and pushed her shoulder, forcing her to fall to the ground. He later seemed apologetic and went to put his arms around her waist, but Mrs Nash pushed him away. New ordeal: Mother-of-two Tina Nash, 33, pictured here arriving at court in April 2011 for the trial of Shane Jenkin . It was then she claims he suddenly grabbed her arm and twisted it behind her back. She also felt a sharp pain above her knuckles. Mrs Nash screamed at him to release her and asked him to leave the house. At that point, she says Alli stormed out and shouted he was going to get a knife from the kitchen. But two minutes later, the police had arrived at the scene. Just before their argument began, Alli had been on the phone to his mother - and she decided to call the police from what she had overheard. Jailed: Shane Jenkins was jailed for life in a secure mental health unit and ordered to serve at least six years before being considered for release . When officers arrived at her home, they found a 15inch serrated bread knife tossed in the washing basket. Police also found a pair of scissors on her bed, which Mrs Nash believes Alli used to cut her knuckle. 'They said Roland was sweating and his eyes were bulging out of their sockets when they arrested him,' the terrified mother said. The attack came just three days after Alli appeared before magistrates for scuffling with a policeman on the housing estate where Ms Nash lives. On that occasion, magistrates heard he was in a drunken rage after being kicked out of her house when he was approached by PC Ian Ridge. Alli pleaded guilty to drunk and disorderly behaviour after struggling with the officer and was fined £35 with £80 costs and surcharge. He was also told to pay £100 compensation to PC Ridge and given a drink banning order for a year. The former beautician says the . combined ordeals by Jenkin and Alli have left her in a state of anxiety, unable to sleep and suffering panic attacks. She . added: 'I've finally asked for therapy from my doctor because although I . want to believe I'm strong, I don't think I can cope any more.' Mrs Nash, who has become a campaigner . against domestic abuse, now hopes her story can serve as an 'early . warning' to others trapped in a violent relationship. In her book, Out Of The Darkness, Tina told other victims: 'It’s not going to get better, it’s going to get worse.' Campaigner: Tina Nash appeared on ITV's This Morning earlier this year to warn others of domestic abuse . | Tina Nash, 33, who was subjected to a horrific attack by Shane Jenkin, has revealed she was attacked by her new partner .
Roland Alli, 32, threatened her with a knife at home in Penzance, Cornwall .
Alli was jailed for 14 weeks and has been handed a restraining order .
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By . Leon Watson . Fancy a rat kebab? It's rat hunting season in Vietnam which means skewered vermin are back on the menu at a restaurant in Dan Phuong on the outskirts of the Vietnamese captial Hanoi. Rat meat has been considered a delicacy for many years in southern areas of the south Asian country, and the taste for it is spreading. Previously only eaten regularly by the northern Red River delta and southern Mekong River delta people, the taste for rat meat is spreading. At this time of year, when rice is harvested, farmers in the south turn to rat hunting to capture the small animals for sale in markets . In the southern Mekong delta, hunting is particularly productive during the flood season when rats try to escape from their flooded hearths. One kilogram of rat meat costs around 100,000 dong, or $4 to $5. Scroll down for video . Special ingredient: Slaughtered rats placed on rice straw for roasting in Dan Phuong on the outskirts of Hanoi . Tasty morsel: Rats cooking on an open fire in Dan Phuong on the outskirts of Vietnam's capital Hanoi . Rats, tasty rats, only 100,000 dong for a pair: A Vietnamese vendor disemboweling rats (left) and then selling at a village market (right) Delicacy: One kilogram of rat meat costs around 100,000 dong, or $4 to $5 . Rats on sticks: the vermin are roasted until they are charred before being ready to eat . Barbecue: Thanh, owner of a rat restaurant, roasting rats . Thanh, owner of a rat restaurant, preparing rats to be cooked in Dan Phuong . Dinner's nearly ready: The rats have been skinned, washed and theey now need to be disemboweled . Doing the prep: A couple who run owner of a rat restaurant slaughtering rats . Preparing rats to be cooked by giving them a wash before they're slaughtered . About to be skinned: Eating rat is popular among both Northern Red River delta and Southern Mekong River delta people . A rat being pulled out of a cage at a rat restaurant in Dan Phuong on the outskirts of Hanoi . A rat hunter carrying a bamboo cage with captured rats inside as his teammates placing rat traps in a field in Vietnam's Hoai Duc district . Captured rats in a trap during a hunting trip in a field in the Hoai Duc district . Caught: A man puts a captured rat into a bamboo cage during a hunting trip . A rat hunter looking on as a dog digs a hole during a hunting trip in a field in the Hoai Duc district on the outskirts of Hanoi . Rat hunters placing traps during a hunting trip in a field in the Hoai Duc district on the outskirts of Hanoi . | Rat is popular among Red River and Mekong River delta people .
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Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe has been told he could lose what remains of his sight within a year . Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe has been told he could lose what remains of his sight within a year. The murderer, who is already blind in one eye after a prison attack, was said to be 'extremely upset' when he was told he has a severe condition linked to diabetes. Sutcliffe, who killed 13 women and tried to murder seven others between 1975 and 1980, refused laser eye surgery as he fears it could cause him to lose his vision immediately. The killer is devastated that he may soon be unable to watch television, read books and write letters, The Sun reported. The 68-year-old, who is serving 20 life sentences at high-security psychiatric hospital Broadmoor, told a friend: 'I am terrified and just don't know how I will spend my time.' Sutcliffe, who notoriously targeted prostitutes during his five-year killing spree, had an eye check in recent weeks following a prolonged period of poor health. He had a hernia operation in 2013 and has since been suffering from a debilitating cough. He has been taking medication which has made him put on weight and has increased his blood pressure. In December he suffered an attack of angina. The Yorkshire Ripper was told he has damaged blood vessels in his retina and that the condition of his eye has deteriorated because of his diabetic retinopathy - which can lead to blindness. A friend of the killer is reported to have said: 'It is playing on his mind a lot and he is very upset.' Sutcliffe lost vision in his left eye after a fellow inmate attacked him with a pen in 1997 - an attack which also damaged his right eye. He was attacked again in 2007 by another killer, Patrick Sureda, who stabbed him in the face with a blunt seven-inch knife. During the attack, Sureda shouted: 'I'll teach you, you b******, for killing all those women.' Broadmoor Hospital did not comment on Sutcliffe's condition. Sutcliffe, who killed 13 women and tried to murder seven others between 1975 and 1980, is being held at Broadmoor Hospital (pictured) It costs taxpayers more than £300,000 to detain him in Broadmoor, at least five times more than the cost of a prison cell. The murderer will see out the rest of his life at the hospital, with a plea to move to a facility 170 miles north - in Yorkshire - rejected in December. He wanted to be closer to his family but a senior doctor there was 'no change' in Sutcliffe's condition and that he could not be moved to a lower security 65-bed unit attached to Fieldhead Hospital in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. The move would have placed him just a few miles from where he murdered his victims. | Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe could lose his sight within a year .
Murderer, who is already blind in one eye, has chronic retina condition .
Killer told a friend he was 'terrified' after medics revealed the news .
He is said to be 'terrified' at not being able to watch TV and read books .
Sutcliffe was blinded in his left eye after he was stabbed with a pen in 1997 . | e8f96196ba379488e2f5bf9103a8a01ab918dc4a | [
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(CNN) -- Singer Enrique Iglesias moved to the United States as a child but his football heart remains in Spain. As Spain prepares to play Honduras on Monday -- after losing to Switzerland in the first group game -- he talks to CNN about his heroes, football memories and fitting in games while doing promotion work. Did you play football as a kid? Yes, I used to play right wing when I was a kid. I don't play any more. I probably could not play for more than five minutes, I'd be in the ground. I've got no endurance whatsoever. Maybe after a tour but not before one. As a kid I played in Spain til I was 8. I was medium, not great but not bad. Then I moved to the U.S. -- 20 years ago soccer was not as big in the U.S. as it is now -- and I was actually pretty good in comparison to the rest of the players at the time. It felt good. The coach would always put me in to play. The best memories were of scoring goals. When you score you felt like you were on top of the world. My favorite player back then was Diego Maradona. The second goal he scored against England [in 1986 World Cup) was so, so magnificent. It made the rest of the world -- maybe not England -- forget the handball goal and say "OK, you deserved to win." Who are your favorite players at this World Cup? Between Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. And Iniesta and Torres and Fabregas and Villa and Casillas. What does the World Cup mean to you? My album "Euphoria" comes out in July and that means I am promoting it in all June and July. I was so disappointed. That was the only thing I hated about this album to the point that three weeks ago I called the president of the record company and told him that I wanted to delay my album and move it to September due to the World Cup. I was keen on it. I'm like "please, please, please," I begged and they said "if you move it to September just to watch the World Cup we will never speak to you again." I was disappointed. I was "come on, it is once every four years" and they were "come on, your albums are once every three years." Will Iglesias have a summer hit? The World Cup is the only time my career comes second. It's crucial to me. When Spain plays they did promise me they would clear my schedule. How do you think Spain will do? The worst part was I was in London for the Swiss game and they cleared the schedule for two hours and I got to watch Spain and I got to see them lose. After that I didn't want to do more interviews. It was one of those games that you watch and you say how could we have lost? You can tell their skill and they were the better team but at the end of the day it's 'you can't forgive in football,' you have to go for it. It's not always the better team that wins and what matters is the final score. It was just devastating. If there's one World Cup where you would think this is the time where they have a chance, I would think it's this one. Ever since I was a little kid Spain was always good, always promised a lot but they never quite get there. CNN.com tracks the World Cup . This time, since the Euros (European championships), things have changed. From Iniesta to Alonso to Torres to Villa to Piquet to Puyol, you have Fabregas, you have Casillas. You just have such a complete team, and they are so talented and each player is so good. But now there's a lot of pressure. They have to win. If Brazil wins their group and if Spain qualifies second they have to play Brazil. I would rather Spain wins the group and plays Portugal or Ivory Coast. Who do you think will do well? I think Argentina will go all the way or close. I got to watch a bit of the South Korea game and they were really good. Obviously, Brazil. It will boil down to those teams -- to Argentina, to Brazil, Italy always starts bad and ends up in a good place, Germany will be there. And hopefully Spain will be in there. It's so difficult to tell in the World Cup because anything can happen. What are your best and worst memories of football? Worst was the 2002 (World Cup). Spain-South Korea. They got robbed. I think the referee made major mistakes to the point that it was so so obvious it almost made you think something was going on. It was too, too obvious. The best, when I was 5 years old, the World Cup in Spain in '82, the mascot was Naranjito. The Italy-Germany game, I was there. I watched it. I remember Paolo Rossi. He was my idol in that World Cup. | Schedule cleared to watch Spain's World Cup games .
Iglesias: I wanted to delay album release so I could watch the World Cup .
Defeat to Switzerland was "devastating"
Best memory was at Spain '82; worst was at 2002 World Cup . | 7a3309bd97170f13482a1a56af4d2a445fe5f04b | [
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By . James Chapman and Hugo Duncan . Last updated at 2:33 PM on 15th September 2011 . Britain is drawing up contingency plans for a catastrophic collapse of the euro which experts fear could plunge our economy back into a recession ‘beyond comprehension’. Economists believe the EU would be unlikely to survive a disorderly break-up of the euro and say that even stronger economies could contract by as much as 25 per cent in the aftermath. Amid a mounting sense of inevitability that Greece will default on its massive debts and be forced to leave the single currency, the U.S. urged EU governments to use ‘overwhelming force’ to address the debt crisis. U.S. treasury secretary Tim Geithner, . who will take the unusual step of attending a meeting of EU finance . ministers in Poland tomorrow, admitted Washington had been ‘behind the . curve’ in tackling its own financial crisis but urged Europe to act . decisively. A policeman clashing with an anti-austerity protester near the Italian Parliament building in Rome . Protesters and riot policemen clash in front of the Italian parliament in Piazza Montecitorio . Yesterday . ratings agency Moody’s downgraded the credit ratings of two of France’s . largest banks, Societe Generale and Credit Agricole, because of their . exposure to Greek debt causing panic on French stock markets. The ratings agency left France’s . largest bank, BNP Paribas, on review, saying its profitability and . capital base gave it an adequate cushion to support its Greek, . Portuguese and Irish exposure. World markets rose sharply after European leaders vowed to help Greece avoid default in a bid to sooth trader jitters. The leaders of Greece, France and Germany - in a telephone conference call - agreed Greece was an 'integral part' of the eurozone. And Greece promised to stick to agreements on debt reduction - a condition of the further bailout package from other European nations. The FTSE-100 was up more than 70 points or 1.44 per cent this morning, with the Dax and Cac-40 both up 1.9 per cent. Overnight, Japan's Nikkei rose 1.5 per cent, South Korea's Kospi 0.6 per cent, Hong Kong's Hang Seng 0.5 per cent and Australia's ASX 200 0.8 per cent. Benchmarks in Singapore, Taiwan and New Zealand also rose, although most Chinese stocks were unaffected. Pulling together: Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel have insisted Greece is in 'integral part' of the euro . Moody's has downgraded Societe Generale and Credit Agricole because of their exposure to Greek debt . Yesterday, U.S. stocks saw their third day of gains in a row. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 140.88 points, or 1.3 per cent. Uri Landesman, president of the New York hedge fund Platinum Partners, said worries over Greece have gone too far because it won't be allowed to default. 'They're just not going to let them [the Greeks] go under,' he said. 'That's just not happening. I think people have learned the lesson from letting Lehman Brothers fail.' Despite today's reassurances, even the most die-hard pro-Europeans appear to accept that the eurozone is in terminal trouble. Former Liberal Democrat leader Lord . Ashdown, a long-time supporter of the single currency, asked in an . interview with The Spectator whether he thought the euro could survive . in its current form, replied: ‘No, I don’t.’ ‘The . most likely outcome is probably a core euro, a euro that has Germany, . Austria, Finland and the Benelux countries in it – you’d have to have . France in there for political reasons, even though economically they . wouldn’t come up to the mark precisely – and maybe Sweden. ‘Then you have a core euro and you then create the institutions to govern the euro.’ Martin Callanan, Conservative leader in Brussels, said: ‘The thing is in absolute crisis. Everybody is panicking over here. ‘And it seems to me the least worst . option is to accept the inevitable for Greece to default on its debt, . leave the euro and devalue its currency and then give it space to . restructure’. But he warned that Britain could be caught in the fallout as the eurozone collapses. Andrew . Lilico, chief economist at analysts Europe Economics, said the collapse . of the euro would almost certainly mean the end of the EU. ‘The . EU is most unlikely to continue without the euro,’ he said. ‘Sudden and . disorderly collapse of the EU would induce a massive further phase of . recession.’ He referred to . predictions by the Swiss bank UBS of a 20-25 per cent contraction in . gross domestic product for strong countries and 50 per cent for weak . countries. ‘I happen to think that the UBS figures are somewhat emotional,’ he said. ‘But it would certainly involve a recession on a scale beyond modern experience or comprehension in a Western democracy.’ In an extraordinary sign of alarm across the globe, five big developing countries said they were ready to discuss bailing out Europe. The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – the ‘BRICS’ countries – are to meet at the annual World Bank and International Monetary Fund summit next week to talk about providing emergency assistance. The head of the World Bank said the global economy had entered a new ‘danger zone’ and that the ‘time for muddling through’ was over. Robert Zoellick said: ‘Unless Europe, Japan, and the United States can face up to responsibilities they will drag down not only themselves but the global economy. They have procrastinated for too long on taking the difficult decisions, narrowing what choices are now left to a painful few.’ Treasury sources believe that Germany is now resigned to the eurozone breaking down in its current form and a new European ‘inner core’ being created. There is an increasing expectation that this will mean a new EU treaty. Downing Street confirmed that officials were working on ‘contingency plans’ aimed at trying to insulate Britain from a full-blown crisis in the eurozone, but refused to speculate about what form they would take. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, in a speech on the economy, warned: ‘The economic context is much worse than before. Yes, facts have changed.’ Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls warned of the danger of a ‘massive economic catastrophe’ on a larger scale than the banking crash in 2008. ‘The issue now isn’t really Greece, it is what is happening in Spain and in particular Italy,’ he said. Polish finance minister Jacek Rostowski, who will chair a meeting of EU finance bosses tomorrow, said the EU could be destroyed by the debt crisis. But the president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, insisted that the answer to the growing threat to the euro was a more, and not less, integrated EU. | Stronger economies could contract by 25% if EU falls apart .
Mounting fears Greece will default and have to leave euro .
Moody's downgrades credit ratings of two French banks .
France and Germany insist Greece is 'integral part' of euro .
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A jewellery maker has been become Britain's Queen of Bling after she rose from obscurity to design the Duchess of Cambridge's favourite earrings. Catherine Zoraida, 32, set up her small, self-titled firm just four years ago and was virtually unknown until the 33-year-old royal asked to see some pieces. Kate, 33, went on to wear a pair of the designer's stunning 'double leaf' earrings and an intricate 'Spread Your Wings' bracelet, £420, while meeting the King of Malaysia during the Queen's Diamond Jubilee tour in 2012. Scroll down for video . The 33-year-old accessorised her Alexander McQueen gown with Catherine Zoraida's double leaf earrings . Catherine Zoraida's business was transformed when the Duchess bought her earrings and a bracelet . She wore the simple pieces with a stunning gold and white custom-made Alexander McQueen gown. Catherine, who trained at Edinburgh College of Art, said that the Duchess had come across her work and requested some pieces to look at. She bought seven pieces including the earrings and the bracelet. The 18 carat gold plated bracelet is made of an intricately linked leaf design and measures 17cm in length and the designer notes it will add drama to any outfit. She said: 'It was just before the Queen's Diamond Jubilee tour and amazingly she ended up wearing some of these pieces. 'She wore the earrings and a bracelet to dinner with the King of Malaysia. Kate wore the delicate gold jewellery with a military-style coat to church at Sandringham after Christmas . Catherine Zoraida, left, has gone from unknown to famous designer thanks to Kate's patronage . The royal brought the earrings on her royal tour and wore them on a visit to Uluru in April, 2014 . Kate teamed her subtle jewellery with a simple Roksanda Ilincic shift dress, a taupe belt and nude pumps . 'Suddenly people were trying to guess this new jewellery designer and when they found out it was me they just went crazy.' The Scottish and Colombian jeweller soon became inundated with orders after Kate continued to wear the designer's earrings and to countless special occasions. The Duchess wore the delicate leaf earrings made from 18 carat gold-plated silver over two Christmases - most recently on a trip to church at Sandringham in December. She also teamed them with Alice Temperley during a trip to the South Pacific in 2012 and at Uluru with Prince William earlier this year she wore the subtle pieces with a Roksanda Ilincic shift. Engraved with a feather detail, they are 6cm in size and are described on the jeweller's website as 'timeless gold earrings are an everyday classic'. Her jewellery is designed and made in Britain. The earrings even made an appearance on a trip to the South Pacific with Prince William in 2012 . Kate wore the Catherine Zoraida designs in the South Pacific with an embroidered Alice Temperley dress . | Duchess of Cambridge bought 'double leaf' dangly earrings and bracelet .
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A young deli worker who became pregnant with her third child was allegedly told she would lose her job unless she got an abortion. Catherine Rizzo, 25, of Long Island, New York, who was earning $400 to $500 per week, is suing Cooky’s Deli owner Martin Marsilio, 69. She had to terminate her pregnancy because she needed her job to look after her other two children, a lawsuit in Brooklyn Federal Court claims. 'Abortion threat': Catherine Rizzo, 25, of Long Island, New York, who was earning $400 to $500 per week, is suing Cooky's Deli owner Martin Marsilio, 69 . ‘The owner’s daughter pulled me in the office and basically told me if I didn’t have an abortion, I wasn’t going to have a job,’ she told the New York Post. Ms Rizzo claimed she stayed there because she needed her job and said it was 'hard to deal' with the abortion she was allegedly forced to have. But Mr Marsillio said the allegation is a ‘total lie’, she was fired for being regularly late for work and never complained about harassment. ‘Many female employees here have gotten pregnant, had their children, took time off and came back to work,’ he told the New York Post. Comeback: Cooky's Deli owner Mr Marsillio said the allegation is a 'total lie', she was fired for often being late for work and never complained about harassment . Ms Rizzo claims the ‘abortion’ comments from the owner’s daughter - who was her supervisor - were made last year in May. 'The owner’s daughter pulled me in the office, and basically told me if I didn’t have an abortion, I wasn’t going to have a job. I stayed there because I needed my job' Catherine Rizzo . She also alleges that she was often cursed at by a co-worker, pushed and told she was a ‘lowlife and bad mother’, reported the New York Post. Then last August she was allegedly abruptly fired despite going through the abortion and evicted with her children from their apartment. She found new employment and a new home - but then Cooky’s employees allegedly turned up to take photos of her in her workplace. Mr Marsilio told the New York Post this was because he wanted to prove to unemployment officials that she was working without record of payment. | Catherine Rizzo, 25, earning $400 to $500 per week .
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Last week I endured of hellish day of work pressures, domestic distractions and a banging headache. It reached a crescendo when I served my family a burnt dinner, which my children pulled faces at and pushed around their plates before asking to be excused from the table. Having finally cleared away the dishes, I knew only a long soak in a frothy bath could offer any hope of respite. As I poured bubble bath into the warm water and stripped off my clothes, I breathed deeply and instantly felt more relaxed. harsh critic: Angela with her daughter Sophie, ten . Yet my peace was shattered when my ten-year-old daughter, Sophie, marched into the bathroom with the unapologetic authority of a conquering army. ‘Mummy, I forgot to tell you I need a packed lunch tomorrow and . . . oh.’ The runaway narrative suddenly screeched to a halt, as she stopped to survey my unclothed form. Irritated by her unflinching perusal of my birthday suit, I quickly stepped into the bath and slid under the foam. But judging by her creased brow and steely glare, my daughter’s mind had moved beyond thoughts of whether she should have cheese or peanut butter in her sandwiches. And though I sensed I was inviting disaster, I couldn’t help myself. ‘What is it?’ I rasped, trying to cap my irritation. ‘What are you looking at?’ ‘You, Mummy. You just look . . . err .. .’ Holding my breath, I waited for the killer adjective. Looked what? Cold? Annoyed? Psychotic? But it was worse. Oh, much, much worse. ‘Sorry Mummy, but you look so, err, floppy’ Floppy? Floppy? If ever there was a word a naked woman wants to have expunged from the English language, then floppy has to be it. That is unless we’re talking sagging sofas or old straw hats. Certainly, it should be illegal to use as part of a little girl’s forensic analysis of her mother’s body — especially when her mother’s chest is on the larger side. But looking down at the pendulous breasts just peeking out from the foamy bubbles, I silently conceded that Sophie had a point. It’s just that she is the only person brave — and cheeky — enough to vocalise the harsh truth about my mid-life body. At that very moment I decided there was only one thing for it; I would never let my daughter see my naked body again. Whenever there is discussion about parental nudity, the focus understandably rests on the father/daughter, mother/son dynamic, since it is bound up with a child’s burgeoning sexuality. Indeed my husband Martin began covering up whenever Sophie was around about five years ago. And by the time Sophie’s three brothers, now 21, 19 and 15, had reached the age of two, I was always at least partially clothed around them. As nature intended: Angela thought her nakedness would help Sophie understand her own development . However, with Sophie things always felt different. After all, she was a girl, she was born with the same bits as me. My nakedness was, I felt, a natural way for her to come to understand her own physical development. It was also a way to counter the many damaging influences young women are subjected to. I wanted her to learn that to be beautiful you do not need to be slender to the point of emaciation. And I wanted her to understand that nudity is not always sexual. So I didn’t mind her seeing me as nature intended. She’d bound into my room in the morning and sit chattering to me while I got dressed, and trail after me into the bathroom when I went to have a shower in the evening, wittering away about her day as I washed. For the past few years, we’ve taken a winter holiday at a lovely hotel on the Red Sea. The bedroom has a sunken Jacuzzi on its balcony, and each night, Sophie and I would fill this expansive tub with lashings of bubbles, strip naked and bathe under the stars, chatting about the day’s events. I felt totally at ease being undressed in front of her, and she never passed comment on my body. But in recent months, I’ve noticed that Sophie has become more critical in her appraisal of my naked form. Brutally candid in the way that only children are, she sees, and therefore she comments. Partly because she is getting older and more aware of her own body. And partly because she soaks up the body-conscious, over-sexualised imagery of fashion and pop music like a little sponge. Not from Sophie will you ever receive the kindly reassurance that as adults we expect from a close friend. Instead, she delivers her unvarnished appraisal about the way I look whether I’ve got clothes on or not. Only 10 per cent of British women feel confident naked, according to a recent survey . I don’t mind comments about the colour of my shoes or whether a dress looks ‘lumpy’ (I remind myself this comes from a pint-sized fashionista who thinks a One Direction ra-ra skirt is the height of couture). However her views on my naked form are much more hurtful. Why? Because she is vocalising the gloomy thoughts which roll on a loop through the back of my mind about the saggy, blubbery body which has taken the place of my once-lithe physique. Candour: It's important to feel comfortable in one's own skin, says Angela . In short, the truth hurts. Don’t get me wrong. Sophie is never motivated by spite. Sophie is an affectionate little girl, who constantly tells me how much she loves me. But being affectionate and honest are not, for Sophie, diametrically opposed. She has yet to learn the art of lying which is perfected by most adult women. She is yet to understand that it is almost de rigueur to continually offer false reassurance to fellow females. Recently I caught her casting a practised eye over my naked body as I squeezed myself into a bikini. I heard the sigh of despair through her pursed little lips before she blurted: ‘Mummy, please tell me you’re not going to wear that. It’s just too . . . young.’ Ouch. What did she mean, I demanded? She fought to articulate her thoughts, saying there was just too much, floppy — that word again! — flesh on show for someone ‘of my age’. Of course I want my daughter to be able to form and express opinions, but I wish she didn’t have such a knack for putting a verbal knife through my heart. Yet, there is also redemption. Too many young girls are vulnerable to body issues. Especially when one survey recently revealed that a generation of adolescent girls could fail to fulfil their professional potential because they are suffering from low self-esteem about their appearance. Or that one in four females aged between 11 and 17 are weighed down by pressure to conform to an ‘ideal notion’ of how they should look, another survey suggested. 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(CNN) -- Gareth Bale netted his first hat-trick for Real Madrid in a 4-0 win against Real Valladolid at the Bernabeu on Saturday. With Cristiano Ronaldo sitting out the game with a hamstring injury, the world-record signing took center stage as Real kept up the pressure on league leaders Barcelona. Bale popped up to score Real's first in the 33rd minute, nodding the ball home after goalkeeper Diego Marino had palmed the ball into the Welshman's path. Karim Benzema doubled the lead three minutes later with another header, before Bale netted twice in the second half. The first, a neat side-foot finish from 10 yards arrived in the 64th minute while the second came moments before the final whistle as Bale swept home his ninth goal in total for his new club following a cut-back from Marcelo. "I think that his adaption period has finished as I said yesterday," Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said. "He is a very important player for us, he is playing with confidence and he did very well today." The win moves Real to within three points of Barcelona who travel to Athletic Bilbao on Sunday. City rivals Atletico also continued their dogged pursuit of Gerardo Martino's side on Saturday with a 2-0 win at Elche. Second-half goals from Koke and Diego Costa earned Diego Simeone's men a valuable three points and moves them level with the Catalan club on 40 points. Koke broke the deadlock in the 63rd minute poking the ball home from close range before Costa doubled the lead 11 minutes later firing home his 18th goal of the season. In La Liga's other matches played Saturday, Celta Vigo earned a valuable 3-1 win over Almeria. The victory lifts Luis Enrique's side up to 14th ahead of Malaga who drew 1-1 with Villarreal on Friday. Almeria remains third from bottom with 12 points. An 88th minute own goal by Espanyol striker Christian Stuani gave Real Sociedad a 2-1 win and moves Jagoba Arrasate's side back into sixth spot. Jhon Cordoba had given Espanyol the lead in the 31st minute with Antoine Griezmann leveling the scores in the 69th minute before Stuani sliced an attempted clearance into his own net. Both Saturday fixtures in Serie A finished in 1-1 draws. Antonio Cassano scored for ninth-placed Parma after Panagiotis Kone had put Bologna ahead. Mid-table Torino went ahead in their match at Genoa thanks to an early goal from Omar El Kaddouri but Davide Biondini's second half strike ensured that the home side salvaged a point. Read more: An unlikely backer of Qatar World Cup . Read more: Six arrested in UK over match-fixing probe . | Welshman nets first hat-trick for new club in 4-0 win over Real Valladolid .
Real move to within three points of leaders Barcelona who face Bilbao on Sunday .
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Jose Mourinho has refused to get carried away with Chelsea's table-topping form in the Premier League, despite hailing them as the best club in the country so far this season. The Blues boss masterminded his side to a 2-0 win away at Stoke on Monday night - a result that sees them move three points clear of second-placed Manchester City. Seven out of the last 10 teams who have led the Premier League on Christmas day have gone onto win the title - but Mourinho isn't looking past the club's festive fixture list. Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has hailed his side as the best in the Premier League so far this season . Mourinho (centre) hugs Branislav Ivanovic (left) and Cesc Fabregas after their 2-0 win at Stoke on Monday . 'I don't think it's important what you did in past [Mourinho won successive titles with Chelsea in 2005 and 2006 after they topped the table at Christmas in both seasons]' he said in his post-match interview on Sky Sports' Monday Night Football show . But this season though, in my opinion, we we're the best side today because we're top. 'We start this Christmas period with the hardest set of fixtures in comparison to our rivals. Coming up we have difficult away games [at Southampton and Tottenham] and next face West Ham [on Boxing Day] at home who are playing well. 'Today [Monday] was a fantastic performance. It's one of those games where victory means more than three points. You feel the atmosphere, the spirit in the team as they aim to win the title.' Chelsea captain John Terry and midfielder Nemanja Matic both echoed their manager's sentiments post-match too. Captain John Terry (second right) headed the Blues ahead in just the second minute of the match . Terry, who scored their opener at the Britannia Stadium, believes the title is a three-horse race between themseleves, City and Manchester United. Asked if he feels Chelsea are on course to win only the club's third Premier League title in their history, the 34-year-old said: 'No if you look at City they've come from nowhere and United are back in fold too. All it takes is a run of games from either side to overcome us. 'There's a long way to go and we've got West Ham next - who were a tough opponent for us last season [the sides drew 0-0 in the corresponding fixutre at Stamford Bridge last term]. It's a cliche but we're taking it game by game. Matic added: 'It's very important to be first as it means we depend on ourselves now for results. City are only three points behind us and United are 10 - anything can happen until the end [of the season] so we have to keep concentrating.' Blues midfielder Nemanja Matic (right) says the club 'will have to keep concentrating' if they are to win the title . | Chelsea won 2-0 away at Stoke City in Monday's Premier League encounter .
Result sees Chelsea move three points clear of Manchester City in the table .
Jose Mourinho's side have just lost one of their 17 league games so far .
Blues face West Ham next before trips to Southampton and Tottenham . | 17da47cb2242e10dab46f250339ed047306e8871 | [
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By . Amanda Platell . On my bedside table I have a picture of me lying on the sofa hugging Jim. It’s a bit blurry because it was taken with an old-fashioned Polaroid camera, but it is precious because it’s the last picture of me together with my beloved old ginger tom. When it was taken, I knew Jim’s days were numbered, but even then we weren’t quite ready to let go of each other. As anyone who has welcomed a cat into their home as part of the family will recognise, however sick they get, however skinny and matted, you know when there’s life in the old furball yet — and when it’s time to let them go. And so do they. Old favourites: Amanda Platell's treasured Polaroid picture of her old ginger tom Jim who has since died . No vet, no friend even, can make that decision for you. It’s a heartbreaking pact you and your pet enter into together, when the time is right. That’s why I was so appalled — and enraged — to read how the RSPCA had stepped in and ordered the destruction of a bedraggled but beloved elderly cat named Claude, against his family’s wishes. A neighbour had reported that Claude looked unkempt, yet his owners insist he was perfectly healthy — just a skinny, matted mess of old fur. He was a long-haired Turkish Van who hated being groomed so much that his family took him to the vet every year to be anaesthetised so he could be brushed properly. Hardly the act of uncaring or neglectful owners. Eventually, the vet refused to continue this practice on the grounds it wasn’t good for Claude to have any more anaesthetics, so his devoted owner Samantha Byrnes cut his fur with nail clippers while he slept — hence the bedraggled look that alarmed the oh-so zealous neighbour. When the RSPCA arrived, they seized the family cat, insisted that he was put down, then issued legal proceedings against Samantha and her husband Richard — an accountant from Tring in Hertfordshire — for cruelty. The family also claim that the charity even refused a stay of execution for four hours to give their two children, Eloise and Dominic, the chance to say goodbye to Claude — though an RSPCA spokesman disputes that. Now, thankfully, the CPS has ruled that the prosecution must be dropped, which is a small mercy given what the family have been through. They had the good sense to tape their conversations with the RSPCA inspector — and the officer can be heard threatening them with calling in the police if they don’t agree to have Claude killed. Unsurprisingly, Mrs Byrnes can be heard bursting into tears several times. The charity says it had been concerned for Claude’s welfare — but is it any wonder that it’s haemorrhaging donations? They fell by £7 million last year, and membership is down by six per cent. Many fear the RSPCA has become obsessed with pursuing politically motivated causes, like the prosecution of the Prime Minister’s rural hunt. Last year it prosecuted an owner for not taking a sick cat to the vet, and threatened a woman with prison after she treated her dog’s fleas with a canine shampoo that could have given it an allergy. And a report reveals that 3,400 animals were put down by the charity in 2011 for ‘non- medical reasons’ — 44 per cent of all those taken in. Claude the cat, who was put down against his family's wishes after they were reported to the RSPCA . Yes, the RSPCA does fine work, and the vast majority of its actions lead to convictions. But it seems as though an arrogance has seeped into this organisation that means it sometimes plays God with our beloved pets. It now feels it can step in and destroy any animal it chooses — even one like Claude, who, as tests proved after he was put down, was as healthy as any elderly cat could be. Reading his story made my blood run cold, then boil, and brought the memories flooding back of my beloved Jim’s last months. Because he proved that a cat and its owner are the best possible judges of when the time to go is right. His arrival in my life in 2003 was somewhat unusual. I had just lost my beloved cat Ronnie, brother of the then recently departed Reggie, and had written about the terrible loss in the Mail. No cat, I thought, could replace my constant companions of almost two decades. But that was before I found this adorable six-year-old ginger moggie, who looked after me for 11 years. Despite his grumpy appearance (he had an adorable overhanging forehead), he was the sweetest, most gentle cat I’ve ever known. I nicknamed him ‘Slipper’ because wherever I was, he came plodding along — purring so loudly it was like an ever-present buzz-saw. He grew fat and happy, and having been very timid, did eventually venture outside, safe in the knowledge that nothing would ever separate us except death. As a kitten, he had been in and out of cat homes. But how he blossomed. It was only towards the end, when he couldn’t make it up the stairs to my bedroom, that he didn’t sleep curled behind my knees each night. By then he had a lot of health problems — he was on daily pills for his failing kidneys and an overactive thyroid. Like Claude, he had crazy fur, too — standing on end as though he’d gelled it up — because he wasn’t able to clean himself properly. But luckily he had only one tooth left by then, so he couldn’t bite me as I gently helped him swallow his medication, followed by lashings of beef and turkey Whiskas. But his favourite treat was Marks & Spencer prawns, cut into tiny pieces so he could ‘gum’ them properly. Due to his overactive thyroid, it didn’t matter how much he ate, he just got skinnier and skinnier — his weight dropped from 18lb at his peak to just 4lb. It sounds as though Claude was in a similar situation — bony, matted and scraggy. But even if a cat looks like that, it doesn’t mean they aren’t happy. All I had to do was open a pack of prawns, and Jim was there like lightning. At least until one day about a year ago. He was asleep on the sofa at the other end of the sitting room when I brought in some prawns, and he didn’t move. He also cried out when I picked him up. Determined that he receive the best care, I called out the vet, who examined him and announced: ‘It’s time.’ He said he could put Jim to sleep then and there, but I knew in my heart he wasn’t ready for that — and nor was I. So we decided to see how he fared over the weekend. Well, Jim must have heard us because he rallied and was down off that sofa like a kitten the next day for his prawn treat — although using the cushion steps I’d built up for him because he had trouble jumping up and down. That call to the vet the following Monday was one of the happiest of my life. ‘Nope, it’s not time,’ I said. ‘But what about the quality of his life?’ the vet asked. Jim, I reported, was happy, not in pain and purring. No Liverpool cat pathway for him yet, thanks, I said. Like the Byrne family, who knew Claude was getting towards the end but wasn’t ready to die, I wanted Jim to have one last summer. That’s exactly what he got — and another autumn and winter, too. I had the vet check on him regularly, and the diagnosis was simply that he was old. Yet even then, nothing dimmed those beautiful green eyes nor silenced that purr. Then, just before Easter this year, Jim had a minor stroke and raced around the room, clearly in distress and howling. In the days that followed, the life visibly ebbed out of him. He looked so weary. Then one morning, when I went down to cuddle him and prepare his breakfast, he didn’t want to get off the sofa. He looked at me as it to say: ‘I’m ready’ — and I knew he was. That’s the magical thing about cats. It happened with both Reggie and Ronnie: they knew their time had come before I did. So I called the vet and held Jim in my arms in his last moments. He opened those great big eyes and blinked slowly at me, and his limp body just melted into mine. And then he was gone. That’s the ending Claude should have had — surrounded by the family who loved him, not put down in some strange place at the behest of an official who had threatened his owners with police action. | Apalled and enraged RSPCA ordered the destruction elderly cat Claude .
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"cat, insisted that he was put down, then issued",
"legal proceedings against Samantha and her",
"husband Richard — an accountant from Tring in",
"Hertfordshire — for cruelty. The family also",
"claim that the charity even refused a stay of",
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"children, Eloise and Dominic, the chance to say",
"goodbye to Claude — though an RSPCA spokesman",
"disputes that. Now, thankfully, the CPS has ruled",
"that the prosecution must be dropped, which is a",
"small mercy given what the family have been",
"through. They had the good sense to tape their",
"conversations with the RSPCA inspector — and the",
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"Claude killed. Unsurprisingly, Mrs Byrnes can be",
"heard bursting into tears several times. The",
"charity says it had been concerned for Claude’s",
"welfare — but is it any wonder that it’s",
"haemorrhaging donations? They fell by £7 million",
"last year, and membership is down by six per",
"cent. Many fear the RSPCA has become obsessed",
"with pursuing politically motivated causes, like",
"the prosecution of the Prime Minister’s rural",
"hunt. Last year it prosecuted an owner for not",
"taking a sick cat to the vet, and threatened a",
"woman with prison after she treated her dog’s",
"fleas with a canine shampoo that could have given",
"it an allergy. And a report reveals that 3,400",
"animals were put down by the charity in 2011 for",
"‘non- medical reasons’ — 44 per cent of all those",
"taken in. Claude the cat, who was put down",
"against his family's wishes after they were",
"reported to the RSPCA . Yes, the RSPCA does fine",
"work, and the vast majority of its actions lead",
"to convictions. But it seems as though an",
"arrogance has seeped into this organisation that",
"means it sometimes plays God with our beloved",
"pets. It now feels it can step in and destroy any",
"animal it chooses — even one like Claude, who, as",
"tests proved after he was put down, was as",
"healthy as any elderly cat could be. Reading his",
"story made my blood run cold, then boil, and",
"brought the memories flooding back of my beloved",
"Jim’s last months. Because he proved that a cat",
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"when the time to go is right. His arrival in my",
"life in 2003 was somewhat unusual. I had just",
"lost my beloved cat Ronnie, brother of the then",
"recently departed Reggie, and had written about",
"the terrible loss in the Mail. No cat, I thought,",
"could replace my constant companions of almost",
"two decades. But that was before I found this",
"adorable six-year-old ginger moggie, who looked",
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"appearance (he had an adorable overhanging",
"forehead), he was the sweetest, most gentle cat",
"I’ve ever known. I nicknamed him ‘Slipper’",
"because wherever I was, he came plodding along —",
"purring so loudly it was like an ever-present",
"buzz-saw. He grew fat and happy, and having been",
"very timid, did eventually venture outside, safe",
"in the knowledge that nothing would ever separate",
"us except death. As a kitten, he had been in and",
"out of cat homes. But how he blossomed. It was",
"only towards the end, when he couldn’t make it up",
"the stairs to my bedroom, that he didn’t sleep",
"curled behind my knees each night. By then he had",
"a lot of health problems — he was on daily pills",
"for his failing kidneys and an overactive",
"thyroid. Like Claude, he had crazy fur, too —",
"standing on end as though he’d gelled it up —",
"because he wasn’t able to clean himself properly.",
"But luckily he had only one tooth left by then,",
"so he couldn’t bite me as I gently helped him",
"swallow his medication, followed by lashings of",
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"so he could ‘gum’ them properly. Due to his",
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"ate, he just got skinnier and skinnier — his",
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"It sounds as though Claude was in a similar",
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"a cat looks like that, it doesn’t mean they",
"aren’t happy. All I had to do was open a pack of",
"prawns, and Jim was there like lightning. At",
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"he didn’t move. He also cried out when I picked",
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"announced: ‘It’s time.’ He said he could put Jim",
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"my life. ‘Nope, it’s not time,’ I said. ‘But what",
"about the quality of his life?’ the vet asked.",
"Jim, I reported, was happy, not in pain and",
"purring. No Liverpool cat pathway for him yet,",
"thanks, I said. Like the Byrne family, who knew",
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"summer. That’s exactly what he got — and another",
"autumn and winter, too. I had the vet check on",
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"held Jim in my arms in his last moments. He",
"opened those great big eyes and blinked slowly at",
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"then he was gone. That’s the ending Claude should",
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Washington (CNN) -- Republican Scott Brown lost his second Senate race in two election cycles on Tuesday, as Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen defeated him to win a second term, according to a CNN projection. Shaheen said late Tuesday night that Brown had called her to concede, and praised him for a "vigorous race." The race represented Republicans' best chances at picking up a Senate seat in the Northeast -- one that was vital for Democrats to protect as they faced majority-threatening challenges elsewhere. Over the summer, Brown used a series of crises to nationalize the race -- arguing that President Barack Obama and, by extension, Senate Democrats like Shaheen, are unable to govern effectively. He was among the first Republican candidates to call for a travel ban from Ebola-stricken countries in West Africa. He ran ads focused on ISIS and the border security, and focused much of his campaign on hitting Democrats over illegal immigration. Shaheen, meanwhile, turned to core Democratic economic issues and issues affecting working class voters and women. She hit Brown over what she argued were impossible-to-peg stances on lifting the minimum wage and mandating equal pay. She accused him of supporting GOP tax measures that promoted outsourcing while representing Massachusetts in the Senate. View the full results . And on issues like Ebola and ISIS, Shaheen repeatedly decked Brown for "fear-mongering" and "grandstanding." Perhaps most interesting, though, was that Brown was a candidate in New Hampshire at all. In 2010 he rocketed to national stardom among conservatives when he put thousands of miles on his truck in deep-blue Massachusetts, defeated Martha Coakley and grabbed deceased Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat in a special election. But Brown lost that seat two years later, in a campaign against a much tougher Democratic opponent -- liberal icon Elizabeth Warren. A year later, after a trip to Iowa and a brief flirtation with the idea of running for president, Brown moved to his home state of New Hampshire and decided to take on Shaheen -- who Republicans viewed as vulnerable, but didn't have anyone with the star quality it'd take to beat her prior to Brown's arrival. Shaheen cast Brown as a political opportunist, while Brown emphasized his roots in a state that he left when his parents divorced. CNN's Magic Wall Midterm coverage . | Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen won a second term, defeating GOP challenger Scott Brown .
Brown previously represented Massachusetts in the Senate, but lost re-election in 2012 .
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By . Louise Boyle . PUBLISHED: . 11:38 EST, 26 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 16:01 EST, 26 March 2013 . A sprawling mega-mansion owned by a disgraced gold dealer is now half price as he desperately tries to find a buyer. The lavish home, which takes influence from the Palace of Versailles outside Paris, is being offered for $12.9million - a substantial cut from when the property was first placed on the market four years ago at $25million. Mark Yaffe reportedly agreed to offload his custom-built mansion in the exclusive enclave of Avila in Tampa, Florida to pay off multimillion dollar debts. He is head of troubled coin wholesaler National Gold Exchange. Opulent: The Florida mega-mansion once owned by disgraced gold dealer Mark Yaffe has halved in price from $25million to $12.9million . Wealth: The grandiose reception room at the custom-built Tampa mansion is crammed with antiques . The mansion covers 29,000-square-feet and took four years to build to detailed specifications with marble archways, balconies and 14 fireplaces. It has ten bedrooms and ten bathrooms along with 14 fireplaces, a grand ballroom, wood-paneled library, wine cellar and basketball court. It was completed in 2004 but placed on the market only four years later. The home has dropped in price three times since. However real estate agent Michelle Fitz-Randolph told tampabay.com: 'When something isn't selling, it's always price, price, price. They are very motivated to sell.' She said that there had been three potential buyers for the property including two from abroad. Downsizing: Head of troubled coin wholesaler National Gold Exchange Mark Yaffe is selling his luxury mansion to clear millions of dollars of debt . Palatial: The huge mansion set in six acres draws influence from the Palace of Versailles in France . Rich surroundings: The mansion has had 'three serious offers' since halving in price, according to the realtor . Regal: The marble staircases were inspired by 17th century European architecture . Making a splash: Neighbors at the property include the New York Yankees' Derek Jeter and former Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Tony Dungy . Welcome home: The property includes a formal ballroom, wine cellar and wood-paneled library . Mr Yaffe used the home as a backdrop for his collection of rare musical instruments, which also cost millions of dollars. The Avila estate is known for it sweeping driveways and secluded properties. Residents include New York Yankees' captain Derek Jeter and former Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Tony Dungy. According to the Independent Coin Graders' website, Mr Yaffe has been a numismatist (coin dealer) since 1975 and is a 'respected expert'. He was the first ever dealer to sell a single coin for more than $1million. He has been married to wife Christel since 1988 and the couple have two children Sarah and Stephen. Secluded: Each of the properties in Avila have acres of land and are hidden at the end of sweeping driveways . Classic taste: Mr Yaffe collected rare and expensive musical instruments which were dotted around the property before he was forced to sell . Lap of luxury: The property has 14 fireplaces and ten bedrooms . Fine detail: The mansion took four years to build but was put on the market just four years later . | Mark Yaffe agreed to sell ten-bedroom chateau in Tampa after money problems but it has languished on the market for four years . | 4b18ef2513342d8bea8508116a9223f53a242e29 | [
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(CNN) -- They say travel broadens the mind, but when there's cake involved other body parts are also at risk of broadening. Sugar lurks around every street corner, particularly since the diabolical cupcake revolution began foisting its caloric concoctions on an unsuspecting public. While cupcakes might be a passing fad, some dessert offerings seem impervious to change. In a few lucky corners of the world, pastry makers have been perfecting their creations for generations, reaching the point where they're works of art. Here are nine of the world's oldest pastry shops -- tried and trusted by centuries of cake-hungry visitors. Hofbackerei Edegger-Tax (Graz, Austria) This bakery has been coming up with the goods since the 14th century and has been at its current location since 1880. The ornately carved, arched wooden doors and storefront crowned by the Austro-Hungarian imperial coat of arms -- a gold two-headed eagle holding a sword and a globe above the door -- attest to its age and popularity with local royalty. This was, after all, a "Purveyor to the Imperial and Royal Court." Its traditional Sissi Busserl cookies, named after Empress Elizabeth of Austria, are worth trying. Celiac sufferers are in luck -- the bakery might be ancient but it's keeping up with the times by offering gluten-free products. Hofbackerei Edegger-Tax, Hofgasse 6, Graz;. +43 316 83 02 300 . La Maison Stohrer (Paris) Continuing the theme of royalty with a fondness for fat, Paris's oldest pastry shop, La Maison Stohrer, can claim regal connections via Poland. In 1725, when Louis XV married Polish princess Marie Leszczynska, his new bride brought along her father's pastry chef, Nicolas Stohrer, to Versailles. Five years later Stohrer opened this pastry shop on Rue Montorgueil in Paris, and it's been serving royalty ever since -- Britain's Queen Elizabeth II stopped in during her 2004 state visit to France. Commoners are welcome too. Stohrer is credited with inventing "baba au rhum" -- a booze-soaked brioche named after a character in "The Thousand and One Nights" -- that's still a popular choice. It's worth breaking eye contact from Stohrer's crammed pastry cases to check out the frescoes created by artist Paul Baudry in 1860. Maison Stohrer, 51 Rue Montorgueil; +33 1 42 33 38 20 . Pietro Romanengo fu Stefano (Genova, Italy) This ancient cafe is heavy on the confectionery and famous for its candied fruit. The company was founded in 1780, opening the oldest of its two shops on Via Soziglia in 1814. Not much has changed since. Those visiting in May and June will witness Pietro Romanengo fu Stefano's staff engaged in annual labors to separate the petals used to produce the cafe's celebrated rose syrup and rose sugar. Pietro Romanengo fu Stefano, Via Soziglia, 74/76, Genova; +39 010 2474574 . Ruszwurm Cukraszda (Budapest) Anyone visiting the 13th-century Matthias Church in Budapest could do worse than following their tour with a sugary pick-me-up at nearby Ruszwurm Cukraszda. Located in the Buda Castle area, this pastry shop opened in 1827 and has survived sieges, a revolution and World War II. The original Biedermeier-era interior and furniture is still in the shop today. The cabinets along the walls hold a collection of antiques related to confectionery. The traditional Hungarian cream and sponge Dobos cake is a customer favorite, as is the shop's own creation, the Ruszwurm cream pastry. Ruszwurm Cukraszda, Szentharomsg utca 7, Budapest; +36 1 375 5284 . Confeitaria Nacional (Lisbon) An ornate pastry shop with cream-colored walls trimmed in gold and overlooked by a mirrored ceiling, the Confeitaria Nacional opened in 1829 in a stately corner building on the Praca da Figueira square. It's still run by descendents of the founder. The traditional Portuguese Christmas cake Bolo-Rei (King's Cake) was brought to Portugal by Confeitaria Nacional's Baltazar Rodrigues Castanheiro Filho from the south of France in the 19th century. Based on the seasonal French favorite Gateau des Rois, the Bolo-Rei is a bread-like cake with raisins, candied fruits and nuts. At other times of year, it's worth trying one of their popular pasteis de nata custard tarts. Confeitaria Nacional, Praca da Figueira 18B, Lisbon; +351 21 324 3000 . Antigua Pasteleria del Pozo (Madrid) When a baking shop's name contains the word "antique," it's either got some history behind it or the pastries are on the stale side. Thankfully, it's the former with Antigua Pasteleria del Pozo. This Madrid institution opened as a bakery in 1810 and then as a pastry shop in 1830, claiming the crown as the city's oldest. It's stayed true its roots, providing traditional Spanish delicacies like bartolillos, a favorite with the locals. Del Pozo is also famous for its roscon de reyes, a traditional treat usually only available during Epiphany but available here all year. Antigua Pasteleria del Pozo, 8 Calle Pozo, Madrid; +34 915 22 38 94 . Blikle (Warsaw) Reportedly a favorite of General Charles de Gaulle and Pope Paul II, Blikle, which opened in 1869, is still a family business. The shop still operates in its original location, although the premises were completely rebuilt after being destroyed by the retreating Germans near the end of World War II. There are now 20 Blikle shops scattered throughout Poland, but the original is the main attraction. Favorite items include a version of a paczki (Polish doughnut), a glazed pastry filled with rose petal jam and sprinkled on top with candied orange peel. Visitors will may have to join a line of locals waiting for this one, but they'll be taking part in a longstanding Warsaw tradition. Blikle, 35 ul. Nowy Swiat 35, Warsaw; +48 22 826 45 68 . Maison Bertaux (London) For those who like a slice of contemporary art alongside their cake, London's oldest cafe usually obliges. Since 1871, Maison Bertaux has been bringing French patisserie, including croissant, eclairs, fruit tarts and Gateau Saint-Honore, to the city's central Soho district. In true French fashion, there's sidewalk seating available under Maison Bertaux's distinctive blue awnings. Long a destination for arty types -- it's near Central St. Martin's art school -- Maison Bertaux made pop singer Lily Allen's French wedding cake and late designer Alexander McQueen's birthday cakes. Famous visitors have included Nicole Kidman and Bob Geldof. Co-owner Tania Wade mounts art shows in the cafe's basement and upstairs tea room. Next up is the work of actor Timothy Spall, who was recently named best actor at the Cannes Film Festival. Maison Bertaux, 28, Greek St., Soho, London; +44 20 7437 6007 . Cafe Tortoni (Buenos Aires) OK, we said oldest "European" pastry shops, but anyone hunting for a bit of France in Buenos Aires should check out Cafe Tortoni. Opened by a French immigrant in 1858, Tortoni soon become the gathering place for the city's cultural elite and celebrities from around the world. Einstein, Rubinstein, Borges and Hillary Clinton have all dropped in over the years. Today, visitors can sample the cafe's hot chocolate with churros (fried dough covered in sugar and cinnamon), while taking in one of the nightly or weekend tango performances. Cafe Tortoni, 825 Avenida De Mayo, Buenos Aires; +54 11 4342-4328 . Danielle Beurteaux is a New York-based writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Health and PopularMechanics.com, and many other outlets. Her website is Daniellebeurteaux. | Hofbackerei Edegger-Tax in Graz, Austria, has been serving cakes since the 14th century .
Many ancient pastry emporiums, like La Maison Stohrer in Paris, claim royal patronage .
Ruszwurm Cukraszda in Budapest has survived sieges, a revolution and World War II . | 6b667a0b5fcd97628305a64a2f76a956907b0509 | [
"(CNN) -- They say travel broadens the mind, but",
"when there's cake involved other body parts are",
"also at risk of broadening. Sugar lurks around",
"every street corner, particularly since the",
"diabolical cupcake revolution began foisting its",
"caloric concoctions on an unsuspecting public.",
"While cupcakes might be a passing fad, some",
"dessert offerings seem impervious to change. In a",
"few lucky corners of the world, pastry makers",
"have been perfecting their creations for",
"generations, reaching the point where they're",
"works of art. Here are nine of the world's oldest",
"pastry shops -- tried and trusted by centuries of",
"cake-hungry visitors. Hofbackerei Edegger-Tax",
"(Graz, Austria) This bakery has been coming up",
"with the goods since the 14th century and has",
"been at its current location since 1880. The",
"ornately carved, arched wooden doors and",
"storefront crowned by the Austro-Hungarian",
"imperial coat of arms -- a gold two-headed eagle",
"holding a sword and a globe above the door --",
"attest to its age and popularity with local",
"royalty. This was, after all, a \"Purveyor to the",
"Imperial and Royal Court.\" Its traditional Sissi",
"Busserl cookies, named after Empress Elizabeth of",
"Austria, are worth trying. Celiac sufferers are",
"in luck -- the bakery might be ancient but it's",
"keeping up with the times by offering gluten-free",
"products. Hofbackerei Edegger-Tax, Hofgasse 6,",
"Graz;. +43 316 83 02 300 . La Maison Stohrer",
"(Paris) Continuing the theme of royalty with a",
"fondness for fat, Paris's oldest pastry shop, La",
"Maison Stohrer, can claim regal connections via",
"Poland. In 1725, when Louis XV married Polish",
"princess Marie Leszczynska, his new bride brought",
"along her father's pastry chef, Nicolas Stohrer,",
"to Versailles. Five years later Stohrer opened",
"this pastry shop on Rue Montorgueil in Paris, and",
"it's been serving royalty ever since -- Britain's",
"Queen Elizabeth II stopped in during her 2004",
"state visit to France. Commoners are welcome too.",
"Stohrer is credited with inventing \"baba au rhum\"",
"-- a booze-soaked brioche named after a character",
"in \"The Thousand and One Nights\" -- that's still",
"a popular choice. It's worth breaking eye contact",
"from Stohrer's crammed pastry cases to check out",
"the frescoes created by artist Paul Baudry in",
"1860. Maison Stohrer, 51 Rue Montorgueil; +33 1",
"42 33 38 20 . Pietro Romanengo fu Stefano",
"(Genova, Italy) This ancient cafe is heavy on the",
"confectionery and famous for its candied fruit.",
"The company was founded in 1780, opening the",
"oldest of its two shops on Via Soziglia in 1814.",
"Not much has changed since. Those visiting in May",
"and June will witness Pietro Romanengo fu",
"Stefano's staff engaged in annual labors to",
"separate the petals used to produce the cafe's",
"celebrated rose syrup and rose sugar. Pietro",
"Romanengo fu Stefano, Via Soziglia, 74/76,",
"Genova; +39 010 2474574 . Ruszwurm Cukraszda",
"(Budapest) Anyone visiting the 13th-century",
"Matthias Church in Budapest could do worse than",
"following their tour with a sugary pick-me-up at",
"nearby Ruszwurm Cukraszda. Located in the Buda",
"Castle area, this pastry shop opened in 1827 and",
"has survived sieges, a revolution and World War",
"II. The original Biedermeier-era interior and",
"furniture is still in the shop today. The",
"cabinets along the walls hold a collection of",
"antiques related to confectionery. The",
"traditional Hungarian cream and sponge Dobos cake",
"is a customer favorite, as is the shop's own",
"creation, the Ruszwurm cream pastry. Ruszwurm",
"Cukraszda, Szentharomsg utca 7, Budapest; +36 1",
"375 5284 . Confeitaria Nacional (Lisbon) An",
"ornate pastry shop with cream-colored walls",
"trimmed in gold and overlooked by a mirrored",
"ceiling, the Confeitaria Nacional opened in 1829",
"in a stately corner building on the Praca da",
"Figueira square. It's still run by descendents of",
"the founder. The traditional Portuguese Christmas",
"cake Bolo-Rei (King's Cake) was brought to",
"Portugal by Confeitaria Nacional's Baltazar",
"Rodrigues Castanheiro Filho from the south of",
"France in the 19th century. Based on the seasonal",
"French favorite Gateau des Rois, the Bolo-Rei is",
"a bread-like cake with raisins, candied fruits",
"and nuts. At other times of year, it's worth",
"trying one of their popular pasteis de nata",
"custard tarts. Confeitaria Nacional, Praca da",
"Figueira 18B, Lisbon; +351 21 324 3000 . Antigua",
"Pasteleria del Pozo (Madrid) When a baking shop's",
"name contains the word \"antique,\" it's either got",
"some history behind it or the pastries are on the",
"stale side. Thankfully, it's the former with",
"Antigua Pasteleria del Pozo. This Madrid",
"institution opened as a bakery in 1810 and then",
"as a pastry shop in 1830, claiming the crown as",
"the city's oldest. It's stayed true its roots,",
"providing traditional Spanish delicacies like",
"bartolillos, a favorite with the locals. Del Pozo",
"is also famous for its roscon de reyes, a",
"traditional treat usually only available during",
"Epiphany but available here all year. Antigua",
"Pasteleria del Pozo, 8 Calle Pozo, Madrid; +34",
"915 22 38 94 . Blikle (Warsaw) Reportedly a",
"favorite of General Charles de Gaulle and Pope",
"Paul II, Blikle, which opened in 1869, is still a",
"family business. The shop still operates in its",
"original location, although the premises were",
"completely rebuilt after being destroyed by the",
"retreating Germans near the end of World War II.",
"There are now 20 Blikle shops scattered",
"throughout Poland, but the original is the main",
"attraction. Favorite items include a version of a",
"paczki (Polish doughnut), a glazed pastry filled",
"with rose petal jam and sprinkled on top with",
"candied orange peel. Visitors will may have to",
"join a line of locals waiting for this one, but",
"they'll be taking part in a longstanding Warsaw",
"tradition. Blikle, 35 ul. Nowy Swiat 35, Warsaw;",
"+48 22 826 45 68 . Maison Bertaux (London) For",
"those who like a slice of contemporary art",
"alongside their cake, London's oldest cafe",
"usually obliges. Since 1871, Maison Bertaux has",
"been bringing French patisserie, including",
"croissant, eclairs, fruit tarts and Gateau",
"Saint-Honore, to the city's central Soho",
"district. In true French fashion, there's",
"sidewalk seating available under Maison Bertaux's",
"distinctive blue awnings. Long a destination for",
"arty types -- it's near Central St. Martin's art",
"school -- Maison Bertaux made pop singer Lily",
"Allen's French wedding cake and late designer",
"Alexander McQueen's birthday cakes. Famous",
"visitors have included Nicole Kidman and Bob",
"Geldof. Co-owner Tania Wade mounts art shows in",
"the cafe's basement and upstairs tea room. Next",
"up is the work of actor Timothy Spall, who was",
"recently named best actor at the Cannes Film",
"Festival. Maison Bertaux, 28, Greek St., Soho,",
"London; +44 20 7437 6007 . Cafe Tortoni (Buenos",
"Aires) OK, we said oldest \"European\" pastry",
"shops, but anyone hunting for a bit of France in",
"Buenos Aires should check out Cafe Tortoni.",
"Opened by a French immigrant in 1858, Tortoni",
"soon become the gathering place for the city's",
"cultural elite and celebrities from around the",
"world. Einstein, Rubinstein, Borges and Hillary",
"Clinton have all dropped in over the years.",
"Today, visitors can sample the cafe's hot",
"chocolate with churros (fried dough covered in",
"sugar and cinnamon), while taking in one of the",
"nightly or weekend tango performances. Cafe",
"Tortoni, 825 Avenida De Mayo, Buenos Aires; +54",
"11 4342-4328 . Danielle Beurteaux is a New",
"York-based writer whose work has appeared in The",
"New York Times, Health and PopularMechanics.com,",
"and many other outlets. Her website is",
"Daniellebeurteaux."
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By . Suzannah Hills . A callous conman who killed lonely millionairess Carole Waugh was today jailed for 27 years for a murder of ‘breathtaking wickedness.’ Rakesh Bhayani, 41, killed the upmarket escort and hid her body before plundering her life savings and attempting to sell her Marble Arch flat. Together with Nicholas Kutner, 48, he used female impersonators to try and strip every asset Ms Waugh had ever owned in the hopes of hitting a ‘million pound jackpot.’ Sentencing: Rakesh Bhayani, 41, pictured left, has been jailed for 27 years at the Old Bailey for the murder of Carole Waugh, 49, pictured right . Her furniture and jewellery were sold . and her bank accounts were emptied out by the pair. They also stole her . identity and managed to defraud banks and other institutions of more . then £250,000. The Old . Bailey heard how the pair blew the money on posh hotels, prostitutes . and gambling - with Bhayani losing £200,000 at the roulette tables in . London’s West End within just a few weeks. It . was only when the pair tried to sell Ms Waugh's flat for £750,000 with . Kutner posing as Miss Waugh’s brother Chris that they were caught by . police. The jury found Bhayani guilty of murder and he admitted fraud and perverting the course of justice. Kutner . was cleared of murder but convicted of perverting the course of justice . by helping to cover up the killing. He also admitted fraud. Mr Justice Wilkie jailed Bhayani for life with a minimum recommendation of 27 years and ordered Kutner to serve 13 years. He said the murder and . subsequent dumping of the body was done with 'greed, callousness and . total lack of any regard' for Ms Waugh. Co-accused: Nicholas Kutner, 48, was jailed for a total of 13 years for perverting the course of justice by concealing the death of Ms Waugh and conspiracy to defraud . Justice Wilkie told Bhayani: 'Then . without a second thought, I am perfectly satisfied you and Kutner . calmly set about stealing her identity, using it to defraud banks and . other institutions. ‘You took steps to ensure her body would not be . found for a sufficient time, not only to give you the best chance of . avoiding detection but also to enable you to continue to embark on asset . stripping. ‘You . Kutner assisted and encouraged all in this in order to ensure that the . flow of gold from the plundered Carole Waugh estate would not stop to it . was all gone.' Ms Waugh had worked in the oil . industry in Libya and had invested money in her property, a shares portfolio and savings account. She was wealthy enough to keep £30,000 in her current account and was generous and trusting with friends. Ms Waugh met Bhayani in 2008 and the pair became casual lovers. She loaned him £12,000 which he claimed was for ‘treatment’ for his gambling problem and then another £40,000. The court heard how Bhayani killed Ms Waugh, 49, at her flat in Marylebone, central London, after a row about money. Her body was placed in a bag which was carried to a car. The vehicle was initially stored in a central London car park, then left in a rented garage in New Malden, south-west London. The court heard Kutner was in the flat when Bhayani . murdered Ms Waugh and was then on board with the actions to conceal her . death and thwart the investigation into her murder. The judge said Bhayani was the . 'instigator and chief organiser of the fraud' but both men spent Ms . Waugh’s money on 'hotels, casinos and escorts'. The judge said Bhayani’s actions in persisting with the fraud after killing Ms Waugh were 'breathtakingly wicked'. Captured: Rakesh Bhayani is pictured withdrawing money from Carole Waugh's bank account . 'Your compulsion to feed your . addictions to risk-taking and gambling and your amorality and . selfishness overwhelmed any notion of decency or restraint,' he added. Referencing . the two men’s previous convictions, Mr Justice Wilkie said the men had . an 'appalling record' for offences of dishonesty. Before . the sentencing, a statement from Ms Waugh’s family was read out in . which she was described as 'loving, supportive and great fun'. The . statement, signed by her brother, Christopher Waugh, spoke of the . 'disbelief, dismay, darkness' as the family had to 'face our worst . fears' in the wake of the murder. The court heard that five days after Ms Waugh’s funeral, her mother collapsed and later died 'broken-hearted', unable to understand how and why the tragic events unfolded. The statement said: 'She was loving, supportive and great fun. Her home visits were memorable. 'She always had great stories to tell. She turned these stories into adventures. 'For Mum, who rarely ventured out of the county of Durham, these stories were an insight not only into Carole’s life, but into the world as a whole. London, Libya, Australia, Italy, Dubai (to name but a few) were all brought to life by Carole. 'We all looked forward to Carole’s visits, especially Mum. They would plan shopping trips - nothing special but real quality time between a mother and a daughter. Millionairess Carole Waugh was stabbed to death in her flat and her body hidden in the boot of a car . 'Happy days indeed,' the statement said. Speaking . after the sentencing, Mr Waugh said the two men jailed today were . 'greedy, evil conmen who don’t have a shred of decency between them'. He . added: 'They will sleep easily in their beds as they showed no remorse . at all. I just can’t envisage any human being treating another human . being like that.' Detective Chief Inspector Justin Davies, of the Homicide and Major Crime Command (HMCC), said Ms Waugh’s murder was 'the senseless killing of a woman who put her trust in people she thought were her friends'. He said: 'Bhayani clearly had no intention of friendship with Carole. 'Bhayani is a confidence trickster who murdered her and stripped her assets and the belongings she had worked hard for. 'Both men are compulsive liars who have deceived and defrauded their own families, friends and acquaintances throughout their entire adult lives. They went to extreme lengths to defraud Carole. 'Her body was placed in a boot of a . car and left for months in car parks and a lock-up garage. Both men did . not waste any time in spending her money, using it to buy gold, use . prostitutes and live a champagne lifestyle. 'While . Carole’s body lay undiscovered, they showed no regard for her family, . who they knew were desperately seeking to trace her. The crime scene in New Malden, south west London where Miss Waugh's body was discovered . 'Ms Waugh was a wealthy woman; her years of hard work both in the UK and abroad were squandered in matter of three months. 'They took almost everything she worked for with exception of two bracelets which remained on her body. These were difficult to prise off her wrists and I have no doubt, if able to, they would have taken these items too.' Jenny Hopkins, London deputy chief crown prosecutor, said: 'Carole Waugh was the victim of a cruel and callous plot to take her money during which she tragically lost her life. 'Rakesh Bhayani was a compulsive gambler who would bet, and lose, thousands of pounds at a time. He met Carole in 2008 and from then on she lent him various sums of money. 'In return for her generosity and kindness Bhayani plotted with Nicholas Kutner a complex fraud to steal her assets. 'After Bhayani brutally murdered Carole in April 2012, he and Kutner then proceeded to cynically conceal her death in furtherance of their plan to defraud her estate. They worked together to dispose of her body and to clean and remove her belongings from her flat. 'Kutner even posed as Carole’s brother, Chris, in order to try to rent and sell her £650,000 central London flat. 'We hope the convictions today give some small comfort to Carole Waugh’s family. Our thoughts are with them at this time.' | Carole Waugh was stabbed in the neck in her Marylebone flat, London .
Rakesh Bhayani has been jailed for 27 years at the Old Bailey for murder .
Co-accused Nicholas Kutner was jailed for a total of 13 years for perverting the course of justice by concealing the death and conspiracy to defraud .
Two conmen used .
Ms Waugh's identity to defraud banks and other institutions of more than £250,000 worth of assets . | 814052913c77d6fdc3f5728e7767685e1d5f5775 | [
"By . Suzannah Hills . A callous conman who killed",
"lonely millionairess Carole Waugh was today",
"jailed for 27 years for a murder of ‘breathtaking",
"wickedness.’ Rakesh Bhayani, 41, killed the",
"upmarket escort and hid her body before",
"plundering her life savings and attempting to",
"sell her Marble Arch flat. Together with Nicholas",
"Kutner, 48, he used female impersonators to try",
"and strip every asset Ms Waugh had ever owned in",
"the hopes of hitting a ‘million pound jackpot.’",
"Sentencing: Rakesh Bhayani, 41, pictured left,",
"has been jailed for 27 years at the Old Bailey",
"for the murder of Carole Waugh, 49, pictured",
"right . Her furniture and jewellery were sold .",
"and her bank accounts were emptied out by the",
"pair. They also stole her . identity and managed",
"to defraud banks and other institutions of more .",
"then £250,000. The Old . Bailey heard how the",
"pair blew the money on posh hotels, prostitutes .",
"and gambling - with Bhayani losing £200,000 at",
"the roulette tables in . London’s West End within",
"just a few weeks. It . was only when the pair",
"tried to sell Ms Waugh's flat for £750,000 with .",
"Kutner posing as Miss Waugh’s brother Chris that",
"they were caught by . police. The jury found",
"Bhayani guilty of murder and he admitted fraud",
"and perverting the course of justice. Kutner .",
"was cleared of murder but convicted of perverting",
"the course of justice . by helping to cover up",
"the killing. He also admitted fraud. Mr Justice",
"Wilkie jailed Bhayani for life with a minimum",
"recommendation of 27 years and ordered Kutner to",
"serve 13 years. He said the murder and .",
"subsequent dumping of the body was done with",
"'greed, callousness and . total lack of any",
"regard' for Ms Waugh. Co-accused: Nicholas",
"Kutner, 48, was jailed for a total of 13 years",
"for perverting the course of justice by",
"concealing the death of Ms Waugh and conspiracy",
"to defraud . Justice Wilkie told Bhayani: 'Then .",
"without a second thought, I am perfectly",
"satisfied you and Kutner . calmly set about",
"stealing her identity, using it to defraud banks",
"and . other institutions. ‘You took steps to",
"ensure her body would not be . found for a",
"sufficient time, not only to give you the best",
"chance of . avoiding detection but also to enable",
"you to continue to embark on asset . stripping.",
"‘You . Kutner assisted and encouraged all in this",
"in order to ensure that the . flow of gold from",
"the plundered Carole Waugh estate would not stop",
"to it . was all gone.' Ms Waugh had worked in the",
"oil . industry in Libya and had invested money in",
"her property, a shares portfolio and savings",
"account. She was wealthy enough to keep £30,000",
"in her current account and was generous and",
"trusting with friends. Ms Waugh met Bhayani in",
"2008 and the pair became casual lovers. She",
"loaned him £12,000 which he claimed was for",
"‘treatment’ for his gambling problem and then",
"another £40,000. The court heard how Bhayani",
"killed Ms Waugh, 49, at her flat in Marylebone,",
"central London, after a row about money. Her body",
"was placed in a bag which was carried to a car.",
"The vehicle was initially stored in a central",
"London car park, then left in a rented garage in",
"New Malden, south-west London. The court heard",
"Kutner was in the flat when Bhayani . murdered Ms",
"Waugh and was then on board with the actions to",
"conceal her . death and thwart the investigation",
"into her murder. The judge said Bhayani was the .",
"'instigator and chief organiser of the fraud' but",
"both men spent Ms . Waugh’s money on 'hotels,",
"casinos and escorts'. The judge said Bhayani’s",
"actions in persisting with the fraud after",
"killing Ms Waugh were 'breathtakingly wicked'.",
"Captured: Rakesh Bhayani is pictured withdrawing",
"money from Carole Waugh's bank account . 'Your",
"compulsion to feed your . addictions to",
"risk-taking and gambling and your amorality and .",
"selfishness overwhelmed any notion of decency or",
"restraint,' he added. Referencing . the two men’s",
"previous convictions, Mr Justice Wilkie said the",
"men had . an 'appalling record' for offences of",
"dishonesty. Before . the sentencing, a statement",
"from Ms Waugh’s family was read out in . which",
"she was described as 'loving, supportive and",
"great fun'. The . statement, signed by her",
"brother, Christopher Waugh, spoke of the .",
"'disbelief, dismay, darkness' as the family had",
"to 'face our worst . fears' in the wake of the",
"murder. The court heard that five days after Ms",
"Waugh’s funeral, her mother collapsed and later",
"died 'broken-hearted', unable to understand how",
"and why the tragic events unfolded. The statement",
"said: 'She was loving, supportive and great fun.",
"Her home visits were memorable. 'She always had",
"great stories to tell. She turned these stories",
"into adventures. 'For Mum, who rarely ventured",
"out of the county of Durham, these stories were",
"an insight not only into Carole’s life, but into",
"the world as a whole. London, Libya, Australia,",
"Italy, Dubai (to name but a few) were all brought",
"to life by Carole. 'We all looked forward to",
"Carole’s visits, especially Mum. They would plan",
"shopping trips - nothing special but real quality",
"time between a mother and a daughter.",
"Millionairess Carole Waugh was stabbed to death",
"in her flat and her body hidden in the boot of a",
"car . 'Happy days indeed,' the statement said.",
"Speaking . after the sentencing, Mr Waugh said",
"the two men jailed today were . 'greedy, evil",
"conmen who don’t have a shred of decency between",
"them'. He . added: 'They will sleep easily in",
"their beds as they showed no remorse . at all. I",
"just can’t envisage any human being treating",
"another human . being like that.' Detective Chief",
"Inspector Justin Davies, of the Homicide and",
"Major Crime Command (HMCC), said Ms Waugh’s",
"murder was 'the senseless killing of a woman who",
"put her trust in people she thought were her",
"friends'. He said: 'Bhayani clearly had no",
"intention of friendship with Carole. 'Bhayani is",
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"worked hard for. 'Both men are compulsive liars",
"who have deceived and defrauded their own",
"families, friends and acquaintances throughout",
"their entire adult lives. They went to extreme",
"lengths to defraud Carole. 'Her body was placed",
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"parks and a lock-up garage. Both men did . not",
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"family, . who they knew were desperately seeking",
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It pushed the boundaries of typical teen TV earlier this year, revolving around two high school best friends that pretend to be lesbians in order to become popular. Now MTV's quirky rom com series Faking It is continuing to break ground by introducing an intersex character in its second season. Premiering Tuesday night to 1.04 million viewers, the show revealed that regular character Lauren - stepsister of protagonist Amy - has both male and female chromosomes. Played by actress Bailey De Young, Lauren was born genetically male, but her body naturally developed as female, according to CNN. Scroll down for video . Breaking new ground: Teen MTV series Faking It revealed one of their main characters, Lauren (pictured - played by Bailey De Young) was revealed to have been born intersex during the show's season two premiere on Tuesday night . Not faking it anymore: Lauren (right) is the stepsister of protagnoist Amy (center- played by Rita Volk). Amy and best friend Karma (left - played by Katie Stevens), pretended to be lesbians during the show's first season, only for Amy to actually fall for Karma . About one in every 2,000 people are born with intersex traits. Generally their reproductive anatomy does not fit the definition of male or female, such as a female born with an enlarged clitorus or without a vaginal opening, according to the Intersex Societ of North America. Source: Intersex Society of North America . Some males are born with a small penis and a scrotum that has formed more like a labia. 'Part of the overall theme of 'Faking It' is how hard it is to be your authentic self and how important it is to strive to do that,' show developer Carter Covington told The Hollywood Reporter. 'For Lauren, being born intersex is going to be something she's going to struggle to accept and then struggle to defend in her life.' Covington said he had prepared for a fight with MTV over the plot. However the network embraced the idea. 'People want to create TV that touches people and that shows a different subset,' he said. 'I'm always excited as a writer when there is an experience I can relate to, and MTV wanted programming that touches people and moves people.' In the episode, the character of Lauren can be seen turning to an online support group after her friends are made aware that she was born intersex. Actress Bailey De Young was excited and interested in playing someone born intersex, who are typically genetically male but with signs of female and male sexual development . Convington said the consultant the show worked with to better understand people born intersex was a member of Inter/Act, the first intersex youth advocacy organization. 'We're trying to give people tools to build and connect with that community,' he told The Hollywood Reporter. 'People born with these conditions are often told they will never meet anyone else like them, and they all found that not to be true. ' Faking It is set in Austin, Texas. It's theme center around empowering outcasts and breaking convention. The most popular person at the high school, Shane, is gay. | Season one regular Lauren revealed to have been born intersex during the season two opener on Tuesday night .
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Los Angeles (CNN) -- Rapper Heavy D collapsed in his Beverly Hills home Tuesday morning and died a short time later at a Los Angeles hospital, according to police and the coroner. He was 44. Heavy D, whose real name is Dwight Arrington Myers, was found conscious with difficulty breathing at his home after police were called there at 11:25 a.m., the Beverly Hills police said in a news release. He was pronounced dead in the emergency room at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Tuesday afternoon, according to Los Angeles County coroner's operations chief Craig Harvey. The cause of death has not been determined, Harvey said. His hip-hop recording career began in 1987 with his group Heavy D & the Boyz and on his first album he released the hit single "The Overweight Lover's in the House." Another one of his breakthrough hits came in 1991 with a remake of the O'Jays' "Now That We Found Love." Heavy D's rapping was featured on Janet Jackson's 1990 hit "Alright." He rapped on Michael Jackson's 1991 hit "Jam," which he performed at last month's Michael Jackson tribute show in Cardiff, Wales. He also composed and performed the theme songs several television shows, including "In Living Color," "MADtv" and "The Tracy Morgan Show." His last CD, "Love Opus," was released this year. Heavy D also pursued an acting career, which included mostly roles on TV shows and movies. He played a courthouse guard in the Eddie Murphy film "Tower Heist," released last weekend. iReporter: "Rest in peace to Heavy D" He used his Twitter account Monday night to express sadness about the death of boxer Joe Frazier: . "SMOKIN JOE FRAZIER..RIP.. truly one of the best heavyweight champs that ever lived.. GODS SPEED,MR FRAZIER!" Heavy D's last Twitter message, posted late Monday, was: "BE INSPIRED!" CNN's Jack Hannah contributed to this report. | Heavy D died in the ER at Cedars-Sinai, the coroner's office says .
Beverly Hills police were called to his home at 11:25 a.m. Tuesday, police say .
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By . James Rush . PUBLISHED: . 05:16 EST, 19 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 10:07 EST, 19 April 2013 . A family who live in a renovated tugboat, complete with central heating, flat-screen TVs and a grand piano, have lost a lengthy court battle to avoid paying council tax. Randy Northrop, 57, claims his floating home is not a permanent house and he is therefore not liable to pay rates to his local authority. But after a three-year legal battle the Court of Appeal yesterday ruled the boat is liable for council tax if it remains moored in the same spot for a year. Randy Northrop (pictured left with his family in their home) claims the boat (right) is not a permanent home and so he should therefore not have to pay council tax . The boat features a music room large enough for music teacher Susan Northrop's grand piano . The handyman, his wife Susan, 55, and son Benjamin, 15, live on the 70ft boat which has a kitchen, two bedrooms, a 330 sq ft sitting room and an open fireplace. Council chiefs who discovered Randy's unusual living arrangements slapped him with a demand for £1,000 a year in council tax. But Mr Northrop says he shouldn't have to pay North Devon Council because he doesn't use their services. His 1950s, British-built tug, named Cannis, generates its own power through solar panels and the family drink rainwater. Mr Northrop said: 'The council's valuators want to band us with cottages and bungalows but we live in a tidal estuary and use a dinghy to get to the shore. 'We just don't get the sort of services someone gets in a proper house, on a proper estate, in a proper village or a proper anything. Randy Northrop, pictured with his wife Susan and son Benjamin, says the family do not receive the same council services as other rate-payers . 'We're off the grid. We generate our own electricity. We don't live on a houseboat - we live on a proper boat.' Mr Northrop bought the boat in 2001 for £11,000 after he said he became fed up with living in a run-down estate in Bristol. The family moved in almost immediately and began gutting the heavy engine machinery to make room for their new home. More than a decade later the 70ft boat has a much smaller engine and living quarters split over two levels. Mr Northrop bought the boat in 2001 for £11,000 after he said he became fed up with living in a run-down estate in Bristol. The family had to gut the heavy engine machinery to make room for living-space . Currently moored along a tidal estuary near Barnstaple, Devon, its lower deck boasts a spacious 15ft by 22ft living room, a bathroom and two bedrooms. There is also a computer nook and a music room large enough for music teacher Mrs Northrop's grand piano. The upper deck, meanwhile, has been extended upward to house a modern kitchen with a skylight. Mr Northrop, a Californian who moved to England in the late 1980s, generates his electricity through solar panels and a wind turbine with a backup diesel generator. The family process their own sewage and collect rain for drinking water or visit a nearby spring. Mr Northrop said: 'My wife's dream was always to run a musical bed and breakfast so she wanted to buy a place to fix up in the countryside. 'I was pretty certain that even a bombed-out doghouse was going to cost more than we ever had and that proved to be the case. 'But I'd lived on boats before and I said why don't we buy a big Dutch barge and live in it. The tug was the closest we came to finding one. 'It was all engine room back then but I pulled out 30 tonnes of machinery, put back in a much smaller engine and started to convert the rest into living space. 'Most of the hard work is now done but there are still bits and pieces left to do.' Mr Northrop's legal battle began in 2010 when they moved from Bristol to Devon and their self-sufficient lifestyle was featured in a newspaper article. Readers accused the family of dodging council tax and Mr Northrop says he wrote to the council to offer them a goodwill payment. He explained he had been moored in the same spot for more than a year so council evaluators replied to tell him he owed £1,000. Currently moored along a tidal estuary near Barnstaple, Devon, its lower deck boasts a spacious 15ft by 22ft living room, a bathroom and two bedrooms . After a series of hearings the case reached London's Court of Appeal yesterday where Judge Sir Alan Ward decided the Cannis becomes a taxable home when it stays permanently in the same spot. Mr Northrop has challenged North Devon Council in the wake of the ruling to reveal how much taxpayers' cash they spent chasing him. He says his own fees were met by legal aid because of his family's low income. Mr Northrop said: 'I don't make an awful lot of money but I pay as much tax as anybody else in my circumstances. We've never been on the dole. We're not scroungers or looking to cheat the system. After a three-year legal battle the Court of Appeal has now ruled the boat is liable for Band A council tax if it remains moored in the same spot for a year . 'If I had a houseboat sitting in a residential marina, with a postie slotting mail through my door, a wheelie bin and a parking space I'd be more than willing to pay - but we have none of these things. 'I'm still baffled as to what the council hope to get out of this. I'd love to know how much they've spent pursuing me - it's a criminal waste of money.' Government rules say people who live on houseboats at a residential mooring have to pay council tax. | Randy Northrop says he should not have to pay as he doesn't use services .
The 70ft tug features central heating, flat-screen TVs and a grand piano .
The boat, named Cannis, generates its own power through solar panels .
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A man accused of killing a 15-year-old girl in a fake kidnapping that he planned to 'save' her from is to go on trial today. Kyle Dube, 21, of Orono, Maine, allegedly used a fake Facebook profile to set up a meeting with Nichole Cable in May 2013, but killed her in a botched kidnapping investigators say he had intended to 'solve himself'. Police said Dube told people he planned to abduct Nichole while wearing a ski mask, return later without the mask, 'find' her and look like a hero. Kyle Dube (pictured left) is accused of using a fake Facebook profile to set up a meeting with Nichole Cable (right) but killed her in the process of a botched kidnapping investigators say he intended to 'solve himself' Dube will appear in court today accused of creating the fake account to set up a meeting with Nichole, of Glenburn, before killing her and hiding her body on May 12, 2013. Nichole's mother reported her missing on May 13 and told police her daughter had left the night before to meet a friend at the end of their road but had not returned . Dozens of law enforcement officers, using aircraft and dogs, and hundreds of civilian volunteers spent days searching for Nichole. Her remains were found in Old Town on May 20, eight days after the abduction. The state's chief medical examiner found Nichole died as a result of asphyxiation. Police said the fake Facebook profile Dube allegedly set up was under a different name but was traced back to Dube's home. Nichole Cable, aged 15, (pictured) was reported missing by her mother on May 13, who told police her daughter had left the night before to meet a friend at the end of their road but had not returned . The murder trial is expected to last two weeks. Dube's defense has already received a setback - the judge in the case has said will not allow his attorneys to name his ex-girlfriend as an alternative suspect in the killing. Defense attorneys wanted to name Dube's former girlfriend, who was dating Dube at the time of the killing, as an alternative suspect, saying the girl disliked Nichole because she believed Nichole and Dube were seeing each other. But on Friday Superior Court Justice Ann Murray granted the state's motion to exclude defense attorneys from naming another possible suspect. Dube is accused of creating the fake Facebook account to set up a meeting with Nichole, of Glenburn, before killing her and hiding her body . The judge's order said that Dube 'set forth a tenuous suggestion of motive' in his call for the alternative suspect, but the defense's request 'does not reasonably establish any connection between' the girl and the crime. She wrote that there was also no evidence that the girl was at or near Nichole's home on the night of Cable's disappearance, and that 'this trial must be the trial of Kyle Dube.' Nichole's father, David Cable, declined to comment on the trial but said: 'If you're a father, you know how I'm feeling right now.' Her mother, Kristine Wiley, declined to comment. Friends and classmates of Nichole Cable at Old Town High School said after Dube's arrest that they planned to reduce or end their use of social media. Nearly two years later, the school district continues to stress the importance of using social media safely and responsibly, said David Walker, superintendent of Regional School Unit 34, which includes the high school. However, he added he has not seen a dramatic change in the way students use social media at the school. 'Hopefully they recognize that the Internet isn't always a safe place,' Walker said. 'Everyone is reminding students of the dangers, both parents and teachers.' If convicted of kidnapping and murder, Dube could face between 25 years and life in prison. Dube pictured in court on May 22, 2013 in the Superior Court in Bangor, Maine one day after he was charged . | Kyle Dube, 21, is accused of murdering Nichole Cable, 15, in May 2013 .
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Dube is accused of killing the teenager during a botched kidnapping .
He wanted to 'stage kidnapping and rescue so he could look like a hero'
His two-week trial begins today at the Superior Court in Bangor, Maine .
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By . Associated Press . and Michael Zennie . A friend of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev wired more than $71,000 to people in six countries and used fake names several times for the transactions - including while Tsarnaev was on a pilgrimage in Russia, according to prosecutors. Khairullozhon Matanov, 23, is accused of . deleting computer files and lying to agents investigating the 2013 . bombings, which killed three and injured more than 260. Prosecutors accuse the immigrant from Kyrgyzstan of a 'pattern of deceit' in dealing with authorities as they investigated the bomb attacks. At a detention hearing, Matanov waived his right to seek release on bail. His lawyer said Matanov has no family here, lost his job as a cab driver after his indictment last week and has nowhere to go if he were released. Khairullozhon Matanov, right, appeared in a Boston courtroom on Wednesday to answer charges he hindered the federal investigation of his friends, the Tsarnaev brothers . Prosecutors portrayed Matanov as a close friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev and an acquaintance of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the two brothers authorities say planted two bombs near the marathon's finish line. Through the testimony of an FBI agent, they also described a series of money transfers in which they said Matanov often used fake names. Agent Timothy McElroy said that between 2010 and 2013, Matanov sent more than $71,000 to 15 people in six countries. McElroy said agents determined that most of the money — about $56,590 — was sent to Matanov's family, while the rest — about $14,800 — went to non-family. Matanov's lawyer, Edward Hayden, said the money transfers 'had nothing to do with terrorism.' 'He was uncomfortable sending all the money in his own name,' he said. Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Garland said Matanov had repeatedly deceived authorities when questioned about his relationship with Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the days after the bombings. Garland said his "pattern of deceit" was also shown through Matanov's use of aliases when sending money. He also argued Matanov was a flight risk. Khairullozhon Matanov was arrested Friday morning on obstruction charges related to the Boston Marathon bombing . Prosecutors portrayed Matanov as a close friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev and an acquaintance of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the two brothers authorities say planted two bombs near the marathon's finish line . Hayden attempted to show that Matanov cooperated with police. McElroy acknowledged that Matanov went to police in the Boston suburb of Braintree the morning after the FBI released photographs of the Tsarnaevs and gave them the brothers' address and phone numbers. That was hours before Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured hiding in a boat in Watertown. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a shootout with police earlier that day. Hayden said Matanov was angry when he learned the Tsarnaevs were suspects in the bombings. "He calls them names that you can't put on TV," he told reporters. McElroy said the FBI began following Matanov after he came forward. McElroy also said that federal prosecutors told Matanov's attorney to urge his client to stay away from Boston's July Fourth celebration because "the city was on edge following the marathon bombings." Matanov was also told to stay away from this year's marathon on April 21. Hayden said he complied with the requests. In his interview with Braintree police, Matanov said he was surprised to learn the Tsarnaevs were suspects in the bombings. "I can't believe it, I can't believe that happened with them ... they were nice people, like the way they talk," Matanov told a detective, according to a transcript released Wednesday. Prosecutors say Matanov called Tamerlan Tsarnaev about 40 minutes after the bombings and invited him to dinner. Hayden said the men talked about the bombings during dinner "like everyone else discussed the bombings," but that the Tsarnaevs did not reveal anything about their alleged role in the attack. | Khairullozhon Matanov, 23, is accused of deleting computer files and lying to agents investigating the 2013 bombings .
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An award-winning financial adviser has admitted masterminding a £2.6 million fraud by convincing clients that he was investing their money in property in India. Alok Dhanda, 53, conned 37 investors including one woman who lost £258,000 when his scheme collapsed. Newcastle Crown Court heard that Dhanda, of Gosforth, Newcastle admitted 24 charges of fraud, having previously admitted similar charges at an earlier hearing. Alok Dhanda, pictured, admitted masterminding a £2.6 million fraud in Newcastle . Dhanda, right, told his victims that he was investing their funds in property schemes in India . The father-of-two appeared in court via video-link, where he had been previously remanded in custody. Dhanda, who won the title of independent financial adviser of the year in 2006 and was runner up twice, will be sentenced on December 19. Mr Recorder Nicholas Lumley QC gave no indication what the likely sentence would be at the next hearing and remanded Dhanda in custody in the meantime. The judge said: 'The fact is, fraudulently he obtained £2.6m. 'To sustain the fraud he gave a small portion of that back to other people.' Proscutor James Adkin told the court: 'There are some 37 victims on two indictments. 'This is a serious case. It is a case which will have public interest in Tyneside.' Sailesh Mehta, defending, said Dhanda did not pocket the entire £2.6m as some of the cash was on a 'merry go round' from one victim to another, to keep the scam going. Several of Dhanda's victims packed the public gallery during the short hearing. According to his Linkedin profile, Dhanda's interests include golf, skiing and watching Newcastle United . | Alok Dhanda told his victims he was investing in Indian property .
One female victim lost out on £258,000 when the scheme finally collapsed .
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By . Beth Stebner . PUBLISHED: . 17:06 EST, 23 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 18:21 EST, 23 January 2013 . Mystery: Russell Matthews reappeared after vanishing and being declared a missing person more than three months ago . Tragic details have emerged over the Coast Guard who suddenly reappeared after going missing for more than three months. Petty Officer Russell Matthews, who worked as a rescue swimmer for the U.S. military branch, mysteriously disappeared last October; following an intensive three-day search, officials presumed the twice-married father of two was dead. The 36-year-old officer went missing around the one-year anniversary of his wife’s suicide; in 2009, she had sustained significant brain damage from a biking accident. His second wife reported him missing on October 9, 2012. Officers said that Matthews, a 15-year veteran of the Coast Guard, was distraught at the time of his disappearance, leaving his car parked at Kaena Point in Oahu. The only other traces of the officer rescue workers found were a pair of slippers, and his hat floating in the water. It is still unclear where the 36-year-old officer has been during the past three months. Matthews was incoherent when he showed up Sunday night at the home of his second wife; the couple live on the North Shore. Scroll down for video . Without a trace: Matthews' car was left at the remote Kaena Point in Oahu three months ago . Happy family: Matthews pictured with his first wife, Clara, and their two young children . Tragedy: Clara and her children were involved in a head-on bicycling accident in 2009 and the mother suffered a traumatic brain injury; two years later, she committed suicide . Matthews, who had been transferred to . the Tripler Army Medical Center, is now in military custody at Pearl . Harbor, according to Coast Guard Spokesman Lt. Gene Maestas. He said that the military branch is . currently in the process of discharging Matthews for illegally using . marijuana ahead of his disappearance. The Coast Guard was under . investigation for it before he vanished in October. Lt. Maestas added that Matthews is in . custody because of his unauthorized absence. In addition, the mysterious . circumstances around his disappearance make him a flight risk. Matthews had been married once before and tragically lost his first wife, Clara, in 2011. The mother of his two children . committed suicide in 2011 by shooting herself in the head; Matthews went . missing around the one-year anniversary of her death, according to KITV. Loss: Clara Matthews suffered a traumatic brain injury following the accident and took her life two years later . Authorities . suspect that Matthews’ first wife pointed the gun at her head in part . because of the traumatic brain injury she suffered two years prior in a . bicycle accident. According to reports at the time, Clara was hit by a car as she was riding her bicycle along the North Shore in Pupukea in March of 2009. Her two children, aged three and five, were riding along in a two-wheel trailer. Clara and her children were seriously injured when a woman veered her sedan into the bike lane and hit the family head-on. Treatment: The petty officer is now being evaluated at Tripler Army Medical Center . The mother was thrown from her bicycle and hit her head on the car’s windshield, while her children were pushed by the car around 80 feet. According to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Matthews was being investigated for marijuana use at the time of his disappearance. Coast . Guard investigators dispatched to see him confirmed his identity after . he called his command from Castle Medical Center in the Honolulu suburb . of Kailua, Maestas said. Matthews' children have been staying with Clara's family members on the mainland in his absence, KITV reports. Under investigation: Matthews, pictured before his disappearance, was under investigation for alleged marijuana use . Police . found the 36-year-old guardsman's car abandoned at Kaena Point, a . remote area of Oahu, when Matthews was reported missing in October. Crews from the Coast Guard, Navy, . state, county lifeguards and Honolulu fire and police departments . together searched more than 10,000 nautical square miles - on land and . at sea - for Matthews. The search was called off on December 13, and Matthews was presumed dead. Honolulu . Police Sgt. Kim Buffett of Crimestoppers said Matthews did not give the . police a statement because he had been in the hospital. Detectives have no . reason to pursue the case as it's not against the law to be missing, she . said. The police case is closed now that Matthews has been found, she added. It's unusual for a Guardsman to go missing for months and then reappear, Lt Maestas said. 'This is not the norm for the Coast Guard. In my 28 year career in the Coast Guard, I have never come across a case like this,' he said. Matthews has been stationed in Hawaii since 2007. Last seen: Police found the 36-year-old guardsman's car abandoned at Kaena Point, a remote area of Oahu, when the man was reported missing in October . Hawaii News Now - KGMB and KHNL . | Petty Officer First Class Russell Matthews reappeared Sunday night after going missing three months before .
Was at the center of an investigation at the time of his disappearance for alleged marijuana use .
Police searched more than 10,000 nautical miles for Matthews before calling off search .
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"Hawaii News Now - KGMB and KHNL ."
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Neil Warnock has been charged with misconduct by the Football Association for his post-match comments in the media about the performance of referee Craig Pawson during Crystal Palace's defeat at home to Chelsea. Swansea manager Garry Monk has escaped a charge – at least for now – but has been ordered to explain his stinging verbal attack on referee Michael Oliver after his side lost at Stoke. Warnock has until 6pm on Monday to respond to his charge, which revolves around claims that Pawson had not refereed from an 'even platform', allowing John Terry to escape a yellow card and then booking Damien Delaney for a similar offence. Delaney was later sent off. Neil Warnock has been charged with misconduct by the FA in relation to comments made after Chelsea defeat . A despondent Garry Monk walks off at full-time after Swansea are beaten 2-1 by Stoke in the Premier League . 'I thought he was influenced by one or two things,' said the Palace boss. 'John Terry's booking; If that's one of my players, it's a booking. I don't understand why it's not an even platform.' The FA's disciplinary chiefs have examined interview footage this week and issued the charge today. 'It is alleged that Warnock's post-match comments constituted improper conduct in that they implied the match referee was motivated by bias; and/or brought the game into disrepute, in contravention of FA Rule E3[1],' said an FA statement. Warnock allegedly shouts at his players at full-time not to shake the referee Craig Pawson's hand . Garry Monk has escaped a charge but has been ordered to explain his comments to the FA . He has a long history of disciplinary trouble with the authorities for his comments on referees but this is his first charge since returning to the touchline in August. Monk fiercely criticised referee Oliver for a penalty decision during Swansea's 2-1 defeat Stoke. He has not been charged but has been asked to explain his comments and a charge could still follow. Monk branded Oliver's penalty decision 'disgusting' and added: 'How he cannot see that's a blatant dive is beyond me'. | Neil Warnock charged in relation to comments made to the media .
FA statement said Palace boss's comments implied the ref showed bias .
Warnock has until 6pm on 27 October 2014 to respond to the charge .
Garry Monk has escaped a charge despite criticising ref after Stoke loss .
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By . Sara Malm . PUBLISHED: . 05:47 EST, 12 August 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 10:11 EST, 12 August 2012 . The lengths of skirts have historically been an indicator of economic downturn and if what is on offer on the high street is anything to go by, the economy is in a dire state. Hemlines have hit their lowest since the 1929 Great Depression, with celebrities such as Victoria Beckham, Katie Holmes and Christina Aguilera sporting skirts as long as 33in, below the knee. However according to the Hemline Index, the ‘official’ indicator for skirt-lengths in relation to the economy, says we may be looking at brighter times. Victoria Beckham follows the 'recession' trend in a long skirt of her own design but it was very different in 1997 . The return of the long skirt has . historically been a sure sign of a reclining economy with below-the-knee . skirts featuring heavily in designer shops and high street chains . during recessions. Last time the fashion industries reported maxi skirts on trend was in the early nineties when inflation hit 15 per cent. This is compared to financial highs . such as the 1960s, the time of the creation of the mini skirt and the . later nineties where the economy boomed and 18in skirts were the . norm. 1929 – 1933Hemlines were long during the years of the Great Depression following the Wall Street Crash in 1929. 1960’s . The swinging sixties saw the . invention of the mini skirt shortly after Harold McMillan declared in . 1957 that we ‘never had it so good’. The only way for the economy - and . hemlines - was up.Early 1980sJobcentre queues and skirts grew longer and longer as unemployment rose . after the Winter of Discontent hitting 3 million in 1982 – the highest . in 50 years. 1984-1988The days of the yuppies, the first mobile-phones and hemlines rising with the market. 1989-1992Stockmarkets crashing in the late 1980s let to a recession where inflation hit 15 per cent and skirts were below the knees again.1993-2002During . a period of economic boom tiny skirts came back into fashion as Cool . Britannia took over and the Spice Girls took to the stage in . thigh-skimming outfits. The double-dip recession of the tens . has seen hemlines move further down and maxi-length pencil skirts are . in shop windows everywhere, from Selfridges and Harrods to high street . giants such as River Island and H&M. Although shop windows predict a bleak . autumn when put to the test the Hemline Index show that things are . looking up for both hemlines and the economy. The longer hemline featured heavily on the Autumn/Winter runways last year which is now reflected on the high street. However observations made at the . 2012/13 shows indicate that by the time the catwalk creations become . common fashion we may be out of the recession. The Hemline Index was established by . economist George Taylor at Wharton School of Business in 1926 who . noticed a connection between good times and short skirts. When the economy was good women would . wear higher hemlines to show off the more expensive hosiery compared to . rough times where the skirts would become longer so women could hide . their cheap stockings. Observations were made during the New . York Fashion Week earlier this year where online magazine Business . Insider compared the Hemline Index from Autumn/Winter 2011 collections . with A/W 2012. The Hemline Index rose from 35.04 in 2011 to 44.38 this year. The higher the index the shorter the skirts and, according to George Taylor’s calculations, the better the economy. If this is anything to go by it gives a . more positive prediction than Prime Minister David Cameron who last . month warned that the dire state of the economy may last until the end . of the decade. ‘I don’t deny for a minute that it is a lot tougher than the forecasters were expecting,’ he told The Daily Telegraph. The British economy has yet to escape . the double-dip recession of last year and economic experts joined the . Prime Minister’s gloomy outlook. The Bank of England’s latest forecast released earlier this week slashed Britain’s predicted growth for 2012 to zero. The long and short of it: American songstress Christina Aguilera on stage last year, left, in a significantly longer skirt than during better economic times at the 2000 Grammy Awards . Supermodel, supershort: Tyra Banks was snapped in a knee-length dress in Singapore today and but preferred her dresses much shorter in 1995, left, when the economy fared better . Governor Sir Mervyn King announced the new figures which as late as May this year foresaw a 0.8 per cent growth. Sir Mervyn told MailOnline’s financial . section ThisisMoney that the combination of the developments in the eurozone and rise in energy and commodity prices has kept us in the red . figures. ‘We will get back [to growth] but it is quite impossible to know over what time period.’ Economists described Tuesday’s . inflation report as one of the most depressing ever, with predictions of . economic growth peaking at just 2.25 per cent in 2014 and 2015. This is the lowest ‘peak forecast’ in . the quarterly inflation reports since the Bank of England was granted . independence in 1997. | The Hemline Index has been used since 1926 to indicate the state of the economy .
Although maxi lengths are on-trend, runways of Autumn/Winter 2012/13 showed shorter skirts .
This disagrees with the Bank of England's latest growth prediction for this year, which was cut to zero . | a766e287577b20f46b727fb3a63e36a8314538a8 | [
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(CNN)When Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965, many Americans viewed his killing as simply the result of an ongoing feud between him and the Nation of Islam. He had publicly left the Nation of Islam in March 1964, and as the months wore on the animus between Malcolm's camp and the Nation of Islam grew increasingly caustic, with bitter denunciations coming from both sides. A week before he was killed, Malcolm's home -- owned by the Nation of Islam, which was seeking to evict him -- was firebombed, and Malcolm believed members of the Nation of Islam to be responsible. For investigators and commentators alike, then, his death was an open and shut case: Muslims did it. Yet although three members of the Nation of Islam were tried and found guilty for the killing, two of them maintained their innocence and decades of research has since cast doubt on the outcome of the case. Tens of thousands of declassified pages documenting government surveillance, infiltration and disruption of black leaders and organizations -- including Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam -- suggest the conclusions drawn by law enforcement were self-serving. Furthermore, irregularities in how investigators and prosecutors handled the case reflect at best gross negligence, and at worst something more sinister. At the time of his death, Time magazine remembered Malcolm X unsympathetically as "a pimp, a cocaine addict and a thief" and "an unashamed demagogue." But for those who had been paying closer attention to him, Malcolm X was an uncompromising advocate for the urban poor and working-class black America. Instead of advocating integration, he called for self-determination; instead of nonviolence in the face of violent anti-black attacks, he called for self-defense. He reserved moral appeals for other people committed to social justice; the government, on the other hand, he understood in terms of organized power -- to be challenged, disrupted and/or dismantled -- and sought to leverage alliances with newly independent African states to challenge that power. It was his challenge to the organized power of the state that appealed to growing numbers of African-Americans, and it was this challenge that also attracted a close following among federal, state and local law enforcement. Under Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover's watch, the FBI kept close tabs on Malcolm's every move through the use of informants and agents. Even before Malcolm began attracting large audiences and widespread media coverage in the late 1950s and early '60s, the FBI reported on his efforts to organize Nation of Islam mosques around the country. One organizing meeting in a private home in Boston in 1954 had maybe a dozen or so people present; one of them reported to the FBI. After Malcolm left the Nation of Islam in March 1964, agents pondered the prospect of a depoliticized more religious Malcolm, but still perceived him as a threat. On June 5, 1964, Hoover sent a telegram to the FBI's New York office that simply and plainly instructed, "Do something about Malcolm X enough of this black violence in NY." One wonders, what that "something" was. In New York, the FBI's actions were complemented by, if not coordinated with, the New York Police Department's Bureau of Special Services, which regularly logged license plates of cars parked outside mosques, organizational meetings, business and homes. The actions of the police on the day of Malcolm's assassination are particularly noteworthy. Normally up to two dozen police were assigned at Malcolm X's rallies, but on February 21, just a week after his home had been firebombed, not one officer was stationed at the entrance to the Audubon ballroom where the meeting took place. And while two uniformed officers were inside the building, they remained in a smaller room, at a distance from the main event area. The lack of a police presence was unusual and was compounded by internal compromises on the part of Malcolm's own security staff, which included at least one Bureau of Special Services agent who had infiltrated his organization. Reportedly at Malcolm's request, his security had abandoned the search procedure that had been customary at both Nation of Islam and Muslim Mosque/Organization of Afro-American Unity meetings. Without the search procedure, his armed assassins were able to enter the ballroom undetected. When the assassins stood up to shoot Malcolm, his security guards stationed at the front of the stage moved not to secure him, but to clear out of the way. These anomalies, in and of themselves, could have been inconsequential. But combined, even if just by coincidence, they proved to be deadly, and allowed for one of the most prophetic revolutionary voices of the 20th century to be silenced. The investigation that followed was just as careless. The crime scene was not secured for extensive forensic analysis -- instead, it was cleaned up to allow for a scheduled dance to take place that afternoon, with bullet holes still in the wall! For activists, of course, Malcolm X's death took on greater significance than law enforcement publicly expressed. Congress of Racial Equality Chairman James Farmer was among the first to suggest that Malcolm's murder was more than just an act of sectarian violence between two rival black organizations. "I believe this was a political killing," he asserted, in response to Malcolm's growing national profile within the civil rights movement. He called for a federal inquiry -- unbeknownst to Farmer, an ironic request given the level of covert federal oversight that was already in place. Slowly, Farmer's doubts gained considerable traction. Author and journalist Louis Lomax, who had covered Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam on several occasions, put Malcolm X's assassination in context with Martin Luther King Jr.'s in "To Kill a Black Man" (1968). More than four decades ago, activist George Breitman was among the first to challenge the police version of who was responsible for Malcolm X's death. More recently, the work done at Columbia University's Malcolm X Project, culminating in Manning Marable's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention," echoed these doubts and put at the forefront these unanswered questions about Malcolm X's murder. These questions deserve answers. They call upon us to revisit not just the political significance of Malcolm X's life, but the implications of his murder. Our government especially deserves scrutiny for its covert information gathering, disinformation campaigns, and even violence waged against its own citizens. Fifty years later, we still have more to learn from Malcolm X's life, and his death, and our government's actions toward him. | Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965 .
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"bitter denunciations coming from both sides. A",
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"owned by the Nation of Islam, which was seeking",
"to evict him -- was firebombed, and Malcolm",
"believed members of the Nation of Islam to be",
"responsible. For investigators and commentators",
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"Muslims did it. Yet although three members of the",
"Nation of Islam were tried and found guilty for",
"the killing, two of them maintained their",
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"him, Malcolm X was an uncompromising advocate for",
"the urban poor and working-class black America.",
"Instead of advocating integration, he called for",
"self-determination; instead of nonviolence in the",
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"take place that afternoon, with bullet holes",
"still in the wall! For activists, of course,",
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"than law enforcement publicly expressed. Congress",
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"among the first to suggest that Malcolm's murder",
"was more than just an act of sectarian violence",
"between two rival black organizations. \"I believe",
"this was a political killing,\" he asserted, in",
"response to Malcolm's growing national profile",
"within the civil rights movement. He called for a",
"federal inquiry -- unbeknownst to Farmer, an",
"ironic request given the level of covert federal",
"oversight that was already in place. Slowly,",
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"in context with Martin Luther King Jr.'s in \"To",
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Coco, a reddish-brown pit bull with white markings, went missing from her Southern California home on Thanksgiving. Nearly a month later, she was found and reunited with her owners — but she was a different color. Riverside County animal services officials made the match when they scanned a stray, black dog for an implanted microchip and found she was listed as an 8-month-old reddish-brown pit bull adopted in October from a San Jacinto shelter. Before and after: Coco used to be a reddish-brown pit bull (left) but was dyed black after it was stolen. Officials say the deception was to keep its owners from getting the pooch back . 'She actually recognized me when I went in there to verify it was her,' owner Heather Lowery told NBC Los Angeles. 'She shakes her whole body as if she were Pluto basically, and she did it again today. She jumped right on (me) and took pictures with me.' Officials believe Coco was stolen and dyed in an act of deception to make it harder for Lowry to find her, said Riverside County Field and Shelter Deputy Director Frank Corvino. Officials believe the dog escaped from the thief's property. 'The dye job is not very good,' Corvino said. 'But it would work if someone's looking for their missing, reddish-brown dog.' Coco's human, Heather Lowery, said the pit bull immediately recognized her, although Lowery was surprised to discover her new color . Animal Services spokesman John Welsh said Coco shouldn't suffer any long-term consequences from the dye. Lowry said she was shocked when she learned what had happened to Coco. 'I didn't think someone would go as far as to dying a dog's fur to keep them,' she said. | Coco disappeared from her Southern California home on Thanksgiving .
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Deauville, France (CNN) -- President Barack Obama landed in France on Thursday for meetings with the leaders of the world's top economic powers after a high-profile visit to London. Obama discussed a range of security and economic issues during a one-on-one meeting with Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev. He also met with Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and participated in a full day of talks with other leaders of the Group of Eight nations. The G8 includes the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Japan, Germany, Italy and Russia. Obama told Kan that Americans were "heartbroken" by the devastation created by Japan's recent tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster. "The United States will stand by Japan for as long as it takes for Japan to recover," Obama said. "And I'm confident it will recover." Kan thanked Obama for American disaster recovery assistance. The two men agreed Kan will make an "official visit" to Washington in September, according to Daniel Russel, a senior U.S. National Security Council staff member. Obama is in the middle of a six-day, four-nation trip to Europe that began in Ireland and will end in Poland. Obama's meetings in France came on the heels of a visit to London, where he became the first U.S. president to address a joint session of the British Parliament at famed Westminster Hall. During his speech, Obama argued that Western leadership of the world remains "essential to the cause of human dignity." "The longing for freedom and human dignity" is "universal, and it beats in every heart," Obama said. Obama linked this year's uprisings against regimes across the Middle East to the fall of communism in Europe, of white minority rule in South Africa and of dictatorships in Latin America and Southeast Asia, saying they reflect "a longing for the same freedoms that we take for granted at home." He also contended that the rise of China, India and Brazil was linked to their acceptance of free markets on the British and American models. Their ascendance does not mean that Western leadership is in decline, he insisted, saying: "The time for our leadership is now." Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron turned up the heat on Moammar Gadhafi in a joint appearance Wednesday, with the president saying that "ultimately," the Libyan leader will go. The United Nations-endorsed mission to protect Libya's people from their leader means making sure Gadhafi "doesn't have capacity to send in a bunch of thugs to murder innocent civilians and threaten them," Obama said. Queen Elizabeth II hosted a state dinner for Obama on Tuesday night. The president and first lady also toured Buckingham Palace and visited Westminster Abbey, where crowds that had gathered along the roads outside cheered their arrival. CNN's Richard Allen Greene and Alan Silverleib contributed to this report. | The U.S. president arrives in Deauville to participate in G8 talks .
Obama discusses economic and security issues with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev .
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After Marco Rubio won his inaugural Senate race in 2010 in Florida, he became the latest star of the Republican Party. The young, insurgent candidate was so impressive, talk of a presidential future quickly ensued. He entered the Senate with high expectations, having won his race with the support of the new tea party movement while simultaneously appealing to mainstream conservatives. But his journey has not been without roadblocks. Leadership on controversial topics has slowed his rise. Now, Rubio, 43, is working to right his perceived wrongs and shed his stereotypes as takes up the mantle once adorned by doing the work to launch a presidential run. Boosting his presence . The freshman senator is doing all the things necessary to make himself known. He's traveling to early presidential nominating states, heading overseas to beef up his foreign policy credentials, appearing on national TV to boost his name recognition and formulating policy ideas to demonstrate substance. On Wednesday, he delivered a "major address" on economic mobility and challenges facing the middle class. Little new came from it. It was a culmination of previously announced ideas and legislation he's already introduced this year and weaved in personal stories of childhood poverty as the son of Cuban immigrants and accounts of people struggling to make it in the middle class. "Too many are starting to believe the American Dream is no longer possible for people like them," he said. Alex Conant, Rubio's spokesman, said the senator has been developing these ideas "for months," since the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty earlier this year. It's a comprehensive speech but one that could be delivered on the floor of the Senate, a place where any of the 100 members go to offer their policy prescriptions. Instead, Rubio's speech was aimed at garnering as much attention and clout as possible. In an attempt to appeal to the right, he spoke a few blocks from Capitol Hill at conservative Hillsdale College, which stresses the teaching of "constitutional principles." A coordinated media campaign that includes post-speech interviews is geared toward bolstering the significance of the speech. An alternative . Rubio's efforts to raise his profile and prove his substance is also an effort at differentiating himself from Democrats. His economic address comes the same week that President Barack Obama's summit on working families and the Clinton Global Initiative conference in Colorado that focused on jobs and the economy. It was attended by former secretary of state and potential Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton on wealth missteps: 'My record speaks for itself' Rubio's address contrasted the ideas they presented and, instead, took up themes Democrats have largely rejected, including a private option for Medicare and gradually raising the retirement age for Social Security. They are popular ideas within the Republican Party that would arguably save federal dollars. On jobs and economic mobility, Rubio detailed his ideas that include tax reform and tax credits for mothers obtaining an education and income-based student loan payments. He also backed a reduction of regulations and taxes and the repeal of Obamacare that he says prohibits employers from hiring, a far different platform from his Democratic counterparts. Kevin Madden, a former adviser to 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney, said Rubio is trying to fill a void. "He recognizes the Republican Party is very hungry for leaders who want to serve as a counterpoint to President Obama on the big policy issues," he said. To beef up his foreign policy resume, the member of the Foreign Relations Committee has put himself out front on related matters. He appeared on the Sunday talk shows to discuss the U.S. response to the chaos in Iraq where he backed air strikes, a position Obama hasn't pursued. A crowded field . But to get where he'll contrast his ideas against a Democratic presidential candidate, he needs to differentiate himself from his fellow Republicans. Rubio is doing what other potential presidential candidates have done. Sen. Rand Paul has delivered numerous policy speeches throughout the country; Gov. Chris Christie has been active outside New Jersey in his role as head of the Republican Governors Association; former Florida Governor Jeb Bush has begun strategically appearing at national conferences. They, and a dozen other potential candidates, have also traveled to early nominating states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. Rand Paul: Will his star continue to rise? There lies the problem: Rubio is just one of many climbers trying to reach the same summit. As many as four governors, three senators, a former senator and two former governors are contemplating a 2016 run. Rubio faces a difficult slog to rise above the noise that the Republican race is already making. In a June CNN poll, Rubio pulled 8% among potential GOP presidential candidates. His support is low, but he fell smack in the middle of the large pack and not much worse than the most popular potential candidate, Paul, who garnered 14%. In a fractured Republican Party that consists of social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, tea party activists and pragmatists, Rubio will have to find his niche. Rubio's rising star . After he won his Senate race, Rubio was the face of the tea party. He was considered one of the more conservative to enter the Senate. But as the Republican establishment struggled to embrace the tea party, he became the glue. Party leaders saw potential and a future in Rubio. He's young, He's Hispanic and he's telegenic. "It's a great day for the conservative cause. New people with new thinking, new ideas -- 21st century solutions," Jeb Bush said immediately after his victory. But politics is a volatile profession. Rubio's folly . Rubio's stock within the Republican Party plummeted last year when he held up the mantle for the Republican Party on immigration reform. He was part of a group of eight senators that forged an agreement, leading to the passage of comprehensive immigration reform. While he was dubbed "The Republican Savior" by Time Magazine for his work on a solution that has been unable to pass Congress for nearly a decade, conservatives called the bill amnesty for undocumented immigrants and conservative Erick Erickson called Rubio a "disappointment" on his blog Red State. "While some of us will be able to forgive Marco Rubio's rather rapid shift toward the very position he once vocally opposed, others probably will not be so forgiving," Erickson wrote. Bob Vander Plaats, CEO of The Family Leader, a social conservative organization in Iowa that has a large amount of political influence in the critical presidential caucus state, said people "really backed away" from Rubio after immigration. Rubio, he said, is going to have to explain himself to Iowa Republicans. Iowa voters are "a very discerning lot," Vander Plaats said. "They're willing to forgive. They're willing to try to understand." Although his immigration position was likely to appeal to independent voters and even Democrats, the outrage proved the position was unpopular among the base, which he needs in a presidential primary. After the immigration fallout, Rubio felt the heat and backed away from the national spotlight. He laid low and made little noise. Rubio's return . Rubio has mostly avoided the topic of immigration except to pivot away from the bill he helped pass through the Senate by endorsing a fragmented approach in the Republican-led House. He maintained his latest stance again Wednesday when he said a solution for the millions of undocumented immigrants can't happen before the border is secure and a worker verification system is in place. Since 2014 rolled around, Rubio has been carefully crafting his image as a well-rounded, versatile leader in the Republican Party. He has repeatedly appeared on the business channel CNBC to discuss economic policies without mentioning immigration. A smart move, Madden said, because "it's dangerous when you make your name on one issue." Madden, who has been watching his campaign, said Rubio is making the right moves, not only in the policy arena but the political one, too. "He's not making 2014 about Marco Rubio but making it about candidates across the country," Madden said. Rubio was the first of the possible presidential candidates to endorse Iowa Senate candidate Joni Ernst. He traveled to the state to fundraise and campaign for her. His endorsement and her subsequent win helps him build relationships and a national infrastructure in critical states. Media. Check. Policy. Check. Politics. Check. Now Rubio has the long, treacherous trek of finding the voters who support him. "Slow and steady wins the race," Madden said. How many ways can Romney say no to 2016? | Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is giving a major economic policy address .
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By . Daily Mail Reporter . Ignored: Terry Burns, 44, who had previously had a double bypass, spent the night at Royal Preston Hospital in a chair . A heart patient was forced to spend the night in A&E sleeping in a chair after the hospital ran out of beds. Heart patient Terry Burns, 44, was admitted to Royal Preston Hospital, Lancashire, last Wednesday night for an ECG and blood tests. But when his family returned the following morning, they found him still in the same chair in the waiting room. Hospital staff have now apologised to Mr . Burns, who underwent a double heart bypass three years ago, saying there . was not a shortage of beds but that the hospital had been 'unusually . busy'. Although some tests were carried out, there was no bed for him by the time his sister Tina Burns-Moore left that evening. When . she returned in the morning she was horrified to find her brother . sitting in the same chair she had left him in, fully clothed and . unwashed. Ms Burns-Moore, 45, said: ‘We are really angry. He has come in for help because he hasn’t been well. ‘If . they couldn’t accommodate him, someone could have contacted us and we . could have taken him to sleep in his own bed, if things were that . desperate. ‘He didn’t really sleep [well] in the chair. It was chaos - there were people coming and going. ‘My . brother tells me there were a lot of people in the same position. 'There . was a lady on a trolley in a bay who was asked to get off the trolley . because they needed it. ‘I just think people need to know what is happening because it is a terrible state of affairs.’ Mr Burns, who lives in Bamber Bridge, Lancashire, was given a bed later that day and was able to get some rest while he and his family awaited the test results. Apology issued: Despite staff knowing he had undergone a double bypass three years ago, Mr Burns, from Bamber Bridge, was forced to spend the night sleeping in a chair in the waiting area at the hospital's A&E . Karen Partington, chief executive of Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said: ‘Firstly we would like to sincerely apologise for the delay in identifying a bed for Mr Burns. ‘Our priority is to always provide excellent care with compassion for our patients and we regret that in this instance that was not achieved. ‘We very much encourage any patients and families who have any queries about their care and treatment to contact the team that is looking after them or talk to our patient advice and liaison services. ‘We have already started an investigation into why this happened and will take action to ensure this does not happen in the future.’ A hospital spokesman added there was not a regular shortage of beds and Mr Burns was unfortunate to have been admitted during an unusually busy period. | Grandfather with heart condition forced to sleep in chair at A&E .
Terry Burns, 44, spent the night in waiting area due to lack of beds .
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By . Ted Thornhill . PUBLISHED: . 06:07 EST, 11 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:50 EST, 11 October 2013 . A pensioner knifed her husband in the stomach in an attempt to ‘shut him up’ after a blazing row about how to operate a digital camera. Barbara Smith, 72, stabbed husband John, 83, with a six-inch knife after a ‘childish’ bust-up over the complicated device escalated into violence. When officers arrived she told them she was not attempting to murder him but was instead just trying to keep him quiet. Row: The incident happened after Barbara Smith and her husband John argued over a digital camera (stock image from library). The court heard how she reached into a kitchen drawer, grabbed a knife and stabbed him . Bristol Crown Court heard how she reached into a kitchen drawer while they were face-to-face, grabbed the knife and stabbed him. Mark Hollier, prosecuting, said the couple had been married for 53 years and both had digital cameras, but Mr Smith was not very good with his. ‘They got into a confrontation after a comment over nothing,’ he said. ‘They got into a row, the argument moved around the property and into the kitchen. Mr Smith was arguing with his wife and she took his camera and threw it on the floor.’ The court heard as Mr Smith confronted his wife she grabbed a blade from a drawer, lashed out and stabbed him in the stomach area. She told the court: ‘He kept on moving closer. I could feel him spitting on my face. We were only inches apart. He kept coming towards me.’ Injured: Mr Smith was taken to Frenchay Hospital in Bristol with a small bowel perforation . Mr Hollier said: ‘She was clearly shocked. She telephoned her daughter-in-law, Susan Smith, and said she stabbed her husband. She also called for an ambulance.’ Susan Smith found him trying to staunch a bleeding stomach wound with a towel, as paramedics and police raced to the scene. Mrs Smith told police: ‘He just wouldn’t be quiet. Are you going to take me to prison now? ‘I wasn’t trying to murder him. I was just trying to shut him up.’ Mr . Smith was taken to Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, had surgery to repair a . small bowel perforation and stayed in for a fortnight, the court heard. He . accepted he behaved in a ‘belligerent manner’ and he should have known . better and was extremely supportive of his wife, the court heard. Smith, of Aldwick, Bristol, pleaded guilty to wounding in August. Sentencing her to eight months behind bars, suspended for 12 months, Mr Justice Nigel Teare said there was a degree of provocation. He told her: ‘In judgement this was an offence of greater harm but lower culpability, because of the degree of provocation and lack of pre-meditation. ‘Sentencing guidelines start at 18 months’ custody. You are plainly not dangerous. There are powerful mitigating circumstances.’ She was also handed a £100 victim surcharge. Tristan Harwood, defending, said his client told police she had suffered anger and threats from her husband for many years. He told the court said: ‘This is domestic abuse. She has suffered at his hands for many years.’ Detective Constable Darren Ash, the police officer in charge of the case, said: ‘Mr Smith said there was an argument and he should have just sat down. He said it was a petty argument and he was being childish. He was trying to get help with his camera and his frustration just came out. ‘They have been married 53 years and he said his home would not be home without her.’ | Barbara Smith, 72, stabbed husband John, 83, after a 'childish' argument .
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By . Hayley O'keeffe . Winston Churchill's scathing riposte to MP Bessie Braddock earned him the top spot . When Winston Churchill was accused of being drunk by socialist MP Bessie Braddock he knew exactly what to say. And the former Prime Minister, who was famed for his wit, has topped a poll of more than 2,000 Britons to find history's funniest insult. As well as the scathing Mr Churchill, the Daily Express reported that other household names including Barack Obama, Groucho Marx, Noel Gallagher and Elizabeth Taylor also made the top ten of the poll, which was commissioned to mark the Blu-ray release of the LIberace biopic Behind The Candelabra. And Liberace himself was also known to give a good put-down when the time was right. The flamboyant star, who is played by Michael Douglas in the film, is also included in the poll with his classic one liner to a critic who gave him a bad review. He said: 'Thank you for your very amusing review. After reading it...I laughed all the way to the bank.' The subject of many of the celebrities' ire is often other celebrities. Scroll down for video . Liberace pictured in 1978 (left) and (right) as played by Michael Douglas in the film Behind the Candelabra . Liam Gallagher, when talking about Victoria Beckham is included in the poll for saying: 'She can't even chew and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.' Winston Churchill appears in the new poll twice . 1) Winston Churchill (when berated for being drunk by MP Bessie Braddock): 'My dear, you are ugly, but tomorrow I shall be sober, and you will still be ugly. 2) Barack Obama (After Sarah Palin's quip that the only difference between a pitbull and a soccer mom is lipstick): 'You can put lipstick on a pig...it's still a pig.' 3) Liberace (In response to a negative review from a critic): ' Thank you for your very amusing review. After reading it...I laughed all the way to the bank.' 4) Noel Gallagher (speaking about Robbie Williams): 'You mean that fat dancer from Take That?' 5) Winston Churchill (After being disturbed while at the toilet by the Lord Privy Seal): 'Tell him I can only deal with one s**t at a time.' 6) Frank Sinatra (speaking about Robert Redford): 'Well at least he has found his true love - what a pity he can't marry himself.' Film star Elizabeth Taylor appeared to have little regard for her human leading men . 7) Elizabeth Taylor: 'Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.' 8) Groucho Marx: 'She got her good looks from her father, he's a plastic surgeon.' 9) Bette Midler (speaking about Princess Anne): 'She loves nature, in spite of what it did to her.' 10) Liam Gallagher (speaking about Victoria Beckham): 'She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.' Speaking to the Daily Express celebrity commentator Mark Frith, said: 'The art of the put-down was clearly mastered by the great wits of the 20th century, including Winston Churchill and Liberace. 'The war of words between figures in the public eye has long been a source of great entertainment and it continues with the likes of Piers Morgan, Lord Sugar and Cheryl Cole trading insults and using the media or Twitter as their battleground.' | Former Prime Minster's witty put-down voted number one funny insult .
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The teen trusted him after he claimed to be a friend of the au pair .
Taken to a remote field in Oxfordshire where she was raped and assaulted .
At Oxford Crown Court it emerged he had been convicted of rape in Brazil .
He came to the UK after fleeing South America in 2012 .
At time of the latest offence he was on bail for another sex assault .
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A criminologist has claimed Jack the Ripper could be a meat cart driver from Whitechapel and his blood-splattered appearance may have been what helped him evade justice . Jack the Ripper was a meat cart driver in Whitechapel, who legitimately blood-spattered appearance helped him evade justice, a criminologist has claimed. Dr Gareth Norris from Aberystwyth University believes 'carman' Charles Allen Lechmere, whose early route to work coincided with locations of Ripper killings, should be considered a suspect. Lechmere was found leaning over victim Mary Ann 'Polly' Nichols' body on Buck's Row in Whitechapel on August 31, 1888 and told police he had only been there a few minutes. But research has revealed that he lied to police about his name, calling himself Cross, and it was likely that he was with her body for about nine minutes. He also passed Hanbury Street, Dorset Street and Mitre Square at roughly the same times as the Ripper killings - while another happened in Berners Street, where his mother lived. It is a theory that joins many others in relation to the string of murders during a three-month period in 1888 when six women were killed on the streets of London's Whitechapel. Their throats were slashed and bodies mutilated but no one was ever caught and 'the Ripper's' identity remains one of the world's greatest crime mysteries. In the years that have passed since the killing spree, many high-profile suspects have been suggested including Prince Albert Victor, the grandson of Queen Victoria and Sir William Gull, the Queen's doctor. Dr Norris, who worked with TV producer David McNab and Swedish journalist Christer Holmgren in a new Channel 5 documentary about the killer, drew up a profile of the likely murderer. He predicted that Jack the Ripper would have been local and able to walk the streets in the early hours without being suspected. Dr Norris said: 'He [Lechmere] would certainly be a person of interest and, while the evidence against him is circumstantial, he would have a case to answer. 'There couldn't feasibly be a re-opening of the case as the Ripper is most certainly deceased by now, but periodically reviews of historical cases can be sanctioned. An illustration of a Victorian meat cart driver, who is weighing dog meat for sale, similar to the job Lechmere had in 1888 . 'Again, there are no living witnesses or forensics of any sort so the basis of any investigation would be slightly flawed. 'Lechmere could be a match for the profile - along with many others - but whether he fits the conspiracy element that fascinates the public is another matter.' Dr Gareth Norris claims that Jack the Ripper could be Charles Allen Lechmere, whose route to work coincided with the killing locations in Whitechapel . He added that because of his job as a meat cart driver, Lechmere would have been 'routinely covered in blood'. David McNab added: 'Lechmere was discovered standing over the body but bizarrely no-one seemed to think that was important.' Dr Norris said investigations in Lechmere's life showed his mother was 'a pivotal figure' for him and he lived very close to her. But two months before the Ripper killings he moved further away to a new address while his daughter remained living with his mother. Dr Norris said that could have been due to some trauma and added: 'A big upheaval in the family just months before the killings could be of some significance.' Barrister James Scobie QC believes Lechmere's early lies and his passing by the murder scenes could have warranted a court case. He said: 'He is somebody who seems to be acting in a way that is suspicious, which a jury would not like. 'When the coincidences mount up against a defendant, it becomes one coincidence too many.' Lechmere died in 1920 and was survived by his wife who eventually passed away on September 12, 1940 in Stratford, east London. An image depicting police discovering one of the victims of the murders in London which took place in 1888 . Several theories have been manufactured over the years concerning the 'Jack the Ripper' killings . Numerous individuals have been accused of being the serial killer. At the time, police suspected the Ripper must have been a butcher, due to the way his victims were killed and the fact they were discovered near to the dockyards, where meat was brought into the city. There are several alleged links between the killer and royals. First is Sir William Gull, the royal physician. Many have accused him of helping get rid of the prostitutes' bodies, while others claim he was the Ripper himself. Another book named Queen Victoria's surgeon Sir John Williams as the infamous killer. He had a surgery in Whitechapel at the time. Another theory links the murders with Queen Victoria's grandson, Prince Albert Victor, the Duke of Clarence. At one point, cotton merchant James Maybrick was the number one suspect, following the publication of some of his diary which appeared to suggest he was the killer. However some believe the diary to be a forgery although no one has been able to suggest who forged it. Other suspects include Montague John Druitt, a Dorset-born barrister. He committed suicide in the Thames seven weeks after the last murder. George Chapman, otherwise known as Severyn Kłosowski, poisoned three of his wives and was hanged in 1903. Another suspected by polive was Aaron Kosminski. He was admitted to Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum and died there. Dr Thomas Neill Cream, poisoned four London prostitutes with strychnine and was hanged. Some of the more bizarre links include Lewis Carroll, author of the Alice in Wonderland books, who taught at Christ Church until 1881 - which was at the forefront of the Ripper murder scenery. Winston Churchill's father - Lord Randolph Churchill - has also been named as a potential suspect. Crime writer Patricia Cornwell believes she has 'cracked' the case by unearthing evidence that confirms Walter Sickert, an influential artist, as the prime suspect. Her theories have not been generally accepted. While author William J Perring raised the possibility that Jack the Ripper might actually be 'Julia' - a Salvation Army soldier in The Seduction Of Mary Kelly, his novel about the life and times of the final victim, that it was perhaps not 'Jack' the Ripper, but 'Julia' - a Salvation Army soldier. Victims: Catherine Eddowes (left) is said to be Jack the Ripper's third victim while Elizabeth Stride (right) was killed a few hours later . | Dr Gareth Norris believes Charles Allen Lechmere could be a suspect .
Lechmere's early route to work coincided with Ripper killing locations .
He was also found leaning over one of the victims - Polly Nichols .
Dr Norris predicted killer would have been local and walk streets in early hours without suspicion making Lechmere a strong 'person of interest' | 6b8f0f425ad823eaab48153d9497e3854ced3067 | [
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(CNN) -- Not for the first time Mario Balotelli, who plays for one of Europe's biggest soccer teams AC Milan, is in the spotlight again. The Italian international is the focus of racially charged remarks made by Milan vice president Paulo Berlusconi, the younger brother of former prime minister and team owner Silvio Berlusconi. During a political rally for his brother where he invited the public to an upcoming match, the younger Berlusconi was caught on camera -- the video is now featured on the website of Italian newspaper La Repubblica -- saying: "OK, we are all off to see the family's little black boy. "He's a crazy head. All the young ladies are invited as well -- you can even have a chance to meet the president [Silvio Berlusconi]." Milan declined to comment on the remarks when contacted by CNN, while Balotelli's representatives have yet to respond to phone and email messages. Italy national team striker Balotelli joined Milan last week after a two-and-a-half-year stint with English champions Manchester City, during which time he attracted media attention for his off-field antics and ill discipline on the pitch. The incident involving Berlusconi's brother comes one month after another racial incident involving a black AC Milan player. AC's German-born Ghanaian international midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng walked off the pitch after being subjected to racist chanting during a friendly match with fourth division team Pro Patria. Silvio Berlusconi, as well as world football head Sepp Blatter, backed Boateng for taking a strong stance against prejudicial abuse, though the FIFA president noted that walk-offs are not a long-term solution to the problem. Offensive . Italian football expert and author John Foot explained how Paulo Berlusconi's words were offensive on several levels. "It is an insult," Foot told CNN. "It's not n***** translated, but it would translate as 'little negro' or 'little family negro'. A lot of Italians wouldn't necessarily see it as racist, but that doesn't mean it isn't. "I'm sure Balotelli would see it as an insult. Even if you take the racial element out of it, it is quite insulting. The idea that they own this person has a lot of other connotations." Balotelli played for AC's city rivals Inter Milan between 2006 and 2010, during which time he was subjected to racist abuse by Juventus fans during a match in 2009. Foot thinks how Balotelli responds should such an incident occur again in the future could shape how Italian football tackles racism. "When the first racist chants appear in a game he is playing in, are the players going to walk off?" Foot asked. "That is going to be a key moment. I think it will happen. "It has entered into the football stadiums in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Some things have been done, but generally there is not a zero tolerance approach towards it. "It's not just individuals. In Italy it could be a large part of the hardcore fans doing it, therefore it is a lot harder to deal with. "I think the Boateng incident was really positive because it put the issue on the agenda and said, 'We're not going to take this anymore' and he was backed by the authorities which was really good. "Let's see if they put their money where their mouth is and walk off during a Serie A game which is on television. If they do, I think it will have an impact." When the deal -- worth around $31 million -- to bring Balotelli to AC was announced last week, La Stampa estimated the signing of "Super Mario" could be worth 400,000 votes in Silvio Berlusconi's bid for re-election in Italy later this month. While the incident could damage Berlusconi's image abroad, Foot doubted it would affect his popularity in Italy. "His reputation abroad is pretty appalling anyway," added Foot. "There hasn't been a debate in Italy about racist language. For a long time they used to use words to describe immigrants which were absolutely racist. "It is something I don't think will have an impact on Berlusconi domestically." The word "negro" was the subject of a racism storm in England in 2011, when Patrice Evra of Manchester United claimed he had repeatedly been called the word by Liverpool's Luis Suarez. The accusations sparked a debate over cultural differences over the word's meaning. Watch: Israeli football club faces fan backlash . Some claimed it was a term of endearment used in Uruguay, however Suarez was handed an eight-match ban and a £40,000 ($63,000) fine by England's football association. Kwadwo Asamoah is a Ghana international who plays for AC's Serie A rivals Juventus. Meanwhile, speaking from the Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa, where Ghana play Burkina Faso in Wednesday's semifinal, Kwadwo Asamoah, who plays for Milan's Serie A rivals Juventus, called for an end to racist abuse in football. "Football is about coming together," the 24-year-old Ghana international told CNN. "When it comes to something like this it makes you feel like you're not a human being. "What I would say is please stop this racism because we are all one, we are all human beings. Football is about fun and bringing people together." | Mario Balotelli focus of racially charged remarks.
Younger brother of former prime minister and team owner Silvio Berlusconi caught on camera saying: "OK, we are all off to see the family's little black boy"
Italian football expert and author John Foot says Paulo Berlusconi's words are offensive on several levels.
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Shamed South Yorkshire crime tsar Shaun Wright holds a key role in tackling child abuse across Britain, it emerged last night. MPs said it was an ‘outrage’ that the man at the centre of the Rotherham abuse scandal sits on a Home Office panel on behalf of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners. He was appointed as Labour’s representative to the national group on sexual violence against children and vulnerable people and has still not quit – despite resigning the party whip. The news came in evidence to the home affairs committee, which is investigating how failures left 1,400 youngsters open to horrific abuse by predominantly Asian men. Scroll down for video . Defiant: Shaun Wright was appointed as Labour’s representative to the national group on sexual violence against children and vulnerable people. He has still not quit over the Rotherham child abuse scandal . Before being elected South Yorkshire PCC in 2012, Mr Wright was Rotherham’s councillor in charge of children’s services for five years. MPs said Mr Wright – who refuses to resign from his £85,000-a-year post – was ‘clinging on against almost unanimous opposition’ and was ‘not fit to hold office’. Mr Wright said it would be the ‘easy option’ to step down, but insisted he was doing a ‘good job’. Incredibly, he then revealed his key role dealing with child abuse in the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners. Tory MP Michael Ellis said: ‘Is that not an outrage? Is it not a disgrace that you are currently responsible for the sort of area we are investigating?’ Tory MP Michael Ellis called Wright's appointment 'an outrage', adding: 'Is it not a disgrace that you are currently responsible for the sort of area we are investigating?' Professor Alexis Jay’s report on how 1,400 children were exploited led to national fury. Rotherham council’s Labour leader, Roger Stone, resigned. On Monday, chief executive Martin Kimber said he will quit in December. But Mr Wright refuses to go – and current rules do not allow for his removal. Committee chairman Keith Vaz said the law should be changed. Labour MP Paul Flynn said: ‘You are a busted flush, a dead PCC walking... I’ve been an MP for more than 20 years and you are the least credible witness I’ve come across. You are a charlatan, in love with office and the salary.’ MPs also urged Joyce Thacker, the head of Rotherham’s children’s services, to resign. They said she had failed to take responsibility for the scandal. Mr Kimber and Miss Thacker came under fire for using public money to prevent a journalist from reporting the abuse. Applause broke out in the public gallery as MPs said the Press had done more to expose the problem than officials. Unusually, the committee made witnesses give evidence on oath. Former South Yorkshire chief constable Merredyd Hughes said he had ‘no idea’ the abuse was going on and was ‘embarrassed’. He told MPs: ‘I have had a 32-year police career and, yet on this issue I have signally failed the victims of these criminals and it hurts.’ A Home Office researcher who wrote a 2002 report into sexual abuse in Rotherham said two police officers had threatened to give her details to grooming gangs. She has also said that evidence used in her report, which was ignored by officials, was taken from her office. | Shaun Wright was appointed as Labour’s representative to the national group on sexual violence against children and vulnerable people .
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By . Ellie Zolfagharifard . Ordering a hamburger when you’re trying to impress a date can lead to disaster. One bite and lashings of gherkins, sauce and salad will find themselves all over your face, hands and clothes. But now scientists have come up with the perfect way to hold a burger that could avoid this awkward scenario. Instead of the traditional method of holding a burger using thumbs on the bottom and fingers on the top, scientists claim you should use both thumbs and pinkies to hold the bottom of the burger (right) and the three middle fingers to hold it from the top (left) After four intensive months of research, scientists believe they have finally found the solution to holding a hamburger without causing a spillage. The secret is all in using the pinkie. Instead of the traditional method of holding a burger using thumbs on the bottom and fingers on the top, scientists claim you should use both thumbs and pinkies to hold the bottom of the burger. The remaining three middle fingers should be used to hold the top of the bun in place. This divides the burger into equal parts meaning that it can be held uniformly. Three researchers – experts in mechanics, engineering, and dentistry – spent four months coming up with the perfect solution. The study was organised by Japanese television show 'Honma Dekka!?' and involved a 3D scan of a burger to try and understand how the different elements worked together. Most people hold a burger using their thumbs on the bottom and fingers on the top. But the Japanese data revealed that this technique is completely wrong. Instead they found that using thumbs and the little fingers to hold the bottom, while using the middle three fingers on each hand to hold the top, would avoid spillages. This divides the burger into equal parts meaning that it can be held uniformly, according to a report in Kotaku. The scientist warned against holding on too tightly in case the bun is crushed and the contents spills out the back. Also, the dental expert suggested warming up the muscles in your mouth before eating a big hamburger by opening and closing it a few times. Something to try, perhaps, next time you’re attempting to impress your lunch companion. Most people hold a burger using thumbs on the bottom and fingers on the top which scientists say can lead to disastrous results . | Japanese scientists spent four months coming up with the perfect solution .
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Clay, Alabama (CNN) -- Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley on Tuesday toured communities hit by a tornado that destroyed or damaged hundreds of homes and killed two people. "I do not understand, except by God's grace, that people can survive some of the damage that I see in some of the residential areas," Bentley said. The National Weather Service confirmed at least three tornadoes touched down in Alabama early Monday. Two were detected in north central Tuscaloosa County, while the third hit near the town of Clay in Jefferson County, packing winds estimated at 150 miles per hour. The storm destroyed at least 211 homes and seriously damaged another 218 in Jefferson County alone, according to the Alabama Red Cross. The severe weather obliterated the three-story home of Darrell Heichelbech, his wife and two children. Daughter Christina Heichelbech, 16, was one of two killed in the storm. "She had just such spirit, such life ... She was the kind of kid you wanted to have," her father told CNN, barely able to speak through tears. "All her plans were coming into play, and now they're gone. I don't know what to do." The girl's family found her about 40 feet from the house, he told The Birmingham News. She was still on her mattress. "She just looked like she was sleeping like a baby," the newspaper quoted the father as saying. "But she wasn't sleeping. She was gone." Heichelbech said the storm woke him up, and he called for his family to get downstairs, according to the newspaper. But he said the storm hit as soon as his 13-year-old son emerged from his room. "I grabbed a hold of his legs and held on as hard as I could," the newspaper quoted him as saying. "I felt wind, but no movement. It was a blink of an eye. There's no question in my mind we took a direct hit." Authorities said the storm also killed Bobby Sims, 83, a resident of Oak Grove, a community west of Birmingham. At least seven Alabama counties reported damage from the storm, with the majority in Jefferson and Chilton counties, the governor's office said. Bentley pledged "whatever resources we have available" to take care of victims. In Jefferson County, five schools remained closed Tuesday, including one that will have to be torn down. Center Point Elementary was 80% destroyed, district spokeswoman Nez Calhoun said. "It's like Mother Nature has a mean way of doing things," Calhoun said. "This building was only six or seven years old. We added 22 classrooms for growth." The storm comes less than nine months after a tornado outbreak killed 243 people across Alabama, including 61 in Birmingham and Tuscaloosa. "The one thing that we can say is thank goodness we're not looking at what happened in this state last year in April," Art Faulkner, director of the Alabama Emergency Management Agency, said Monday. CNN's Reynolds Wolf and Rick Martin contributed to this report. | NEW: Storm killed 2 people; the father of the younger victim recalls his daughter .
Alabama governor tours hard-hit communities .
Five schools in Jefferson County remained closed after storm .
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Birth dearth: Policy makers are now throwing money at families in a bid to stem the birth dearth and encourage citizens to have more babies. But experts say it is not working . Germany is battling a baby drought that has caused its population to plummet, leaving a rash of vacant homes, dry sewers and fears the economy may crumble, experts have warned. In its most recent census, Germany discovered it had lost 1.5 million inhabitants and, by 2060, experts say the population could dwindle by an extra 19 per cent, to about 66 million. Between 2000 and 2013, Germany's . birth rate dropped by 11 per cent compared to rises in the UK (4.3 per . cent), France (3.6 per cent), Spain (12.8 per cent) and Ireland (8.9 per cent). Now panic is beginning to spread through Europe's economic powerhouse as the financial crisis continues to stretch its tentacles into all aspects of society, especially the country's labour market. Adding to the country's woes, a recent study by Europe's Population Policy Acceptance Study found that 23 per cent of German men thought 'zero' was the ideal family size. 'In some areas, there are now abundant overgrown yards, boarded-up . windows and concerns about sewage systems too empty to work properly,' reports the New York Times. 'The work force is rapidly graying, and assembly lines are being . redesigned to minimize bending and lifting.' Policy makers are now throwing money at families in a bid to stem the birth dearth and encourage citizens to have more babies. But despite spending $265 billion a year on family subsidies, experts say the government is not doing enough claiming Germany needs an overhaul of values, customs and attitudes. According to the New York Times Germany has for many decades had a fraught relationship with immigration. To make matters worse, attitudes to working mothers remains unsympathetic in Germany where women who juggle jobs with children are commonly referred to pejoratively as 'raven mothers', implying neglectfulness. Experts are now claiming Germany needs to find ways of keeping older workers in jobs for longer and make itself more appealing to immigrants, who, they say, tend to find other European nations far more hospitable destinations. It also needs to feed more women into the workforce while, at the same time, encourage them to have more babies. 'If you look closely at the numbers, what you see is the higher the gender equality, the higher the birthrate,' Reiner Klingholz of the Berlin Institute for Population and Development told the New York Times. Keep working: Experts are now claiming Germany needs to find ways of keeping older workers in jobs for longer as fears grow for the country's workforce . But, he added, Germany has long subsidised families of a traditional set up, making change all the more difficult. 'Touching those is political suicide,' Michaela Kreyenfeld of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research told the paper. 'Women are perfectly integrated within Germany's labor market but when it comes to babies, everyone expects a mother to stay at home and take care of the children,' she told reuters last year. 'This of course deters women from becoming mothers.' Last year it emerged the number of births in Germany fell to a post-war low despite a raft of government incentives meant to reverse a population decline. 'Raven mother': Attitudes to working mothers remains unsympathetic in Germany where women who juggle jobs with children are commonly referred to pejoratively as 'raven mothers', implying neglectfulness . A third of all babies born in Germany, still the EU's most populous member state, came from immigrant families, the analysts said, noting that without them the overall figure would have been much lower. The preliminary data released by Germany's Federal Statistics Office showed 663,000 children were born in 2011, down from 678,000 in 2010. How Germany's birth rate compares to Europe (between 2000 and 2013): . 'As in every year since 1972, the number of people who died was greater than the number of children born. In 2011 the difference amounted to 190,000 people and in 2010 to 181,000,' the office said in a report. Demography experts have forecast that Germany's population could shrink to about 50 million by 2050, based on current trends, and say France and Britain - which now have about 60 million each - could overtake it later this century. Germany's birthrate peaked in 1964 when a total of 1,357,304 children were born in the capitalist West and communist East. West Germans were already having fewer children in the 1970s because of improving conditions for women and their easier access to education, said Reiner Klingholz, director of the Berlin Institute for Population and Development. 'So fewer children were born then, meaning that today we lack potential parents for potential children," he said.Without immigrant families, the number of newly born children in Germany would reach only 400,000 in a country of 82 million, Klingholz said. Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has no children herself, introduced relatively generous child benefit payments in 2006, making it easier for women to return to the workplace after having children.In June 2012, however, in a move critics say entrenches a more traditionalist view of women's roles, Merkel's coalition also approved a bill on childcare payments that would give parents an allowance to keep their toddlers at home rather than sending them to nursery. | Germany lost 1.5 million inhabitants in its most recent census .
The population is predicted to fall by 19 per cent to 66 million by 2060 .
Policy makers are throwing money at families in bid to stem the birth dearth .
Experts say it needs to welcome immigrants and encourage mums to work .
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A bar owner in China who erected a statue of two Buddhas locked in a passionate embrace has been ordered to take it down after local officials deemed it too sexy for public display. The four-metre high effigy is the centrepiece of Yanyu pub - meaning 'to have a fling' in Chinese - in Lijiang city and features a female Buddha sitting on the lap of a male Buddha in the lotus position. Lijiang, in southwestern Yunnan Province, . is one of the most popular tourist cities in China and is famed as the . region's romantic heartland where thousands flock each year in the hope of finding love. But the sculpture has come under fire from local officials and internet trolls who claim it blasphemes the religion's deities and insults Chinese heritage. Offensive? The four-metre high effigy is the centrepiece of Yanyu pub - meaning 'to have a fling' in Chinese - in the tourist city of Lijiang and features a female Buddha sitting on the lap of a male Buddha in the lotus position . The owner of the bar, who identified himself only as Mr Lin, defended the multi-million-Yuan sculpture, claiming it is a wholesome expression of Tibetan Buddhism and should not be viewed in any other context. 'The name of the Buddha is Happy . Buddha originating from Tibetan Buddhism,' he said. 'The male Buddha represents . law, the female Buddha represents intelligence. 'It is inappropriate to look at the statue in a worldly way.' Wholesome? The owner of the bar, who identified himself only as Mr Lin, defended the multi-million-Yuan sculpture, claiming it is a wholesome expression of Tibetan Buddhism . Controversy: It has come under fire from local officials and internet trolls who claim it blasphemes the religion's deities . And Mr Lin says the Buddha is in keeping with the city's public persona and will bring good luck in love and romance. He bought the statue from an Indian manufacturer and had it shipped to the Yanyu in April this year. But it proved controversial from the outset, with criticism taking root on social networking sites. One user wrote: 'It is blaspheming deities. The boss will invite nemesis and it is only a matter of time.' Another added: 'They will be punished in the end for destroying Chinese traditional beliefs to such an extent.' | The 4m-high effigy is centrepiece of Yanyu pub, Chinese for 'have a fling'
It features a female Buddha sitting on lap of a male Buddha in lotus position .
It is in Lijiang city, famed as romantic heartland where tourists flock for love .
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Yangon, Myanmar (CNN) -- Ma Soe Soe Kyi's skeletal frame is visible above her blanket; she is too weak to keep her eyes open. Her husband waves away the flies and looks on helplessly. Kyi is HIV positive and finally getting help and medication from a private HIV clinic in Yangon, Myanmar. There are 60 patients here -- the oldest is 70 years old, the youngest just three months. Ko Yar Zar is one of the founders of the clinic and tells CNN they used to have to move the operation from house to house and stay secret for fear of being shut down by the brutal military junta. "Without this clinic, these people would die," he says. The clinic was started by pro-democracy leader Aung San Syi Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy. It relies heavily on donations from private enterprises, individuals and AZG, the Dutch arm of Doctors without borders. Ma Aye Mi San is HIV positive and five months pregnant. Infected by her husband, her parents forced them apart when they found out. She has since reconciled with him, saying he is suffering too. "After I heard I have HIV, I wanted to die," she says. "I felt it was hopeless, I never knew anyone could help me." HIV is little understood in this country, many of the patients here have nowhere else to go after being ostracized by their families. Countless others, according to Zar, never admit to carrying the disease for that reason, making an accurate assessment of the scale of the problem in Myanmar very difficult. The clinic holds seminars to try and educate the public about HIV. Zar says there is shame attached to buying condoms, so most people don't bother. Only recently have authorities in Myanmar admitted to an HIV/AIDS problem in the country. At a seminar jointly held with UNAIDS, the joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, officials from the newly installed civilian government agreed on a five year plan to reduce stigma and spread of the disease. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), around 240,000 people were HIV positive in Myanmar in 2009 -- from an estimated 3.5 million across South East Asia. Dealing with HIV in Myanmar is exacerbated by a weak health system chronically under-funded for decades. Spending on health in this country is among the lowest in the world -- just $23 spent per capita, according to the World Health Organization. That compares to $345 per capita in neighboring Thailand. Local residents say decent healthcare is reserved for the rich and the civilian hospitals lack basic facilities and equipment. The health situation is even more dire in rural areas and the tense border areas -- which has suffered from years of conflict between government forces and Karen insurgents. | Only recently have authorities in Myanmar admitted to an HIV/AIDS problem in the country .
New government has agreed five year plan to reduce stigma and spread of the disease .
Treatment of the disease was forced underground under brutal military junta .
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(CNN) -- New York Police investigators are probing whether three men arrested last week with a stash of Apple products possibly bought with gift cards altered with stolen credit card data may have ties to a broader network of scammers, a law enforcement official said. Prosecutors in Brooklyn charged the three suspects, who were arrested on Thursday following a traffic stop. In their car, prosecutors allege, the men carried 17 Apple iPad Air and 11 iPad Mini tablets, 7 iTouch players, one X-Box, and 9 $25 iTunes cards. They also had a stash of 39 gift cards with magnetic strips that had been altered to carry stolen credit card data, according to court documents. Investigators believe they used similarly altered gift cards to buy the Apple haul from Target stores in Brooklyn and Long Island, a law enforcement official said. The arrests followed disclosures by Target that the retailer had been the victim of a major breach that may have exposed the credit and debit card data of as many of 40 million shoppers who patronized Target stores in the three weeks after Thanksgiving. The timing of the arrests and the Target breach prompted New York Police financial crimes investigators to alert the U.S. Secret Service which is investigating the Target breach. There is no indication that the Brooklyn arrests are related to the Target matter. Police and other local authorities routinely turn over information on credit card thefts to the Secret Service, which investigates such crimes. A Secret Service spokesman declined comment beyond saying the agency continues its investigation of the Target case. Law enforcement officials and experts said altering gift cards, or other so-called stored-value cards, is a favored way for scammers to launder money and stolen credit cards. Rather than making new fake credit cards with the stolen data, thieves use gift cards to avoid detection since cashiers are less likely to be suspicious. Point of sale machines in stores read the magnetic strip data and won't detect that a gift card is carrying stolen credit card data. | Three men arrested in New York last week after a traffic stop .
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By . Christian Gysin . Face hidden behind a veil, and towered over by fellow protesters, a girl believed to be around 12 waves a ‘jihadi’ flag in a street demonstration against ‘crimes against Islam’. She is shown, in the left of the picture, mingling with supporters of the extremist preacher Anjem Choudary in a rally against the Saudi Arabian government. Some of those in the group outside the country’s embassy in central London appeared to be no older than six. Rally: This child (left), thought to be no older than 12 has been pictured waving a black 'jihadi' flag during a protest outside the Saudi Arabian embassy in London . The flag the girl waved features the Shahadah – a Muslim declaration that Allah is the only god – which is included in the green Saudi Arabian flag. But when the Shahadah is depicted on a black background it is associated with extremist causes in both Egypt and Syria. In recent times it has been identified with Islamist terrorist groups including Al Qaeda. In the past such black Shahadah flags have been seen as backdrops for videos recorded by suicide bombers. Some weeks ago London Mayor Boris Johnson called for children subjected to radicalisation to be taken into care to protect them from parents with extremist views. Ghaffar Hussain, of the counter-extremism think tank the Quilliam Foundation, described the pictures of the little girl at the protest as ‘disturbing’. Youngsters: Some even younger protesters, who appeared to be no older than five or six, were also at the rally in London . ‘There is a very real issue with children being radicalised and brought along to these demonstrations to be given hate messages,’ he said. ‘It’s something that needs to be tackled. Children are being normalised into extremism. It’s very dangerous.’ Keith Vaz, chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, said: ‘Social services and police need to be very vigilant to make sure that children are not being radicalised and subjected to a form of dangerous psychological abuse. Parents should take care not to allow their children to be involved n supporting, in any way, the activities of Al Qaeda. ‘For adults this is a matter of choice. For those too young to understand this could be the first step on the road to radicalisation.’ Cause: The girl had joined a rally held by supporters of the extremist preacher Anjem Choudary (pictured) last week to highlight the Middle Eastern country's 'crimes' Yesterday Anjem Choudary took to Twitter to berate the MP and other critics, writing: ‘Now Keith Vaz and the Quilliam Foundation want to take our children away because they carry the Shahadah flag. Maybe they should embrace Islam.’ The preacher added: ‘There has been controversy over these flags but they have been around since the time of Muhammad himself and are loved, cherished and belong to every single Muslim. ‘Black or white flags carrying this statement have always been carried in battles between Muslims and non-Muslims to distinguish the two camps of Islam and Kufr [non-Islam].’ Mizanur Rahman, of the Muslim Prisoners campaign group which organised the demonstration, added: ‘There is nothing controversial about inviting famous speakers or flying the traditional Islamic flag. What is controversial is the crimes against Islam and Muslims in the UK and abroad.’ London Assembly member Murad Quresh maintained that the flag was used by jihadis, saying: ‘It’s the black rather than green colour that makes it distinctive. ‘It should be of huge concern that young children are coming under the influence of Anjem Choudary and his mob.’ | Girl joined a rally held by supporters of preacher Anjem Choudary last week .
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London, England (CNN) -- Windsurfers took to the sea Tuesday for what could be the last time in an Olympic Games if the International Sailing Federation gets its way. In May 2012 the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) decided that windsurfing -- which made its Olympic debut in 1984 -- would not be included in the Rio 2016 Olympics. Instead, it is set to be replaced by kiteboarding, a younger and faster sport that is growing in popularity. It was a close vote, but one that went 19-17 in favor of kiteboarding. Read more: Kiteboarding -- Meet future champions of newest Olympic sport . However, the windsurfers are fighting back with legal action and online petitions against the ISAF. The International RS:X Class Association -- the international windsurfing body -- lodged a request at the High Court in London for a judicial review into ISAF's decision, which it calls "perverse and unfair." "We took legal advice early on and their advice was that we had a good case, and on that basis we decided to go ahead," said Rory Ramsden, the windsurfing body's executive secretary. The ISAF swiftly issued a statement saying it was "extremely disappointed" that this course of action has been taken and that it "intends to fully defend" its decision to make kiteboarding an Olympic class, which it says was taken in line with its regulations. In May ISAF's President Göran Petersson said the decision marked a "new era for sailing" and that kiteboarding had fulfilled the criteria set out by the organization's evaluation panel. "Kiteboarding has proven to us that it is ready to be included into the list of prestigious ISAF Events and it is a fantastic addition to the sailing program for the 2016 Olympic Games," he added. Read more: Weymouth -- Olympic sailing on Jurassic Coast . Few, including the kiteboarders themselves, expected such a result. On hearing the news Britain's top windsurfer, Nick Dempsey, tweeted: "Wow, unexpected. That was a big decision and a very sad day for windsurfing." Dempsey won bronze at the 2004 Athens Olympics in the RS:X class, and silver in Tuesday's Olympic windsurfing final in Weymouth. But at 31 it is also likely to be his last Games. Bob Ingram, the chair of the UK Windsurfing Association said that ISAF's decision was met by "both anger and sadness" in the windsurfing community. "We really didn't expect it," he said. "There are a lot of people who have dedicated a lot of their lives to windsurfing and to see it all being pulled from under us is very, very sad." He added: "You only have to look at the windsurfing going on at the Olympics right now to see that it is a spectacular and a dynamic sport that is media friendly and has a global following." The International Kiteboarding Association (IKA) said in a statement that it was "shocked" by the decision to take legal action against the ISAF. The chairman of IKA, Richard Gowers, said: "I think it's a grave mistake. To launch a legal action in the middle of the Olympics is not only damaging to RS:X but also to the sailing world." Gowers said that he thinks it is "unfortunate that there are only 10 sailing classes available in the Olympics" and that the IKA never wanted kiteboarding to replace windsurfing. Read more: London 2012 Olympics -- sailing guide . "As an ex-windsurfer myself I would love to see both sports featured in the Olympics. I think board sports should have more of a presence in the Olympics because, at the end of the day, kiteboarding and windsurfing are far more available in developing countries because the entry cost is much less than it is for some of the sailing classes," he added. The windsurfing lobby argues that kiteboarding lacks a clear pathway from junior to professional level, something that it has worked for years to achieve. Others, like the U.S. Windsurfing blog "saveolympicwindsurfing," argue that kitesurfing simply isn't safe enough at the moment and that "handing a kid a kite is like handing them a loaded gun." In response to these claims and many others issued by the windsurfing lobby the IKA says it has been forced to issue a document separating fact from fiction about their sport. | Windsurfing made its Olympic debut in 1984 for men and 1992 for women .
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Mother-of-four Miss Henderson was reported missing shortly after 8am on Thursday morning . The boyfriend of missing mother-of-four Samantha Henderson has today been charged with her murder, as police continue to hunt for her body. Dominic Isom, 27, was remanded in custody this afternoon, nearly a week after Miss Henderson, whose children are one, two, four and six, was reported missing. Detectives investigating her disappearance said specialist officers have now been brought in as they continue to search an area of woodland near Corfe Castle, Dorset, where she was last seen. Miss Henderson was reported missing shortly after 8am on Thursday morning - nearly 18 hours after she was last seen collecting her children from Corfe Castle Primary School at around 3pm. Police helicopters have scoured the area, while yesterday 35 major crime officers and forensics experts combed allotments, outbuildings and the missing mother's home. Officers said they believe Miss Henderson 'has come to harm', and said the whereabouts of her body are still unknown. They urged members of the public to come forward with any information they may have. Detectives seized Miss Henderson's blue Peugeot from her home on Monday night and asked the public to help trace the car's movements – especially between 3pm on Wednesday and 10.25am on Thursday. Dorset Police said she was a 'prolific phone user' but that her mobile had not been found. Miss Henderson lives in a £325,000 four-bedroom cottage. It is believed her partner lived there for several years, but there is a 'for sale' sign outside and she had arranged to meet a house clearance firm on Monday. Isom's charge comes just 24 hours after police released CCTV footage of Miss Henderson, taken on the day she was last seen. In it, she can be seen in the footage moving animatedly around the shop wearing a pink jumper or coat and light blue jeans. Her long blonde hair is tied up in a ponytail. Sighting: Detectives searching for 25-year-old Samantha Henderson from Corfe Castle, Dorset, released this CCTV footage of her the day she disappeared yesterday. In it, she is seen shopping in The Sweet Shoppe . Hunt: Detectives investigating her disappearance said specialist officers have now been brought in as they continue to search an area of woodland near Corfe Castle, Dorset, where she was last seen . She appears to buy cigarettes from behind the counter while chatting to the shopkeeper and hesitates at the till as she enters her pin number before leaving the shop. Detectives leading the search for the missing mother's body are appealing for the public's help . Senior investigating officer Neil Devoto, of Dorset Police's Major Crime Investigation Team, said: 'This is a very difficult time for [Miss Henderson's] whole family and they have requested privacy. Her children are being cared for by relatives. 'It is also important to stress – as is typical in such circumstances – that it would be entirely inappropriate for Dorset Police to comment further ahead of the trial. 'We now believe Samantha has come to harm. At this time her whereabouts are still unknown and our search for her body continues. 'Searches of the Corfe Castle village area are ongoing. Specialist search officers have been brought in from Dorset and neighbouring forces to continue searching an area of woodland off the A351 near Corfe Castle. 'This latest development does not mean we do not want to hear from members of the public if they have any information that could help with the investigation into Samantha's death, no matter how seemingly insignificant. 'I am also urging anyone who saw Samantha after 3pm on Wednesday, had contact with her whether by phone or social media or has any information about her movements, to call me in confidence.' Isom will appear before Bournemouth Magistrates' Court on Wednesday. Witnesses and anyone with information should call Dorset Police in confidence on 101, quoting Operation Cavalier. Alternatively, call the free and anonymous Crimestoppers line on 0800 555 111. Appeal: Detectives seized Miss Henderson's blue Peugeot from her home on Monday night and asked the public to help trace the car's movements – especially between 3pm on Wednesday and 10.25am on Thursday . Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article. | Samantha Henderson, 25, last seen in Corfe Castle, Dorset, on Wednesday .
Dominic Isom, 27, was charged with mother-of-four's murder this afternoon .
Miss Henderson was last seen collecting her children from primary school .
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Every parent thinks of their own offspring as a little angel. But for Matt and Stephanie Brown the comparison is closer than most. Their two-year-old son Oliver was born with a rare skin condition that makes him look like he has feathered wings across his upper back. The unusual mark runs half way down his spine from his hairline and across his shoulder blades. But it must be checked by doctors at least every three months, his wings may turn lethal. Scroll down for video . Little angel: Two-year-old Oliver Brown, from Fenstanton in Cambridgeshire, who was born with a large birthmark on his back on the top of his back that looks like a pair of angel's wings . Mixed blessing: The unusual mark runs half way down Oliver's spine from his hairline and across his shoulder blades. But it must be checked by doctors at least every three months, his wings may turn lethal . Baby love: Oliver with his mother, Stephanie. His parents have been told he will live a full and healthy life unless the condition spreads to his brain or spine. He also faces an increased risk of aggressive skin cancer . Oliver was at birth diagnosed with Congenital Melanocytic Naevi (CMN) - oversized moles or birthmarks which affect just one person in every hundred. Despite the diagnosis Oliver is likely to live a full and healthy life, but he must be careful: children with particularly large marks are at increased risk of the most aggressive forms of skin cancer. Because of that, he has to wear a sunsuit and prescription sunscreen to protect him from the sun's UV rays. There is also a risk of the condition spreading to the brain or spine, where the lesions and moles could cripple his nervous system. Mrs Brown, 34, from Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire, told Mason's News Service: '[Oliver] is one of the fortunate ones. Some children are riddled with moles and even get them on their eyelids. 'He actually has his on the top half of his back so it looks like wings. There can be lots of questions because it comes up to the nape of his neck and so is visible. 'As he gets older we would hope he can accept himself for who he is. We have all got these bits of ourselves that we do not like and we have to accept them. 'He is wonderful the way he is and I'm sure in the dark times he will realise this. 'He is lucky in the sense he is such a cutie pop, everyone seems to think so, and I think people will overlook his condition.' New baby: Oliver pictured at birth, when he was first diagnosed with Congenital Melanocytic Naevi (CMN) - oversized moles or birthmarks which affect just one person in every hundred . Marks: The latest research has found the cause of 80 per cent of CMN cases is a mutated gene which develops as the baby is in the womb, said Lucy Hardwidge of the Caring Matters Now help group . Precious: Babies and children with CMN have regular MRI scans to check the spread of the condition . Oliver attends Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge every three months for a check-up. Doctors examine the moles to see if any are turning cancerous and Oliver is given MRI scans to see if he has developed any tumours on his brain or spine. Lucy Hardwidge of the Caring Matters Now help group, said: 'Children with CMN have to be very careful. 'There is an increased risk of cancer so factor 50 sun cream is a must and we now have UV protection clothing which can be used. 'But it's also important to let them have their childhood and the kids still need vitamin D. 'Sometimes the birthmarks can break down and crack so they have to have cream to help them. 'In some cases it turns into CMN syndrome which sees pigmentation on the brain and spine which can cause fits and stop development and can be fatal when tumours develop. 'In children with CMN the cancer is 10 times more aggressive and it's untreatable once it reaches the brain. 'Our latest research has found the cause of 80 per cent of CMN cases and it's caused by a mutated gene which develops as the baby is in the womb. 'This is why it's so important to give babies MRI scans at birth and regularly to keep an eye on it in case it spreads.' Charity work: Oliver with his seven-year-old brother Josh and other pupils at Fen Drayton Primary School, which is helping to raise money for Caring Matters Now by staging a 10km fun run . Ms Hardwidge said likening children's birthmarks to shapes lets them know they are special. 'When children have interesting shaped birthmarks it's a great way of telling them them about the condition and letting them know they are special,' she said. 'Oliver's mum does it by telling him he has angel wings. 'My own daughter has one on her leg shaped like a paw print and that was a great way of telling her about it.' 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By . Daily Mail Reporter and Reuters . PUBLISHED: . 19:56 EST, 15 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 02:30 EST, 16 October 2013 . Misrepresented: Amanda Knox, pictured in 2011, claims she was not a femme fatale and said she was paying for Italian police errors and original investigators who were too proud to admit they were wrong . Amanda Knox today claimed she was not a femme fatale and said she was paying for Italian police errors and original investigators who were too proud to admit they were wrong. Knox and her Italian boyfriend at the time of the murder, Raffaele Sollecito, were convicted in 2009 of killing 21-year-old Leeds University student Meredith Kercher in what was described as a drug-fueled sexual assault. After winning an appeal in 2011 quashing the guilty verdict, both were freed from prison. But the case is being tried again in Florence after Italy's supreme court overturned the acquittals in March, citing 'contradictions and inconsistencies.' Knox said in an interview due to be aired on Italian state RAI television on Tuesday night the case was taking so long to conclude because of a botched police investigation. 'I think I am paying for the mistakes of the police, of the investigators who don't want to admit that they are wrong,' she said during a prerecorded Skype interview with RAI's Porta a Porta programme. The judge in the case has ordered a new test on the presumed murder weapon, a kitchen knife found in Sollecito's house, to examine a DNA trace that was not previously checked because experts said it was too small to produce reliable results. 'I hope that this new trial will find me innocent and will look at these facts ... let's look at this all in full, but let's find my innocence,' Knox said. Kercher was found with more than 40 wounds, including a deep gash in the throat, in the apartment she shared with Knox in Perugia, a picturesque town in the central Umbria region that attracts students from around the world. Retrial: Knox and her Italian boyfriend at the time of the murder, Raffaele Sollecito, pictured, were convicted in 2009 of killing 21-year-old Leeds University student Meredith Kercher in what was described as a drug-fueled sexual assault . Prosecutors had said that Kercher was held down and stabbed after she resisted attempts by Knox, Sollecito and a third man, Ivorian Rudy Guede, to involve her in an orgy in the apartment the two women shared in the town. However, their case was weakened by forensic experts who undermined the credibility of DNA evidence provided by police and made strong criticisms of their first-response procedures at the scene of the killing. Knox, who was portrayed as a sex-obsessed 'she-devil' by prosecutors, told Porta a Porta she was just a normal person and the image of her they had presented was false. 'I am not the femme fatale criminal fantasy they describe. This person does not exist. They put a mask on me, they put evil on me, but they didn't try to see who I really was,' she said. Knox reaffirmed she would not be returning to Italy to attend the retrial, because she had already been 'wrongfully imprisoned.' Sollecito's father Francesco said his son was planning to be in court at a hearing on November 6. | Spoke in an interview due to be aired on Italian state RAI television on Tuesday night .
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"RAI television on Tuesday night the case was",
"taking so long to conclude because of a botched",
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"was not previously checked because experts said",
"it was too small to produce reliable results. 'I",
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"Sollecito and a third man, Ivorian Rudy Guede, to",
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"reaffirmed she would not be returning to Italy to",
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By . Leon Watson . PUBLISHED: . 07:22 EST, 20 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 18:09 EST, 20 December 2013 . Fourteen million Brits will take to the roads tonight in wet and windy conditions for their annual Christmas getaway. Commuters were beset by delays as they headed out of London via the M25, and those headed north via the A1 were stopped in their tracks after a lorry caught fire outside Leeds. The disruptions come as strong winds and rain are predicted over the coming days for those headed home for the festive season. Although those using the transport network this evening were not severely disrupted by the weather, large amounts of rain and gale-force winds could hit those travelling in the coming days. Traffic leaves London on the westbound M4 on the last Friday before Christmas . Traffic on the M27 motorway near Southampton as the expected Christmas rush starts, on what is expected to be one of the busiest days of the year for travelling . Travellers wait for their trains as the expected Christmas rush starts, at King's Cross Train station in central London, on what is expected to be one of the busiest days of the year for the rail network . Forecaster at the Met Office and . motoring experts at the RAC have warned anybody using the roads for . their Christmas getaways to be careful. The worst delays of the evening are thanks to a lorry full of toilet roll caught fire as it drove northbound along the A1. Police and fire services headed to the incident, which took place near Boston Spa in West Yorkshire, north of Leeds. Debris was spilled over the carriageways as two hose reels battled to put the vehicle out. The road was closed, and the Highway Agency estimated it will not open again until midnight, causing severe delays. Earlier the agency warned of 'moderate' delays . of around 40 minutes on the clockwise M25 between junctions J29 and J1A, . which were not expected to clear until 7.30pm, while other areas of the . clockwise carriageway are also set for minor delays. Elsewhere travellers are expected to crowd . on to trains, boats and planes over Christmas making the next few days . the busiest days of the year for the Britain's transport system. However, those hoping for an easy ride could find the journey hampered by a stormy few days. Parts of western Scotland could see up to . 20in of rain, and 10 to 15in the south-west of England as the unsettled . outlook continues. The rest of the UK will also see much . the same which has led to a series of weather warnings being put in . place for later with gale force winds and more heavy rain forecast. Met Office forecaster Dan Williams warned that anyone using the roads for their Christmas getaways should be careful. He . said: 'Driving conditions won't be good, there will be strong winds . across the country today and rain. We would advise people to allow extra time for . their journeys and drive to the conditions.' He . added that over the next few days there will be a 'mix of weather . conditions' until Christmas Eve with the west of Scotland and Wales . baring the brunt of the wind and the rain, but all areas seeing patches . of sunshine and temperature above average for the month until late on Tuesday. By Christmas Day, a band of rain will move in and the temperature drop could mean snow in some areas. Mr . Williams said: 'There is a chance of seeing some sleet or snow on . Christmas Day, but it won't be heavy or widespread. There's just the . potential and you can't pinpoint where it will be.' Frost dusts the fields under a multi-coloured sunrise in the Gloucestershire village of Edgeworth . Robyn Hague of Bancyfelin, West Wales, clears the frost from her car after a night of frost . A man delivers feed to livestock near Kettlewell following snow and frost over high ground in the North of the UK overnight . Staff at the Tan Hill Inn use their new snow plough this morning to clear the overnight snow from the road leading to the highest inn in Britain situated in Upper Swaledale in the North Yorkshire Dales . After a night of heavy rain again, water levels rose to trap another vehicle attempting to negotiate the notorious Buttsbury Wash in Essex . A sizeable chunk of the four million heading abroad for the holiday period are flying from UK airports, with the Canary Islands one of the top destinations. On the roads, the Highways Agency has either completed or suspended roadworks at a number of sites on England's motorways and major A-roads. Some works on busy routes, such as sections of the M25 and the M1, are still in place, and motoring organisations say today is likely to be extremely busy. A RAC spokesman said: 'While it is normally cold that make driving dangerous here we have rain and wind and it will certainly make things difficult. We are expecting around 14 million cars on the road today, up from 11 million on any given day. 'We are advising people to be careful, to drive at the right speed and leave enough time for their journeys.' Many travellers are heading home for the holiday break by rail. Those using trains over the festive period will have to contend with a number of engineering projects. A donkey peers over a fence in the Derbyshire Peak District at Magpie Mine near Monyash . Cattle brave a very cold morning after overnight snowfall in the Derbyshire Peak District at Magpie Mine near Monyash . After overnight snowfall Jonathan Davis, 23, pedals up Rushup Edge in the Derbyshire Peak District near Castleton . Among the routes affected are the Gatwick Express line from Victoria station in London to Gatwick Airport in West Sussex. A major project means that there will be no Gatwick Express services from Christmas Day to the end of New Year's Day. Travel organisation Abta said today, tomorrow and Sunday are likely to be the busiest days for those flying abroad. The most-popular destinations for sun lovers were the Canary Islands, Tunisia, Morocco and the Cape Verde Islands off western Africa. For those flying long-haul, Dubai, Mexico, Cuba and Kenya are favourite spots, while for skiers Switzerland, France, Austria and Italy are the top spots.Popular for New Year's Eve breaks are Paris, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Rome and Dublin, Abta said. For those holidaying in the UK, London and York are popular along with the seaside resorts of Llandudno in North Wales, Torquay and Eastbourne.Abta said around 360,000 travellers would be flying from Stansted over the Christmas period, with around the same number leaving from Manchester, 175,000 from Luton and 100,000 from Glasgow and Edinburgh airports. Cattle brave a very cold morning after overnight snowfall in the Derbyshire Peak District at Magpie Mine near Monyash . Ryanair is carrying a record three million passengers from December 20 to January 6, while Gatwick will handle an estimated two million travellers between December 13 and January 5. British Airways said just under two million people will fly with the airline between December 16 and January 5, with today being the busiest day with more than 115,000 travellers flying. Channel Tunnel high-speed rail company Eurostar said it will be carrying more than 420,000 people from December 20 to January 3 - an 11% rise on the same period 12 months ago. In the UK, an estimated £2 billion is being spent on travel to friends and families this Christmas, and the RAC is predicting that 13 million people will take to the roads from December 24 to 26. A waterlogged Audi left parked before high tide during the Newton Women's Boat Race trials at Henley-on-Thames yesterday . Oh dear: The owner was pictured opening a door to let the water out . The three-day forecast shows a wet and windy weekend for most of Britain . Traffic information company Inrix said the busiest time on the roads was likely to be from noon to 5pm today, with the M25 being the most congested spot.Inrix warned that journey times could triple at the busiest festive time, with shopping areas being particularly busy this weekend and again on Friday 27. VisitEngland said around 20 per cent of the adult population planned to spend at least one night away from home over the festive period, with these trips boosting the UK economy by around £1.9 billion. A spokesman for rail industry organisation the Rail Delivery Group said: 'As fewer passengers travel over the festive period, we can continue one of the biggest programme of improvements in the railway's history while ensuring the vast majority experience no disruption whatsoever.' A series of accidents on major road routes hampered the getaway this morning. One of the worst-hit areas was the M5 at Bristol, where an overturned van led to long tailbacks. Other roads where there were hold-ups included the M1 in West Yorkshire and in Leicestershire, the M4 in Berkshire, Wiltshire and south Wales, the M8 in Glasgow, the M25 in Essex, and the A56 at Accrington in Lancashire. Air traffic control company Nats said around 5,800 flights would be handled today - the busiest day of the festive period - and an increase on the 5,664 aircraft movements on the last Friday before Christmas last year, which was also the busiest day. Nats, which endured a major technical problem at its Hampshire headquarters causing flight disruption on Saturday December 7, said Saturdays in December had been particularly busy, with many jetting off for skiing holidays. The company said that air traffic was likely to be reduced between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day with Nats predicting around 1,400 flights on Christmas Day and around 3,900 on both Christmas Eve and Boxing Day. | Rush-hour traffic hits the Westbound M4 leaving London, the M25 and the A4 .
A lorry carrying toilet roll caught fire on the northbound A1 near Leeds, causing delays for those travelling .
Strong winds and rain expected over the next few days as millions of extra drivers head for home .
Hundreds of thousands of people to take to the nation's airports over the festive period .
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The cultivation of an exotic spice worth more per ounce than gold has returned to Essex for the first time in 200 years after a farmer decided to revive the centuries-old tradition of producing saffron. Farmer David Smale was inspired to start producing the spice after discovering a crocus plant in his garden, and his produce is now being sold in prestigious London grocers Fortnum & Mason and Partridges. Growing the spice was once a popular practice in Britain, but died out because the painstaking harvesting methods became too expensive to compete with cheap saffron imported from remote Iran and Kashmir. Scroll down for video . Business is blooming: Farmer David Smale has brought saffron production back to Essex for the first time in 200 years, with his Essex farm in what was the heartland of saffron growing during Tudor times . However, Mr Smale has brought the practice back to Essex, and now tends to his precious crop at a top secret location close to Saffron Walden in what was the heartland of British production in Tudor times. With a gram, 0.035 of an ounce, of the sought-after spice selling for up to £75, saffron is more expensive than gold because harvesting it is so laborious. Each crocus flower yields just three stigmas which are picked by hand by an army of volunteers then dried to create the precious saffron strands. Mr Smale, who is one of Britain’s only saffron growers, launched his business after finding success growing the crocus sativus flowers in his back garden. Growing enterprise: Mr Smale, who is Britain’s only saffron grower, launched his business after finding success growing the crocus sativus flowers in his back garden . Video courtesy of Emily Attwood . 'I’ve always wanted to grow something and one day I had a mad idea that I would grow saffron,' said the 50-year-old. 'I live in Essex and my family has a connection to Cornwall, two places that were big on saffron production centuries ago. 'I looked into who was growing saffron and to my surprise I found there was no-one doing it. 'I was told the practice had died out a few hundred years ago which I thought was ridiculous so I decided to give it a go. 'The first year I grew the crocuses in my back garden and just built my stock up from there. 'For the first few years I had some successes and some disasters but there was no-one to turn to for advice - I was learning as I went along. Production: Each crocus flower yields just three stigmas which are picked by hand by an army of volunteers then dried to create the precious saffron strands . However, it wasn’t until he found a Tudor manuscript on saffron growing in his local library that things really took off. 'The turning point came when I found a medieval text for growing saffron in the archives of the library at Saffron Walden,' he said. 'It dated back to the 1600s and confirmed everything I had learned so I knew I was doing it right. 'At first I had wanted to grow saffron just as a hobby, and so someone in Saffron Walden was growing it, but it went so well that I decided to turn my hobby into a commercial business. 'Each year we get bigger and bigger and by next season we are hoping to be able to employ people. To have that industry back in Essex after all these years is amazing.' Expensive: With a gram, 0.035 of an ounce, of the sought-after spice selling for up to £75, saffron is more expensive than gold because harvesting it is so laborious . Mr Smale runs a geophysics consultancy as well as tending to his crop of crocuses, which get planted in summer then harvested in late autumn. Tens of thousands of flowers have to be hand picked just at the right moment then dissected to remove the three red stigmas from each one. The strands are dried on racks for 24 hours then put into storage containers ready for packing. A 0.2g packet of David’s saffron sells in Fortnum & Mason for £15 and it regularly comes out top in taste tests. 'This year has been a fantastic harvest because of the hot dry summer,' he said. 'We’ve had tens of thousands of flowers to pick but you still only get about 90 grams of saffron from that. 'It sounds ridiculously small but we sell it in 0.2g packets so it goes a long way. 'Everything has to be picked by hand - you can’t mechanise it. Once you pick the flowers you then have to dissect them to get the stigmas. 'You only get three stigmas in each flower and they have to be air-dried so the work involved is huge. 'These days saffron is more associated with exotic locations like Iran, Morocco and Spain but in the past English saffron has been by reputation the best in the world. 'Ours certainly comes out top in taste tests. It’s sweeter and more honey-like than other varieties and I think that’s down to the nutrients in the soil. 'We’re lucky that there’s a food revolution at the moment and people are prepared to pay a little bit more for quality produce made locally. Such is the success of his company, English Saffron, that David is looking to upscale his output by 20 times next season. He added: 'We moved into a new field this year which will become our centre for processing and we’re looking to take on another field next season. 'We’re talking about increasing our size dramatically by about 20 times. 'Saffron Walden was one of the world’s major producers of saffron a few centuries ago and we’re happy to be doing our bit to keep the tradition alive.' | David Smale started producing the spice after finding a crocus in his garden .
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British growing as producers could not compete with cheap imported spice .
His saffron is now being sold at Fortnum & Mason at £15 for 0.2 grams .
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Saffron is more expensive than gold because harvesting it is so laborious .
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Andrew Strauss has called for an end to all the mud-slinging and ‘madness’ that has been ignited this week in the wake of Kevin Pietersen releasing his autobiography. The former captain believes damage is being done to the national side as scores are settled and major figures in the game line up on one side or the other supporting or condemning the controversial batsman. Strauss wants to see a period of calm. ‘A lot of this going on at the moment is madness,’ the former England skipper told Sky Sports. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Pietersen discuss alleged bullying and abuse in England camp . Kevin Pietersen poses with his autobiography at its launch in London, extracts had already been published . ‘The victim here isn’t Kevin Pietersen or (Andy) Flower or (Matt) Prior; it’s actually the England cricket team and Alastair Cook and Peter Moores, who have got to try to take the side forward. That to me is the disappointing thing about this whole episode. ‘There has been a lot of rumour, innuendo and opinion. I prefer to stick with the facts. All this tit-for-tat stuff, I don’t think it helps the England team.’ Strauss acknowledged that Pietersen could be proud of playing some of England’s ‘most memorable innings’ and described him as one of the country’s ‘finest players’. Andrew Strauss and Pietersen had a complex relationship during their time playing for England . Strauss and Pietersen celebrate becoming world No 1 in 2011 (left), and a ton for the skipper in 2012 (right) Yet he also defended Prior and Flower, the two men who had scorn and vitriol poured upon them in the book, which went on sale yesterday. ‘Matt had a massive impact on the team, with the bat and behind the scenes — he was the embodiment of a culture we were trying to produce of putting the team first. Andy Flower is a guy of complete integrity. 'He’s achieved phenomenal things, and should be regarded as one of England’s great coaches. The idea the team comes first was central to what we did, and something he was very conscious and protective of.’ Pietersen's book has caused considerable controversy, with the former batsman pulling no punches . England bowler James Anderson, when asked about Pietersen’s allegations, said: ‘It’s just sad that what was a successful period for England has now been overshadowed by what has come out. ‘What I remember about the time Kevin is talking about is that this was one of the most successful periods English cricket has ever had and that comes down to Andy Flower and the guys in the dressing room at the time. 'We won three Ashes, including winning them away from home for the first time in 24 years, and we beat India and became No 1 in the world, so what is being talked about here are many of the highlights of my career. Bowler James Anderson has said that the story is taking away from England's impressive record . Speaking at a Hardys wine event at Lord’s, Anderson added: ‘I have really fond memories of this time, like sitting on the outfield at Sydney with all the guys, when we beat Australia 3-1. ‘Sharing that moment with Kevin and everybody is something I will cherish for the rest of my life. ‘To be overshadowed by this is unfair on Andy because you can’t argue with what he achieved as a coach. ‘Hopefully what has happened this week will not be remembered as much as all the memories we all cherish.’ Former South Africa captain Graeme Smith (R) claims there is some truth in Pietersen's comments . Former South Africa skipper Graeme Smith also weighed in, adding: ‘Some of the stuff (Pietersen) touches on in his book I certainly believe. ‘Having played against them, we always used to say if we could get a win or get ahead they would turn on each other. ‘The bullying stuff you did experience when you played against them, and you knew you could use it as an asset to get on their other side.’ VIDEO Pietersen calls ECB report 'an embarrassment' | Kevin Pietersen's autobiography has caused huge controversy .
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(CNN Student News) -- February 4, 2011 . Download PDF maps related to today's show: . • Washington, D.C. • Egypt • China . Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. SHANELL, CNN STUDENT NEWS IREPORTER: Hi! I'm Shanell. AMANDA, CNN STUDENT NEWS IREPORTER: And I'm Amanda. SHANELL: And we're from Colby, Kansas. AMANDA: And this is Carl Azuz with today's CNN Student News! CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Very nicely done, ladies, getting us off to a galloping start. That was awesome, just like Fridays! Wonder if those horses were neighbors. Whether you live next door or halfway around the world, we welcome all of our viewers to CNN Student News. First Up: Roof Collapse . AZUZ: So, let's say you're a Steelers or Packers fan. You're heading to the Super Bowl in Dallas, Texas to get away from the cold weather in your hometown. But when you show up in Texas, the wind chill is 10 degrees below zero! Believe that! That's what it felt like in Dallas yesterday. Throw in several inches of snow and ice, parts of the city just shut down. One Packers player said it was funny to see everything closed. He said in Green Bay, this would've been a normal day. What we're about to show you, though, is not normal. Watch this. That's the power of this snowstorm. The roof of the building in Massachusetts completely collapsed under the weight of all the snow. Luckily, everyone who was inside got out safely ahead of time. Prayer Breakfast . AZUZ: The National Prayer Breakfast has taken place in Washington, D.C. every year for nearly six decades. During yesterday's prayer breakfast, President Obama gave a very personal speech about his religious faith. He talked about how his faith sustains him and how he asks God for strength. The president wasn't the only speaker at the event. U.S. astronaut Mark Kelly -- he is the husband of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords -- gave the closing prayer. He also talked about his wife's recovery from a shooting attack in Arizona. The president also talked about violence that's taking place in a different part of the world. U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: We pray that the violence in Egypt will end, and that the rights and aspirations of the Egyptian people will be realized. And that a better day will dawn over Egypt and throughout the world. Egypt Unrest & Social Media . AZUZ: People who support and people who are against Egypt's government continued to fight against each other in the country's capital of Cairo on Thursday, though the fighting wasn't as intense as it was the day before. In an interview with Christiane Amanpour of ABC News, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who's the main focus of these protests, said he was very unhappy about the fighting. He also said that he would leave office right away, but that he didn't want to risk plunging his nation into chaos. Political protests certainly aren't a new idea. They've been happening for centuries. But as Karen Caifa explains for us now, there is a very modern twist to these protests in Egypt. (BEGIN VIDEO) KARIN CAIFA, CNN CORRESPONDENT, WASHINGTON, D.C.: Pictures that speak a thousand words. Protests fueled by 140 characters. The unrest in Egypt targets the 30-year tenure of leader Hosni Mubarak, protests led by a generation that's come of age and found their voice in the era of social media. NASSER WEDDADY, AMERICAN ISLAMIC CONGRESS: You have a generation right now, an entire generation that was born under the Mubarak rule, that has taken to the streets and they want him out. CAIFA: While the percentage of Egyptians engaging in social media is small compared to that in the United States, like young Americans, it's young Egyptians making the most use of it. So before they took to the streets, they took to Twitter and to Facebook to mobilize, organize, to share their anger with each other and with the world. But at points during the height of the unrest, those tools went dark, with reports of the Egyptian government cracking down on Twitter and Facebook use, and cutting off internet access. A move criticized by the White House. ROBERT GIBBS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: We believe that the people of Egypt have a right to freedom of expression and freedom of speech, and that includes the use of the internet. CAIFA: And even with postings from within Egypt limited, the events stayed among the top trending topics on Twitter, piquing the interest of social media users worldwide using a number of hashtags. WEDDADY: The demonstrations that you're seeing right now in the streets, that's an example of online activism going back into the real world. (END VIDEO) Health Care Debate . AZUZ: An effort to overturn the controversial Health Care Reform Law will not be moving forward in the U.S. Senate. Senate Democrats blocked the move by Senate Republicans on Wednesday in a 51-to-47 vote that was right down party lines. Two Democratic senators didn't vote. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted to overturn the law last month. But with the Senate vote on Wednesday, this debate may be over in Congress. But it's not over in the courts. Earlier this week, a federal judge in Florida ruled that the health care law is unconstitutional. Another judge has ruled the same way. But two other federal judges have said the opposite. All this, what this means, this will probably end up in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. So there's a good chance we haven't heard the end of this health reform law debate. Shoutout . TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mr. Linser's social studies classes at Bellevue High School in Bellevue, Washington! On the Chinese calendar, what year has just begun? You know what to do! Is it the Year of the... A) Rabbit, B) Ox, C) Snake or D) Tiger? You've got three seconds -- GO! The Chinese calendar has just kicked off the Year of the Rabbit. That's your answer and that's your Shoutout! Chinese New Year . AZUZ: All right. The Chinese calendar is lunar; it's based on the moon. And in a 12-year cycle, every year is assigned a different animal from ancient times. Astrologers describe the rabbit as kind and gentle, so maybe this will be a year of calm in China. Who knows? One thing we do know. These Year of the Rabbit celebrations are hopping, and they're going to go on for two weeks. The new year kicks off a fifteen-day Spring festival. There are parades, like this one. A lot of fireworks and festivities. And we're not just talking about things that happened in China. These celebrations happen in cities all around the world. Digital Dating Abuse . AZUZ: There was a time, when you wanted to ask someone out, you'd pass them a note that said "Do you want to go out with me? Check yes or no." And you'd really, really hope she didn't say maybe. These days, dating, of course, as you know, is a lot more high-tech. But the technology can also be used in harmful ways. We have a report now about some of the potential problems of dating in a digital world. (BEGIN VIDEO) CINDY SOUTHWORTH, NATIONAL NETWORK TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: What else makes digital dating abuse, do you think? CAIFA: Inside this classroom at Jefferson Middle School in Washington, D.C., lessons about the technology that connects teens, but also brings new challenges. Many parents are aware of cyberbullying. But others may not know the signs of digital dating abuse. And a recent survey found that more than half of teens know someone who's been a victim. PATRICIA PRIDE, JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL: A lot of the things that happen on Facebook, on MySpace, on the social networks on the weekends, we see filter into the school on Monday morning. CAIFA: Digital dating abuse includes things like excessive or harassing text messages or emails, accessing or manipulating a boyfriend or girlfriend's Facebook or MySpace page, or "sexting" with racy photos, all by simply using a mobile phone. SOUTHWORTH: It doesn't necessarily cause dating abuse. You can take the phone away and there's still going to be a controlling relationship, but it's definitely playing out through the technology. CAIFA: So, "Love is Not Abuse," a nationwide coalition that teaches teens about the dangers of domestic violence, now has a bigger focus on the role of the internet and social networking, during and after a relationship. SOUTHWORTH: You're texting a lot, and it's a good thing and both people are happy. But what if you try to break up and the texting keeps happening? CAIFA: The students here were the first to take part in the new curriculum, a kickoff to February's National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month. It will soon roll out across the country, a campaign to help students understand that abuse is real, even if it's in the digital realm. In Washington, I'm Karin Caifa for CNN Student News. (END VIDEO) Before We Go . AZUZ: Before we go today, we're taking you to an obstacle course where the obstacles are alive! It's at an alligator farm in Florida. And it includes a zip line that takes you right over the gators! The woman on the zip line's thinking, "cool, gators!" And the gators are thinking, "cool, lunch!" Fearless flyers are strapped onto safety lines at all times. And in truth, you're zipping along about 50 feet over the reptiles' reach. Goodbye . AZUZ: Still, you'd think they would put up a gator something. Maybe these are helpful animals. Maybe if you fall in their pit, they'll just offer you gator-aid. I think that's one of the best one's we've done in awhile. 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"STUDENT NEWS IREPORTER: Hi! I'm Shanell. AMANDA,",
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"SHANELL: And we're from Colby, Kansas. AMANDA:",
"And this is Carl Azuz with today's CNN Student",
"News! CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Very",
"nicely done, ladies, getting us off to a",
"galloping start. That was awesome, just like",
"Fridays! Wonder if those horses were neighbors.",
"Whether you live next door or halfway around the",
"world, we welcome all of our viewers to CNN",
"Student News. First Up: Roof Collapse . AZUZ: So,",
"let's say you're a Steelers or Packers fan.",
"You're heading to the Super Bowl in Dallas, Texas",
"to get away from the cold weather in your",
"hometown. But when you show up in Texas, the wind",
"chill is 10 degrees below zero! Believe that!",
"That's what it felt like in Dallas yesterday.",
"Throw in several inches of snow and ice, parts of",
"the city just shut down. One Packers player said",
"it was funny to see everything closed. He said in",
"Green Bay, this would've been a normal day. What",
"we're about to show you, though, is not normal.",
"Watch this. That's the power of this snowstorm.",
"The roof of the building in Massachusetts",
"completely collapsed under the weight of all the",
"snow. Luckily, everyone who was inside got out",
"safely ahead of time. Prayer Breakfast . AZUZ:",
"The National Prayer Breakfast has taken place in",
"Washington, D.C. every year for nearly six",
"decades. During yesterday's prayer breakfast,",
"President Obama gave a very personal speech about",
"his religious faith. He talked about how his",
"faith sustains him and how he asks God for",
"strength. The president wasn't the only speaker",
"at the event. U.S. astronaut Mark Kelly -- he is",
"the husband of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords",
"-- gave the closing prayer. He also talked about",
"his wife's recovery from a shooting attack in",
"Arizona. The president also talked about violence",
"that's taking place in a different part of the",
"world. U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: We pray that",
"the violence in Egypt will end, and that the",
"rights and aspirations of the Egyptian people",
"will be realized. And that a better day will dawn",
"over Egypt and throughout the world. Egypt Unrest",
"& Social Media . AZUZ: People who support and",
"people who are against Egypt's government",
"continued to fight against each other in the",
"country's capital of Cairo on Thursday, though",
"the fighting wasn't as intense as it was the day",
"before. In an interview with Christiane Amanpour",
"of ABC News, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak,",
"who's the main focus of these protests, said he",
"was very unhappy about the fighting. He also said",
"that he would leave office right away, but that",
"he didn't want to risk plunging his nation into",
"chaos. Political protests certainly aren't a new",
"idea. They've been happening for centuries. But",
"as Karen Caifa explains for us now, there is a",
"very modern twist to these protests in Egypt.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) KARIN CAIFA, CNN CORRESPONDENT,",
"WASHINGTON, D.C.: Pictures that speak a thousand",
"words. Protests fueled by 140 characters. The",
"unrest in Egypt targets the 30-year tenure of",
"leader Hosni Mubarak, protests led by a",
"generation that's come of age and found their",
"voice in the era of social media. NASSER WEDDADY,",
"AMERICAN ISLAMIC CONGRESS: You have a generation",
"right now, an entire generation that was born",
"under the Mubarak rule, that has taken to the",
"streets and they want him out. CAIFA: While the",
"percentage of Egyptians engaging in social media",
"is small compared to that in the United States,",
"like young Americans, it's young Egyptians making",
"the most use of it. So before they took to the",
"streets, they took to Twitter and to Facebook to",
"mobilize, organize, to share their anger with",
"each other and with the world. But at points",
"during the height of the unrest, those tools went",
"dark, with reports of the Egyptian government",
"cracking down on Twitter and Facebook use, and",
"cutting off internet access. A move criticized by",
"the White House. ROBERT GIBBS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS",
"SECRETARY: We believe that the people of Egypt",
"have a right to freedom of expression and freedom",
"of speech, and that includes the use of the",
"internet. CAIFA: And even with postings from",
"within Egypt limited, the events stayed among the",
"top trending topics on Twitter, piquing the",
"interest of social media users worldwide using a",
"number of hashtags. WEDDADY: The demonstrations",
"that you're seeing right now in the streets,",
"that's an example of online activism going back",
"into the real world. (END VIDEO) Health Care",
"Debate . AZUZ: An effort to overturn the",
"controversial Health Care Reform Law will not be",
"moving forward in the U.S. Senate. Senate",
"Democrats blocked the move by Senate Republicans",
"on Wednesday in a 51-to-47 vote that was right",
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The woman who was photographed leaping from a burning building in the most iconic image of the summer riots had filmed the man accused of starting the blaze, a court heard yesterday. Monika Konczyk, 32, had captured Gordon Thompson on her mobile phone allegedly setting fire to a 150-year-old family furniture store opposite her home in Croydon, south London. Miss Konczyk, a shop assistant from Poland, then retreated to her flat where she thought she would be safe. Riot drama: Monika Konczyk (left) had allegedly captured Gordon Thompson (right) on her mobile phone . However, the heat and embers from the blaze set fire to the block of flats she lived in on the other side of the road. As the flames engulfed her building, the frightened woman was trapped inside. She was forced to climb out of her first floor window and leap 16ft into the arms of police officers beneath her – an image captured by photographers and reproduced around the world. The Old Bailey heard how Thompson, 33, ‘endangered the lives of countless people’ by setting fire to House of Reeves furniture store in Croydon last August. In an act of ‘cynical cowardice’, he shouted: ‘Let’s burn this place’ before setting a sofa alight, it was claimed. Prosecutor Oliver Glasgow said: ‘The effect, as anyone would realise and as he plainly intended, was catastrophic. Lives at risk: Monika Konczyk was forced to jump from a burning building near to the blaze at House of Reeves . Heritage destroyed: Fire crews battled desperately to save buildings nearby in London Road . ‘The sofa went up in flames, as did . other pieces of furniture in the showroom, and within minutes the . inferno was raging out of control. ‘The . defendant stayed at the scene to watch what he had done before the heat . and flames drove him away. The heat was so intense and it was raining . ash.’ Mr Glasgow added that the ‘resulting fire was devastating’. Booty in hand: Thompson was photographed carrying items looted from the Iceland store in Croydon . ‘Once . House of Reeves was ablaze, glowing embers from the fire set light to . the residential property on the other side of the road and residents . were forced to flee for their lives,’ he said. ‘Some . were lucky to escape at all. Indeed, one young woman became trapped . inside her flat and was forced to jump from a first-floor window into . the arms of rescuers waiting below. ‘There . was nothing that the fire brigade could do. The furniture shop was . razed to the ground and all that remained were the supporting walls and a . pile of smouldering rubble.’ The Old Bailey heard how Thompson ‘ran . riot’ through the streets of Croydon during one of the worst nights of . the civil unrest. He was part of a masked gang that ‘roamed lawlessly’ through the streets. The court was told how Thompson, a painter and decorator, played a ‘leading part in the disorder’. Before the arson attack, he smashed shop windows and looted bottles of alcohol from the shelves of an Iceland store. A short time later he broke into a branch of House of Fraser in a shopping centre with a group of looters and left with ‘armfuls of goods’. Thompson then turned his attention to House of Reeves, a family furniture business that had survived two world wars. He watched as others smashed their way into the store before entering and allegedly stealing a laptop. He then asked a fellow rioter for a lighter and used it to set fire to a sofa, it was said. Around an hour later, Thompson was seen pouring petrol on to a nearby street before attempting to set light to it, the court heard. Bus driver Flint Agyekum, who was at the wheel of the number 157 Croydon to Morden service, watched in horror as he tried to help his passengers off before they reached the worst affected areas. He parked the bus in a side street, but it was later destroyed by fire. Thompson is not alleged to have had any part in this. Thompson has already admitted burgling Iceland and House of Fraser, but denies taking part in the attack on House of Reeves. He is on trial for violent disorder, burglary of Reeves, arson with intent to endanger life and arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered. The trial continues. Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article. | Shop assistant Monika Konczyk was forced to leap from first floor window during riots blaze . | 871673f3ea0eac3e7e8ffdaf0ef83b0ab9f7dcd5 | [
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Bahrain's sovereign wealth fund Mumtalakat will sell some of its stake .
A McLaren spokesman said no transaction has taken place .
Currently, Ron Dennis has a 25% stake with Mansour Ojjeh the same, while Mumtalakat has a 50% stake . | e85b01de2f2b9bf1c2eb6e88eecf75dec0d79bde | [
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(CNN) -- Facing mounting criticism over the alleged behavior of one of his players, Miami Dolphins head coach Joe Philbin says the buck stops with him. "I am in charge of the workplace atmosphere," he said at a news conference. Philbin said he was unaware of alleged misconduct by Richie Incognito against fellow offensive lineman Jonathan Martin until Martin's representatives informed the team Sunday evening. "We immediately took those concerns very, very seriously," and informed NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to request a review, Philbin said. ESPN also reported that Martin never brought his concerns to Philbin. But many who know the ins and outs of pro football say Philbin should have known what was going on in his ranks and taken action much sooner. "The recent developments in the Jonathan Martin-Richie Incognito situation (have)shown us one thing: Joe Philbin is to blame for the turmoil in the Miami Dolphins' locker room," writes Gil Alcaraz of rantsports.com. "First and foremost, an NFL head coach needs to know what's going on within his own locker room. If there's a player bullying another player, sending him threatening voice mails and text messages while making him feel uncomfortable on a daily basis, the head coach has to be aware of it." The central allegation against Incognito involves messages to Martin, including a voice mail in which Incognito allegedly used racial slurs, threatened physical violence, and used the words, "I'll kill you." Martin's representatives have turned materials over to the NFL for an investigation. Incognito allegedly also got Martin to contribute $15,000 to help finance a trip to Las Vegas by a group of Dolphins even though Martin preferred not to travel with them. Martin gave Incognito the money, fearing the consequences if he did not, ESPN reported. Incognito, on Twitter, accused a news organization of "attaching my name to false speculation," but that tweet and others were later deleted, according to bleacherreport.com. Incognito has been suspended; Martin left the team. It's unclear what lies in store for either of them. Incognito said Tuesday he is "weathering the storm right now." Richie Incognito, Jonathan Martin, and the NFL's future . Philbin "is ultimately to blame here," Dan Shanoff writes at USAToday. "... Philbin either actively neglected his team culture (his claim) or he knew and did nothing (which would be worse). Let's give him the benefit of the doubt -- at best, he is an appallingly ineffective leader." The Sun Sentinel reports that Dolphins coaches had asked Incognito to toughen up Martin -- orders he may have taken too far. The report does not say whether Philbin himself made the request. Philbin did tell players each year to "cut out" rookie hazing, the paper reports. But how much are NFL coaches really expected to police their teams? By and large, they "let their players, and especially their seasoned veterans, maintain harmony in the locker room," Ken Belson writes in the New York Times. "In the crudest sense, they are hired to build a winning team, and as long as players do their jobs well, what happens elsewhere is largely immaterial." "To some extent, the inmates run the asylum," Trevor Pryce, a defensive end who spent 14 years in the NFL, told the Times. "The coaches have a lot of other things to deal with." No organization speaks for all NFL coaches. The NFL Coaches Association "represents the interests of nearly 500 assistant coaches," according to the website of its executive director, David Cornwell. He was not immediately available Wednesday to discuss this issue. Ricky Williams, who played with Incognito in Miami, said he believes a coach should only step in if behind-the-scenes behavior affects play on the field. "The locker room, we keep coaches out for a reason. It's our space," Williams told KGMZ-FM in San Francisco, according to NFL.com. There is "a lack of leadership in that locker room," he said of the Dolphins. Some coaches have been credited with taking disturbing behavior seriously. "Hall of Famer Bill Walsh's coaching tree never tolerated any form of hazing or harassing. Pete Carroll doesn't allow it in Seattle. Jimmy Johnson and Mike Shanahan have said they've never witnessed bullying to the extent that is alleged in this circumstance," NFL.com reports. As the conflict between Incognito and Martin spirals into a time of reckoning for the entire NFL, league officials face the task of laying out in clear terms just what coaches are responsible for -- and how to punish coaches when their players cross the line. Philbin has compared running a team to running a school. When his two children go to school each day, "I have certain expectations that the administration, the teachers and the staff are going to create a safe atmosphere where my children can learn and develop as people," he said at his news conference Monday. "This is no different," he added. "I take this responsibility very seriously." But even if Philbin shoulders blame for what allegedly transpired in his team, he's not alone, says columnist Jen Floyd Engel of foxsports.com. She points to others in the team's leadership and the players themselves. "(I)t is every person who saw what was happening to Martin and did nothing who deserve our condemnation." | Allegations surrounding NFL star Richie Incognito are raising questions about coaches .
Miami Dolphins head coach Joe Philbin takes responsibility for "workplace atmosphere"
Critics say he should have known and acted sooner .
"Inmates run the asylum," a former player says in a report . | 946ddee32e4755b1f0584e1b6885cbc954d4e5d7 | [
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Former England footballer Paul Gascoigne looked to have scored the catch of the day as the smiling star netted two huge fish during an outing with a friend. The troubled star, who was treated in hospital last month after he was found staggering in the street during an alcoholic relapse, looked in better health than a few weeks ago, and beamed as he reeled in the trout. However, he did appear to be toasting his success on the water with a lager, apparently sipping from a can of Stella Artois beer on the banks of the lake at the Rockbourne trout fishery near Fordingbridge, Hampshire. Scroll down for video . Catch of the day: Former England footballer Paul Gascoigne netted two huge fish during an outing with a friend . Time for a drink: The star appeared to be toasting his success on the water with a lager, apparently sipping from a can of Stella Artois beer on the banks of the lake at the Rockbourne trout fishery . Day out: The troubled star, who was treated in hospital last month after he was found staggering in the street during an alcoholic relapse, looked in better health than a few weeks ago . Fellow fishermen said he had pulled the can from a blue bag bearing the slogan 'Keep Calm And Carry', but had just stuck to one beer, and appeared to be sober. The midfielder, whose career included stints at Tottenham Hotspur, Glasgow Rangers and Lazio, chatted with fellow anglers, and posed of for pictures with his haul, giving one of the trout a kiss. 'It was great to see him healthier and happier than recently. He was smiling and really seemed to be enjoying himself,' one fisherman told the Daily Mirror. He added: 'I only ever saw him drinking from one can and he seemed happy and sober.' In August, Gascoigne was taken to hospital after he was pictured clutching a bottle of gin in the street near his rented apartment in Sandbanks, Poole. Success: The beaming midfielder seemed happy with his catch, posing up with his haul and giving one of the trout a kiss . He was also seen wandering the streets outside his expensive apartment block, holding a carrier bag full of cans of Stella Artois, and sitting with his head in his hands. Neighbours called 999 for help after finding the midfielder slumped against a wall, and an ambulance arrived to take the former England star to hospital. After pictures emerged showing Gascoigne looking much older than 47, looking gaunt with sunken eyes, QPR manager Harry Redknapp, who also lives Sandbanks, offered him the chance to work alongside him in football. Finding the net: Gascoigne hauls in his catch as he enjoys the New Forest sunshine . Can: Fellow fishermen said he had pulled the can from a blue bag bearing the slogan 'Keep Calm And Carry', but had just stuck to one beer, and appeared to be sober . He said: 'I saw him about a month ago and said "I'll pick you up in the mornings, Gazza, come training with me and do a bit of work with the kids". I’d love it if he could do that. It's an open invitation. 'He's a great lad and it's sad to see what’s happened to him and how he's looking at the moment.' In a TV documentary shown last September, Gascoigne described the pain of fearing he might start drinking again, despite knowing it could kill him. He was first sent to rehab in 1998 by Middlesbrough manager Bryan Robson, having found been unconscious after drinking 32 shots of whisky. Good spirits: Fellow anglers said Gascoigne had seemed 'healthier and happier' as he enjoyed his fishing trip . Afficionado: Gascoigne has long been known for his love of fishing . Since then he has fought a public battle against both drink and drugs, particularly after leaving the world of professional football a decade ago. Earlier this month, he was seen crashing a golf buggy into a ditch after losing control of the 15mpg vehicle at the Playgolf course in Bournemouth. He was said to be dazed but unhurt after the incident. Days later he was photographed cradling a chicken at a pub in Hampshire, and the next day apparently being turned away from an off-licence in Poole. Struggle: Gascoigne has fought a public battle against both drink and drugs, particularly after leaving the world of professional football a decade ago . Past activities: Earlier this month, Gascoigne was seen crashing a golf buggy into a ditch after losing control of the 15mpg vehicle at the Playgolf course in Bournemouth . Treatment: For the past four years, Gascoigne, pictured with his fishing flies, has been living in Poole, where he is an occasional patient at the nearby Providence Project rehabilitation centre . For the past four years, Gascoigne has been living in Poole, where he is an occasional patient at the nearby Providence Project rehabilitation centre, but was reportedly due to be evicted from his penthouse flat earlier this month after a string of disturbances. The director of the management company in charge of the flats has dismissed claims he is being forced to leave, but said his landlord was not renewing the rental contract. On September 10, he was arrested for allegedly throwing a brick at a van outside his home in Sandbanks and questioned on suspicion of criminal damage. It is believed it followed an altercation with a photographer. He was released on bail until October pending further enquiries . In 2010, he called a radio station to inform them he was off to search for fugitive Raoul Moat while he was hiding from police officers, taking with him a fishing rod, lager and some chicken. Done fishin': Gascoigne poses with one of his trout while sitting on a ride-on mower at the fishery . On the move: Gascoigne tests out a small truck at the New Forest fishing lake . He later admitted he did not realise that the former bouncer had shot a police officer in the face and admitted he feels 'guilty' about the incident. Moat died following a stand-off with police. Gascoigne said in a radio interview at the time: 'He is willing to give in now. I just want to give him some therapy and say "come on Moaty, it's Gazza."' He later told the Daily Express: 'I thought I could take him fishing because stuff like that has worked on me. But his situation was different from mine.' In a TV documentary shown last September, Gascoigne described the pain of fearing he might start drinking again, despite knowing it could kill him. He was first sent to rehab in 1998 by Middlesbrough manager Bryan Robson, having been found unconscious after drinking 32 shots of whisky. Since then he has fought a public battle against both drink and drugs, particularly after leaving the world of professional football a decade ago. Last year his friends DJ Chris Evans and ex-England cricketer Ronnie Irani paid for Gascoigne to attend a rehab clinic in Arizona. Hunter Davies, who co-wrote the former star's 2004 autobiography, said: 'He doesn’t even like alcohol. He hates the taste of it. 'I’ve been with him when he’s poured it into flower pots, because he finds it so revolting. But then he will get depressed, and just want to get obliterated.' Despite his demons, he is still remembered fondly by fans of the clubs he played for - including Newcastle United, Lazio, Rangers, Everton and Middlesbrough - for his brilliance on the pitch. He starred in midfield for Terry Venables' England side during Euro 96, where his virtuoso goal against Scotland was topped off with an equally memorable celebration. Six years earlier he was seen crying on the pitch after being booked in the semi-final of the 1990 World Cup against West Germany. The booking making him unable to play in the final. | Former footballer Paul Gascoigne visited a trout fishery in the New Forest .
Star was hospitalised last month after an alcoholic relapse .
He looked healthier on fishing trip, but was apparently drinking can of lager .
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"bag bearing the slogan 'Keep Calm And Carry', but",
"had just stuck to one beer, and appeared to be",
"sober . He said: 'I saw him about a month ago and",
"said \"I'll pick you up in the mornings, Gazza,",
"come training with me and do a bit of work with",
"the kids\". I’d love it if he could do that. It's",
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"professional football a decade ago . Past",
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"seen crashing a golf buggy into a ditch after",
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"he is an occasional patient at the nearby",
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"reportedly due to be evicted from his penthouse",
"flat earlier this month after a string of",
"disturbances. The director of the management",
"company in charge of the flats has dismissed",
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"damage. It is believed it followed an altercation",
"with a photographer. He was released on bail",
"until October pending further enquiries . In",
"2010, he called a radio station to inform them he",
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"fishin': Gascoigne poses with one of his trout",
"while sitting on a ride-on mower at the fishery .",
"On the move: Gascoigne tests out a small truck at",
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(CNN) -- When most people go to Hawaii, they head to the beach to relax and get a tan. Sarah Vowell locks herself in historical libraries. The result of that sun-free research is her latest take on history, "Unfamiliar Fishes." "I came to Hawaii because it had been attacked," she writes in her book, referring to her visit to the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, after she compares the combination of foods she was eating for lunch to the ethnic variety of the current Hawaiian citizens. She acts like a tour guide on a trip through time -- stopping at this place and that in Hawaii to expound on historical events -- often flavoring the accounts with personal anecdotes or wry comments. When writing about Hawaiian royals in 1819 dropping one taboo on what women could eat, she notes, "As a female carnivore, I'm delighted that half the population was freed to eat pork." Exploring U.S. history in a very chatty tone and with personal asides has put several of Vowell's books on bestseller lists. In "Assassination Vacation," she dipped into the times of political violence that claimed the lives of U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield and William McKinley. In "Wordy Shipmates" she wrote about the English Puritans that settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The author, essayist and frequent public radio commentator can hold her own against the quick wits of TV political satirists John Stewart and Stephen Colbert as she proved on her latest book tour. With her writing, Vowell says she aims to put a human face on the people from the past. She describes the bloody tactics that Kamehameha the Great used to end more than a century of warfare and establish the Hawaiian monarchy in 1810. Like a tourist she also details how her 8-year-old nephew twists his underwear into a loincloth and performs "an amusing if insensitive impression" of the warrior. Vowell finds the pluck of the New England missionaries admirable for their willingness at barely 20 years old to leave home, family and country to sail to "the most isolated island chain in the world" aboard a ship "so crappy it made the Mayflower look like the QE2." But their mission to convert the heathens to Christianity does not impress the self-described godless heathen author. She opines "there's not much difference between Jehovah and Ku (except that once a year the Hawaiian god of war actually takes time off)." Vowell describes the native hula dances -- including one that is accompanied by chants praising the genitals of the king -- as part of an "academic nearly-religious spiritual tradition that is incredibly rigorous." There are so many rules on behavior, land management, fishing and other areas that Vowell describes the Hawaiian culture as very conservative. So to her, the disagreements between the missionaries and the Hawaiians about what was proper behavior, "was like watching two kind of conservative traditions squaring off." She admits that she especially likes writing about historical characters that she didn't like -- including a man who faked being a Mormon leader as he unsuccessfully plotted to establish his own Pacific empire. But one of her favorite scenes to write about was the funeral procession of King Liholiho who had died along with his wife from measles during a trip to visit King George IV in England in 1823. Their bodies were returned to Hawaii aboard a British Royal Navy frigate commanded by the seventh Lord Byron, a cousin of the late poet. Vowell describes a "fantastical scene" of all these people participating in a procession through Honolulu: Hawaiian royals in Western clothes, nine other Hawaiians in yellow-feathered war cloaks, British Royal Navy officers in their uniforms and the missionaries in their black wool outfits. And then there were native Hawaiian guards who were wearing a variety of western garb - but who apparently didn't understand the need for pants. Vowell says the changes in the years that followed mostly had a negative impact on the Hawaiian people. Much of their land fell into the hands of the sugar plantation owners, the descendants of the missionaries overthrew Hawaii's last monarch and despite the natives' petitions and pleas -- U.S. politicians maneuvered to turn the kingdom into a U.S. territory. But while the results are somewhat sad, she says, learning more about the meetings of strangers in history has always intrigued the traveler in her. "There's this part of me that wants to leave home and wants to see something new and wants to meet new people," she muses. "Maybe that is how I, too, will meet my doom." | Sarah Vowell's latest book explores the history of Hawaii and how it became a state .
She describes missionaries and natives as two conservative groups squaring off .
Although sad in many parts, she says Hawaiian history is fascinating . | f2ab65bb852cc93aaeb521f0f65fc2ffd14e996c | [
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(CNN) -- "My brothers." That is how President Obama should begin one of the most significant speeches of his presidency: the commencement address at Morehouse College this Sunday. Addressing the historically black all male institution gives Obama an opportunity to rectify his strategic neglect of African-Americans. In this high-profile talk to his own demographic, the president has some explaining to do. Obama's identity as a black man is usually communicated subliminally, with the swag in his walk, the basketball court on the East Lawn, the sexy glances at the first lady, his overall cool. Now, however, comes the time to be explicit: to speak out loud his affiliation, his fraternal pride and concern. That's the good work that calling us "brothers" would do. In appearances before African-American audiences, the president sometimes sounds like he's saying the wrong thing. He told the Congressional Black Caucus to "stop grumbling, stop complaining, stop crying." In a Father's Day talk at a black church in Chicago, he criticized "too many fathers" for "acting like boys not men." African-American men certainly could use an intervention from the most successful African-American man in history. They are on the bottom of many indicators of achievement. They suffer the highest level of incarceration, and the largest homicide rates, of any Americans. In urban areas, fewer than half graduate from high school. Their unemployment is among the highest in the country. "I'm sorry I haven't done more." The president has not spoken out forcefully against racial profiling and mass incarceration. He has not memorialized the mainly African-American victims of gun violence in Chicago the way he has memorialized the mainly white victims of gun violence in Newtown and Columbine. Asked why he hadn't done more to remedy the catastrophic rate of African-American unemployment, Obama said, "I can't pass laws that say I'm just helping black folks. I'm president of the entire United States." "Thank you for your support." Nobody understands, like this audience will, the contortions a successful African-American man has to make to fit in but stand out, to be strong but not intimidate or frighten, to be black enough but not too black. But in some ways the African-American community has been too understanding. Emanuel Cleaver, while chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said "the president knows we are going to act in deference to him in a way we wouldn't to someone white." Politically it was not the smartest thing to say (the LGBT community didn't turn Obama into the most gay friendly president in U.S. history by going easy on him) but any black man could understand the sentiment. That's why the African-American turnout for the president's re-election was higher than the white turnout. Now blacks who supported the president are doing exactly what other groups responsible for his victory are doing: waiting for him to return the favor. "We've all got to do better." The president isn't the only black man who needs to step up support of his brothers. My friend runs a mentoring organization for black boys in Prince George's County, Maryland, the nation's most affluent black community. There is a long waiting list of boys, mostly without dads in the home, and only about 10 active African-American male mentors. President Obama provides, for Morehouse men and everyone else, a 21st century model of African-American masculinity. His oft stated support for women's rights is a crucial component. The casual misogyny of some black popular culture, especially hip-hop music and videos, is a disgrace. It's OK for the president to note that not every aspect of black male culture is praiseworthy. "That includes me." The government's primary intervention for black men is to lock them up. President Obama cannot, on his own, reverse this course, but he can do much more than he has to disrupt the flow of the one in three young black men who are headed to prison. One example would be to speak in favor of decriminalizing marijuana, as have other politicians like New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Black men are selectively arrested for marijuana crimes, and these arrests have a stigmatizing effect on future employment and earnings that redounds to the detriment of African-American families. Barack Obama was once a young black man who smoked pot, and it would be surprising if he actually believes that it's fair for other young black men to be selectively prosecuted for that. "I am the most powerful man in the world, and I've got your back." Those are words profound enough to make a black man cry. I believe them to be true, but hearing them proclaimed out loud would be incredibly meaningful. African-American men feel a special kinship with this president. How inspiring it would be for the president to acknowledge this connection, in his words and in his actions. What a difference it might make for the millions of black boys who now are headed to destinies very different from graduating from Morehouse College or becoming president of the United States. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul Butler. | Paul Butler: At Morehouse commencement speech, Obama must show grads he's a brother .
He says blacks have supported him even as they've felt neglect as he's balanced his role .
He says Obama should thank grads for support, provide role model of 21st century masculinity .
Butler: Obama must show he's engaged on issue of disproportionate incarceration . | 0cbc9a825ec3355284ef954b9a33512be7c0b7f4 | [
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"Now blacks who supported the president are doing",
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"victory are doing: waiting for him to return the",
"favor. \"We've all got to do better.\" The",
"president isn't the only black man who needs to",
"step up support of his brothers. My friend runs a",
"mentoring organization for black boys in Prince",
"George's County, Maryland, the nation's most",
"affluent black community. There is a long waiting",
"list of boys, mostly without dads in the home,",
"and only about 10 active African-American male",
"mentors. President Obama provides, for Morehouse",
"men and everyone else, a 21st century model of",
"African-American masculinity. His oft stated",
"support for women's rights is a crucial",
"component. The casual misogyny of some black",
"popular culture, especially hip-hop music and",
"videos, is a disgrace. It's OK for the president",
"to note that not every aspect of black male",
"culture is praiseworthy. \"That includes me.\" The",
"government's primary intervention for black men",
"is to lock them up. President Obama cannot, on",
"his own, reverse this course, but he can do much",
"more than he has to disrupt the flow of the one",
"in three young black men who are headed to",
"prison. One example would be to speak in favor of",
"decriminalizing marijuana, as have other",
"politicians like New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.",
"Black men are selectively arrested for marijuana",
"crimes, and these arrests have a stigmatizing",
"effect on future employment and earnings that",
"redounds to the detriment of African-American",
"families. Barack Obama was once a young black man",
"who smoked pot, and it would be surprising if he",
"actually believes that it's fair for other young",
"black men to be selectively prosecuted for that.",
"\"I am the most powerful man in the world, and",
"I've got your back.\" Those are words profound",
"enough to make a black man cry. I believe them to",
"be true, but hearing them proclaimed out loud",
"would be incredibly meaningful. African-American",
"men feel a special kinship with this president.",
"How inspiring it would be for the president to",
"acknowledge this connection, in his words and in",
"his actions. What a difference it might make for",
"the millions of black boys who now are headed to",
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