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By . Rachel Reilly . Sarah Thomas died at home because her symptoms were not taken seriously by paramedics . A dental nurse died after 'serious failings' by paramedics called to her home, a coroner ruled today. Sarah Thomas, 30, was found dead just six hours after ambulancemen told her she didn't need to go to hospital, despite being 'barely conscious'. An inquest heard she would have survived if she had been taken to hospital - and been given simple injections. Her father, Kenneth Thomas, told the hearing he was with her when she was examined by paramedics David Glover and Michael Davies. 'Sarah looked very distressed and could hardly speak - she was conscious but was not with it totally,' he said. 'There was a discussion about hospitals, but the paramedics said: "You are better off here Sarah, this is the best place for you",' he added. 'We were persuaded in their arguments that she was in the best place and she did not need to be sitting in an ambulance. We accepted the situation as it was.' The . inquest heard the paramedics left Sarah's home in Port Talbot at 1.40am . on 5 May 2007. She was found dead in the bathroom at 7.30am. The inquest in Neath, South Wales, heard Sarah was battling the after-effects of a brain tumour when an ambulance was called. Coroner Philip Rogers said there was conflicting evidence by the paramedics and Sarah's parents Kenneth and Madeline. He said: 'There were serious failings in the way in which the crew went about their assessment and recording her condition that night.' These included an inappropriate . method used to assess respiratory rate, no attempt to listen to Sarah's . chest with a stethoscope and no assessment of her abdomen. 'The blood pressure is likely to have . been inaccurate and there was a failure to get details of the long-term . medication Sarah was taking. Guilty: The inquest found that paramedics were responsible for Sarah's death . 'If Sarah had been taken to hospital . it was likely she would have received intravenous hydrocortisone . injections and fluids, and her death would not have occurred.' 'But given the crew's lack of knowledge and the rarity of Sarah's condition, this cannot be labelled as gross failings.' A Welsh Ambulance Service spokesman said: 'We will be giving full and urgent consideration to the coroner's narrative verdict to ensure that all opportunities are taken to continuously improve our service.'
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Sarah Thomas, 30, was barely conscious when paramedics arrived .
They told her she was 'better off' at home rather than hospital .
Inquest ruled she would have survived had she received simple treatment .
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"because her symptoms were not taken seriously by",
"paramedics . A dental nurse died after 'serious",
"failings' by paramedics called to her home, a",
"coroner ruled today. Sarah Thomas, 30, was found",
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"she didn't need to go to hospital, despite being",
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"and could hardly speak - she was conscious but",
"was not with it totally,' he said. 'There was a",
"discussion about hospitals, but the paramedics",
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"best place for you\",' he added. 'We were",
"persuaded in their arguments that she was in the",
"best place and she did not need to be sitting in",
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"was.' The . inquest heard the paramedics left",
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"7.30am. The inquest in Neath, South Wales, heard",
"Sarah was battling the after-effects of a brain",
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By . Rachel Reilly . Sarah Thomas died at home coroner ruled today. Sarah Thomas, 30, was found 'barely conscious'. An inquest heard she would have survived if she had been taken to hospital - when she was examined by paramedics David Glover hospital . it was likely she would have received
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By . James Nye . PUBLISHED: . 10:26 EST, 9 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 13:20 EST, 9 December 2013 . The latest revelations from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden have taken a bizarre turn with the claim that American and British spies have been posing and playing as orcs and elves on the popular multiplayer online game World of Warcraft - potentially spying on up to 50 million people. Spy chiefs at the NSA began to fear in 2008 that online games such as Second Life and Warcraft could become forums for covert communications between terrorists - enabling them to move money and to plot atrocities, all the while hiding among the millions of virtual gamers all with online alter-egos. Newly released documents from the hundreds of thousands stolen by Snowden from the NSA reveal that real secret agents have been operating in virtual gaming worlds tracking millions of players - even going as far as attempting to recruit online informants while playing. Real life James Bond's operating in a virtual world online: American and British spies have been revealed to be posing online on games such as World of Warcraft (pictured) and Second Life . The NSA document, written in 2008 and titled Exploiting Terrorist Use of Games & Virtual Environments expresses the NSA's worry that despite their wide-reaching PRISM clandestine surveillance of hundreds of millions of people online, terrorists could evade their wide reaching snooping. New revelations: NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden speaking in October - the former defense contractor has revealed that American intelligence operatives operated online in World of Warcraft and Second Life to try and catch terrorists . The Guardian has reported that QCHQ, the British counterpart of the NSA even sent operatives into Second Life in 2008 and infiltrated a criminal ring that was selling stolen credit card information in that virtual world. The Snowden files reveal that the real-life sting in a virtual world was named Operation Galician and was helped by a recruited online informer who 'helpfully volunteered on the target group's latest activities.' Citing the documents disclosed by Edward Snowden, the report also says agencies 'have built mass-collection capabilities' against Microsoft's Xbox Live online network. Important details — such as how much data was gathered, or how many players' information was compromised — were not clear, the reports said. Blizzard Entertainment, the producer of World Of Warcraft, told the Guardian: ‘We are unaware of any surveillance taking place. If it was, it would have been done without our knowledge or permission.’ Online games such as World of Warcraft and Second Life are huge business as players adopt avatars of different people or indeed, orcs, goblins and elves. NSA HQ: Reports say British and American intelligence officers have been spying on gamers across the world, deploying undercover officers to virtual universes and sucking up traffic from popular online games such as World of Warcraft . The 2008 NSA report claims that if the intelligence garnered from the spying on these online games was used correctly, then pictures of ordinary citizen's and potential terrorist social networks could be built up. The NSA document reportedly claims to suggest that such infiltration 'continues to uncover potential Sigint value by identifying accounts, characters and guilds related to Islamic extremist groups, nuclear proliferation and arms dealing.' Second Life especially intruiged the NSA and GCHQ, because of its plans to introduce voice calls and anonymous texts - that terrorists could utilize. However, the document revealed by Snowden details no clear indication that the widespread surveillance ever discovered any terrorists or even foiled any attacks - raising serious issues over the privacy of online gaming. Microsoft declined to comment on the latest revelations, as did Philip Rosedale, the founder of Second Life. Monitoring: The NSA and Britain's GCHQ have neither confirmed nor denied that they have been spying on the personal details of up to 50 million virtual gamers . The NSA declined to comment on the surveillance of games. A spokesman for GCHQ told The Guardian the agency did not 'confirm or deny' the revelations but added: 'All GCHQ's work is carried out in accordance with a strict legal and policy framework which ensures that its activities are authorised, necessary and proportionate, and there is rigorous oversight, including from the secretary of state, the interception and intelligence services commissioners and the intelligence and security committee.' Indeed, so rife was the spying online of Second Life by the FBI, CIA, and the Defense Humint Service that a memo was sent to try and 'deconflict' their work - i.e. make sure that they weren't treading on each other's toes. However, the British credit card fraud bust aside, there are no other examples of the surveillance of these popular virtual worlds yielding any results in terms of anti-terrorism. The agencies did have concerns beyond simple money laundering and planning though. The NSA thought that games played online could be used to 'reinforce prejudices and cultural stereotypes' - pointing out that Hezbollah had produced their own game called Special Forces 2. According to the document, Hezbollah's 'press section acknowledges the game is used for recruitment and training', serving as a 'radicalizing medium' with the ultimate goal of becoming a 'suicide martyr'. Despite the game's disturbing connotations, the 'fun factor' of the game cannot be discounted, it states. As Special Forces 2 retails for $10, it concludes, the game also serves to 'fund terrorist operations.'
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Latest revelations from Edward Snowden reveal the NSA has been using agents to pose as players on World of Warcraft .
Up to 50 million people worldwide play the popular virtual game .
NSA and Britain's GCHQ became concerned the game and those like it could be used as clandestine forums for terrorists to plan attacks .
Online operatives even tried to recruit gamers as informants .
More evidence of mass surveillance on civilian population by intelligence service .
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"communications between terrorists - enabling them",
"to move money and to plot atrocities, all the",
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"all with online alter-egos. Newly released",
"documents from the hundreds of thousands stolen",
"by Snowden from the NSA reveal that real secret",
"agents have been operating in virtual gaming",
"worlds tracking millions of players - even going",
"as far as attempting to recruit online informants",
"while playing. Real life James Bond's operating",
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"spies have been revealed to be posing online on",
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"Second Life . The NSA document, written in 2008",
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"clandestine surveillance of hundreds of millions",
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(CNN) -- They were there for the view -- spectators awed by a vista of massive waves smashing against the rocky shore. A U.S. Coast Guard rescue boat reaches a man swept out to sea Sunday at Acadia National Park in Maine. But then one wave struck violently, sweeping three people into the churning ocean, one of them a 7-year-old girl. What spectator Mary Ellen Martel saw next were bodies bobbing along in the frothy waters. And in a heartbeat, a day of spectacular surf turned tragic. Watch a dramatic rescue at sea » . Thousands of people flocked to the jagged shoreline of Maine's Acadia National Park on Sunday as Hurricane Bill weakened offshore on its trajectory north and delivered dramatic waves to the New England seaboard. "People were clapping and laughing when the wind would bring the spray over. It was a very festive atmosphere," Martel told CNN in a telephone interview. "It was a warm, sunny day, and everyone was just enjoying the show that Mother Nature was offering, but not everybody knows to stay away from the edge -- or way away from the edge." A section of the shore is known as Thunder Hole, a popular tourist attraction where waves crashing against the shore mimic the sound of thunder. But Sunday, conditions were such that even the walkway to Thunder Hole was closed for the safety of spectators. On a rock cliff about 20 feet above the sea, a wave struck about 11:50 a.m., pushing water onto the ankles of some of the people standing on "top of what we think would be a safe area," Acadia Chief Ranger Stuart West told CNN. People started to turn back, to get farther away from the edge, and then a second, monstrous wave hit them. The unrelenting sea dragged in seven onlookers, forcing four to claw their way back to shore but sweeping three others out into the chilly waters. Two were rescued, but 7-year-old Clio Axlerod of New York perished, West said. Watch preparations for the storm » . Martel, a resident of Maine's Southwest Harbor for more than 35 years and a frequent park visitor, had come there with her husband, and she said she feels "pretty certain" she had been on the same ledge as the three victims swept out to sea. Martel had stood far enough back that the first wave did not affect her much, but when she saw the second coming, she turned her back to protect the camera she used to photograph the surf. She was doused from her shoulders down, she said. She said she knew then she had to get back to the road that led to the area. "When I looked [back], everybody was scrambling to get off the ledge," she said. Her husband, a volunteer firefighter, ran back to offer his help and overheard a woman say that her husband and daughter were swept away from the spot where the Martels and maybe 30 others had been, she said. U.S. Coast Guard rescuers arrived about 20 minutes after the first call and had the tough task of finding the three drifting in the rough seas. "Of course, trying to locate a head in frothy, agitated water like it was is a very difficult operation," West said. "But the rangers on the shore could still spot them." Martel saw bobbing buoys out in the distance, but not until she used a zoom lens on her camera could she tell the buoys from the bodies, she said. At 12:52 p.m., the Coast Guard picked up Simone Pelletier, 12, of Belfast, Maine, and Peter Axlerod, 55, Clio's father. The 7-year-old was found at 3:32 p.m., West said in a statement. Petty Officer Dayton Trubee of the Coast Guard said he was not present during the rescue effort, but heard from his colleagues what happened when they grabbed Peter Axlerod out of the sea's grip. "They told me when they pulled them on board he was exhausted," Trubee said. "He really didn't have any idea what happened to his daughter. He was totally worn out from just struggling." Six others at Acadia suffered broken bones and cuts from the effects of the intense waves, West said. Park officials had warned visitors of the dangers of the surf, West said, but he was not sure whether those seven pulled out by the massive wave got the warning. West said that people ask why rangers didn't just close off the park's shoreline. "The reality is we have so many miles of boundary that if we close up one section people just go to the other section," he said. Instead they concentrate rangers in the areas they know people want to visit, he said. But nature can't be managed. The second wave has been reported by some as a rogue wave, because it was unexpected and "monstrous," said Chief Christopher Wheeler of the Coast Guard's field office for Northern New England. Martel said she did not initially think the waves would be an injurious, "imminent" threat. "It's kind of like a false sense of security, and then out of nowhere comes this monstrous wave that's like, holy moly," Wheeler said.
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(CNN) -- Both parties have received an electoral politics wake-up call, courtesy of a diversifying America. President Obama won re-election thanks in part to a 52-percentage-point spread among Latino voters, the nation's fastest-growing electorate, according to election eve polling. In the America coming over the horizon, it is practically impossible to overcome such a number and win the race for president. According to the polling by Latino Decisions, Hispanic voters nationally and across every battleground state swung heavily to Democrats. And it wasn't even close. Nationwide, the margin was 75% to 23%. And there were remarkable spreads in the tightest of swing states: 87% to 10% in Colorado, 82% to 17% in Ohio, 66% to 31% in Virginia. (CNN's own poll showed a smaller but still significant spread nationwide -- 71% to 21% -- and in the swing states). Even in Florida, with its large, Republican-leaning Cuban population, the Latino Decisions poll found that Latinos overall favored the president 58% to 40%. While these trends worked to Democrats' advantage on the ground on Tuesday, that's not entirely good news: A demographically challenged Republican Party is bad for America. As a nation, we are at our best when both parties work together to address difficult policy issues. And, in the case of immigration -- an issue of great concern to Latinos -- a bipartisan roadmap is good politics and great policy. Bringing the country together around a common-sense immigration process is not a bridge too far. In fact, while partisan politics dominated the national debate, faith, law enforcement and business leaders have worked with immigrant leaders across the political spectrum to forge a new consensus on immigrants and America. People who hold a Bible want change. "Christians can agree on basic values to guide our decisions and help heal our land," Luis Cortes, president of Esperanza, a Latino faith-based aid organization, said in a recent radio ad -- in which he shared air time with Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. It's not every day that the leader of one of the nation's largest Hispanic evangelical networks stands shoulder to shoulder with a Southern Baptist and presents a unified message. People who wear a badge also want reform. At a recent Midwest summit on immigration, Lake County, Illinois Sheriff Mark Curran said, "We don't need higher deportation levels; we need to fix the system as it exists." And job creators, people who own businesses, are yearning for common-sense reforms too. We know we need to find a solution when Larry Wooten, president of the North Carolina Farm Bureau, says, "The longer national political leaders ignore the issue or use it as a political wedge, the more our farmers suffer because they cannot find a sufficient labor pool to harvest their crops." Post-election talk will focus on the president's mandate. Immigration is different from other issues because the mandate for reform is clear, and it's not only because of his vote margin among Latinos. "Immigration is the most important thing to focus on if you're concerned about America as an economic power. It's not only good policy to have more immigrants to the United States ... (and) a path forward for those people who are here; it's also good politics." That's Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, who added, "Hostility to immigrants is a vote-losing, not a vote-winning, issue." When it comes to crafting a 21st century immigration process, Bibles, badges and business are ready to work with both Democrats and Republicans to reach a consensus. Americans are ready for a just immigration system that treats all people with dignity and respect. Our leaders in Washington -- of both parties -- can and must deliver. As we saw Tuesday, their electability may depend on it. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ali Noorani.
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Ali Noorani: Both parties got electoral politics wake-up call from a diversifying U.S.
He says Latinos heavily favored Democrats, but an out-of-touch GOP bad for America .
He says bipartisan approach on immigration is good politics and good policy .
Noorani: People across country want immigration reform; both parties must deliver .
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(CNN) -- It's not news that the national debt presents a daunting challenge. The public debt is growing faster than the economy, a trend that cannot be sustained. Even more immediately, at years' end we will face a $7 trillion fiscal cliff—a series of policies will kick in, from the blunt, across the board spending cuts (or sequester) to the expiration of the tax cuts that would reduce spending and raise taxes so abruptly and mindlessly it would put us back into recession. But ignoring and waiving the policies instead would add additional trillions to the debt and set us up for a fiscal crisis. A fiscal cliff or a mountain of debt. It will require presidential leadership to avoid either threat. While the likely approach will be to replace the slated policies with a gradual debt reduction plan that would bring the deficit down and leave the debt so that it is no longer growing faster than the economy, there are many different ways to achieve this -- all with pros and cons -- and many specifics that need to be filled in. However, the tendency during campaigns, of course, is for politicians to talk about what they promise not to do, rather than own up to the tougher decisions their stewardship would require. Instead of allowing the presidential candidates to duck and bob to avoid specifically saying how they would stem the flow of red ink, what if voters insisted that all presidential candidates directly answer the question, "how would you fix the debt?" Quite simply, candidates should not even apply for the job of running the country if they aren't willing to share the details of their approach for fixing the debt. We should devote one of the three presidential debates to the topic of how, specifically, each candidate would change the budget, cut spending, and reform entitlement programs and the tax system to fix the debt. Candidates must debate the debt, not duck it. At the debate, each candidate would present a detailed plan of his preferred approach for reducing the deficit. Any plan should save at least $4-6 trillion over the next decade -- the amount most experts have pegged as the minimum needed to stabilize the debt -- or at the very least, a candidate should explain why his plan achieves any less. Both President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney would have a lot of fleshing out of their plans to do before this debate. Thus far, the president has only offered much smaller plans which are best described as a first step towards dealing with the problem rather than a full-blown plan, while Romney has offered a plan that could get control of the debt but with the bulk of the specifics on the spending cuts and tax breaks he would reduce, left blank, thus leaving none of the critical details filled in. In the debate, the candidates would be led through a discussion of their proposals on defense, domestic spending cuts, reforms to Social Security, Medicare, and other entitlement programs, and taxes, and make the case for their specific proposals. The plans could be scored by outside experts ahead of time so that fuzzy math wouldn't even enter the discussion. No avoiding the question, no magic asterisks, no talking about the fun parts, like lower tax rates or new investments, without the real work of detailing how they would pay for them. Voters would see beneath the hoods and assess the trade-offs of the different approaches. Certainly, either plan would not be the final word when one of the men becomes president, since it will go though many changes to achieve congressional support. But it would be the start of the conversation. It is unimaginable then that we should be asked to choose a candidate without knowing how they would serve as the country's fiscal stewards during what experts have called the most predictable and most avoidable, economic crisis in history. And with so many difficult choices to be made quickly after the election, the notion that there will be some kind of mandate for how to proceed if the candidates haven't addressed this issue head on is both highly optimistic and dangerous. The stage afforded by the fall debates is the most viable possibility for compelling the candidates to answer these tough but necessary questions. It's what they call an adult conversation, and we should give it a try. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Maya MacGuineas.
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Maya MacGuineas says public debt growing faster than economy; this can't be sustained .
She says soon U.S. faces a $7 trillion cliff as fiscal policies kick in that could spark recession .
She says candidates should be compelled in a debate to outline plans on cutting debt .
MacGuineas: Voters can't be expected to choose without specific, fact-checked proposal .
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By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 18:27 EST, 5 March 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 05:14 EST, 6 March 2014 . Police are hunting a hit-and-run driver who left a seven-year-old boy fighting for his life after ploughing into a mother and her two children as they crossed a road. The mother was holding the hands of her two sons, aged seven and four, when they were struck by a red Volkswagen Polo car. The older boy was run over by the car and his brother was thrown about 20 yards up the road. Scene: A seven-year-old boy is fighting for his life in hospital after being run over by a hit and run driver on this street in Bournemouth, Dorset . Witnesses said the woman driver got out, held her head in her hands and said 'oh my God, I can't believe it' before callously getting back in her car and speeding off. The older brother suffered critical injuries and was rushed to hospital. His condition is not known. The younger sibling was injured in the collision and was in deep shock afterwards. The mother was said to be 'distraught' at the scene and was comforted by members of the public. Police drove off in the general direction as the Polo car and have now launched an urgent appeal for anyone who has seen it to come forward. The driver is described as being white, aged between 40 and 50, about 5ft 3ins tall, and has shoulder length brown hair. She was driving a T or Y reg VW Polo. The incident happened outside a library in Kinson, Bournemouth, Dorset, at 5.11pm yesterday afternoon. The car involved was described as a T or Y registration red Volkswagen Polo (file picture for illustration purposes only) Witnesses said the mother and two children were stood on a traffic island in the middle of the road when another car stopped to let them cross. As they walked out, the Polo car drove down the inside of the other vehicle and careered into them. A male witness, who was working nearby but didn't want to be named, said: 'The car came scooting along and ran over one boy and the other got bounced off the front wing. 'I ran out and called for an ambulance. 'The woman driver in the Polo got out and had her head in hands and said 'oh my God, I can't believe it'. 'The younger boy got up and was sat on the pavement in shock but the older one was lying in the road. The Polo had driven over him and stopped about 10ft away. 'He was in a pretty bad way. He was conscious but silent and wasn't moving very much. 'The ambulance crew put him on a stretcher and took him into the ambulance. 'The mother was literally holding the two boys' hands as they crossed the road. She was distraught. 'I wasn't paying much attention to the woman driver, just the child in the road. After about three or four minutes we noticed she and her car had she just disappeared. The seven-year-old was rushed to Poole hospital (pictured). A police spokesman described his injuries as 'very serious' 'We heard the ambulance coming and we turned around and the car had gone. People thought she had just moved it but she just left the scene. It was after a few minutes so she must have thought about what she was doing. 'The police went after her in the general direction.' The two boys were rushed to Poole Hospital. Inspector Steve White, of Dorset police, said the older boy's injuries were 'very serious.' He added: 'We are appealing for witnesses to come forward and in particular the driver of the vehicle to come forward and tell us what they know about the incident.'
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Mother was crossing road in Bournemouth with sons aged four and seven .
One car had stopped to let them pass but a second 'overtook on the inside'
Older boy was run over while his brother was thrown about 20 yards .
The driver reportedly got out and said 'Oh my God I can't believe it'
She then callously drove off leaving the mother in despair, witness claims .
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(CNN) -- Argentina star Lionel Messi scored twice as Barcelona thrashed Atletico Madrid 5-2 in the Camp Nou to maintain their perfect start to the Spanish league season. Messi put Atletico to the sword with two goals in the Camp Nou. Messi celebrated his lucrative contract extension at Barca, sealed on Friday, with a superb display against a flagging Atletico who have made a poor start to the season. New signing Zlatan Ibrahimovic put Barcelona ahead in the second minute, just after Thierry Henry had hit the post in a frenetic opening. Messi then got in the scoring act, rounding goalkeeper Roberto Jiminez after being played through by midfielder Xavi. Daniel Alves scored the third for the reigning European and Spanish champions with a powerful free kick on the half hour mark. Ibrahimovic, who is finding his feet after a slow pre-season campaign, then found Messi who charged past a static Atletico defense before finding Seydou Keita for a tap-in on 41 minutes. To complete an exciting first half, Sergio Aguero pulled one back for the visitors after a mistake by Sergio Busquets. Atletico gained respectability after half-time as Diego Forlan scored six minutes from time, but Messi rubbed it in with the fifth during injury time. In other action on Saturday, Real Mallorca briefly went top before Barcelona won the late kick off, beating promoted Tenerife 4-0. Mario Saurez, Artiz Aduriz, Julio Alvarez and a late Pierre Webo penalty gave Mallorca three points as they matched their best ever start to a Primera Liga season with two wins and a draw. Espanyol moved off the bottom with their first victory of the season with a 3-2 away win at Deportivo la Coruna, while Alvaro Negredo scored his first goal for Sevilla who beat Osasuna 2-0. In Sunday's action, big-spending Real Madrid will bid to equal Barcelona's three wins form three games when they tackle lowly Xerez.
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New York (CNN) -- President Barack Obama's policy toward Syria -- three years of red lines and calls for regime change -- culminated Monday in a barrage of airstrikes on terror targets there, marking a turning point for the conflict and thrusting the President further into it. The U.S. said Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Jordan had joined in the attack on ISIS targets near Raqqa in Syria. The U.S. also launched airstrikes against another terrorist organization, the Khorasan Group. Obama described its members as "seasoned al Qaeda operatives in Syria," and U.S. officials said the group was plotting attacks against the United States and other Western targets. Initially hesitant to become involved in the Syrian conflict, which pits an authoritarian regime led by President Bashar al-Assad against a patchwork of rebel groups, Obama has moved from sending weapons to opposition fighters last year, to backing away from airstrikes against al-Assad, to ordering Monday¹s campaign to take out ISIS terrorists who have used the Syrian unrest to gain a foothold. Airstrikes: What you need to know . It¹s new ground for the U.S., which lacks robust intelligence capabilities in Syria and hasn't sent any ground forces there. Unlike the campaign against ISIS in Iraq, the U.S. doesn¹t have al-Assad¹s permission to launch airstrikes in Syria, though the U.S. notified him before the attacks began. The coalition strikes began the evening before Obama made his annual visit to the United Nations General Assembly, where the White House hopes to secure broader support for the anti-ISIS campaign from a range of allies. The main focus, officials say, is on stemming the flow of foreign-born fighters who have joined up with ISIS and other terror groups in Syria and Iraq. The U.S. intelligence community believes there are 15,000 foreign fighters from 80 countries who are fighting alongside ISIS and other similar terror groups -- 2,000 from Europe and roughly 100 from the United States. A senior administration official said on Monday that some of those Americans had already returned to the United States and were being tracked by the FBI. Not all of those who have returned were fighting for ISIS. Most positive reaction to Syria airstrikes comes from Obama's critics . Administration officials are confident in the prospects of a U.S.-backed resolution that would compel nations to try to stop citizens from leaving to fight for terror groups. Obama will personally chair a session of the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to push for the measure. He last chaired the panel in 2009, and was the first American president to do so. Here is a timeline of the major events leading up to U.S. action in Syria: . • August 2012: President Obama lays out a "red line" in the Syrian conflict, saying that the use of chemical weapons would "change his calculus" on Syria. • March, April, June 2013: The Syrian government uses chemical weapons against opposition forces in Syria. • August 2013: The al-Assad regime continues to use chemical weapons and Obama lays out a plan for limited military intervention against the Syrian regime while asking Congress to weigh in. • September 2013: Congress is reticent to endorse U.S. military action in Syria. But then, in a plan engineered by Russia, al-Assad agrees to give up Syria's chemical weapons and Obama begins to back away from military strikes. • June 2014: Obama sends more than 300 military advisers to Iraq to advise Iraqi forces and protect U.S. interests. • July 2014: Obama sends more advisers to Iraq. • August 7, 2014: Obama authorizes targeted airstrikes in Iraq to guard American interests and protect minorities facing impending massacre by ISIS militants. • August 20, 2014: American journalist James Foley is beheaded by ISIS. The video is posted online. Within the next few weeks, ISIS beheads another American journalist, Steven Sotloff, and a British aid worker, David Haines, and posts those videos online as well. • September 10, 2014: Obama announces he's authorized the U.S. military to strike ISIS in Iraq and Syria. In addition, he announces a plan to arm and train 5,000 moderate Syrian rebels, pending congressional approval. • September 18, 2014: Congress approves the President's plan to arm and train Syrian rebels. • September 22, 2014: The U.S. launches its first airstrikes in Syria in coordination with five Arab nations. Maps: Arab nations join U.S., expand fight against terror to Syria .
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By . Richard Kay . PUBLISHED: . 01:52 EST, 12 June 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 01:53 EST, 12 June 2012 . David Cameron’s insistence that he is doing all he can for the squeezed middle classes and old-age pensioners during the recession has been given short shrift by the nation’s most glamorous OAP, Joan Collins. Joan, 79, a somewhat unlikely champion of the downtrodden, has unexpectedly taken to the barricades on behalf of those much less well-off than herself. Lamenting the plight of the pensioners, Joan, who switched her allegiance from UKIP to the Tories seven years ago declares: 'I think it’s very hard today for laymen to know what to do with any small money they have. Woman of the people: Glamorous OAP Joan Collins has come out in support of pensioners and the recession-hit middle classes . ‘I find it tragic that people now who are turning 65 and getting their pensions are realising that if they put aside £100,000 over their lifetime they would have received £12,000 [a year] a decade ago. 'Now, that figure has been halved because of the downturn. I don’t see how they can possibly live on that and I think what is happening to the average person in terms of money is quite horrific.’ Joan, best remembered for playing the scheming businesswoman Alexis in Dynasty, remains a UK resident with fifth husband Percy Gibson, despite having homes in the South of France and California. Joan declares her empathy for the less fortunate in the online magazine of exclusive private bank Coutts, whose clients include the Queen. Ms Collins states: ‘A hardworking couple . with two children, a mortgage and a small car are taxed outrageously . whereas a lot of people who do nothing - and come from families who have . done nothing for two, three or sometimes four generations - receive a . lot of money in benefits from the Government to continue to do nothing. Handbags at dawn: Last month Collins caused grief for Home . Secretary Theresa May, tweeting from Heathrow Airport about thousands . queuing at passport control . 'It seems terribly unfair to me. It’s Middle England who are really hurting, not the rich.’ It is not the first time that Joan has embarrassed the Government. Last month, she caused grief for Home Secretary Theresa May, tweeting from Heathrow Airport about thousands queuing at passport control and calling for more immigration staff.
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By . Julian Gavaghan . PUBLISHED: . 04:36 EST, 18 April 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 10:16 EST, 18 April 2012 . The body of a British schoolgirl raped and murdered in Goa can finally be buried four years after her death - following claims of a communication blunder by Indian authorities and the Foreign Office. Scarlett Keeling, 15, was sexually assaulted and left for dead on a beach in the Indian holiday state in February 2008 after taking a cocktail of drugs. Months later, following two post-mortem tests in Goa, her body was brought back to Britain but has lain in a mortuary at an Exeter hospital amid the ongoing trial of two men charged over her death. Long wait: The body of Scarlett Keeling, left, who was raped and murdered in 2008, will be buried on June 17 - which would have been her 20th birthday. Her mother, Fiona MacKeown, right, said she was relieved but angry . A third pathology examination was carried out three years ago following a request by Greater Devon coroner Dr Elizabeth Earland. But the Foreign Office have only now informed the coroner that Goan authorities have given the green light for the body to be released. It is not known when Goa granted permission. But Scarlett's mother Fiona MacKeown believes a lack of communication between the two governments led to a delay. The schoolgirl, who had been left with a 25-year-old Indian boyfriend while her mother travelled with her six other children, will be buried near the family’s rural home in Brandiworthy. Home: The site in Brandiworthy, Devon where Scarlett once lived and will soon be buried near . Anjuna Beach: The idyllic spot where Scarlett was raped and murdered in February 2008 . A funeral will be held on June 17th - which would have been Scarlett’s 20th birthday. Mrs . MacKeown, who claims Goan authorities engaged in a cover-up to prevent . the beach paradise’s ‘seedy underbelly’ from being exposed, today said . she was relieved that she can finally lay her daughter to rest - but angry about the delay. She said: ‘It’s a relief to bring her home where she belongs back with us. I have been expecting it for four years but it could have been another four years.’ But she said she was ‘disgusted’ with the lack of communication between the Indian authorities and Foreign Office which meant Scarlett’s body could have been released to the family three years ago. Mrs MacKeown, 48, said the family has been through ‘a living hell’. Wayward: Scarlett pictured rolling what appears to be a cannabis joint. It was claimed that her mother allowed her to use drugs . Adventure: Scarlett, seen riding an elephant in Goa during the trip she took with her mother and six siblings . Mourning: Scarlett's family, including her former stepfather Rob Clarke, days after her death in February 2008 . The mother-of-nine, who was 100 miles . away when Scarlett died, faced allegations of neglect in Goa amid claims . that she allowed her daughter to use drugs. Scarlett, . who had been dating Indian tour guide Julio Lobo at the time of her . death, had been photographed rolling what appeared to be cannabis joint. Mrs MacKeown refused to attend the court in Goa over the claims in October 2008. But two years ago, she was hauled before Exeter Crown Court and convicted of benefits fraud and narrowly avoided jail by being handed an eight-month suspended sentence. On trial: Placido Carvalho, left, and Samson D'Souza have been charged with Scarlett's rape and murder . She had dishonestly obtained £19,500 . in child benefit payments from the taxpayer - even though her former . partner Richard Keeling was paying voluntary maintenance for three of . the children, including Scarlett. Julio Lobo: The now 29-year-old tour guide had been Scarlett's boyfriend and had been left alone with her while her mother went travelling . Scarlett . suffered 50 separate injuries in the attack in February 2008 but all . but five of those were missed at the original post mortem, which found . she drowned accidentally. Police chief Nerlon Albuquerque insisted it had been caused by Scarlett hitting her head and body on the seabed as she drowned, it was said. But a second post-mortem examination. showed she had been raped and murdered. The Goan government’s chief pathologist said she had been held under water for five to ten minutes. Tests showed she had taken ecstasy, cocaine and LSD before her death on Anjuna beach in February 2008. Two men went on trial in Goa over Scarlett’s death. Samson D’Souza, 30, and Placido Carvalho, 42, are on trial for culpable homicide, sexual assault, outraing modesty and destrying evidence. The long running trial has still not reached a conclusion. A Foreign Office spokesman said: 'We have provided consular assistance to the family since the start of this tragic case and we continue to do so. 'The decision to release Scarlett rests with the UK Coroner. While we cannot interfere in the Coroner’s inquest, we will continue to do all we rightly can to assist the Coroner and the family.'
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Body of Scarlett Keeling, 15, left in mortuary in Exeter since 2008 .
Mother claims lack of communication between Goan authorities and Foreign Office caused delay in Coroner releasing corpse .
Scarlett raped and murdered in 2008 while mother went travelling with six other children and left daughter with 25-year-old boyfriend .
Fiona MacKeown claims Goan authorities conducted cover-up to prevent 'seedy underbelly' of idyllic Indian state being exposed .
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"By . Julian Gavaghan . PUBLISHED: . 04:36 EST, 18",
"April 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 10:16 EST, 18 April",
"2012 . The body of a British schoolgirl raped and",
"murdered in Goa can finally be buried four years",
"after her death - following claims of a",
"communication blunder by Indian authorities and",
"the Foreign Office. Scarlett Keeling, 15, was",
"sexually assaulted and left for dead on a beach",
"in the Indian holiday state in February 2008",
"after taking a cocktail of drugs. Months later,",
"following two post-mortem tests in Goa, her body",
"was brought back to Britain but has lain in a",
"mortuary at an Exeter hospital amid the ongoing",
"trial of two men charged over her death. Long",
"wait: The body of Scarlett Keeling, left, who was",
"raped and murdered in 2008, will be buried on",
"June 17 - which would have been her 20th",
"birthday. Her mother, Fiona MacKeown, right, said",
"she was relieved but angry . A third pathology",
"examination was carried out three years ago",
"following a request by Greater Devon coroner Dr",
"Elizabeth Earland. But the Foreign Office have",
"only now informed the coroner that Goan",
"authorities have given the green light for the",
"body to be released. It is not known when Goa",
"granted permission. But Scarlett's mother Fiona",
"MacKeown believes a lack of communication between",
"the two governments led to a delay. The",
"schoolgirl, who had been left with a 25-year-old",
"Indian boyfriend while her mother travelled with",
"her six other children, will be buried near the",
"family’s rural home in Brandiworthy. Home: The",
"site in Brandiworthy, Devon where Scarlett once",
"lived and will soon be buried near . Anjuna",
"Beach: The idyllic spot where Scarlett was raped",
"and murdered in February 2008 . A funeral will be",
"held on June 17th - which would have been",
"Scarlett’s 20th birthday. Mrs . MacKeown, who",
"claims Goan authorities engaged in a cover-up to",
"prevent . the beach paradise’s ‘seedy underbelly’",
"from being exposed, today said . she was relieved",
"that she can finally lay her daughter to rest -",
"but angry about the delay. She said: ‘It’s a",
"relief to bring her home where she belongs back",
"with us. I have been expecting it for four years",
"but it could have been another four years.’ But",
"she said she was ‘disgusted’ with the lack of",
"communication between the Indian authorities and",
"Foreign Office which meant Scarlett’s body could",
"have been released to the family three years ago.",
"Mrs MacKeown, 48, said the family has been",
"through ‘a living hell’. Wayward: Scarlett",
"pictured rolling what appears to be a cannabis",
"joint. It was claimed that her mother allowed her",
"to use drugs . Adventure: Scarlett, seen riding",
"an elephant in Goa during the trip she took with",
"her mother and six siblings . Mourning:",
"Scarlett's family, including her former",
"stepfather Rob Clarke, days after her death in",
"February 2008 . The mother-of-nine, who was 100",
"miles . away when Scarlett died, faced",
"allegations of neglect in Goa amid claims . that",
"she allowed her daughter to use drugs. Scarlett,",
". who had been dating Indian tour guide Julio",
"Lobo at the time of her . death, had been",
"photographed rolling what appeared to be cannabis",
"joint. Mrs MacKeown refused to attend the court",
"in Goa over the claims in October 2008. But two",
"years ago, she was hauled before Exeter Crown",
"Court and convicted of benefits fraud and",
"narrowly avoided jail by being handed an",
"eight-month suspended sentence. On trial: Placido",
"Carvalho, left, and Samson D'Souza have been",
"charged with Scarlett's rape and murder . She had",
"dishonestly obtained £19,500 . in child benefit",
"payments from the taxpayer - even though her",
"former . partner Richard Keeling was paying",
"voluntary maintenance for three of . the",
"children, including Scarlett. Julio Lobo: The now",
"29-year-old tour guide had been Scarlett's",
"boyfriend and had been left alone with her while",
"her mother went travelling . Scarlett . suffered",
"50 separate injuries in the attack in February",
"2008 but all . but five of those were missed at",
"the original post mortem, which found . she",
"drowned accidentally. Police chief Nerlon",
"Albuquerque insisted it had been caused by",
"Scarlett hitting her head and body on the seabed",
"as she drowned, it was said. But a second",
"post-mortem examination. showed she had been",
"raped and murdered. The Goan government’s chief",
"pathologist said she had been held under water",
"for five to ten minutes. Tests showed she had",
"taken ecstasy, cocaine and LSD before her death",
"on Anjuna beach in February 2008. Two men went on",
"trial in Goa over Scarlett’s death. Samson",
"D’Souza, 30, and Placido Carvalho, 42, are on",
"trial for culpable homicide, sexual assault,",
"outraing modesty and destrying evidence. The long",
"running trial has still not reached a conclusion.",
"A Foreign Office spokesman said: 'We have",
"provided consular assistance to the family since",
"the start of this tragic case and we continue to",
"do so. 'The decision to release Scarlett rests",
"with the UK Coroner. While we cannot interfere",
"in the Coroner’s inquest, we will continue to do",
"all we rightly can to assist the Coroner and the",
"family.'"
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(CNN) -- Prosecutors on Monday for the first time sought to link Washington Mayor Vincent Gray to campaign finance irregularities stemming from his successful 2010 bid as well as an effort to cover them up. The allegations were made during a hearing at which a local businessman, Jeffrey Thompson, pleaded guilty to conspiracy for masterminding a nearly $670,000 illegal "shadow campaign" for Gray in 2010, federal prosecutors said. Moreover, prosecutors publicly claimed Gray was aware of the illegal fundraising and had agreed with Thompson to cover it up. Thompson was expected to cooperate with the government and could receive a reduced sentence. Gray has not been charged with any wrongdoing. But his campaign has been the focus of a long-running federal investigation. Four of his top campaign aides as well as others have pleaded guilty to felonies related to the shadow campaign. The probe had clouded much of his lone term. With his eyes set on reelection this year, Gray has adamantly denied having anything to do with Thompson's activities and repeated that through his campaign manager on Monday. "I have already responded to that again and again and again and again and again," Gray told CNN last year, "I didn't do anything -- period." His campaign manager, Chuck Thies, said Thomson is difficult to believe. "Jeff Thompson has lied and conspired and manipulated elections and politicians and people for years. It is impossible to believe anything he says. His actions prove that he is not to be believed," Thies said. "I think the voters in D.C. are smart enough to know that an admitted felon is difficult to believe. And when given the choice to believe Vince Gray or Jeff Thompson, that can be no choice," he said. Gray's challengers are now leveling allegations of cronyism and pay-to-play against Gray and have tried to make ethics are major aspect of the campaign. According to prosecutors, Thompson allegedly used the code name "Uncle Earl" when dealing with Gray. They alleged in court documents that Thompson, 58, used his companies to funnel millions of dollars in off-the-book contributions to various federal and city candidates. None of the candidates were identified by name in the charging documents, but prosecutors said in court Gray was a key recipient of the funds. Thompson and his unnamed co-conspirators allegedly disbursed "approximately $668,800 in excessive and unreported corporate contributions to pay for campaign services and campaign materials in coordination with and in support of" Gray's campaign, the papers said. Thompson was also charged with passing on more than $600,000 in unreported campaign contributions to a presidential candidate in 2008. "In the Thompson charging documents, boilerplate language is used to describe all the campaigns that Thompson sought to illegally influence: (Hillary) Clinton's, Gray's and many others," said Thies. "We urge the media to be cautious when reporting the facts of this case and avoid the innuendo that our political opponents will gladly promote as gospel," said Thies. "Mayor Gray called for this investigation. Mayor Gray has always said he did not break any laws," he added. CNN's Dan Merica contributed to this report.
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For first time, prosecutors say Mayor Vincent Gray knew about campaign finance irregularities .
Local businessman pleads guilty to masterminding "shadow campaign," prosecutors say .
Mayor has long claimed he did nothing wrong in 2010 and is running for reelection .
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By . Alex Greig . PUBLISHED: . 01:57 EST, 9 March 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 05:15 EST, 9 March 2014 . Scott Kalvert, a director best known for directing the 1995 film Basketball Diaries, has died at the age of 49. His body was found at his Woodland Hills home in the San Fernando Valley on Wednesday. Kalvert's death is being investigated as a possible suicide, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner's office. No further details were available. Sad loss: Director Scott Kalvert died aged just 49 in a suspected suicide . Director: Kalvert on-set of his second and final film Deuces Wild in 2002 . Kalvert's career began in the late 1980s, when the first music video he directed, Parents Just Don't Understand by Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff, was a massive hit. He went on to direct videos for other artists including Cyndi Lauper, Mark Wahlberg in his Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch incarnation, Bobby Brown and Snoop Doggy Dogg (currently Snoop Lion). Kalvert then turned his talents to films, turning his favorite book, the 1978 memoir of Jim Carroll, 'The Basketball Diaries', into a film of the same name starring a then-unknown Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll and Lorraine Bracco as his mother. Wahlberg also starred, setting all three on the road to stardom. Kalvert made only one other film, 2002's 'Deuces Wild,' about rival New York street gangs in the 1950s. Breakout: Kalvert cast young unknown Leonardo DiCaprio in The Basketball Diaries alongside Mark Wahlberg and Lorraine Bracco . Scott Kalvert was born in New York City on August 15, 1964. He studied film at Emerson College in Boston and won an MTV competition which led to his first directing job with a New York-based production company. He moved to Los Angeles in 1990. Most recently, Kalvert had been running his own production company, Alliance Media Group. He is survived by his wife Sonia, two daughters, Madison and Tyler and his mother, father and brother.
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Scott Kalvert, 49, best known for directing The Basketball Diaries, was found dead in his home Wednesday .
His death is being investigated as a possible suicide .
He directed music videos for such stars as Will Smith and Jazzy Jeff, Salt-N-Pepa, Cyndi Lauper and Bobby Brown .
Most recently, he was running his own production company in Los Angeles .
He leaves behind a wife and two daughters .
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It is well known that we eat with our eyes as well as our stomach, however one French supermarket is attempting to re-educate our perspectives on lumpy, ugly, misshapen fruit and vegetables with a new initiative. The third largest supermarket chain in France Intermarché, launched a campaign earlier this year that sought to put an end to food waste. Inglorious Fruits and Vegetables celebrates the 'ugly' produce that is often thrown away by growers and considered unfit for consumption. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO . French supermarket Intermarché has launched the initiative Inglorious Fruits and Vegetables in order to combat food waste . Intermarché . wanted to help prevent food waste by proving to customers that unattractive fruits and vegetables are . just as delicious as their pristine counterparts. The campaign follows the news that we throw 300 million tons of food away each year, encouraging the European Union to make 2014 the year against food waste. The campaign by Intermarché is supported by advertising agency Marcel who, with the help of photographer Patrice de Villiers, produced seven posters starring the unattractive produce to go alongside it. The posters included images of the grotesque apple, the ridiculous potato, the hideous orange, the failed lemon, the disfigured eggplant, the ugly carrot, and the unfortunate clementine. For de Villiers the most important part of the process was giving character to the greens. She told the Fast Company: 'The most vital element was ensuring the "strange but lovable" theme shone through I spent time observing our uglies trying to find the precise . angle which showed both their "ugliness" and their loveliness, finding . their unique character.' The supermarket gave the vegetables their own aisle, with the produce working out about 30 per cent cheaper . The supermarket created the project following the European Union's initiative to make 2014 the year against food waste . She added that this was a subject that was particularly important to her. 'It's the taste that matters. Given the vast amount of fresh produce needlessly thrown away, the . sooner more supermarkets implement something like the Intermarché . strategy the better.' As well as the posters Intermarché gave the produce their own aisle in the supermarket, buying the fruit and veg that farmers would usually throw away which saw the goods going for 30 per cent cheaper than others on offer. To begin with the unwanted cast-offs didn't prove vastly popular so the supermarket, determined to prove they were just as flavoursome as those we would usually buy, produced soups and juices with the fruit and veg for customers to try. The result was a huge success: all stocks of the fruit and vegetables sold out in an initial rush and supermarket traffic overall increased by 24 per cent. To prove that the fruit and veg was just as consumable despite their mishaps the supermarket offered out soups and juices made from the produce . The project has been as huge success with the first two days of trading seeing an average of 1.2 tonnes of the fruits and vegetables being sold in store .
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Intermarché launched Inglorious Fruits and Vegetables earlier this year .
It wanted to prove that unattractive produce is just as edible .
The supermarket gave the ugly fruits and veg their own aisle .
The project was a success with the store almost selling out .
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By . Damien Gayle . Behind bars: Timothy Walker was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole after pleading guilty to the murder of police Sergeant Derek Johnson . A methamphetamine addict who was living out of his car has been jailed for life for shooting dead a police officer who came to check on him when he had broken down. In a courtroom in West Jordan, Utah, Timothy Walker pleaded guilty to the murder of Sergeant Derek Johnson, 32, and was immediately sentenced to life with no possibility of parole. The family of Sergeant Johnson, a married father of one, had considered asking prosecutors to push for a death sentence, but said they were happy with the penalty handed to his killer. Randy Johnson, Sergeant Johnson's father, told KUTV: 'Today the streets are safer, because the man that shot Derek is now off the streets and can't hurt anyone else.' Walker, 34, had been by the sitting in a broken down Volvo by the side of the road with his girlfriend, Traci Vaillancourt, also 34, when Sergeant Johnson had pulled over to check on them on September 1 last year. Sergeant Johnson had not even stepped out of his patrol car when Walker shot him in the right side of his torso with a 9mm Glock pistol. The bullet pierced several of his organs, including his heart, KUTV reported. Walker continued to fire as the Sergeant Walker drove away, the court heard. Critically injured, the policeman eventually veered off the road and smashed into a tree. He later died in hospital. Walker then turned the gun on Vaillancourt, shooting her in the back, before trying to kill himself with a bullet to the head. He missed and the bullet ended up going through his jaw and mouth. Vaillancourt also survived and was left with a bullet lodged in her sternum. She still faces two counts of obstruction of justice after allegedly lying to officers investigating Sergeant Johnson's death. As well as the aggravated murder of Sergeant Johnson, Walker also pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of Vaillancourt, three counts of third-degree felony discharge of a firearm, and third degree felony possession or use of a firearm by a restricted person. He apologised to the court for his actions. Sergeant Johnson was married to his high school sweetheart Shante Sidwell with whom he had a six-year-old son, Bensen. Walker and Vaillancourt also have a child together, a daughter who lives in full custody of her paternal grandmother. Sergeant Johnson, who had stopped to check on Walker and his girlfriend Traci Vaillancourt, had not even stepped out of his car when Walker shot him. The father-of-one is pictured right with his son Bensen . Walker continued to fire as the Sergeant Walker drove away, the court heard. Critically injured, the policeman eventually veered off the road and smashed into a tree. He later died in hospital . Speaking last year in response to the crime, Vaillancourt's sister Victoria King revealed her sister's downward spiral from aspiring model and TV star to drug-addled homeless woman reliant on her violent boyfriend. After having her first child, Vaillancourt was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder called Hereditary Angioedema which made her face, throat and limbs swell, her sister said. She says her sister quickly became addicted to her pain medication after suffering four strokes before the age of 30. 'It just went downhill from there,' Ms King told KSL.com last year. 'I tried to get him away from her. She chose a different path. … He was bad news from the get-go, I knew it, and the two of them combined, and a loaded gun nonetheless, and strung out on drugs.' 'We tried and tried and tried to help her but you can't help someone who won't help themself,' she added. Ms King last saw her sister and Walker the day before the shootings and was left startled by his behaviour. 'He got out of the car and he was hyper, showing me a gun that has a laser and a machete and knives,' she said. Walker then turned the gun on Vaillancourt, left, shooting her in the back, before trying to kill himself with a bullet to the head. He missed and the bullet ended up going through his jaw and mouth, right . The couple were trying to talk King into giving them cash - an event which wasn't unusual according to Vaillancourt's older sister. Ms King told Salt Lake Tribune that her sister was not without remorse at what had become of her life but couldn't work her way out of the cycle of addiction. 'She would cry, "I never pictured my life turning out like this",' Ms King told the newspaper. Vaillancourt, pictured right in an old family photo, had slipped into a downward spiral from aspiring model and TV star to drug-addled homeless woman reliant on her violent boyfriend before the killing happened . According to Ms King, Walker gave Vaillancourt attention and Vaillancourt 'was attached to him at the hip'. She says the pair had been living in and out of motels and, at the time of Sergeant Walker's murder, were living out of their car. She says the couple told her they needed protection and that's why they had purchased a cache of weapons. 'I know she was a victim, but I felt like I already lost her a long time ago. My heart is absolutely bleeding for Derek Johnson’s family,' Ms King added in the interview. 'I just want them to know I’m sorry'. After yesterday's sentencing, Mr Johnson, Sergeant Johnson's father, said: 'There's a finality in this that was very difficult to deal with, but there's also comfort that we're reaching to that point where we can say, "Yes, we can now move forward." 'We can find those things that bring us comfort, that help us to celebrate Derek's life and also to pay back to the community.'
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Family of Sergeant Derek Johnson say they are satisfied with the sentence .
He was shot by Timothy Walker after he stopped to check on his car .
Walker's girlfriend still faces charges of obstruction of justice .
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By . Kieran Corcoran . PUBLISHED: . 12:58 EST, 9 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 15:14 EST, 9 January 2014 . Tragic: Vickie Harvey, 24, died from leukaemia last month . A doctor is being investigated after a grieving couple claimed their daughter was 'pushed over the edge' after she was told 'in graphic detail' how she would die of cancer. Fiona Clark, a consultant haematologist at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital, was accused of disobeying the wishes of leukaemia sufferer Vickie Harvey, 24, and her family. Her parents say Miss Harvey had told doctors that she did not want to be kept updated on her terminal condition, from which she passed away on 10 December 2013. She had been diagnosed a year earlier, but made clear she would rather not know the details of her illness. Her parents, Eric, 62 and Lynn, 58, had also asked Dr Clark to spare Miss Harvey the truth, with her father Eric allegedly begging Dr Clark not to say anything, only to have their request ignored. Miss Harvey, a beautician, had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia in September 2012 and had a successful stem cell transplant on Christmas Day the same year. But after months in remission she relapsed in July last year at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. She was transferred to Worcestershire Royal Hospital near her family in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, and was placed under the supervision of Dr Clark. At this point she decided would rather not be completely informed about her condition - leading to 'heartless' Dr Clark allegedly telling her that 'she was going to die'. Just two weeks later, Miss Harvey had died - and her parents say that she 'gave up' after hearing the news. They lodged a complaint with the hospital this morning. Mr Harvey said: 'When we were in Birmingham, Dr Clark phoned me up and I had to beg with her for ten minutes not to tell Vickie that she was dying. 'The nurses knew it was on her record that she didn’t want to know what was happening. It was Vickie’s wish, she told us she didn’t want to know anything bad. 'We were always frightened to death she was going to say or let slip to Vickie. Grief: Eric Harvey, 62 (left) and Lynn Harvey, 58 (right) say that their daughter 'gave up' after hearing that she would soon die . 'Then a week later Vickie had a private meeting with Dr Clark. The exam was only meant to take five minutes but we were waiting for half-an-hour. 'After 30 minutes we went in and Vickie was sobbing her heart out. We asked what was the matter and the doctor just said she was upset because she had been told she had to go back to hospital. 'But outside Vickie just turned around and said ‘Dad, she’s told me everything. She told me what’s going to happen to me and what the future holds. Young: Vickie was just 24 when she passed away - and her parents say she had been asked to be spared the details of her cancer . 'All Vickie said was: "Isn’t there anything else you can do?" And the doctor took that opportunity to tell her everything. 'Hearing how she was going to die in such graphic detail shattered Vickie and she just gave up.' The family also claim Dr Clark even tried to persuade Vickie’s mum Lynn, 58, to sign a ‘do not resuscitate’ form saying she 'didn’t want any hero paramedics' attempting to save her. Mr Harvey added: 'Not long after we had another meeting with the doctor and she was saying how Vickie’s blood count was going up too high. 'And Vickie’s head went down and she started crying and I had to literally carry her out of the room. 'But when I was outside, the doctor just stood there and said to my wife and my eldest daughter, "you do know she’s going to die don’t you - this is going to kill her"’. 'She even tried to get my wife to sign a ‘do not resuscitate’ form without me in there. 'She said "we don’t want any hero paramedics, they are just going to bring her around but she is just going to die in the A&E". 'The doctor kept saying Vickie needed to know so she could plan what was left of her life but as soon as she knew she didn’t last two weeks. 'I think she gave up. She couldn’t eat well because of the illness but she didn’t even try. 'We knew she was going to die but I always thought she would have been here for Christmas. 'Gave up': Miss Harvey's parents say that Vickie did not even try to eat in her final weeks . 'I think she would have lasted another couple of weeks. This doctor just pushed her over the edge. 'The hospital trust have told me they are investigating Dr Clark.' In his letter of complaint to the hospital trust, Mr Harvey added he found the doctor’s attitude 'bullying and overbearing' and that they felt 'verbally abused'. Chief nursing officer Lindsey Webb said Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust would be meeting the family to look into Miss Harvey’s care. 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Dr Fiona Clark is a consultant at Worcestershire Royal Hospital .
She allegedly told Vickie Harvey, 24, details of her fatal leukaemia .
Miss Harvey and her parents had requested that she not be informed .
Mr and Mrs Harvey believe their daughter 'gave up' after hearing bad news .
Family has lodged a complaint with the hospital .
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PayPal may have revolutionised online payments but a new money transfer service is set to make the process even easier - simply by sending an email. Square Cash, part of San Francisco-based company Square - lets users send up to $250 (£154) a week to any email address, on any email provider without the need to sign up and manage an account each time. Once a credit or debit card is linked to an address the first time, a user can send money simply by typing the recipient name into the 'To' field, copying in Square Cash, and typing the amount in the Subject line. Square Cash lets users send up to $250 (£154) a week to any email address. Once a credit or debit card is linked to a email address, a user can send money by typing the recipient name into the 'To' field, copying in Square Cash, and typing the amount in the Subject line . To send money, draft an email with the recipient's address in the 'To' field. Enter 'cash@square.com' in the 'Cc' field. Type the payment amount in the subject line and add a note in the email body to inform the recipient of what the payment is for. Click send. If a user hasn't sent or received Square . Cash before they will be prompted to link a debit card. Once added, the cash will be sent automatically and an email or text message will be sent to confirm the transaction. Once the email is sent, the payment is made automatically and users get an email receipt each time they send money. To receive money, recipients have to 'Redeem' the payment before the money is wired to their account. This requires recipients to also sync a card with Square Cash to received funds, yet this only needs to be done once. Square was founded in 2009 by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. It signed a deal with Starbucks in 2012 to process all the coffee shop chain's debit and credit card transactions. Despite concerns about the service's safety, Square Cash explained: 'To protect Square Cash senders and . recipients, payment information submitted by our customers is encrypted . and submitted to our servers securely, regardless of whether you're . using a public or private WiFi connection or a data service on your . phone. It adds Square Cash conforms with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS). The service also states it 'verifies each Square Cash . email to make sure it comes from a legitimate sender' and monitors activity to check for any suspicious or fraudulent behaviour on an account. As well as email alerts, users can link a mobile phone number to their account to get text receipts. If a payment is sent by mistake it can be cancelled, as long as the payment hasn't been redeemed. Square Cash has not responded to MailOnline's request for further clarification about how the data is stored or what happens if someone fraudulently uses an email address to send money. Its website advises people to make sure they have the strongest security possible on their email account, but does not elaborate further. There are also Android and iOS Square Cash apps available. There are also Square Cash apps available for iOS devices, left, and Android, right. Once the email is sent, the payment is made automatically and users get an email receipt each time they send money. Users can also link a mobile phone number to their account to get text receipts .
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Square Cash works with any email provider and any email address .
To send money, users enter the recipient's address in the 'To' field .
The amount is typed into the 'Subject' line and a dedicated Square Cash address is entered into the 'Cc' field .
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Big day: Navy officer Richard Gray at his wedding in Cornwall in December . Arm-in-arm with his bride as they walk under a guard of honour, this is the Royal Navy officer who allegedly had an affair with Britain’s first female warship captain. Just a month after his ‘perfect wedding’, Lieutenant Commander Richard Gray sailed into a sex scandal aboard HMS Portland. The 35-year-old, who is third-in-command of the Royal Navy frigate, is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with Commander Sarah West, 42, its trailblazing skipper. As both officers face disciplinary action, photographs have emerged of Lt Cdr Gray’s fairytale white wedding to his bride Melissa, 33. They married by the sea in Cornwall, gave guests hand-knitted crochet lobsters and posed for stunning pictures on the beach. The couple had a guard of honour from HMS Portland as they walked from the pretty 16th century St Enodoc’s Church in Trebetherick. And the proud new Mrs Gray – who broke tradition to propose to her groom – even wrote about their special day for Perfect Wedding magazine. Yet they spent only five weeks of married life together before her husband departed for a seven-month tour of the Atlantic on HMS Portland. Lt Cdr Gray is Portland’s operations officer, in charge of weapons and defence systems, and would have been one of the captain’s closest confidantes. But at his wedding, on December 6, 2013, he only had eyes for his bride. An aircraft engineer from Bristol, she wore Manolo Blahnik designer heels and a midi-length white dress. She revealed in her Perfect Wedding article how she proposed during the leap year 2012 on February 29 – traditionally the one day when women can ask for their boyfriend’s hand in marriage. She wrote: 'I proposed to Ritchie while he was away with the Navy. As we were going to be apart, I had bought a card and written him a short note, which I hid in his bag. Scroll down for video . Dedicated: Commander Sarah West said earlier this year that work commitments got in the way of her love life . And now the ship’s captain has been flown home in disgrace over claims of an affair with him. Divorced Cdr West could lose command of her vessel or even be sacked, two years after she made history by becoming the first woman in the Navy’s 500-year history to captain a frontline warship. Royal Navy: Commander Sarah West, 42, took charge of the frigate HMS Portland in May 2012 . Location: Mr and Mrs Gray married at St Enodoc's Church in Trebetherick, Cornwall, last December . HMS Portland (above) in May . 2012, is currently completing a seven-month deployment, during . which she has spent time in Europe, Africa, South and North America, . protecting and promoting national interests . 'On the 29 February I got a phone-call at 6.30am - he had been up since 5am saying yes!' The couple organised a nautical-themed wedding, ‘an obvious choice as we both have a strong connection to the sea’, she said. The bride wrote that the ceremony was ‘incredibly personal, and saying our vows just felt like we were talking to one another’. She added: ‘I don’t think either of us had expected it to be quite so emotional and overwhelming’. Before the wedding, she had shed tears of joy when she collected her silk satin organza bridal gown by designer Gilly Woo. ‘I cried when I picked it up because I couldn't believe it was finished and looked so perfect,’ she said. Investigation: Cdr West, retains her position as . commander of HMS Portland while the Navy investigates . Commander: Sarah West talks to crew on board HMS Portland in 2012, she said in a newspaper interview she was 'really proud' to be the first woman but had not reinvented the wheel . Name: HMS Portland . Operator: Royal Navy . Ordered: February 1996 . Builder: Marconi Marine, . Sponsored by: Lady Heather Brigstocke . Homeport: HMNB Devonport, Plymouth . Length: 133 m (436 ft 4 in) Beam: 16.1 m (52 ft 10 in) Draught: 7.3 m (23 ft 9 in) Speed: In excess of 28 kn (52 km/h; 32 mph) The wedding reception was held at The St Moritz, a £235-a-night luxury hotel close to the resort of Rock, beloved of royals and celebrities. Mrs Gray wrote: ‘All our tables were named after the Shipping Forecast and our “favours” were lobsters adopted from the Padstow Lobster Hatchery. Each certificate of adoption was accompanied by crochet lobsters that I made for each guest.’ The bride and groom had had dance lessons to ensure their first dance was a success, and . Last night Mrs Gray said she did not wish to comment on her husband’s alleged affair. If the claims are proven, both officers may face serious consequences including having their service terminated. The Armed Forces’ Code of Social Conduct bars personnel from having relationships with subordinates if they compromise ‘operational effectiveness’. When she was promoted in 2012, Cdr West revealed putting her career first had damaged her marriage to ex-Navy helicopter pilot Andrew Whitlum, 43, which broke down in 2006.
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Lieutenant Commander Richard Gray, 35, married Melissa, 33, last year .
Accused of having sexual relationship with Commander Sarah West, 42 .
Newlyweds had a ceremonial guard of honour after service in Cornwall .
Cdr West, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire, took charge of HMS Portland in 2012 .
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By . Martin Robinson . A sci-fi obsessed couple who stole £2.3million and spent huge sums on memorabilia in an 'orgy of greed and self-indulgence' will have their much-loved collectables auctioned today. Spendaholic Julie Nickerson, 55, from West Yorkshire, was jailed for five years after she splashed£500,000 on a house, £200,000 on holidays and even £16,000 on Star Trek costumes. Similar amounts were also spent on Darth Vader's helmet, a mint condition Millennium Falcon model, remote controlled daleks and hundreds of other items due to be sold by police today. Her newsagent husband Anthony, 48, jailed for two-and-a-half years, would was called Britain's best kept paper boy because he would deliver the papers in his £50,000 Mercedes. His role was funnelling the millions his wife stole from her laundry company employer through his business. Sci-fi gold: This mint condition replica Millennium Falcon was one of more than 1,000 items bought by a couple later jailed for their part in a £2.3million theft . Proceeds of crime: West Yorkshire Police have demanded a costume worn by the character Scotty in the television programme Star Trek, left, and Darth Vader's helmet, right, be sold to recoup cash . Today 1,000 rare pieces of sci-fi memorabilia they bought only to be seized by police will be auctioned. Actual costumes used in the Star Trek films, including Scotty's jacket, a replica Millennium falcon from Star Wars and remote control Daleks are among the lots in the unusual collection. On instructions from West Yorkshire Police, Wilsons Auctions in Northern Ireland is putting the collection up for sale with no reserve price on any of the items. Aidan Larkin, assets recovery manager at Wilsons, said the auction presented a 'once in a lifetime' opportunity for sci-fi fans. 'These items come round very, very rarely,' he said. 'It's rare for such a large, significant . collection of these items to become available. Normally at the . specialist toy auctions there are one or two items of a certain range - . we have complete waves of toys that were produced.' The Nickersons, pictured outside court, spent the cash on lavish luxury holidays, a house worth half a million pounds a fleet of Mercedes cars and also memorabilia . Collectable: This scale model of the U.S.S. Enterprise is among the diverse and valuable collection once owned by Julie and Anthony Nickerson . Obsessed: This large Bronze & Gold Remote Control Dalek was bought for a huge sum by the couple . Mr Larkin, who said he expected a lot of on-line bids from the United States, said the set of six Star Trek costumes were probably the most valuable items for sale. 'We have been informed when the costumes last changed hands in Christie's Auctions in New York a few years ago the couple in question spent $27,000 (£15,800) on these costumes,' he said. The auction gets under way at 6.30pm in Wilsons' headquarters in Mallusk in north Belfast. The diverse and valuable haul was once owned by a husband and wife who build it up using their ill gotten gains. The Nickersons spent the cash on lavish luxury holidays, a house worth half a million pounds which came complete with five acres of land, a hot spring and swimming pool and a fleet of Mercedes cars. They also splashed £17,000 on film memorabilia from Christie’s Auction House in London and spent a further £10,000 on motorsport events at Silverstone. In May Mr Nickerson admitted transferring and concealing just under £925,000 between July 2009 and December 2012, while in December last year, his wife pleaded guilty to stealing £2.3million from JLA Ltd between 2005 and December 2012 after she was made redundant. Mrs Nickerson, who worked in the accounts and finance department at the firm in Halifax, stole the cash over a seven-year period beginning in 2005. She also admitted money laundering and fraud in relation to a fallse representation made to HM Revenue and Customs. The court heard her husband turned a blind eye to his wife’s dishonesty, and was told by the judge ‘you helped her’ with a theft ‘in breach of trust’. The pair spent the cash on lavish luxury holidays, a house worth half a million pounds which came complete with five acres of land, a hot spring and swimming pool, pictured, and a fleet of Mercedes cars . Recorder Anthony Hawks told Mrs Nickerson, who sobbed as the sentence was read out: ‘You have taken in excess of £2million. You and your husband didn’t need that money. ‘There was no pressing need for the money for an operation or a sick family member. You were comfortably off. ‘What you did was to embark on an orgy of greed and self-indulgence which only came to a head when you were made redundant. ‘You lived a lavish lifestyle. You took holidays that other people could only dream of. You spent thousands of pounds of sports memorabilia. You bought expensive vehicles. The list goes on'.
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Cash went on a house, cars, holidays and extremely rare sci-fi memorabilia .
Couple spent £16,000 on five costumes from Star Trek, including Scotty's .
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(CNN)It might sound like a Vin Diesel movie, but tennis authorities in Australia are hoping that the FAST4 format, which debuted Monday with an exhibition match between world No. 2 Roger Federer and former Wimbledon and US Open champ Lleyton Hewitt, could "revolutionize" the sport. That contest ended in the Swiss star's favor, beating his old friend and rival 4-3 2-3 3-4 4-0 4-3 at Sydney's Qantas Credit Union Arena. This new version of tennis, which marks some of the most significant rule changes in the sport's history, consists of the best-of-three sets with quick changeovers and sudden-death playoffs to prevent tiebreaks from dragging on. The first player to four games wins the set. "Playing Roger in this new format will be an exciting challenge for both of us and a lot of fun," said Hewitt ahead of the match. "It's a fantastic innovation for tennis, and one that I hope will take off." The Australian roadshow will decamp to Melbourne next, with Spanish superstar Rafael Nadal taking on three opponents in separate matches Wednesday. First he'll line up against former US Open finalist Mark Philippoussis before taking on current US Open junior champion Omar Jasika, finally playing a best-of-five match against compatriot Fernando Verdasco. New game, new rules . Billed as tennis' answer to cricket's TV-friendly Twenty20, the two formats share more than just a catchy approach to branding. Both take a fast-paced approach to sports that, for the uninitiated, could be considered soporific. Cricket traditionally takes five days to play a Test -- international -- match, and men's singles tennis can last for hours, or in some rare cases, days. Players will also have to hurry during end-changes, as there are no seating breaks and they get a scant 90 seconds to sit in between sets. A couple of more fundamental rule changes, including the removal of the service let rule -- that requires a server to retake their service if the ball hits the net cord -- and the removal of the advantage point. In FAST4, the receiving player gets to choose which side the serve -- for a sudden death "power" point -- is directed to at deuce. Faster, glitzier tennis . FAST4 promises to provide some of the extravagance and glamor that, the majors aside, some evidently feel is missing from the sport. Proponents hope that the truncated timeframe -- each set is supposed to last no more than 15 minutes, with games typically not lasting for much longer than an hour -- will allow for a greater number of people to find the time to play tennis. "The new format is a game changer and is set to revolutionize the game of tennis, particularly at club and social levels," Tennis Australia' s chief executive officer Craig Tiley said. "Time today is precious and this new fast format is perfect for any player who wants to fit their tennis matches into a busy lifestyle." Tennis Australia high performance coach Craig Morris added: "Our long term objective in creating a product like FAST4 tennis is to attract more people to the sport, and get more people to play tennis. "There's no plan to replace traditional tennis, this is a great complementary product that is entertaining for fans and fun to play." It's not the only innovation that the sport is toying with. The International Premier Tennis League, "the first city-based professional league in the world, played across four countries," debuted in November in 2014.
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By . Associated Press Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 15:51 EST, 11 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 16:01 EST, 11 August 2013 . The dystopian science fiction thriller 'Elysium' topped the weekend box office with $30.5million, according to studio estimates Sunday, enough to beat three newcomers, including the Jennifer Aniston comedy 'We're the Millers.' Sony's 'Elysium,' directed by Neill Blomkamp and starring Matt Damon, opened in line with expectations, but still debuted somewhat modestly for a $115million action film. It couldn't match Blomkamp's previous film, the $30million 'District 9,' which opened with $37.4million in August 2009. But 'Elysium' was able to come out on top in a crowded weekend, with three other new wide releases: the R-rated Warner Bros. comedy 'We're the Millers,' starring Jason Sudeikis and Aniston ($26.6million over the weekend, a strong $38million since opening Tuesday night); Disney's 'Cars' spinoff 'Planes' ($22.5million) and Fox's fantasy sequel 'Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters' ($14.6million over the weekend, $23.5million since Wednesday). Tops at the box office: 'Elysium' came in first with over $30million this weekend . 'District 9' was something of a phenomenon: a relatively low-budget science-fiction film from a first-time, South African director that made over $210million worldwide and landed four Academy Awards nominations, including best picture. Like 'District 9,' 'Elysium' is rife with allegory, a futuristic tale heavy with contemporary themes of wealth discrepancy, health care and immigration. But it was also made with more than three times the budget of 'District 9' and added stars Damon and Jodie Foster. Rory Bruer, head of distribution for Sony said the studio was proud to release an ambitious film like 'Elysium' and said that it would be 'very profitable' for Sony. The film launched internationally in a handful of markets, including Russia, taking in $10.9million overseas. With the added star power of Damon and Foster, 'Elysium' should be a bigger draw than 'District 9' was abroad. 'International is going to be the big, big win on this film for us,' said Bruer. The weekend was enough to push the box office just past the pace of last year, which means that despite several spectacular flops this summer, Hollywood's 2013 is currently equal to its 2012. The year-to-date gross of $7billion is even with last year, although attendance is down 2.9 percent. Socialism or fantasy world?: 'Elysium' predicts future where the one per cent lives on luxury space colony and earth is just overcrowded slum . 'Yes, there's been some high-profile failures,' said Chris Aronson, head of distribution for Fox. 'But the summer's been fantastic despite the gloom and doom some in the media have portrayed.' The market was crowded with family films, including new releases 'Percy Jackson' and 'Planes,' as well as holdovers like Sony's 'Smurfs 2' ($9.5million in its second week) and Fox's 'Turbo' ($2.3million in its fourth week). With the box office led by two R-rated films, it made for a diverse weekend of movie-going. 'It used to be called the dog days of August - and you still get some junk thrown in to August,' said Paul Dergarabedian, analyst for box-office tracker Hollywood.com. 'But it can also be the land of opportunity for films that aren't cookie-cutter for audiences that are burned out by blockbusters.' Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released on Monday. According to Hollywood.com . According to Rentrak .
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'Elysium' is the second-best opening for director Neill Bloomkamp, coming in behind 2009's 'District 9'
'We're the Millers' came in second with $26.6million .
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(CNN) -- Police arrested an Indian man for "violating public decency" and breaching modesty laws after he dressed in traditional Arab women's clothing and slipped into a women-only park in Sharjah, one of the United Arab Emirates. It was not clear if the man's moustache might have been a weak point in his disguise. Read more: Are these shorts too short? Foreigners told to cover up in UAE . Officers arrested the man Friday after multiple complaints from visitors saying they spotted a man walking around the park in women's clothing. A mug shot of the man wearing a headscarf and an abaya, a traditional loose-fitting black garment, has been released by police and widely circulated in the local press. The man, identified only by his initials, R.S.R, violated "principles of public decency and societal customs and authentic Arab Islamic traditions," Sharjah Police said in a news release issued Saturday. Read more: Islamic fashion lets women cover up in style . It was later discovered that the man had been living in the country illegally and his case has been transferred to the public prosecutor's office, police said. The man is in custody and has not been available for comment. Police would not reveal if he has a lawyer, saying only that the case is now with the public prosecutor. The emirate of Sharjah is only 10 miles from its glitzy neighbor, Dubai, but is much more conservative. The third largest emirate in the UAE, Sharjah is known for enforcing a strict dress code under which residents have to be attired decently by Islamic standards. Ladies-only parks, beaches and clubs are common.
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By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 06:15 EST, 21 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 09:12 EST, 21 August 2013 . Most young women could imagine few things worse than being told doctors were going to cut off one of their legs. But Sun Jingjing, from Anyang city in China, was more than happy when medics broke the news to her two months ago. The grindingly poor 22-year-old was struck down by congenital angiolipoma in her right leg at birth which made it swell to the size of her entire torso. As the tumour grew, so too did her pain with blisters covering her leg as it dragged along the floor whenever she walked. Triumph: Sun Jinjing was all smiles as she was wheeled triumphantly out of hospital to a rapturous applause from doctors and nurses . Tumor: The 22-year-old was struck down by congenital angiolipoma in her right leg at birth which made it swell to the size of her entire torso . Hard times: She says her leg would break out in blisters from the summer heat and dragging on the floor while winter would bring frostbite as she never had any clothes to cover it properly . The growth, a tumour composed chiefly of fat cells, is completely benign but rendered her unable to work or enjoy a normal life. 'Whenever the summer came, my leg would break out in blisters from the heat and the fact it would constantly rub on the concrete floor,' she said. 'And when winter came, I even got frostbite because I didn't have clothes that would fit around it. That was incredibly itchy.' To make matters worse for Sun, her father died of kidney failure 12 years ago, and her mother is suffering from terminal esophageal cancer. 'My mother lives a very difficult life,' she added. 'She is in almost constant pain but never complains. Instead she looks after me and I look after her. 'Even in my darkest moments she encourages me to be strong and to survive. My leg may have now gone, but my mother's cancer will not go away. Although all I want is to find a cure for her. 'If there is an afterlife, I hope to be with her again.' Thank you: Sun Jingjing sings a song for her doctor at Armed Police Corps Hospital of Henan following the operation . Ambitions: Sun Jingjing Now she hopes to find a boyfriend, get married and have a family . Nevertheless, Sun was all smiles as she was wheeled triumphantly out of hospital to a rapturous applause from doctors and nurses. She had never received any adequate treatment before leaving her leg to swell to a circumference of 85cm. Now she hopes to find a boyfriend, get married and have a family.
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Cardiff City owner Vincent Tan is one of 22 owners of a new Los Angeles football franchise unveiled by Major League Soccer on Thursday. The Malaysian businessman, who has courted controversy by changing the colour of Cardiff's shirts from blue to red, is joined by the likes of Basketball Hall of Famer Magic Johnson and U.S. women's football great Mia Hamm. The surprisingly large group is led by Vietnamese-American venture capitalist Henry Nguyen, Peter Guber, co-owner of the NBA's Golden State Warriors, and former NBA executive turned television analyst Tom Penn. Cardiff owner Vincent Tan is part of a 22-person group investing in a new LA football franchise . The Malaysian businessman has courted controversy over his ownership of the Welsh club . Former Major League Baseball player Nomar Garciaparra, who is Hamm's husband, and motivational speaker Tony Robbins are also among the owners. The new team, which has a working name of Los Angeles Football Club, is scheduled to begin play in 2017 and will compete with the four-times MLS champion LA Galaxy club for support. 'We believe this team can become one of the most outstanding clubs in Major League Soccer and a globally-recognized brand,' Nguyen said in a statement. 'Today is day one and time for us to focus on developing a world-class stadium for the club to play in and for fans to enjoy.' The team's official name, front office, coaching and administrative staff will be announced at later dates. Basketball legend Magic Johnson is among the owners of the 'Los Angeles Football Club' Another owner, Mia Hamm, shows her gold medal after winning the women's football at the 2004 Olympics . 'Los Angeles is a diverse, vibrant market with millions of soccer fans, and we look forward to an intense rivalry between the Galaxy and Los Angeles Football Club,' said MLS Commissioner Don Garber . The unveiling on the new team comes three days after MLS said struggling Chivas USA, which had ground-shared with the Galaxy at the StubHub Center in the L.A. suburb of Carson, had ceased operations. New York City FC, owned by Manchester City of England's Premier League and baseball's New York Yankees, will join MLS next season along with another expansion team, Orlando City SC, as the league grows to 20 teams in its 20th year. The new football franchise will rival Robbie Keane's (R) LA Galaxy for support when it begins life in 2017 .
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Cardiff owner is accompanied by the likes of Magic Johnson and Mia Hamm .
New MLS team will begin playing in 2017 and rival LA Galaxy for support .
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Arsene Wenger has addressed Arsenal's defensive frailties this season by signing Villarreal defender Gabriel Paulista for an initial fee of £11.2million. The Brazilian centre-back had helped Villarreal towards the second best defensive record in La Liga and will be a welcome addition at the Emirates where the Gunners' backline has been depleted by injuries this term. The 24-year-old has already been granted a UK work permit and is expected to complete his move on Monday, but who is Paulista and is he the answer to Arsenal's defensive woes? Gabriel Paulista (left) is expected to complete his move from Villarreal to the Emirates on Monday . Gunners fans will hope Paulista can shore up a defence that has been depleted by injuries this season . Arsene Wenger has identified Paulista as his main transfer target in the January transfer window . Arsenal’s new signing Gabriel or Paulista? Gabriel to Villarreal fans. And that’s likely to be his footballing name in London too. How long has he been in Europe? He signed for Villarreal in the summer of 2013 from Brazilian side Vitoria. Villarreal were debating between signing Barcelona central defender Marc Bartra and 22-year-old Gabriel and they opted for the boy from Brazil. Paulista has starred for Villarreal this season but will need time to adapt to the pace of the Premier League . Paulista embraces Villarreal captain Bruno Soriano after being presented with a farewell gift . And they chose well? He was a reliable reserve at first but injuries to first choice centre-backs Mateo Musacchio and Victor Ruiz gave him his chance and he took it. This season he had been near ever-present and a consistent performer in the team with the second best defensive record in the division. It’s fair to say, however, that the jump from Spain to the Premier League will be even more testing than the one from Brazil to La Liga. Where might he be found wanting? He’s less than two years out of Brazil and still a little raw. Arsene Wenger is buying huge potential but not the finished article. Learning your trade in Brazil and then playing in La Liga might also not serve as the greatest apprenticeship for the Premier League where many of the teams he faces will be far more direct than he has been used to. But he is 6ft 1in and competent in the air and it’s also true that he bring a lot of other strengths to the table. Arsene Wenger will be pleased that the 24-year-old has an impressive fitness record . And they are? He will give the team excellent distribution out of defence. Displays confidence and maturity on the ball. He is also quick, strong and aggressive. And, perhaps of extra importance to Arsenal in view of their record – Gabriel’s fitness record is very good – barely missed a game since arriving from Brazil. And he’ll be missed at El Madrigal? They have reasonable back-up in Musacchio and Ruiz and will buy before the window shuts but yes Gabriel had emerged as the best of the three central defenders at the club this season. They are used to seeing their best players leave and Joel Campbell’s arrival softens the blow but coach Marcelino admitted it was ‘inopportune’. Paulista was brought to tears as he said his final goodbyes to fans at El Madrigal . From his tears it looks as if Gabriel will miss Villarreal . He was very settled on Spain’s east coast. The move was also something of a surprise. But we’ve seen goodbye tears from Alberto Moreno before joining Liverpool and a watery eye from Adrian when he left Betis to join West Ham. Gabriel will settle quickly; he knows this is his big chance. And he’ll have a friend at the Emirates before a ball is kicked. Santi Cazorla knows all about swapping Villarreal for the Premier League albeit in his case via Malaga.
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Arsenal are on the verge of signing Villarreal defender Gabriel Paulista .
Brazilian centre-back has helped the Yellow Submarines to the second best defensive record in La Liga .
Arsene Wenger's defence has been hampered by injuries to the likes of Laurent Koscielny and Per Mertesacker this season .
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By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 20:22 EST, 11 March 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 20:34 EST, 11 March 2014 . An Iowa teenager who pleaded guilty to shooting his grandparents with his grandfather's rifle will spend the rest of his life behind bars. On Tuesday, a judge described Isaiah Sweet, 19, as a cold-blooded killer who should never get another chance at freedom before handing down the maximum sentence of life in prison without parole. Sweet has been charged with the May 2012 slayings of Janet and Richard Sweet at their home in Manchester. Heartless killer: Isaiah Sweet, pictured left in a mugshot in 2012 and right in court Tuesday, was sentenced to life in prison without parole for his grandparents' murders . Public enemy: A judge described the 19-year-old as a dangerous man and a threat to society . ‘He may be young, but he has shown the world who he is,’ Judge Michael Shubatt said, reading a written ruling in a Delaware County courtroom in Manchester in front of several of the victims' friends and relatives. ‘He is extremely dangerous. He is now and will continue to be a threat to society.’ Sweet had pleaded guilty last year to two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of the couple, his legal guardians. He was a 17-year-old high school dropout when he shot them in the head on a Friday evening. Their bodies were found on a sofa in their home two days later on Mother's Day, when relatives came over for a gathering. A day after the killings, Sweet drove 75 miles south to the college town of Iowa City to party with friends. He was briefly held on a traffic charge and released to a counselor. He was eventually arrested in connection with the slayings one day after the bodies were found, following an intense manhunt in which he ran from police on foot in a wooded area of Cedar Rapids. First-degree murder convictions normally carry automatic prison sentences of life without parole in Iowa. Murdered: He shot dead Richard and Janet Sweet, . pictured, on their couch in May 2012. He said he had first considered . poisoning his grandfather's beer and then beating him with a baseball . bat . But because Sweet was 17, he qualified for a possible shorter sentence under recent rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court and the Iowa Supreme Court that require judges to consider whether teenage offenders can be rehabilitated. Those rulings say that, at a minimum, judges must conduct hearings to consider each defendant's situation rather than giving them harsh, automatic sentences. Sweet's defense asked for a chance for parole after 25 years, citing an expert who claimed he might have a 75 per cent chance of rehabilitating. Emotional: Amanda Sweerin, granddaughter of Richard and Janet Sweet, is weeping during the sentencing of Isaiah Sweet at the Delaware County Courthouse Tuesday . Shubatt said he believed that was overly optimistic, and that Sweet was the rare juvenile offender who deserved life behind bars. Sweet shot two unsuspecting victims simply because he did not like the control they exercised over him, Shubatt said. He planned the killings by consulting with others and then sold off his grandparents' belongings afterward, even showing a friend a television a few feet from their bodies, Shubatt said. Assistant Attorney General Denise Timmins, who prosecuted the case, said she believed the sentence marked the first time since a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that a juvenile offender in Iowa has received life without parole. ‘If it's warranted in any case, this is the one,’ she told reporters, calling the crime premeditated and heinous. ‘He took two people's lives without a thought about it.’ Sweet didn't show any emotion after the ruling, leaving the courtroom with his attorneys. They are expected to appeal the sentencing. Angie Camlin, a daughter of the Sweets, told reporters that she did not believe Isaiah Sweet could be rehabilitated, noting that one doctor called him ‘a psychopath with no empathy.’ ‘This cannot be healed with medicine and you cannot teach a person how to feel. He was raised by grandparents who showed him love and cared for him deeply,’ she said. Beyond help: Angie Camlin, daughter of Janet Sweet, told reporters that she did not believe Isaiah Sweet could be rehabilitated . A friend of Sweet, 21-year-old Brandon Ahlers, was sentenced last year to 18 years in prison after admitting to being an accessory. Investigators say Sweet and Ahlers discussed different ways the couple might be killed, with Ahlers advising him on how to use the rifle. After the couple was dead, Ahlers broke into the home so he could steal Richard Sweet's vehicle and other items. Sweet also gave the rifle to Ahlers, who sold it. Camlin praised Shubatt for giving Sweet the maximum, saying it makes her feel safer. ‘I won't feel that I have to look over my shoulder in 20 or 30 years,’ she said, ‘or have my grandchildren on the same street as someone who cannot be helped.’ Smile of a killer: Isaiah Sweet, 18, grins as he is escorted by sheriff officers after pleading guilty to shooting dead his grandparents in court in Dubuque, Iowa on Monday . Sweet's guilty plea last October came after the prosecution played a two-hour video of Sweet's interview . with investigators after he was arrested on May 14, 2012, the Dubuque Times Herald reported. He explained that he had decided to kill his parents after his grandfather constantly put him down, told him he should kill himself and made the teen's life 'a living hell'. '[I] walked . up the stairs... had the earmuffs on and everything, stepped up until I . saw my grandpa's head, boom, pulled the trigger,' Sweet said in the interview. 'Pulled . the bolt back, shot my grandma twice in the head. 'I went up to . them, and I broke down and started crying. I told them how much I loved . them,' he said, adding that he kissed them both. 'I don’t know what's wrong with me.' In court: He said he understood that he faces a sentence of life in prison as he pleaded guilty on Monday . Anger: Sweet said that he killed his grandparents as his grandfather had made his life a 'living hell' He sobbed: 'I want to go back so bad.' Both were found slumped dead on their couch with wounds to the head. He then jumped in his grandfather's truck from their home in Manchester to Iowa City where he went to parties so he didn't think of the killings. Sweet told investigators he had tried to kill himself before murdering his grandparents and after their deaths, he tried to commit suicide every night by choking himself until he was caught. He was arrested three days later after a police chase. In the interview, he told investigators that he wanted police to shoot him when they found him. He said he had first considered poisoning his grandfather's beer and then beating him with a baseball bat. Testimony: Investigator Scott Regert gestures how Sweet described pointing and shooting the rifle. After the killings, the teen fled in his grandfather's truck but was found three days later . 'They didn’t deserve that,' Sweet said of the killings. 'If anyone in the house deserved that, I did.' Before pulling the trigger, he said he had considered other methods of how to kill his guardians. The teen thought about . poisoning his grandfather's beer. He decided to kill him with a bat but . couldn't go through with the swing because he didn't want his . grandparents to feel any pain. He eventually opted to use his grandfather's rifle.
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Isaiah Sweet, 19, admitted killing Richard Sweet, 55, and Janet Sweet, 62, as they sat on their couch in Manchester, Iowa in May 2012 .
He wanted to kill them as his grandfather made his life a 'living hell'
A judge said despite his youth, Sweet was extremely dangerous and a threat to society .
Sweet's defense asked for a chance for parole after 25 years, but the presiding judge said he was beyond rehabilitation .
The high school dropout told investigators he had considered poisoning his grandfather's beer or beating him to death with baseball bat .
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"she said. Beyond help: Angie Camlin, daughter of",
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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Janelle Monae is a girl from another planet, and she's invading your world. Janelle Monae creates "cool, futuristic soul with a real '80s quality," says a DJ. Sightings of the singer-songwriter will include this week's "American Idol" finale, the Hollywood Bowl and concert stages across America this summer and TV's Sci Fi Channel this fall. Monae insists that her real identity is Cindi Mayweather, an android traveling through space and time to escape destruction ordered because she fell in love with a human, a fatal infraction of robots' rules. Along the way, she's making music that moves into the future while drawing from decades past. "It is cool, futuristic soul with a real '80s quality," said Garth Trinidad, a disc jockey at Los Angeles, California, radio station KCRW. Trinidad spotted Monae three years ago, and he's been watching her like an astronomer tracking the approach of a distant comet destined to light Earth's sky. "I believe she's going to be a household name in the next year or two," said Trinidad, a self-described "champion of the underdog" who is credited with giving Jill Scott and Gnarls Barkley early radio airplay. Monae -- the human -- is a striking combination of voice, style, imagination and fearlessness that defies conventional description, making it easier to buy into the fantasy of Mayweather the android. When her song "Many Moons" was nominated for a Grammy in December, it was in the urban/alternative category. If Monae is an android from the future, her musical programming included the past. Trinidad compared her "very fluid, very pleasing" voice to Donna Summer, circa 1976. At a Los Angeles show this month, she mixed 20th-century classics with her own futuristic songs. Monae delivered a sweet version of Nat King Cole's "Smile" while standing atop a barstool. Senior citizens danced the "Twist" when her band broke out into the Beatles' 1964 hit "I Saw Her Standing There." She loves timeless music, Monae said after her show. "We look to a lot of people whose bodies are dead and gone, but their spirit is still with us," Monae said. Her choreography borrows from James Brown, Michael Jackson and Devo, with dance moves from the future. Monae -- or Mayweather -- thinks she can fly. She jumped head-first into the audience, "crowd surfing" the unlikely mosh pit in UCLA's Royce Hall. Search Monae's name on YouTube and you'll see her jumping into swimming pools to end her shows. She climbed a tree in New York -- after her swim. Unlike some performers, her talent matches Monae's onstage antics, Trinidad said. "It's one thing for her to perform a certain way, but she backs with it up with talent," he said. Monae's android-on-the-run theme, reminiscent of the 1982 movie "Blade Runner," reminds Trinidad "of all the great albums from the past that had a story and concept attached." "She was just kind of like bored with everything else going on, and she wanted to transcend it and tell a story," he said. Monae said she is not following a formula, that she is "being led by my maker." "I'm very similar to a terminal," she said. Monae will inevitably capture the world's attention because she is "outshining a lot of what's happening in the mainstream," Trinidad said. That time may be near. Sean "Diddy" Combs signed her to his Bad Boy Records, giving her music distribution. Coca-Cola hired Monae to sing on its "Open Happiness" ad campaign. It airs on this week's "American Idol" finale. Her tour stops next month include at least six shows in the northeastern United States, opening for Gwen Stefani's reunited rock group No Doubt. Monae then plays the Hollywood Bowl with the legendary jazz singer Etta James. She plays herself in two episodes of the Sci Fi Channel's "Stargate Universe" this fall.
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Singer has alter ego: Cindi Mayweather, futuristic android on the run .
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By . Kerry Mcqueeney . PUBLISHED: . 03:19 EST, 22 June 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 05:05 EST, 22 June 2012 . A man walked into an upmarket New York art gallery and snatched a $150,000 Salvado Dali painting from the wall. The audacious thief posed as a customer at the Venus Over Manhattan art gallery, on Madison Avenue, before he removed the small watercolour and ink painting and put it into a bag, . The piece, Dali's Cartel des Don Juan Tenorio which was painted in 1949, formed part of the gallery's inaugural exhibition. Audacious: The thief, who was posing as a customer, was caught on CCTV leaving the gallery with the painting's frame poking out of his bag . Gallery owner and art dealer Adam Lindemann told police the thief took the piece during 'regular business hours, with a security guard', the New York Post reported. According to the New York Post, the man told the security guard: 'I want to take a picture of this painting.' He . was given permission, on the condition he did not use a flash, but when . the guard was distracted by another gallery visitor the thief slipped . the painting off the wall and put it into his bag. Police are now hunting the man, who was captured on the gallery's CCTV leaving with the artwork on Tuesday. Stolen: The $150,000 Dali painting - Cartel des Don Juan Tenorio - was completed in 1949 and formed part of the gallery's inaugural exhibition . Surrealist: Spanish artist Salvador Dali, who died in 1989, was famous for his paintings of melted clocks and dream-like landscapes . Surveillance footage shows the man carrying a heavyweight paper shopping bag into the third-floor gallery. The CCTV footage shows the frame from the painting poking out of the top of his shopping bag. Jacquie Tellalian, a 58-year-old visitor to the gallery, told the New York Post: 'We went inside to see the show, and we were wondering where the Salvador Dali painting was. 'It’s a small painting, but how did he just put in his bag and walk out like that? I hope somebody finds it.' The suspect is a white man, about 5ft 6in, 160lbs and aged between 35 and 42 years. Detectives say he was wearing a black and white checked shirt as well as dark coloured jeans and shoes. Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali, . who died in 1989, was famous for his paintings of melted clocks and . dream-like landscapes.
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(CNN) -- Hip-hop artist Common wants to create a supportive community for youths on Chicago's South Side. The Grammy Award winner started the Common Ground Foundation to help underserved youth develop leadership and life skills. Common also performed at "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute" last year. CNN's Allie Torgan recently spoke with him about CNN Heroes and his philanthropy. Below are excerpts: . Allie Torgan: What inspired you to start the Common Ground Foundation? Common: I started (the foundation) with some of my team members because we wanted to give back to the youth who didn't have some of the opportunities we had. The programs are really about building holistic people, children. We want them to be together and get educated on everything from health issues to just being allowed to be creative. Everything that's necessary to build a complete human being, we try to issue in with the Common Ground Foundation. The kids get to do creative cooking, creative writing and then also get assisted in some of their academic work in school. Torgan: Why is this cause important to you? Common: I grew up on the South Side of Chicago with my mother and my stepfather, and I was provided a nice home, a home with love in it. And I felt a lot of my friends didn't have some of the opportunities I had. Also, they had loved ones who they had lost. My whole life growing up, I was doing the little things that I could do (to help people). I would watch my mother do the things that she does. As a teacher, she's an educator and also would just go the extra mile to help people. Those are the traits that I picked up that made me say, "Hey, I want to do this because I have seen, throughout my life, people I love that didn't have the chance, that didn't have the opportunities I had." Torgan: What's your goal for the kids? Common: I want to empower the kids because there is a lot of gang violence and there is a lot of lack of love in the neighborhoods, and that starts in the home. I want to empower them first by letting them know that they are loved and people do care. They might not have the parent, or one parent might be missing, or one parent might not be sufficient in raising them. But they have other people that do care. And somewhere within this village is somebody that's going to reach out and help give them a chance to pursue their dream. So we empower them first by instilling some love in them and being their support system. And then we help to develop whatever their skills are. We want to prepare them to be able to go out into the world and do things for themselves so they can be leaders. It's about being their leader. You got to lead yourself first. Torgan: What was it like performing at "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute" last year? Common: (It) was an incredible experience. I felt distinguished being there, because there were so many people who really cared about things. My mother told me before going there: getting invited there, that is an important place to be because that is where a lot of people that do the real work are. These are people who do work for real in the world helping people. And it was super-inspiring to me. I have to step up more, because you see people who dedicate their lives to helping others. Being able to perform with John Legend and Melanie Fiona was a great experience. I was like, "I want to go back, I need to get invited back." But more than anything, I was grateful to be there and observe people and honor the people that were selected to be CNN Heroes, because it was well deserved and they inspired us all. Torgan: What is a hero to you? Common: A hero to me is someone who is able to take whatever talent, gift, personality, quality and utilize it to help build others. And obviously a hero has done it to build themselves to a certain level. But you use the plateau you reached and you say, "Hey, I can do something for other people to help them to get to the same place I got to." So I look at a hero as somebody who is willing to sacrifice that and go back and reach out for others.
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His Common Ground Foundation tries to help youth pursue their dreams .
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By . Simon Caldwell For The Daily Mail . A Dutch euthanasia doctor killed a woman in her 80s because she did not want to live in a nursing home. The death has prompted regulators to refer the case to prosecutors for the first time since euthanasia was legalised in the Netherlands 12 years ago. The unidentified woman died by lethal injection in the Levenseindekliniek – or Life End Clinic – after she complained she did not want to spend the rest of her life in a care home. The doctor administered a lethal injection to the woman in 80s who had complained she did not want to spend the rest of her life in a care home after she was partially paralysed by a stroke (picture posed by models) A doctor concluded the unhappiness of the woman, who had been partially paralysed by a stroke, constituted ‘unbearable suffering’ – the legal requirement for euthanasia. But the regional review committee, which polices euthanasia, found the doctor was negligent and referred the case to the Public Prosecution Service, which will decide whether a crime has been committed. It comes months after Professor Theo Boer, a member of a review committee, warned UK politicians not to legalise assisted suicide because the Dutch experiment had been a disaster. The Life End Clinic was established in the Hague in 2012 to provide euthanasia to patients whose family doctors object to it. It has helped about 250 patients to die in the past two years and also has mobile doctors to administer lethal drugs in people’s homes. According to the Dutch newspaper Trouw, regulators acted after the doctor who killed the woman based the decision to end her life ‘solely on the fact that the patient was in a nursing home’. The Life End Clinic was established in the Hague in 2012 to provide euthanasia to patients . Twenty years earlier the woman had put in writing her desire not to live in a such a home if she became incapacitated. She expressed this wish verbally to her doctor 18 months ago and soon afterwards was left unable to communicate properly by a stroke. A family member contacted the euthanasia clinic when he formed the impression that the woman had begun to complain. An independent doctor who visited her reported that she said only two words – ‘kan niet [can not]’ – and that she held her head in her hands. According to a report by the regulators, this was regarded by the doctor as sufficient evidence of ‘despair and unhappiness’ to constitute unbearable suffering. But nursing home staff reported that the elderly woman was very often content, friendly and quiet. The case represents the second time in four months that regulators have criticised the clinic. In April officials said a doctor had not conducted sufficient interviews with a woman with psychiatric problems before helping her to die. A week before peers debated proposals by Lord Falconer to legalise assisted suicide in the UK, Professor Boer – who has reviewed around 4,000 lethal injection deaths – warned: ‘Don’t go there.’ Once an advocate of euthanasia, he said he now thought the Dutch were ‘terribly wrong’ to think they could control it. The professor said his country had seen an ‘explosive increase’ in euthanasia deaths since 2007 and he expected the number to hit a record 6,000 this year. He was also gravely concerned at the extension of killing to new groups, including the depressed. Campaigners Dignity in Dying said the Assisted Dying Bill, due to reach the committee stage in the Lords in November, is based on a model that ‘has never been extended beyond the criteria of terminal illness’. But Paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson said the killing of the care home resident showed safeguards ‘do not work’. Lord Carlile of Berriew, who investigated euthanasia for a parliamentary inquiry, said: ‘The Dutch experiment shows that [the law] will be abused, that policing such abuse is extremely difficult and, of course, it is always too late.’
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Unidentified woman died by lethal injection at the Life End Clinic after stroke .
Doctor concluded unhappiness of woman constituted 'unbearable suffering'
Regional review committee found doctor was negligent and case referred .
Life End Clinic established in Hague in 2012 to provide euthanasia to patients .
Has helped 250 patients to die in the past two years and has mobile doctors .
UK politicians warned not to legalise assisted suicide after Dutch experiment .
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(CNN) -- Scott Brown knows how to stay in the spotlight. And for a politician who's sitting on the sidelines, possibly waiting to make his next move, staying in the spotlight is smart politics. Some out-of-office politicians write books, some host cable TV or radio talk shows or serve as pundits. Brown's following a different playbook. The former U.S. senator from Massachusetts, who recently moved to New Hampshire and is considering a GOP challenge this year to Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, is once again in the headlines. Brown jammed on stage this past weekend at a concert in Lynn, Massachusetts, with longtime rock group Cheap Trick, joining the band in playing "Surrender," one of its biggest hits from the 1970s. "Hope you all enjoy this as much as I did," he said in a Facebook post, which links to the YouTube video of Brown singing and playing guitar. The story played across New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and grabbed some national coverage as well. This was the second high-profile jam session for Brown, who started to play guitar about year ago. In December, he rocked with his daughter, Ayla, of "American Idol" fame, and Mike Huckabee on the former Arkansas governor and 2008 GOP presidential candidate's Fox News Channel program. A few weeks ago, Brown made the front page of the "Union Leader," New Hampshire's largest newspaper, as he stripped down to his bathing suit for the annual Penguin plunge at Hampton Beach. The event raises money for the Special Olympics. Brown famously stripped down years before, as a Cosmopolitan centerfold during his years as a law school student. From the State House to Capitol Hill . In January 2010, the little-known Republican state senator in Massachusetts pulled an upset in a special election to serve the final three years of the late Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy's term. Brown lost his 2012 re-election bid to Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren. Since leaving Capitol Hill, Brown took an on-air contributor gig at Fox News, served as a colonel in the Army National Guard's office at the Pentagon, and is an attorney at the global law firm of Nixon Peabody, which has offices in Boston. Last year, he passed on running in a special election in Massachusetts to fill the term of John Kerry, who left the Senate to become secretary of state. And at the time, Brown also announced that he wouldn't make a 2014 bid for an open governor's seat in the Bay State. Brown last year made a number of speaking appearances at GOP events in the Granite State. And last fall, in another hint about a possible run for the Senate in New Hampshire, Brown dropped the 'MA' from his Twitter handle. A few months later, he sold his home in the Bay State and moved his residency north to New Hampshire. A brand name . Brown's well known in New England, which gives him many advantages. "He can be an undeclared candidate and make news. He doesn't need to build his name ID," a Republican strategist who's been in contact with Brown told CNN. "That gives him the luxury to wait longer than a new and unknown candidate. He already has a brand name and has the ability to raise resources to launch a campaign," the strategist said. Brian Walsh, a GOP strategist and communications director for the National Republican Senatorial Committee the past two election cycles, said Brown's cementing his image as a regular guy. "The main reasons candidates announce early is to raise money, boost name ID and to have an edge in their party's primary. But Scott Brown already enjoys the unique position where those aren't necessarily major factors if he decides to run in a state with a late September primary and where he's already well-known and well-liked among many New Hampshire voters," Walsh said. Brown's strong name ID is definitely a plus, but it also may be a minus. After a couple of outside conservative groups ran TV commercials in support of Brown, Shaheen started fundraising off the threat of a Brown entry into the race. And some outside pro-Democratic groups targeted Brown, including the Senate Majority PAC, which went up with attack ads, charging that he's a favorite of the Wall Street crowd. Will Brown run? The strategist in contact with Brown, who asked to remain anonymous to speak freely, says Brown's looking to make a decision about a Senate bid in the next few weeks. "I think he understands the opportunity in 2014 to win, but he's facing a number of family concerns that are weighing on this decision. I think he is genuinely conflicted and he first needs to figure out if he has the ability to run a political campaign given the family concerns. Among those concerns is his mother's in declining health. Plus, he's helping to plan two weddings right now, as both of his daughters are getting married this summer," the source said. Some New Hampshire Republicans who at first didn't take Brown's flirtations seriously have changed their minds. "I've gone from a skeptic to a convert on the possibility of a Brown candidacy. He appears to be considering this race very seriously, which clearly makes Sen. Shaheen and her team nervous. His favorable poll numbers plus the activist encouragement he is receiving only helps," GOP strategist Jim Merrill told CNN. "Either way, voters hope he decides soon as they're anxious for the primary field to be set, with other GOP candidates out there working hard," added Merrill, who was a senior adviser for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign. As Brown continues to mull his options, CNN has confirmed he will speak next month at the Northeast Republican Leadership Conference, a high-profile event in New Hampshire. This latest move keeps Brown in the spotlight, and sparks more speculation he'll run for Senate. 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Most sidelined politicians write books, do talk show rounds or become a pundit .
Former Sen. Scott Brown has been showing up to jam with likes of Cheap Trick .
Brown moved from Massachusetts to New Hampshire, where he's considering a Senate run .
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Click here to read former England coach David Lloyd's column following the heartbreaking news of Phillip Hughes' death . You never expect something like this to happen in your game. Yes, we have seen serious injury in cricket and yes people have died playing the game, but I just did not believe it could happen to a professional in the modern, helmeted era. This is an absolute tragedy for the family of Phillip Hughes, his friends and the whole cricket community. It will stay forever with those team-mates and opponents who were on the field with him at the SCG on Tuesday. I have seen people hit on the head in a cricket match and thought, ‘Crikey that’s bad.’ But if a batsman is knocked down you always expect them to get back up again. You don’t expect them to stay down, like poor Hughes did. VIDEO Scroll down to watch A tribute to Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes . Australian batsman Phillip Hughes tragically passed away aged 25 after being struck by a bouncer . Hughes (left) chats with Simon Katich (right) before play at the third Ashes Test at the Edgbaston in 2009 . I never feared facing a cricket ball and maybe as a pro you have to be like that if you are going to succeed. But I know that if I was playing now I would be feeling very different about what could happen the next time I went out to bat. You are taught as a batsman to keep your eye on the ball but if you cannot hit it then your instinct when batting or fielding at short leg is to turn your head away, as Hughes did at the SCG when he went through with the shot too early. You do it as an act of self-preservation if you cannot hit the ball or get out of the way of it but it can expose the back of your head and neck where Phillip was hit. I was always told that your temple was the area in most need of protection, not the back of the head. This will make everybody who plays the game at any level think again, not to mention the manufacturers who try to make helmets as effective as they can be. Sportsmail's Nasser Hussain (left) commentates during the toss before the 2013 third Ashes Test at Old Trafford as England captain Alastair Cook (middle) invites Australian counterpart Michael Clarke to call . If anything, short leg fielders are even more vulnerable than batsmen because you are in the lap of the Gods fielding there. I would urge all cricketers, young and old, to think about their safety as much as they possibly can. As I said here the other day, it is in the nets or watching others bat where you can be most at risk. Keep your eye on the ball at all times. I didn’t know Phillip well but those who did say he was a terrific lad who was very popular among his team-mates and throughout the game, not only in Australia but in England and wherever else he played. He was a little fighter on the field, as we saw with the way he overcame technical issues to be on the brink of a Test comeback with Australia, but this was one fight he just could not win. It really was a freak accident. The Adelaide Oval, Hughes' home ground, pays poignant tribute after the news broke on Thursday . Cricket Australia have a tricky decision to make as to whether next week’s first Test against India should go ahead at the Gabba. How can people like Brad Haddin, David Warner and Nathan Lyon, who were there at the SCG with Hughes, holding their dying friend in their arms, possibly think about playing now? I think it should come down to each individual’s decision. The Test could be held as a tribute to Hughes but if any of the players do not feel in the right frame of mind to play again so soon then that will obviously be respected by everyone. Should the game change? Well, protective equipment will inevitably be looked at but there is only so far you can go with helmets. If they are so heavy and comprehensive that they can effect movement or vision then they could do more harm than good. It is a balancing act. Maybe the game needs to look at intimidatory bowling at tail-enders too. We used to giggle when we saw someone like Phil Tufnell backing away from fast bowlers but this tragedy puts that very much into context. What I would say is that fast bowling is one of the great attractions of cricket. Watching Mitchell Johnson last winter was absolutely exhilarating, the best part of the Ashes. It is a great skill and not one that can be taken away from cricket. Cricket will take stock, do everything it can do, but ultimately it will carry on. It has to. For now all we can do is offer every sympathy to Phillip’s family and friends who are going through something no cricketer’s loved ones ever should. Hughes (left) congratulates Ashton Agar (right) after the Australian No 11 reaches 50 against England in 2013 . VIDEO Hughes dies from head injuries .
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Former England captain Nasser Hussian says the Phillip Hughes tragedy will make every cricketer think again .
'I would urge all cricketers, young and old, to think about their safety as much as they possibly can'
Hussain: 'The game needs to look at intimidatory bowling at tail-enders too... this puts that very much into context'
'All we can do is offer every sympathy to Phillip’s family and friends'
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Washington (CNN) -- First Lady Michelle Obama will lead the U.S. delegation to the opening ceremonies of the London Olympics in July, she said Tuesday. Obama announced her London trip at an event Tuesday with Samantha Cameron, the wife of visiting British Prime Minister David Cameron. Obama also used the meeting to promote her "Let's Move" initiative that tackles the national epidemic of childhood obesity by recommending physical activity. "In the months ahead, I'll be talking to Americans all across the country to encourage even more young people to tap into that Olympic spirit and turn their inspiration into action," Obama said in a statement. "As the Olympic creed states, 'the most important thing ... is not to win, but to take part.' And that doesn't just mean sitting and watching, it means getting up and getting active as well," the first lady said. The White House will announce in coming months the delegates who will accompany Obama to London. Other first ladies have led a presidential delegation to past Olympic Games. The 2012 Summer Olympic Games' opening ceremony will take place on July 27. CNN's Michael Martinez contributed to this report.
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ITV’s shock axing of Adrian Chiles allows the network to introduce Mark Pougatch as their new lead football presenter ahead of a fiercely fought TV auction for Premier League highlights. ITV Sport will bid strongly against BBC’s Match of the Day for TV rights to be awarded in around a week’s time and the commercial channel wanted to complete their reshuffle of on-screen football talent before then. It is expected that the price of the highlights package, for which the BBC paid £183million for their current three-year deal, could rise to as much as £300m and ITV have the deeper pockets. Adrian Chiles, who has been replaced as ITV's lead football host, pictured in west London on Friday . Chiles appeared in good spirits despite the news, as he walked near his home in west London . THIS SEASON . ITV - England internationals, Champions League, Europa League . Sky Sports - Premier League, Champions League, other home nations internationals . BBC - Premier League highlights, FA Cup . 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He joined ITV from the BBC on a £6m four-year contract in 2010 which included hosting breakfast show Daybreak. Since the demise of that programme and ITV losing live rights to the FA Cup, Champions League and Europa League, Chiles was increasingly seen as a luxury who did little for the ratings. The 47-year-old Brummie was trying to negotiate new terms when ITV started their football revamp by announcing earlier this month that second-choice presenter Matt Smith’s contract would not be renewed at the end of the season and pundit Andy Townsend would be leaving by mutual consent. Chiles has been replaced by Pougatch as ITV's lead football host with immediate effect . Chiles and pundits Lee Dixon, Ian Wright and Glenn Hoddle (L-R) get soaked by a spinkler in Switzerland . Chiles (left) has been replaced by Mark Pougatch (right), pictured working for BBC Radio 5 Live . Former Manchester United midfielder Roy Keane (centre) left ITV prior to last summer's World Cup in Brazil . Chiles presented ITV's Champions League coverage but the channel will not show live games next season . Instead of a new agreement, Chiles has been shown the door. He leaves immediately with ITV’s unusual ‘no comment’ about anything to do with his exit suggesting there is a legal fight brewing over the size of his pay-off. Pougatch will be in the hot seat for ITV’s next live match on February 17, the first leg of Chelsea’s Champions League tie with Paris Saint-Germain but will continue to work for BBC Radio 5 Live. He will reduce his football involvement on 5 Live to avoid conflict with his ITV role. Highly regarded at the BBC, Pougatch would not have moved if not for the potential promise of a lot more football work than Champions League highlights and England matches after this season — if ITV win rights to Premier League highlights . Pougatch (left), pictured presenting boxing for Channel 5, will take over from Chiles immediately . Chiles sports shorts and flip flops while presenting ITV's live World Cup coverage in Brazil last summer . Chiles speaks with Hull City boss Steve Bruce before the FA Cup final at Wembley last year . Pundit and co-commentator Andy Townsend (right) left ITV by mutual consent earlier this month . Chiles’s departure brought a hugely positive reaction on social media. So it is ironic that it was Chiles who won the presenter shootout against Pougatch when the BBC launched their Sunday Premier League highlights show, Match of the Day 2 in 2004. Pougatch was strong favourite before a late change of mind by the Beeb executive who felt Chiles’s Brummie vowels would go down better than Pougatch’s public school accent honed at Malvern College. Eleven years on it is posh ‘Poogs’ who finally has the upper hand. Pougatch said: ‘I am delighted to be given this great opportunity. 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Adrian Chiles is replaced by Mark Pougatch, a broadcaster for BBC .
Chiles signed a two-year deal worth around £500,000 a year last summer .
Pougatch will present Chelsea's clash with Paris Saint-Germain in February .
ITV do not have the rights to live Champions League games next season .
READ: Chiles should have quit after the World Cup .
Adrian Chiles virals: Twitter reacts to the ITV host being replaced .
Click here for ten things you need to know about Pougatch .
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deeper pockets. Adrian Chiles, who has been hosting ITV football after the last World Cup. He terminated. Chiles signed a £500,000 one-year ITV losing live rights to the FA Cup, Champions Switzerland . Chiles (left) has been replaced by Mark Pougatch (right), pictured working for BBC channel will not show live games next season . Champions League tie with Paris Saint-Germain but World Cup coverage in Brazil last summer . Chiles
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One of Princess Diana’s ornate dresses is set to fetch up to £80,000 at auction. The ballgown from the Emmanuel 1986 'Diaghilev' collection has been described by Kerry Taylor Auction House, who are selling the ballgown, as 'arguably one of . the most ornate, romantic of all Princess Diana’s gowns'. Shimmering with gold . sequins, crystals and pearl beads the dress was inspired by Leon . Bakst's designs for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and it comes with a matching headband, . optional sleeve panels and petticoat. Fairytale: The Emanuel's ball gown from their 1986 'Diaghilev' collection has been described by Kerry Taylor Auction House, who are auctioning the gown, as 'arguably one of the most ornate, romantic of all Princess Diana's gowns' (R) Princess Diana wearing the dress at the Royal Charity Premiere of 'Ivan the Terrible' at the Royal Opera House . The Princess first caught sight of this dress, which will go under the hammer on December 3, at a Red Cross benefit fashion show in the summer of 1986. She selected it from the twelve glittering gold and white creations that the Emanuels had sent for the occasion. Unusually, the Princess acquired the show model, rather than specially commissioning another gown from the designers. The standard size 10 dress fitted her perfectly and Diana chose to wear the gown on many occasions, wearing it with and without the petticoat, and with and without the sleeve panels but often choosing to wear a diamond tiara instead of the headband. She was photographed wearing it on July 4 1986 to attend a banquet for a State visit of Richard von Weizsaker, the President of the Federal Republic of Germany at the time. On this occasion she chose to wear a glittering diamond tiara to accessorize the gown, but wore no petticoat which produced a slimmer look and revealed her ankles. Intricate: Shimmering with gold sequins, crystals and pearl beads, it comes with a matching headband (R), optional sleeve panels and petticoat . On July 22 1986 (a day or two before the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of York) she wore the dress to the Royal Opera House for a performance of 'Ivan the Terrible' by the Bolshoi Ballet. On this occasion she also wore the padded headdress, sleeve panels and petticoat – the complete ensemble. She was also photographed in the gown when she attended the premiere of the James Bond film 'The Living Daylights', almost a year later, at the Odeon, Leicester Square on June 29 1987 (with the wide layered petticoat). The Emanuels were the favourite designers of the Princess during the 1980s and this particular dress is estimated to fetch between £50,000-£80,000 when it goes under the hammer. Other loved items by the label included a white chiffon blouse which Diana wore for her official engagement photograph by Lord Snowdon (sold by Kerry Taylor Auctions for £26,400). This was followed by the headline-grabbing black taffeta gown she wore for her first public engagement with Prince Charles after the announcement of their engagement at Goldsmith's Hall in 1981 (now affectionately known as the 'Take the Plunge' dress), sold for £192,000. Of course the most memorable and important Emanuel dress of them all was the Royal bridal gown for her marriage to Prince Charles in 1981. Premiere: She was also photographed in the gown when she attended the premiere of the James Bond film 'The Living Daylights' on June 29, 1987 . The Emanuels went on to make special ensembles and evening gowns for Diana's important overseas State tours with the Prince of Wales, as well as producing a wardrobe of maternity wear during her pregnancies. The duplicate bridal gown commissioned from the Emanuels at the time of the Royal Wedding was sold by the auction house for £48,000. Kerry Taylor Auctions are famed for selling . historically important Royal garments ranging from King Charles I . nightshirt, Kate Middleton’s see-through fashion show dress to Princess . Diana’s couture velvet ‘Travolta’ gown, which she wore to dance at the . White House. Another . intriguing royal memento going under the hammer is a tiny pair of bellows used for powdering . the wig of (the famously oft-times mad) King George III. Made from . mahogany with an ivory tip, it is painted in gold with his Royal Cypher – . a kingly crown with ‘GR III’ - and estimated to fetch between £1000-1500. It is just 16cm (6 1/4in long) and would . have been used by his valet to administer the fashionable tinted powder . to the wig before it was placed on the Royal head. 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Viewing: Sunday 1st December 12-4pm, Monday 2nd December 9-5.30pm, Tuesday 3rd December 9-11am. www.kerrytaylorauctions.com. 00 44 (0)208 676 4600 .
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Diana personally selected it at Red Cross benefit fashion show in 1986 .
Diana wore it regularly to red carpet events and film premieres .
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A British sports therapist raising money for charity has beaten the world record for the most marathons run in consecutive days after completing 53 in less than seven weeks. Amy Hughes has finished the challenge after running 1388 miles in just 53 days to raise money for good causes. The 26-year-old from Oswestry, Shropshire, bypassed her original goal of beating the previous women's world record of 17 weeks ago to set a new precedent for both male and female runners. Amy Hughes beat the world record for the most marathons ran in consecutive days after taking on 53 across Britain. She is pictured at Ripon Cathedral after running 26.2miles on August 16 . The sports therapist raised more than £20,000 throughout the challenge. She is pictrured in York (left) and Wakefield (right) Miss Hughes poses after yet another marathon with two fellow runners in Liverpool on the second day of the challenge . Akinori Kusuda from Japan held the previous world record after running 52 marathons between January 30 and March March 22 in 2009. Miss Hughes beat that record today after crossing the finish line in Manchester where she completed . But while most would look forward to a hot bath and a lie-down, Miss Hughes said she'll miss getting up to take on a new marathon every day now that it's over. 'In a strange way it is sad that it's all ending as I put so much time and effort in and I enjoyed it so much. 'We met everybody around the country and I'm really sad that it's at the end. I will enjoy a lie in though.' The sports therapist stuck to a regimented routine throughout the course of the challenge which began in Chester on August 6. Waking up every morning at 6.30am in a different city, the team ate a hotel breakfast everyday before taking on another 26.2mile stretch. And even a stomach bug didn't stop the 26-year-old from pounding the pavements, with Miss Hughes completing her 35th marathon in Taunton, Somerset, while ill. Today Miss Hughes crossed the finish line in Manchester after 53 days of running. Her effort has raised more than £20,000 for the Isabelle Lottie Foundation, which helps with the early diagnosis of children with brain tumours, through an online donations page. Miss Hughes on her seventh day of the challenge in Edinburgh where some of her team cycled to complete the 26.2miles . The 26-year-old sports therapist was pictured in Stoke-on-Trent on the penultimate day of her 53-marathon challenge . The sports therapist said she was not as tired as she thought she would have been throughout the challenge. 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The sports therapist beat the world record of 52 held since 2009 .
Smashed previous female record for 17 after in third week of challenge .
The 26-year-old raised more than £20,000 for a brain tumour charity .
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All that fun buying a new frock can often be ruined by the torturous wait at a till to pay for it. But thanks to a new mobile phone app, you may never have to queue again. In fact, you may even be able to pay while you’re trying on the clothes in the fitting room. The ‘InStore’ app from online payment firm PayPal will allow shoppers to purchase goods on the shop floor in less than 30 seconds. PayPal inStore works by generating a barcode on screen, which the shop then scans to take money from the customer's account . The app is locked by a PIN, and no financial details are stored in the phone itself . Shop assistants carry portable scanners which are used to read the barcodes on customers’ goods wherever they are in store. Shoppers then use their PayPal app to enter a passcode, which produces a unique barcode on the screen of the phone. This second barcode is then scanned . by a shop assistant, which completes the sale while avoiding the need to . visit a conventional cash till. Receipts are automatically sent to a . shopper’s email. It has been launched at 230 branches of fashion stores . Oasis, Warehouse, Coast and Karen Millen today with more stores expected . to accept the payments later this year. The app can also be used to issue refunds, with the barcodes stored in the phone, and able to be brought back to the store for a refund . No personal or financial information is . stored on the phone - and the app is locked with a PIN code, so if a . phone is stolen, it's useless. The app can also be used to issue . refunds, with the barcodes stored in the phone, and able to be brought . back to the store for a refund. To begin with the app will only work in fashion chains Coast, Oasis and Warehouse as well as Karen Millen. The service launches nationally on 31st May and will be available in 230 stores. Cameron McLean, managing director of . PayPal UK, said: ‘Today marks the start of a quiet revolution in the way . we shop on the high street. 'We’ve created a simple, secure way to use a . mobile phone to pay in your favourite stores.’ Millions have already been invested . in developing ‘contactless’ technology, which lets us buy goods without . inserting a card into a machine. Barclaycard and Orange launched Quick . Tap last year – where shoppers can spend up to £15 by waving their phone . over an electronic pad. However, customers using this still need to go . to a till.
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Official Chinese wellness partner - IVC . Soft drinks partner in Nigeria - Chi Limited . Global noodle partner - Nissin Foods Group . Gaming partner in Japan - Gloops . Official paint partner - Kansai Paint . Manchester United may still be finding their feet on the pitch under Louis van Gaal, but off it they continue to excel. On Wednesday, United announced yet another commercial deal - this time with Chi Limited to become the club's official soft drinks partner in Nigeria. The multi-year deal allows Chi Limited to use United's crest and club imagery on their products in Nigeria. Jonny Evans, Angel Di Maria, Robin van Persie, Luke Shaw and Chris Smalling pose at a sponsors event . Manchester United's players were at an event with their watch partner Bulova on Monday . Radamel Falcao poses outside United's sponsored training ground at Carrington . For United, the deal will boost their coffers further as they look to continue to fund their incredible spending on players through commercial tie-ups. It has been a busy week for United's commercial department as they signed up IVC as the club’s first ‘official Chinese wellness partner’ on Monday. Clubs signing up a myriad of sponsors and partners is nothing new, but few have the breadth of deals United can boast. How many clubs do you know with an 'official Chinese wellness partner'? And how many clubs can count the Hong Kong Jockey Club as an official partner? A look at United's tie-ins provides an insight into how far and wide United have cast the net. As well as an 'official Chinese wellness' partner and Nigerian soft drinks partner, United have a global noodle partner (Nissin Foods Group), gaming partner in Japan (Gloops), an official paint partner (Kansai Paint) and a tyre partner in UK and India (Apollo Tyres). Robin van Persie was also used to promote a tomato juice campaign in Asia . Javier Hernandez, Rio Ferdinand and Ryan Giggs promote United's 'official savoury snack partner' Sir Alex Ferguson attends a Chevrolet event in Shanghai in the summer of 2012 . Manchester United's players pose as their official diesel engine partner is revealed . As ridiculous as these deals sound, the end product is not to be sniffed at. United announced that their commercial operation pulled in £189.3million between 2013-2014 when they released their full-year results earlier this month - an increase of £36.8m on the previous year. That figure is expected to rise closer to £240m in accounts covering the current season. Who knew that selling United-branded soft drinks in Nigeria and noodles across the globe would prove so profitable? Chevrolet: Principal sponsor - £47million a year . Nike: Principal sponsor - £25.4m a year . Aon: Principal sponsor - £17m a year . DHL: Logistics partner - £10m a year . bwin: Online Betting and Gaming partner - £2.4m a year . Casillero del Diablo: Official wine of Man Utd - £2m a year . Singha Beer: Official beer of Man Utd - £2m a year . DEALS WORTH £1m-2m a year . Aeroflot: Official airline . Bulova: Official timekeeping partner . Epson: Office equipment partner . Toshiba Medical Systems: Medical systems partner . Aperol Spritz: Global spirits partner . Nissin Foods Group: Global noodle partner . STC: Telecommunications partner of Man Utd for Saudi Arabia . Yanmar: Official global partner . Kansai Paint: Official paint partner . The Hong Kong Jockey Club: Official partner . TM: Telecommunications partner in Malaysia . Apollo Tyres: Tyre partner in UK and India . Globacom: Telecommunication services partner in Nigeria, Ghana, Republic of Benin . VIVA: Telecommunication services partner in Bahrain . VIVA Kuwait: Telecommunication services partner in Kuwait . Honda: Motorcycle partner in Thailand . Bakcell: Telecommunications partner for Azerbaijan . Gloops: Gaming partner in Japan . Kagome: Official partner for Japan . Truemove H: Mobile partner for Thailand . Truevisions: MUTV broadcaster for Thailand . PCCW: Telecommunications partner and broadcast partner for Hong Kong . IVC: Official Chinese wellness partner . Chi Limited: Soft drinks partner in Nigeria .
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By . Emily Davies . PUBLISHED: . 08:23 EST, 29 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:28 EST, 29 March 2013 . You have heard of the Easter Bunny but these rare white lion cubs are giving an African twist on the spring bank holiday. Just four days old, the sleepy eyed cubs are seen rolling around these colourful Easter eggs with handler, Kirsty Trusler, at the Lion Park in Johannesburg, South Africa. Ms Trusler, 24, from Lancaster, is responsible for caring for the rare white lion cubs who are two of just 50 in their native country of South Africa. Baby white lion cubs just four days old play with Easter eggs at the Lion Park in Johannesburg, South Africa . The two rare cubs were bred at Johannesburg's Lion Park which specialises in white lions . White Lions are not albinos, but a . genetic rarity unique to the Timbavati region. Like blue eyes in humans, . the animals' white colour is caused by a recessive gene shared by both . parents. The earliest recorded sighting of . white lions in the Timbavati region was in 1938. However, the oral . records of African elders indicate that these unique animals survived in . this region for many centuries. Since their discovery white lions have been hunted, and forcibly removed from their natural endemic habitat. The baby white lions are cared for by Kirsty Trusler (left) at Johannesburg's Lion Park in South Africa . The white lion species is endangered because their light coats make it harder for them to camouflage . The last white lion was seen in the wild in 1994, after which time they were technically extinct in the wild. The survival of white lions has been . attributed by some to their very whiteness meaning they lack the . camouflage of the tawny lions. The Johannesburg Lion Park has specialised in . breeding programmes designed to discourage the inter-breeding of the . white lion and have agreements with other white lion breeders to ensure . genetic integrity. White lions are native to only the . Greater Timbavati region of South Africa, an area characterised by white . sandy riverbeds and long grass scorched pale by the sun. They . are regarded as sacred animals by the people of that region, but after . Europeans 'discovered' them in the 1970s, many were taken from the wild . to captive breeding and hunting operations. These . removals, along with lion culling and trophy hunting of male lions, . depleted the gene pool and the animals have been technically extinct in . the wild for the past 19 years. White lions are native to only the Greater Timbavati region of South Africa, an area with sandy riverbeds and long grass scorched pale by the sun . Snuggle up: The four-day-old white lion cubs are two of just 50 white lions in South Africa . In . their natural habitat, white lions are regarded as 'apex predators', . able to hunt successfully in day and night and take down prey as large . as giraffes. Despite their rarity, white lions are . not yet classified as endangered because biologists still regard them as . ultimately the same as their tawny equivalents. The . Global White Lion Protection Trust is campaigning for white lions to be . recognised as a subspecies of lions, so that they can be protected . under international law. However, . the genetic marker that makes white lions unique has not yet been . identified by scientists and research into the animals is ongoing. The . trust estimates that there are no more than 300 white lions in . existence. In recent years it has reintroduced the animals to a nature . reserve within Greater Timbavati in an effort to eventually reintroduce . the gene to wild lions.
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Sesame Street composer couldn't believe it was true .
Guidelines say music can be 'as loud as a jackhammer'
Puppet programme songs also used on Iraqi POWs .
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This weekend I’ve been watching four midfielders from what might be considered 'unfashionable' clubs, who are currently not involved in Roy Hodgson’s squad. Three of them would not look out of place in England’s diamond right now, the other is miles away from that level of football. First up, Tom Huddlestone. Anchoring that England midfield, I can see the Hull City midfielder fitting in nicely. He’s not the toughest tackler, and he’s not the quickest, but his reading of the game suggests he could anticipate the play so well he wouldn’t need to rely on speed or last-gasp challenges. Tom Huddlestone (left), Mark Noble (centre) and Ashley Westwood (right) deserve an England call-up . Lee Cattermole (right) of Sunderland is not good enough on the ball to be considered for an England call-up . England manager Roy Hodgson should look at some midfielders from 'unfashionable' clubs for his squad . One significant aspect of his game is his ability to ping a pass 40 or 50 yards to a lone striker to relieve any pressure. He can do that with accuracy and that is something England haven’t always had. I’ve always had concerns about Huddlestone’s lack of mobility. His former team-mate Danny Murphy pointed out to me that neither Andrea Pirlo nor Xabi Alonso are renowned for their running, and in England’s qualification group we won’t need to do a huge amount of defending so why not have a look at what Tom Huddlestone can do? We have been crying out for years for footballers with technical ability - Huddlestone has it in abundance. He could challenge Jack Wilshere for that place in the starting line-up in my opinion. What might count against him, though, is his last appearance for England. Roy Hodgson called him up for the friendly in Sweden two years ago. Along with Stoke’s Ryan Shawcross, Huddlestone came on with the team 2-1 up and 16 minutes remaining; England lost 4-2. That will have stuck in the manager’s mind. Tom Huddlestone (left) could challenge Jack Wilshere (right) for a place at the base of England's diamond . Hull City midfielder Huddlestone (right) is technically brilliant and can direct long-distance paces perfectly . Xabi Alonso (left) and Andrea Pirlo (right) do not have much pace but have thrived on the international scene . Another name is West Ham United's Mark Noble. He was the England Under 21 captain, leading them to the final of the European Championships in 2009. He hasn’t had a look in since then at international level and at the age of 27 time is running out. I don’t see him at the base of a diamond for England, but I do see him as one of the two in the middle. He is industrious and has more recently started to add consistent quality to his distribution of the ball. Noble can also take a penalty - very few Englishmen can confidently say that. Indeed he once scored twice from the spot in an epic shoot-out against Holland for the U21s. Like Huddlestone, I’ve had my reservations about Noble for England, but I now think he’s good enough. However I doubt he would be first choice when all of Roy’s options are fit. Mark Noble could easily play as one of the middle two for England in Roy Hodgson's diamond formation . The midfielder has captained England's Under 21s but is now 27 and has not had a full international cap . West Ham United's Noble (left) is industrious and can take a penalty, which not many English players can . I’ve been an admirer of Aston Villa’s Ashley Westwood for a long time and I definitely see him as an option at the base of a diamond for England. His ability from set-pieces is one of his main strengths, but he has so much more. He can read the game, his defensive work off the ball isn’t always obvious on TV but is a stand-out feature when you watch him live, and he keeps things simple. He gets the ball, and gives it to a team-mate - keeping possession is his main objective, and once again that is something England haven’t always been good at. I’m amazed a player so good on the ball has not had any international recognition at any level. He admits he bases his style on what Michael Carrick has been doing for Manchester United for many successful years. I just hope that Westwood doesn’t suffer the same fate at international level where Carrick was shamefully ignored during his peak years. Aston Villa's Ashley Westwood is good on the ball and can play at the base of England's diamond formation . Westwood (left) has similar qualities to Manchester United's Michael Carrick (right) during his prime . Huddlestone, Noble and Westwood - YES. But Lee Cattermole? No, not for me. I was at The Stadium of Light on Saturday, Cattermole made a crucial error for Sunderland before Spurs’ second goal, but that wasn’t the main reason I would have misgivings about him at England level. Cattermole went lunging into challenges, getting very tight to opponents, and being very physical with them. There was nothing subtle in his approach. This sometimes gets him into trouble in the Premier League, as is well documented. His reputation goes before him but that reputation has been well and truly earned. Lee Cattermole is not good enough on the ball for England and should not be given a call-up by Hodgson . Sunderland's Cattermole (left) is extremely physical and this makes him a yellow card waiting to happen . At international level, with referees more likely to buy the claims of players going to ground easily under a physical challenge, Lee Cattermole is a yellow card waiting to happen. And when on a yellow, can he be trusted not to get another? It’s too big a risk for Hodgson to take in my view. On top of that Cattermole’s quality on the ball is not exceptional, and certainly inferior to a lot of others challenging for the same position at the base of an England midfield diamond. Roy Hodgson certainly took note when I labelled Jack Colback the 'Ginger Pirlo; in this column before his recent call-up. Huddlestone, Noble and Westwood will be hoping the England boss is reading this too. I’m confident he will be. Jack Colback was labelled the 'Ginger Pirlo' in this column and Roy Hodgson gave him an England call-up .
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Four midfielders from 'unfashionable' clubs, three deserve England chance .
Hull City's Tom Huddlestone could anchor Roy Hodgson's diamond .
Huddlestone is technically brilliant and his lack of pace will not be caught out in qualification for the Euros so he could challenge Jack Wilshere .
West Ham's Mark Noble could play as one of two in middle of diamond .
Noble is industrious and has excellent distribution of the ball .
Aston Villa's Ashley Westwood definitely an option at base of diamond .
Westwood is similar to Michael Carrick at his best for Manchester United .
Sunderland's Lee Cattermole quality on ball not good enough for England .
Cattermole is a yellow card waiting to happen due to his physicality .
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At least 40 fighters on both sides were killed as Syrian Kurdish fighters and ISIS militants clashed in the northern Syrian city of Kobani, a monitoring group said Saturday. Kurdish fighters belonging to the People's Protection Units, known as YPG, have been locked in a death struggle with ISIS fighters for the border city, in the shadow of Turkey, with 100,000 desperate Syrian Kurds fleeing to Turkish territory. Five ISIS suicide bombers blew themselves up using cars and explosive belts near the besieged Kurdish city, according to the London-based opposition group, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Clashes also erupted west of Kobani, with ISIS using tanks to advance and firing at least 110 shells on various areas of the city, the monitoring group said Saturday. At least 10 YPG fighters and 25 ISIS militants were killed during the clashes, according to the SOHR. YPG fighters also carried out several operations in the neighborhood of Botan Sharqi on the southern outskirts of Mashtah Nour hill near Kobani, the monitoring group reported. The U.S.-led coalition, meanwhile, conducted five airstrikes in Kobani, including one against an ISIS tank west of the city, the SOHR said. The coalition started operations in September. ISIS, the Sunni Muslim extremist militant group, has been fighting to take Kobani for more than two months, hoping to add it to the territory it has already captured in parts of Syria and Iraq for what it calls its new independent Islamic nation. Syria has been embroiled in a three-year civil war, with government troops battling ISIS and other rebels elsewhere, leaving Kobani's ethnic Kurds to defend the city. Airstrikes by the U.S. and its allies, part of a larger U.S.-led coalition effort against ISIS in the region, intermittently take out ISIS targets in the area. The Syrian Kurdish fighters, part of the People's Protection Units,, have ties to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which has fought a 30-year guerrilla war against the government of Turkey, where about 20% of the population is Kurdish. Turkey, the European Union and the United States consider the PKK a terrorist organization.
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At least 10 Syrian Kurdish fighters and 25 ISIS militants reported killed in clashes in Kobani .
Five ISIS suicide bombers blow themselves up near northern Syrian city .
West of Kobani, ISIS militants advance with tanks and shelling .
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By . Helen Pow . PUBLISHED: . 09:44 EST, 4 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 09:56 EST, 4 December 2013 . Tragic: Police said Erin Steele, 20, picked up a firearm thinking it wasn't loaded and it went off, shooting her boyfriend Justin Holt, pictured, in the chest at their friend's Boca Raton apartment. He later died in hospital . A 22-year-old Florida man has died after he was shot in the chest by his girlfriend in a tragic accident. Police said Erin Steele, 20, picked up a firearm thinking it wasn't loaded and it went off, shooting her boyfriend Justin Holt in the chest at their friend's Boca Raton apartment. He later passed away in hospital. A chilling 911 call, in which the owner of the gun and another friend frantically beg for help, was released by Boca Raton police Tuesday. 'Please help me, ma'am!' a man shouted at the start of the call, according to the Sun Sentinel. 'There was an accident; there was a very bad accident. Someone picked up my firearm by mistake, ma'am, and someone got shot. Please, please come.' According to WPBF, Joshua Henry, 23, brought a pistol over to another friend's apartment where the group was hanging out and they all practiced dry shooting it. When they were finished playing, Henry reloaded the gun and put it on the counter, according to Boca Raton police. Later, Steele picked up the gun, pointed it at Holt and fired, hitting him in the chest. Officers arrived at the Boca Raton apartment within minutes of the 911 call and Holt was rushed to Delray Medical Center where he died soon after, according to police. Steele has not been charged in connection with the shooting, and his family say they believe it was an accident and feel sad for her. They told police they don't want her to face charges. 'We have a lot of compassion for her . because she's got to live with that, no matter what she does, for the . rest of her life,' Holt's grandfather, 82-year-old Michael DiFiore, told . the Sun Sentinel. According to friends and family, Holt and Steele were very much in love. They had started dating almost immediately after being introduced about a year ago and were nearly inseparable. On Thanksgiving, Steele and Holt ate dinner at DiFiore's house with Holt's family. Justin Holt's mother Maria, 56, said her son was a family guy who just wanted to find a girl and settle down. And Steele was that girl. 'They met and then that was it, they were together,' Maria Holt said. 'From day one — day one — he was in love with her.' Playing around: Joshua Henry, 23, brought a pistol over to another friend's apartment, pictured, where the group was hanging out and they all practiced dry shooting it . In the 911 call, Holt's friends are breathless and sobbing and the phone is passed from the gun's owner, Henry, 23, to a woman who said she was the owner of the apartment. The dispatcher repeatedly told the group to calm down and asked for their address, but they were too distracted to answer. They said Holt was coughing up blood and were unable to tell if he was breathing. 'Ma'am, the kid's dying,' the man said breathlessly. 'Please help ma'am, please.' Sirens can be heard at the end of the call and the man told the dispatcher he was trying to flag officers down. 'Right here, right here!' he shouted before begging again, this time to police, 'Please, please help me.' 'It was a stupid accident,' DiFiore said. 'It never should have happened.' 'He was my whole life,' the young man's mother said.
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Police said Erin Steele, 20, picked up a firearm thinking it wasn't loaded and it went off, shooting her boyfriend Justin Holt in the chest at their friend's Boca Raton apartment .
He later died in hospital .
A chilling 911 call, in which the owner of the gun and another friend frantically beg for help, was released by Boca Raton police Tuesday .
Steele has not been charged .
The couple had been dating about a year and were 'very much in love' friends and family said .
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It was one of the most audacious missions of World War Two that saw false information about Allied plans to invade Italy planted into the hands of a German intelligence officer. And today a Jolly Roger flag from HMS Seraph - which had a crucial role in the clandestine mission known as 'Operation Mincemeat' - has emerged, 70 years after the famous event. In April 1943 the senior crew of the Royal Navy submarine dropped the body of a Welsh tramp, dressed up as a uniformed commando, a mile off the Spanish coast. A piece of history: A Jolly Roger flag denoting a Royal Navy submarine's clandestine mission known as 'Operation Mincemeat' has emerged after 70 years . Secret mission: The corpse of Welsh tramp Glyndwr Michael was dropped into the sea near to Spain by HMS Seraph's commander Lt Bill Jewell - a moment imagined in the film The Man Who Never Was, above . False identity papers showed the corpse to be that of Major William Martin of the Royal Marines and attached to his wrist was a briefcase containing secret bogus plans. The highly-sensitive papers falsely stated the Allies planned to invade Italy through Greece and Sardinia. As planned, when the body washed ashore in southern Spain the documents ended up in the hands of a local German intelligence officer. As a result the German high command diverted troops to Sardinia and Greece - away from Sicily where the Allies successfully invaded two months later. It gave the Allies a foothold on Hitler’s fortress in Europe for the first time since Dunkirk. 'Operation Mincemeat': Mr Michael's body, pictured, was taken from a London hospital and kept aboard the HMS Seraph in a canister - which most thought held a meteorological device . The extraordinary deception was later the basis of the film The Man Who Never Was. To mark the special operation the flagman on HMS Seraph added a dagger emblem to the submarine's Jolly Roger to go alongside five others for clandestine missions. It was tradition for Royal Navy submarines to have its own skull and cross bones after a World War One Admiral famously compared submarine warfare to piracy. Emblems were added to the flags each time the submarine sunk an enemy or completed a mission. One of the other daggers on the flag signified a bizarre special operation which involved the entire crew speaking in American accents to appease an English-hating French general they were rescuing. General Henri Giraud refused to board a British craft and so the sub hoisted the Stars and Stripes and pretended to be American. The HMS Seraph's Jolly Roger was kept by a junior rating, whose role was to update it, after it was replaced by a new one in 1944. He handed it on to his son who has now made it available for sale at auction and is estimated to fetch £10,000. Auctioneer Steven Bosley, of Bosleys of Marlow, Buckinghamshire, where the flag is to go on sale said: 'It is rare for these Jolly Rogers to come on the open market because most of them went to the submarine captain or ended up at a museum. 'It is hard to value it because they are so rare but this one does carry a premium because of the association with Operation Mincemeat. Imagined: A scene from film The Man Who Never Was shows the body being carried through the streets . The plan was the brainchild of an . eccentric 25-year-old RAF Flight Lieutenant named Charles Cholmondeley - . who took it to the chief of Section 17M, naval Lieutenant Commander . Ewan Montagu. Section 17M of the . British Intelligence Service was a group so secret that only 20 people . even knew of its existence. Codenamed . Operation Mincemeat by Montagu - as a bleak joke on the fact that it . hinged on the discovery by the enemy of a corpse - the cunning scheme . was hatched in a tiny basement beneath the Admiralty building in . Whitehall which had once been used as a wine cellar. It . was a plan that was to make history - but first it had to be approved . by British Intelligence's inter-service Twenty Committee (named after . the Roman numerals XX, or double cross), which oversaw the use of double . agents. Cholmondeley . told the Committee that his plan was simple - they would obtain a body . from a London hospital, dress it up in a military uniform, fill the . corpse's lungs with water, provide it with misleading documents, and . then drop it from an aircraft so that it washed up on the coast of . Spain. The plan . was all the more important as Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill, above, . had agreed with the U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt in January 1943 . that - in the wake of the Allied success in North Africa - the next step . would be to attack Sicily, as the first step to the invasion of Italy. The troops would then aim to take on the rest of Europe from the country. However, . as Churchill himself famously remarked, 'Everyone but a bloody fool . would know' that their objective was to attack Sicily - and so the . clandestine plan was hatched. It was hoped that if the Germans and their Italian . partners could be made to believe the Allies were going to attack . Greece, some 500 miles to the east, and Sardinia, the Germans might . divert some significant part of their forces, which would help the . invasion succeed. Attack: American soldiers landing on the coast of France in the Normandy landings June 6th 1944 - a year after the successful 'Operation Mincemeat' mission . So, at 4.30am on April 30, 1943, HMS Seraph . surfaced a mile off the Spanish coastal town of Huelva, and the vessel's commander Lieutenant Bill Jewell . and a few senior officers gently pushed the body into the sea. The body was supposed to be that of Major William Martin of the Royal Marines. It was found washed up by a fisherman at 9.30am and was reported to German agent Adolf Clauss. As . well as the ‘top secret’ documents, love letters from the body's . pretend fiancee were also placed on his body. By doing so, the men from the Ministry believe they saved the lives of some 40,000 British servicemen and women. 'The flying of a Jolly Roger on a submarine is a British tradition that still goes on today and whenever an operation has been completed a new emblem is stitched on to it. 'The provenance for this one is excellent. The vendor’s father served aboard HMS Seraph as a junior rating but it was his remit to look after the Jolly Roger and update it. Man with a plan: Lt Commander Montague, section chief of British Intelligence Service group Section 17M, pictured, worked with RAF Lieutenant Charles Cholmondeley to create the corpse's identity . 'A new Jolly Roger was taken into service when the submarine had a new captain in March 1944 and this one was preserved by the vendor’s father who took it with him on leaving the vessel.' HMS Seraph was chosen to take part in Operation Mincemeat because of its previous success with special operations. Its commander, Lieutenant Bill Jewell, knew the truth of the operation but he had to tell his men the canister carrying the body of the dead tramp, whose real name was Glyndwr Michael, contained a meteorological device. At 4.30am on April 30, 1943, HMS Seraph surfaced a mile off the Spanish coastal town of Huelva, and Lt Jewell and a few senior officers gently pushed the body into the sea. It was found washed up by a fisherman at 9.30am and was reported to German agent Adolf Clauss. As well as the ‘top secret’ documents, love letters from the body's pretend fiancee were also placed on his body to give the deception more credence. After the war HMS Seraph was broken up. Its conning tower was preserved as a memorial at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, US. It is the only shore installation in the US where the Royal Navy ensign is allowed to be permanently flown. The Jolly Roger flag, that measures 31ins by 48ins, is being sold by Bosleys on November 6.
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Jolly Roger flag from HMS Seraph has appeared after 70 years .
Craft had a crucial role in mission - codenamed 'Operation Mincemeat'
Saw body of a tramp, dressed as a uniformed commando with a briefcase full of bogus 'secret plans' tied to his wrist, dumped off the coast of Spain .
Body was then picked up by German intelligence officer .
As a result, German high command diverted troops to Sardinia - where the papers claimed Allied forces would attack - and away from Sicily .
Allied forces invaded two months later, changing course of the war .
Piece to be auctioned next week - and expected to fetch £10,000 .
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Bravery: Lance Corporal Bruce Toge was awarded the Conspicuous Gallery Cross for saving five wounded comrades during a Taliban attack . A hero of the Afghan war who displayed 'superhuman' strength to rescue five wounded comrades while under fire from the Taliban is selling the medal he was awarded for £70,000. Lance Corporal Bruce Toge was knocked out when insurgents attacked his armoured vehicle with rocket-propelled grenades, but after he came to he immediately started saving his fellow soldiers. The brave soldier single-handedly carried five troops - all inexperienced members of the Afghan National Army - out of harm's way during the incident in 2008. He was awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross, the second highest award for valour after the Victoria Cross, for his 'raw courage and inspirational leadership.' But L/Cpl Toge, 29, has now left the Army, and is selling the medal to raise money so he can 'support his family' and start he own business. The soldier, who was originally from Fiji and now lives in Shropshire, was on his second tour of Afghanistan with the Royal Irish Regiment at the time of the attack. He was second in command of an eight-man British team that was supporting an Afghan National Army (ANA) dompany during the mission to secure high ground above a Taliban stronghold south of Musa Qaleh in Helmand Province. But when his commanding officer became incapacitated, L/Cpl Toge was forced to take control of the patrol. The company spent 90 minutes engaged in a firefight with the Taliban before orders came to advance while under heavy fire. Medal: The cross is the second highest award for valour, behind only the Victoria Cross . Scene: L/Cpl Toge's bravery came during a firefight near Musa Qaleh in southern Afghanistan, pictured . The Warrior vehicle he moved forward with suffered at least 10 strikes by a rocket-propelled grenade. L/Cpl Toge modestly wrote of the moment he rescued the five comrades injured in the attack. He said: 'I was out for about 10 seconds. 'They were screaming. One had a neck and shoulder injury. I knew I had to extract the casualties - that was my priority. So I went with the ANA medic - we crawled forward, got the guys, pulled them back and patched them up. 'We heaved them on to the back of the Warrior and then continued fighting. The adrenaline kicks in and you prioritise - casualty, objective then yourself. That's what I did. I didn't think about medals - I just thought it was another fight.' Mementoes: As well as the CGC, the decorated soldier is selling his dog tags and identity card . Sale: Auctioneer Richard Bromell, pictured, is selling the medal in Dorset next month . The Conspicuous Gallantry Cross (CGC) is the second highest military medal that can be awarded to members of the United Kingdom's armed forces. Presented in 'recognition of an act or acts of conspicuous gallantry during active operations against the enemy', the medal was created in 1993 and can be awarded to all ranks of the British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force. It was introduced after a review of the honours system as part of a drive to remove distinctions of rank in awards for bravery, replacing both the Distinguished Conduct Medal and the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal, and can also be awarded posthumously. The CGC is silver and in the shape of a cross with a laurel wreath underneath, and is mounted on a white ribbon with blue and crimson stripes. A recipient's rank, name and unit are engraved on the reverse. Corporal Wayne Mills was the first recipient of the CGC, after he saved the lives of his patrol by single-handedly holding off a group of attackers which serving in Bosnia in 1994. Other recipients include Dipprasad Pun, a Nepalese corporal with the Royal Gurkha Rifles who was awarded the honour after he defeated up to 30 Taliban insurgents who were storming his control post in Helmand province in 2010. Three-time Boat Race winner and Army Captain Robin Bourne-Taylor was awarded the medal in 2010, while Royal Marine Mark Jackson ensured his receipt of the award was an extra-special day by proposing to his girlfriend Rebecca Daniel after the 2011 ceremony. L/Cpl Toge then led the rest of his troops to higher ground overlooking a Taliban-controlled village and started firing on the enemy before withdrawing to allow British air support to bomb the area. The citation for his CGC reads: 'Repeatedly, Toge exposed himself to fire disregarding his own safety to keep the ANA going forward. His gallant and inspirational leadership had every man following him. 'He single-handedly, with supreme strength and selflessness, extracted each one from the killing area and dealt with their treatment. 'Toge's actions were truly extraordinary; not least because he was, as a Lance Corporal, commanding a company group of indigenous forces in the most challenging and dangerous conditions, against a determined well equipped and brutal enemy. 'His raw courage, inspirational leadership, tactical acumen and almost superhuman strength are most deserving of official recognition of the highest order.' Military historian Richard Doherty said: 'Bruce Toge is a man of great character and imposing physical appearance. His actions on that day would have left the likes of Rambo and the Terminator in the shade.' L/Cpl Toge is selling the medals at Charterhouse Auctioneers of Sherborne in Dorset on March 19, along with his dog tags and . 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Lance Corporal Bruce Toge came under fire during 2008 tour of Helmand .
He was knocked out but then came to and started pulling his Afghan comrades out of harm's way .
L/Cpl Toge won the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross for 'superhuman' bravery .
He is now selling the medal for £70,000 so he can start his own business .
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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- People walked by 12-year-old Yance Phillips as he danced on Hollywood Boulevard on Sunday. YaYa, 2, stands near framed coverage of Michael Jackson's death on the Walk of Fame on Sunday. He swayed and bounced to the beat of a boom box, drawing only a glance from people making their way down the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Then he moonwalked, and suddenly, Phillips had the crowd's attention. "I watched Michael Jackson, and I just tried to do it like he does," Yance said. "I like the moves that he does." As thousands gathered in Los Angeles to say goodbye to a star who had been entertaining since he was a little boy, it was hard not to notice the children in the crowd. Toddlers in the arms of their parents who were fans, and kids wearing T-shirts emblazoned with Jackson's face gathered at the Staples Center and beyond as the city geared up for the pop icon's memorial service. A group of tweens even pooled their money to trek from the Valley to Hollywood -- sans adults and sharing a digital camera -- to take pictures of Jackson's star on the Walk of Fame for a video they wanted to create. See what fans had to say at the Walk of Fame » . They were too young to know about the singer's legal troubles or to remember a time when Jackson's appearance was quite different from what it was in his final years. To them, he was just a star who could sing and dance across a floor like magic. "I like all of his music and how he dresses," said 8-year-old Sarah McClure as she glanced down at her own Michael Jackson T-shirt. "My favorite is 'Thriller.' " McClure traveled more than 90 miles with her little sister, Emily, 5, and her mother, Geri McClure, to visit the Staples Center, where the memorial to Jackson will be held Tuesday. As they waited in line to sign a wall of remembrance to the singer, Geri McClure said she wanted her daughters "to be a part of history." "Plus, they love his music," she added. "He was an entertainer for the different generations." Barbara Alvarez and her husband, David, endured the heat as well as they waited with their children Isaac, 8, William, 4, and 1-year-old Ava. "Watching and listening to Michael Jackson was one of the happiest memories of my childhood," Alvarez said. "I grew up on his music." She wanted to impart that to her kids. Isaac smiled shyly as his mother revealed that he became a fan years ago after she showed him the "Thriller" video. "My daughter even dances to his music," said Alvarez, as Ava rested in the shade of her stroller. Yance Phillips said he was doing his moonwalk on Hollywood Boulevard to raise money to help bury a relative. Donations poured into the jar at his feet. His grandmother, Regina Stevenson, said Jackson's appeal was-wide ranging and touched fans of all ages and nationalities. "He showed children of all races that they could be successful," Stevenson said. Maria Pace, who is almost 20 years old, said she can remember how Jackson helped ease the path of her younger years. She was a shy girl from Spain, unsure of how to make friends in her new homeland of Bakersfield, California, when a fellow classmate played some Michael Jackson music and the pair bonded. "She liked Michael Jackson music, and I liked Michael Jackson music, and we started dancing to it," Pace recalled. "It was me, her and another girl, and we became known as the Jackson girls." Pace said she doesn't believe there will ever be another entertainer like Jackson, but she hopes younger generations continue to be inspired by him -- especially a trio of children who know firsthand of his talent. "Maybe one day," Pace said, "one of his children will become a performer."
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Jackson, who died June 25 at age 50, had been entertaining since he was little .
Toddlers in fans' arms, kids in Jackson T-shirts gather at Staples Center and beyond .
Fans, some of whom who'd traveled far, recall Jackson's effect on their lives .
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Apple's new iPad Air Plus will boast a 12.2 inch screen and four speakers to allow stereo sound however it is placed, it has been claimed. The new gadget is expected to be revealed next year, with some reports even claiming a larger 12.9inch screen. It will also feature a new, much faster A9 processor, according to Japanese magazine Mac Fan. Scroll down for video . The iPad Air Plus is expected to have a 12.2inch screen, dwarfing the iPad Mini with its 7.9inch screen (left) and iPad air (right) with a 9.7 inch screen. The report claims that the new iPad will include a 12.2-inch display, new A9 processor, four speakers to offer stereo sound in any orientation, and arrive sometime between April and June of next year. Bloomberg and others reported that Apple was planning on releasing the device sometime in early 2015, while a recent report from The Wall Street Journal claimed Apple had postponed mass production of the larger iPad from December 2014 into next year as suppliers struggled to meet demand for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus launch. The latest rumors from the supply chain point to delays that will see mass production of the larger iPad start sometime in Q1 or Q2 of next year. The new larger iPad is expected to look like the recently launched iPad Air, with rounded corners, . The designs show the gadget is just 7mm thick. The new largter iPad is expected to look like the recently launched iPad Air (pictured), with rounded corners,The designs show the gadget is just 7mm thick. Latest rumors for the device claimed iPad Pro would sport a smaller 12.2-inch display and a profile of 7mm, which lines up with the drawings published in the latest Mac Fan issue today. Several reports have pointed to a yet to be announced iPad that will reportedly include a display measuring somewhere in the neighborhood of 12-inches, however reports have claimed various sizes ranging from 12 inches to 12.9 inches. It comes just weeks after claims that the large screen size of the iPhone 56 plus was impacting on iPad usage. The release of Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus means there is now only a 2.4-inch difference between the size of the phablet’s screen, and the display on its iPad mini. Pocket studied more than two million articles and videos opened using its app, and compared the before-and-after behaviour of iPhone and iPad users. People with an iPhone 5S use their phone 55% of the time, but this increases to 72% for the iPhone 6 and 80% for the iPhone 6 Plus - both at the detriment of the iPad . And figures suggest this similarity could cause serious problems for Apple’s tablet range. Analysis has revealed that as phones become larger, more people use them for watching videos or reading - making their tablets almost redundant. In fact, the research found that people who recently upgraded to an iPhone 6 Plus use their tablets 36 per cent less than before. The research was carried out by Pocket - an app that lets users save webpages, videos and other content for reading later. It analysed more than two million articles and videos that were opened using the app, and compared the before and after behaviour in people who previously owned an iPhone 5, 5C and 5S and those who now own an iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. It also looked at the use of tablets by the same people. ‘The bigger your phone’s screen, the more time you’ll spend reading and watching on it,’ explained the researchers in a blog post. ‘In fact, the bigger your phone’s screen, the more you’ll read and watch as a whole.’ It discovered that users who upgraded to an iPhone 6 now view content on their phones 72 per cent of the time, up from 55 per cent when they owned on a smaller screen. Pocket also saw users with both an iPhone and an iPad watched significantly more content as soon as they upgraded to an iPhone 6 or 6 Plus. Those with the iPhone 6 (centre) opened 33% more articles and videos inside Pocket than they did with a 5S (left), and those with a 6 Plus (right) opened 65% more items than before . The iPhone 6 accounted for 68 per cent of all sales through September and into early October, while its larger model took between 23 and 24 per cent. Apple's cheaper iPhone 5S and 5C handsets made up the rest of the sales. 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Users with an iPhone 6 now read on their tablets 19 per cent less during the week, and 27 per cent less over the weekend. While those with a 6 Plus are on their tablets 31 per cent less during the week and 36 per cent less over the weekend. ‘That being said, there remains one place where tablets still hold reign: your nightstand,’ added the researchers. ‘Regardless of which iPhone they have, users still reach for their iPads around 9pm for some late-night, bedtime reading.’ But, a larger screen does make it less portable and Pocket noticed that people with an iPhone 6 Plus read 22 per cent less on their morning commutes than those with a smaller model. Recent figures from Pocket also found that two-and-a-half more Pocket users are opting for an iPhone 6 as opposed to a 6 Plus. ‘This tells us that, at least for now, convenience and portability trump a better, and bigger, entertainment and reading experience.’
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Japanese magazine claims to have found designs for the gadget .
Comes and study reveals iPhone 6 users use phone more than iPad .
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Epsilon, the largest permissions-based e-mail marketing company, was hacked .
Mobile users are more at risk of falling prey to phishing scams, according to a security firm .
Users should be skeptical of e-mails from companies they do business with .
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By . Jaya Narain . PUBLISHED: . 11:14 EST, 17 December 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 14:09 EST, 19 December 2012 . A motorist who killed a dog walker moments after sending a text message wept yesterday as she escaped a jail sentence. Dentist Kay Nolan, 45, had pulled over in a layby to compose a reply to a work colleague on her mobile phone but did not send it until she had driven off again. As she did so she clipped Stuart Mather with her wing mirror and knocked him over as he walked his Scottish terrier dog, Hamish . Sentence: Kay Nolan, left, was sentenced to a 40-week suspended jail term after her car hit Stuart Mather, right. Mr Mather was hit by a second car and died . Both he and his pet were crushed by a car travelling behind. Mr Mather, a 60-year-old grandfather, was taken by air ambulance to hospital but died later and his beloved dog also perished. His family condemned those who use their mobiles at the wheel for failing to recognise the risks. Mr Mather’s son, Alex, said: ‘All too often in this day and age people are too interested in their mobile phones – but you can wait or you can pull over. Grieving: Stuart Mather's son Alex said that the sentence was 'acceptable' but 'never going to be enough' outside Preston Crown Court . ‘Just think about what you’re doing, . think about the consequences and the impact that it has. All this was . the result of sending a text message, something that could have been . deemed avoidable.’ He said: ‘No sentence was ever going to be enough. We . were left with no opportunity to say goodbye. ‘He had always wanted a granddaughter but she was born two months after he died and now she will never be able to meet him.’ Preston Crown Court heard the tragedy occurred at 5.20pm on June 6 last year as Nolan was driving home from work. She had been sent a text message by a work colleague asking for a day off and she pulled into a layby to compose her reply. But instead of sending it immediately she set off again and only pressed the send button as she approached Mr Mather. As she did so an eyewitness saw Nolan brake and swerve in a bid to avoid a collision but she clipped Mr Mather with her wing mirror. He was knocked over and crushed under the wheels of another car travelling behind at an accident blackspot in Higham, Lancashire. It later emerged Nolan, a divorced mother-of-one, had tried to save his life by attempting resuscitation at the roadside. But as she waited for the police to arrive she also deleted the offending text. Nolan, who works as a dentist at a practice near Burnley, had been facing a charge of causing death by dangerous driving, which carries a maximum 14-year prison sentence. But lawyers allowed her to plead guilty to the lesser charge of causing death by careless or inconsiderate driving, which carries a maximum five-year sentence. She wept as she was given a 40-week prison term suspended for a year and was ordered to carry out 150 hours of community work. She was also banned from driving for 12 months. Leaving court: Kay Nolan pictured leaving the court today, left. Mr Mather's family warned motorists to consider the consequences before texting at the wheel . Nolan escaped a jail sentence mainly on the basis there was no one to care for her elderly mother and her 12-year-old daughter. Judge Rabinder Singh told her: ‘This was a short distraction and albeit one that you shouldn’t have been engaged in because it was in itself an unlawful act. ‘Nothing that this court says or does can possibly provide adequate consolation to the family and friends of Mr Mather. This is truly a tragic and sad death.’
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Stuart Mather died after he was hit by Kay Nolan's car in Higham, Lancs .
Nolan had stopped in a lay-by to write a text to an employee .
But hit send moments after pulling away and hit Mr Mather .
He was thrown into the air and hit by another car as he landed in the road .
Nolan was handed a 40-week suspended prison sentence .
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A German astrophotographer has captured a dazzling image of the Orion Nebula from his back garden. Reinhold Wittich took the colourful photograph from his backyard observatory using a 12 inch f/4 Newton telescope. The image show swirls of vivid colours in the star-forming region of the nebula which are created by the release of oxygen and hydrogen gases. Scroll down for video . Reinhold Wittich took a colourful image of the Orion Nebula from his back garden in Germany which he admits has been processed using computer software including CCDStack, PixInsight and Photoshop . The Orion Nebula, also known as M42, is a diffuse nebula situated south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. It is 1,500 light years away from Earth and is believed to be 24 light years wide. The nebula can be seen with the naked eye near the constellation Orion. It is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth and has a mass about 2000 times that of the sun. The Orion Nebula is one of the most photographed objects in the light sky and it has revealed a lot about how stars are created from collapsing clouds of gas and dust. The beautiful image is impressive, but Mr Wittich does admit that it has been processed using computer software including CCDStack, PixInsight and Photoshop. Mr Wittich told SPACE.com: ‘The weather was not very good this winter, so it took a few nights to catch the data.’ The Orion Nebula, also known as M42, is a diffuse nebula situated south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. It is 1,500 light years away from Earth and is believed to be 24 light years wide. The nebula can be seen with the naked eye near the constellation Orion. It is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth and has a mass about 2000 times that of the sun. Mr Wittich used a 12 inch f/4 Newton telescope to capture the image . The Orion Nebula is one of the most . photographed objects in the light sky and it has revealed a lot about . how stars are created from collapsing clouds of gas and dust. Mr . Wittich is not the first astrophotographer to capture the nebula from . his back garden – mathematician Mark Shelley, from Sidcup in Kent, has . also managed to capture stunning images of it from his garden. Mr . Shelley managed to record the images by using very long exposures to . 'soak up' as much light as possible as his motorised telescope tracked . across the sky. Amazingly, he did it all on a second-hand telescope he received as a Christmas present. The image show swirls of vivid colours in the star-forming region of the nebula which are created by the release of oxygen and hydrogen gases .
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Reinhold Wittich used a 12 inch f/4 Newton telescope to take photograph .
It contains dazzling colours created by emission of oxygen and hydrogen .
He admits that it has been processed using software including Photoshop .
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By . M L Nestel . PUBLISHED: . 05:55 EST, 11 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:22 EST, 11 October 2013 . The parents of a nine-year-old boy who sneaked onto a plane from Minneapolis to Las Vegas never filed a missing persons report with the police and his father gave up looking for him to go to work, MailOnline has learned. The boy’s parents have said he vanished while taking out the trash last Thursday. The boy sneaked out of his home in the morning, got on a train to the airport, dodged all security, embarked the Delta Flight at 11.15am and after a three hour flight made headlines around the world. But MailOnline has learned it was the police - not his parents - who filed the missing persons report and only when they were called by Las Vegas police after the boy had arrived there. Scroll down for video . 'Good parents': V.J. Smith, right, who appeared alongside the boy's hooded father at a bizarre press conference, claimed to MailOnline that the boy's mother and father 'did everything good parents do' The parents only learned where their son was on October 4, when officers from the Minneapolis Police Department came to their door at around 5.30pm to tell them their son was 1,600 miles away in Nevada. A family friend told MailOnline that the parents thought they needed to wait for 48 hours before informing authorities that their son had vanished. He added that they 'thought he must be somewhere'. ‘The information they got was they needed to wait 48 hours before you call the police,’ family friend and anti-violence advocate V.J. Smith, who is representing the family told MailOnline. ‘So they were going by certain rules and they thought he must be somewhere.’ But a missing child of such a young age would have been a top priority, cops said today. ‘With a 9-year-old that would be a fairly substantial priority for us,’ Sgt. William Palmer, a Minneapolis Police Department spokesman said. He said the search could even call for the best investigators to solve the case. Mystery: The boy vanished after taking out the trash and the family 'thought he must be somewhere' so the father, above, went to work . ‘We might even bring in a lot of officers and knock doors and in some cases we might involve some of our homicide investigators.’ It has also emerged that the boy’s father gave up looking for his son on the Thursday, and hoped he was just with friends. He went to work at a local bus company. ‘They were hoping he was at a friend’s house,’ Smith said. ‘And they were calling around and they didn’t know.’ Smith insists his mom called in sick from her job at the airport so she could search for him. ‘He [dad] was at work and she took the day off and began to look. So they really did do their best to be good parents.’ It has also emerged that the boy was at home because he’d been suspended from school for fighting with another student. The apparently relaxed attitude of the parents to where the child was is particularly alarming because just 48 hours before he boarded the flight he had stolen a truck and crashed it into a police cruiser after a short chase. The boy's father said they his son had thought he was playing video game 'Grand Theft Auto'. His father has admitted that his son's outlandish behavior has included truancies and slipping passed an entry gate at a local theme park, and was escalating even as young as five-years-old. Troubled youth: It has emerged that the boy stole this truck and crashed it after a short police chase just two days before his cross-country jaunt . String of dramas: The truck incident happened just two days before the boy boarded the flight to Las Vegas . Troublesome: As well as stealing the car, the boy also has a history of playing truant and sneaking into a local water park without paying entry . At a press conference yesterday, in which he hid his face in a hoodie and baseball cap, he sobbed as he said he had asked the authorities for help with the boy on countless occasions but had got none. He even blamed the airport for his son’s behaviour, railing at the lack of security that allowed his boy to go through three sets of checks unchallenged before getting on the plane. The minor was eventually rumbled by cabin crew – but only when he was 40,000ft in the air. The boy is expected to be reunited with his family on Friday when he is flown back from Las Vegas and Smith said his group would help provide them with mentoring. Leaving: The runaway boy flew to Las Vegas from Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport on a Delta plane like this one, pictured. It was only discovered mid-air that he had no ticket . Smith said: ‘They are going to get him back. Yeah of course they want him back. They do. 'The parents are going to get some help. A lot of folks in this community are stepping up to make sure that they get the assistance they need. ‘It's sad because I just had a gentleman come by my office and say “same thing happened to me, my son's in prison now. I don't know when he'll get out. I reached. I called. Nobody listened. Now he's in prison. I just want to embrace this family. ‘They're getting the help now. But it's sad it had to come to this - him jumping on a plane for that to happen. But they're going to be okay and we're going to make sure that we get around this family.’ His siblings - an infant and teenage daughter - have remained in the custody of the boy’s family. The parents have also been paid visits by Janine Moore, who works for the county’s Human Services and Public Health Department. In all, the family have had four child assessments carried out on them. In an email titled ‘private data’ dated from last December, Moore described the boy to fellow administrators as ‘challenging’, The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported. Destination: Las Vegas McCarran International Airport, with the 'Strip' in the background. The nine-year-old flew here from Minneapolis without a ticket . Moore added that there ‘was a pattern of behaviour’ and that the kid couldn’t be trusted. ‘Typically, staff can tell if a child is lying, but with this child they are unsure what is going on. This is a two-parent home, and there is at least one other child.’ In her memo, Moore wrote that the boy's future could go two ways. If he's been mistreated, he could be removed from his home. If he has a mental health issue, there could be a 'behavioral health response,' which she didn't explain.
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Family friend tells MailOnline that parents never called the police when their son, 9, went missing for at least seven hours .
It was only when he turned up in Las Vegas after getting 11.15am flight from Minneapolis did police contact them .
Friend claims they were searching for the boy but father went to work after a while as they believed 'he must be somewhere'
Boy had been suspended from school for fighting and had stolen and crashed a truck two days before his cross-country jaunt .
Boy expected to be returned to family today .
The family has been subject of four child protection assessments this year .
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By . Katy Winter . PUBLISHED: . 04:39 EST, 21 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 09:04 EST, 21 August 2013 . Ashley Hylton lost half her body weight on an American reality weight loss program and encouraged her overweight husband to drop the pounds in the process. The blonde, who lost over 11 stone, wrote to celebrity trainer Chris Powell after piling on the pounds following the death of her daughter Ava who was born four months premature and only lived for two hours. Chris agreed to train Ashley, 26, for one year and weighed her in on day one at a life-threatening 325lbs (23 stone). Scroll down for video . Ashley Hylton, 26, lost a total of 11.7 stone, dropping from 325lbs, over 23 stone to a svelte 11.4 stone in a year on the TV show Extreme makeover: Weightloss . Ashley, 26, wrote to celebrity trainer Chris Powell after piling on the pounds following the death of her daughter Ava who was born four months premature and only lived for two hours . Ashley reacts to seeing herself in the mirror at the start of the weight loss journey . Ashley's husband Jason supported her in her mission to shed the pounds, and soon began to be inspired to join in himself . As Ashley began to adopt the health diet and extreme exercise regime prescribed by train Chris, her overweight husband Jason was also inspired to follow the advice. Tipping the scales at 398lbs (over 28 stone) Jason was also dangerously over weight and the couple shared much of their unhealthy habits. While Chris was only officially working with Ashley, Jason joined in, getting up at 5am to work out with his wife and their toddler son Tyler. At the 90 day weigh-in Ashley had lost a huge 83lbs (5.9 stone) while Jason had lost 53lbs (3.7 stone). The couple then had their 6 month weigh-in at Machu Picchu in Peru - a place that landscape photographer Jason had always wanted to visit. This time Jason roared ahead of his dieting wife, losing another 52lbs (3.6 stone) while Ashley lost 28lbs (2 stone). Despite not officially being trained by Chris, Jason ended up losing 12 stone, taking him from over 28 stone to 16 stone . Trainer Chris put Ashley through a grueling exercise regime as well as overhauling her unhealthy diet . Husband Jason wasn't left out of the weigh-ins with Chris, and was soon dropping the pounds as fast as his wife . They both then trekked to the peak of Machu Piccu, despite Ashley almost having an asthma attack halfway up the mountain. As an incentive for the next weigh-in, Powell told Ashley that if she hit 175lbs he would pay for husband Jason to have skin removal surgery as well her, which motivated her to lose more and weigh 174lbs (12.4 stone) at the nine month weigh-in. The couple were thrilled with their transformation, which saw them lose over 23 stone between them . They both qualified for the skin removal surgery and both arrived at the final weigh-in and 'big reveal' looking fantastic. Ashley had lost more than half her body weight, losing 164lbs (11.7 stone) and weighing in at 161lbs (11.4 stone) while Jason, despite not being part of the official programme, was a trim 228lbs (16.2 stone) having shed a whopping 170lbs (12.1 stone).
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Ashley and Jason Hylton gained weight following death of daughter Ava .
Ashley wrote to trainer Chris from TV show Extreme Weightloss .
Went from 23 stone to 11.4 stone through diet and exercise .
Husband Jason was inspired to join in and also lost over 12 stone .
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The mother of gang rape victim Jyoti Singh Pandey celebrated the death sentences handed to her daughter's four killers - saying 'she is now at peace'. Asha Devi watched her daughter suffer for 13 days in hospital from eventually fatal internal injuries after being repeatedly raped on a Delhi bus. Sitting by the bedside in a hospital in Singapore, Asha, 46, promised her 23-year-old child justice would be served. Finally, after a fast-tracked trial, all four rapists were sentenced to death at in Delhi on Friday - gym instructor Vinay Sharma, 20, bus cleaner Akshay Thakur, 28, . fruit-seller Pawan Gupta, 19, and Mukesh Singh, 26. Relieved: Parents Badri Singh, right, and Asha Devi celebrated the four hanging sentences for the men that raped and killed their daughter Jyoti. Asha, 46, said it was her dying wish . Convicted (clockwise from top left): Hanging sentences were handed to gym instructor Vinay Sharma, 20, Mukesh Singh, 26, fruit-seller Pawan Gupta, 19, and bus cleaner Akshay Thakur, 28, at Saket Court on Friday . Ram Singh, co-accused and . widely considered the leader of the group, was found dead in his . cell in March. He was the brother of convicted Mukesh Singh, who drove the bus during . the ghastly crime. A minor who was also accused has been sentenced to three years in a reformatory institution. The grieving mother told the Sunday Mirror: 'She kept saying her only wish was to see them hanged. I know this result will help her be at peace now.' 'Words cannot explain the horror. She cried every time she talked about it. I will never forget how disgustingly brutal they were. 'I remember trying to make her eat. But she was in so much pain she couldn't even eat a spoonful. 'She kept telling me to sit and hold her hand instead.' Jyoti, a physiotherapy student, sparked a global debate about mysogyny in India when she was attacked on 16 December last year. The international attention forced judges to prioritise the case - and the lawyer's association in the district of Saket reportedly refused to defend the accused. Justice: A police van, carrying the four convicts, leaves Sadek Court in Delhi after a judge ruled death by hanging . Infuriated: Hordes of protesters calling for the rapists to be hanged gathered outside Satek Court on Friday . Gripped: The case shook the nation and the world. A lawyer emerged from the final day making a 'victory' sign . In January, Asha revealed that Jyoti wanted her rapists 'burnt alive'. Father Badri Singh, 53, told the paper he 'felt so relieved' when the judge ruled death by hanging. He said: 'When the judge announced the death penalty I stared right at these men and I saw the fear of death in their eyes. Two of them were crying even. 'But I wasn't bothered and I had no sympathies for them. I will never forgive or forget what they did to my daughter. They're now paying the true price for what they chose to do that night.' The couple added that Jyoti was born a fighter, having spent her first month in intensive care. Even when she was in hospital she believed she would battle through, they explained. Determined to fight for equality between sexes in honour of his daughter, Mr Singh declared her death has been an inspiration for India. He said: 'I feel her life has been sacrificed to teach the world that rapes and this kind of behaviour cannot go on.' When the sentence was announced all convicts broke down apart from Akshay Thakur. Each were ordered to pay 55,000 rupees to the family of their victim. In his closing speech, Judge Khanna said he could not turn a blind eye to rising cases of sexual assault against . women. He said: 'The convicts, in the most . barbaric manner, pulled out her internal organs with their bare hands and caused her irreparable injuries. 'She and her . friend were then thrown out of the moving bus in naked condition, . profusely bleeding, on a cold winter night. 'Their unprovoked crime . demonstrated exceptional depravity of mind of the convicts. 'The crime of such nature requires exemplary punishment.'
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Asha Devi, 46, said daughter Jyoti Singh wanted her rapists to be killed .
Death by hanging sentence handed to Vinay Sharma, 20, Akshay Thakur, 28, Pawan Gupta, 19, and Mukesh Singh, 26 .
Father Badri Singh, 53, said they are 'paying the true price'
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By . Louise Boyle . PUBLISHED: . 13:47 EST, 27 February 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 16:42 EST, 27 February 2014 . Patrons of a suburban watering hole were surprised to find a tiger joining them for a drink at the bar on Sunday evening. The Siberian tiger cub called Shere Khan was brought into Uncle Richie's Bar in Lockport, Illinois by John Basile who owns nearby animal sanctuary Big Run Wolf Ranch. Amazed locals caught the bizarre incident on camera after Mr Basile, 57, strolled downtown with the tiger cub on a leash. Scroll down for video . Animal ranch owner John Basile brought his tiger cub Shere Khan (pictured) to a downtown bar on Sunday night . John Basile, pictured with a wolf on his wild animal ranch in Illinois, is facing charges of possession of a dangerous animal after taking his tiger into a bar . Ethan Autman, who caught the incident on camera, told CBS that the man appeared nonchalant about the outing. Mr Autman said: 'He was thinking he didn't do anything wrong. I think he was kind of drunk, though.' Uncle Richie's refused to comment to MailOnline today on whether Shere Khan sat at the bar or had anything to drink. Big Run Wolf Ranch is a non-profit, educational program which cares for North American wildlife. A tiger was spotted on a leash at Uncle Ritchie's Bar in Lockport, Illinois on Sunday night by local residents who caught it on camera . Uncle Richie's bar had no comment today when contacted by MailOnline about the tiger who came to the bar . Along with the tiger cub, the ranch . is home to ten wolves, a 450lb black bear called Kuma, a cougar, . groundhog, coyote, raccoons and a porcupine. The tiger cub reportedly bit a woman at Uncle Richie's in December but she did not report it. Basile faces misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct, reckless conduct and possession of a dangerous animal. Calls to Big Run Wolf Ranch were not answered today. The animal ranch owner has a history of bringing his tiger cub into Uncle Ritchie's Saloon in downtown Lockport .
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It was supposed to be a way of helping hard-pressed families with tired children cope as they stepped off their long holiday flight. But the idea of providing a fleet of 150 complimentary pushchairs at the arrivals hall at Gatwick Airport has backfired – after the majority of them were stolen by passengers. Instead of leaving the buggies at the designated drop-off point in the baggage reclaim area when their own pushchair arrives on the carousel, some holidaymakers have brazenly walked off with them before loading them into their car or boarding the Gatwick Express rail service with their newly acquired booty. Scroll down for video . Free pushchairs have proved so popular at Gatwick airport that parents have been walking off with them. According to border control staff, just three of the original 150 buggies remain . The Mothercare Nanu Strollers were widely welcomed as part of a family-friendly initiative when they were introduced at the airport in West Sussex in April. Airport bosses said at the time that they wanted to encourage families ‘to take advantage’ of the 150 buggies as Gatwick became the UK’s first airport to offer parents the free service. The strollers feature a multi-position reclining seat with adjustable calf rest and normally cost £49.99 on the High Street. The Gatwick buggies bear no stamp or label identifying them as airport property, although their canvas seats are decorated in the same shade of blue as Gatwick’s own-brand logo. According to passport control officials based at the North Terminal, only five of the original fleet of buggies remain. An order for a further 200 has now been placed but airport workers expect many of these to disappear too unless a security device or alarm is fitted to prevent their removal. Gatwick handles up to 60,000 incoming passengers a day and airport managers say it is not surprising that some of the buggies have been misappropriated. The pushchairs have no security tag or alarm fitted to stop people walking away with them, or marking to indicate that they belong to the airport . A spokesman said: ‘I know there is some truth [in the suggestion that scores have been taken] but I don’t have any figures. ‘It’s obviously something we are keeping an eye on. The buggies are just so popular and we are having to continually replenish them.’ The Family and Childcare Trust, which gave Gatwick its Family Friendly UK accreditation after the scheme was launched, said it was ‘disappointed’ by the way some parents had abused the idea but insisted the initiative still had its backing. ‘We’ve had a handful taken since April and the reason for ordering 200 more is due to how popular they have been and to help us manage the flow between the aircraft and baggage halls. ‘They are stored in a branded wall-mounted shelving unit so are very clearly Gatwick property.’
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Global warming has propelled Earth's climate from one of its coldest decades since the last ice age to one of its hottest -- in just one century. A heat spike like this has never happened before, at least not in the last 11,300 years, said climatologist Shaun Marcott, who worked on a new study on global temperatures going back that far. "If any period in time had a sustained temperature change similar to what we have today, we would have certainly seen that in our record," he said. It is a good indicator of just how fast man-made climate change has progressed. A century is a very short period of time for such a spike. It's supposed to be cold . The Earth was very cold at the turn of the 20th century. The decade from 1900 to 1909 was colder than 95% of the last 11,300 years, the study found. Fast forward to the turn of the 21st century, and the opposite occurs. Between 2000 and 2009, it was hotter than about 75% of the last 11,300 years. If not for man-made influences, the Earth would be in a very cold phase right now and getting even colder, according the joint study by Oregon State University and Harvard University. Marcott was the lead author of the report on its results. To boot, the range of temperatures from cold to hot produced since the industrial revolution began are about the same as the 11,000 years before it, said Candace Major from the National Science Foundation, "but this change has happened a lot more quickly." Far from natural warming . Variations in how the Earth is tilted and its orbit around the sun make for a pattern of planetary warming phases followed by cooling phases across the millennia. The team's research shows the Earth's overall temperature curve dipping down over about the past 4,000 years, but the downward plod comes to an abrupt halt in modern times. "If you were to predict -- based on where we are relative to the position of the sun and how we are tilted -- you would predict that we would be still cooling, but we're not," Marcott said. Instead, the planet is warming up. It hasn't been quite this warm in thousands of years. And it's getting hotter. By 2100, the Earth will be warmer than ever before, Marcott said. If emissions continue as currently predicted until then, global temperatures will rise "well above anything we've ever seen in the last 11,000 years." That could be a rise of 2 to 11.5 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the NSF. What a long range study means . To get a view on global temperatures that long ago, the researchers studied 73 sediment and polar ice samples, taken from all over the globe. Chemicals found in fossils deep down in the samples span the ages and are good indicators of historic temperatures on Earth, Marcott said. The scientists did the study to put the global temperature trends into a long-range perspective, Marcott said. Critics of climate change research, which has generally covered the last 1,500 to 2,000 years, have complained that it has been too short-sighted. They argue that the shorter studies have not taken into account that the warming Earth is seeing today could have happened before naturally -- thousands of years ago. These shorter studies have been based on methods that are very different from the Harvard-OSU research, but in the 2,000 years that they overlap, the results have been basically the same. "Our data shows that ... they didn't miss anything," Marcott said. And the parallel results corroborate the precision of the new research as well, he said. Humanity in the last 11,500 years . The scientists chose the period of time known as the "Holocene" for their research, because it is the most recent natural warm phase in Earth's history. It began at the end of the last Ice Age about 11,500 years ago, and we are still in it. The Holocene has also been the epoch of human achievement, the beginning of civilization. Stable weather patterns helped people do more of everything they wanted to, partly because they no longer had to fight the cold of an ice age. They began farming, which extended their own life spans and increased population on Earth. They built cities and roads, made art, developed languages and laws. They formed empires and nations. Eventually, they invented machines, landing themselves in the industrialized age, driven by engines and turbines, which are powered by combustible fuel. Thus began man-made greenhouse gases. The world tomorrow . The main culprit is carbon dioxide, and its levels have jumped in the last 100 years, Marcott said. In the 11,000 years prior, it only changed "very slowly," he said. Marcott is concerned about people's ability to adapt to a perhaps drastically changed climate. "As civilization has grown, we're kind of set up for things not to change too much," he said. The last time Earth has been as warm as it is projected to be by 2100 was before the last Ice Age started -- over 130,000 years ago. That's too long ago to gather reliable data on, he said. He didn't want to speculate on what the world will look like, if global warming continues. "I certainly hope we can pull ourselves out of it," he said.
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If greenhouse gas emissions progress, Earth will become hotter than ever in 90 years .
The temperature rise during man-made global warming has not happened before .
1900 - 1909 was one of the coldest decades in 11,300 years .
2000 - 2009 was one of the hottest decades in 11,300 years .
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A black man who was shot by Utah police while armed with a samurai-style sword as part of a Japanese anime costume died of multiple gunshot wounds, including several in the back of his body, an autopsy has revealed. Darrien Hunt suffered six gunshots wounds, and at least four entered the 22-year-old's body from behind when he was shot in September 10. The state autopsy results back-up an independent findings released by Hunt's family who claimed he was treated differently because he was black. Darrien Hunt, left, pictured with his mother Susan, middle, was shot six times by police, including four times in the back, a state autopsy has revealed . Hunt was shot after walking around a strip mall in the Utah city of Saratoga Springs wearing a red shirt and blue pants - similar to that worn by an anime character - and carrying 2.5ft steel sword . Before being shot dead, Hunt, seen in red, was seen smiling and talking to two police officers at the scene . Hunt's mother, Susan said: 'I don't think anyone would have thought twice if it wasn't someone with an afro.' Police have said race was not a factor in the shooting which occurred when Hunt walked around a strip mall in the Utah city of Saratoga Springs wearing a red shirt and blue pants - similar to that worn by an anime character - and carrying 2.5ft steel sword. Police said they were called to the scene following a 911 call about a man with a sword, and shot Hunt after he lunged at them, swinging the weapon. Hunt's family maintain the sword was decorative, rather than dangerous. The autopsy states an officer fired three shots when Hunt charged at him, swinging the sword, as he got out of his car. Police then fired four more times as they chased him. An attorney for the Hunt family, Robert Sykes, disputed the officers' account, saying a picture taken by a bystander shows Hunt smiling as he talked to two officers. Tim Taylor, chief deputy at the Utah County Attorney's Office, said that Hunt talked to officers after they arrived, asking them for a ride. Ms Hunt, seen speaking at a press conference above, said: 'I don't think anyone would have thought twice if it wasn't someone with an afro.' The Hunt family's attorney Robert Sykes speaks during a press conference concerning the autopsy results; he said the fact Hunt was shot in the back means police were pursing him and he was 'probably scared to death' He said the county attorney's investigation into whether the shooting was legally justified could be complete within a week. Mr Taylor said the trajectory of the shots found by the autopsy indicates Hunt was turning away when they were fired, but investigators are still looking at exactly what happened during the encounter. The autopsy shows four of the gunshots found in Hunt's body traveled back to front. A fifth shot that struck his left arm appears to have come from the front and a sixth traveled downward after entering the back of his forearm. Mr Sykes said: 'I think that means they were pursuing him, he was running away. He was probably sacred to death.' Ms Susan said she hopes the officers involved are held accountable, and barred from using firearms in the future. The officers, who are white, have been identified as Cpl. Matthew Schauerhamer and Officer Nicholas Judson. Saratoga Springs is an upscale city of 23,000 people south of Salt Lake City. About 93 percent of residents are white and fewer than 1 percent are black, according to U.S. Census figures.
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Rep Ralph Hall of Texas says TSA 'badly mistreated' his gran-niece and wants officer fired from at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport Georgia .
The girl was part of a group traveling to Australia from Southwest Christian school two years ago .
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NEW: The actress called police for help, her lawyer says .
Lindsay Lohan checked herself into the Betty Ford Center in September .
If she fails a drug test, she will be ordered to go to jail .
Palm Desert police say they are investigating a claim that Lohan and an employee were in a scuffle .
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(CNN) -- While snow from a massive winter storm system continued to fall Wednesday night in parts of the Northeast, millions in the Midwest were left to dig themselves out, brave dangerously frigid temperatures and cope with sporadic power outages. An Arctic cold front followed the storm that dumped nearly 2 feet of snow in some locales, complicating cleanup efforts and spurring freeze warnings that spanned much of the nation's midsection. In much of Wisconsin, for instance, wind chill values were expected between 20 and 25 degrees below zero Wednesday night, according to the National Weather Service. Still, Green Bay Packers fans down in north Texas ahead of their team's Super Bowl showdown with the Pittsburgh Steelers only got a relative respite, temperature-wise. In Arlington, Texas, site of Sunday's game, there was a wind chill advisory in effect due to very cold conditions that made the temperature feel between zero and minus-10 degrees, and several inches of snow and ice had a debilitating effect in parts of Dallas, Fort Worth and their surrounding areas. "It was funny to see a whole city shut down. Everything was closed," said Packers' defensive lineman Ryan Pickett. "In Green Bay, this is just a normal day." The problems facing Texas were largely because of icy conditions exacerbated by cold temperatures. Besides slick roads, Gov. Rick Perry said in a statement that the weather put an unprecedented demand on the state's energy grid, leading to power outages Wednesday that were expected to continue into Thursday. Furthermore, 50 power plants were out statewide due to the extreme weather, leading to a 10%-15% reduction in electricity production, said the state's utility commission spokesman Terry Hadley. The commission said in a statement that rotating outages would be limited to 10 to 45 minutes, unless equipment fails due to a power surge during the restoration process. It's all part of the effects of a storm system that blanketed 30 states with a mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain over several days, producing record-breaking accumulations in several Midwest locales, making for treacherous travel on snow-choked roadways and forcing airlines to cancel thousands of flights. The huge demand for information caused sporadic outages for the National Weather Service's web servers, which struggled to handle a deluge of 10 million to 20 million hits per hour, officials said. The site normally get 70 million hits per day. The last of the storm was drenching the Northeast late Wednesday, dumping freezing rain and snow in much of southern New England. While the amounts were less there than what some had forecast previously, the cumulative effect of relentless precipitation had a crippling impact in places. In Massachusetts, for instance, a number of roofs collapsed under the weight of rain-soaked snow, including the roof of a large commercial building in the town of Easton, according to fire captain David Beals. Up to 100 employees were evacuated prior to the collapse, he said. No injuries were reported. About 800 miles away, residents of Chicago were recovering from the system, which at times hit the Windy City hard with its combination of strong gusts and blinding precipitation. O'Hare International Airport received a record-breaking 20.2 inches of snow, according to the weather service. Raymond Roscoe, chief of staff for Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, said that many motorists remained stuck in their cars throughout the night, while others abandoned their vehicles. Police, fire department and sanitation crews spent much of the night pulling people out of their cars, he said. Roscoe said there were no reports of injuries. "There were no cars or people on the street and you couldn't see the buildings nearby because of the thick snow," said city resident Sruthi Swaminathan. "The only thing you could see clearly were the lights from the Chicago theater." The good news was that the blizzard warnings for northeastern Illinois, including the Chicago metropolitan area, were called off. Still, even as the snow tapered off, forecasters said wind chills may fall to 20 to 40 degrees below zero late Wednesday. "The wind on the lake shore is beyond belief," said Chicago resident Anni Glissman. "It almost knocks you over." Elsewhere, Illinois State Police carried out a rescue operation in Kankakee County after 20 cars were stranded in the snowstorm, where snowdrifts were measured at about 3 feet, the agency said. The rescued motorists were taken to temporary warming centers in Manteno or Peotone, said state police Sgt. Angie Kinstner. In Wisconsin, the Department of Transportation reported that Interstate 42 and Interstate 94 were impassable south of Milwaukee. The National Guard was making a sweep of the interstates for stranded motorists. On Wednesday night, President Barack Obama approved a request from Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin and approved an emergency disaster declaration for all the state's 77 counties, a move that will expedite post-storm assistance, according to a statement from FEMA. Fallin had declared a state of emergency on Monday in advance of the storm, a release from the state's Department of Emergency Management said. A 20-year-old Moore, Oklahoma, woman died after hitting her head while sledding during the storm, the statement said. Many others were injured in Oklahoma -- 77 in falls, four in carbon monoxide poisonings, 13 with cuts, 24 in road accidents, two with frostbite and five in other storm-related injuries, according to the state health department. In addition, the state highway patrol responded to 81 storm-related crashes and 278 calls from motorists seeking help. And nationwide, the storm crippled air travel through much of the Midwest and the Northeast, as major carriers cancelled thousands of flights that stranded tens of thousands of passengers. Airports were set to get back on track Thursday, with Amtrak also announcing that service should return to normal then along the Eastern seaboard. The other glimmer of hope came from the world's most famous groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil. Wednesday morning, from his perch right in the middle of the storm track in central Pennsylvania, Phil didn't see his shadow. According to a tradition dating back 100 years, that means spring will come early this year. CNN's Sean Morris, Mark McKay and Tracey Sabo contributed to this report .
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NEW: Amtrak, most airports expect to return to normal Thursday .
NEW: President Obama declares a federal emergency in Oklahoma, expediting aid .
Extreme weather halts energy production at 50 Texas power plants, a spokesman says .
Wind chills in Wisconsin may fall to 20 to 25 degrees below zero Wednesday night .
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American Dustin Johnson is out of the season’s final major next week and the Ryder Cup in September after admitting he needs professional help. The big-hitting 30-year-old, known for his colourful lifestyle, revealed in a dramatic statement on Thursday night that he was taking an indefinite leave of absence. The PGA of America confirmed he won’t be part of the United States team at Gleneagles. Johnson finished 12th in The Open two weeks ago and was fourth in the US Ryder Cup standings. Earlier this year, he got engaged to his glamorous fiancé Paulina Gretzky. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Dustin Johnson and Sergio Garcia play golf on the Thames . Hiatus: Dustin Johnson is to take an immediate break from golf . Getaway: Johnson revealed his decision in a statement on Thursday night and will miss the Ryder Cup . 'We will certainly miss Dustin Johnson at Gleneagles, and we wish him the best,' the US captain, Tom Watson, said.' As one of the longest hitters in the game with an undefeated record of 3-0 at Medinah in 2012, he has clearly been an asset for the United States team. That said, the United States is a team with an abundance of talent.' Johnson’s statement read: 'I am taking a leave of absence from professional golf, effective immediately. I will use this time to seek professional help for personal challenges I have faced. By committing the time and resources necessary to improve my mental health, physical well-being and emotional foundation, I am confident that I will be better equipped to fulfil my potential and become a consistent champion. I respectfully ask for privacy as I embark upon this mission of self-improvement.’ Talk about a statement that left more questions than answers, a point picked up by European Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley on Sky. ‘It’s much better for everyone if there is clarity,’ he said. ‘If something has gone wrong and he has been misbehaving, let’s get it dealt with and move forward.’ Johnson was known for a party lifestyle that led to him being labelled an unfulfilled talent. At 17 he was arrested for buying bullets that were later used in a gangland murder. In 2009 he was in trouble again after being charged with DUI (driving under the influence). Jekyll and Hyde: Talented golfer Johnson has had problems off the golf course in the past . In May 2012, Johnson’s agent David Winkle insisted his client had not been serving a drugs suspension from the PGA Tour when he spent three months out of the game. His coach Butch Harmon was forthcoming in a 2011 interview, revealing: 'Dustin and I had a come-to-Jesus conversation about getting his personal life in order. I told him he needs to figure out who he is and how committed he is to utilizing his talent. He needs to eliminate some of the, shall we say, extracurricular activities. He’s a fun-loving guy, I realize that. But there’s a time to play and a time to work and he needs to understand that better.’ Johnson seemed to have settled down since meeting Gretzky and was an impressive winner of the WGC-Champions tournament in Shanghai last November. Now it is to be hoped he can sort out all his personal demons. All smiles: Johnson (right) got engaged to Paulina Gretzky (left) earlier this year . The news regarding Johnson inevitably overshadowed proceedings on the opening day of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational here at Firestone, where Australian Marc Leishman led the way after a 64, with Justin Rose shooting 65. Rory McIlroy represented a veritable beacon of tranquillity amidst a sea of tense faces fretting over Ryder Cup places. Earning a Claret Jug will do that for a man, as the 25 year old threatened to carry on from where he left off at Hoylake. Back on the course: Rory McIlroy in action during the Bridgestone Invitational on Thursday . Return: It was his first tournament back since his Open victory at Hoylake . VIDEO Commercial Bank Qatar Masters - Round 1 Highlights - 2014 . As it turned out, an ugly double bogey from nowhere on his penultimate hole turned an opening 67 that would have fairly reflected his play into a 69 that still left him decently placed. This is one of two big events left to decide the automatic Ryder Cup placings on both sides of the Atlantic and boy, can you tell. Welshman Jamie Donaldson, one of those sweating on a spot, summed it up nicely when he said: ’You want to forget about it but all the time you’ve got this voice at the back of your mind nagging away and reminding you what’s at stake.’ It would be desperately harsh if the 38 year old Welshman missed out on a debut after being in the frame for virtually all the qualifying period but it could still happen. A two under par 68, therefore, was a gusty effort. One shot nearer the lead was in-form Italian Frankie Molinari, currently 13th in the standings but who could leap into the automatic spots with a top three finish. Tiger Woods was looking for a good score to shore up his own parlous Ryder Cup position and did that with a 68. Sweating: Jamie Donaldson is one of those chasing a Ryder Cup spot . Crouching Tiger: Woods lining up a putt on the second green during the first round at Bridgestone .
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Dustin Johnson withdraws from all golf for the foreseeable future .
American ruled out of September's Ryder Cup at Gleneagles .
Shock statement overshadows day one at the Bridgestone Invitational .
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At first glance, the new car unveiled at a motor show appeared to be an updated model of the Range Rover Evoque. With its signature body shape, lights and radiator grill and silver logo across the front edge of its bonnet, it was the spitting image of the British bestseller. But in fact, it was a brazen copy of the hugely popular UK-designed ‘baby’ off-roader – and a fraction of the price. The hugely popular UK-designed 'baby' off-roader, the £40,000-plus Range Rover Evoque . Chinese carmaker LandWind launched its own £14,000 X7 at the Guangzhou motor show in China last week . Little-known Chinese carmaker LandWind launched its £14,000 X7 at the Guangzhou motor show in China last week. Its uncanny similarity to the £40,000-plus Evoque’s distinctive design provoked an angry response from Jaguar Land Rover, which may take legal action to protect its brand. The British manufacturer has just opened its first car factory in China in a venture with local firm Chery. Jaguar Land Rover chief executive Dr Ralf Speth, pictured with Business Secretary Vince Cable . Jaguar Land Rover chief executive Dr Ralf Speth told Autocar magazine: ‘The fact that this kind of copying is ongoing in China is very disappointing. The intellectual property (IP) is owned by Jaguar Land Rover and if you break that IP then you are in breach of international regulations.’ But drivers looking for a fashionable car at a bargain price might want to wait for safety inspection results. LandWind’s earlier CV9 people-carrier scored just two stars out of five in European crash tests in 2010.
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By . Simon Parry . UPDATED: . 08:55 EST, 18 September 2011 . Pressure was growing on England rugby captain Mike Tindall last night after a criminal charge was levelled at a nightclub bouncer who blew the whistle on his evening out with a mystery blonde in New Zealand. Jonathan Dixon – who uploaded CCTV security video on to YouTube showing Zara Phillips’s husband kissing and cuddling the woman in Queenstown last Sunday – was arrested and charged with accessing a computer system for dishonest purposes. The arrest of the burly 40-year-old bouncer raises the prospect of a highly embarrassing court case in New Zealand that could overshadow England’s World Cup campaign. Ladies' man: Mike Tindall with rugby fan Janine Jefferis - who is not the girl in the CCTV images - just hours before he was caught on camera with a mystery blonde . Arrested: Bouncer Jonathon Dixon uploaded CCTV footage of Tindall cavorting with the blonde . Dixon told The Mail on Sunday that he . uploaded the footage from security computers at the Altitude bar because . he was outraged by Tindall’s ‘sleazy’ behaviour. Dixon was released on . bail and will reappear in court in Queenstown tomorrow morning. As well as a distraction for the . England team, Dixon’s court appearance could coincide uncomfortably with . Ms Phillips’s imminent arrival in New Zealand to support her husband in . the latter stages of the tournament. Dixon said last night: ‘If my case . goes to trial, I want Mike Tindall to appear in the witness box and . explain his actions that night.’ Tindall's father Phil said his son had spoken to him and reassured him that everything was okay. Mr Tindall said his son told him the woman involved in the bar incident was a good friend and that he was focusing on the rugby. 'It’s all just a fuss over nothing, which has only happened because of who Mike is married to.' he told the Sunday Mirror. 'I’ve seen the pictures and must say I don’t recognise the girl in the footage at all, but I’ve been told she’s a friend and I know nothing untoward would have happened.' Mr Tindall said his son made no mention of his new wife during their conversation. Meanwhile, fresh witnesses to . Tindall’s liaison with the blonde have revealed lurid new details of his . antics, which cast serious doubts over claims in Britain that Ms . Phillips is ‘relaxed’ about his account of the night out. A spokesman for Ms Phillips has . described the woman as a friend of the couple who has known Tindall . since university days and who was at their wedding in July. But the . Queen’s 30-year-old granddaughter struggled to put on a brave face as . she competed in a three-day equestrian event in Ireland this weekend. Despite the spokesman’s implication . that ¬Tindall was indulging in a spot of harmless horseplay with an old . pal, witnesses standing close to the couple in the Altitude bar . described his approach to her as ‘overtly sexual’. Tindall, 32, had been drinking with . other members of the England team in another bar last Sunday, the day . after their narrow victory over Argentina, before they arrived at the . Altitude. The captain had already posed for pictures with rugby fans, . including pretty Janine Jefferis, who is not the girl he was seen with . at the Altitude. There the players drank shots and . beers, surrounded by crowds of admirers including a number of young . women. The other team members gradually melted away, leaving Tindall, . the blonde and a female friend of the blonde near the nightclub bar at . around 1.30am. Of the other players, only veteran . hooker Steve Thompson remained, standing apart from Tindall and the . blonde, downing rounds with rugby-loving customers all too eager to buy . him drinks. Brave face: Tindall's wife Zara Phillips at the International Horse Trials in Ireland . Six security cameras around the club . picked up incriminating but soundless images of Tindall and the blonde . becoming increasingly intimate. Witnesses standing close to them said . the England captain’s intentions were clear. ‘There was no doubt what he was . after,’ said one witness. ‘At one stage he put his hand down the back of . her jeans. Then he put his hand up her top at the back, as if he was . trying to undo her bra strap.’ Tindall repeatedly tried to persuade . the blonde to leave the bar with him, the witness said. ‘He was trying . to drag her out of the door by the arm but she pulled free and said to . him jokingly, “You’re married.” ’ It was at this point that CCTV cameras . filmed the couple cuddling beside the doors before the woman pulled . Tindall towards her chest and kissed his shaved head. The witness said . the couple then kissed each other on the lips. The witness added: ‘He appeared a . little unsteady on his feet but he kept insisting and pulling on her . arm. She eventually gave in and walked out of the bar with him. Her . female friend followed behind.’ Tindall’s behaviour in the street . outside was even more mystifying for someone sup¬posedly enjoying the . company of a platonic friend. At the end of the silent video footage . of Tindall and the blonde posted on YouTube, the player can be seen . talking briefly to a passer-by outside the bar. A second witness told The Mail on . Sunday that the footage actually shows Tindall being confronted by a . male Australian tourist who recognised him and said: ‘You’re married. Pull your head in, mate.’ The witness said: ‘Someone, I’m not . sure if it was Tindall, said, “What goes on tour, stays on tour.” Tindall seemed to stumble forward towards the tourist before he was . quickly pulled away by the girl and her friend. ‘After that, Tindall and the blonde walked away from the bar with their arms around each other.’ The blonde’s friend was walking behind . as the couple left the Altitude at around 2am, but was nowhere to be . seen an hour later when a separate witness saw Tindall and the blonde . walk hand in hand past another bar about 500 yards away. ‘There was no . one else with them,’ the witness said. ‘I didn’t see where they went.’ Before reporting for a pre-arranged . interview at Queenstown police station yesterday, Dixon, who has worked . as a bouncer around New Zealand for 20 years, said that he had put the . CCTV footage on the internet partly because he believed Tindall’s . behaviour had insulted the Royal Family. Cosy: Mike Tindall is seen with his arm around the blonde woman in the grainy CCTV footage . ‘That kind of behaviour is completely . wrong,’ said Dixon, who was contacted by police after the owner of the . Altitude made a formal complaint about footage from its security cameras . being uploaded on to YouTube. ‘In New Zealand we have two national . anthems – God Defend New Zealand and God Save The Queen. The Queen is in . our national anthem and she is on our bank notes. She’s not just your . Queen – she’s our Queen too. This is the man who has just married the . Queen’s granddaughter and I thought his behaviour was sleazy.’ Dixon, who had been working at another . bar in Queenstown earlier last Sunday night, said he was called to the . Altitude at 11.30pm to ‘beef up’ security after the England team . arrived. He left at 1.30am and said he saw ‘nothing untoward’ in . Tindall’s behaviour up to that point, although he was with the blonde. It wasn’t until the next morning that he heard from amazed colleagues . that the couple had become intimate shortly after he left. Dixon said he obtained the CCTV . footage from the Altitude computer banks the next day. Later, he was . contacted by a British newspaper which published a story about the . episode without any of the footage. Dixon received no payment for the . article. Damning: A still from the CCTV footage showing Mike Tindall with a mystery blonde, which was posted on YouTube . Just good friends: The girl - seemingly kissing Tindall's forehead - is a friend of the couple and was at their wedding, a spokesman for Zara said . Early on Friday, keen to see the . footage aired, Dixon uploaded it on to YouTube, ensuring that it was . seen by millions of people worldwide within hours. In a foretaste of what he may argue at . his court case, Dixon said: ‘It’s not that I’m the most moral person in . the world, but I have a conscience and I was raised well, and I didn’t . like what I saw. Anyone who does this kind of thing when they’ve made . wedding vows in front of God should be ashamed of themselves. ‘I wanted to tell him, “Mr Tindall, you did something really wrong, not just to your wife but to your nation.” ‘I knew there was no chance of me ever . standing in front of Tindall and giving him a piece of my mind about . his conduct, so I decided to put it on YouTube so that everyone could . see it and form their own opinion. ‘I think that everyone who sees it . will think the same as I do: how can you do this? She’s your wife and . she’s the Queen’s granddaughter. If this had involved a Maori queen, she . would have cut off his head.’ Newlyweds: Mike and Zara on their wedding day in Edinburgh in July . Dixon scoffed at the claims that the . blonde was a friend of Tindall and Ms Phillips, saying: ‘If that’s true, . Zara should get rid of her friend. I wouldn’t have a friend like that, . and if she is a friend of hers, Zara is hanging around with the wrong . people. ‘What amazes me is that no one was . stopping Tindall. He’s the captain of the England team but no one was . keeping an eye on him. If I had seen anything going on, I would have . stopped him. I would have gone up to him and told him to watch himself. ‘I’ve heard that some British people who were in Queenstown that night saw him and they were disgusted at what they saw.’ Dixon, who is 6ft 6in tall and weighs . 19st 7lb compared with 6ft 1in Tindall’s 16st 9lb, added: ‘If the Queen . wants someone to give him a hiding, she should give me a call.’ The blonde seen with Tindall last . Sunday night is described by Ms Phillips’s spokesman as an English . friend living in Australia who was on holiday at the time of the . incident. She is now believed to be back in Australia..
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Damning new witnesses accuse him of ‘overtly sexual’ behaviour .
Bouncer Jonathan Dixon arrested for uploading Tindall CCTV .
Prospect of embarrassing court case scuppering World Cup .
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"a spokesman for Zara said . Early on Friday, keen",
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By . Anna Edwards . PUBLISHED: . 05:25 EST, 12 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 11:22 EST, 12 September 2013 . As they pull at a wonky bike stand in the small hours of the morning outside a kebab shop, many would automatically presume that this group of lads were drunkenly vandalising their town centre. But far from being a bunch of thoughtless thugs, these revellers were actually public-spirited Good Samaritans who were repairing a damaged rack. The high-spirited group were caught on CCTV repairing a broken bike rack after a night out - using a team effort to heave the stand back into place. Scroll down for video . All together! The group of lads abandon their takeaways to try and pull back the severely bent bike rack . Heave-ho! The group can be seen gritting their teeth as they embark on their good deed . The damage had been reported to the council but the young men stepped in before it was repaired - and one ended up completely beneath it as he strained to pull it back to its original shape . The rack, which had been damaged for several weeks, caught their attention as they queued for Kebabs in Boston Market Place in the early hours of the morning. Footage shows the group putting down their take aways and planning a repair strategy, before using their muscles to unbend the thick metal hoop which had been damaged when a car reversed into it. The group can be seen discussing their tactics before spending almost 13 minutes straightening the metal hook at 3am. The group can be seen gesturing to . each other before nodding at each other and three of them grabbing the . rack, as they try to pull it back to move it back into place. At one point one ends up underneath the rack, using his feet to push himself back. When that fails, they rope in two . others, who then sit on the other side and push to help the trio who . pull with all their might. After . repairing it, they can be seen high-fiving each other and been giving . the thumbs-up by a crowd who has watched their efforts. The group discuss their strategy and recruit two other helpers to fix the dented rack, which a car had reversed into . The group can be seen shouting encouragement at each other as they end their night with a charitable act . The group spent the best part of 15 minutes pushing and pulling the dented rack - and have been praised as 'public spirited' That deserves another kebab! Pleased with their hard work, the group are congratulated by an admiring crowd . The damage had been reported to the council but the young men stepped in before it was repaired. Friends Martin Griggs, 24, and Dean Mason, 23 who were joined by pals Simon McMillan and Dan Butler, both 23, have since become internet sensations. Barman Martin, who lives in the town, said: 'We saw the bike rack and thought it was a bit knackered and it's been broken for a while. 'We are both cyclists and had noticed it hadn't been fixed for a few weeks, we were a bit inebriated, so decided to mend it. 'We started pulling it this way and went "this isn't happening", so we tried various ways and put our legs into it. 'The feedback we have had has been ridiculous. Random people have sent us messages saying well done. Its come as a bit of a shock. 'We did it at the end of a night out, we had all probably had too much to drink and thought it would be a good idea and didn't think anymore of it afterwards. 'There was a big cheer at the end. It was great. Dean Mason (left) and Martin Griggs (right) pictured by the bike rack after they bent it back into shape on a night out . The group said it was a spur of the moment decision after they had enjoyed a couple of drinks to fix the busted bike rack . Dean and Martin have already been congratulated by Mayor Cllr Paul Kenny and CCTV and community safety portfolio holder Cllr Stephen Woodliffe . 'We didn't know what the police would think if they saw it. They are more used to people vandalising and breaking stuff. 'Most people don't go out with an intention of breaking something or being a nuisance - but there are a lot of nice people in the town.' Dean, a chef, added: 'We do feel quite proud of ourselves. I think we did a good job. Everybody is very happy about it. 'People have been saying 'good on you' and that it's nice to see lads not just destroying the place and doing good for once. 'People were cheering us on saying go that way or this way and we all high-fived and hugged at the end. 'Its not the first time we've helped out, we sometimes help drunk people get into taxis. 'We like to do our bit here and there. 'People keep sending it to us on Facebook and sending videos, the response has been overwhelming.' Boston Borough Council said it was surprised by their actions and called it 'public spirited'. Councillor Stephen Woodliffe, from Boston . Borough Council, said he had found it 'remarkable' as he watched the . men on the CCTV footage. 'Young people often get a bad press and this shows there are some who want to contribute to their society and do the right thing,' he said. 'It shows young people acting in a very positive and constructive manner and shows they have a good and responsible attitude to what's happening in their town. 'Their actions were very public spirited and impressive.' Peter Hunn, Boston Borough Council's safety officer, said: 'We recorded the whole sequence. At first two lads had a go and then encouraged others to help. 'At one point five were pushing and pulling. To look at the bike rack now you would hardly know it had been damaged. 'The night-time economy is not all about bad lads doing bad things.'
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The group put down their takeaways to fix bike rack in Boston .
Push and pull to unbend thick metal hoop in early hours of morning .
Praised as 'remarkable' and 'public spirited'
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"By . Anna Edwards . PUBLISHED: . 05:25 EST, 12",
"September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 11:22 EST, 12",
"September 2013 . As they pull at a wonky bike",
"stand in the small hours of the morning outside a",
"kebab shop, many would automatically presume that",
"this group of lads were drunkenly vandalising",
"their town centre. But far from being a bunch of",
"thoughtless thugs, these revellers were actually",
"public-spirited Good Samaritans who were",
"repairing a damaged rack. The high-spirited group",
"were caught on CCTV repairing a broken bike rack",
"after a night out - using a team effort to heave",
"the stand back into place. Scroll down for video",
". All together! The group of lads abandon their",
"takeaways to try and pull back the severely bent",
"bike rack . Heave-ho! The group can be seen",
"gritting their teeth as they embark on their good",
"deed . The damage had been reported to the",
"council but the young men stepped in before it",
"was repaired - and one ended up completely",
"beneath it as he strained to pull it back to its",
"original shape . The rack, which had been damaged",
"for several weeks, caught their attention as they",
"queued for Kebabs in Boston Market Place in the",
"early hours of the morning. Footage shows the",
"group putting down their take aways and planning",
"a repair strategy, before using their muscles to",
"unbend the thick metal hoop which had been",
"damaged when a car reversed into it. The group",
"can be seen discussing their tactics before",
"spending almost 13 minutes straightening the",
"metal hook at 3am. The group can be seen",
"gesturing to . each other before nodding at each",
"other and three of them grabbing the . rack, as",
"they try to pull it back to move it back into",
"place. At one point one ends up underneath the",
"rack, using his feet to push himself back. When",
"that fails, they rope in two . others, who then",
"sit on the other side and push to help the trio",
"who . pull with all their might. After .",
"repairing it, they can be seen high-fiving each",
"other and been giving . the thumbs-up by a crowd",
"who has watched their efforts. The group discuss",
"their strategy and recruit two other helpers to",
"fix the dented rack, which a car had reversed",
"into . The group can be seen shouting",
"encouragement at each other as they end their",
"night with a charitable act . The group spent the",
"best part of 15 minutes pushing and pulling the",
"dented rack - and have been praised as 'public",
"spirited' That deserves another kebab! Pleased",
"with their hard work, the group are congratulated",
"by an admiring crowd . The damage had been",
"reported to the council but the young men stepped",
"in before it was repaired. Friends Martin Griggs,",
"24, and Dean Mason, 23 who were joined by pals",
"Simon McMillan and Dan Butler, both 23, have",
"since become internet sensations. Barman Martin,",
"who lives in the town, said: 'We saw the bike",
"rack and thought it was a bit knackered and it's",
"been broken for a while. 'We are both cyclists",
"and had noticed it hadn't been fixed for a few",
"weeks, we were a bit inebriated, so decided to",
"mend it. 'We started pulling it this way and went",
"\"this isn't happening\", so we tried various ways",
"and put our legs into it. 'The feedback we have",
"had has been ridiculous. Random people have sent",
"us messages saying well done. Its come as a bit",
"of a shock. 'We did it at the end of a night out,",
"we had all probably had too much to drink and",
"thought it would be a good idea and didn't think",
"anymore of it afterwards. 'There was a big cheer",
"at the end. It was great. Dean Mason (left) and",
"Martin Griggs (right) pictured by the bike rack",
"after they bent it back into shape on a night out",
". The group said it was a spur of the moment",
"decision after they had enjoyed a couple of",
"drinks to fix the busted bike rack . Dean and",
"Martin have already been congratulated by Mayor",
"Cllr Paul Kenny and CCTV and community safety",
"portfolio holder Cllr Stephen Woodliffe . 'We",
"didn't know what the police would think if they",
"saw it. They are more used to people vandalising",
"and breaking stuff. 'Most people don't go out",
"with an intention of breaking something or being",
"a nuisance - but there are a lot of nice people",
"in the town.' Dean, a chef, added: 'We do feel",
"quite proud of ourselves. I think we did a good",
"job. Everybody is very happy about it. 'People",
"have been saying 'good on you' and that it's nice",
"to see lads not just destroying the place and",
"doing good for once. 'People were cheering us on",
"saying go that way or this way and we all",
"high-fived and hugged at the end. 'Its not the",
"first time we've helped out, we sometimes help",
"drunk people get into taxis. 'We like to do our",
"bit here and there. 'People keep sending it to us",
"on Facebook and sending videos, the response has",
"been overwhelming.' Boston Borough Council said",
"it was surprised by their actions and called it",
"'public spirited'. Councillor Stephen Woodliffe,",
"from Boston . Borough Council, said he had found",
"it 'remarkable' as he watched the . men on the",
"CCTV footage. 'Young people often get a bad press",
"and this shows there are some who want to",
"contribute to their society and do the right",
"thing,' he said. 'It shows young people acting in",
"a very positive and constructive manner and shows",
"they have a good and responsible attitude to",
"what's happening in their town. 'Their actions",
"were very public spirited and impressive.' Peter",
"Hunn, Boston Borough Council's safety officer,",
"said: 'We recorded the whole sequence. At first",
"two lads had a go and then encouraged others to",
"help. 'At one point five were pushing and",
"pulling. To look at the bike rack now you would",
"hardly know it had been damaged. 'The night-time",
"economy is not all about bad lads doing bad",
"things.'"
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takeaways to try and pull back the severely bent bike rack . Heave-ho! The group can be seen early hours of the morning. Footage shows the unbend the thick metal hoop which had been 'public spirited'. Councillor Stephen Woodliffe,
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By . Luke Garratt . He is a bald, tall, male barber and grandfather. She is his blonde girlfriend. Somehow, he was able to travel on an international flight with her passport, without a word from any authorities he passed on the way. Neil Clulow, 50, didn't notice he had grabbed his partner Karen Clift's travel documents when he left for his flight to Alicante from Birmingham Airport to celebrate a 50th birthday in Benidorm where he was staying with friends. Because he was only travelling with hand luggage, Neil only had to show his boarding pass to get through airport security. The passport of Neil Clulow (left) and Karen Clift (right). Clulow used Clift's passport by mistake when travelling to Spain, but still managed to board the plane, as no one noticed his error . Spot the difference: Neil Clulow, left, was able to board a plane with his girlfriend's passport, which he took to the airport by accident, despite the fact that his girlfriend, Karen Clift, right, is a blonde woman and not a bald man . The grandfather-of-five had breakfast at the airport, and then flashed his passport to a Monarch Airlines member of staff at the gate and boarded the plane. And after the two-and-three-quarter hour flight, he successfully breezed through passport control at Alicante Airport without a word from the Spanish authorities. He only realised his mistake when he and his friends were comparing passport pictures and he discovered he had used his partner's documents. Neil, who is bald and has a goatee, said he was astonished authorities had failed to pick up on the mistake even though his girlfriend, also 50, has long, blonde hair. Neil Clulow (front) pictured with his friends in Spain. He realised the mistake when he got to Alicante where he was celebrating a friend's birthday . Mr Clulow, from Halesowen, West . Midlands, said: 'I handed my passport over with the boarding card when . we went to board the plane and she scanned them. 'Then we got in to Spain and went through passport control and I flashed the passport and they never said anything. 'Me and my mates were joking about our bad passport pictures and they looked at mine and said "Neil, you're much better looking in this picture than in real life". 'I can't believe this could happen, especially after all the trouble with the missing Malaysian aircraft. It's astounding. Mr Clulow was flying to Alicante from Birmingham Airport, where it is their policy to only check boarding passes in the event of someone boarding a flight with just hand luggage . In Mr Clulow's case it was up to the airline to check that his passport details were in order . 'With this plane going missing and people on there with the wrong passport you would've thought they would have been a bit more vigilant. 'f I can get through then who knows what else could happen. 'I got through on to the plane and got through passport control in Spain and didn't get stopped by one person. It's frightening. 'They need to crack down at British airports big time. It does need addressing.' Neil had to pay £70 to have his passport sent to Spain via UPS, but was forced to wait in the hotel for the entire three-day break because it needed to be signed for. A Monarch Airlines employee failed to check the passport details, and neither did border control staff in Spain . Further delays came when the company accidentally sent the document to Berlin before redirecting it to Benidorm - meaning he missed his flight home on March 19. Luckily, Monach Airlines bosses agreed to fly him back the next day for free and two suited representatives were even waiting for him when he landed. Neil, who has five children from another relationship and has been with receptionist Karen, for 12 months, said they were both worried about the mistake. He said: 'I phoned my girlfriend and asked her to send it by DHL but they wouldn't take it because it was a passport. 'We said it was important travel documents to UPS and they collected it, it cost me £70. 'They got it on the first plane but it went to Berlin. Then it was in Barcelona on the Wednesday but it didn't reach Alicante so I lost my flight. 'It arrived on a day later and I flew back then. After the two-and-three-quarter hour flight, he even successfully got through airport security in Spain with his girlfriend's passport . 'It completely ruined my holiday. I couldn't leave the hotel because I was waiting and needed to sign it and UPS kept saying it would be there and it kept getting delayed. 'It was a waste of a break and I lost a day of work as well because I should have been home on the Thursday. 'There were two suited and booted Monarch reps waiting with a plaque with my name on it when I landed. 'They wanted to know what happened. 'They asked if I would be willing to point out the woman who let me through because it was a serious breach of security. 'But I didn't want to do that to her so I refused. I've heard nothing from them since.' Birmingham airport explained that when a passenger has only hand luggage, they only have to present their boarding pass to pass through to the departure lounge, where it is then the airline's responsibility to check that a passenger has the correct passport. Monarch has been sought for comment. U.S Judge Jean Louis Bruguiere, expert on terrorism who investigated a terrorist cell, said: 'For these groups, passports are as important as weapons.' Al Qaeda terrorism networks have been using false passports for years in order to carry out attacks on different countries. Notorious terrorist, Ahmed Ressam, used a counterfeit French passport to enter Canada and apply for political asylum. While living there, he supplied fake Canadian passports to other Algerians, also using a fake Canadian passport under the alias of Benni Noris in his failed attempt to enter the United States and bomb Los Angeles International Airport. Al Qaeda depends on the ability to travel internationally in order to raise funds, recruit operatives, train the operatives in Afghanistan and send them out to plan and conduct terrorist attacks. One of the first lines of defence against this is airport and airline security checks, so airports and airline staff have to be increasingly vigilant about their fake passports in order to prevent attacks.
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Neil Clulow, 50, able to fly on flight to Alicante with girlfriend's passport .
Only realised his mistake when he got to Benidorm where he was staying .
Nobody at Monarch Airlines or Spanish passport control realised the error .
He had to have his passport shipped to him at the hotel via UPS .
Was not allowed on the return flight until he received his passport .
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"By . Luke Garratt . He is a bald, tall, male",
"barber and grandfather. She is his blonde",
"girlfriend. Somehow, he was able to travel on an",
"international flight with her passport, without a",
"word from any authorities he passed on the way.",
"Neil Clulow, 50, didn't notice he had grabbed his",
"partner Karen Clift's travel documents when he",
"left for his flight to Alicante from Birmingham",
"Airport to celebrate a 50th birthday in Benidorm",
"where he was staying with friends. Because he was",
"only travelling with hand luggage, Neil only had",
"to show his boarding pass to get through airport",
"security. The passport of Neil Clulow (left) and",
"Karen Clift (right). Clulow used Clift's passport",
"by mistake when travelling to Spain, but still",
"managed to board the plane, as no one noticed his",
"error . Spot the difference: Neil Clulow, left,",
"was able to board a plane with his girlfriend's",
"passport, which he took to the airport by",
"accident, despite the fact that his girlfriend,",
"Karen Clift, right, is a blonde woman and not a",
"bald man . The grandfather-of-five had breakfast",
"at the airport, and then flashed his passport to",
"a Monarch Airlines member of staff at the gate",
"and boarded the plane. And after the",
"two-and-three-quarter hour flight, he",
"successfully breezed through passport control at",
"Alicante Airport without a word from the Spanish",
"authorities. He only realised his mistake when he",
"and his friends were comparing passport pictures",
"and he discovered he had used his partner's",
"documents. Neil, who is bald and has a goatee,",
"said he was astonished authorities had failed to",
"pick up on the mistake even though his",
"girlfriend, also 50, has long, blonde hair. Neil",
"Clulow (front) pictured with his friends in",
"Spain. He realised the mistake when he got to",
"Alicante where he was celebrating a friend's",
"birthday . Mr Clulow, from Halesowen, West .",
"Midlands, said: 'I handed my passport over with",
"the boarding card when . we went to board the",
"plane and she scanned them. 'Then we got in to",
"Spain and went through passport control and I",
"flashed the passport and they never said",
"anything. 'Me and my mates were joking about our",
"bad passport pictures and they looked at mine and",
"said \"Neil, you're much better looking in this",
"picture than in real life\". 'I can't believe this",
"could happen, especially after all the trouble",
"with the missing Malaysian aircraft. It's",
"astounding. Mr Clulow was flying to Alicante from",
"Birmingham Airport, where it is their policy to",
"only check boarding passes in the event of",
"someone boarding a flight with just hand luggage",
". In Mr Clulow's case it was up to the airline to",
"check that his passport details were in order .",
"'With this plane going missing and people on",
"there with the wrong passport you would've",
"thought they would have been a bit more vigilant.",
"'f I can get through then who knows what else",
"could happen. 'I got through on to the plane and",
"got through passport control in Spain and didn't",
"get stopped by one person. It's frightening.",
"'They need to crack down at British airports big",
"time. It does need addressing.' Neil had to pay",
"£70 to have his passport sent to Spain via UPS,",
"but was forced to wait in the hotel for the",
"entire three-day break because it needed to be",
"signed for. A Monarch Airlines employee failed to",
"check the passport details, and neither did",
"border control staff in Spain . Further delays",
"came when the company accidentally sent the",
"document to Berlin before redirecting it to",
"Benidorm - meaning he missed his flight home on",
"March 19. Luckily, Monach Airlines bosses agreed",
"to fly him back the next day for free and two",
"suited representatives were even waiting for him",
"when he landed. Neil, who has five children from",
"another relationship and has been with",
"receptionist Karen, for 12 months, said they were",
"both worried about the mistake. He said: 'I",
"phoned my girlfriend and asked her to send it by",
"DHL but they wouldn't take it because it was a",
"passport. 'We said it was important travel",
"documents to UPS and they collected it, it cost",
"me £70. 'They got it on the first plane but it",
"went to Berlin. Then it was in Barcelona on the",
"Wednesday but it didn't reach Alicante so I lost",
"my flight. 'It arrived on a day later and I flew",
"back then. After the two-and-three-quarter hour",
"flight, he even successfully got through airport",
"security in Spain with his girlfriend's passport",
". 'It completely ruined my holiday. I couldn't",
"leave the hotel because I was waiting and needed",
"to sign it and UPS kept saying it would be there",
"and it kept getting delayed. 'It was a waste of a",
"break and I lost a day of work as well because I",
"should have been home on the Thursday. 'There",
"were two suited and booted Monarch reps waiting",
"with a plaque with my name on it when I landed.",
"'They wanted to know what happened. 'They asked",
"if I would be willing to point out the woman who",
"let me through because it was a serious breach of",
"security. 'But I didn't want to do that to her so",
"I refused. I've heard nothing from them since.'",
"Birmingham airport explained that when a",
"passenger has only hand luggage, they only have",
"to present their boarding pass to pass through to",
"the departure lounge, where it is then the",
"airline's responsibility to check that a",
"passenger has the correct passport. Monarch has",
"been sought for comment. U.S Judge Jean Louis",
"Bruguiere, expert on terrorism who investigated a",
"terrorist cell, said: 'For these groups,",
"passports are as important as weapons.' Al Qaeda",
"terrorism networks have been using false",
"passports for years in order to carry out attacks",
"on different countries. Notorious terrorist,",
"Ahmed Ressam, used a counterfeit French passport",
"to enter Canada and apply for political asylum.",
"While living there, he supplied fake Canadian",
"passports to other Algerians, also using a fake",
"Canadian passport under the alias of Benni Noris",
"in his failed attempt to enter the United States",
"and bomb Los Angeles International Airport. Al",
"Qaeda depends on the ability to travel",
"internationally in order to raise funds, recruit",
"operatives, train the operatives in Afghanistan",
"and send them out to plan and conduct terrorist",
"attacks. One of the first lines of defence",
"against this is airport and airline security",
"checks, so airports and airline staff have to be",
"increasingly vigilant about their fake passports",
"in order to prevent attacks."
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Neil Clulow, 50, didn't notice he had grabbed his left for his flight to Alicante from Birmingham where he was staying with friends. Because he was was able to board a plane with his girlfriend's a Monarch Airlines member of staff at the gate authorities. He only realised his mistake when he Spain. He realised the mistake when he got to £70 to have his passport sent to Spain via UPS,
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By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 06:55 EST, 14 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 10:47 EST, 15 September 2013 . The majority of most people's Twitter followers are merely cyber strangers, known only through the digital text of 140 characters. But one user of the social networking site decided he wanted to get to know his online chums a little more - and set himself the challenge of tracking down and meeting them face-to-face. Glaswegian magician and writer Declan Dineen, 32, was whiling away a boring Saturday afternoon when he came up with his fun idea. Mission: Declan Dineen set out to meet his cyber friends on Twitter - and has taken snaps with 150 of them . Idle thought: Declan, 32, came up with the idea in January but didn't think much of it . Conjurer: The Glaswegian magician had 170 followers at the time and set about filtering out spam followers . True friends: He worked out he had 150 'real' followers and started meeting them in his home city . Snowball: Before long he found himself booking train tickets all over the country to meet far-flung followers . Snap happy: Soon Declan found himself travelling further and further south . Beaming: After passing through the Midlands he made his way to the south coast . Racking up the miles: He was determined to continue the quirky quest and headed to the West Country . Shining light: One of the highlights of his mammoth journey was meeting followers in his native Wales . But what started as an idle thought turned into a full-blown mission - and he has so far met up with and been photographed with nearly 150 of his followers, travelling the length and breadth of the country in the process. The story of his quirky quest has gone viral and he has been featured on TV and in papers around the world. Declan told MailOnline: 'It has been absolutely mental - I knew there would be some interest but not to this level. It literally started out as a bit of fun - there was no intelectual rigour involved in the process at all.' Pleasant surprise: Declan said every single one of the followers was 'incredibly nice' Who are you again? Declan admitted many of the followers had no idea why they were following him . Performer: But some discovered Declan after his gigs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival . First meeting: Most people looked utterly thrilled to put a face to the name when they met Declan . Heading north again: After finishing in Wales, Declan started the long rail trip back to Scotland . Connection: 'The beauty of Twitter is that you can really shape your account and follow like-minded people,' said Declan . Risk: But he says his mission highlighted just how much information people are willing to share online . High spirits: Declan met a lot of people in their homes but also had a few nights in the pub . That bit of fun started in January when he had 270 followers. After filtering out some of the 'spam' followers, he realised there were 150 people to meet, and set about the task, first starting in Glasgow and Edinburgh before booking a raft of train tickets and trundling around the country. Over two weeks, he visited 17 cities, including Birmingham, Nottingham, Derby, Manchester, Brighton, Exeter and Cardiff, while he contacted his overseas followers over Skype. 'Everyone I met was incredibly nice, there were no nutters,' he said. 'But I think that's the beauty of Twitter, you have a lot of control over who you connect with and most were like-minded, although quite a few had no idea why they were connected with me.' Memorable nights: Declan met a number of characters on the trip, including this Elvis lookalike, right . Taken aback: Little did Declan imagine the stir his mission would cause and his story hit the world stage this week . 'Mental': After the story broke in Scotland, his followers doubled to more than 300 . Off the scale: After the tale was picked up by national television he passed 12,000 followers . Foul play: Declan suspects the majority of his new followers sprung up due to a hacker . Career changer: Such has been the interest, Declan is thinking of writing a stage sketch about his experience . No stopping him: And he says he will continue trying to meet as many of his new followers as possible . Foreign trip: Declan says he may even have to start flying abroad to meet some of his followers . After the media picked up on his odyssey last week, his followers doubled before exploding to more than 12,000, although he suspects he may have been hacked. Despite this, the interest has been such that he has decided to make a show about his experience. 'I really had planned to stop at 150 and that would be that,' he said. 'But I think I will now carry it on, meeting a few more for my blog every month. I think it will make for a pretty good sketch.'
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Declan Dineen, 32, from Glasgow, has travelled the country meeting 150 of his followers .
Journey has taken in 20 cities across Britain and his story has gone viral .
He now has 12,000 followers - and plans to tell his tale in a new stage show .
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"By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 06:55 EST,",
"14 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 10:47 EST, 15",
"September 2013 . The majority of most people's",
"Twitter followers are merely cyber strangers,",
"known only through the digital text of 140",
"characters. But one user of the social networking",
"site decided he wanted to get to know his online",
"chums a little more - and set himself the",
"challenge of tracking down and meeting them",
"face-to-face. Glaswegian magician and writer",
"Declan Dineen, 32, was whiling away a boring",
"Saturday afternoon when he came up with his fun",
"idea. Mission: Declan Dineen set out to meet his",
"cyber friends on Twitter - and has taken snaps",
"with 150 of them . Idle thought: Declan, 32, came",
"up with the idea in January but didn't think much",
"of it . Conjurer: The Glaswegian magician had 170",
"followers at the time and set about filtering out",
"spam followers . True friends: He worked out he",
"had 150 'real' followers and started meeting them",
"in his home city . Snowball: Before long he found",
"himself booking train tickets all over the",
"country to meet far-flung followers . Snap happy:",
"Soon Declan found himself travelling further and",
"further south . Beaming: After passing through",
"the Midlands he made his way to the south coast .",
"Racking up the miles: He was determined to",
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(CNN) -- A federal appeals court has upheld an obstruction of justice conviction against Barry Bonds, according to court documents released Friday. The court ruled that the evasiveness of the testimony the former baseball star gave to a grand jury investigating sales of performance-enhancing drugs was sufficient to convict him. In an opinion filed by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Mary M. Schroeder said the three-judge panel rejected Bonds' contention that he could only have been indicted for obstruction if his testimony had been flatly false. Attorneys for Bonds had argued that Bonds' statements to the grand jury were factually true, and that language in the federal statute under which he was charged is unconstitutionally vague. The appeals court rejected that argument. "When factually true statements are misleading or evasive, they can prevent the grand jury from obtaining truthful and responsive answers," Schroeder wrote. "They may therefore obstruct and impede the administration of justice within the meaning of the federal criminal statute." Bonds' testimony in December 2003 was part of an investigation that targeted his personal trainer, Greg Anderson, and employees of the California drug testing laboratory known as the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, or BALCO. The testimony that led to Bonds' conviction came when a grand jury prosecutor asked Bonds whether Anderson ever gave him "anything that required a syringe to inject yourself with." Bonds told the grand jury that only his personal doctors "ever touch me," and he then veered off the subject to say he never talked baseball with Anderson. A jury in U.S. district court convicted Bonds on the obstruction count in April 2011. A mistrial was declared on three perjury counts of perjury after jurors reported they couldn't reach an agreement. Prosecutors declined to retry Bonds on the perjury charges. He was sentenced to two years' probation and 30 days of house arrest. The seven-time National League MVP, now 49, set baseball's all-time home run record in 2007. The San Francisco Giants did not renew his contract after that season and though he never officially retired, he has not played since.
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Evasive testimony sufficient for obstruction conviction, federal appeals court rules .
Bonds was convicted for testimony he gave to a grand jury in 2003 .
The testimony in the BALCO probe involved Bonds' former personal trainer, Greg Anderson .
His attorneys argued that wording in the federal statute is unconstitutionally vague .
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Friends and relatives of the innocent man shot dead by an NYPD rookie have revealed he was about to start a new job with the city authority as he prepared to offer his two-year-old daughter a stable future. Neighbors paid tribute to Akai Gurley, 28, telling reporters he was a well-mannered member of the apartment block that never caused trouble. Their words added to mounting pressure on the DA to launch a full investigation into the Thursday night shooting in Brooklyn, which has been described by NYPD authorities as 'an unfortunate tragedy'. 'He was about to start work': Friends have paid tribute to Akai Gurley who was shot dead as he was due to start work with the city authority. The DA has launched a full investigation into the shooting on Thursday . 'Well-mannered': Neighbors said he never caused any trouble and got along with the community . 'He was happy that he was about to go to work, he was relieved,' 28-year-old Dente Crosby, Gurley's friend, told the New York Times. 'He was getting it all together,' a woman who wished to remain anonymous told the paper. 'He was becoming an actor, he was going to school for modeling and he was going to work for the city.' However, aside from a meeting between Brooklyn officials and the DA's office, a full investigation has yet to be launched. Gurley was killed by Officer Peter Liang, whom police say fired his pistol by accident while he was patrolling a dimly-lit staircase at a notorious Brooklyn apartment block. Crowds gathered on Sunday to demand answers from the police force at a protest where Gurley's two-year-old daughter Akaila said she misses her father. 'I miss my daddy': Akaila Gurley, whose father was killed by the NYPD, said she misses him . Explanation: Last night officials said Ballinger was speaking to a psychologist about how to tell Akaila what has happened to her father . Innocent: Gurley was walking down the stairs (right) with his girlfriend's apartment in Brooklyn . Family members including Akai's aunt, sister and Akaila's mother, Kimblerly Ballinger, were at a protest organized by the National Action Network in Harlem today. Akaila gave the heartbreaking message to the crowd via the Rev. Al Sharpton, who spoke at the event, according to an ABC reporter. Sources from Sharpton's National Action Network have previously said that Akaila doesn't understand that her father has died. It came not long after his sister swore not to rest until she has answers as to why another black man has been killed by law enforcement. Liang killed Gurley while he was was reportedly walking down a dimly-lit staircase at the Louis Pink Houses, weapon drawn. Police say he fired by accident. Protests: Akai Gurley's daughter, two-year-old Akaila, right, attended a protest with her mother Kimberly Ballinger, center, where Rev. Al Sharpton, left, criticized police . Answers: Gurley's family have sworn not to let the killing rest and pursue police . The incident - described as an 'unfortunate tragedy' by NYPD commissioner William Bratton - has prompted protests from Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network, which is holding the Harlem rally today. Kimberly Ballinger, mother to Gurley's daughter Akaila, rested the child on her lap before speeches were made calling for a full investigation. Speaking at the event, Sharpton demanded answers for why Liang was walking around with the safety on his weapon switched off, which he called a long-standing problem. He said: 'The issue of police going up dark stairwells with their guns drawn and their safety off is at the center of this... We have raised this question over and over again. ... It is a matter of police policy', according to NBC. Yesterday his sister Akisha Pringle wrote on Facebook, saying: 'I can't believe my Big Bro is actually gone man. He just got out of prison… Him and I was just talking about how we was gonna surprise my mother on Thanksgiving day. 'I'm so broken. He did nothing wrong and now I'll never ever get a chance to see, hug or kiss hear from him… the cops are so dirty, man. 'But best believe this will not rest with my family. We are about to have problems. I'm so sick of innocent black people going down for no apparent reason at all. And now it's my brother.' The complex where Gurley was shot had recently seen a shooting, robberies and assaults. Last night Ballinger and other family members met with New York officials, who apologized for the death. An official from Sharpton's National Action Network said outside the meeting: ''Things are a little tense right now as you can imagine.' The official added that Ballinger was consulting a psychologist to help explain Gurley's death to his 2-year-old daughter, which was 'a very difficult thing to have to explain to a child when you've always taught them that the police were there to be our friends and to protect us.' Mayor Bill de Blasio, calling Gurley's death a 'tragedy,' met with some of his relatives Friday evening. Police Commissioner William Bratton similarly described the shooting as a tragedy and said the 28-year-old man was 'totally innocent' and wasn't engaged in criminal activity when the officer fired his weapon. Notorious: The block of apartments where Gurley was shot (pictured) is a know hotspot for crime . Why exactly Officer Peter Liang had his gun drawn and fired while patrolling the Louis Pink Houses in Brooklyn's gritty East New York neighborhood with his partner late Thursday night wasn't immediately clear. Liang, 26, has been placed on modified duty. Police policy dictates that he must first be interviewed by the district attorney's office, which will decide whether to file criminal charges, before internal affairs officers can question. Police say the officers had descended onto an eighth-floor landing when, 14 steps away, Gurley and a girlfriend had opened a door into the seventh-floor landing. They had just decided to take the stairs down instead of waiting longer for an elevator. The lights were burned out in the stairwell, leaving it 'pitch black' and prompting both officers to use flashlights, Bratton said. Liang was about 10 feet from Gurley when, without a word and apparently by accident, he fired a shot, police said. In general, officers have discretion on whether to draw their weapons based on what they are encountering or believe they may encounter, Bratton said. Gurley and the girlfriend, Melissa Butler, made it down two flights of stairs after he was shot, but he collapsed on the fifth-floor landing and lost consciousness, according to reports. Gurley was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died. Gurley's stepfather, Kenneth Palmer, said officials called his relatives in Jacksonville, Florida, to notify them of the death. 'He was a peacemaker,' he said.
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Akai Gurley, 28, had just been offered a job with the city authority .
Brooklyn officials met with the DA, no full investigation planned yet .
Akaila, his two-year-old daughter, said she misses her father at Harlem rally .
Mother Kimberly Ballinger held her as rest of family demanded answers .
Gurley was shot dead by NYPD Officer Peter Liang Thursday in Brooklyn .
Police force said Liang was in dimly-lit stairwell and fired by accident .
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(CNN)Shortly after the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War, paralyzed veteran Tomas Young spoke with me about why he intended to end his life. He didn't know what people would say about him after he was gone. All he wanted, really, was to be remembered as a nice guy. He spoke with me by phone as a pump at his side helped him inject painkillers. His speech was so distorted that I had difficulty understanding him. He sent me photos showing how long and thick his hair and beard had grown. He said he seldom left his bed and that he popped a dizzying assortment of more than 30 different pills every day. Read why Young wanted to end his life . Young's ordeal began in 2004 when two rounds from a sniper's AK-47 severed his spinal cord. Tired of suffering, Young penned a scathing letter in 2013 to former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney. He laid out the painful circumstances of his life and blamed the former administration for the many casualties of that war. He said he would refuse his feeding tube and allow himself to die. He was the subject of the 2007 documentary, "Body of War," and had become a vocal anti-war activist. He again made headlines when his death wish became public. But he didn't die then. He said he wanted to spend more time with his wife, Claudia Cuellar. Former television host Phil Donahue, co-director and executive producer of "Body of War," said Wednesday that Tomas and Claudia made a remarkable love story. "Theirs was a true love like I have never witnessed before," Donahue said. "Tomas made it clear she was the reason he was alive." The Uncounted: War's true toll . On Monday, Young died at home in Seattle. The cause of death was not immediately clear, according to media reports. Donahue said he had been waiting almost 10 years to hear what he heard on the phone Monday. "This was a catastrophic injury," Donahue said. "Tomas was imprisoned in bed. He couldn't even cough." Young had moved with his wife to Portland, Oregon, where, as he stated in his Twitter profile, he was a "happily married man who's happy to live in a medical maryjane state." He was referring to legalized medical marijuana. I learned of his passing on Veterans Day. Appropriate, I thought, for as controversial as Young had been, I believed he remained true to his convictions. When we spoke last year, he asked me about my experiences covering the war in Iraq. We talked about the soldiers I met who lost their lives or returned home with serious injuries, both physical and psychological. A soldier's war on two fronts . Cuellar told me then she was frightened at the prospect of losing her husband, but that she always returned to thinking about how difficult it was for him every single day. "There will be time to mourn when he dies," Cuellar told me. "Until that day, I will love and cherish and celebrate him and try to make each day as loving and happy and comfortable as possible for him." And she did. In a video posted on YouTube Tuesday, Young's sister-in-law, Amanda Young, captured his 34 years of life -- from a baby who put a gleam in his mother's eye to a companion for his brother Nathan; from a young man who felt compelled to serve his nation after the terror attacks of 9/11 to a wounded veteran who became a poster child for those who opposed the U.S. role in Iraq. Young returned home from war a broken man. He is now free from his pain. In an online memorial, people thanked him for his service. Young was a self-avowed atheist, but somehow I could feel him smiling down at his friends, glad that they were remembering him as a nice guy. Follow CNN's Moni Basu on Twitter .
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A sniper's bullets in Baghdad critically wounded Tomas Young in 2004 .
Young was left paralyzed and became a vocal opponent of war .
On the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War, he intended to go off his feeding tube .
He said he stayed alive for his wife but died Monday, the day before Veterans Day .
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By . Sam Masters and Hugo Gye . PUBLISHED: . 19:24 EST, 20 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 05:54 EST, 21 April 2013 . A billionaire oligarch has been named Britain’s richest man as the staggering wealth of foreign billionaires based in London is laid bare. Alisher Usmanov, who was born in Uzbekistan, owns almost one-third of Arsenal Football Club and is said to be worth £13.3billion. Usmanov, 59, owns Sutton Place, the . former Surrey home of the oil baron J. Paul Getty, as well as a . £48million mansion in London. He is married to Irina Viner, 64, the head coach of Russia’s rhythmic gymnastics team. Vast wealth: Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, pictured with his wife Irina Viner, is Britain's richest man . While the latest Sunday Times Rich List is dominated by obscure foreign-born businessmen, there are also household names such as actors Sacha Baron Cohen and Daniel Craig, who both appear on the list for the first time. The Bond star, 45, shares a fortune of £40million with his wife Rachel Weisz, while the creator of Ali G and Borat is worth around £68million. Top: Kirsty Bertarelli is the richest woman in Britain after marrying a pharmaceuticals boss . Mr Usmanov, who occupies the top spot, served six years in a Soviet jail in the Eighties after being convicted of fraud and extortion, although his conviction was later overturned. According to the Rich List, . his wealth has increased thanks to his Russian business empire which . started with making plastic bags and includes the production of iron . ore, an internet company and a controlling share in Russia’s second . biggest mobile phone firm. He replaces steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, who now drops to fourth place after eight years in the top spot. The steel magnate, now worth . £10billion, is the biggest faller in wealth terms. The 40 per cent stake he and his wife Usha . hold in the steelmaking giant ArcelorMittal has plummeted from £28billion at its peak to £5.95billion. In second place is Russian-born Len . Blavatnik, whose rise in wealth from £3.4billion last year to £11 . billion this year, makes him the highest riser in wealth terms. Mr Blavatnik owns Warner Music, and received £2billion last month for his stake in Russian oil project TNK-BP. Third place goes to Sri and Gopi Hinduja who made their £10.6billion in industry and finance. The list highlights the . dominance of foreign oligarchs who have bought up swathes of Central . London, with only one British-born person in the top 10 - the Duke of . Westminster is is eighth place thanks to his £7.8billion fortune. And . most of the wealthiest figures are men, with Britain's richest woman . being Kirsty Bertarelli, who as Kirsty Roper came second in 1988's Miss . World pageant before marrying Swiss pharmaceutical boss Ernest . Bertarelli, with whom she shares a net worth of £7.4billion. Lower . down the list, one notable new entry is financial expert Martin Lewis, . 40, who has obviously been following his own advice as he has amassed . wealth of £60million. Stars: Hollywood actors Daniel Craig and Sacha Baron Cohen have both entered the list for the first time . Entrepreneurs: Virgin boss Richard Branson, right, is a fixture on the list, and has now been joined by Mashable founder Pete Cashmore, right, who is worth £60million at the age of 27 . Landowner: The highest placed UK-born person is the Duke of Westminster, who is worth £7.8billion and ranked eighth . The list of richest Britons under 30 . is dominated by inherited wealth - but it also features a number of . internet whizkids and glamorous young entertainers. Daniel . Ek, the 30-year-old Spotify boss, Pete Cashmore, 27, founder of . Mashable, and 29-year-old Sam Barnett, who set up online advertising . firm Struq have each been valued at more than £50million. Daniel . Radcliffe, Robert Pattinson and Adele are also in the top 20 on the . youth list thanks to their successful showbiz careers. The . number of billionaires in the UK has increased ten-fold since the . Sunday Times Rich List was first published in 1989, shooting from nine . to 88. There were 77 last year. According . to the list, the 1,000 richest people in Britain have wealth totalling . almost £450billion - up nearly eight per cent on last year, a sign that . the top ranks of society are prospering despite mass unemployment and . the threat of a triple-dip recession. The . combined wealth of the top 200 people is £318.2billion, a more than . eightfold rise on the £38billion for the combined wealth of the 200 . people featured in the first list. In . 1989, the Queen topped the list with total wealth of £5.2billion. This . valuation included all the Crown Estates and the royal art collection. In later years, the Queen has been valued solely on her personal wealth . and no longer topped the list after 1993. Roman . Abramovich, who owns Arsenal’s rivals Chelsea and amassed his fortune . through Russian oil and aluminium, is ranked as the fifth richest . resident with £9.3billion – £200million down on last year. Tycoons: Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich (left) is the UK's fifth richest man, while steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal (right) drops to fourth place after eight years in the top spot . 2013 rank (2012 rank), name, source of wealth, 2013 wealth (2012 wealth) 1. (2) Alisher Usmanov, mining and investment, £13,300m (£12,315m) 2. (5) Len Blavatnik, investment, music and media, £11,000m (£7,580m) 3. (4) Sri and Gopi Hinduja, industry and finance, £10,600m (£8,600m) 4. (1) Lakshmi Mittal and family, steel, £10,000m (£12,700m) 5. (3) Roman Abramovich, oil and industry, £9,300m (£9,500m) 6. (9), John Fredriksen and family, shipping and oil services, £8,800m (£6,600m) 7. (8) David and Simon Reuben, property and internet, £8,281m (£7,083m) 8. (7) The Duke of Westminster, property, £7,800m (£7,350m) 9. (6) Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli, pharmaceuticals, £7,400m (£7,400m) 10. (11) Charlene and Michel de Carvalho, inheritance, brewing and banking, £7,000m (£5,490m) 11. (10) Galen and George Weston and family, retailing, £6,650m (£5,900m) 12. (15) Kirsten and Jorn Rausing, inheritance and investment, £5,109m (£3,900m) 13.(12) Hans Rausing and family, packaging, ££4,720m (£4,300m) 14.(13) Joseph Lau, property, £4,600m (£4,140m) 15, (new) Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber and family, hotels, food and industry, £4,515m . 16, (17=) Sir Philip and Lady Green, retailing, £3,880m (£3,300m) 17. (14) Nicky Oppenheimer, diamonds and mining, £3,785m (£4,050m) 18. (19) Earl Cadogan and family, property, £3,675m (£3,225m) 19. 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Alisher Usmanov owns almost a third of the north London football club .
He replaces steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal who drops to eighth place .
UK-born richest is Duke of Westminster, worth £7.8bn and ranked eighth .
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By . Steve Nolan . PUBLISHED: . 14:47 EST, 12 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:47 EST, 12 July 2013 . Penalty: Greater Manchester Police was fined £166,666 after admitting health and safety breaches after PC Ian Terry, pictured, was shot dead during a training exercise . A police force has been fined £166,666 after one of its officers was shot dead in a warehouse during a training exercise. Greater Manchester Police admitted a health and safety breach after the fatal shooting of father-of-two PC Ian Terry, 32, was killed during a firearms training exercise in June 2008. PC terry was not wearing body armour and was hit from a distance of about 12ins by a blank round of specialist ammunition which is not designed to kill but can be deadly at close range. In January, Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy pleaded guilty on behalf of GMP to a breach of Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA) under which an employer has a duty to protect its employees at work. Today, the officer who was in charge of the training session - known only as Francis - was found guilty of a breach of Section 7 of the HSWA for a lack of care towards another employee. Another anonymised officer - Eric - who helped the lead officer in organising the training course was cleared by a jury at Manchester Crown Court of the same allegation. PC Terry, from Burnley, was shot as the unit practised in a disused factory in Newton Heath. He had brandished an unloaded handgun during the exercise while playing the role of a criminal fleeing in a car when he was hit by the specialist ammunition known as round irritant personnel. The jury ruled that there was a catalogue of failures not only by the officer who shot PC Terry but also in the planning, training and safety measures in place. The Crown Prosecution Service later ruled though that the officer who fired the fatal shot, known as Chris at the inquest, should not face any criminal charges. Today, Mr Justice Holroyde also ordered GMP to pay court costs of £90,000. Francis was fined £2.000 and told to pay costs of £500. Tragedy: PC Terry was shot in a training exercise at a disused factory in the Newton Heath area of Manchester. A forensics officer is pictured examining the scene after the shooting . An inquest at Manchester Coroner’s Court in March 2010 had already found that PC Terry was unlawfully killed. In a statement, Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahey said: 'On behalf of Greater Manchester Police, and also personally, I want to apologise for the failings which led to the death of PC Ian Terry and express great sorrow for the pain and loss suffered by his family. 'We accept that there were failings in the way in which the training exercise was carried out and today we accept the sentence that has been passed. Admission: GMP Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy today apologised to PC Ian Terry's family over his death. He had admitted health and safety breaches on behalf of the force . 'Ian Terry was a highly professional and dedicated officer and also a member of a very close and loving family. I know he is missed as much today as the day he died. 'I want to express our admiration for the dignity and love shown by his family over the many years it has taken for the case to get to this point. He added: 'It has been just over five years since Ian Terry tragically died; five years that Ian’s family, friends and colleagues have had to wait for today’s outcome. 'Since Ian’s death we have introduced a number of rigorous measures to ensure that the risk to our officers on such training exercises is minimised and that their safety is our number one priority.' In a statement, the Terry family, including widow Joanne, said: 'Ian was an exceptional man - a brilliant father, husband, son and brother who we will always be proud of. 'He was the heart of the family and always had a smile on his face. His enthusiasm for life was infectious. 'He was also a dedicated police officer who loved his job, and his career was progressing well within the firearms division of GMP . 'The last five years have been horrendous for us. We are a patient and reasonable family and all we have wanted from day one is for those involved in this tragedy to accept their portion of responsibility for what happened to Ian in June 2008. 'In our opinion there have been numerous failings uncovered, not only in respect of the fatal training exercise but in the initial investigation. 'We believe that these failings have only been allowed to occur because Ian was a police officer killed in a police training exercise and as such the incident was not treated with the suspicion it deserved. Tragic: PC Terry, from Burnley, was shot as the unit practised in a disused factory in Newton Heath . 'We were told initially that Ian had been killed in a tragic accident, which clearly was not the case.' The family also expressed disbelief that the officer who fired the fatal shot has not and will not face charges from the CPS. But they added: 'However, we finally have a small measure of satisfaction after years of pain and uncertainty that at least one of the officers we believe are directly responsible for Ian’s death have been proven to be so beyond all doubt and we hope that they now have the courage to accept that responsibility.' HSE principal inspector Mike Calcutt said: 'Ian Terry was a well liked and respected police officer, and a loving family man. 'He was shot and killed on a training exercise in Manchester by one of his colleagues. His death was entirely preventable. 'Today, PC Francis has been found guilty of failing to protect his colleague by introducing dangerous and reckless elements into a training exercise. Greater Manchester Police accepted its failings and we welcomed their guilty plea earlier this year. 'Today is an important day for Ian’s family, who have suffered an ordeal nobody should have to endure and who have waited patiently in their search for justice.'
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PC Ian Terry was shot during an exercise at Newton Heath, Manchester .
Greater Manchester Police today apologised for PC Terry's death .
Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy expressed 'admiration' for family's dignity .
The Terry family described Ian as an 'exceptional' man and dedicated PC .
They expressed disbelief that the officer who shot PC Terry won't face trial .
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"By . Steve Nolan . PUBLISHED: . 14:47 EST, 12 July",
"2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:47 EST, 12 July 2013 .",
"Penalty: Greater Manchester Police was fined",
"£166,666 after admitting health and safety",
"breaches after PC Ian Terry, pictured, was shot",
"dead during a training exercise . A police force",
"has been fined £166,666 after one of its officers",
"was shot dead in a warehouse during a training",
"exercise. Greater Manchester Police admitted a",
"health and safety breach after the fatal shooting",
"of father-of-two PC Ian Terry, 32, was killed",
"during a firearms training exercise in June 2008.",
"PC terry was not wearing body armour and was hit",
"from a distance of about 12ins by a blank round",
"of specialist ammunition which is not designed to",
"kill but can be deadly at close range. In",
"January, Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy pleaded",
"guilty on behalf of GMP to a breach of Section 2",
"of the Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA) under",
"which an employer has a duty to protect its",
"employees at work. Today, the officer who was in",
"charge of the training session - known only as",
"Francis - was found guilty of a breach of Section",
"7 of the HSWA for a lack of care towards another",
"employee. Another anonymised officer - Eric - who",
"helped the lead officer in organising the",
"training course was cleared by a jury at",
"Manchester Crown Court of the same allegation. PC",
"Terry, from Burnley, was shot as the unit",
"practised in a disused factory in Newton Heath.",
"He had brandished an unloaded handgun during the",
"exercise while playing the role of a criminal",
"fleeing in a car when he was hit by the",
"specialist ammunition known as round irritant",
"personnel. The jury ruled that there was a",
"catalogue of failures not only by the officer who",
"shot PC Terry but also in the planning, training",
"and safety measures in place. The Crown",
"Prosecution Service later ruled though that the",
"officer who fired the fatal shot, known as Chris",
"at the inquest, should not face any criminal",
"charges. Today, Mr Justice Holroyde also ordered",
"GMP to pay court costs of £90,000. Francis was",
"fined £2.000 and told to pay costs of £500.",
"Tragedy: PC Terry was shot in a training exercise",
"at a disused factory in the Newton Heath area of",
"Manchester. A forensics officer is pictured",
"examining the scene after the shooting . An",
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"the way in which the training exercise was",
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(CNN) -- It is an imposing property. The World One towers over the coastline on a 17 acre site in the heart of the prime district of Upper Worli, Mumbai. As the sun started to set on our video shoot, the view of the Arabian Sea became hazy after our climb to the highest floor under intense construction. The haze is a good analogy for the economic and political climate in India overall, which is holding back demand in the property sector. This was evident in our visit in and around the financial capital of Mumbai. There is a problem at the core of India right now and that is growth, being held back by infrastructure which is clearly not keeping pace with the needs of the private sector. "I think Mumbai is suffering today from the way the infrastructure is," Abhisheck Lodha, managing director of the company behind the World One project ,told me from the base of the residential towers. He said the government has made an effort over the past five years to improve the climate, but the last 50 years have be witness to woeful underinvestment. Read more: Move over Bollywood, Mumbai has a new star . "We need to see this kind of governance for another five to ten years for Mumbai to really realize its peak, so people can work not in spite of the infrastructure instead of because of it," Lodha said. Persis Khambatta, a Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in a recent analysis said it is time to deal with "structural issues that are well-known to afflict the economy". She talks of training as a key priority. The government target is to train a half billion of the country's youth in less than ten years. That is a tall order in a climate of slowing growth. It is difficult to see industry expanding while the economic climate remains so uncertain and with national elections set for the spring of 2014. Quarterly growth at the end of September edged down to 4.8% hovering at the slowest pace in a decade. The World Bank lowered its forecast for fiscal year 2013-2014, which ends in March, to 4.7%. We are seeing a nasty combination of rising inflation, over 11% in November, and sluggish production which actually contracted in the month of October. The Reserve Bank of India is raising interest rates to cap price rises but that of course will not help business nor boost demand for both luxury properties and the rise of new cities in suburbs of Mumbai and Delhi. Read more: The world's most expensive luxury properties . For those of us on the ground, it was abundantly clear that productivity is being lost hour by hour to the creaking infrastructure. Overpasses seem to be absent and the ride out to the satellite cities in Mumbai is exhausting due to a steady stream of potholes in the roadways. Industry is moving out to locations where costs are lower, leaving the center of Mumbai to high end services and finance. The next wave of investment, strategists and developers agree needs to address the "bits in between". An economy cannot thrive without clear arteries to commerce and for Mumbai at least, they remain clogged.
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Defterios: Lack of infrastructure is holding back private sector .
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Industry in Mumbai is leaving the city to cheaper locations .
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(CNN) -- Fourteen months after she was left paralyzed by a pool mishap at her bachelorette party, Rachelle Friedman is having the wedding of her dreams Friday -- and then some. Joining Friedman and fiance Chris Chapman will be between 100 and 120 family members and their closest friends, witnesses to the couple's can-do spirit. "It just feels like a love story to people," said Rachelle's mother, Carol. "They are really great together." Wednesday was a day of continued wedding preparations for Friedman, 25, of Knightdale, North Carolina, just east of Raleigh. The quadriplegic in recent weeks has practiced for the couple's first dance, a special moment even if she will be in her wheelchair. Friedman's father, Larry, will push her down the aisle, so that she can hold a bridal bouquet as she approaches Chapman, 28. "I can't compare our relationship to anyone else," she said. "I am super lucky to find that perfect love I wish everyone had." For Friedman, life is about moving forward and gaining increased independence. When asked how the accident changed her life, the bride-to-be says, "I don't really think about what would have been." Friedman and Chapman, a middle school science teacher, were to wed June 27, 2010. In late May, Friedman, who was a program coordinator for a senior citizens center, traveled to their hometown of Virginia Beach, Virginia, for her bachelorette party. Bridesmaids enjoyed a cookout and a limousine ride to the entertainment strip with bridesmaids. "We had a really good time," the East Carolina University graduate said in November. Afterward, the group went to her best friend's home, where they started playing around near the pool. "It was just spontaneous horseplay," said Friedman, a former dance and aerobics dancer. Her best friend "pushed me, and I landed wrong." The young woman's head struck the bottom of the pool, which had a few feet of water in it. Friedman, who suffered a spinal cord injury and paralysis from the chest down, has remained close to the friend through the trauma each suffered. "We're there for each other," Friedman said. "It could easily have been the other way around." Chapman and Friedman put off the wedding during her initial rehabilitation and while they tried to figure out medical coverage. They were concerned that she may not qualify for Medicaid if she married, but they since learned she was ineligible. A $500-a-month COBRA policy and long-term disability have helped. Individuals, businesses and foundations have provided other assistance. After CNN wrote about the couple and HLN's Vinnie's Politan interviewed Friedman, a wedding and honeymoon planning company approached the couple. "It blew me away, how upbeat and positive she is," said Donne Kerestic, CEO of 1-800-Registry, based in Nevada. Working with vendors and two wedding planners, Kerestic's company is paying for Friedman's wedding and the couple's honeymoon in Fiji. 1-800-Registry is incurring between $50,000 and $60,000 in costs, Kerestic said Wednesday. Chapman and Friedman will exchange vows at 11 a.m. Friday at Fearrington Village in Pittsboro, North Carolina. The complex, which features an inn, restaurant and other features, has an upscale rural theme. Friedman, who likes country music, is excited about having a band and deejay at the reception, planned at a large barn. She'll be wearing the same dress she planned to wear last summer. "It's perfect," she said of the nuptial plans. While she still has dreams of being able to walk one day, Friedman focuses now on increasing her strength and possibly regaining feeling in her hands. She's been working on her ability to "transfer" herself into bed or a car. She uses her thumbs to type on a keyboard. The recreation management major plays wheelchair "quad rugby" for the Raleigh Sidewinders and has spoken at several venues, including an adaptive sports and wellness day, where people with disabilities were exposed to sports like kayaking, basketball and rugby. Carol Friedman and Rachelle's 32-year-old brother help her during the week while Chapman is at work. Besides paralysis, Friedman deals with nerve pain and blood pressure problems. The past year has tested the couple's mettle. "We're definitely built to last," Chapman said in November. "She was and is my best friend. I cannot wait to marry her." The accident introduced them to new friends and brought their families closer together. A page on a website called CaringBridge.org features photos of Friedman and has a guestbook full of best-wishes entries. "You have such a wonderful outlook," one person wrote. "I have been through many trials and tribulations in my life and what you said hits the mark. ... You can make you(r) world perfect, different but perfect.'' Excited about being able to lie on the beach in Fiji, Friedman also anticipates three weeks of treatment at Project Walk, a facility in Carlsbad, California, that helps people with spinal cord injuries. The Walking With Anthony Foundation is covering the costs for Rachelle and Carol Friedman, said Gigi Betancourt, client services manager at Project Walk. The nonprofit center's aim is helping patients improve their function below their injury level, build strength and find hope, said Eric Harness, head of research and development. Patients do exercises outside of their wheelchairs. Friedman would eventually like to return to work, perhaps encouraging others as a speaker. "Rachelle is a very motivated person," said Miranda Strider-Allen, program director at Resources for Seniors, where Friedman helped provide services to Wake County senior and disabled adults. "It's amazing -- her frame of mind and positive attitude." "My hope is she finds her new niche in life," Carol Friedman said of her daughter. "It's so awesome that they give to live as husband and wife, like everyone should, with or without a disability," Carol Friedman said. "So many people have it so much worse than we do."
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Rachelle Friedman was paralyzed after injury at bachelorette party .
Her best friend playfully pushed her into a swimming pool; she sustained a spinal injury .
She has maintained a close friendship with her best friend .
She and Chris Chapman will marry Friday .
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"The quadriplegic in recent weeks has practiced",
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"rehabilitation and while they tried to figure out",
"medical coverage. They were concerned that she",
"may not qualify for Medicaid if she married, but",
"they since learned she was ineligible. A",
"$500-a-month COBRA policy and long-term",
"disability have helped. Individuals, businesses",
"and foundations have provided other assistance.",
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"Vinnie's Politan interviewed Friedman, a wedding",
"and honeymoon planning company approached the",
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"she is,\" said Donne Kerestic, CEO of",
"1-800-Registry, based in Nevada. Working with",
"vendors and two wedding planners, Kerestic's",
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"incurring between $50,000 and $60,000 in costs,",
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"Fearrington Village in Pittsboro, North Carolina.",
"The complex, which features an inn, restaurant",
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"Friedman, who likes country music, is excited",
"about having a band and deejay at the reception,",
"planned at a large barn. She'll be wearing the",
"same dress she planned to wear last summer. \"It's",
"perfect,\" she said of the nuptial plans. While",
"she still has dreams of being able to walk one",
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"hands. She's been working on her ability to",
"\"transfer\" herself into bed or a car. She uses",
"her thumbs to type on a keyboard. The recreation",
"management major plays wheelchair \"quad rugby\"",
"for the Raleigh Sidewinders and has spoken at",
"several venues, including an adaptive sports and",
"wellness day, where people with disabilities were",
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"rugby. Carol Friedman and Rachelle's 32-year-old",
"brother help her during the week while Chapman is",
"at work. Besides paralysis, Friedman deals with",
"nerve pain and blood pressure problems. The past",
"year has tested the couple's mettle. \"We're",
"definitely built to last,\" Chapman said in",
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"cannot wait to marry her.\" The accident",
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"entries. \"You have such a wonderful outlook,\" one",
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"of her daughter. \"It's so awesome that they give",
"to live as husband and wife, like everyone",
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By . Mario Ledwith . His leading role on the Great British Break Bake Off sees him beamed into millions of homes on a weekly basis. But even the most devoted of Paul Hollywood’s fans might find the sight of him a little overbearing if he ends up as the face of a line of underwear. For the 47-year-old has applied to trademark his name for an array of products, including baseball hats, travel mugs – even underwear – as he attempts to join the celebrity chef elite. Joining the celebrity chef elite: Paul Hollywood has applied to trademark his name on a variety of products including cooking equipment and underwear . Despite his high-profile split with his wife Alexandra earlier this year, the application lodged last month suggests Hollywood is seeking to take advantage of his television profile. The trademark was made through his company Paul Hollywood Limited. Hollywood has already sought to capitalise on the popularity of the BBC2 programme and was given a spin-off, Paul Hollywood’s Bread, by the corporation. His personal website was also relaunched last week, selling his two cookery books, How To Bake and the accompanying book to his BBC2 show. Before the split: Paul Hollywood, Chef and wife Alexandra Hollywood at the 'Skyfall' Royal World Film Premiere After Party, London . If the application is successful his . name will be protected should he wish to use it on freezers and kettles. A range of clothing is covered by the application, including waistcoats . and footwear. Hollywood has sought trademark protection under nine classes, including fan clubs, barbecues and computer programs. Ancient Hume Limited, a brand protection company which represents Mr Hollywood, and Yellow Poppy, his agency, did not comment. In a high-profile split, the celebrity baker left his wife of 15 years in March and was later rumoured to have started a relationship with his 35-year-old co-host Marcela Valladolid on the American version of the bakery competition. Hollywood’s estranged wife Alexandra later revealed that she is divorcing him on the grounds of his adultery, which he is not contesting. She said: ‘I felt very secure with Paul. I trusted him completely. I loved him and he loved me. We were happy and life was good. ‘I love my husband and I was and still am very proud of what he has achieved, but there is no going back and I just want this finished with and to move on. ‘I don’t know if he still loves me. You can’t share 15 years of marriage and not have anything left, but right now I just don’t know. ‘ . The celebrity baker has spoken out since the breakdown of his marriage, but said he wants to keep his personal life private for the sake of his 11-year-old son. He said: ‘I’m upset and sad about the whole separation. I’ve been totally honest with those in the know. Everyone else? That’s their problem, I don’t care.’
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(CNN) -- Italy international midfielder Alberto Aquilani has left English Premier League side Liverpool to join AC Milan on loan for the rest of the season. Aquilani, 27, joined Liverpool from Roma in 2009, but the playmaker has struggled with form and fitness during his two years on Merseyside, spending last term on loan at Juventus. "Alberto Aquilani has completed his loan transfer from Liverpool to AC Milan," read a statement on five-time European champions Liverpool's web site. "The deal, which includes the option of a permanent move, will end on June 30, 2012." Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish revealed the reasons behind the transfer and said he could not find room for Aquilani in his team. "It's a great move for Alberto," said the Scot. "He's got his wife and kid over there. It was difficult for him here. "When he came back his pre-season training was excellent. We gave him a few games, he did well in those games. But the problem for us was trying to get him in the team. "Obviously everybody wants to play and Alberto is moving over to a fantastic football club. He goes there with the best wishes of everyone and we hope it works out for him, because he was never a problem in any way, shape or form." Aquilani has won 17 caps for Italy and was part of the Azzurri squad for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Elsewhere, English midfielder Joey Barton has left Newcastle to join newly-promoted Queens Park Rangers on a four-year deal. Barton, 28, fell out with the Newcastle hierarchy after criticizing the way the club was run on the social-networking site Twitter. The former Manchester City player signed for Newcastle in 2007 and was part of their squad which was relegated from the Premier League in 2009, and then gained promotion back to England's top division in 2010. QPR were recently taken over by AirAsia chief Tony Fernandes and Barton said the ambition of the London outfit is what convinced him to make the move. "The ambition of the club really impressed me," Barton told their official web site. "There's a great set of lads here already and that's why they had such a great season in the Championship. "The manager is talking about adding two or three more bodies and that, combined with the potential of the club and the new owners' ambitions, bodes really well for the future." Another player on the move on Friday was Dedryck Boyata, with the central defender joining Bolton Wanderers from Manchester City on a season-long loan deal. The 20-year-old Belgium international will spend the rest of the campaign with Owen Coyle's side. Meanwhile, in Italy, Macedonian international striker Goran Pandev has left Inter Milan to join Champions League rivals Napoli on loan. Pandev joined Inter in January 2010 after five seasons at Lazio but scored only two goals in 27 matches last season.
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Alberto Aquilani has joined AC Milan from Liverpool on a season-long loan .
Midfielder Joey Barton has completed a move from Newcastle United to QPR .
Man City defender Dedryck Boyata will spend the rest of the season with Bolton .
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(Entertainment Weekly) -- It couldn't top its predecessors, but "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" still brought in quite a haul, grossing an estimated $87 million for the opening weekend of the summer movie season. Hugh Jackman stars as the title character in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine." The Hugh Jackman pic brought in a strong $21,225 per-theater average in 4,099 movie houses, despite generating mixed reviews. The film fell $15 million short of 2006's "X-Men: The Last Stand" but it is still an enormous success for Jackman and director Gavin Hood. Matthew McConaughey's "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" generated an estimated $15.3 million for a second place bow. It's not a shabby opening but it is far less than McConaughey's previous romantic outings including last year's "Fool's Gold" ($21.6 million) or 2006's "Failure to Launch" ($24.2 million). (Perhaps women were too busy checking out all those hunky mutants this weekend?) The two new openers did help the industry maintain its year-over-year increase of 16 percent. Also aiding that statistic was Beyonce Knowles' "Obsessed." Dropping a not-surprising 57 percent for its second weekend in theaters, the thriller earned another $12.2 million to put its ten-day gross at a shockingly strong $47 million. And Zac Efron's "17 Again" showed surprising stamina, too, grossing an additional $6.3 million its third weekend for a total take of $48.4 million. The other new wide release for the weekend was the anemic 3-D animated sci-fi film "Battle for Terra." Opening on 1162 theaters, the Justin Long, Evan Rachel Wood-voiced feature proved to be little competition for the other 3-D movie in the marketplace. Dreamworks Animation's juggernaut "Monsters vs. Aliens" grossed another $5.8 million its sixth weekend for the fifth slot in the rankings, while newcomer "Terra" couldn't muster more than $1 million for a twelfth place in the box office derby. Summer has officially begun -- at least in Hollywood -- so expect a giant event film every weekend. Wolverine may have bowed mightily but with "Star Trek" hot on its heels next weekend, the Marvel superhero is going to need more than adamantium to maintain its box office lead. CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly . Copyright 2009 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved.
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"Wolverine" takes the top slot at the box office, earning an estimated $87 million .
"Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" took in an estimated $15.3 million for second place .
Dreamworks Animation's "Monsters vs. Aliens" grossed another $5.8 million .
Check out the rest of the top 10 movies at the box office this weekend .
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"for Jackman and director Gavin Hood. Matthew",
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"($21.6 million) or 2006's \"Failure to Launch\"",
"($24.2 million). (Perhaps women were too busy",
"checking out all those hunky mutants this",
"weekend?) The two new openers did help the",
"industry maintain its year-over-year increase of",
"16 percent. Also aiding that statistic was",
"Beyonce Knowles' \"Obsessed.\" Dropping a",
"not-surprising 57 percent for its second weekend",
"in theaters, the thriller earned another $12.2",
"million to put its ten-day gross at a shockingly",
"strong $47 million. And Zac Efron's \"17 Again\"",
"showed surprising stamina, too, grossing an",
"additional $6.3 million its third weekend for a",
"total take of $48.4 million. The other new wide",
"release for the weekend was the anemic 3-D",
"animated sci-fi film \"Battle for Terra.\" Opening",
"on 1162 theaters, the Justin Long, Evan Rachel",
"Wood-voiced feature proved to be little",
"competition for the other 3-D movie in the",
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"muster more than $1 million for a twelfth place",
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"begun -- at least in Hollywood -- so expect a",
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"have bowed mightily but with \"Star Trek\" hot on",
"its heels next weekend, the Marvel superhero is",
"going to need more than adamantium to maintain",
"its box office lead. CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK",
"FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly . Copyright",
"2009 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All",
"rights reserved."
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Some 250 . missiles were launched from Gaza in revenge for yesterday's airstrike . assassination of Hamas's top military commander . This is the scene of this morning's rocket attacks on a five-storey, dilapidated apartment block, that killed three people as they ate their breakfast. The kitchen sink in the flat that suffered the direct hit is filled with the usual pots and pans, sitting in a masses of broken crockery and chunks of plaster that was blown over. An upside down kettle lies beneath what looks like a broken part of a kitchen cupboard. A fridge lies overturned on its side, covered in rubble. If you stumbled across the room by accident, you would be forgiven for thinking that it had been abandoned for months, and not just since a fatal breakfast meeting that morning. GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING . Devastation: An Israeli sapper inspects the damage in a house hit by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants into the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Malahi that killed three people . Thick grey dust covers everything except for the odd flash of a yellow dustpan, or a red cerial box. In a room that resembles a bedroom, . the mattresses are turned on their sides, springs are poking out and the . legs of the bed base point sharply upwards at odd angles. The overhead . lights have been blown off and are now swinging slowly on a flimsy wire . from the ceiling. The walls are cracked and are . splashed in places with what looks like drying brown blood. Bright . sunlight pours in through the giant hole where a fourth wall should have . been - from here, you can see directly towards Gaza. The tree branches outside the flat . are no longer bare - clothing which was blown several metres from the . flat now hang there. The ground is strewn with bits of metal, splintered . wooden boards and items of clothing. Occasionally, bits of glass . collapse from the window frames above and fall on the ground. Devastation: A Zaka volunteer stands in the living room of an apartment building that was hit . Bloodbath: Zaka volunteers clean blood stains from a pillow and a baby toy in a children's room in the apartment building that was hit . Nowhere to run: Israeli Zaka emergency services volunteers clean human remains from the house hit by a rocket. Witnesses said the blocks bomb shelter was too full of belongings leaving residents nowhere to run . Helpless: An injured Israeli baby is held by a security officer inside an ambulance at the scene. The identities of the three victims remains unclear . The Israeli army said some 250 . missiles were launched from Gaza in revenge for the airstrike . assassination of Hamas's top military commander yesterday. One young yeshiva student I met along . the way said that he heard a loud blast 'as if it was happening just . outside' and ran into the shelter in his seminary. The . residents of the apartment block that was hit had no such luxury. Arie . Spekter, a resident of the second floor for the past year, said that the . single shelter room for the 16 flats is downstairs and stuffed full of . people's belongings. 'The flats are very small here and people need all they storage space they can get,' he says. When the rockets hit there was nowhere to run. Mr Spekter has bloodshot eyes and is holding his 11-year-old daughter Dina close to him. 'I'd just finished a night shift, and came home and wanted to relax,' he says. 'As soon as the alarms started we woke up. 'We opened the doors and gathered the neighbour's children in our flat so that they would be safe from this side. Mr Spekter said that safety was the first issue on his mind when he moved into the flat. 'I specifically asked for a flat on the side facing away from Gaza. Thank god I did that.' Chilling: A wedding photo and other belongings are seen in a house damaged in the attack . Obliterated: An Israeli soldier throws a blood-stained table from an apartment building hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, killing three people in Kiryat Malachi . Fear: The Israeli army said some 250 missiles were launched from Gaza in revenge for the airstrike assassination of Hamas's top military commander yesterday . I . follow him inside the apartment. On the second floor, all the windows . have been blown away. On the fifth, instead a wall is a blasted hole, . approximately four metres square. The . light pouring into the devastated room illuminates clothes, household . utensils, pillows and blankets which are scattered around, everything . discoloured by the thick grey dust still falling from the ceiling. In . the corner lies a still unopened plastic packet of baby clothing. 'My wife wants to go to Rehovot,' Mr Spekter tells his friend on the phone. 'I . don't want to go, I want to run!' shouts his wife. She is in a state of . shock, at times talking calmly, and then suddenly crying shrilly. 'I'm . so angry! I want them all to burn in hell, the Arabs, for what they did . to us.' Attack: A rocket is launched from Gaza as seen from Sderot. The Israeli army said some 200 rockets had been fired today from Gaza . Fear: A woman dives for cover as a siren sounds warning of incoming rockets in Kiryat Malachi . Later on, she curls up on the sofa and covers her head with her arms. 'What's remarkable is that I'm more angry with the Israeli government than with the Arabs', says Mr Spekter. 'This is all due to elections. The politicians always tell us 'we have shelters, we're protected...but we're not!' Gilad Erdon, a member of parliament from PM Netanyahu's Likkud party, and minister of environmental protection arrived on the scene in the late afternoon. Nowhere is safe: A soldier tries to calm a crying woman in the building where the rockets hit as others look around for further damage . Terror: Israelis react and seek cover as a siren sounds warning of more incoming rockets . Fatherly love: An Israeli with his two sons as they pray under a protective area during a missile alert . When asked how it was possible that residents in this building had no safe shelter, he replied 'It's almost impossible to protect our citizens 100 per cent, especially in areas such as this, where families live with many children in cramped conditions. 'I've been inside - some people even live in the balcony, with not even a window to protect them. Twenty per cent of Israel's total budget goes on security and defence of the country - unfortunately, this still is not enough.' Another neighbour from the next street, Yosef Ladayo, an ultra-Orthodox resident in his 60s, describes how his daughter could not sleep because of the alarms. Horror: Israelis take cover as rockets fly overhead . 'She was so scared,' he says. A yeshiva student called Arik said: Until it happens, you don't believe it ever will.' Onlookers and neighbours are gathered outside. 'I'm standing here and I'm still scared in case there's another alarm. Where can we be safe?' asks Maya from Tajikistan who has been a resident here over the past 20 years. When asked if she would consider moving, she shrugs and throws up her hands. 'Where would I move to?,' she says. 'In America there are storms and floods. Tel Aviv is also within range of the rockets now. They've already hit Hadera. Where is there to go to?' Some time in the late afternoon, two . more explosions are heard. Although they sound far away, a woman . screams. A little boy, no more than 7 years old sitting huddled up . holding his pet turtle. He asks quietly, 'mama, will you protect me?' A . neighbour comes in and tries to reassure everyone - "they never hit the . same building twice". People want to leave their houses, at least for a few days, but are worried about losing their jobs.
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Three people were killed when rockets struck an apartment block in Kiryat Malachi, southern Israel .
Residents tell how the block's only air raid shelter was used for extra storage space leaving the victims with nowhere to run when in the attack .
The dilapidated block was so full that some residents were living on balconies .
Some 250 .
missiles were launched from Gaza in revenge for yesterday's airstrike .
assassination of Hamas's top military commander .
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A US Airways flight was forced to make an emergency landing after a dog relieved itself at least twice in the plane's aisle - causing travelers to become sick when they were overwhelmed by the stench. Flight 598 took off from Los Angeles for Philadelphia on Wednesday - and it seems that the pet, a service dog reportedly named Truffles, couldn't quite wait to reach their destination. 'The full sized dog that's on my . flight, well it did what dogs do & went to the bathroom when it felt . like it,' one passenger, Chris Law, tweeted. 'Smack dab in middle of aisle.' Scroll down for video . Doggy don't: Truffles, the cause of an emergency landing and much hilarity . Guilty: One passenger snapped this picture of the large dog that relieved itself on a US Airways flight . Another passenger, Steve McCall, told Inside Edition: 'About an hour into the flight, I started . smelling this terrible smell. I thought it was the family in front of . me - I have a little eight-month-old and I was like, "That is the worst . blowout I have ever smelled". 'I look up the aisle way and there's a dog . pooping right in the middle of the aisle. It's a big dog, three or four . feet tall or long, and he was just going." He added: ''It . wasn't little pieces, it was fully-fledged . dog-diarrhea.' Staff desperately tried to clean up the mess, using paper towels, disinfectant and then laying towels on top so that passengers could get by. But just as the mess was cleaned up, the dog had to go again, passengers said. Clean up: The plane was forced to stop and a passenger snapped a photo of a crew cleaning inside . 'The second time after the dog pooped . they ran out of paper towels, they didn't have anything else,' McCall said. 'The pilot . comes on the radio, "Hey, we have a situation in the back, we're going . to have to emergency land".' The stink . was so bad that passengers nearby started 'dry heaving' and vomiting and . the plane was forced to divert to Kansas City, Missouri, where a . cleaning crew cleaned up the mess, McCall said. The plane then took off again and finally arrived in its destination, but some passengers missed their flight connections. One family missed their cruise to Greece, McCall said. His fellow passenger, Chris Law, snapped images of the dog and updated followers throughout the ordeal on his Twitter page. 'Can't make this up,' he wrote. 'The dog has now s*** . twice. Plane is emergency landing cuz ppl are getting sick. Hazmat team . needs to board @USAirways.' Shock: Another passenger, Steve McCall said the dog's stink was so bad that people were vomiting . Oops: US Airways was forced to land its plane for a quick clean up in Missouri on the way to Philadelphia . The company later responded to him on Twitter, saying: 'Our apologies for your discomfort, Chris.' There were also apologies from the dog's owner, McCall said. 'She said,"Hey, so sorry, I want to get . all your addresses so I can give you a Starbucks gift card".' he told Inside Edition, adding: 'This is the most unique flight experience I've ever had.' MailOnline has contacted US Airways for comment. US Airways told Inside Edition that the animal was a service dog.
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Passengers aboard a US Airways flight from LA to Philadelphia were shocked when the large dog relieved itself in the aisle .
After it was cleaned up - causing the staff to run out of toilet paper - the dog went again, passengers said .
The plane was forced to land in Kansas City, Missouri so crews could clean up before the plane took off again and completed the journey .
Owner was apologetic and told everyone she wanted to give them gifts .
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Georgia May Jagger and boyfriend Josh McLennan are making their real-life chemistry pay as they star in a sexy new campaign for fashion brand Sisley. The 21-year-old strikes an array of sultry poses as her beau Josh McLellan, 22 gazes on adoringly. The pair are pictured lounging in bed, dining out and generally looking loved-up as they model the Italian label's Autumn Winter 2013/14 collection, which features rich fabrics, unexpected details and vibrant colours. Scroll down for video . Georgia May Jagger, 21, stars in the new Sisley campaign with Josh McLellan, 22, her boyfriend . The couple, who have been dating since last spring, were introduced by Georgia's 34-year-old brother Jimmy. Josh plays in Jimmy Jagger's band Turbogeist. Besides the family connection, both have a clutch of modelling contracts in common. Georgia May has appeared in the pages of Vogue, while Josh models for Topman when he's not rocking out with the band. Josh has featured in i-D Magazine, British Vogue and Vogue Japan and has shot campaigns for Topman . The couple, who have dated for more than a year, have starred in shoots for the brand before . Georgia vamps it up for the camera with her boyfriend of one year, 22-year-old musician-turned-model Josh . Georgia May recently flew to Hong Kong for a British Airways promotional event and is the face of Rimmel . British model and musician Josh started his career as a model thanks to photographer Alasdair McLellan who shot his band Turbogeist. He then did his first Topman campaign and was picked up by Select. He has since appeared on the pages of the world's most famous fashion magazines, including i-D, British Vogue, Vogue Japan and L’Officiel Hommes. Georgia has featured in campaigns for Hudson, Rimmel, Chanel, Versace and most recently Sunglass Hut and Madonna’s collection Material Girl. She's just shot with Mario Sorrenti for Cavalli’s new fragrance. The couple were pictured together last month as the opening of the Longchamp flagship store on London's Regent Street. Wearing some silver sandals and little else, Georgia, made for a Gothic guest ahead of Halloween. Mad about the boy: Jagger was joined by her beau Josh McLellan at a party last month .
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Model, 21, features in another campaign for Italian label Sisley .
Stars alongside boyfriend, 22, who plays in brother's band Turbogeist .
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Megacommuters make up less than 1 percent of U.S. workers .
Majority live and work in California where longest commute is 104.2 minutes and 68 miles .
The average one-way daily U.S. commute is 25.4 minutes .
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Click here for your brilliant Match Zone inlcuding Paul Pogba's heat map . The nation that departed the last World Cup amid calamity is quietly making its case as one of the prime contenders at this one. France, who left South Africa in chaos, shame and recriminations after the squad mutinied against the manager, progressed to the quarter-finals yesterday against a spirited Nigeria team. And while never sparkling, they were unfussily efficient, benefiting greatly from the 62nd-minute replacement of Olivier Giroud with Antoine Griezmann, which changed the attacking dynamic of the match. And Paul Pogba, who has been under a degree of pressure, with some urging Didier Deschamps to drop him, demonstrated some of the reasons why Juventus will demand £60million for him should he be sold. He hasn’t yet managed to be the midfield fulcrum for which the team yearn, but his headed goal after 79 minutes yesterday might yet make him the toast of France. VIDEO Scroll down to watch France goalscorer Paul Pogba's outrageous freestyle skills . On target: Paul Pogba climbs highest at the back post to give France the lead against Nigeria . On the scoresheet: Paul Pogba points to the sky after giving France the lead during the last 16 tie . Error: Nigeria defender Jospeh Yobo inadvertently puts the ball into his own net . On target: France's Paul Pogba fires a volley towards goal as Olivier Giroud tries to move out of the way . Eyes on the prize: Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama desperately attempts to claim the ball . Skills: Juwon Oshaniwa makes an acrobatic clearance to deny France midfielder Pogba . France (4-3-3): Lloris 7; Debuchy 6.5, Varane 6.5, Koscielny 6, Evra 5.5; Pogba 7, Cabaye 6.5, Matuidi 7; Valbuena 7 (Sissoko 90), Giroud 5 (Griezmann 62, 7.5) Benzema 7. Subs: Ruffier, Landreau, Sakho, Cabella, Mavuba, Mangala, Sagna, Digne, Remy, Schneiderlin. Scorer: Pogba, 78, Yobo og, 90+2. Booked: Matuidi. Manager: Didier Deschamps 7 . Nigeria (4-2-3-1): Enyeama 6; Ambrose 6.5, Yobo 6, Omeruo 6.5, Oshaniwa 6.5; Onazi 7(Gabriel 59 - 6 ), Mikel 7.5; Odemwingie 7, Moses 6.5 (Nwofor 90), Musa 7; Emenike 7. Subs: Ejide, Agbim, Uzoenyi, Egwuekwe, Odunlami, Oboabona, Azeez, Uchebo,Ameobi. Manager: Stephen Keshi 6.5 . Referee: Mark Geiger (USA) 6.5 . *Ratings from ROB DRAPER in Brasilia* . For Deschamps, it represented a degree . of vindication. ‘Paul is young and I think it’s normal that he’s been . criticised,’ said the manager. ‘It’s . part of a high-level footballer’s life. Sometimes it’s painful, . sometimes it’s unfair but it will toughen him up. And he stood up today . and showed his potential. 'Maybe he played more simply than usually and all credit to him. I didn’t doubt his ability.’ Nigeria, . who had initially looked the more vibrant and incisive of the teams, . could count themselves a little unlucky, not least their impressive . goalkeeper, Vincent Enyeama. He . has been one of the outstanding players and characters of this . tournament and his excellent form continued here at the National Stadium . up until the 79th minute, when his handling error allowed Pogba to open . the scoring. ‘I don’t . know why he padded the ball from the corner,’ said his coach Stephen . Keshi. ‘His decision is final and what happened, happened. It cost us . big.’ Even France’s . second — a Joseph Yobo own goal from close range, under pressure from . Griezmann on 90 minutes — could have been dealt with better by Enyeama. Skills: Pogba turns on the ball during France's last 16 tie against Nigeria at the Estadio Nacional in Brasilia . Fall to the floor: Blaise Matuidi is left grounded as Ahmed Musa marauds forward with ball . Back of the net: France defender Raphael Varane is assisted by Mathieu Debuchy after hurting his head . Midfield battle: France midfielder Blaise Matuidi challenges Nigeria's Ahmed Musa on Monday evening . Turn of pace: France forward Karim Benzema spins past Nigeria's Celtic centre back Efe Ambrose . Didier Deschamps is unbeaten in 10 games hehas taken part in at the World Cup as playerand manager (W8 D2). Still, . though France weathered difficult periods, they were in control from . the moment Giroud was withdrawn and Griezmann restored their attacking . balance, with Karim Benzema moving into the centre. In . fact it proved an inglorious afternoon for the Arsenal striker, who was . fortunate that the referee appeared not to see his elbow aimed at John . Mikel Obi. There was no . mistaking who the locals wanted to win, with the stadium echoing to . chants of ‘Nigeria! Nigeria!’ and the small knots of French fans who . tried to make their voice heard invariably provoking whistles. The . Nigerians had insisted before the game that the dispute over . £2.25million in bonus payments had been quickly forgotten and so it . seemed as they started at a pace and with a degree of incision which . suggested they expected to win. VIDEO Stephen Keshi steps down in wake of defeat . Caught in the middle: Matuidi attempts to move forward but is surrounded by three Nigerian players . Strength: France striker Olivier Giroud holds off the challenge of Nigeria midfielder Ogneyi Onazi . Lost cause: Debuchy fails in his attempts to control the ball . Ahmed Musa —the two-goal star against Argentina — Peter Odemwingie and Emmanuel Emenike all worried the French defence. And . it appeared the early pressure had paid dividends when Musa curled in a . excellent near-post cross which Emenike slid in to convert past . Lloris. However, referee Mark Geiger correctly ruled it out for a very tight offside. Nigeria were dominant in midfield, with Mikel and Ogenyi Onazi establishing control, and were quick going forward. Onazi in particular was targeted, first by Pogba and later by Blaise Matuidi, whose challenge ended his match. Keshi . said: ‘On two occasions Onazi had very bad tackles and nothing was . done. The referee was bad and this is the first time I speak about the . referee as a coach.’ Committed: Matuidi comes in late to win the ball from Onazi and catches the Nigeria midfielder . Painful: Nigeria midfielder Onazi (C) is taken off on a stretcher following a challenge from Matuidi . On the run: Victor Moses charges past France left back Patrice Evra as the winger starts an attack for Nigeria . That said, Keshi’s displeasure had partly been incurred by the disallowed goal, a correct decision. Though . they were suffering, France had the best chance of the first half, . Pogba exchanging passes with Valbuena and hitting a superb volley that . flew straight at Enyeama. Mathieu . Debuchy should have done better on 40 minutes and Lloris was forced . into a sharp save from Emenike’s strike as the half ended. The . pace waned after the break, yet Nigeria still made most of the running, . with Odemwingie and Emenike keen to test Lloris from long range. But Griezmann brought fresh verve. With 20 minutes left, he exchanged passes with Benzema, who shot at Enyeama. The . goalkeeper saved but the ball rebounded off the striker and headed . goalwards until Victor Moses scrambled back to hook it off the line. France suddenly looked the more dangerous side. Yohan Cabaye hit a delightful strike from 25 yards that rebounded off the bar. Then . came the Valbuena corner, which saw Enyeama flap and Pogba head home. France were in the ascendant and when Valbuena played in his cross and . Griezmann pressured Yobo into turning into his own net, the game was . already done. The World Cup has lost another African nation but France, in undemonstrative style, make steady progress.
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France defeat Nigeria 2-0 to progress to the World Cup quarter-finals .
Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba gave France the lead twelve minutes from time .
Victory was sealed as Nigeria's former Everton defender Joseph Yobo put the ball into his own net .
Les Bleus will face the winners of Germany vs Algeria in the next round .
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Federal transportation safety officials Wednesday issued an "urgent" recommendation calling for a redesign of a component on some Boeing 777 aircraft engines -- a component blamed for two major mishaps in the past year. The engines on this British Airways jet lost power as it prepared to land in London on January 17, 2008. National Transportation Safety Board investigators said the Rolls-Royce engine component played a role in the January 17, 2008, crash of a British Airways jet near London's Heathrow Airport. Both the plane's engines lost power as the plane approached the runway, and 13 people were injured in the resulting crash. Ten months later, on November 26, 2008, a Delta Air Lines Boeing 777 was in cruise flight over Montana when an engine lost power. That plane landed safely in Atlanta after pilots performed a procedure developed in response to the Heathrow crash. In both cases, the NTSB said, a build-up of ice on a fuel/oil heat exchanger restricted the flow of fuel to the Rolls-Royce engines, reducing power. "With two of these rollback events occurring within a year, we believe that there is a high probability of something similar happening again," NTSB Acting Chairman Mark Rosenker said in a news release. The Federal Aviation Administration recently ordered operators of Boeing 777s that use the Rolls Royce engines to revise flight manuals to give pilots procedures to follow in certain cold weather conditions, outlining steps they should take if their jets experience a reduction of power. But the NTSB said Wednesday the FAA action does not go far enough. "The procedure has worked and it has been effective in significantly reducing the likelihood [of an incident]," said NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson. "But that's not enough. We need a permanent fix." While the emergency procedures work, they add to the complexity of flying the plane and require a descent, which could be hazardous if the plane is not at a sufficient altitude, the NTSB said. Some 56 aircraft in the U.S. fleet and a total of 228 worldwide are equipped with Rolls-Royce engines. But the NTSB stopped short of recommending the planes be grounded. Knudson said the safety board believes the new procedures will significantly address the problem until Rolls-Royce has a new component ready for installation. Rolls-Royce indicated it can have a new system ready within 12 months, the NTSB said. "We are encouraged to see that Rolls-Royce is already working on a redesign, and we are confident that with the FAA and EASA [European Aviation Safety Agency] overseeing the process, this flight safety issue -- even one as complex as this -- will be successfully and expeditiously resolved," Rosenker said. The NTSB recommended that, once Rolls-Royce completes its redesign, the new system be installed on all affected Boeing 777's at their next maintenance check or within six months. A Rolls-Royce spokesman said: "The report clearly states that the Rolls-Royce equipment on this flight met or exceeded all requirements. The report also highlights the emerging issue of ice build up in commercial 'long-cold-high' routes. This is an industry-wide issue which requires detailed research that is likely to shape future regulations and requirements." "This has been a serious matter for both Boeing, and the airlines who use the 777 with Rolls Royce engines," said Richard Quest, CNN's aviation correspondent . "The development of a permanent mechanical fix will solve the problem. Until then pilots operating the plane will be on their guard for any signs of the problems re-occurring. That said, the plane remains safe to fly, otherwise it would have been grounded by the authorities."
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Safety Board urges quick fix for Boeing 777 engine problem .
Rolls-Royce engine blamed for two incidents last year .
NTSB: "High probability" of similar recurrence .
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(CNN) -- Taliban advances in Pakistan are raising concerns in Islamabad and capitals as far away as Washington. CNN's senior international correspondent Nic Robertson looks at how the Taliban spread and what could be done to help Pakistan. Students in burqas in Buner district . How is the Taliban extending its influence in Pakistan? It has extended its influence considerably over the last few years moving northwards along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, from South Waziristan to North Waziristan to Bajur and across now to Swat and Buner. But the Taliban has also extended its influence because it is now involved with several Punjab terrorist groups that have affiliated themselves with the border Taliban and have helped commit some attacks such as one on a police station in Lahore. The Pakistan government has been cutting deals with the different elements that were Taliban or became Taliban since 2004-2005. Those deals have enabled the Taliban to extend themselves. Is Pakistan going to fall or fail? The overall answer to that is no. But the Taliban is further destabilizing an incredibly unstable situation. There is a weak government that faces challenges, not only from the Taliban but also from almost every political party in the country. It faces challenges from across the border with its old enemy India, which means a large percentage of the Pakistan army is tied up on that border rather than fighting terrorism. The Taliban is not going to take Islamabad, but its attacks and advances are going to weaken an already unstable government and make an already dangerous situation even more volatile... and that will mean the Taliban will be able to wield more influence in the future than they do today. What options are open to the Pakistan government and other countries? Pakistan could form a broad-based government of national unity and appeal for more international support in terms of encouraging financial aid and having trade restrictions lifted so they can improve the economy. The international community could help Pakistan resolve issues with India. It would help the economy and help the government focus on its own internal problems and better influence the situation in Afghanistan. What the Pakistan government would also need to do is convince its people that outside support and help is in their best interests to deal with terrorism and stabilize the country. To do that the government would also have to win the support of its large Pashtun minority, from whom the Taliban draws a lot of its support ... and that is difficult particularly as the U.S. -- which would need to be a principle supporter of Pakistan -- continues to bomb targets in Pashtun areas leading to civilian casualties.
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Taliban influences in Pakistan has developed over years .
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An Arizona school district says it's investigating after doubts were raised about a high school teacher and volleyball coach who said she earned a PhD as well as won an Olympic silver medal. Christie Slegers has taught science at Fountain Hills High School since 2013 and recently took on coaching responsibilities for the girls varsity volleyball team. 'I played college ball before making the U.S. team,' Slegers told the Fountain Hills Times when she started her coaching stint. 'So, yes, I am an Olympic silver medalist. I know a little bit about volleyball.' No glory: USA Volleyball says Christie Slegers, who coaches volleyball at Fountain Hills High School, was not an official member of the delegation at the 1984 Olympics, where the women's team won silver . When she told the team that she was a medalist, a suspicious parent investigated the claim and notified the school. Fountain Hills High School principal Tom Brennan responded: 'We are satisfied with the information Dr. Slegers provided to us, and consider this matter closed.' KPHO contacted USA Volleyball, who said Slegers, under her maiden name, was never a medalist. 'Christie Currie (Slegers) was not a member of the official delegation/team for the 1984 U.S. Olympic Volleyball Team,' the organization responded. When it came to her academic qualifications, there were more questions. Fountain Hills High School's website calls Slegers the science department chair and she's listed as having a PhD. Falcons: Slegers chaired the science department and coached volleyball at Fountain Hills, though the school district's superintendent says she's now under investigation . Even Slegers's LinkedIn doesn't mention a PhD, saying she studied at St Cloud State University in addition to earning a bachelor's in biology and chemistry from Hamline University. 'Christie Jean Currie did not earn a degree at St. Cloud State University,' St Cloud confirmed to KPHO. 'She earned the equivalent to a Biology major at the undergraduate level.' Now the issue has gone up to the district, with superintendent Tom Lawrence telling KPHO: 'The investigation is ongoing, and I cannot comment beyond that.'
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Berlin (CNN) -- A German man sent to prison over an incestuous relationship with his sister has lost his case that the conviction violated his right to a private and family life at the European Court of Human Rights. Patrick Stuebing had a consensual sexual relationship with his sister after they first met when he was in his 20s and she was a teenager. They had four children, two of whom are disabled, the court said. Stuebing lodged his case with the European Court of Human Rights after being sent to prison in November 2005 by a Leipzig court and losing subsequent appeals against his conviction for incest. But the court ruled Thursday that the German authorities had the right to ban incest. In convicting Stuebing, the German Federal Constitutional Court had "considered that sexual relationships between siblings could seriously damage family structures and, as a consequence, society as a whole," the court ruled. Stuebing, who was born in 1976 and lives in Leipzig, was adopted and grew up with no contact with his birth family after the age of seven, according to a court statement. When he reestablished contact with his birth family in 2000, he met his sister Susan, eight years younger than him and then aged 16. Their relationship intensified after the death of their mother, the court said, and from January 2001 they "had consensual sexual intercourse and lived together for several years." Their four children were born between 2001 and 2005. Speaking to CNN's Frederick Pleitgen in 2007, Stuebing explained that he and his sister had fallen in love, and simply wanted to have their relationship legalized. "We just want to lead a normal life," he said. "People harass us all the time and call us the incest couple. They have no idea who we really are or how it all happened." Stuebing's sister was not prosecuted by German authorities because she was considered "only partially liable for her actions," Thursday's court ruling said. The sister "suffered from a personality disorder and was considerably dependent on him," the court said. An appeal can be lodged against the court's judgment, which is not final, within the next three months. CNN's Laura Perez Maestro contributed to this report.
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He lost his case that the conviction violated his right to a private and family life .
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Germany was entitled to ban incest .
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(CNN) -- The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is arguably the greatest mystery in the history of commercial flight, with an extensive search failing to turn up a single piece of definitive evidence of its whereabouts. On Sunday, the search vessel GO Phoenix is expected to arrive at its designated search area in the southern Indian Ocean to begin the next phase of the search. The ship, and two others which will arrive within the month, will conduct detailed sonar sweeps in an attempt to locate wreckage of the plane. Here's where we are with the search for MH370. What happened initially? Around 1:30 a.m. on March 8, air traffic controllers in Subang, outside Kuala Lumpur, lost contact with Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777-200ER, over the sea between Malaysia and Vietnam. The plane's transponder, which identifies the aircraft and relays details like altitude and speed to controllers, stopped transmitting, and the passenger jet seemingly disappeared without a trace. Planes and ships from 14 countries initially searched areas of the South China Sea, south of Vietnam and the Malaysian peninsula. The search was then widened and then shifted location as it was determined that the plane diverted south. Since then resources have been focused on a swathe of the Indian Ocean, around 2000 km (1242 miles) off the west coast of Australia, the so-called "seventh arc." What has been done in the Indian Ocean so far? After seven weeks of intense but fruitless searching, the international air effort to find the plane ended in late April, shifting the focus to an underwater search. Hopes were raised in May as radio beacon signals -- "pings" -- were thought to have been detected, but the area where the pings were thought to originate from was discounted in May. Since the active search was postponed, the Australian government has been creating an accurate survey of the sea floor in the search area. One ship, from Dutch surveying company Fugro, continues to map the underwater topography. To date, over 111,000 square kilometers of the wide search area have been analyzed and mapped by the Australian government and its contractors. The existing data for the sea floor in that area is at a very low resolution, says Stuart Minchin, head of the Environmental Geoscience Division of Geoscience Australia, the agency overseeing the mapping process. Getting an accurate picture is crucial as the drones that will be conducting the underwater sonar search in the upcoming phase will need to be guided with precision to avoid damage. "In the second phase of the search, which involves towing devices close to the sea bed to get a very fine resolution picture of what's down there it's important to have that level of detail so we don't run into objects," he said. "It's a long way from shore at very significant depths so it's a logistical challenge. It's unprecedented in terms of doing a survey of this size and in this remote location." It has been an involved, long and difficult process. "The recently acquired (underwater survey) data has revealed many of these seabed features for the first time," the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), the agency leading the search, said in a statement. The survey also reveals finer features that were not visible in previous, low-resolution survey data. At the request of the Malaysian government, the Australian government -- in particular the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) -- has been tasked with leading the search. "The complexities surrounding the search cannot be understated," the ATSB says. "It involves vast areas of the Indian Ocean with only limited known data and aircraft flight information." What happens next? The Australian government said in August that it has picked Fugro Survey, a Dutch company for the mapping and the next phase of undersea search, along with a vessel, the GO Phoenix, supplied by the Malaysian government. The latter will, weather permitting, arrive at its assigned search zone late Sunday and, will deploy towed sonar to begin the search on on Monday and will conduct search activity for 12 days before going to Fremantle, in Western Australia, for resupply. The search vessel will be joined by the two Dutch ships, the Fugro Discovery and the Fugro Equator, later in the month. The Equator is currently finishing up detailed mapping of the search zones. "The current plan envisages that we will progressively cover our priority search areas over the course of about a year," Martin Dolan, Chief Commissioner and CEO of the ATSB, told CNN by phone. What we know is that the aircraft will be found close to the arc, the final attempt at communication between the aircraft systems and ground stations. We've done progressively more refined and detailed analysis of the other satellite information that has enabled us to prioritise (search areas) along that arc. "We have a high probability that the aircraft will be found at the southern end of that long arc. We now know in considerable detail what almost all of the search area looks like, we've mapped these in detail. We can tow our sonar equipment about 100 meters (329 ft) from the ocean floor in confidence that we won't run into any unexpected obstacles." What happens if/when the wreckage is found? Dolan says that it largely depends on where, and how, the plane is found. The Australian contingent, he says, is still discussing plans with their Malaysian colleagues on how to proceed in the event of a positive identification of plane wreckage. "If you have a debris field identified, to be able to know what to do with it requires careful mapping and photographing, which will take up to a month," he says. "Until we've got that largely completed we won't understand the sequence of what we're able to do in relation to wreckage and human remains." What happens if they don't find it within the current search timetable? There is $60 million ($52.8 mil) earmarked by the Australian government for mapping and underwater search, and Australian expenditure is to be matched by Malaysian government. It is a significant resource upon which to draw, Dolan says. However, "if at the end of that we haven't found the aircraft, then it's really going to be a matter for governments to decide what's next what resources they might wish to supply and I can't really preempt what that discussion might be."
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Next phase of search operations set to begin, with underwater sonar drogues to be deployed .
Search follows intensive sonar mapping of a huge area of seabed in the southern Indian Ocean .
MH370 disappeared without a trace over six months ago .
Even after an intensive search, nothing was found .
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Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama used his first Oval Office address to the nation Tuesday to say 90 percent of the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico will be captured within weeks, and to call for a new clean energy policy to end U.S. dependence on fossil fuels. The 18-minute speech, televised nationally, described what happened in the April 20 explosion and fire on a Gulf of Mexico oil rig that led to what Obama called "the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced." He compared the millions of gallons of oil leaking into the ocean to an epidemic "we will be fighting for months and even years." Obama meets Wednesday with the chairman of oil giant BP, which owns the broken well at the bottom of the Gulf, and the president made clear he expects BP to pay all clean-up costs and damages from the massive leak. He said he will tell BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg to "set aside whatever resources are required to compensate the workers and business owners who have been harmed as a result of his company's recklessness." "This fund will not be controlled by BP," Obama said. "In order to ensure that all legitimate claims are paid out in a fair and timely manner, the account must and will be administered by an independent, third party." In response to Obama's speech, a BP spokesperson said the company shared the president's goals of "shutting off the well as quickly as possible, cleaning up the oil and mitigating the impact on the people and environment of the Gulf Coast," and looked forward to Wednesday's meeting "for a constructive discussion about how best to achieve these mutual goals." Earlier, senior administration officials told reporters that negotiations on the BP fund were continuing, with one major unresolved issue being whether workers who lose their jobs due to the government's six-month moratorium on offshore drilling will be eligible to file damage claims. Republican critics have complained the moratorium is eliminating badly needed jobs as the nation recovers from economic recession, but Obama said the government must ensure the safety of such deep-water operations before allowing them to continue. Obama said he knows the moratorium "creates difficulty for the people who work on these rigs." "But for the sake of their safety, and for the sake of the entire region, we need to know the facts before we allow deep-water drilling to continue," he said. Obama also called the Gulf oil disaster "the most painful and powerful reminder yet that the time to embrace a clean energy future is now." The United States must end its dependence on fossil fuels, he said, calling for Congress to rise above partisan politics to take on the challenge of passing energy reform legislation that will lead the way to development of a clean energy economy. In an attempt to counter complaints of a sluggish government response to the oil disaster, Obama noted cited resources have poured into the region including nearly 30,000 people working in four states to contain and clean up the oil, along with "thousands of ships and other vessels." He said he had authorized deployment of more than 17,000 National Guard members along the coast to be used as needed by state governors. Republican responses, some distributed to reporters before the speech began, criticized Obama for using the oil disaster to push his energy reform policies, which GOP critics say will increase energy prices and eliminate jobs. "Every day seems to bring more bad news about the size and scope of this crisis, and reversing that trend should be the president's priority," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky. "The White House may view this oil spill as an opportunity to push its agenda in Washington, but Americans are more concerned about what it plans to do to solve the crisis at hand," McConnell said. He complained the energy reform legislation supported by Obama also is endorsed by BP and will "raise energy prices for every American family and business" but "won't end our dependence on foreign oil or protect the coastline and marshes of the Gulf coast." Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, said the administration's focus should be on stopping the leak, not pushing Obama's policies. "I am concerned the administration is attempting to capitalize on public outrage over the spill in order to push through a cap-and-trade bill that will significantly raise energy prices for all Americans and add more burdens on businesses," Hutchison said in a statement. "Right now, the president's number one priority needs to be keeping the jobs in the energy sector from going overseas and restoring the Gulf of Mexico." Environmentalists supported Obama's call for Congress to pass energy reform legislation, with former Vice President Al Gore, now chairman of the Alliance for Climate Protection, saying that "in the midst of the greatest environmental disaster in our country's history, there is no excuse to do otherwise." Ultimately, Gore said in statement, "the only way to prevent this type of tragedy from happening again is to fundamentally change how we power our economy." Earlier Tuesday, Obama named Michael Bromwich to direct the federal government's efforts to regulate offshore oil drilling. Bromwich, who was a Justice Department inspector general in the Clinton administration, will oversee the reorganized agencies that formerly comprised the Minerals Management Service in the Department of Interior. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told ABC News on Tuesday morning that Obama's goal is to "restore the Gulf, not just the way it was the day the rig exploded, but years ago." Presidents have tackled a variety of topics in Oval Office speeches -- from the Challenger disaster in 1986 to the attacks of September 11, 2001. Energy was last a topic in 1979, when Jimmy Carter spoke about America's inability to overcome the energy crisis. While Obama has dealt with major issues including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a major economic downturn since taking office in January 2009, he had never spoken to the public from the Oval Office until now. CNN's Dana Bash, Anderson Cooper, Suzanne Malveaux, Ed Henry, Ed Hornick and Tom Cohen contributed to this report.
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NEW: Republicans criticize Obama for linking oil disaster to call for energy reform .
NEW: BP says it wants to work with Obama on ending leak, cleaning oil .
Obama says he will push BP to create a BP-funded account to pay for oil spill damages .
Oval Office speech is Obama's first White House address to nation .
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By . Emma Innes . PUBLISHED: . 04:42 EST, 25 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 10:46 EST, 25 November 2013 . One involves substituting food for alcohol, another sees slimmers try to survive off air alone. These are just two of the fashionable celebrities diets which have made this year's list of the most dangerous fad diets. As the season of overindulgence approaches, the British Dietetic Association has released a list of the celebrity diets that are best avoided. Scroll down for video . Top of the list of diets to avoid is the Breatharian Diet, which Michelle Pfeiffer is said to have followed . Top of the list is the Breatharian Diet, which involves substituting food and drinks for air, followed by the Biotyping Diet, which sees slimmers attempt to cut their fat levels by changing their body’s hormone balance. In third place is the Gluten Free Diet, in fourth the Alcorexia Diet, which involves substituting food for alcohol, and in fifth the Dukan Diet, a high protein and low carb diet which is said to promote rapid weight loss. The Breatharian Diet - People who follow this diet claim they do not need to eat or drink as they are sustained by air and sunlight alone. The Biotyping Diet - The diet involves carefully selecting foods in an attempt to change the body's hormone balance. The Gluten Free Diet - This involves cutting gluten out of the diet meaning followers don't eat wheat, barley or oats. The Alcorexia Diet - People who follow this diet eat very little so they have 'spare' calories which they can consume in the form of alcohol. The Dukan Diet - This is a high protein, low carbohydrate diet which is said to promote rapid weight loss. The Breatharian Diet was reportedly followed by actress Michelle Pfeiffer and is similar to Madonna’s Air Diet. People who follow this diet claim they do not need to eat or drink because they are sustained by air and sunlight alone. The British Dietetic Association says people should not attempt this diet under any circumstances as there is no evidence to suggest people can survive off oxygen and sunlight. The Biotyping Diet relates to six different hormone types and fat accumulation in different parts of the body and involves trying to reduce body fat through controlling hormone balance. People who follow this diet only eat certain foods in an attempt to manage their hormones to reduce fat in certain areas. The British Dietetic Association says the diet relies heavily on supplements and ‘pseudo-science’. It says people will lose weight on this . diet as it restricts the intake of some foods but says it is not a . healthy way to lose weight. The Gluten Free Diet is said to be followed by Gwyneth Paltrow. It involves cutting out gluten - the protein found in wheat, barley and oats. The British Dietetic Association says . it is important for people with coeliac disease to follow this diet and . that it will lead to weight loss in other people - but that this is . because they consume fewer calories. It . says there is no credible evidence to suggest that eating less gluten . leads to weight loss – the diet causes people to lose weight because . they cut out the cakes and biscuits that contain gluten. Third in the list of diets to avoid is the Gluten Free Diet which is thought to be a favourite of Gwyneth Paltrow. It involves cutting out all foods that contain gluten but is not recommended for anyone other than those with coeliac disease . The Alcorexia, or Drunkorexia, Diet is thought to be a favourite of many top models. It involves eating very few calories and ‘banking’ them in order to binge drink at the weekends. For example, a person might eat very few calories during the week so as to ‘bank’ about 1,500 calories a day. This would mean they had 10,500 ‘saved’ calories which can be made up of drink at the weekends. The British Dietetic Association says . following a very low calorie diet alone is ‘madness’ as it will mean . your body does not get the vitamins and minerals it needs to function. Carole Middleton is said to have followed the high protein, low carb Dukan Diet which came fifth in the list of diets to avoid . It also says this is a very worrying diet which could lead to ‘immense damage’ to the body. The Dukan Diet came top of the list of worst celebrity dies in 2010, 2011 and 2012. It is said to be followed by Carole Middleton and Jennifer Lopez. It is a complicated high protein, low carbohydrate diet that promotes rapid weight loss. The British Dietetic Association says the diet can lead to lack of energy, constipation and bad breath. Sian Porter, consultant dietician and spokesperson for the British Dietetic Association, said: ‘We hear it all when it comes to the latest way to shed those pounds from the good to the bad, to the down-right dangerous. ‘When people need medical advice, they go to their GP and when people have a toothache, they go to their dentist, but some people will believe almost anything and anyone when it comes to nutrition, food and diet. ‘The bottom line is, if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. ‘Also, if you have to pay out for a DVD or special book or product that will unlock the secrets of losing weight, this can also be a good indicator that the only pounds you will be losing will be out of your wallet. ‘The simple fact is there is no “wonder diet” just as there are no “super foods”. What is super is the way many marketing machines coin certain phrases to make you think there is some magic wand approach to losing weight. ‘Maybe it’s not as exciting but the truth is, if you do want to lose some weight do it by eating a healthy balanced diet, watch your portion sizes and be physically active.’
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Top of the list is the Breatharian Diet which involves swapping food for air .
Second is the Biotyping Diet which sees slimmers try to cut their fat levels by changing their body's hormone balance through their choice of foods .
Third is the Gluten Free Diet which involves cutting out many cereals .
Fourth is the Alcorexia diet which sees people swap food for alcohol .
Fifth is the Dukan Diet which is a high protein, low carb diet .
To see more of Dr HIlary talking about the five diets on Daybreak click here .
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The Supreme Court sidestepped a sweeping decision on the use of race-conscious school admission policies, ruling Monday on the criteria at the University of Texas and whether it violates the equal protection rights of some white applicants. The justices threw the case back to the lower courts for further review. The court affirmed the use of race in the admissions process, but made it harder for institutions to use such policies to achieve diversity. The 7-1 decision avoids the larger constitutional issues. Read the decision (.PDF) Abigail Noel Fisher individually sued the flagship state university after her college application was rejected in 2008 when she was a high school senior in Sugar Land, Texas. She claims it was because she is white and that she was being treated differently than some less-qualified minority students who were accepted. In a statement after the ruling Fisher said, "I am grateful to the justices for moving the nation closer to the day when a student's race isn't used at all in college admissions." The decision comes as the justices work toward wrapping up a busy term. Among the big issues yet to be resolved: federal enforcement of the Voting Rights Act and the politically blockbuster constitutionality of same-sex marriage. The Supreme Court plans to meet again on Tuesday to issue additional opinions. In the Texas case, the school defended its policy of considering race as one of many factors, such as test scores, community service, leadership, and work experience, designed to create a diverse campus. University encouraged by decision . The university said it was encouraged by the decision. "We remain committed to assembling a student body at The University of Texas at Austin that provides the educational benefits of diversity on campus while respecting the rights of all students and acting within the constitutional framework established by the court," said school President Bill Powers. The Obama administration agreed with the school, saying to grow a nation built on differing complexions and backgrounds will depend on future leaders "who possess the understanding of diversity that is necessary to govern and defend the United States." In ruling narrowly, the court reaffirmed earlier decisions allowing for a limited use of race-conscious public policies. "The attainment of a diverse student body serves values beyond race alone, including enhanced classroom dialogue and the lessening of racial isolation and stereotypes," wrote Justice Anthony Kennedy in the majority opinion. Ex-student challenges university's affirmative action policy . But Kennedy said that such admissions programs must withstand close review. Kennedy said the "university must prove that the means chosen" to attain diversity "are narrowly tailored to that goal," adding that the highest level of legal standard must be met before institutions use diversity programs. "Strict scrutiny (of the policy) imposes on the university the ultimate burden of demonstrating, before turning to racial classification, that available, workable race-neutral alternatives do not suffice," he said. The Supreme Court in recent decades has established a three-pronged test to balance the government's interest against a constitutional right or principle, and decide which laws may go too far. These standards of review are rational basis scrutiny, heightened scrutiny, and strict scrutiny. Kennedy said the appropriate standard was not applied properly by the lower federal courts in the Fisher case. He said state universities must demonstarte to the courts that no workable race-neutral alternatives would produce the desired educational and social benefits. Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor, who are more left-leaning, agreed with the Supreme Court's five conservatives. Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas also agreed with the limited reach of the ruling, but separately suggested continuing use of diversity programs in the classroom were unconstitutional. "Although cloaked in good intentions, the university's racial tinkering harms the very people it claims to be helping," said Thomas, the court's only African-American, who himself benefited from affirmative action programs early in his academic and professional career. Only Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg disagreed with the majority's conclusion lower courts should take another look at the Fisher case. "Government actors need not be blind to to the lingering effects of an overtly discriminatory past," she said. 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The state of Texas provides for a hybrid admissions policy: Automatic acceptance to its university's main campus in Austin for in-state students finishing in the top 10 percent of their high schools, ensuring a measure of non-subjective diversity. Three-fourths of the in-state student body get in this way. Fisher just missed that opportunity, so had to compete in a separate pool of students seeking to attend the highly competitive school. It is that selection process that was before the court. The school, with 52,000 students, has touted its "holistic" policy of considering race as one of many factors. African-Americans in Texas as a whole represent about 12 percent of the overall population, but only make up about 5 or 6 percent of University of Texas admissions. The high court will get another crack at the issue this fall in a separate appeal. 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Decision involving the University of Texas affirms the use of race in college admissions .
But 7-1 ruling makes it harder for institutions to justify diversity in certain cases .
Supreme Court case involved white student who sued after application was rejected .
The school defends its policy of considering race as one of many factors in admissions .
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By . Rebecca English . PUBLISHED: . 11:29 EST, 10 April 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 19:53 EST, 10 April 2012 . Prince William is mourning the loss of his former flying instructor who has been killed in a motorbike crash. The Duke of Cambridge yesterday extended his ‘deepest sympathy’ to the grieving family of James Hassell, 36, a Warrant Officer Class 2 with the elite Wild Cat Fielding Team, which is based at RNAS Yeovilton in Somerset. The respected Army Air Corps Lynx helicopter pilot was selected to teach the prince on a fast-track flying course four years ago. Skilled: Pilot James Hassell, 36, was trusted to teach the future King of England Prince William how to fly . Mourning: Prince William, seen during his flight training, was saddened by news of the death of his former instructor James Hassell . Nicknamed ‘Safe Hands’ due to his . goalkeeping skills, he taught William about the tactics and skills . required by military pilots when he joined the RAF on a four-month . attachment. WO2 Hassell from Chipping Campden, . Gloucestershire, died last month when his motorbike was involved in a . collision with a truck in Faringdon, Oxfordshire. A military funeral was . held on March 26. A spokesman for the Prince said . yesterday: ‘The Duke of Cambridge has been informed of the sad news and . his thoughts are with Mr Hassell’s family.’ Other friends and family paid tribute to WO2 Hassell, who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan. His close friend and fellow pilot Matt . Webb, 36, revealed that he managed to keep his cool when jokers tried . to disrupt his tutoring of the prince. He said: ‘He had carefully prepared a . day’s presentation for the prince when one of his friends wiped it from . his computer as a practical joke – but he still managed to deliver the . mission orders perfectly from memory. ‘His goalkeeping skills earned him the . nickname ‘Safe Hands’ – a name which followed him into his flying . career as he was a consummate professional.’ Tragic: The death of Major Alexis Roberts, left, who was killed instantly, left Prince William, right, 'deeply saddened' His stepfather, Pat Salter, from . Taddington, Gloucestershire, added: ‘When we found out our lad was . teaching the future King we were shaking in our boots. ‘At the funeral I asked his captain . “Why James?” and he said, “We couldn’t afford a cock-up and he was the . only one for the job”.’ At the time of the accident WO2 Hassell and his wife of 12 years, Lily, were about to buy their first home together. William also lost his much admired . Army mentor from Sandhurst, Major Alexis Roberts, 32, who died in an . explosion in Afghanistan in 2007. The married father of two, of 1st . Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles, was in charge of a 30-vehicle convoy . negotiating a stretch of road nicknamed ‘IED alley’ when the fatal blast . occurred.
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James Hassell, 36, who was hand picked to hone the future King's skills, died after colliding with a lorry .
Prince mourning death of his second military instructor in just a few years .
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By . Corey Charlton . A former teen tearaway with more than 50 convictions for violent crime has been crowned the country’s top student after miraculously turning her life around. Natalie Atkinson, 25, did six stints in secure children’s homes and seven terms in prison during a chaotic eight-year spell which saw her locked-up with rapists, murderers and drug-dealers. But in a remarkable tale of redemption she has now gained a degree in Criminology with first class honours and is preparing to start her Masters at the London School of Economics. She first . got into trouble aged 12, quit school in year nine and fell out with her . family, leading her into a life of foster care, self-harm and alcohol . dependency. 'I . was out of control. I was drinking all the time and fighting. I had a . lot of built up anger, a lot of upset. I started falling out with my . family and I ended up in the care system. Natalie Atkinson proudly gained first class honours for her Criminology dissertation, despite teenage years being spent in a life of crime and violence which started at the age of 12 . 'After a few years I got sick of finding myself in the same situation and decided things need to change. 'I had a lot of supportive people around me and class myself as lucky. Not everyone has that support.' Natalie had many run-ins with the police and earned more than 50 criminal convictions, mostly for assault and battery. After landing a job with a housing association aged 21, she then made the most of her troubled past by taking up a degree in Policing, Investigation and Criminology at the University of Cumbria. Amazingly, despite leaving school a decade earlier she gained first-class honours, scoring 95 per cent in her dissertation. The brainy student is now set to take on a Master’s degree in Criminology at the London School of Economics (LSE), one of the world’s best universities. Ms Atkinson, from Lancaster, is now an activist for troubled teens and recently presented BBC3 documentary Banged Up and Left to Fail. Ms Atkinson's academic success has capped off a remarkable turnaround in her life and she now believes 'anything is achievable' The show highlights the plight of youngsters going through the criminal justice system and their lack of prospects. On . July 11, the inspirational graduate was crowned the National Union of . Students (NUS) Endsleigh Student of the Year during a ceremony at . Bolton’s Macron Football Stadium. She said: 'It’s amazing and to be honest I am still in shock. 'I have gone from being a prolific offender living a chaotic lifestyle to living a settled and happy life, so if I can do it then anyone can. 'Looking back, if someone had said to me a few years ago that in 2014 you will be graduating with a first class honours degree, moving to London to commence a Master’s degree and looking forward to a successful career, I would have laughed, but this is my life. 'If you set your mind to it anything is achievable, but it is up to you to make the changes that need to be made. 'All you need to do is take little steps to begin with and you will see things changing. Everyone will have a different path to desistance, you just need to find yours.' The BBC documentary Banged Up and Left To Fail sees Natalie attempt to tackle Britain’s re-offending problem. In the hour-long programme she meets jailed young offenders while also liaising with MP Jeremy Wright, Minister for Prisons. Natalie added: 'Returning to education was one of the biggest challenges I had to overcome. 'When I first started University I was so nervous that I would not fit in, as I thought everyone would know I am an ex-offender and that I would not be able to do the work.' University of Cumbria Student Union Chief Executive Daryl Ormerod commented: 'Natalie’s story is compelling, and her ongoing commitment to developing herself so that she may in turn help others as she has been helped, is simply inspiring. 'We are proud to have her amongst our membership, and wish her well for what I am sure will be a highly successful future.'
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Found a job at age 21 and turned her life around by studying - gaining a first-class degree in Policing, Investigation and Criminology .
Former hell-raiser said she realised her life needed to change and believes 'if you set your mind to it, anything is achievable'
Now about to start her Masters degree at the London School of Economics and is the presenter for BBC3 documentary Banged Up and Left to Fail .
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A group of 23 students has filed a federal complaint against Columbia University alleging the school failed to protect victims of sexual assault, according to a statement from the students. The complaint alleges the Ivy League university discouraged students from reporting sexual assaults, allowed perpetrators to remain on campus, sanctioned inadequate disciplinary actions for perpetrators and discriminated against students based on their sexual orientation, according to a statement from the students who are calling themselves Our Stories CU. The students collectively filed the complaint Thursday with the U.S. Department of Education, alleging violations of Title II, Title IX and the Clery Act against Columbia and Barnard College, the affiliated women's school. Title II is a part of the Americans With Disabilities Act, and Title IX is part of the Higher Education Act. The Clery Act is a federal law that requires colleges and universities across the United States to disclose information about crime on and around their campuses. In a statement Friday to CNN, Columbia said it had been informed of the complaint but it had not seen it and could not comment on the allegations. "Sexual assault and gender misconduct are unacceptable, including on college and university campuses," Columbia said in a statement. "We have been working with students, faculty and staff to make that emphatically clear on our campus and have already taken the first of a series of significant new measures dedicated to preventing such sexual misconduct, supporting survivors, and improving adjudication of these painful cases." Ending rape on campus: Activism takes several forms . The students' statement described the complaint in detail, but the group refused to release any copies, saying it wanted to protect those who do not want their names publicized. As a policy, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights does not release information to the public until after a formal investigation has been opened into a complaint. "Columbia is more willing to silence and punish survivors and their supporters than serial rapists," the students said in their statement. "Because of this reality, students have decided to file ... (the complaint) to hold the university accountable for its deliberate mishandling of campus sexual violence and mental health." Their statement details multiple allegations, ranging from one student being denied mental health accommodations and another transgender student having an attack dismissed "because it didn't fit the normative 'boy-rapes-girl' narrative." "I don't trust the University to take my experience or my safety more seriously than they take their own public image," one complainant said in the students' statement. Zoe Ridolfi-Starr, a Columbia junior and lead complainant, told CNN on Friday that activists from universities across the country offered plenty of advice and support to the group, saying, "It's absolutely a national issue." Ridolfi-Starr said she was sexually assaulted the summer after her freshman year at Columbia and said the primary goal of the complaint is to pressure the university to make reforms. Ridolfi-Starr said that four more students reached out to her Friday asking to join in the complaint and that the group plans to file an addendum over the next few days. The students' actions come on the heels of a similar complaint against Harvard University in early April. The Harvard Crimson, the university's daily student newspaper, published an open letter from a student citing repeated misconduct on the part of administrators after reporting a sexual assault. 55 colleges under investigation over handling sexual violence complaints .
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Twenty-three students allege Columbia University failed to protect victims of sexual assault .
Complaint filed with U.S. Department of Education also includes Barnard College .
Columbia says it hasn't seen complaint, can't comment on allegations .
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(CNN) -- U.S. President Barack Obama won a battle against Somali pirates. But does he really want to go to war? The USS Bainbridge tows a lifeboat in which the captain of the Maersk Alabama was held hostage. You may have seen the headlines in the last few days: a Somali pirate attack and hostage-taking ended with a precision operation by U.S. snipers and a successful rescue. Somali pirates have been the scourge of the Horn of Africa for years. They've attacked dozens of ships and taken hundreds of hostages from several countries. The attack on the Maersk Alabama was the first on an American ship. But when it was over, Obama made a particularly broad pledge. "We are resolved to halt the rise of piracy in that region," Obama said. "We're going to have to continue to work with our partners to prevent future attacks. We have to continue to be prepared to confront them when they arise." See an interactive map of 2009 pirate attacks off the Horn of Africa » . Experts say that means addressing the anarchy ashore which allows the pirates to operate. Somalia is a failed state, where lawlessness is a license for every kind of criminal enterprise. James Christodoulou of Industrial Shipping Enterprises Corporation told CNN that if the US wants to do something about piracy, it has to "go to Somalia and deal with the cause there. Whether it's with bullets or butter, the solution lies on land not at sea." The U.S. tried once before to impose order in Somalia, with disastrous results. It led a humanitarian mission to oversee the delivery of food aid that turned into an armed operation against local warlords. More than 40 U.S. personnel were killed before U.S. forces withdrew. That's the challenge facing the leader of every nation whose ships have fallen prey to the pirates. An international effort has been underway to patrol the troubled waters. The French navy has been particularly active. But no one has rushed onto Somali soil. The Obama administration is already managing wars in two countries. Wait and see whether it's really willing to risk a third.
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President Barack Obama says U.S. is committed to tackling piracy off Somalia .
Hostage captain of U.S. cargo ship rescued in U.S. Navy operation this week .
But experts say tackling piracy on seas means tackling failed state of Somalia .
With wars in two countries, is Obama willing to risk getting involved in another?
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Stretching into the distance under grey skies, the only signs of life on this deserted Spanish highway are the occasional lone cyclist or pack of stray dogs. The MP-203 in Madrid has remained unfinished for six years - despite initial investment of 70 million euro in the shelved project in recession-hit Spain. Weeds can be seen growing on the surface of the abandoned route today, as it emerged the Eurozone has slumped into its longest recession ever. Weeds: An unused toll plaza on the unfinished Spanish highway is seen today, as it emerged the Eurozone has slumped into its longest recession ever . Construction workers downed tools six years ago when the 12.5km route was 70 per cent complete, due to issues with the Madrid-Barcelona high speed railway and the connection to Spain's R-3 highway. These images reveal how the project - intended to relieve congestion on the Barcelona highway (A-2) - has fallen into decline, on a day of further economic blows to the beleaguered Eurozone. Figures showed economic activity . across the region has fallen for the sixth quarter in a row - longer . than the calamitous slump that hit the region in the financial crisis of . 2008-9. Deserted: A bush grows in the middle of the surface of the unfinished highway in Madrid . Road to nowhere: Dogs wander along the MP-203 highway, which has remained unfinished for the past six years despite an initial investment of 70 million euro . Incomplete: The unfinished highway, which was devised to decongest the Barcelona highway, is cut into a cliff near Mejorada del Campo . Haunting: People ride their bikes along a road that crosses underneath the unfinished MP-203 highway . Decline: Goats are shepherded across a side road of the MP-203 near Mejorada del Campo, Spain . Shelved: Graffiti decorates a tunnel underneath the highway, which was abandoned six years ago while only 70 per cent complete . Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, . said today that nine of the 17 eurozone countries are in recession, . with France a notable addition to the list. Overall, the euro region's economy contracted 0.2 percent in the January-March period from the previous three months. Though it represents an improvement . on the previous quarter's 0.6 percent decline, it's another unwelcome . landmark for the single currency bloc as it grapples with a debt crisis . which has forced governments to slash spending and raise taxes. These austerity measures have inflicted severe economic pain and social unrest. Unemployment across the eurozone is . currently at a record of 12.1 percent - in some countries, such as . Greece, it's as high as 27.2 percent. Though this recession is not nearly . as deep as the one in 2008-9, it is the longest in the history of the . euro, which was launched in 1999. A recession is officially defined as . two straight quarters of negative growth. Deserted: A bush grows in the middle of the surface of the unfinished highway in Madrid . Barren: The multi-million euro highway was intended to provide a new route for thousands of Spanish motorists . Ghost road: Instead of cars and trucks, the highway is used by wandering sheep, dogs and goats who feed along the roadside . Sign of the times: A lone cyclist rides his bike along the MP-203 in Madrid on the same day it was confirmed that economic activity across the Eurozone has fallen for the sixth consecutive quarter . Strays: Goats stand along the roadside on the abandoned MP-203 near Mejorada del Campo, Spain . Graffiti: Unused construction materials have been painted over with graffiti in Madrid . Empty: An toll plaza stands empty of vehicles along the incomplete 12.5km route .
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MP-203 highway project in Madrid has remained unfinished for six years .
70 million euro was ploughed into the project between 2005 and 2007 .
Shelved due to issues over Madrid's high-speed railway .
Deserted road used only by stray dogs, goats and sheep .
Images capture ghost road as Eurozone slumps into longest ever recession .
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(CNN) -- On a cooler-than-usual summer evening in Los Angeles, Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, A.J. McClean and Kevin Richardson -- aka the Backstreet Boys -- got back to what made them famous: singing and dancing in front of hoards of screaming (mostly female) pop music fans. The free concert closed out The Grove's 2013 Summer Concert Series, a month-long promotion that included performances by Sara Evans and Capital Cities in previous weeks. The Boys' 35-minute set attracted 17,500 fans. The performance comes just one day after the release of the band's latest studio album, "In A World Like This" -- they released two additional albums without Kevin Richardson -- and continues their 20th anniversary celebration, which includes receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, an upcoming documentary film and a world tour that kicks off Friday, August 2 in Chicago. With more than 130-million album sales worldwide, the Backstreet Boys know they are the best-selling boy band of all time, but they also know this one-time golden statistic has, to a degree, lost its sheen amid the music's industry's new measures of success: ticket sales, sponsorships, downloads, clicks, tweets and Likes. By this standard, the Boys are not quite back. With ages ranging from 33 (Carter) to 41 (Richardson), any one of the Backstreet Boys could have been Justin Bieber's much older brother, if not his father -- and it's not missed on the guys just how big a difference one generation can make. In a candid and revealing turn, the men of the Backstreet Boys offer their take on music in the age of YouTube, react to the "haters" and explain why starting their careers in schools, malls and pet stores was just right for them. CNN: Describe your new album in a word. Brian Littrell: Growth. Howie Dorough: Timeless. A.J. McLean: Truth. Nick Carter: Comfortable. Kevin Richardson: Inspired. CNN: You have a lot of fans -- and a lot of haters out there. What do you say to those that question your cool factor, relevance and place in the music industry? Carter: We never thought we were cool. Richardson: We never claimed to be cool. McLean: We never said that. Carter: We're just guys that love music. Richardson: We love music. We do what we love and have fun and enjoy it, and put out positive vibes and energy. Yeah man, just create! Carter: We worked hard to get where we are now. We busted our asses. It's been 20 years, you know? The grassroots approach starting overseas. Starting in Germany when America didn't want to have any association with us. Littrell: There was no Internet, you know? You couldn't just toss your music up in the air and let it stick somewhere. CNN: Things were very different in the music business 20 years ago. What's been the biggest challenge? Richardson: If you want to have a long career in this industry, it's a given that there will be waves -- highs and lows -- like a boat rocking on the ocean. It goes up and down and up and down. Knowing that and working through it and riding through it is what sustains you. As well as your fans. McLean: We don't ever settle. We always try to set new goals for every album cycle. From the music to the producers to what we actually want to sing about, write about. And keep trying to push the limits of who we are and who we want to keep being and grow into. Backstreet Boys will never settle. CNN: Your first album came out in 1996, but you're calling this your 20-year anniversary. What happened in '93? Richardson: That's when we formed. We got signed in '94, beginning of '95, but the five of us got together in '93. Between when we got together and when we got signed, we went on the road and did a school tour in a van. 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Backstreet Boys are celebrating their 20th anniversary .
They are the best-selling boy band of all time .
Their new album is in stores now, and a tour starts today .
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By . Wil Longbottom . Last updated at 11:01 AM on 10th September 2011 . Michael Jackson's family arranged to secretly fly him out of the U.S. if he was found guilty of child molestation charges, it has been revealed. Jermaine Jackson said a private jet financed by a friend was on standby to whisk the King of Pop to Bahrain if Michael was convicted in his 2005 court case. The former Jackson 5 member said his younger brother was not aware of the escape plot, but would have agreed to flee America 'in a heartbeat' because he would not have survived in jail. Escape route: Michael Jackson, with brother Jermaine on the right and father Joe, left, at his child molestation trial in 2005. Jermaine has revealed a plot to whisk Michael to Bahrain if he was convicted . In an interview with The Times Magazine, Jermaine said: 'If they were going to sit and crucify my brother for something that he didn't do, America deserves us not to come back here. 'At the end of the day, this is supposed to be the land of the brave, home of the free, democracy, freedom of speech. 'The way they were treating him, none of that existed. Why should he go to jail for something he didn't do?' High profile: Los Angeles Superior Court has released the juror questionnaire for the trial of Conrad Murray, Michael's private doctor, on charges of manslaughter . Denial: Conrad Murray is accused of administering a fatal dose of the anaesthetic propofol which contributed to the King of Pop's death in June 2009 . In June 2005, Michael was found not guilty of all charges after a four-month trial. He had been accused of molesting Gavin Arvizo, then 13, giving him alcohol and plotting to kidnap him and his family. Jermaine, 56, describes in his book - You Are Not Alone: Michael Through A Brother's Eyes - that he made a phone call to guarantee the flight to Bahrain was still available. He also revealed he would revoke his own U.S. citizenship if Michael was convicted and would help to move his entire family to Bahrain - which does not have an extradition treaty with the U.S. It comes after details of the jury questionnaire in the manslaughter trial of Michael's private doctor, Conrad Murray, were revealed. Among 113 questions to potential jurors, the judge has asked how much attention they have paid to high-profile cases in the media, TMZ reported. They include: . Family act: The Jackson 5 - from left, Tito, Marlon, Michael, Jackie and Jermaine, perform during the 'Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour' in 1972 . Public opinion: A man holds up signs supporting Dr Murray outside the Criminal Courts building in Los Angeles. They have been fears raised over whether he can get a fair trial . Refuge? The plot would have seen Michael flown to Bahrain, where Jermaine Jackson was working during his 2005 trial, in a private jet . The questionnaire also asks jurors whether they know any of the potential witnesses, including Michael's siblings Janet and La Toya, as well as his children Paris, Prince and Blanket. Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009, from an overdose of the anaesthetic propofol complicated by other medications. Authorities have accused Murray of administering the fatal dose in the bedroom of Jackson's rented mansion. He denies the charges. Murray could face four years in prison if convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Opening statements are scheduled to begin on September 27.
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"he was found guilty of child molestation charges,",
"it has been revealed. Jermaine Jackson said a",
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"was convicted in his 2005 court case. The former",
"Jackson 5 member said his younger brother was not",
"aware of the escape plot, but would have agreed",
"to flee America 'in a heartbeat' because he would",
"not have survived in jail. Escape route: Michael",
"Jackson, with brother Jermaine on the right and",
"father Joe, left, at his child molestation trial",
"in 2005. Jermaine has revealed a plot to whisk",
"Michael to Bahrain if he was convicted . In an",
"interview with The Times Magazine, Jermaine said:",
"'If they were going to sit and crucify my brother",
"for something that he didn't do, America deserves",
"us not to come back here. 'At the end of the day,",
"this is supposed to be the land of the brave,",
"home of the free, democracy, freedom of speech.",
"'The way they were treating him, none of that",
"existed. Why should he go to jail for something",
"he didn't do?' High profile: Los Angeles Superior",
"Court has released the juror questionnaire for",
"the trial of Conrad Murray, Michael's private",
"doctor, on charges of manslaughter . Denial:",
"Conrad Murray is accused of administering a fatal",
"dose of the anaesthetic propofol which",
"contributed to the King of Pop's death in June",
"2009 . In June 2005, Michael was found not guilty",
"of all charges after a four-month trial. He had",
"been accused of molesting Gavin Arvizo, then 13,",
"giving him alcohol and plotting to kidnap him and",
"his family. Jermaine, 56, describes in his book -",
"You Are Not Alone: Michael Through A Brother's",
"Eyes - that he made a phone call to guarantee the",
"flight to Bahrain was still available. He also",
"revealed he would revoke his own U.S. citizenship",
"if Michael was convicted and would help to move",
"his entire family to Bahrain - which does not",
"have an extradition treaty with the U.S. It comes",
"after details of the jury questionnaire in the",
"manslaughter trial of Michael's private doctor,",
"Conrad Murray, were revealed. Among 113 questions",
"to potential jurors, the judge has asked how much",
"attention they have paid to high-profile cases in",
"the media, TMZ reported. They include: . Family",
"act: The Jackson 5 - from left, Tito, Marlon,",
"Michael, Jackie and Jermaine, perform during the",
"'Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour' in 1972 . Public",
"opinion: A man holds up signs supporting Dr",
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"Los Angeles. They have been fears raised over",
"whether he can get a fair trial . Refuge? The",
"plot would have seen Michael flown to Bahrain,",
"where Jermaine Jackson was working during his",
"2005 trial, in a private jet . The questionnaire",
"also asks jurors whether they know any of the",
"potential witnesses, including Michael's siblings",
"Janet and La Toya, as well as his children Paris,",
"Prince and Blanket. Michael Jackson died on June",
"25, 2009, from an overdose of the anaesthetic",
"propofol complicated by other medications.",
"Authorities have accused Murray of administering",
"the fatal dose in the bedroom of Jackson's rented",
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(CNN) -- Thirteen Galveston, Texas, police officers have been disciplined in connection with a brawl last year between officers and wedding guests. Houston Astros pitcher Brandon Backe was among the wedding guests arrested in the brawl. The fracas led to the arrest of 13 people, including Houston Astros pitcher Brandon Backe. Nine officers will be suspended, with the lengths of time ranging from two to seven days, and four will receive written reprimands in connection with the October 5 disturbance. The disciplinary actions stem from the violation of Galveston police administrative procedures, which stymied investigators trying to determine whether rules about the use of force had been violated. In the end, police said, the officers heeded the department's rules on the use of force but not on recording details of what happened. The incident centered around the drunk and disorderly behavior of Daniel Cole O'Balle, 19, who had been attending his sister's wedding at a convention center, police said. During the wedding reception, O'Balle became inebriated and at the end of the reception, "instigated a confrontation" with a security guard when he tried to take beer from the center, police said. The guard later spotted O'Balle with a beer at the San Luis Hotel bar H2O and called police, authorities said. O'Balle "was, in violation of Texas law, permitted to consume alcoholic beverages to the point of becoming highly intoxicated," police said. O'Balle's attempts to take beer from the convention center was also in violation of the law, authorities said. "This comprehensive review has revealed that this incident, and the resulting arrests, was instigated by the actions of a single individual. This individual exercised extremely poor judgment and, if he had been properly supervised by his parents and not allowed to violate the law, this incident likely could have been avoided in its entirety," police said in a news release announcing the disciplinary action. Under Texas law, a minor can consume alcohol "if they are in the visible presence of, and have the consent of their adult parent, legal guardian or spouse." Police said O'Balle became "belligerent" when an officer confronted him and that he became "aggressive toward and noncompliant with" the officer. More officers showed up and others with the wedding party interfered to keep officers from arresting O'Balle, who threw punches at the officers, police said. About 30 police officers responded, and a large crowd eventually gathered. CNN affiliate KHOU-TV in Houston said police used pepper spray and electrical shock Tasers to detain and arrest 13 people, including Backe. KHOU said Backe was charged with interfering with a police officer. A mug shot of the Astros pitcher shows bruises on his face. Police gave the following account of what happened, based on an internal investigation: . "When Lt. Joel Caldwell arrived, he determined that the crowd was so out of control that it was necessary to clear the bar to re-establish order. Accordingly, Lt. Caldwell ordered a tactical crowd control line was formed to clear the bar. "As officers instructed people to leave the bar, more individuals, some of whom were intoxicated, became belligerent and refused to leave when asked to do so," the account continued. "Those individuals who refused to leave peaceably or were otherwise disorderly, and those who appeared to officers to be intoxicated, were taken into custody for their violations." KHOU said police charged O'Balle with three counts of assault on a public servant and one charge of retaliation. Police said arrests were "based on probable cause" and that any force they used was a proper reaction to confront "resistance or interference." "No officer was found to have violated any departmental policies related to any arrest or any use of force," police said. The disciplinary actions are the result of an internal investigation in which 70 witnesses, suspects and officers were interviewed, documentation was examined and video was produced. Police investigators said "insufficient and inadequate reporting" by officers complicated their review of the case. There were failures by some officers and supervisors "to properly file affidavits, supplemental reports, booking reports, use of force reports and arrest warrants." The 13 disciplined officers also will be getting remedial training in documentation and reporting. "The investigators also determined that these paperwork failures, all of which occurred after the incident and related arrests, did not cause or contribute to the events in question or lead to any improper conduct by any officer in their responses to the situation presented by O'Balle and the others who were arrested," according to police. CNN's Melanie Whitley contributed to this report.
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Nine police officers face suspension for response to wedding brawl .
Four others will receive written reprimands .
Police in Galveston, Texas, announced findings of internal investigation .
Houston Astros pitcher Brandon Backe among 13 arrested .
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By . David Kent . Portugal may be relying on how he takes to the world stage in Brazil but it seems Cristiano Ronaldo can take it all in his stride - even when it involves being chased by women. The 29-year-old looked relaxed training with his national team-mates before a female pitch invader decided to take matters into her own hands if she was to meet her hero. Bodyguards had to escort the excited fan, wearing a Portugal shirt with Ronaldo on the back, off the training pitch. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Female pitch invader stopped short of reaching hero Ronaldo . Joker: Cristiano Ronaldo jokes around in training with Portugal ahead of the World Cup opener . Watch the master: The Real Madrid forward's team-mates look on as Ronaldo controls the ball . Packaged up: Ronaldo leaves training with ice on his left knee in Brazil on Thursday . It didn't stop Ronaldo from clowning around, though, as the prolific goalscorer looked in good spirits ahead of the World Cup opener against Brazil and Croatia on Thursday night. Portugal's first game is on Monday, and they couldn't have asked for a tougher draw. Ronaldo and his team-mates will face Germany in their opening match, as they bid to survive Group G alongside USA and Ghana. Gotcha: The female Portugal fan is caught by a steward while trying to meet Ronaldo during a training session in Brazil . The guard took it in good spirits as he escorted the bare-footed trespasser off the training pitch in Campinas, Brazil . Back-up: The Portugal fan is taken away by a group of stewards after trying - and failing - to meet her idol Ronaldo .
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Cristiano Ronaldo looks relaxed in training with his Portugal team-mates .
Female pitch invader runs on to the pitch desperate to meet Ronaldo, only to be stopped by stewards and escorted away .
Portugal's World Cup gets underway against Germany on Monday .
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