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Article: (CNN) -- Serbia's Novak Djokovic quickly found his feet on a court he had deemed "dangerous" to brush aside Olivier Rochus of Belgium in a Davis Cup tie in Charleroi Friday. It was the world number one's first match since winning the Australian Open last Sunday and his victory has given his country a 2-0 lead as they bid for a quarterfinal place in the World Group. The red clay surface laid in the Spiroudome de Charleroi had been the main talking point in the build up to the tie, with Djokovic, who has had little time to rest since his Melbourne triumph, tweeting: "Being extra careful here. The conditions are quite dangerous 4 all players. I know organisers did their best, but still.....worried." In the end, Djokovic's fears proved unfounded as he took just one hour 39 minutes to beat Rochus 6-3 6-2 6-2, returning to Davis Cup action after missing the 2012 edition. His teammate Viktor Troicki had a much tougher task in the opening rubber and he had to come from two sets down to beat David Goffin 1-6 3-6 7-6 6-4 6-4 in thrilling match. Read: Djokovic sets sights on Paris after Australia win . Goffin, who had been unbeaten in his three Davis Cup appearances in singles, served for the match at two sets to the good and 5-4, but allowed Troicki to break back after a series of unforced errors. The Serbian took the set on a tight tiebreak and a single break of service in each of the next two sets was enough to give him victory in just under four hours. Match referee Remy Azemar had ruled the court fit before the start of the two singles rubbers after some last-minute remedial work. The International Tennis Federation (ITF) issued a statement after Djokovic's remarks and complaints from the Serbian captain Bojan Obradovic. "Under Davis Cup regulations, it is the responsibility of the home nation to ensure a playable court surface is available for each tie. There has been some speculation that laying the temporary clay court surface on wood was a source of the problem," it read. "The ITF would like to thank the Federation Royale Belge de Tennis for their response to our requests and their efforts over the last 24 hours to ensure that the court is fit for play and we look forward to a weekend of exciting Davis Cup tennis." Holders Czech Republic ended the first day of their rubber with Switzerland in Geneva tied at 1-1. Stanislas Wawrinka, who pushed Djokovic all the way in a five-set epic in Australia, gave the home side the lead with a straight sets win over Lukas Rosol. Wawrinka, leading the Swiss in the absence of Roger Federer, beat Rafael Nadal's conqueror at Wimbledon last year 6-4 6-3 6-4. But Tomas Berdych drew the Czechs level with a four sets win over 20-year-old Henri Laaksonen. Berdych dropped the third set to the promising home player but prevailed 6-3 6-2 6-7 6-1. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Novak Djokovic beats Olivier Rochus in straight sets . Gives Serbia 2-0 first day lead over Belgium in Davis Cup . Djokovic playing first match since winning Australian Open . Holders Czech Republic level at 1-1 against Switzerland .

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Article: By . Tom Gardner . PUBLISHED: . 18:22 EST, 9 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 18:35 EST, 9 August 2013 . A Pakistani father has told how he faces death threats and has been driven into hiding - because of his 30ins moustache. Islamist extremists were so infuriated by Malik Amir Mohammad Khan Afridi's facial hair they kidnapped the businessman and held him in a cave for a month until he shaved. But despite his clash with the militants over his prized whiskers - said to signify virility and prosperity - the father-of-ten, from Peshawar, Pakistan, has now grown it back, vowing never to be bowed by the thugs again. Target: Mr Afridi has vowed not to remove his cherished moustache - despite death threats and kidnapping by Islamic extremists . Mr Afridi said: 'I don’t like smoking. I’m not fond of snuff, or drinking. This is the . only choice in my life. I’d even sacrifice food, but not the moustache. It’s my life. It’s not part of my life. It is my life. 'People give me a lot of respect. It’s my identity.' The moustache has been a passion of Mr Afridi's since he started growing it aged 22. He now spends 30 minutes a day . caressing and trimming the moustache. The costs of coconut oil and soap . used to maintain it comes to an eye-watering £100 a month. But despite the cost, the death threats, the constant fear of attack and having to spend long periods away from his family, it is all worth it, he insists. 'I feel happy. When it’s ordinary, no one gives me any attention. I got used to all the attention and I like it a lot.' Danger: The father-of-ten, 48, could now seek asylum to get away from the dangers posed by extremists opposed to his facial hair . Pride in his appearance: Mr Afridi, pictured visiting a barber shop in Peshawar, Pakistan, spends 30minutes a day tending to his flowing moustache . But Mr Afridi came to the attention of . militant group Lashkar-e-Islam, which controlled swathes of the Kyber . district of Parkistan, near the border with Afghanistan. The group was was trying to enforce a strict decree that moustaches and beards must be shaved or trimmed short. When he refused to pay protection money to the group, he was held prisoner in a cave until he shaved. Having just escaped with his life, Mr . Afridi began regrowing his moustache in what he thought was the . relative safe haven city of Peshawar. But he began receiving threats . again last year. He has now been forced to leave his family for long periods of time and move south to Faisalabad where he feels safer. Close shave: Mr Afridi was held in a cave for a month by militants who demanded he shave . Mr Afridi hopes his moustache could be a ticket for him and his family to flee the persecution. He told The Independent: 'I want to live, that is why I want to get out of Pakistan. 'My first choice would be an Islamic country such as Dubai. 'But I also willing to go to . countries such as the US, Canada or Britain. I would like to appeal to . the British government to help me.' Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Malik Amir Mohammad Khan Afridi kidnapped by Islamists over his facial hair . Father of ten, from Peshawar, was held in a cave for a month . Terrorists threatened to kill him if he didn't shave . But the 48-year-old has vowed to stand firm against threats . He is seeking asylum and has now appealed to British government for help .

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Article: (EW.com) -- Fox is pulling "Ben and Kate" from its schedule. Yes, both of them! The move comes after ABC blinked first, yesterday yanking its lowest-rated Tuesday comedy, "Don't Trust the B—- in Apt. 23.," and doubling down on "Happy Endings." Now Fox is shuffling its Tuesday comedy block, removing Ben and Kate and instead airing two episodes of "Raising Hope" starting next week. Fox says the remaining "Ben and Kate" episodes will air at some point (there are six left). Given "Ben and Kate's" ratings, the move wasn't a surprise (if anything, some were shocked the show received an order for additional episodes last fall). This isn't one of those decisions where you say, "The network didn't give it a chance." 'Mad Men' season 6 premiere: April 7 . Doubling up on "Hope" through February will make room for the return of Hell's Kitchen, which will now launch March 12 at 8 p.m. and lead into "New Girl" and "The Mindy Project." The network emphasized these changes should not be taken as a bad sign for Hope, noting they plan to give the comedy a one-hour season finale following American Idol on Thursday, March 28. 'New Girl' react: Murder, he wrote? Even when including seven days of DVR playback, "Ben and Kate" averages only 3.1 million viewers and a 1.5 rating this season. Fellow Fox newcomer "Mindy Project" has fared better, with 3.8 million and a 2.0 rating. Returning comedy "Raising Hope" ties Mindy with 4.5 million and a 2.0 rating. While sophomore sensation New Girl tops them all with 6 million and a 3.3 rating. Over on ABC, "Apt. 23" has 3.6 million and a 1.5 rating while "Happy Endings" has 4.5 million and a 1.7. If you're wondering how NBC's Tuesday comedies stack up, "Go On" has 7.5 million and a 2.9 rating; "New Normal" averages 5.8 million and a 2.4. See the original article at EW.com. CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly . © 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Fox is pulling "Ben and Kate" from its schedule . ABC blinked first, yanking its Tuesday comedy "Don't Trust the B—- in Apt. 23" Fox says the remaining "Ben and Kate" episodes will air at some point .

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Article: President Barack Obama met Wednesday with Hillary Clinton, his former secretary of state and potential Democratic successor, for about an hour in the Oval Office, a White House official said. The event was not on Obama's schedule, and details on what the two discussed were scant. "As is well known, President Obama and Secretary Clinton enjoy getting together in person on a regular basis. This afternoon they met privately in the Oval Office for about an hour to catch-up and enjoy an informal discussion on a wide range of issues," the White House official said. Nick Merrill, Clinton's spokesman, told CNN in an email that her camp will "defer to the White House on any details." It's the first time the two have met in person since August, when they both attended a party at the Martha's Vinyard home of Vernon Jordan, an aide to former President Bill Clinton. Obama was vacationing there with his family, and Clinton was there for a book signing event. More recently, Clinton has backed Obama's decision to overhaul immigration rules and forestall deportations for the undocumented parents of U.S. citizens through executive action. Clinton, who lost to Obama during the hard-fought 2008 battle for the Democratic presidential nomination, is expected to make a decision about whether she'll run again in early 2015. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Hillary Clinton visited President Barack Obama for about an hour in the Oval Office on Wednesday . The White House described the visit as informal and didn't offer details on what the two discussed .

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Article: By . Ben Spencer . The remarkable ability of pigeons to navigate with pinpoint accuracy has baffled scientists for centuries. But now researchers think they may have part of the answer - the birds follow hedges. Scientists from Oxford University found that homing pigeons' ability to remember routes depends on the complexity of the landscape below. Complex: As well as using hedges, pigeons are believed to be able to orient homeward from distant unfamiliar places using a mysterious system thought to involve smells and an inbuilt solar compass . While open fields are devoid of landmarks, and cities are too crowded, hedges provide ideal landmarks for navigation, they found. The researchers, whose work is published in the journal Biology Letters, released 31 pigeons from four sites around Oxford for an average of 20 flights each. Dr Richard Mann, who has since moved from Oxford to Uppsala University in Sweden, said: 'Looking at how quickly they memorise different routes, we see that that visual landmarks play a key role. 'Pigeons have a harder time remembering routes when the landscape is too bland like a field or too busy like a forest or dense urban area. 'The sweet spot is somewhere in between - relatively open areas with hedges, trees or buildings dotted about. 'Boundaries between rural and urban areas are also good.' Scientists are fascinated about how pigeons learn to find their way because the birds have such small brains. Urban: Despite being home to the majority of the UK's pigeons, cities such as London (pictured) are actually too bustling and full of landmarks for the birds to be able to navigate to the best of their ability . Whatever method they use makes highly efficient use of their limited mental processing power. Memorising the route, however, is only part of the process. Pigeons are also able to orient homeward from distant unfamiliar places, using a mysterious system thought to involve smells and an inbuilt solar compass. Cracking the mystery could allow the same processes to be installed in machines and robots. Tim Guilford, professor of animal behaviour at Oxford University, said: 'There may be certain rules that free-flying birds use to structure information that enable them to map the environment using their limited brain power. 'Fundamentally understanding how they do this will tell us more about their abilities and limitations, and could reveal methods that robots with limited processing power might use to navigate.' He added: 'We mainly use pigeons for studies like this because we can be confident that they will bring back the GPS devices with the data. With wild birds, there is a real risk that we won't get the equipment and data back, but fundamentally we expect them to use similar navigational methods.' Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Scientists from Oxford University say pigeons use hedges to find their way . Cities are too busy and fields too empty, so hedges make perfect markers . Bland landscapes have a negative impact on a pigeon's ability to navigate .

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Article: By . Lucy Waterlow . PUBLISHED: . 14:36 EST, 20 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 16:17 EST, 20 February 2013 . Cara Delevingne has been the toast of London Fashion Week after gracing the catwalk for designers Burberry, Matthew Williamson and Mulberry - to name but a few - and landing her first British Vogue cover this month. With a number of lucrative modelling contracts under belt and the accolade of Model of the Year from the British Fashion Awards, the style pack have been hailing her as the new Kate Moss since she signed for the same agency, Storm, in 2009. But the 20-year-old famed for her bushy eyebrows recently told Vogue UK that her rise to become model of the moment has come as something as a shock to her - and she 'can't believe' she's so in demand in the world of fashion. Runway star: Cara Delevingne at London Fashion Week for Burberry, left, and Matthew Williamson, right . In demand: The model with designer Daniella Helayel at the Issa London show . 'My mum was into fashion and so . were my two sisters. I was never as into it as much but there would . always be magazines around the house and I would stare at them and be . like 'what is this?' I never understood it, fashion was very alien thing . to me,' she said. Already photogenic: Cara as a baby . With a love of drumming and fan of . dressing down in onesies and beanies, she could come across as an . unlikely super star to those uninitiated to the Delevingne family. For as Alison Boshoff wrote in Daily Mail last year: 'Apart from her beauty, there is another thing which Delevingne likes to play down: her status as a high-society sweetheart. 'For while Moss is from Croydon, and Naomi Campbell from Streatham, Delevingne hails from Chelsea, via Belgravia.' On her mother, Pandora's, side, Cara's grandfather is the former English Heritage chairman Sir Jocelyn . Stevens, founder of the 1960s pirate radio station Radio Caroline. Meanwhile her father Charles, a property-developer, had a grandfather who was a politician (Hamar, . 1st Viscount Greenwood) and his aunt, Doris Delevingne, was a society . beauty who was friends with Winston Churchill. With her parent's social standing, Cara and her older sisters Chloe and Poppy became accustomed to rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous from a young age. Joan Collins is Cara's godmother while their mother's friendship with Sarah Ferguson meant they also became close to Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie. They were all privately educated with Cara attending Frances Holland School for Girls near Sloane Square then the boarding school Bedales. It was while she was at school her potential to become a supermodel was clocked by Sarah Doukas, the CEO of Storm Model Mangagement who once plucked Moss from obscurity. Her daughter happened to be Cara's best friend. Privileged background: With her older sisters, Poppy, left, also a model, and Chloe, who were all privately educated at Britain's top schools . As Cara revealed to the Telegraph: 'I've been best-friends with Genevieve . Garner, daughter of Sarah Doukas since I . was five. Sarah saw me when she came to our school and Gen introduced . us. I had never thought about modelling before, and it just happened.' Doukas also marked Cara's older sister Poppy for success and her modelling career took off first. While Cara did the odd modelling job in her youth, Storm didn't officially sign her until 2009, when she was aged 17. By that time Poppy, six years her senior, had already made a name for herself and had starred in campaigns for Anya Hindmarch, Agent Provocateur, Diesel, Chanel and Louis Vuitton. Cara's break out campaign was for Burberry where she posed alongside another rising star - Les Mis actor Eddie Redmayne. She then became the face of Burberry in 2012. Rising stars: One of her first campaigns was for Burberry with actor Eddie Redmayne . Work with Zara, Victoria's Secret and H&M followed as well as taking to the runway for designers including Stella McCartney and becoming a magazine cover star. Now everywhere the model goes, cameras are sure to follow, as she parties with her friends such as Rihanna and Rita Ora and is usually happy to strike a kooky pose. Speculation on her love life is also rife with rumored romances with One Direction's Harry Styles and musician Jake Bugg. Carmen Borgonovo, fashion director at online boutique my-wardrobe.com explains Cara's appeal: 'She has this unique striking look, which is almost part Brigitte Bardot, but then mixed with an elfin quirkiness. There's a rarity about her look, which has put her on the map and into countless campaigns and runways.' Kooky: When not working, the 20-year-old is known for her dressed down style and larking around . Meanwhile Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman described her as: 'One of those girls who combine energy, wit, enthusiasm and the kind of edgy beauty that marks her out from the general pool of beautiful models.' But while she's currently the most sought after face in fashion, Cara has admitted she has other ambitions - acting. So while for now she's dominating catwalks and covers, it might not be long till she's also a regular on the silver screen. Eyebrows have it: Cara has been described as having 'an edgy beauty that marks her out from the general pool of beautiful models' Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Cara was born into a privileged British high society family . 20-year-old followed sister Poppy into modelling career and has been hailed as new Kate Moss . Like Moss, she was discovered by Sarah Doukas - as she was best friends with her daughter at private school . She has already become face of Burberry, graced cover of Vogue and was most in-demand catwalk model at London Fashion Week .

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Article: (CNN) -- President Obama made it very clear: The second term is all about the domestic agenda. If only the world would cooperate. Obama outlined his goals for the next four years, sketching above all a progressive vision of a country with less inequality and more justice. And, judging by his inaugural speech, he plans to put his shoulder to the wheel. After all, much of the first term was consumed with averting a national economic catastrophe. Now he can get on with building a legacy, reviving that hope and change he promised back during the 2008 campaign. But the most subtly striking part of Obama's inauguration speech was how it largely ignored the rest of the globe. In his 20-minute address, he dedicated perhaps one minute to foreign policy. America, he said, will "try and resolve our differences with other nations peacefully." He vowed the country "will remain the anchor of strong alliances" and it will support democracy. He also declared the United States "must be a source of hope for the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice..." and stand for "human dignity and justice." Opinion: Obama's ringing defense of liberalism . Beyond that, he did not spare a single word for tens of thousands killed by dictators, as they have been in Syria; nothing about the struggle for liberal democratic rights in places like Egypt, which sets the tone for the Middle East. Nothing about repression and thwarting of freedom of expression, the rollback of democratic rights, or the push to destroy existing democracies, statements that could have come as welcome words of encouragement for people who share American values of freedom and justice in places like Egypt, China, Iran, Russia or Mali. The president should keep in mind that millions around the world yearn to know they have the backing of the most powerful country on Earth. As he surely knows, even his words make a big difference. And while Obama plans to dedicate his efforts to the domestic agenda, a number of brewing international crises are sure to steal his attention and demand his time. Here are a few of the foreign policy issues that, like it or not, may force Obama to divert his focus from domestic concerns in this new term. Opinion: Obama finally meets Machiavelli . Syria unraveling: The United Nations says more than 60,000 people have already died in a civil war that the West has, to its shame, done little to keep from spinning out of control. Washington has warned that the use of chemical or biological weapons might force its hand. But the regime may have already used them. The West has failed to nurture a moderate force in the conflict. Now Islamist extremists are growing more powerful within the opposition. The chances are growing that worst-case scenarios will materialize. Washington will not be able to endlessly ignore this dangerous war. Egypt and the challenge of democracy: What happens in Egypt strongly influences the rest of the Middle East -- and hence world peace -- which makes it all the more troubling to see liberal democratic forces lose battle after battle for political influence against Islamist parties, and to hear blatantly anti-Semitic speech coming from the mouth of Mohammed Morsy barely two years before he became president. Iran's nuclear program: Obama took office promising a new, more conciliatory effort to persuade Iran to drop its nuclear enrichment program. Four years later, he has succeeded in implementing international sanctions, but Iran has continued enriching uranium, leading United Nations inspectors to find "credible evidence" that Tehran is working on nuclear weapons. Sooner or later the moment of truth will arrive. If a deal is not reached, Obama will have to decide if he wants to be the president on whose watch a nuclear weapons race was unleashed in the most dangerous and unstable part of the world. North Africa terrorism: A much-neglected region of the world is becoming increasingly difficult to disregard. In recent days, Islamist extremists took American and other hostages in Algeria and France sent its military to fight advancing Islamist extremists in Mali, a country that once represented optimism for democratic rule in Africa, now overtaken by militants who are potentially turning it into a staging ground for international terrorism. Russia repression: As Russian President Vladimir Putin succeeds in crushing opposition to his increasingly authoritarian rule, he and his allies are making anti-American words and policies their favorite theme. A recent ban on adoption of Russian orphans by American parents is only the most vile example. But Washington needs Russian cooperation to achieve its goals at the U.N. regarding Iran, Syria and other matters. It is a complicated problem with which Obama will have to wrestle. A tale of two terms: Unfinished business and battles ahead . Then there are the long-standing challenges that could take a turn for the worse, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Obama may not want to wade into that morass again, but events may force his hand. And there are the so-called "black swans," events of low probability and high impact. There is talk that China and Japan could go to war over a cluster of disputed islands. A war between two of the world's largest economies could prove devastating to the global economy, just as a sudden and dramatic reversal in the fragile Eurozone economy could spell disaster. Japan's is only the hottest of many territorial disputes between China and its Asian neighbors. Then there's North Korea with its nuclear weapons. We could see regions that have garnered little attention come back to the forefront, such as Latin America, where conflict could arise in a post-Hugo Chavez Venezuela. Four priorities for the next four years . The president -- and the country -- could also benefit from unexpectedly positive outcomes. Imagine a happy turn of events in Iran, a breakthrough between Israelis and Palestinians, the return of prosperity in Europe, a successful push by liberal democratic forces in the Arab uprising countries, which could create new opportunities, lowering risks around the world, easing trade, restoring confidence and improving the chances for the very agenda Obama described in his inaugural speech. The aspirations he expressed for America are the ones he should express for our tumultuous planet. Perhaps in his next big speech, the State of the Union, he can remember America's leadership position and devote more attention to those around the world who see it as a source of inspiration and encouragement. Obama's second-term priorities . After all, in this second term Obama will not be able to devote as small a portion of his attention to foreign policy as he did during his inaugural speech. International disengagement is not an option. As others before Obama have discovered, history has a habit of toying with the best laid, most well-intentioned plans of American presidents. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Frida Ghitis. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

President Obama devoted nearly all his Inaugural speech to domestic issues . Frida Ghitis says there are world crises that will command Obama's attention . She says turmoil in Middle East, repression in Russia, tension in Asia are urgent issues .

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Article: By . Amanda Williams . PUBLISHED: . 10:19 EST, 4 March 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 10:44 EST, 4 March 2014 . Kris Bradley wept as he was found guilty of attempted murder following a hammer attack on Matthew Probert in Lincoln . A man who smashed a promising rugby player’s skull with a claw hammer so hard that bone splinters embedded into his brain wept as he was found guilty of attempted murder today. Matthew Probert, 21, was left with 'life-changing' injuries after he was attacked by Kris Bradley, 23, after he accidentally bumped into him in a bar. Mr Probert was on a night out at the Walkabout bar in Lincoln with team mates from Scunthorpe Rugby Club celebrating a friend’s 21st birthday when he was set upon by Bradley. Pictures taken by bystanders show a dazed Mr Probert slumped on the ground with . the hammer embedded in his forehead following the brutal attack on August . 31 last year. He later told court he had no idea he had the tool stuck in his head until he was in the ambulance - when he tried to wrench it out of his skull himself. Bradley sobbed uncontrollably as he was found guilty of attempted murder following a five-day trial at Birmingham Crown Court. Bradley’s friend Daniel Burrell, 22, who supplied him with the hammer was found guilty of assisting an offender. The jury of eight men and four women returned a majority verdict after four-and-a-half hours of deliberations. A third man, Alex Taylor, 21, who was with Bradley when he attacked Mr Probert, admitted assisting an offender at an earlier hearing. The court had heard that Bradley and Taylor decided to set upon Mr Probert after a row erupted in the Walkabout bar in Lincoln city centre. The three men were booted out of the pub and continued arguing in the street before Mr Probert walked away. Bradley and Taylor then planned to 'mete out revenge' and stalked him through the streets until they corned him in an alleyway. Matthew Probert, 21, was hit with such force with the claw hammer, splinters of bone became embedded inside his brain . The court heard Bradley called Burrell and told him to bring him a hammer which he used to batter the young rugby player. Prosecutor Gordon Aspden told the jury: 'They wanted to mete out revenge. 'Kris . Bradley called Daniel Burrell and asked him for help. Daniel Burrell . drove into the city and brought with him a claw hammer. 'On arrival Kris Bradley collected that claw hammer from Burrell’s Vauxhall Corsa and hid it in the waist band of his trousers. 'While Daniel Burrell waited they then set out to find Matthew Probert with the hammer. 'They eventually found him, alone, walking in a side street. Bradley’s friend Daniel Burrell, 22, (left) who supplied him with the hammer was found guilty of assisting an offender. Alex Taylor, 21, (right) admitted assisting an offender at an earlier hearing . 'Kris . Bradley approached him from behind, followed by Alex Taylor, he took . the hammer out of the waistband of his trousers and struck Mr Probert . with it on the head. 'The . force of the blow penetrated into his skull. The two claws went through . the left side of his forehead, through his skull and into his brain. 'Matthew Probert was taken completely by surprise. He collapsed on the pavement with the hammer left inside his skull. 'Job done, Kris Bradley ran back to Daniel Burrell’s car followed by Alex Taylor.' Rugby player Matthew Probert was left with life-changing injuries, the court heard . Bradley was caught when he ran into a car and left a hand print on the bonnet. Police used the print to identify him using the national database. The . court heard Bradley and Burrell sent callous text messages to each . other just hours after the brutal attack, joking about getting . 'hammered' and having a 'smashing time'. Yesterday Bradley was remanded into custody and warned he faced a long prison sentence when he returns to court on March 31. Judge . Melbourne Inman QC said: 'Obviously whilst a prison sentence is . inevitable, it seems to me the dangerousness (of Bradley) needs to be . considered. 'This is now the fourth time you have been involved in violence and no doubt being drunk in public. 'A long custodial sentence is obviously inevitable, until then you will be remanded in custody.' Burrell and Taylor were bailed and ordered to return to court on the same day for sentencing. Mr . Probert was taken to Lincoln City Hospital before being transferred to a . neurosurgery unit at Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, with the . hammer still embedded in his skull. He . told the court he was so stunned by the ferocity of the attack he only . realised what had happened when he was in the ambulance and he tried to . wrench out the hammer by hand. In a statement read to the court, he said: 'I remember being served a drink at Walkabout, but nothing more. 'My . next memory is the handle of something sticking out of my head in the . ambulance. I tried to reach and take it out but the paramedic stopped . me. 'It was only in the hospital that a nurse told me it was a hammer.' Mr Probert, who did not attend the trial, was yesterday said to be 'delighted' with the verdict. His girlfriend Elisha Davis, 21, of Scunthorpe, said: 'Obviously we are delighted with the verdict. 'The last few months have been very difficult for Matthew but he is now in a position to be able to start to put it behind him.' Hungate in Lincoln where promising rugby star Mr Probert was attacked with the claw hammer . His . father Mark Probert, 48, said: 'We are pleased with the outcome of the . investigation into the horrific assault on my son Matthew, he could died . and even now he is struggling to come to terms with what happened to . him on the night in question. 'I . would like to thank the ambulance crew and the hospital staff who cared . for him. I am also grateful for all the hard work of the police and the . prosecution team. 'Matthew . does not wish to speak to the media but I hope to be there when the . offenders are sentenced and will issue a more detailed statement then.' Investigating officer Detective Sergeant Cunningham, of Lincolnshire Police, said: 'We are very pleased with these convictions. 'The . outcome of this case could have been very different, if you strike . someone on the head with a claw hammer there is a very high likelihood . that they will be killed or very seriously injured. 'I . would like to thank the police team, the CPS and the whole prosecution . team for their very thorough and professional work on this case.' Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Matthew Probert, 21, hit with such force bone splinters embedded in brain . Kris Bradley, 23, found quilty attacking . Mr Probert in Lincoln last year . Wept as he was convicted attempted murder at . Birmingham Crown Court .

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Article: Police have found the bodies of four women and a baby after storming a 12-acre compound controlled by thousands of devotees of Indian 'godman' Rampal Maharaj. The religious guru is wanted by police on charges that include murder and is believed to be holed up inside the sprawling compound in northern India where his followers are hiding him while they try to fight off police. When police arrived, thousands of followers fled the ashram claiming they had been held at the compound against their will. But hundreds of others used stones, petrol bombs and other weapons to try and beat back the invading police. Scroll down for video . Supporters of 'godman' Rampal Maharaj stand on a roof above Indian police during the confrontation . Some of Maharaj's supporters hurl rocks at police as the clashes turn violent. The bodies of four women and a baby were later found inside the compound . Police spray Maharaj's supporters with water cannons as they storm the 12-acre compound, despite fierce resistance . Police, armed with heavy sticks, drag a bloody man away from the scene of the violent clashes . Director general of police SN Vashisht said the bodies of four women were found at the sprawling compound but it was unclear how they died, while an 18-month-old child appeared to have died of natural causes. Another woman apparently suffering from a heart condition also died after being taken to hospital, Vashisht said. 'All dead bodies have been sent to the hospital where they will undergo a postmortem to ascertain the exact cause of their deaths.' Police stepped up their search today for the 63-year-old guru whom they believe is still holed up inside the compound spread over 12-acres. They were also checking those leaving the ashram in case Rampal, who considers himself an incarnation of the 15th-century mystic poet Kabir, was hiding in the crowd. Police yesterday stormed the ashram, which has been guarded by hundreds of followers for days after a court ordered their leader arrested on murder and other charges. Police fired water canon and tear gas and baton-charged the supporters who were armed with stones, petrol bombs and other weapons, television footage showed. Supporters of Rampal Maharaj hold a poster of him during a non-violent protest in New Dehli yesterday . A man stands up to pray during the protest. The New Dehli demonstration (pictured) was in stark contrast to the violent scenes at Maharaj's compound 170km northeast of the city . Indian police use batons and water cannons to disperse supporters at the sprawling compound . A group of police wearing helmets, padding and armed with heavy sticks, prepare to engage with Maharaj's supporters . Many people were detained by police during the clashes. Here two of Maharaj's supporters are dragged away . Maharaj is a self-styled 'godman', who believes he is a reincarnation of the 15th century mystic poet Kabir. Here, police are pictured detaining one of his supporters . Followers leaving the compound have been dropped off at nearby bus and train stations, Jashandeep Singh, the assistant police superintendent, said. 'What started as a trickle hasn't yet stopped and we have dropped off around 10,000 people at nearby bus and train stations. He added: 'The people who left the ashram mostly said that they were being held against their will, as a shield for the guru against any police action.' Police are seeking Rampal's arrest after he repeatedly refused court orders to appear to answer charges including conspiracy to murder, inciting mobs and contempt of court. India has been rocked by several scandals involving immensely popular 'godmen', mostly Hindu ascetics who claim to possess mystical powers. Last year one was charged with sexually assaulting a schoolgirl. For many Indians, gurus play an integral role in daily life. They say they offer a pathway to enlightenment in return for spiritual devotion and often give donations to ashrams, temples and charity projects. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Police find bodies of four women and a baby after storming compound . Authorities are trying to locate Indian 'godman' Rampal Maharaj . Maharaj claims to be an incarnation of the 15th-century mystic poet Kabir . His followers, armed with stones and petrol bombs, clashed with police . Police believe he is being hidden among devotees on 12-acre compound .

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Article: By . Dan Ripley . Follow @@Ripley_77 . Giuseppe Rossi's grandfather has labelled Cesare Prandelli 'a traitor' after the Italy boss excluded the striker from the World Cup squad. The Fiorentina hitman had recovered from five months out with a knee injury and featured in Italy's 0-0 draw with Republic of Ireland at Craven Cottage on Saturday. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Giuseppe Rossi training with Italy's 30 man squad . Controversial: Giuseppe Rossi's World Cup exclusion from Italy's squad was seen as a surprise by many . Firing blanks: Rossi failed to convince Cesare Prandelli of his fitness in Italy's 0-0 draw with Republic of Ireland . But Prandelli, who admits the game was decisive ahead of choosing his final squad for the tournament in Brazil, wielded the axe on the United States born star who will now miss out on his third straight international competition. Rossi's grandfather, Bruno Petrocelli, has been left fuming at the decision and let out his anger on Italian radio. He said: Two days ago Prandelli said many fine words, then 48 hours later he changed his mind. 'Prandelli . has made the biggest farce of his career, he has betrayed Rossi and did . not live to convene a player like my granddson who is in excellent . health. 'I will not be rooting for Italy, in that there are national traitors. I'll be cheering for the USA. 'It's . [Prandelli] not good enough to judge my grandson and there's nothing . more I can say. I know that my grandson's fit and he has a medical . certificate to prove it.' Angry words: Rossi's grandfather has branded Italy boss Cesare Prandelli (above) a traitor . Backing Uncle Sam: Rossi's grandfather has thrown his support behind USA for the World Cup . October 2008: Receives first cap after appearing as second half substitute in Bulgaria. June 2009: Scores first international goal in friendly against Northern Ireland. November 2010: Captains Italy for first time in friendly with Romania . Total caps: 30 . Total goals: 7 . The former Manchester United striker has already shown his unhappiness, challenging Prandelli's exclusion of him based on his fitness. Rossi said on Twitter: 'Everyone is saying I'm out of shape: ask anyone the results of the tests from last week and from the match, you will be surprised. Challenges? Fear? What a laugh.' Instead of Rossi, Italy have selected Mario Balotelli, Antonio Cassano, Alessio Cerci, Ciro Immobile and Lorenzo Insigne (Napoli) as their strikeforce as they now prepare for their opening group game against England on June 14. Rossi's latest axing is his third consecutive major tournament heartbreak since making his debut for the Azzurri in 2008. The 27 year-old was left out of Marcello Lippi's World Cup squad in 2010, where Italy as world champions crashed out in the group stage. While injury ruled Rossi out of the Prandelli's Euro 2012 squad where the Azzurri reached the final. Making the cut: Napoli striker Lorenzo Insigne is part of Italy's squad . Taking on the world: Italy took a team photo of the World Cup squad in Florence . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Bruno Petrocelli calls Cesare Prandelli's squad selection a farce . Claims Italy manager made U-turn 48 hours after saying 'fine words' Rossi's grandfather throws his support behind USA for the World Cup .

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Article: A parkour world champion gave 'free' running a new meaning as he clambered across central London's skyline with no clothes on for a photo shoot. Naked Tim Shieff scaled buildings around Oxford Street and Bond Street, leaping across rooftops for the pictures which will be sold as prints to raise money for the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation charity. Mr Shieff, a World Freerun Championship winner, bared all for the shoot which shows him leaping across buildings and dangling off bridges. Scroll down for video . Baring all: Free running world champion Tim Shieff stripped off for a naked series of photographs of him climbing across buildings in central London . Stripped off: The 26-year-old scaled buildings across the capital while wearing no clothes for a set of prints which will be sold for charity . Nude: Mr Shieff was seen running through tunnels and dangling off bridges for the shoot which took place in November last year . Naked chef: The prints will be sold to raise money for Jamie Oliver's Food Foundation charity. Mr Shieff regularly appears on the chef's YouTube channel as he is a leading figure in the vegan and raw food movements . The parkour athlete came up with the idea after holding a similar shoot in Greece, the London Evening Standard reported. It took four days last November for fellow free running expert Jason Paul to take the pictures. 'These shots would not have been possible for a normal photographer,' Mr Shieff, 26, said. 'Not only did he need to climb too, but he also understands body positioning and posture. 'It was dangerous at times. We couldn't get permission from a lot of the buildings, so while the reaction was great from people who spotted us, some security guards were not happy. 'There were moments when you learn you are stronger than you think. Many situations were life or death.' The photographs were taken by fellow free running expert Jason Paul, who had to clamber up the buildings himself to take the pictures . Mr Shieff did not have permission to climb some of the buildings, angering security guards but entertaining members of the public who spotted him climbing up some of London's finest architecture . Naked ambition: 2009 World Freerun Championship winner Mr Shieff came up with the idea after holding a similar naked shoot in Greece . The images can be purchased for between £100 and £600, with a proportion of the money going to the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation . The project aimed to compare the 'rigid and linear' structure of London's architecture with the 'curves' of the human form, Mr Paul said. The 2009 world free running champion often appears in Jamie Oliver's YouTube channel Food Tube as he is a leading figure in the vegan and raw food movements. Eight of the staggering images, costing between £100 and £600, can be bought as limited edition prints from www.beautifulcrime.com. A proportion of the money will go towards the TV chef's charity for disadvantaged children. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Free running world champion Tim Shieff pictured climbing across buildings in central London while naked . Mr Shieff, 26, braved the cold for the shoot, leaping across rooftops and dangling from bridges in the capital . Parkour athlete and a photographer did not have permission to clamber on some of the buildings in the nude . Dangerous shoot put Mr Shieff in 'life or death' situations as his strength was put to the test, he says . Money raised from selling the prints, which cost up to £600, will go towards Jamie Oliver Food Foundation .

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Article: A koala which was hit by a car and scurried up a tree before falling from it unconscious, has been saved by a firefighter who performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on it. The koala, dubbed Sean, was caught in a blanket by quick-thinking firefighters who were placed underneath the tree in the event it fell. Rescue teams from Langwarrin, in Melbourne's outer southeast, and another from Wildlife Victoria rescued the animal on Thursday night after members of the public first spotted it stuck up a tree. Scroll down for video . The koala being attended to by firefighters after it was rescued when it fell from a a tree . The koala is resting up in hospital after it was given mouth to mouth by a firefighters . They called in the rescuers who said the koala had been hit by a car before climbing up the tree. A team from the state's Country Fire Authority (CFA) arrived in a truck with an extended ladder capable of reaching the animal, but before they got to him he lost consciousness and fell to the ground. The firefighters managed to catch him in an outstretched blanket before giving Sean mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, oxygen and chest compressions by wildlife officers. Langwarrin CFA Captain Sean Curtin told Fairfax Media's 3AW it was initially thought the koala was dead in the tree. 'We believe it died in the tree, just when we were trying to rescue it.' 'Then it fell out of the tree and the members caught it in a blanket,' Mr Curtin told Fairfax Media. 'Wildlife Victoria performed mouth-to-mouth and compressions and gave it some oxygen therapy as well.' Mr Curtin told 9NEWS that the CFA had a strong connection with koalas ever since the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires which destroyed the animal's Victorian habitats. Rescue teams administer oxygen to the animal before it was taken to a Victorian animal hospital to recover . A red blanket was used to catch the koala which fell from the tree unconscious . A ladder was used to safely escort the 'Sean' out of the tree but it fell before rescuers could get to him . 'To be able to put it back in the community and have a fantastic result like that from a koala is absolutely brilliant,' Mr Curtin said. Kylie Juraschek, also of the CFA, said the crew were relieved that the animal was recovering after the ordeal and said the team had put a lot of work into his rescue. 'It is very rewarding because unfortunately we get called out to a lot of sad situations,' she said. 'It was just a very, very good feeling and pleasing to see.' The animal is receiving treatment for its injuries at a Victorian animal hospital. 'It's doing OK but it needs to assessed by a vet today. It doesn't have any visible injuries and seems to be in good shape,' a Wildlife Victoria spokeswoman said. The incident comes following the release of a koala back in to the wild after it clung for his life to the grille of a car for nearly 90kms. Nicknamed Blinky Grille, the koala arrived at the Australia Zoo Wildlife hospital four weeks ago after colliding with a car on the Bruce Highway, north of Brisbane. The animal was found at a service station near Gympie and taken into care before being released last week. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Victorian firefighters were called to rescue koala stuck up a tree . The injured koala was hit by a car before climbing the tree . Rescuers used a safety blanket to catch it after it fell to the ground . It was then given mouth-to-mouth and is recovering in an animal hospital .

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Article: (CNN) -- Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde is known as the Queen of Nollywood, Nigeria's booming movie industry. Since her 1995 film debut, the actress has appeared in some 300 movies, selling millions of videos and establishing herself as a Nollywood icon. A prolific film siren, Jalade-Ekeinde has also carved out a successful career as a singer and reality TV star. But there's more to Nigeria's beloved celebrity than her glittering entertainment career. Here are 10 things to know about Jalade-Ekeinde. She's an icon: Last year, she was named as one of the top 100 influential people in the world by Time Magazine, in the Icons category. "I think that's what gives me more satisfaction," she says. "The fact that I wasn't just recognized as an artist but as an icon -- I'm very grateful for it." She is an activist: Jalade-Ekeinde uses her stardom to speak out about social issues affecting various African countries. An ambassador for the United Nations and an activist with Amnesty International, Jalade-Ekeinde has been on missions to Sierra Leone and Liberia. She's a family woman: Jalade-Ekeinde is married to an airline pilot and is a mother of four children. The story behind "Omosexy:" Her popular nickname, "Omosexy," was given to her by her husband -- and it has caught on. "That's my husband's pet name for me," she says, "and the fans love it and now people call me Omosexy almost more than Omotola." Her fans love her: Jalade-Ekeinde has amassed a large following -- in 2013, her Facebook page has surpassed 1 million likes. Today, it's 1.2 million, and counting ... Her road to stardom was paved with childhood tragedy: Jalade-Ekeinde lost her beloved father in her early teens. She started working at 15 to help support her family, her first job being a model. Her mother didn't like the idea of her young daughter acting and initially forbade Jalade-Ekeinde from doing so. Finally, she gave in after a film director, joined by the entire movie crew, went to her house to beg her to allow Jalade-Ekeinde to appear in the "Venom of Justice" movie. She is part of "New Nollywood:" Keen to improve the quality of Nollywood movies, Jalade-Ekeinde is now building a film studio -- what she calls a "Village." "I've come to a place where I realize I have to leave something," she says. "I have to have a legacy. "We need infrastructure; that's what we need now in Nollywood. We have the fans, we have the figures, we have people chanting and calling your name but we don't have infrastructure ... We need studios, we need film villages we need schools and that's exactly what I'm doing right now." Cameras follow her around: Besides gracing the covers of several lifestyle magazines, the leading actress is also the first Nigerian with her own reality TV show, "Omotola: The Real Me." She can sing too: Jalade-Ekeinde always loved music but decided to launch her singing career after she became an activist and started working with the U.N. World Food Programme. "I started going on all these missions and I came back and I saw so much I wanted to sing about it," she explains. "I've always wanted to sing all my life anyway, but that was the motivation I needed." Read this: 10 things to know about Lupita Nyong'o . Read this: Netflix of Africa' brings Nollywood to world . Read this: Jeta Amata - 'I am Nollywood' Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Known by her fans as "Omosexy," Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde is a leading Nollywood actress . She has appeared in more than 300 movies over the years . In 2013, she was included in Time Magazine's list of the top influential people in the world . More than just a celebrity, she is a U.N. ambassador and an activist .

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Article: Scotland could break away from the rest of Britain 'by mistake', Gordon Brown warned today as he criticised the Tory government for patronising voters north of the border. The former Prime Minister warned the spectacle of minister from London issuing dire warnings about losing jobs, currency and even fish and chips created the impression that the independence debate is 'Scotland versus Britain'. Speaking at a press gallery lunch in Westminster, Mr Brown also urged David Cameron to take part in a televised debate with Alex Salmond, to the irritation of Downing Street. Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown accused Alex Salmond of making Scotland seem small on the world stage . Mr Brown has said he returning to the political frontline to protect Scotland for his children, and his children’s children. He spoke at an event in Parliament today, after almost deserting the Westminster bear pit since leaving Number 10 in 2010. The former Labour leader said the success of the NHS, welfare, pensions and defence showed the strength of pooling resources between Scots, English, Welsh or Northern Irish. 'This is an unparalleled achievement of the 21st century, the pooling and sharing of resources across the United Kingdom for defence, for security for economic opportunity and for welfare. 'And we are very stupid if allow this not to be talked to be talked about as one of the important cements together. 'Now, countries can be lost by mistake.' He took aim at the coalition government in Westminster for its attacks on independence. Ministers faced ridicule for a web stunt, claiming Scots will be able to buy fish and chips every day for 10 weeks with the money they save by voting 'No' to independence. The UK government was accused of 'patronising' Scots with a campaign website using Lego and the promise of fish and chips to persuade people to vote No . Gordon Brown has ramped up pressure on David Cameron by suggesting he should agree to a debate on Scottish independence with Alex Salmond. The former Prime Minister said it would be a 'good idea if Mr Cameron took on the SNP leader in the run-up to September's referendum. Mr Brown also repeated his warning that pro-union politicians were allowing nationalists to portray the vote as 'England against Scotland'. Speaking to journalists at a Westminster lunch, the MP dismissed arguments that Mr Cameron should stand back from the battle because he was toxic to Scottish voters. 'The Prime Minister has got to be part of this debate,' he said. Asked whether he thought that meant Mr Cameron should agree to the Scottish First Minister's demands for a debate, Mr Brown replied: . 'People have to decide what the best way forward is. 'I think it would be a good idea if David Cameron did debate Alex Salmond, but I'm not involved in the negotiations.' But Downing Street rejected the idea. Mr Brown said: 'If people come up to Scotland, and say Britain says no to Scotland having a share in the currency. Britain says you are not going to have defence jobs or Britain says you have got to go bankrupt, or last week, Britain says vote independence you will lose your fish and chips, pies and you’ll lose your holidays in Torremolinos in a patronising way that ought to be withdrawn immediately. 'Then it’s obvious the issue will become Scotland versus Britain. 'And people will say the debate is do you stand up for Britain or are you for Scotland.' He also turned his fire on Fist Minister Alex Salmond, accusing him of making Scotland look 'small’ on the world stage after smuggling a Scottish flag into Centre Court in the handbag of his wife, Moira. As the crowd stood to applaud Andy Murray’s win in straight sets last year, he pulled the Saltire out and waved it around directly behind Mr Cameron’s head. The move was seen as a crass attempt to politicise one of the crown jewels in the sporting calendar. In an interview yesterday said: ‘I didn’t like it when he [Salmond] got the Scottish flag up at Wimbledon.’ Today he was backed by Mr Brown, who told Sky News: ‘That was a terrible mistake. Take politics out of this. I personally felt very embarrassed. ‘The reason I felt embarrassed was it made Scotland look small. We're not a country in the end that goes for these gestures. ‘We're not a country in the end that wants to dwell on grievance or gripes, or scoring a cheap point against England or against Britain. I think that was a very bad mistake.’ Scottish Nationalist leader Alex Salmond waved the Scottish flag after Andy Murray won the 2013 Wimbledon Men's Singles final . Murray has revealed he 'didn't like it' but was nervous about expressing a view on Scottish independence . Treasury Chief Secretary Danny Alexander claims there would be a 'UK dividend' worth £1,400 for every Scot by staying in the union. The Scotland Office released a bizarre list of 12 things that Scots will be able to buy with the cash - each illustrated using Lego characters and published online. According to the Government, Scots will be able to 'scoff 280 hotdogs' at the Edinburgh Festival, drink more than 600 coffees or get a hair cut every month for three and a half years. Mr Brown condemned the tactics. He said: ‘Last week when the Scottish Office and the UK Government put out that statement that Scotland would be £1,400 better off without independence - and they gave the example of fish and chips you could buy, or holidays in Torremolinos. I thought that was patronising. ‘So people can make mistakes and I think Mr Salmond ought to recognise that that made Scotland - because these pictures were shown all over the world - and I would never have done that. ‘I think it made Scotland seem small, when I actually think Scotland should be big.’ Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Former Prime Minister joins the battle to keep Scotland in the UK . Accused Alex Salmond of making Scotland seem 'small' on the world stage . Andy Murray also 'didn't like' Saltire-waving at Wimbledon final in 2013 . Brown condemns Lego pictures telling Scots to spend savings on chips .

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Article: (CNN Student News) -- April 26, 2013 . Download PDF maps related to today's show: . Syria . Waco, Texas; Dallas, Texas . Click here to access the transcript of today's CNN Student News program. Please note that there may be a delay between the time when the video is available and when the transcript is published. Teachers: We're looking for your feedback about CNN Student News. Please use this page to leave us comments about today's program, including what you think about our stories and our resources. Also, feel free to tell us how you use them in your classroom. The educators on our staff will monitor this page and may respond to your comments as well. Thank you for using CNN Student News! Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

The daily transcript is a written version of each day's CNN Student News program . Use this transcript to help students with reading comprehension and vocabulary . Use the weekly Newsquiz to test your knowledge of stories you saw on CNN Student News .

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Article: By . Liz Hull . A woman who started a fire which killed five people – including three children aged under five – was jailed for 30 years yesterday. Melanie Smith, 43, set fire to a pushchair in an act of ‘exceptional wickedness’ because she was fed up with it being left outside her flat. The devastating inferno she started trapped a neighbouring couple and three young children in a first-floor flat. Scroll down for video . Arson: This is the living room of a home in Prestatyn, north Wales which was set on fire by a neighbour . Devastation: The fire set by Melanie Smith was hot enough to melt a television, as this picture shows . Tragedy: A young couple, their baby son and their niece and nephew were killed in the fire last October, which left a bedroom wardrobe totally charred . Lee-Anna Shiers, 20, her 23-year-old . partner Liam Timbrell, their baby son, Charlie, 15 months, Miss Shiers’s . nephew Bailey, four, and her niece Skye, two, all burned to death. The 200C blaze was so intense it melted a television and cooker hood in the couple’s first floor flat. As the fire took hold, Mr Timbrell was . heard in the background of a 999 call screaming: ‘Oh my God, oh my God, . we’re going to die.’ Despite being badly burned, he managed . to tell police that, moments earlier, he had heard Smith, a . mother-of-five, shouting through their letterbox: ‘I’m going to burn . your house down.’ Mr Timbrell and Charlie died later in hospital. Miss Shiers, Bailey and Skye, who were . the children of Miss Shiers’s brother Steve Allen, 28, and were . sleeping over for the night, perished in a bedroom. Jobless Smith, who lived in the flat below, was convicted of five counts of murder last month. Yesterday a judge handed down five life sentences and told her she would serve a minimum of 30 years. Mr Justice Griffith-Williams said: . ‘The setting fire to the pushchair was an act of exceptional wickedness, . almost unparalleled in its consequences. Wreck: Smith was today sentenced to a minimum 30 years in prison; the stairs in the house are pictured . Entrance: The fire was set in a hallway in the building where the family and the killer all lived; the victims' door is shown here . Heat: A photograph showing the damage to the property's kitchen following Smith's drunken rampage . Guilty: Melanie Smith has been convicted of killing her neighbours by setting fire to their home . ‘For those who had to hear the . evidence of the 999 calls, the horror of those moments in the flat . upstairs as Lee-Anna and Liam faced the awful inevitability of their . imminent deaths will be forever etched on their memories.’ Mold Crown Court was told that Smith, . who was in a difficult relationship with Steven Clarkson, 45, who . cheated on her, was ‘bitterly resentful’ of Miss Shiers and Mr . Timbrell’s happy partnership. She had repeatedly rowed with Miss . Shiers over Charlie’s pushchair being left in a communal hallway of the . flats, in Prestatyn, North Wales, as well as the couple making noise . upstairs. Smith had also accused Miss Shiers of . having a sexual relationship with Mr Clarkson, an allegation, the court . heard, for which there was ‘no basis at all’. On one occasion Smith, a heavy . drinker, is alleged to have told Miss Shiers: ‘I will set your house on . fire with you and your kids in.’ Seven weeks later, on October 19 last . year, she carried out the threat. The court was read a victim impact . statement from Jonty Lewis, 29, the mother of Skye and Bailey, who said . her heart had been ‘torn apart’ by the deaths. ‘When I wake up in the morning, that . first minute is beautiful,’ she said. ‘In those 60 seconds I feel no . pain and I’m just listening for the laughter and footsteps running . across the landing in the hope that my bedroom door will fly open and . they will come bouncing in, jump onto the bed so that I can smother them . in kisses. It is then that reality sets in. My heart is wrenched and . the heavy empty feeling engulfs me. Poignant: This picture frame in the living room which appears to contain the word 'Baby' was melted . Disaster: The fire destroyed most of the building, with the furniture in the living room wrecked . Fury: The arson attack, leaving the stairs looking like a bomb site, stemmed from a disagreement over a pram . Ruin: The kitchen was almost unrecognisable despite its fire prevention measures . ‘I realise that I will never hold my . children’s hands again, teach them to ride a bike. The “normal” things a . parent should be allowed to do.’ Smith denied setting the fire and even . admitted when she took the stand that the killer was ‘beyond evil’. But . it later emerged that she had a history of cruelty to her own children, . three of whom she abandoned as toddlers. Her ex-husband, Paul Smith, 51, said . Smith stubbed cigarettes out on her baby son’s forehead, hacked off her . toddler daughter’s blonde hair, scalded her with boiling water and . locked her in an understairs cupboard as punishment. ‘She destroyed my family years ago, . and by setting fire to that house she’s ruined the lives of so many . other people,’ he said. ‘It’s horrific. That evil woman deserves to rot . in hell.’ One of Smith’s daughters, Charlotte, . now 23 and a mother of one, added: ‘It shocked me to know what she’d . done, but it’s not out of character. ‘She was a mother from hell to me – . and she still is. Spending the rest of her life in prison won’t come . close to what she deserves.’ Killer: Smith arriving at Mold Crown Court today for her sentencing hearing over the murders . Weeping: Stephanie Watson, mother of victim Liam Trimbell, breaks down at a press conference . Blaze victims: Liam Timbrell, right, with Lee-Anna Shiers and their baby Charlie shortly after his birth . Tragic: Skye Allen, two, and her brother Bailey , four, who were killed in the fire in the first-floor flat in . Prestatyn . Deaths: Ms Shiers, left, and her 15-month-old son Charlie were both killed following the blaze set by Smith . Innocent: Bailey and Skye were staying with their aunt, Ms Shiers, at the time of the killing . Horror: The exterior of the house in Prestatyn which was burnt by Smith in October last year . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Melanie Smith set fire to neighbours' home after long-running argument . Lee-Ann Shiers and boyfriend Liam Timbrell killed alongside three children . Smith to serve 30 years after being given life sentence at Mold Crown Court . Judge describes arson as 'exceptional wickedness' during sentencing . 'Nothing will ever be the same,' says mother of murdered children . Father of victims tells of agony at not being able to see them grow up . 'Justice is served and our little angels can rest in peace,' grandfather says .

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Article: Britain's first £1 pub has opened its doors to punters chasing a cheap drink. But customers may be in for surprise when they get to the bar - because a pint of beer will actually set them back £1.50 . From 8am, bar staff at The Pound Pub in Stockton-on-Tees, Middlesbrough, will serve half pints for £1 and a full pint for an extra 50p. Bargain bar: The Pound Pub has opened its doors in Stockton, Middlesbrough, selling half pints for £1 and a full pint for £1.50 . Menu: Bar staff will be serving a variety of soft and alcoholic drinks for the low prices, including Fosters, Theakstons, Strongbow and John Smiths . Fosters, John Smith Strongbow, Theakstons and a range of soft drinks will be available at budget prices, but . residents fear the venue will attract the wrong sort of crowd to the town. Local councillors, alcohol awareness groups and campaigners also believe it will be bad for the community, which already has a high number of people receiving hospital treatment for alcohol-related illnesses. The makers of Channel 4's Benefits Street are currently scouting out the area as a possible location for the next series. Carol Harris, 68, who lives in Stockton, said: 'My dad's brother used to run that place. It was a respectable old pub, The White Heart. 'Selling beer that cheap will be bad for the town, it will attract the wrong crowd. It is all wrong.' Councillor Jim Beall, Stockton . Council's Cabinet Member for Adult Services and Health, who is working . to reduce the negative impacts of alcohol on the community, said: 'We . know our Borough has higher than average rates of hospital stays for . alcohol-related harm. 'We want to reduce the harmful impact of alcohol on communities, families and individuals. 'The sale of cheap alcohol in this pub, and indeed anywhere, does nothing to help us tackle these issues. Concern: Residents in the north east town say the venue is going to attract the 'wrong sort of crowd' Worries: Stockton has one of the highest rates of hospitalisations for alcohol-related illnesses in the UK . "The Council's Chief Executive spoke to representatives of this company to appeal to them to consider an alternative operating model but unfortunately they declined.' The pub is raising fresh concerns over it's application to start serving alcohol at 8am. Chair of the Stockton Town Team, Joanna Waker called the Pound Pub 'counter-productive' to Stockton's development. She said: 'Businesses do not need to be low cost to survive in Stockton, . 'Earls of Ashwood deli serving fine cheeses and The Storytellers pub serving fine and real ales from around the world - both of which are absolutely thriving - prove it.' Early start: Punters will be able to make the best of the deal from 8am, when the venue's doors open . But Mike Wardell, a director at Here for Your Hospitality Ltd which owns the premises, insisted the pub would take part in responsible drinking campaigns, including challenging anyone who looked under 25 for identity. He added that anyone drunk would not be served and pointed out that supermarkets are able to sell their own value beers at 40p a can - something which is not monitored by councils. Mr Wardell said the PoundPub is aimed at the kind of person who would have frequented Working Men's Clubs in a previous generation and not the night-time market. He said: 'It is an eye-catching logo and, I suppose it's a bit cheesy, but the phrase we're going for is "get more round for your pound". 'At a time when 12 pubs a week are closing across the country we have to think outside the box a bit.' Hike: The average price of a pint of beer is £3.03, a five per cent increase since 2012 . The average price for a pint of beer in the UK is £3.20, but it varies depending on where you are in the country. According to the Good Pub Guide, the average prices of a pint in different places are: . London: £3.60 . Scotland: £3.24 . Wales: £3.15 . Manchester: £3.00 . Leeds: £2.40 . Surrey: £3.52 . Newcastle: £3.05 . Northern Ireland: £3.30 . Other venues . Coach and Horses in Soho, Central London: £5.80 . Wetherspoons, Birmingham: £3.30 . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

The Pound Pub in Stockton, Middlesbrough, opened its doors yesterday . Punters can get a half pint for £1 and a pint for £1.50 from 8am onwards . Residents say the venue will 'attract the wrong sort of crowd' to the town . Makers of Channel 4's Benefits Street are currently scouting the area . The average price of beer in the UK is £3.03, a five per cent rise from 2012 .

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Article: By . Sam Webb . Two men have been jailed for a large-scale human trafficking ring which saw Hungarians lured to work in the UK as modern-day slaves - being paid a measly £10 for a 100-hour week. Up to 50 men were kept in one house in Batley, West Yorkshire, and were subjected to regular beatings - with one house rule that no-one could say ‘no’ to their keepers. Janos Orsos, 43, and Ferenc Illes, 25, were sentenced on Tuesday at Teesside Crown Court to five years and three years respectively after pleading guilty to people trafficking offences. The court heard Orsos preyed on vulnerable Hungarians with promises of well-paid factory and labouring work and accommodation. Scroll down for video . Janos Orsos, 43, and Ferenc Illes, 25, were sentenced on Tuesday at Teesside Crown Court to five years and three years respectively after pleading guilty to people trafficking offences . But on arrival they were faced with squalid and cramped accommodation, long hours with barely any pay, and beatings from Orsos if they disobeyed his orders. Workers lived in accommodation in Ravensthorpe, Batley, Heckmondwike and Bradford, where beatings were regularly dished out by Orsos. They were then sent to work throughout Dewsbury, Bradford and Wakefield. Many were too scared to escape and one woman who had lost her job feared for her life after she overheard Orsos saying she would be killed. Sentencing, Judge Peter Armstrong said the victims were forced to live in 'severely cramped, multi-occupancy rooms in Dewsbury and left in fear of violence if they protested'. West Yorkshire Police launched Operation Tavernhouse back in 2011 after an alleged victim - a 20-year-old man - contacted the charity Hope For Justice and told them he was being exploited. More victims soon came forwards and others were identified, helping officers to build a case which identified the principle suspects. Sickening: Det Sgt Paul Simm, of Kirklees CID, said these offences do not belong in modern Britain . Among those exploited was a 45-year-old woman who was kept prisoner and forced to do housework for free. She was not given clothes and was only fed once a day during her captivity. She was later given more freedom and was eventually able to flee and catch a train away from the town. The court heard a Hungarian man was put up in Ravensthorpe and forced to work for more than 21 weeks for just £30 and lost more than 10 kilos in weight. Both Illes, of Dewsbury, and Orsos, of Heckmondwike, admitted charges of conspiracy to traffic people within the UK for exploitation dating back to 2011. The pair were due to face a six-week trial with 13 witnesses who had been trafficked by the pair, until they pleaded guilty. Orsos was also guilty of blackmail and converting criminal property. The court heard he made at least £60,000 from the conspiracy, which was sent out of the country using a Western Union account. Sentencing him, Judge Peter Armstrong said: 'This was a criminal enterprise from the outset. Having got people to come to this country you were in effect number one in the gang over here. 'These people were forced to work by being in an atmosphere of fear of being beaten or having no alternative economic means of moving away.' Illes was described by Judge Armstrong as Orsos’s 'right hand man'. He was in charge when Orsos was away and drove victims to and from work. Judge Armstrong added: 'You were aware of the conditions in which these people were living and the conditions in which they were working yet you were prepared to work for this gang, albeit acting under instructions from Orsos.' Det Sgt Paul Simm, of Kirklees CID, added: 'We are pleased to see the conviction of Orsos and Illes today for offences which, quite simply, should not be taking place in 21st century Britain.' Hope For Justice director of operations Allan Doherty said after the case: 'With upwards of 30 or 40 people living in a two-bedroom house, can you imagine the smell, the overcrowding, the dirt? 'People were living on scraps of food or slop that was reheated again and again. 'You wouldn’t let animals be kept in those conditions. This case highlights the issues of human trafficking and I know people hearing this sickening story today will be shocked that slavery is happening in their towns. 'But the fact of the matter is that human trafficking is a significant and unacceptable problem in Britain in the 21st century.' Det Chief Insp Paul Jeffrey of Kirklees CID, added: 'These convictions have followed a long running, detailed and at times, difficult investigation and I want to thank partners including Hope For Justice, who have worked with us to bring this case to a conclusion. 'I would encourage anyone who feels they may be a victim of this type of trafficking and is being exploited to contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.' West Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Mark Burns-Williamson, who is spearheading the creation of the national working group to tackle human trafficking, said: 'This very sad case demonstrates yet again that human trafficking is an issue which exists within West Yorkshire and that fact cannot be ignored.' Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Janos Orsos and Ferenc Illes promised work but kept victims as slaves . Hungarians forced to live in squalid conditions and beaten regularly . One man worked for 21 weeks for just £30 and lost 10kg in weight .

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Article: The model girlfriend of footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has been criticised for her 'disrespectful and ignorant' decision to pose semi-naked for the Bring Back Our Girls campaign. Irina Shayk, best known for featuring in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, posted pictures online supporting the campaign to rescue nearly 300 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria. The images show the 28-year-old Russian with just a piece of cardboard saying '#bring back our girls!!!' covering her semi-naked body. Soon after the pictures appeared on her Facebook and Instagram pages, she faced a massive backlash, with her followers accusing the star of being disrespectful. Scroll down for video . as . been slammed for being "tasteless" on social media, after posting a . topless snap in support of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign. Check it out . above! Referring to the 276 schoolgirls recently kidnapped by an Islamic . terror group, the 28-year-old covered up her bits with a handmade sign . in support of the cause… which saw her Insta-followers brand her as . being "disrespectful". One follower said: "Pretty tasteless and disrespectful. No class. This is exactly the justification terrorists are probably using to . prevent women from receiving 'western education,' with another asking . 'Would you stand there naked wishing sorrow on the 9/11 victims? Would . you do it for the tsunami? This is a tasteless attitude to 200 missing . girls." Hmmm... looks like you should leave the sexy snaps for Sports Illustrated. as . been slammed for being "tasteless" on social media, after posting a . topless snap in support of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign. Check it out . above! Referring to the 276 schoolgirls recently kidnapped by an Islamic . terror group, the 28-year-old covered up her bits with a handmade sign . in support of the cause… which saw her Insta-followers brand her as . being "disrespectful". One follower said: "Pretty tasteless and disrespectful. No class. This is exactly the justification terrorists are probably using to . prevent women from receiving 'western education,' with another asking . 'Would you stand there naked wishing sorrow on the 9/11 victims? Would . you do it for the tsunami? This is a tasteless attitude to 200 missing . girls." Hmmm... looks like you should leave the sexy snaps for Sports Illustrated. as . been slammed for being "tasteless" on social media, after posting a . topless snap in support of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign. Check it out . above! Referring to the 276 schoolgirls recently kidnapped by an Islamic . terror group, the 28-year-old covered up her bits with a handmade sign . in support of the cause… which saw her Insta-followers brand her as . being "disrespectful". One follower said: "Pretty tasteless and disrespectful. No class. This is exactly the justification terrorists are probably using to . prevent women from receiving 'western education,' with another asking . 'Would you stand there naked wishing sorrow on the 9/11 victims? Would . you do it for the tsunami? This is a tasteless attitude to 200 missing . girls." Hmmm... looks like you should leave the sexy snaps for Sports Illustrated. 'Shameless': Irina Shayk holds a sign over her semi-naked body in support of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign in a pictures which has sparked criticism on her Instagram page . Online backlash: This image was posted on Shayk's Facebook page, prompting one user to brand her 'utterly distasteful and ignorant' Captured: This image is taken from a video released by the Nigerian terror group Boko Haram reportedly showing some of the girls who were kidnapped from their school last month . Ordeal: This girl, who was made to speak to the camera, appeared fearful . Facebook user Jeremy Gregory said: 'This is utterly . distasteful, ignorant, vile and egregious. Stop your self pandering. 'Using a cause as horrible as the kidnapping of these poor girls and . making it about you is messed up. It's shameless. 'How about using some of your modeling money and donate it to one of these organizations working to free these girls?' Another follower responded: 'Pretty tasteless and disrespectful. No class. 'This is exactly the justification terrorists are probably using to prevent women from receiving "western education."' Support: David Cameron and CNN's Christiane Amanpour with the Twitter campaign's hashtag . Michelle Obama shared this photo of herself along with the caption 'Our prayers are with the missing Nigerian girls and their families' Another poster said: 'Seriously? Do you even know what that means? 'This isn't just another photoshoot. These girls were kidnapped and you decided to show half your t***? How mature of you...!' Instagram user Toni Okuboyejo wrote: 'Im nigerian and i find this so disrespectful. People have turned this #bringbackourgirls into a fad. 'Do you even know how/why the girls were kidnapped and by who? Do you even care? 'Or are you just posting this up because your fans will think you care and have an idea of what is going on around the world. 'Before these girls were kidnapped, boko haram has been terrorizing nigeria for 10 YEARS but you probably didnt know that and probably didnt know that boko haram is the group that kidnapped them. Malala Yousafzai (left), who was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for better education for girls in Pakistan, and U.S. actress Amy Poehler (right) tweeted their support for the Bring Back Our Girls campaign . Support: Cara Delevingne holds up a sign with the hashtag #bringbackourgirls . 'You just see everyone posting #bringbackourgirls and think its suddenly cool to be a humanitarian(not sure if thats the word im looking for).' However, others were supportive of her actions. Jorge Chaínho Manuel said: 'Calm down Jeremy Gregory, Irina has used her trademark to join a noble cause movement. 'I am certain that she meant to genuinely help the plea.' Covered up: Model Irina Shayk looked comfy but a world away from her flesh-baring photo shoots and Instagram snaps. Seen here in New York on Wednesday . The model was following in the footsteps of fellow celebrities such as Anne Hathaway, Angelina Jolie, Kimberly Stewart and Cara Delevingne and politicians including David Cameron. They are rallying to show their support for the campaign to free the 276 Nigerian schoolgirls recently kidnapped by an Islamic terror group known as Boko Haram or Western Education Is Sinful. The Russian model has been dating Real Madrid winger Christiano Ronaldo since 2010. Natural environment: The stunning brunette on a Sports Illustrated photoshoot in Hawaii on May 4 . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Irina Shayk posted images to support bid to save kidnapped Nigerian girls . Pictures show her with just '#bring back our girls' sign covering her body . Faced online backlash from followers who branded her 'tasteless and vile'

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Article: WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden on Tuesday said he can't believe President Bush hasn't known for months about a recent intelligence estimate that downplays the nuclear threat from Iran. Other Democratic candidates also slammed Bush for continuing to ratchet up the rhetoric against Tehran. On Tuesday the president acknowledged he had given a speech warning that Iran's nuclear development risked "World War III" about two months after his intelligence chief told him a reassessment of Tehran's nuclear ambitions was under way. Bush told reporters during a White House news conference that he was not told the details of the new assessment until last week and he said the new report, which found that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons work in 2003, will not change U.S. policy toward Iran. "Iran was dangerous, Iran is dangerous and Iran will be dangerous if they have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon," Bush said, pointing out that Tehran continues to try to enrich uranium for civilian purposes and therefore develop technology that could be used for a weapon. "They had the program. They halted the program. It's a warning signal because they could restart it," he said. Watch Bush's credibility questioned » . Bush told reporters that he was told of "new information" about Iran in August during a briefing by Adm. Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence. "He didn't tell me what the information was. He did tell me it was going to take a while to analyze," the president said. He said he wasn't briefed about the new information until the new intelligence report was prepared last week. The Democratic presidential candidates were incredulous that Bush did not know about the assessment's new finding. Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called that explanation "unbelievable." "Are you telling me a president that's briefed every single morning, who's fixated on Iran, is not told back in August that the tentative conclusion of 16 intelligence agencies in the U.S. government said they had abandoned their effort for a nuclear weapon in '03?" Biden asked in a conference call with reporters. "I refuse to believe that," he added. "If that's true, he has the most incompetent staff in modern American history, and he's one of the most incompetent presidents in modern American history." The Bush administration has spent years warning that Iran's development of nuclear power plants and enriched uranium masked an effort to produce an atomic bomb. Top officials have called the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran "unacceptable." In an October 17 news conference, Bush said that "If you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon." And four days later, Vice President Dick Cheney told a Washington think tank that Iran would face "serious consequences" from the international community if it continued to enrich uranium. But in a report released Monday, U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Iran had suspended nuclear weapons work in 2003 and was unlikely to produce enough weapons-grade uranium for a bomb until at least 2010. The assessment reverses a 2005 National Intelligence Estimate that found the Islamic republic was "determined to develop nuclear weapons despite its international obligations and international pressure." See how the 2005 and 2007 estimates differ » . The United States and its European allies are pushing for tighter sanctions against Tehran as a result of that continued refusal, and Bush said Monday's report "makes it clear that the strategy we have used in the past is effective." But Biden said Monday's report was an unpleasant echo of the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 -- a war that was launched based on mistaken conclusions about Iraq's weapons programs. He said the result of Bush's rhetoric has been to make it "far more difficult" to round up support for continued sanctions on Tehran. "It's hard to think of a more serious and more self-inflicted wound to our national security than this president continues to inflict," Biden said. Republican National Committee spokesman Brian Walton accused Biden of trying to bolster his own presidential campaign. "Apparently Joe Biden has seen recent polling that shows his statistical insignificance and is looking for relevance in the debate by offering heated rhetoric," Walton said. Biden and other Democrats now hoping to replace Bush after 2008 used the report to call for new talks with Iran over the nuclear issue, offering the prospect of renewed economic and diplomatic ties in exchange for a halt to uranium enrichment. "I think we do know that pressure on Iran does have an effect," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, said during a Democratic debate Tuesday held by National Public Radio. "I think that is an important lesson. But we're not going to reach the kind of resolution that we should seek unless we put that into the context of a diplomatic process." And Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, told the same forum that Bush "continues to not let facts get in the way of his ideology." "They should have stopped the saber rattling; should have never started it. And they need, now, to aggressively move on the diplomatic front," he said. But national security adviser Stephen Hadley said Monday that Bush was not told to tone down his rhetoric about Iran's nuclear ambitions when advised that a change in the U.S. estimate was coming -- and would have made his remarks about "World War III" either way. "It was making a point that the president and we have been making for two or three years -- that the international community has to exert more pressure, because Iran needs to suspend [its] enrichment program," Hadley said. "That continues to be our policy after this latest National Intelligence Estimate." And Bush said the new estimate "doesn't do anything to change my opinion about the danger Iran poses to the world -- quite the contrary." E-mail to a friend . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Democratic presidential candidates blast the president for his rhetoric against Iran . President Bush said Iran's nuclear program risked "World War III" New assessment says Tehran stopped nuclear weapons program in 2003 . Biden says Bush "incompetent" if he didn't know about new assessment earlier .

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Article: By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 19:15 EST, 20 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 02:01 EST, 21 October 2013 . Her husband has never been afraid of voicing his concerns over the issues of the day. Now it appears that the Duchess of Cornwall may be following in Prince Charles’s footsteps by taking a more political approach to her role. Camilla held a private meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury, who has been campaigning on payday loan firms. The Duchess of Cornwall met with Most Reverend Justin Welby at Clarence House, London, to discuss payday loan firms . The Duchess is a supporter of the idea of local credit unions, non-profit organisations that lend out members’ savings and encourage customers only to borrow amounts they can repay. The Archbishop, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, sees these institutions as the way to challenge the stranglehold of companies such as Wonga by offering a more ethical and less punishing alternative for people desperate for a loan. He was invited to Camilla’s London residence, Clarence House, on Friday for a meeting about his campaign against companies that charge exorbitant rates of interest on their loans. The Archbishop of Canterbury has been campaigning against payday loan companies such as Wonga . A spokesman for the Duchess said: ‘We are not in a position to confirm what was discussed in a private conservation between the Duchess and the Archbishop of Canterbury.’ Camilla, 66, joined the London Mutual Credit Union, in Peckham, London, in May. She said at the time that she wanted ‘to highlight the practical help that credit unions offer their communities in these difficult times’. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Duchess and Archbishop of Canterbury held private meeting at Clarence House . Camilla is a supporter of local credit unions that lend out members' savings . Most Reverend Justin Welby has been campaigning on payday loan firms .

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Article: By . Damien Gayle . Dognappers who threatened to slice up a pet pug returned him after they were named and shamed them on Facebook, the dog's owner claimed today. Maria Smith said crooks had demanded £2,000 ransom in exchange for the safe return of Simba, who was snatched from her home in Walton, Liverpool. But Simba was eventually returned unharmed after Miss Smith tracked down the culprits on social media websites following a Facebook appeal. Safe: Trainee beautician Maria Smith cuddles Simba, her pet dog, who she was only able to get back from ruthless dognappers who threatened to slice him up after Facebook detective work led her to the culprits . Merseyside Police said they were investigating the allegations. After Simba went missing, the trainee beautician had taken to the Internet in a bid to track him down. 'People got in touch with me to say they had been offered my dog for sale, and that the thieves were going around asking people if they wanted to buy a dog,' she said. When one message included the names of the alleged thieves, Miss Smith posted them on Facebook in a bid to flush them out. 'The day before I got him back, I got a phone call from one of the thieves who said "if you carry on posting on Facebook I will slice your dog apart in front of you". 'They wanted £2,000 for him and I offered them the money because I just wanted him home. 'But in the end they handed the dog back because they wanted their names off Facebook - they were worried about being identified on the internet.' Miss Smith said two women, whom she didn't know, returned Simba to her late at night - nine days after he had gone missing. Brave: Simba stands defiantly atop the front garden wall outside Ms Smith's home in Walton Merseyside . 'I have had no sleep, it's been horrible. It's heartbreaking to have a pet go missing,' she said. 'I was lucky to get my dog back. There are people who never see their dogs again after they are stolen. 'I'm overjoyed he is back. People lose their dogs every day so criminals can make a profit and something needs to be done about it.' Miss Smith, 19, said Simba was taken from her back garden on July 22. 'I let Simba out into the back garden with my other dog, like I always do before we go to bed,' she said. 'After around 15 minutes I could hear scratching at the back door, but when I ran out there was only one dog there. 'Someone must have jumped over the back fence and taken Simba, he was nowhere to be seen. 'I was heartbroken, I have had Simba since he was eight-weeks-old and he was part of the family. 'My other dog, Junior, was crying as they normally sleep next to each other.' Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Maria Smith's dog Simba was snatched from her back garden last month . But she turned sleuth and was able to track down his dognappers online . They returned the dog after she posted their names on her Facebook page .

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Article: Along with asking her age, prodding a woman as to what's inside her handbag is considered one of the most forward things you can ever ask a lady. Nonetheless, the Countess of Wessex was more than happy to tell - and even show - one inquisitive six-year-old what was inside hers during a visit to the charity PACT, Parents and Children Together, at Dorchester Abbey in Oxfordshire today. When little Nicheala asked the . countess what was inside her tiny red baguette clutch, Sophie began to . take out the contents, revealing an assortment of make-up and face . creams, including some Trish McEvoy products. What's inside your bag, ma'am? Sophie Wessex shows little Nicheala, six, what's inside her handbag (and it's mostly make-up) Do you like this colour? Sophie shows Nicheala the make-up she carries in her small red baguette clutch . Sophie, wife of Prince Edward, was visiting the centre to help bury a century time capsule containing items collected from PACT projects, celebrating 100 years of the charity and highlighting . the important work it does for adoption and fostering within the . community. Looking elegant in a cream, knee-length belted coat with a pinched waist, and brown leather boots, Sophie happily dug the hole for the capsule and dropped it in. As well as conducting the burial (and . having a girly chat about beauty products with little Nicheala), Sophie . attended a ceremony at Dorchester Abbey for the charity which endeavours . to find homes for children in care in the south-east. Speaking to Royal Central before her visit, PACT's chief executive Jan Fishwisk said: 'We are thrilled and honoured that HRH . The Countess of Wessex will be visiting us at Dorchester Abbey for this . exciting occasion. 'The time capsule will serve as a record of our work so far and a celebration of all we have achieved.' Countess of cosmetics: Sophie Wessex shows Nicheala, six, her Trish McEvoy make-up . I like your bag! Little Nicheala took a shine to Sophie's cylindrical maroon clutch . The mother-of-two also spent yesterday with children when she visited the Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) clinic at St Thomas's Hospital in London. As Patron of the Charity DEBRA, the national charity that supports individuals and families affected by EB, the countess visited the clinic to meet patients, families and staff. EB is a rare condition that causes skin to break and blister at the slightest touch. Burying the capsule: Looking elegant in a cream, knee-length belted coat with a pinched waist, and brown leather boots, Sophie happily dug the hole for the capsule and dropped it in . Fun and games with loo roll: Two children at the PACT event, Abbie and Alec Kent, demonstrate using toilet paper as a bandage . PACT event: Sophie attended a ceremony at Dorchester Abbey for the charity which endeavours to find homes for children in care in the south-east . British royalty: The wife of Prince Edward, was visiting the centre to help bury a century time capsule containing items collected from PACT projects . PACT's chief executive Jan Fishwisk said: 'We are thrilled and honoured that HRH . The Countess of Wessex will be visiting us at Dorchester Abbey for this . exciting occasion' London clinic: The mother-of-two also spent yesterday with children when she visited the Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) clinic at St Thomas's Hospital in London . Meeting patients: As Patron of the Charity DEBRA, meets 20 year old EB sufferer Henry George as she visits the Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) clinic at St Thomas's Hospital . A rare condition: Sophie with EB-sufferer Samantha Hall in the the Epidermolysis Bullosa clinic at St Thomas's Hospital yesterday . The Duchess of Cornwall visited H.M. Prison Coldingley in Bisley today and met prisoners who have been taking part in schemes to improve literacy. The Duchess learned about reading programmes including Quick Reads, Toe by Toe and Storybook Dads in the prison library. Her Royal Highness also toured the engineering and print workshop,s which provide on-site employment. Encouraging literacy: The Duchess of Cornwall in H.M. Prison Coldingley with prisoner Daniel Snelling, 38, who is reading a children's book aloud to record and play to his three young children . Prison print works: The Duchess with prisoner Gary Bird with a Valentine's Card he printed in the prison print shop . In the library: The Duchess learned about literacy programnes taking place within the prison . Tour of the prison walls: The Duchess took a tour of the prison, visiting areas including the library and the print workshops . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Countess of Wessex showed contents of handbag to Nicheala, six . Sophie was visiting Parents and Children Together, in Oxforshire today . Helped bury a time capsule celebrating 100 years of charity . Also attended ceremony in Dorchester Abbey . Yesterday visited London clinic for patients of Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) Sophie is Patron of the Charity DEBRA . Today Duchess of Cornwall visited H.M. Prison Coldingley in Bisley . The royal was learning about literacy schemes within the prison .

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Article: (EW.com) -- There are two ways for pop stars to make a Survivor Album: either power-sing through your problems like Christina Aguilera, or make like Rihanna and dance till you forget what you're supposed to be getting over. On her first release since checking out of rehab, Demi Lovato wants to have it both ways. She's front-loaded "Unbroken" with leave-no-synth-effect-behind R&B (''You're My Only Shorty,'' featuring Iyaz), shy love-in-this-club tracks (''Who's That Boy''), and Timbaland bangers (''All Night Long,'' with Missy Elliott). So it's a little unnerving when she gets to the album's second half -- the part where, as she told Ryan Seacrest, ''I'm singing about some issues that I've never even spoken about before.'' Having struggled with cutting since she was a preteen, Lovato admits, ''I ended up with wounds to bind ... and I just ran out of Band-Aids'' on the hugely affecting ballad ''Fix a Heart.'' Demi Lovato covers Lil Wayne's 'How to Love' in NYC: Watch it here . The piano confessional ''For the Love of a Daughter'' finds her picturing herself at age 4, begging her dad to ''put the bottle down'' and keep his ''selfish hands'' to himself. And then there's ''Skyscraper,'' an anthem so honest you can hear her voice breaking. Taylor Swift teams with Hayley Williams in Nashville for 'That's What You Get' Clearly it's been a tough year for Lovato. But as Rihanna could tell her, sometimes bad years make great songs. B+ . See full review at EW.com. CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly . © 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

"Unbroken" is Demi Lovato's first release since checking out of rehab . She's front-loaded "Unbroken" with R&B, shy love-in-this-club tracks and Timbaland bangers . ''I'm singing about some issues that I've never even spoken about before," she said .

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Article: (CNN) -- For the Dawsons of Tauranga, New Zealand, the canoe slalom event at the London Olympics will be a family affair. Mike Dawson, who is competing in the men's kayak class, will not just be trying to impress his father, who coaches him, or his brother and sister, who will be watching from the crowd. He will also need to ensure he doesn't incur the disapproval of his mother, Kay, who is one of the judges at the event. The idea of a mother officiating in a competition in which her son is participating may strike some as a little unfair, but the Dawsons and the New Zealand Canoe Federation are eager to stress there's no scope for special treatment in this case. "The only real advantage mum can give me is her presence at what will be my biggest race ever," said Mike Dawson, who is competing in the Olympics for the first time after finishing 16th in the canoe slalom world championships in Slovakia last year. The event involves the kayakers flinging themselves down a steep course of white-water rapids, weaving through a series of gates like slalom skiers in a race against the clock. If the competitors touch or miss a gate, they suffer a time penalty. Each gate has a judge watching out for errors, and a chief official oversees the entire course. As one of the gate judges, Kay Dawson has an important role, but her decisions will be scrutinized by other officials -- each gate judge also monitors the two gates on either side. Competitors' runs are reviewed on video, and the chief official has the final say. "I can't envisage any way a single gate judge could influence the outcome for any athlete," said Maree Burnett, the secretary general of the New Zealand Canoe Federation. "Kay is a very experienced international judge." The International Canoe Federation, which selected her as the only judge from New Zealand for the Olympic event, agrees. In the past few years, Kay Dawson has officiated at canoe slalom world championships and world cups in which her 25-year-old son has raced. The ICF has "a strong officiating process in place to ensure accuracy and fairness at all its competitions, whether it is at world cups, world championships or at the Olympic Games," said Lerina Bright, a spokeswoman for the federation. She noted that some judges at the event have the same nationality as some competitors. "That could equally be thought to create a conflict of interest," she said. "However, the judging process is thorough and stringent and does not provide any possibility for a single individual to affect the outcome of a competitor's run." Despite the multitude of officials at the canoe slalom event, the role of individual judges is still significant, Kay Dawson has said. "When officiating the athlete and 100% accuracy is always the focus, one poor call can mean the difference between a top-10 finish and chance of a medal or being out of the competition," she wrote in an article on the New Zealand federation's website in February. Relationships with family and friends don't enter the equation, though, she says. "I've been officiating for a number of years now and know a lot of the athletes, so it is easy to put aside any personal emotions when I'm on the course," Kay Dawson said in comments relayed by the ICF on Wednesday. "Several of the top men's slalom paddlers have stayed with us in New Zealand while they've been training with Mike and I owe it to all of them to do the most professional job possible," she added. Mike Dawson, who was born and raised in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand, says the best way for him to stamp out any perceptions of favoritism is to not make any mistakes. "If I'm paddling well, the gate judges won't come into play at all," he said. He is not the only New Zealander competing in the canoe slalom: Luuka Jones, also from Tauranga, became the first New Zealand woman to compete in the kayak competition in the Olympics after qualifying for the 2008 Beijing Games. London will be her second Olympics, at the age of just 23. For Mike Dawson, the Games are full of new experiences. "We've been in the Olympic Village for a few days and it's pretty cool," Mike Dawson said. "I can see how people get intimidated, but really it's just like a hotel with an epic food court." Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Mike Dawson is competing in the men's kayak event at the Olympics . His mother, Kay, is one of the judges at the event . The Dawsons and the New Zealand Canoe Federation say she can't influence the result . She is one of many gate judges over the canoe slalom course .

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Article: WASHINGTON (CNN) -- More than two-thirds of African-Americans believe Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision for race relations has been fulfilled, a CNN poll found -- a figure up sharply from a survey in early 2008. Martin Luther King Jr. waves to supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. The CNN-Opinion Research Corp. survey was released Monday, a federal holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader and a day before Barack Obama is to be sworn in as the first black U.S. president. The poll found 69 percent of blacks said King's vision has been fulfilled in the more than 45 years since his 1963 "I have a dream" speech -- roughly double the 34 percent who agreed with that assessment in a similar poll taken last March. But whites remain less optimistic, the survey found. "Whites don't feel the same way -- a majority of them say that the country has not yet fulfilled King's vision," CNN polling director Keating Holland said. However, the number of whites saying the dream has been fulfilled has also gone up since March, from 35 percent to 46 percent. In the 1963 speech, delivered to a civil rights rally on the Mall in Washington, King said: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." Watch Obama speak at Lincoln Memorial on Sunday » . "Has that dream been fulfilled? With the election of Barack Obama, two thirds of African-Americans believe it has," CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider said. "Most blacks and whites went to bed on election night saying, 'I never thought I'd live to see the day.' That's what the nation is celebrating on this King holiday: We have lived to see the day," Schneider said. Watch Schneider's analysis of pre-inauguration polls » . What about the Voting Rights Act, one of the signature achievements of the civil rights movement, which will be reviewed by the Supreme Court later this year? Two-thirds of blacks questioned in the poll say the U.S. still needs the Voting Rights Act today, but white respondents are split down the middle over whether that law is still necessary. In November, a majority of black respondents said that Obama's victory signaled a new era in race relations. The poll suggests that a majority today no longer feels that way, although most blacks predict some improvement on racial issues. "In the immediate aftermath of Barack Obama's victory in November, African-Americans were cautiously optimistic about the future of race relations in the U.S., but some of that optimism has faded since that time," Holland added. In November, a majority of blacks for the first time believed that the U.S. would eventually find a solution to its racial problems; now a majority of blacks believe that race relations will always be a problem in this country. Blacks do believe that the Obama presidency will be good for them -- 61 percent say that the quality of life for African-Americans will improve over the next four years. Optimism for a new era has also dropped among whites. "We saw a burst of enthusiasm about race relations immediately after Obama's election. The initial excitement has cooled a bit. But most blacks and whites still foresee some improvement in race relations," Schneider said. The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted January 12-15. Pollsters questioned 1,245 adult Americans, including 798 whites and 332 blacks, by telephone. The survey's sampling error is 3 percentage points for the overall sample and 4.5 percentage points for the breakdowns by race. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

69 percent of blacks polled say Martin Luther King Jr's vision realized . Slim majority of whites say King's vision not fulfilled . King gave his "I have a dream" speech in 1963 .

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Article: London (CNN) -- A gossip magazine in Denmark on Saturday dismissed reports it had published new, even more revealing images of Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, as entirely false. The publication of topless photographs of Catherine, taken with a long lens while she sunbathed while on vacation with Prince William in France, prompted anger and legal action from palace officials earlier this month. A number of media outlets in Britain and the United States reignited the controversy Friday when they reported that the Danish magazine, Se Og Hor, had printed fresh "bottomless" images of Britain's likely future queen -- that is, without her bikini briefs on. But the editor-in-chief of Se och Hoer, Kim Henningsen, dismissed the latest media reports as untrue rumors and told CNN the only images it had published were in one 16-page spread on September 20. Magazine fined for topless Kate photos . Those are from the same set of photos first seen in the French magazine Closer, then in an Italian magazine and an Irish newspaper, Henningsen said. They were also published in Sweden's Se och Hoer, a sister magazine to the Danish title. Defending the publication at the time, Henningsen said: "It's a set of unique photos from an A-class celebrity. We are a leading gossip magazine in Denmark, and it is my job to publish them." He added: "If the British royal family want to sue us, then it will happen then and we'll deal with it." The French Closer magazine was fined last week by a French court and ordered not to distribute the edition in print or online. It was also told to hand over the photos to the royals within 24 hours. Criminal proceedings have also been launched by the couple's attorneys against the French Closer magazine. Sex, lives, videotape: When to publish? Asked about the latest reports concerning Se Og Hor, a St. James's Palace spokeswoman said: "As we've said, we will not be commenting on potential legal action concerning the alleged intended publication of the photos save to say that all proportionate responses will be kept under review." Catherine and her husband, Prince William, the second in line to the throne, were said by palace officials to be upset and angered by the invasion of their privacy. The initial publication of the images came only three weeks after a media furor over the release of images of William's younger brother, Harry, partying naked in his Las Vegas hotel suite. No British newspapers have published the topless pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge. CNN's Alexander Felton contributed to this report. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Danish magazine Se Og Hor says it only published pictures of Catherine 10 days ago . Media reports Friday claimed the magazine had released new, more revealing images . The royals took legal action against the French magazine that first published the photos . William and Catherine were on vacation when a photographer took the long lens shots .

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Article: The amount of women in executive positions at Fortune 500 companies has remained at a dismal 15 per cent. Only last month UN investigator Rashida Manjoo declared that the UK has a ‘boys' club sexist culture’ with sexism work in Britain than any other place. Part of the problem, according to psychologists, is that many men are in fact ‘secret feminists’ but are afraid to speak up because their motives may be misread. Recent studies suggest men are reluctant to support women in the workplace in case their motives are misread. Adam Grant at the University of Pennsylvania claims that 'secret male feminists' need to be brought out of their shell if more women are to get executive positions . Adam Grant, a professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, highlights the fact that in conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent. For instance, of Amazon’s 100 top-selling books this week about women and business, only four were written by men. ‘Some men want to voice their support, but fear that no one will take them seriously, because they lack a vested interest in the cause,’ Professor Grant writes in the Atlantic. But is this just an excuse? ‘I don’t think so,’ said Professor Grant. ‘There’s evidence that when a cause seems inconsistent with our self-interest, we fear that we’ll incur a backlash, so we hold back.’ 'Some men want to voice their support, but fear that no one will take them seriously, because they lack a vested interest in the cause,' said Professor Grant. Pictured is a sexist vintage advert from Schlitz . Rashida Manjoo, the UN's special rapporteur on violence against women, last month said the culture of gender inequality in Britain was 'more . prevalent' than anywhere else . While wolf whistling might rankle, it seems that not all sexist behaviour is seen as a bad thing, according to a recent study. 'Benevolent sexism', where women are treated as helpless entities in need of protection, is seen in a positive light by many - particularly those women with a strong sense of entitlement. The results appeared in a study conducted by researchers at the University of Auckland The study was set up to test part of the Ambivalent Sexism Theory, which splits discrimination against women into two varieties - hostile and benevolent. Hostile, also known as misogyny, encompasses those who see women as second class and those who think women are intellectually inferior to men as well as other obviously sexist standpoints . Benevolent sexism, meanwhile, is the term used to describe the actions of those men and women who believe females depend on their male partners for everything from money to guidance and find it difficult to exist independently. The study, which spoke to 2,700 women and 1,600 New Zealand men, found that women with a greater sense of entitlement were more likely to agree with statements such as 'Women should be cherished and protected by men.' Separate research by psychologists, Rebecca Ratner at the University of Maryland and Dale Miller at Stanford, seems to support Professor Grant’s theory. During a series of studies in which men actively supported women’s rights, people responded with surprise and aggression. Both men and women were shocked and resentful toward the men. Professor Ratner asked a group of students whether they opposed a fictional policy called proposition 174, in which funds were to be cut for research into a health issue that affected either men or women. Whatever their gender and whether they were told it concerned men or women, the level of opposition did no vary. However, when asked if they would give active support people were far less willing to do so for the opposite sex. ‘I saw this happen recently when I facilitated a conversation for a group about gender and leadership,’ said Professor Grant. ‘A man raised his hand to share his support for bringing more women into leadership positions. I expected enthusiastic reactions from his female peers, but instead, his comment was greeted with skepticism. ‘One woman directly questioned his intentions: What was his ulterior motive? Was he trying to ingratiate himself with women to improve his dating prospects?’ Professor Grant believes that ‘secret male feminists’ need to be brought out of their shell if more women are to get executive positions in the workplace. ‘That support depends not only on breaking glass ceilings and attacking overt sexism, but also on dismantling the fears that prevent men from being better allies,’ he said. Advertisers once played on the fact many saw women as good for little other than shopping. While attitudes have come a long way, recent research suggests many men are still afraid to speak up in support of women . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Professor Adam Grant claims women are being held back by secret feminists . Some men want to voice support, but fear no one will take them seriously . He says others are worried they will be judged for having an ulterior motive . During a series of studies in which men actively supported women’s rights, people responded with surprise and aggression .

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Article: A massive world 2,500 times the size of Earth has been discovered by an international team of astronomers. Named MOA-2011-BLG-322, the planet is around eight times the size of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. Astronomers believe it orbits a star 25,000 light-years away and has a mass that is one third that of our sun. A massive world 2,500 times the size of Earth has been discovered by an international team of astronomers. Pictured is an artist's concept of an alien planet . The giant planet, reported by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News, was found using a technique known as ‘microlensing’. Microlensing uses Albert Einstein’s theory of general relatively which suggests what we perceive as the force of gravity actually arises from the curvature of space and time. Einstein believed that although Earth appears to be pulled towards the sun, it is in fact the shape of space-time around the sun that changes the way Earth moves. Named, MOA-2011-BLG-322, the planet is around eight times the size of Jupiter (left), the largest planet in our solar system . Microlensing uses Albert Einstein’s . theory of general relatively which suggests what we perceive as the . force of gravity actually arises from the curvature of space and time. Einstein . believed that although Earth appears to be pulled towards the sun, it . is in fact the shape of space-time around the sun that changes the way . Earth moves. Microlensing . makes use of this theory by measuring how the light of a distant star is . intensified due to the gravitational field of a closer star. According to Einstein’s theory, this is . caused by bending of the surrounding space-time which makes the more . distant star easier to discover by Earth observatories. Microlensing makes use of this theory by . measuring how the light of a distant star is intensified due to the . gravitational field of a closer star. According to Einstein’s theory, this is caused by bending of the surrounding space-time which makes the more distant star easier to discover by Earth observatories. The transient brightening of MOA-2011-BLG-322 was seen in 2011 by astronomers in Japan, New Zealand, Poland and Israel. Data from these observations suggest that giant world is likely to be an M-type- the most common type of star in space. The planet is thought to have an orbital distance times four-times the Earth’s distance from the sun. The research suggests that if such a massive planet can exist at that distance from its star, then current formation theories about planets may be incorrect. A massive cluster of galaxies is pictured in this undated image courtesy of Nasa and Esa. The gravitational field surrounding this cluster, acts as a natural lens in space to brighten and magnify the light coming from very distant background galaxies . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Named MOA-2011-BLG-322, the planet is eight times the size of Jupiter . It has an orbital distance times four-times the Earth’s distance from the sun . Scientists believe it may overturn current theories on planet formation .

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Article: Like a cowboy riding a bull, a daring frog enjoyed his own rodeo on a beetle - and stayed atop the insect for five minutes even as it tried to fly away. The adventurous flying frog leapt atop the black beetle and even put its front leg in the air in a bid to keep its balance. Photographer Hendy Mp captured the strange antics near his house in Sambas, Kalimantan Barat, in Indonesia. Giddy up! Photographer Hendy Mp captured this daring frog hop a ride on a beetle and it even stuck its front leg in the air cowboy-style . King of the rodeo: The flying frog managed to stay atop the woodboring beetle for around five minutes before eventually crawling off . Risky business: The photographer, who captured the off antics in Sambas, in Indonesia, said the frog stayed on even as the beetle took off . He said the green and orange frog, pictured grinning widely, stayed on the beetle even as it began 'taking off'. The 25-year-old said: 'It was such an amazing moment, the frog just saw the beetle and decided to crawl on top.' He added the frog stayed on the beetle for around five minutes before eventually crawling off. 'It looked like the frog was a cowboy riding a bull and it even put its right leg in the air. 'The frog was on the beetle for five minutes and the insect was just happily running around.' The frog, a Reinwardt's Flying Frog, is native to Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, and is classed as a near threatened species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Howdy partner! The 25-year-old described the moment as 'amazing' and added 'the frog just saw the beetle and decided to crawl on top' Let's go for a ride: The flying frog is seen effortlessly climbing onto the woodboring beetle before the attempts to fly away . Rest stop: The green and orange frog even takes a moment to relax on top of his new friend, which 'was just happily running around' Let me direct you: The flying frog, pictured with its front legs around the beetle's claw-like antenna, sits comfortably as the insect moves . Grinning wide: The green and orange frog is pictured with a huge smile on its face as it enjoyed its own rodeo before eventually crawling off . The frog, a Reinwardt's Flying Frog, is native to Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, and is classed as a near threatened species . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Photographer Hendy Mp captured the unique moment near his house in Sambas, Indonesia . He says the frog managed to stay perched atop the beetle of around five minutes, despite it taking off .

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Article: A tennis fan who claims she suffered serious injuries after fainting from the heat at an Australian Open tennis match is suing the organisers for negligence. Susan Carman, 57, claims she suffered serious injuries after collapsing during a scorching Andy Murray match at Hisense Arena in Melbourne in 2013. The woman from Traralgon, Victoria, said there was not enough cover as players and the crowd endured a 40-degree day on January 17, 2013, reports the Herald Sun. Spectators cool themselves in front of a water vapour on at the Australian Open in 2013. A fan is suing the organisers after she suffered serious injuries while fainting at an the event . She alleges she fell down some stairs in the grandstand as they were looking for some shade, suffering a fractured ankle and shin, ligament damage, and scarring. The Latrobe Valley hospital worker claims the Melbourne & Olympic Parks Trust was negligent by failing to shut the retractable roof. The claim does not specify a figure of money, but it claims damages to lost income and to compensate for the family who looked after her during her recovery. A five-day County Court trial is scheduled for February 2016. Maurice Blackburn principal Dimi Loannou said Carman also suffered psychological damage. 'She was a tennis fan but she hasn't returned since the accident. It's been traumatic for her,' she told the Herald. 'We say Hisense Arena have breached their duty of care in this case by failing to close the roof.' 'Tennis is a popular sport. It's important we keep patrons safe when they are attending.' attack. Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic tries to cool down with ice packs in a 2014 match against Kenny De Schepper of France . Rafael Nadal cools off with water during a break in his fourth round match against Feliciano Lopez . Tournament officials had warned the crowd to take cover from the heat on the day, while players were given ice water and longer breaks between sets. A heatwave plagued the event, with ball boys, players and spectators all collapsing under the heat. The heat, which passed 40 degrees on some days, even caused tram tracks to buckle, forcing spectators to walk under the scorching sunlight. The organisers introduced an 'extreme heat policy' after a string of collapses from spectators and players alike. Canadian Frank Dancevic claimed he saw comic book characters on the court shortly before he fainted during his defeat by Frenchman Benoit Paire. Maria Sharapova of Russia cools off during her second round match against Karin Knapp in the 2014 tournament . Venus Williams of the United States cools off in her second round match against Lauren Davis of the United States . On the same day, China's Peng Shuai cramped up and vomited during her defeat to Kurumi Nara of Japan and a ball boy fainted during Milos Raonic's four-set victory over Spain's Daniel Gimeno-Traver. Some players noted that their shoes and water bottles were beginning to melt in the conditions. The 2015 open, which kicked off on Monday, has experienced warm condition, with a peak of 36 degrees on Thursday. No extreme heat is forecasted for next week, since a moist air mass from the east will prevent any heat from interior reaching Melbourne for an extended time period. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Susan Carman is suing the organisers of the event for negligence . She said there was not enough cover as players endured 40 degree heat . She suffered a fractured left ankle, ligament damage, and scarring . She is claiming damages for lost income and to compensate her family . A five-day County Court trial is scheduled for February 2016 .

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Article: By . Helen Pow . PUBLISHED: . 09:47 EST, 4 December 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 14:46 EST, 4 December 2012 . Suicide: Danielle Halverson, 50, of DeLand, was found dead on Monday . A Florida woman who killed a teenage girl in a hit-and-run incident in March has been found dead in an apparent suicide. Danielle Halverson, 50, of DeLand, was charged with leaving the scene of a crash involving death after she lost control of her vehicle while reaching for her cell phone and fatally struck 14-year-old Juliana Hobbs. On Monday morning, Ms Halverson's body was found in her South Ridgewood Avenue home. She is understood to have died of an overdose. A friend of the woman had called the Volusia County Sheriff's Department requesting a welfare check after struggling to contact her. He told police she'd seemed increasingly depressed lately and had made statements suggesting she was considering suicide. Deputies and paramedics arrived at the scene and found Ms Halverson in her bedroom, unresponsive and without a pulse. Paramedics began CPR and the woman was transported by ambulance to Florida Hospital-DeLand, where she was pronounced dead at 11:39 am, according to the Daytona Beach News Journal. Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson said the death was being treated as a suicide as there was a lack of injury and the woman left a note, however he didn't reveal whether it referred to the March incident. Ms Halverson had told Florida Highway Patrol she'd struck Ms Hobbs with her 2004 Toyota Corolla after losing control of her car while reaching for her cellphone. According to her arrest report, she told police: 'I kind of feel stupid for saying this, but a cellphone was a little bit a part of it, trying to reach for it. I was the sole driver of the car. Yes, I'll admit that.' The crash took place at around 8.40pm on March 17. Ms Hobbs' friend Rachel Russell, 14, was also injured but not seriously. Hit-and-run: Juliana Hobbs, 14, pictured, was killed in the hit-and-run in March . Depressed: Ms Halverson had been charged with leaving a crash site and tampering with evidence after the fatal collision that killed Ms Hobbs, pictured left and right . Police located Ms Halverson's car just days after the collision. On it they found DNA linking the vehicle to the crash, including Ms Hobbs' blood on the front bumper and Ms Hobbs' and Ms Russell's DNA on a portion of the windshield. The woman was listed as a person of interest but wasn't arrested until October 16. In addition to the hit-and-run charges, Ms Halverson had been charged with tampering with evidence. Her boyfriend, James Hanna, 59, was charged with accessory after the fact, tampering or fabricating evidence and making fake reports to authorities earlier this month after allegedly lying to police about his girlfriend's whereabouts on the day of the crash. On November 9, Ms Halverson was . rearrested after failing to show up in court to have the hit-and-run . charges read to her, according to court records. DeLand police had to go to her South . Ridgewood Avenue home and take her into custody after she did not show . up for her arraignment the previous day. Overdose: Police were called to Ms Halverson's home after a friend became worried about her welfare . A DeLand resident called 911 after Ms Halverson's Corolla hit the two girls and then sped off. Elizabeth Hoefler, who lives two doors . away from where the teens were struck, said her 18-year-old daughter . made one of the frantic calls for help and tried to resuscitate Juliana Hobbs. Ms Hoefler had had pizza delivered to her family the night the incident happened and was at home when she heard the collision, she told the West Volusia Beacon. 'I heard this car, and it did a total acceleration. Then, bam! There were no brakes, no screeching,' she said, adding that she initially thought a motorist had struck the family's mailbox. '(My husband) ran out and said it wasn't our mailbox.' Ms Hoefler said a pickup truck with two men had stopped in the road and were yelling 'Stop! Stop!' She said she saw a silhouette and thought it might have been a dog, then she saw the outline of Juliana's tennis shoe. 'I went running up there. I could see Rachel. She was screaming 'They hit us! They aimed for us!'' Ms Hoefler said she held Rachel while her husband and daughter tried to perform CPR on Juliana. 'Juliana never moved,' said Ms Hoefler, who left to get Rachel's father, just three houses away. 'There was absolutely no screeching of tires, no brakes, just a total acceleration,' she added. Ms Hobbs' sister described Ms Halverson's death as a tragic overdose. 'I was told it was an overdose of some sorts,' Courtney Meyer told the News Journal. 'I just feel numb right now. It's just a sad ending to a sad story.' Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Danielle Halverson, 50, was found dead in her DeLand, Florida, home on Monday morning . She was facing hit-and-run charges after losing . control of her vehicle and fatally striking Juliana Hobbs, 14, on March 17 before driving away . She was also charged with tampering with evidence after lying about her whereabouts . A friend said she had become increasingly depressed lately and had made suicidal statements .

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Article: Professional athletes continued to protest the Eric Garner and Michael Brown grand jury verdicts over the weekend with messages written directly on their clothes and shoes. Just days after making headlines for raising his arms in support of Brown along with several teammates before a November game, St. Louis Rams wide receiver Kenny Britt scrawled the names of slain black teens on his game day shoes Sunday. He included Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and others in a trend that appears to be catching on with big league athletes amid a national groundswell of solidarity with victims of what many see as an unjust legal system. In memoriam: St. Louis Rams wide receiver Kenny Britt wrote the names of slain black teens on his game day shoes Sunday . Honored: Brit included (though did, unfortunately misspell) the names of Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin as well as other teens on his shoes before a game against the Washington Redskins . It's a trend that Britt seems to have helped start. The 26-year-old wrote on his wrists 'Mike Brown' and 'My kids matter' before the November 30 game he began by raising his arms. He would later dedicate the night's win to the slain 18-year-old. More professional athletes were wearing 'I Can't Breathe' messages Sunday in protest of a grand jury ruling not to indict an officer in the death of Eric Garner. Chicago Bulls star Derrick Rose wore the message on his T-shirt during warmups before Saturday night's home game. Growing movement: Britt had previously dedicated a game in November to Michael Brown and wore these messages on his wrists . Also with St. Louis: Rams offensive lineman Davin Joseph wrote the 'I can't breathe' message on his shoes on Sunday . Cleveland Browns cornerback Johnson Bademosi sported the 'I can't breathe' message on Sunday, as well . Meanwhile, in Detroit: Wearing a Detroit Lions shirt with 'I can't breathe' written on the front, running back Reggie Bush runs through pre-game warmups in an NFL football game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Detroit on Sunday . Detroit Lions running back Reggie Bush and Cleveland Browns cornerback Johnson Bademosi warmed up in shirts with the message before NFL games Sunday. St. Louis Rams offensive lineman Davin Joseph wore the message on his cleats. The slogan refers to Eric Garner, who died after a police officer placed him in a chokehold while he was being arrested for allegedly selling loose cigarettes. A grand jury decided Wednesday it would not indict the officer. A video of the arrest showed Garner gasping, 'I can't breathe.' Gaining momentum: Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose wears a shirt reading 'I Can't Breath' while warming up for a game against the Golden State Warriors on Saturday . St. Louis Rams players, Stedman Bailey (12), Tavon Austin (11), Jared Cook, (89) Chris Givens (13) and Kenny Britt (81) raise their arms in awareness of the events in Ferguson, Missouri as they walk onto the field during introductions before an NFL football game against the Oakland Raiders in St. Louis . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

The Rams wide receiver honored Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin on the shoes he wore in a game against the Redskins on Sunday . Britt, 26, was among the Rams players who made headlines when they raised their arms in support of Michael Brown before a game last month . Misspelled names of both Brown and Martin - 'Mik Brown,' 'Travon Martin' Reggie Bush wrote 'I can't breathe' on the Detroit Lions warm-up shirt he wore Sunday . Browns cornerback Johnson Bademosi and NBA star Derrick Rose have each done the same .

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Article: (CNN) -- As many as 200 foreign fighters affiliated with al Qaeda may now be hiding in southern Somalia, according to the latest assessments by the U.S. military and intelligence community. Two U.S. military officials confirmed the estimate to CNN, emphasizing it is only an estimate because of the lack of direct intelligence information from the ground. It comes as a senior U.S. official separately confirmed to CNN that updated plans have been put into place for U.S. special operations forces to conduct operations against al Qaeda personnel in Somalia, if targets can be identified and located. All three officials declined to be identified because the information involves intelligence matters. The United States believes the foreign fighters include Afghans, Iraqis, Pakistanis, Saudis, and Yemenis as well as nationals from several African countries, the officials said. It is believed many of these fighters have been part of the longstanding pipeline of fighters that operated in Afghanistan and Iraq and has now been diverted to Somalia, they said. The estimate of 200 fighters does not include an unknown number of ethnic Somalis who are believed to have traveled to Somalia from Europe, the United States and other African countries, they said. In assessing the threat posed by the presence of foreign fighters, one of the U.S. military officials said the most dangerous are perhaps as many as two dozen "subject matter experts" from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia who are teaching bomb-making and other small arms tactics in camps across southern Somalia. The balance of the foreign fighters is believed to be operating with the Al-Shabaab organization, an al Qaeda affiliate group in Somalia that is fighting the government and African Union peacekeepers in an effort to take control of the country. One official said Somalia is now "the ultimate safe haven." The official added that the United States must operate on the assumption that the core group of foreign fighters are training others to conduct attacks against western targets in East Africa, as well as training individuals to attack targets in the United States. "They have goals beyond the Somalia border," one official said. The United States has observed a number of ad hoc training camps in southern Somalia, the officials said. Generally, they operate for no more than three months before fighters move to other locations because they know they are likely to be observed by U.S. intelligence satellites or reconnaissance drones flying overhead, officials said. Fighters are using existing areas like old army camps, buildings, and even cemeteries to disguise the real purpose of their activities, the officials said. The top al Qaeda operative still being sought in Somalia is Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, long wanted for his alleged role in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. He is believed to be moving between the remote border regions of Somalia and Kenya, the officials said. In September 2009, U.S. commandos killed Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan in a helicopter attack on his vehicle convoy after hunting him for years. Nabhan was seen as perhaps a key leader of al Qaeda operations in East Africa and, according to U.S. officials, it is not clear who, if anyone, has taken his place. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

U.S. officials say as many as 200 foreign fighters may be in Somalia . Plans in place for U.S. Special Forces to attack al Qaeda in Somalia . Ethnic Somalis from Europe also believed to be operating there . Somalia is now 'ultimate safe haven' for fighters, U.S. official says .

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Article: Women may claim they are attracted to a man for his personality, looks or even . his money, but the naked truth is far simpler and cruder that that: size matters. New research has shown that 21st century females are far more similar to their cavewomen ancestors than originally thought, because the size of a man's penis still plays a key role in deciding how attractive a woman rates him. The findings are based on 5,145 computer-generated images of men shown to over 100 . adult women of all ages and backgrounds, . Big is better: Women might not admit it but they prefer well-endowed men . Each image showed a representation of the male form, with varying combinations of height, shoulder-to-body . ratio and, of course, penis length. Flaccid penis sizes . of between two and five inches (five to 13cm) were used because this is the typical . size range found in Western men, according to the study carried out by researchers at the . University of Ottawa, Canada. Women were then asked to rate the attractiveness of each man, according to the research published in the journal . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The results showed that while women's opinions were influenced by . a variety of physical features - tall and broad-shouldered men tended to be . favoured over shorter men with bigger waistlines - the size of a man's penis reigned supreme in the attractiveness stakes. The findings contradict previous studies suggesting that the size of male genitalia was of no importance to . women. While researchers were unable to find the perfect penis size, proportion is crucial, they say. In what may come as a relief . to many men, manhood must not be so large that it appears out . of proportion to the rest of his body. The long and short of it: Women shown a variety of computer-generated men said penis size was the most important trait . They said: 'Our results directly contradict claims that penis size is unimportant to most females. They show that female mate choice could have played a role in the evolution of the relatively large human male penis.' 'Males with a larger penis were rated as . being relatively more attractive, but, the proportional increase [in size] begins . to decrease [in attractiveness] after a certain size,' said the report. The Canadian study comes after another investigation carried out by the . University of the West of Scotland found that a larger than average penis is more . likely to bring women to orgasm. In the Scottish study, an average . length penis was defined as being 5.8 inches (14.7 cm) long when erect - the same . length as a ten pound note. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Size of a man's penis still plays key role in deciding how attractive a woman finds him, say Canadian experts . Modern women are more like their cavewomen ancestors than previously thought . But if size is out of proportion, women are put off .

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Article: Two years on from his shocking collapse against Sergio Garcia at the Ryder Cup, and Jim Furyk is still getting asked about it. ‘Every time I go to the Press room, I know the questions are coming and I feel like we’re in a morgue,’ he says. Never mind that he has career earnings of more than $60 million (£37m), will make his ninth consecutive appearance in the biennial match at Gleneagles next week and, at 44, looks up at only six fellow professionals in the world rankings. ‘Everyone is looking at me with this blank stare and they ask me depressing questions,’ he added. ‘And they bring up the Ryder Cup the last time, and we go through Akron (he doubled the 18th hole in 2012 to lose the Bridgestone Invitational) and I leave there feeling like I lost my dog. It’s golf. No one died. I don’t expect anyone to feel sorry for me.’ Jim Furyk, Phil Mickelson and Webb Simpson watch Europe celebrate after winning the Ryder Cup in 2012 . As you might gather, Furyk in conversation is every bit as straight as one of his drives — and you can understand the slight irritation at the recurring theme. He is, after all, the great survivor of world golf, a man defying ridiculous odds. It is eight years since he was asked whether the game was passing him by. It was a reference to his struggle with his funky swing and being a medium hitter in the era of the power game. He’s certainly answered that one. Eight years on, just two players finished above him when it came to making this American team. ‘I’m very proud to represent my country and when I look back on my career and the things I’ve done, making nine teams means an awful lot,’ he said. ‘You have to be consistent and to be able to qualify by right for eight of them, to be in the mix that often, I’m proud of that.’ The Garcia question keeps coming up, of course, because of the extra-ordinary circumstances. Furyk was one up with two holes to play against the Spaniard on the final day in Chicago but bogeyed them both to make his own unfortunate contribution to the miracle of Medinah. Jim Furyk will make his ninth consecutive appearance in the biennial match at Gleneagles next week . Captain Davis Love had picked him as a wild card and Furyk was devastated when he didn’t deliver. ‘I think if you ask Sergio he would agree I outplayed him but it doesn’t matter if you don’t win the point,’ he said. ‘I think I was the most disappointed of our team because I felt bad for Davis. He got everything right as captain but quite honestly we laid an egg on Sunday and the Europeans got the momentum.’ You might expect him to be leading from the front alongside some of his more excitable colleagues such as Keegan Bradley in declaring this forthcoming visit to Scotland a mission of redemption. But Furyk has been down that road before, putting pressure on himself, and he knows it doesn’t work for him. It’s exactly four years, for example, since he claimed the last of his 16 victories in the 2010 Tour Championship in Atlanta. Since then, he has led eight tournaments going into the final round and not once has he ended up with the trophy. ‘Some of them have been taken away from me by people playing great final rounds but I’ve got in my own way a few times as well,’ he conceded. Furyk bristled when BBC Five Live golf correspondent Iain Carter asked him last week if this team was more pumped up than previous American sides. ‘Any other clichés you want to throw at me?’ he replied. ‘Are the Europeans more of a team, and we’re just individuals, perhaps?’ Earlier, he had given a more considered response. Team Europe's Sergio Garcia of Spain smiles as he walks up to the green on the eighteenth hole at Medinah . ‘If it was the same 12 players against their 12 then yes, it would be a lot of motivation,’ he said. ‘The Yankees lose to the Red Sox 3-0 then yes, the next time they meet it’s a big deal. But this is going to be a different group of guys and it’s two years later and also, I don’t think you ever need motivation to play in the Ryder Cup. Every team I’ve played in, the motivation has been the same.’ Furyk still considers it his favourite event, even though he’s only been on two winning teams. ‘Three-six would sound an awful lot better than two-seven, wouldn’t it?’ he said, smiling. ‘I just love the whole atmosphere. I remember losing one match to Ian Poulter and Graeme McDowell on the final green but I still loved it. They hung tough at the end, and you can have no complaints when that happens. ‘I like the friendships I’ve made and the spirit in which the matches are generally played. I remember competing against Darren Clarke and Lee Westwood in 2006. I had a short putt and someone said pick it up and I wasn’t quite sure what they said and Darren gave me this look that said, “Come on Jim, you know better than that, there’s nothing goofy going to happen in this group”. ‘I’ve made some good friendships over the years with Europeans like Darren and Lee. But it is true we’ve been on the losing side rather more than I would have liked.’ He has a good relationship with the British crowd, too, and is looking forward to the European songs. ‘They’re a great part of the occasion,’ he said. ‘My favourite was at Celtic Manor when you couldn’t see the fairway and the fans started singing, “Follow your nose, Jim”. I could barely hit my tee shot I was laughing so hard.’ Look to Furyk to be a formidable presence in the two foursomes series and a vital member of the American team room. And he knows exactly what needs to happen to prevent the press room feeling like a morgue. ‘I’m not chastising the press or anything, y’all have been very fair to me over the years,’ he said. ‘I understand the questions. I guess I just want to get away from having a sad conversation all the time, and walk out of there feeling happy. ‘I guess we have to win, right? So if and when that happens, I’ll be the one with a big smile on my face.’ Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Jim Furyk will make his ninth consecutive appearance in the biennial match at Gleneagles next week . American still asked about shocking collapse against Sergio Garcia at the Ryder Cup . Furyk still considers it his favourite event, even though he’s only been on two winning teams .

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Article: By . Ted Thornhill . PUBLISHED: . 11:28 EST, 20 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:26 EST, 20 September 2013 . A Dutch artist has fashioned a human skull out of cocaine by moulding the street-sourced class A drug mixed with gelatin. The piece, entitled Ecce Animal, is the work of mysterious artist Diddo who says he was commissioned to make the artwork, although is prohibited from disclosing further details. Diddo says he did not personally test the cocaine but employed a laboratory to analyse the drug bought from a street dealer. They found it was between 15 per cent to 20 per cent pure and had been cut with caffeine, paracetamol and sugar. Heads up: The life-like sculpture is claimed to be moulded using a street-sourced class-A drug . Mystery: The artist who created the unusual sculpture refuses to say who commissioned it . Binding agreement: Gelatin was used to bind the drug powder together . Ecce Animal is a comment on the juxtaposition of man's animal instincts versus the relatively comfortable modern world we live in. Diddo, 36, explains: 'Ecce Animal is not intended to be parable on the self-destructiveness of addiction or substance abuse. Instead, it's the focal point for a thought process. 'I don't want to over-intellectualise, but it's the fusion of two icons (skull and cocaine) that provokes thought and discussion on the nature of man. Specifically, about his creation of, and participation in, a society which echoes his own tendency to lose control. Concept: The artist describes his work as the fusion of two icons - a skull and cocaine . Off his head? Diddo hopes his work becomes a focal point for discussion on the nature of man . Diddo claims his artwork confronts the notion that man has created a society that's out of control . 'We have temporarily outgrown the intended uses for our animal instincts. This leaves us in an uncomfortable conundrum. Where can we safely store them until we need them again?' Diddo studied Media Design at the School of Arts Utrecht, NL and acquired a Masters Degree in European Media Design from the University of Portsmouth, UK in 2001. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

The piece - called Ecce Animal - is the work of mysterious artist Diddo . The mysterious creative says that he was commissioned to make the work . The skull is made from 15 to 20 per cent pure cocaine, according to tests .

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Article: I thought it would be a good chance for Roy Hodgson to play James Milner in the deep role in the midfield diamond. It didn’t work. Milner has been in good form for City and with his defensive quality and work-rate, he deserved a chance. England midfielder James Milner got stuck in the middle during Euro 2016 qualifier against San Marino . Milner's touch map throughout the 5-0 win . But he didn’t move the ball quickly enough through the middle. The diamond should free up Raheem Sterling so you need to get the ball to him fast. Milner tended to go sideways when he should have run further with the ball and then tried to find men through the centre. He looked more comfortable playing in a wider role in the second half. ....................................................................... Playing a team like San Marino poses a unique problem. Despite a good show from their goalkeeper, the win was a foregone conclusion. But that mentality can affect performances. The only way to combat that is to play at pace. At times England didn’t do that enough but it did improve in the second half. Milner was far more comfortable playing on the flanks . Substitute Adam Lallana helped England step up a gear after the break against San Marino . Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain thrived in central role after coming on as second-half substitute . Ox made a difference . When Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain came on, he gave the England midfield a new dimension. He wants to play centrally but rarely gets the chance for Arsenal. When he plays wide it’s as if he has to prove himself whereas through the middle things come naturally to him. On Thursday night he brought something extra and again showed Roy what he’s capable of. England fans were delighted Danny Welbeck got on the scoresheet against San Marino . Since his move to Arsenal, Danny Welbeck has enjoyed plenty of support and there was a similar reception at Wembley on Thursday night. The fans were willing him on and there was a real warmth when he scored. England will be relying on him in future, so it was good to see that. VIDEO Chambers debuts as England hit five . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

James Milner did not move the ball quickly enough against San Marino . Sub Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain gave England a new dimension . England fans were willing Danny Welbeck to score at Wembley .

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Article: BUTTE, Montana (CNN) -- Three families with young children were heading to a ski vacation together when their plane crashed into a cemetery in Montana, loved ones of the victims said Monday. Dr. Erin Jacobson and his family, shown here in a photo from November, were killed in the crash. Federal investigators said that with no flight data recorder or cockpit voice recorder on the plane and no survivors, an investigation into what caused the crash could last months. "This is going to take a while," National Transportation Safety Board Acting Chairman Mark Rosenker said at a news conference Monday. Investigators are looking into whether the single-engine plane was overloaded, what role weather may have played in the accident and what made the pilot decide to divert to Butte, he said. He urged reporters not to "jump to conclusions" about the crash. Early speculation focused on the fact that there were 14 people aboard the 10-seat aircraft, but Rosenker said young children often travel on the laps of adult passengers and urged reporters not to rush to judgment about the cause of the crash. "To jump to conclusions is a disservice to your readers and to those who are watching your broadcasts," he said. "This will be a long and tedious investigation -- extremely thorough. We will look at every factor which could affect the performance of this aircraft." Investigators said seven adults and seven children were on board, and all died in the crash Sunday. Authorities have not publicly identified the victims. But colleagues and loved ones have named all 14. Watch friend describe how victim was "like family" » . On Monday some of the victims' relatives visited the site of the wreck. St. Helena Hospital in St. Helena, California, said an ophthalmologist who worked there was killed, along with his family. "The St. Helena Hospital family is filled with such deep sadness over the deaths of Dr. Erin Jacobson, his wife Amy, and their three children, Taylor, Ava and Jude," the hospital said in a written statement, adding, "Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of each victim of this terrible tragedy." A friend of the Jacobson family said the Jacobson children were 4, 3, and 2 years of age. A dental practice in Valley Springs, California, said dentist Michael Pullen and his wife, Vanessa, were on the plane with their 9-year-old daughter, Sydney, and 7-year-old son, Christopher. The family is from Galt, California. Dr. James DuHamel of DuHamel & Pullen Family Dental said the two families were related. Vanessa Pullen, a physician in Elk Grove, was the sister of Amy Jacobson, he said. DuHamel said Pullen was "a fantastic dentist," and added that he will "miss him greatly." Adrian Cotton, whose wife is a sister of Vanessa Pullen and Amy Jacobson, is acting as a spokesman for the families. The third family was that of Dr. Brent Ching, a dentist in Chico, California, his office confirmed without providing further comment. Ching was accompanied by his wife Kristen and children Hailey, 5, and Caleb, 3, Hostetter said. Cotton said the pilot on the plane was Bud Summerfield, who was not related to any of the victims. While investigators continue to look into the crash, it is unclear whether details of what happened will ever be known. There is no requirement for a cockpit voice recorder or a flight data recorder on such private planes. Rosenker said there might be some avionics -- electronic systems that private planes can use for a variety of purposes -- that might contain some information, though they are not built to withstand crashes. A CNN crew at the crash site, Holy Cross Cemetery, could see no large chunks of the plane, a single-engine Pilatus PC-12. But Rosenker said "portions of all major structural components" had been identified. Watch footage from the crash site » . Some visitors set up crosses outside the gates of the cemetery to serve as a makeshift memorial. Others brought flowers. The flight was headed to Bozeman, Montana, but was rerouted to Butte, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Mike Fergus. The plane crashed 500 feet short of the runway at Bert Mooney Airport. No one was injured on the ground, Sheriff John Walsh said. The weather, which was clear Sunday, does not appear to have been a factor. See a map of the crash site » . The plane was designed to carry 11 people -- two in the cockpit and nine in the cabin, said Rosenker. He noted that young children often travel on the laps of adult passengers. Martha Guidoni said she and her husband witnessed the plane crash. She photographed one of the first images from the scene, which showed the cemetery in the foreground of a huge blaze. iReport.com: iReporter at scene of crash . "We were just taking a ride -- all of a sudden, we watched this plane just take a nosedive," she said. "We drove into the cemetery to see if there was any way my husband could help someone. We were too late -- there was nothing to help." Her husband, Steve Guidoni, said the plane "went into the ground" and ignited a tree. "I looked to see if there was anybody I could pull out, but there wasn't anything there; I couldn't see anything," he said. "There was some luggage strewn around. ... There was some plane parts." Watch witness describe what he saw » . A flight plan said the plane originated in Redlands, California, according to flight-tracking site FBOweb.com. Stops were made in Vacaville and Oroville, California, before the plane headed for Montana. The plane stopped at the Oroville airport about 11 a.m., refueled and departed about half an hour later, said Police Chief Kirk Trostle. The Oroville airport does not have a control tower. Eric Teitelman, Oroville's director of community development and public works, said that because it has a "wide-open runway" and a self-service fuel system, it is a frequent stop for general aviation aircraft. There were conflicting reports about ownership of the plane, which was manufactured in 2001. CNN's Auggie Martin, Dan Simon, Jim Spellman, Mike Ahlers and Irving Last contributed to this report. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Some family members of 14 victims visit scene of crash . Investigators looking into whether the single-engine plane was overloaded . FAA says 7 children, 7 adults were aboard plane that crashed in Butte, Montana . No recorders aboard; it's not clear whether details of the crash will ever be known .

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Article: By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 18:42 EST, 9 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 18:53 EST, 9 September 2013 . Sir Michael Parkinson said the quality of television reporting has gone down as a result of our 'youth obsessed' culture . Sir Michael Parkinson has criticised the quality of television today, blaming falling standards on an obsession with ‘youth’. The former chat show host, 78, singled out BBC1’s The One Show for criticism, dismissing it as an ‘agreeable frolic’ He said serious current affairs programmes such as Tonight, presented by Alan Whicker in the 1950s, and the late Sir David Frost’s chat shows were a ‘vanished species’, adding that both presenters were 'inspirational heroes'. The One Show, presented by Alex Jones and Matt Baker, is no match for . the 1950/60s series, which attracted audiences of seven million, according to Sir Michael. But he added: ‘Television in the 60s and 70s was a thrilling and exhilarating business to be part of. 'There were few rules, focus groups had not been invented - or if they had they were generally ignored. ‘The newly formed ITV stations were run by gifted entrepreneurs and the BBC by an adroit mix of showbiz and journalism. Producers were unencumbered by such irksome obstacles as compliance, health and safety and frustrating commissioning procedures.’ He told Radio Times today: ‘The biggest difference of all between then and now was defined . . . by David Blunkett [MP] when he described the ‘worship’ of the “cult of youth” by modern TV bosses as “an unstoppable fetish”. Sir Michael criticised The One Show presented by Matt Baker and Alex Jones (pictured), dismissing it as 'an agreeable frolic' 'A vanished species': The former presenter said the quality of programmes such as those presented by Sir David Frost (left) and Alan Whicker (right) no longer exists . ‘To indicate how much this obsession has distorted the standards set by the likes of Frost and Whicker, let us compare Tonight ... with its present-day equivalent. ‘The One Show is an agreeable frolic but it’s hardly a finishing school for a generation of television reporters.’ Sir Michael, who announced earlier this year that he had prostate cancer, added: ‘When you compare the kind of talk show David Frost developed with its modern counterpart you realise you are dealing with a vanished species.’ He continued: ‘Why don’t we have a daily, topical, irreverent magazine programme like Tonight? While technology had changed much of TV for the better, much of the content was worse, he said. 'Where is the talk show that is not masquerading as a comic frivolity, and why since the 60s have we never produced anything as innovative and inspiring as TW3 [That Was the Week That Was]?’ he said in the magazine. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Sir Michael Parkinson dismissed BBC programme as 'an agreeable frolic' Former presenter said programmes such as Alan Whicker's and Sir David Frost's are 'a vanished species' Blames modern TV bosses who 'worship the cult of youth'

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Article: Director-choreographer Adam Shankman has entered a rehab facility, but no details have been made public about what treatment he is seeking. A representative for the "Hairspray" director and "So You Think You Can Dance" judge confirmed to CNN Tuesday that he was admitted to an undisclosed rehabilitation facility. His last posting on Twitter came Monday when Shankman posted a red carpet photo with "Glee" stars Jane Lynch and Darren Criss, along with singer Adam Lambert. The photo was taken Sunday night at the Trevor Live charity event in Hollywood. Shankman, 49, has three "Glee" episodes on his directing resume. His film directing credits include "Rock of Ages," "The Wedding Planner" and "A Walk to Remember." He joined the Fox Network's "So You Think You Can Dance" show as a judge in season three. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Shankman films include "Hairspray," "Rock of Ages, "The Wedding Planner" He appeared at a charity red carpet event Sunday before entering rehab Monday . Shankman is also a judge on "So You Think You Can Dance?"

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Article: (CNN Student News) -- December 16, 2013 . Reports from Africa, Europe, and the moon land in CNN Student News' last Monday edition of 2013. We also report on the meeting of two, 107-year-old U.S. veterans, and we look at a debate concerning a California community's Christmas tradition. On this page you will find today's show Transcript, the Daily Curriculum, Maps pertaining to today's show, and a place for you to leave feedback. TRANSCRIPT . Click here to access the transcript of today's CNN Student News program. Please note that there may be a delay between the time when the video is available and when the transcript is published. DAILY CURRICULUM . Click here for a printable version of the Daily Curriculum (PDF). Media Literacy Question of the Day: . If you were to interview World War II veterans for a news report, what questions would you ask them? What do you think would be of greatest interest to a news audience? Key Concepts: Identify or explain these subjects you heard about in today's show: . 1. South Africa . 2. World War II veterans . 3. lunar rover . Fast Facts: How well were you listening to today's program? 1. Describe the scene near Nelson Mandela's burial site. Why was this site significant? What did people there say about Mandela and South Africa? 2. What country's "Jade Rabbit" spacecraft recently landed on the moon? 3. What different perspectives were seen in today's report about unrest in Ukraine? Discussion Questions: . 1. Why might U.S. Sen. John McCain's trip to Ukraine be significant? What potential benefits and risks might accompany a U.S. lawmaker's showing of support for protesters in another nation? 2. What do you think might be some of the benefits and challenges of exploring the moon? What questions might need to be answered to determine whether lunar mining is feasible? 3. What is your opinion of one group's effort to change the name of the La Jolla Christmas Parade? What is your opinion of the parade organizer's response? Why do you think that the name of this celebration is significant to both sides? CNN Student News is created by a team of journalists and educators who consider the Common Core State Standards, national standards in different subject areas, and state standards when producing the show and curriculum. We hope you use our free daily materials along with the program, and we welcome your feedback on them. MAPS . Download PDF maps related to today's show: . Africa . South Africa . Europe . Ukraine . North America . Austin, Texas; La Jolla, California . FEEDBACK . We're looking for your feedback about CNN Student News. Please use this page to leave us comments about today's program, including what you think about our stories and our resources. Also, feel free to tell us how you use them in your classroom. The educators on our staff will monitor this page and may respond to your comments as well. Thank you for using CNN Student News! Click here to submit your Roll Call request. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

This page includes the show Transcript, the Daily Curriculum, and Maps . Use the Transcript to help students with reading comprehension and vocabulary . The Daily Curriculum offers the Media Literacy Question of the Day, Key Concepts, Fast Facts and Discussion Questions . At the bottom of the page, please share your feedback about our show and curriculum .

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Article: Washington (CNN) -- Comedian Bill Cosby received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Monday after refusing to accept the award twice in the past. Cosby, known for his clean acts that do not include profanity, declined the previous prizes because he was turned off by language used at the first Mark Twain Prize ceremony in 1998 honoring the late comedian Richard Pryor. "I made it clear that there were certain people who misunderstood what Richard was about and how they were using words, "Cosby said. 'And I was not about to have that celebrating Mark Twain and Bill Cosby." Cosby accepted this year after the Kennedy Center promised not to repeat "the foolishness at Richard Pryor's celebration," Cosby said. Stars including comedians Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld, musicians Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis and "The Cosby Show" co-stars Phylicia Rashad and Malcolm-Jamal Warner helped honor Cosby during the ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Comedian Sinbad, who is also known for his clean comedy acts, said Cosby showed him that comedy without foul language could still have "bite." "[Bill] Cosby showed me that a person could be clean and make money and be effective," Sinbad said. "Bill Cosby is one of the greatest comedians this country has ever produced," said comedian Carl Reiner, a past Mark Twain Prize recipient. Cosby's career spans more than four decades. He started out performing stand-up comedy in small clubs in Greenwich Village in New York. He eventually landed a pivotal co-starring role in the 1960s television series "I Spy." One of his best-known roles was as Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable on the 1980s sitcom "The Cosby Show" The show portrayed an upper-middle-class African-American family and is credited with helping revive NBC's fortunes and for blazing a path for other shows featuring African-Americans. "How far I could go had barriers in front of it. And it is because of civil rights, because of the winning of the people of all color ... we're here today," Cosby said. "I just feel like a master. I feel good. And I'm comfortable." The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor is awarded to performers who use comedy to influence American society. Past recipients include George Carlin, Billy Crystal, Steve Martin and Whoopi Goldberg. The event is scheduled to air on PBS on November 4. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Mark Twain Prize is awarded to performers who use comedy to influence society . Bill Cosby refused award twice because poor language was used to honor Richard Pryor . Past recipients include George Carlin, Billy Crystal, Steve Martin and Whoopi Goldberg .

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Article: By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 05:16 EST, 8 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 05:24 EST, 8 August 2013 . Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has been pictured on state television just hours after rebels claimed to have attack his motorcade with shells. The dictator was on his way to a mosque in Damascus today to celebrate the end of Ramadan when he apparently came under fire from the Free Syrian Army. But government officials denied the claim, and a TV station controlled by the regime broadcast footage of Assad praying alongside the country's grand mufti. Broadcast: Syrian president Bashar al-Assad with the grand mufti Ahmed Hassan at a mosque in Damascus, as shown on state television . The Tahrir al-Sham rebel brigade said it fired several artillery shells towards Assad's convoy in the heart of the capital and that at least some hit their target. If confirmed, the attack would be one of the most direct against Assad in two years of civil war which have pitted mainly Sunni rebels against the Alawite president. Rebels have targeted Assad's residences in Damascus and a bombing in the capital last year killed four of his inner circle, but there have been no reports of Assad himself coming under fire. Video footage distributed by the rebels apparently showed smoke rising from the Malki district, where Assad and his close aides have homes. Other activists also reported rocket fire into the area. However, the government information minister Omran Zoabi said: 'The news is wholly untrue.' Prayer: Assad and his ministers were attending celebrations for Eid ul-Fitr, the end of Ramadan . Smiling: Assad has denied claims that his motorcade was hit with rockets fired by rebel fighters . Firas al-Bitar, head of Tahrir al-Sham, said his fighters had carried out reconnaissance of the route of Assad's motorcade and fired 120mm artillery towards the president's convoy early on Thursday. 'The attack rattled the regime, even if Assad was not hit,' he said. 'There were two motorcades, one containing Assad and a decoy - we targeted the correct one.' Bitar's brigade operates mainly in the Ghouta region of Damascus. Another Tahrir al-Sham official said Assad's forces fired rockets and artillery 'like rain' on the region in response to the reported attack. Following the statement, Syrian state television showed footage of Assad praying with ministers and other top officials. It said the footage was from Thursday's Eid ul-Fitr prayers at the Anas bin Malek Mosque in Malki. Assad appeared unharmed and smiled at the worshippers as he entered the mosque. Carnage: A scene of destruction in Raqqa province as Syria's two-year civil war continues to rage . Islam Alloush of the Liwa al-Islam, another rebel brigade, said that rebels fired rockets which struck Assad's motorcade. 'Assad was not hit but the information we have based from sources within the regime is that there were casualties within his entourage,' he added. More than 100,000 people are believed to have been killed in Syria's civil war, which began as a largely peaceful uprising in March 2011. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Opposition group claims to have hit president's motorcade with rockets . But regime denies rebels' claim and state TV shows Assad visiting mosque for Eid celebration .

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Article: A former Olympic judo coach has been thrown out of the sport after a disciplinary panel found that he sexually abused children in his care. Yet the agency responsible for preventing sex offenders and paedophiles from having contact with young people has cleared him to work with children again. Alan Roberts, who trained Olympic double medallist Kate Howey, was banned from coaching for life and stripped of honorary awards. Alan Roberts, retired, was found to have 'manipulated his position, influence and experience for the purpose of his own sexual gratification' But the decision by the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to let him still work with children has shocked his victims and angered senior figures in the sport. Roberts, who is retired, played a central role in British judo for more than 40 years. But he is in disgrace after a British Judo Association (BJA) adjudication panel chaired by a leading barrister, Matthew Ryder QC, heard evidence from five alleged victims during a week-long hearing last year. The tribunal’s unpublished report fou that Roberts carried out a series of assaults on young judo enthusiasts between the early 1970s and December 2003. Two of them were under 16. Roberts, 68, from Sheerness, Kent, denies any wrongdoing, but the 52-page report says: ‘The complaints against Mr Roberts are serious. He manipulated his position, influence and experience for the purposes of his own sexual gratification. 'He did so by taking advantage of the vulnerability of his students.’ Champion: Double gold medalist Kate Howey was trained by Roberts, who is now retired, but says she was 'totally unaware of the allegations' and was 'shocked' Mark Costiff, of Crawley, Sussex, said Roberts assaulted him after persuading him to visit his home for coaching. Mr Costiff, now 40, was 16 at the time. He agreed to be identified by The Mail on Sunday and said: ‘I didn’t report it at the time because he suppressed me and I was embarrassed. He made me feel that if anything wrong had happened, it was my fault. ‘It was horrendous. But he was very clever at covering it up. I was assured by the BJA that he would never be allowed to coach children again. I’m shocked by the decision not to bar him – it’s scary to think he could get involved with young people again.’ Roberts was suspended as a senior coach in 2009 after five judo players made complaints. Kent Police carried out two investigations but the Crown Prosecution Service decided there was insufficient evidence to bring charges. The tribunal report reveals that Roberts was once charged with indecent assault. He was found not guilty at Medway Magistrates Court in Kent in 1999. He told the MoS this week: ‘I categorically deny all of the allegations.’ He added that all his legal costs had been paid following his acquittal by Medway magistrates. A senior source within the sport said: ‘As far as the BJA is concerned, Roberts remains a danger to children. He will never be allowed to coach judo in this country again.’ DBS operations director Janet Gauld declined to comment. Miss Howey said: ‘I was totally unaware of the allegations against Alan Roberts. I was shocked when they emerged.’ Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Disgraced Alan Roberts, 68, was banned from coaching for life . Tribunal found that he had carried out a series of assaults on young pupils between the 1970s and 2003 . But victims have been left horrified by the decision that he is still fit to work with children .

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Article: By . Sunni Upal . Follow @@RSUpal . Luis Suarez was pictured arriving in Barcelona with his wife and daughter on Monday night ahead of his £75million move from Liverpool. The Uruguayan striker touched down in Catalunya in the early hours and will complete his dream transfer to the Nou Camp. Suarez leaves Liverpool to head to La Liga having arrived in January 2011 from Ajax. FIFA confirmed that Barcelona will not be allowed to publicly unveil Suarez while he remains banned for biting. The Catalan club has previously introduced star signings including Neymar and Cesc Fabregas to packed stadiums. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Luis Suarez and his family jump out of a car in Barcelona . Touching down: Luis Suarez pictured arriving in Barcelona on Monday night . Change of scene: The Uruguayan will complete his £75million move to Barcelona . Journey: Suarez is not allowed to be unveiled by Barcelona while his biting ban is still in force . Thumbs up: Suarez pictured wearing the famous colours of the Catalan giants . There have been suggestions Barcelona . could hold a similar event for Suarez in a non-football venue to get . around the four-month ban imposed on the Uruguay striker for biting . Italy's Giorgio Chiellini, but FIFA confirmed that any such event will . not be permitted while the ban remains in force. FIFA's head of media Delia Fischer said: 'The ban relates to all football-related activity. He cannot be in a football-related public event irrespective of the venue. 'He cannot even be involved in a football-related charity event.' Suarez, 27, had his appeal against the four-month ban, plus a nine-match international and an 100,000 Swiss franc (£66,000) fine, rejected outright by FIFA's appeals committee. He is expected to take his appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in a final bid to reduce the sanctions that, as they stand, will keep him out of club football until the end of October. Name on the shirt: But Suarez can't be shown off to fans at the Nou Camp or elsewhere . Number nine: They might not be able to unveil him but Barcelona fans can already buy Suarez's shirt . Different: Neymar and Cesc Fabregas both underwent high profile unveilings at the Nou Camp . Painful blow: Suarez's bite on Chiellini led to him getting his four-month ban from football-related activity . Chomping at the bit: The bite on Chiellini was Suarez's third such incident, leading to heavy punishment . VIDEO Suarez will fit in at Barca - Koeman . Suarez can also ask CAS to put his ban on hold pending their final decision but that would risk him missing more matches rather than a chunk of the close season if the court upholds the sanctions. Some 90,000 packed the Nou Camp stadium for the unveiling of Brazil forward Neymar in June 2013. FIFA's original ban took into account that Suarez had shown no remorse for the biting incident, his third such attack in less than four years. The player then did issue an official apology but it did not lead to any change of mind by the FIFA appeals panel. Suarez's lawyer claimed the punishment was 'blatantly draconian, totalitarian and fascist'. Alejandro Balbi told Spanish radio station Cope: 'The right of a footballer to work is being violated, and football should be worried about that. 'The nine (international) games may seem excessive, but the fact that he can't watch a game of football, or train or carry out his job, we are talking about unpleasant things.' Back in the day: Suarez at his Liverpool unveiling in 2011 - alongside Andy Carroll and Kenny Dalglish . Seeing is believing: Suarez was voted Player of the Year last season after a stunning campaign with Liverpool . Happy days: Suarez arriving at Anfield in 2011 (left) and lifting the Capital One Cup in 2012 (right) Haunted: The 27-year-old scored twice for Uruguay against England at the World Cup in Sao Paulo . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Suarez seen with his wife and daughter as he arrived in Catalunya . Uruguayan striker to complete £75m move from Liverpool . Barcelona will not be allowed to unveil Suarez while he is banned for biting . Suarez's lawyer calls the punishment 'draconian, totalitarian and fascist'

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Article: By . Julie Anne Barnes . Television coverage of the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony was last night under threat after BBC workers announced a 12-hour strike. Thousands of journalists and technicians at the corporation will walk out next Wednesday, jeopardising coverage of the flagship event that evening. Singers Rod Stewart, Susan Boyle and Amy Macdonald will join 3,000 volunteer performers for the ceremony at Glasgow’s Celtic Park, watched by a global TV audience of one billion. Thousands of journalists and technicians at the corporation will walk out next Wednesday, jeopardising coverage of the opening ceremony. Pictured, an artist's impression of Celtic Park during the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. But the BBC’s coverage of the event, hosted by Gary Lineker, Hazel Irvine and Clare Balding, is now at risk after members of the NUJ, Bectu and Unite unions voted in favour of industrial action, to run from midday to midnight on Wednesday, in a dispute over pay. Last night the corporation was unable to say whether or not viewers face a blackout, and whether or not emergency staff would be drafted in. Critics have attacked the decision, describing the walkout as unnecessary. Scottish Tory sports spokesman Liz Smith said: ‘The news of this strike is extremely disappointing, especially because it is clearly deliberately timed to coincide with the launch of the Commonwealth Games. ‘There is absolutely no need for this strike to go ahead. ‘When athletes have given up so much to train and prepare for the opportunity of a lifetime, the various unions are preparing to strike, which has the potential to cause completely unnecessary unrest just when the Games are beginning.’ The BBC¿s coverage of the event, hosted by Gary Lineker, Hazel Irvine and Clare Balding, is now at risk after members of the NUJ, Bectu and Unite unions voted in favour of industrial action . The turnout for the NUJ ballot has not been disclosed, but 77 per cent of its members voted for strike action. Some 79 per cent of Bectu staff came out in favour but it is understood only 42 per cent of BBC members voted in its ballot. Campaigners said journalists at the corporation have seen a 10 per cent pay cut in real terms over the past five years and that too much is being spent on salaries and perks for managers. NUJ general secretary Michelle Stanistreet described the turnout in the strike ballot as ‘decisive’, adding that the result ‘clearly demonstrates that journalists across the BBC are not prepared to put up with paltry pay deals any longer’. She added: ‘Members are prepared to take sustained action in this dispute and will name further dates if it is not resolved.’ Singers Rod Stewart (left) and Amy Macdonald (right) will join 3,000 volunteer performers for the ceremony . Gerry Morrissey, general secretary of Bectu, said: ‘The BBC can find money for vanity projects but cannot find money for its own staff, whose pay has dropped by 10 per cent in the past five years.’ The BBC has offered staff earning less than £50,000 a year an increase of £650, with those earning more than £50,000 receiving £500. When the Games were hosted by Manchester in 2002, they reached 40.3million people – nearly 73 per cent of the UK population – while the audience peaked at 9.7million for the closing ceremony. The BBC has promised that Glasgow 2014 will be its biggest Commonwealth Games, with 1,300 hours of live coverage. A BBC spokesman said: ‘We will do all we can to bring our audience uninterrupted coverage of the Commonwealth Games. ‘We will continue to speak to the unions in an attempt to resolve this dispute. However, we have made an improved offer and are mindful that we need to make significant savings and deliver more for less.’ A spokesman for Glasgow 2014 and Games Partners said: ‘The BBC are doing all they can to bring full coverage of the Glasgow 2014 Opening Ceremony to audiences.’ Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Union walkout could hit coverage of flagship sporting event in Scotland . Thousands of journalists and technicians are striking over pay . One billion people across the world expected to tune in .

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Article: Editor's note: The staff at CNN.com has recently been intrigued by the journalism of VICE, an independent media company and website based in Brooklyn, New York. VBS.TV is Vice's broadband television network. The reports, which are produced solely by VICE, reflect a transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process. We believe this unique reporting approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers. Brooklyn, New York (VBS.TV) -- In 1998, Kevin Warwick became what some people call "the world's first cyborg." To be exact, Warwick, a professor of cybernetics at Reading University, had a radio frequency ID chip implanted in his arm. Years before RFID chips became common, this small implant allowed him to turn on lights by snapping his fingers, or open doors without touching them. Once, after connecting his nerves to an array of electrodes in 2002, he let his wife use her brain waves to take control of his body. It was the first time the nervous systems of two humans had communicated electronically. "It was quite an intimate feeling," he says. This isn't just for fun, Warwick tells Motherboard.tv, VBS' technology channel. He is certain that without upgrading, we humans will someday fall behind the advances of the robots we're building -- or worse. "Someday we'll switch on that machine, and we won't be able to switch it off," he says, sounding a note of alarm that clashes with the cheery visions of futurists like Ray Kurzweil. That might explain why he has very little technology at home, and counts "The Terminator" among his biggest influences. Warwick doesn't want to turn into a robot: He wants to be a better human. Augmenting human ability, not turning into an automaton, is, after all, the premise of the "cyborg." One of the term's earliest uses, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, was in a 1960 New York Times article: "A cyborg is essentially a man-machine system in which the control mechanisms of the human portion are modified externally by drugs or regulatory devices so that the being can live in an environment different from the normal one." See the rest of "The Cyborg" at VBS.TV . Today, the argument for cybernetics may seem more imperative than ever. Already the latest bionic technologies are allowing deaf children to hear and disabled war veterans to run again. Technologists, meanwhile, see "augmented reality" applications for smartphones as doing something similar for our brains, fortifying them for life in a world overflowing with data. For now, Warwick, who will be awarded the Ellison-Cliffe Medal from the Royal Society of Medicine in 2011, is using his research into brain interfaces and autonomous robots to provide better insight into how memories are formed, and learn how to better treat brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. "Technology, directly integrated with the brain, can help overcome some problems people have," says Warwick. Brain implants could keep people fit, making sure, for instance, "you don't eat that chocolate cake that you want." But the possibilities may also be stranger than we have yet imagined. Someday, says Warwick, humans could become "a curiosity for the machines." " 'Look at that -- that's where we were in historical times,' they will think to each other." Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Kevin Warwick had radio frequency ID chip implanted in his arm in 1998 . Implant allows him to turn on lights by snapping fingers, open doors without touching them . Warwick says he doesn't want to turn into a robot, he wants to be a better human .

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Article: By . Sean O'hare . PUBLISHED: . 08:56 EST, 29 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 04:16 EST, 30 January 2013 . Egypt's army chief said political strife was pushing the state to the brink of collapse . It's a stark warning from the institution that ran the country until last year as Cairo's first freely elected leader struggles to contain bloody street violence. General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, appointed by President Mohamed Mursi last year to head the military, added in a statement on Tuesday that one of the primary goals of deploying troops in cities on the Suez Canal was to protect the waterway that is vital for Egypt's economy and world trade. Egyptian protesters clash with security forces in front of the Semiramis hotel in Central Cairo today . Egyptian protesters celebrate the capture of a state security armoured vehicle seized in Tahir square . Anti-Mursi protesters celebrate on the military vehicle as troops try to control the recent outbreak of trouble . Sisi's comments, published on an official army Facebook page, followed 52 deaths in the past week as a result of disorder. It highlighted the mounting sense of crisis facing Egypt and its Islamist head of state who is struggling to fix a teetering economy and needs to prepare Egypt for a parliamentary election in a few months that is meant to cement the new democracy. After almost seven months since Mursi took office, Egypt politics have become even more deeply polarised. Opponents spurned a call by Mursi for talks on Monday to try to end the violence. Instead, protesters have rallied in Cairo and Alexandria, and in the three Suez Canal cities - Port Said, Ismailia and Suez - where Mursi imposed emergency rule. Today, thousands were again on the streets of Port Said to mourn the deaths of two people in the latest clashes there, taking the total toll in Mediterranean port alone to 42 people. Most were killed by gunshots in a city where weapons are rife. Mohamed Ezz, a Port Said resident speaking by telephone, heard heavy gunfire through the night. 'Gunshots damaged the balcony of my flat, so I went to stay with my brother,' he said. Residents in the three canal cities had taken to the streets in protest at a nightly curfew now in place there. Protesters opposing Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi shout slogans as they march despite a night-time curfew in the city of Suez last night . Egyptian protesters defied curfew in restive towns along the Suez . Canal, attacking police stations and ignoring emergency rule imposed by President Mohamed Mursi to end days of clashes that have killed . at least 52 . In Cairo on Tuesday afternoon, police again fired teargas as stone-throwing youths in a street near Tahrir Square, the centre of the 2011 uprising. Egyptian army chief Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi said political strife was pushing state to brink of collapse . But the clashes were less intense than previous days and traffic was able to cross the area. Street cleaners swept up the remains of burnt tyres and other debris. Street flare-ups are a common occurrence in divided Egypt, frustrating many people desperate for order and economic growth. Although the general's comments were . notably blunt, Egypt's military has voiced similar concerns in the past, . pledging to protect the nation. But it has refused to be drawn back . into a direct political role after its reputation as a neutral party . took a pounding during the 17 months after Mubarak fell. 'Egyptians . are really alarmed by what is going on,' said Cairo-based analyst . Elijah Zarwan, adding that the army was reflecting that broader concern . among the wider public. 'But . I don't think it should be taken as a sign that the military is on the . verge of stepping in and taking back the reins of government,' he added. It seemed unlikely that Sisi was signalling the army wants to take . back the power it held for six decades since the end of the colonial era . and through an interim period after the overthrow of former air force . chief Hosni Mubarak two years ago. But his message sent a powerful . message that Egypt's biggest institution, with a huge economic as well . as security role and a recipient of massive direct U.S. subsidies, is . worried about the fate of the nation, after five days of turmoil in . major cities. 'The continuation of the struggle of the different . political forces ... over the management of state affairs could lead to . the collapse of the state,' said General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who is . also defence minister in the government Mursi appointed. He said . the economic, political and social challenges facing the country . represented 'a real threat to the security of Egypt and the cohesiveness . of the Egyptian state' and the army would remain 'the solid and . cohesive block' on which the state rests. General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said that one of the primary goals of deploying troops in cities on the Suez Canal was to protect the waterway that is vital for Egypt's economy and world trade . Sisi was picked by Mursi after the army handed over power to the new president in June once Mursi had sacked Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, in charge of Egypt during the transition and who had also been Mubarak's defence minister for 20 years. Since the 2011 revolt, Islamists who Mubarak spent his 30-year rule . suppressing have won two referendums, two parliamentary elections and a . presidential vote. But that legitimacy has been challenged by an opposition that accuses . Mursi of imposing a new form of authoritarianism. Mursi's supporters . says protesters want to overthrow Egypt's first ever democratically . elected leader by undemocratic means. The instability has provoked unease in Western capitals, where officials . worry about the direction of a powerful regional player that has a . peace deal with Israel. The United States condemned the bloodshed and . called on Egyptian leaders to make clear violence was not acceptable. Anti-Mursi placards held aloft in . the city of Suez last night show just how divided Egypt still is despite revolution . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Protesters defy night-time curfews in cities along Suez Canal . Troops deployed to cities on Suez Canal to protect trade . Five days of riots blamed on Morsi not achieving goals of the revolution .

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Article: By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 02:51 EST, 19 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 16:45 EST, 19 June 2013 . Alaska may be better known for its glaciers and forests than for its beaches, but this week residents of the icy state have been soaking up the sun during a freak heatwave. Anchorage, the state's biggest city, has seen record temperatures of 81F (27C), while other parts of Alaska are believed to have climbed as high as 98F. However, while many are delighted by the unusual warmth, others are sweltering in homes and offices which lack air-conditioning and are not designed to tackle heat. Scroll down for video . Relaxing: Sunbathers soak up the Alaskan heat wave at Goose Lake near Anchorage, the state's biggest city . Crowds: Residents of the state have seized the rare opportunity to indulge in summery activities . Residents have been sunbathing and swimming at lakes throughout the state, welcoming the heatwave which comes just a month after the last snows of the winter. 18-year-old Jordan Rollison, who joined hundreds relaxing on the shore of Goose Lake, commented: 'I love it - I've never seen a summer like this, ever.' But others were less positive - Anchorage resident Lorraine Roehl said, 'It's almost unbearable to me. I don't like being hot.' State officials took the unusual step of warning people that they should wear sunscreen if they go outside. Spectacular: A sunbather lies back on the beach as a plane comes in to land at Anchorage airport . The 81F temperature officially recorded in Anchorage yesterday is the highest ever seen on that date, while other places saw even more extreme spikes. The small town of Talkeetna near Mt McKinley saw an official peak of 96F, and a lodge nearby apparently measured 98F - equalling the highest temperature ever recorded in Alaska. 'This is the hottest heat wave in Alaska since 1969,' said meteorolist Jeff Masters. 'You're way, way from normal.' The heat wave also comes after a few cooler summers - the last time it officially hit the 80 mark in Anchorage was 2009. Bonanza: Tim Craig with the last fan available for sale at the True Value Hardware store in Anchorage . The wave has brought a bonanza for stores selling summer supplies - the True Value Hardware store had run out of fans, and was selling five times the usual amount of mosquito repellent. 'Those are two hot items, so to speak,' store owner Tim Craig joked. However, the unusual heat is set to come to an end soon - a high pressure system responsible for clear skies and high temperatures has moved on, meaning forecasters expect a cooling trend starting from today. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Anchorage sees highest ever temperature for this time of year at 81F . Alaskans flock to lakes and beaches to take advantage of freak heatwave .

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Article: By . Martin Robinson . New probe: Six police officers are being investigated by the IPCC, who are considering whether they could have stopped paedophile singer Ian Watkins earlier . Six more police officers are being investigated over claims they could have stopped paedophile rock singer Ian Watkins before he abused two babies. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is probing whether staff at three police forces failed to act because the ex-Lostprophets frontman was famous. The watchdog has served gross misconduct notices on three South Yorkshire Police officers, two Bedfordshire Police officers and a South Wales police officer as part of its ongoing inquiries. One officer from South Wales Police was issued with the same warning last year, taking the total now under investigation to seven. Singer Watkins is currently serving a 35-year prison term for a string of child sex offences. Described as a 'committed' paedophile, he used his fame to seduce young fans who allowed him to abuse their babies. After his trial it emerged that police were allegedly warned of his child porn obsession four years before he was jailed. Three independent IPCC investigations are ongoing into the on the response of South Wales Police, Bedfordshire Police and South Yorkshire Police to allegations that Watkins was abusing children. The commission is investigating complaints around the handling of three reports made to South Yorkshire Police between March and May 2012 which contained allegations against Watkins with potential evidence. A sergeant and two constables from this force have now been served with notices advising them that their conduct is subject to investigation. The IPCC said it is also investigating Bedfordshire Police's handling of information from a member of the public who reported an allegation of child abuse against Watkins in October 2012. A sergeant and a constable have also been served with the notices. The South Wales Police detective constable, who was attached to the Child Protection Unit, is the second officer from the force to be investigated. Criminal: Watkins was 'a determined and committed paedophile' but questions remain over whether police were warned about him before his trial . IPCC commissioner Jan Williams said: 'We are making good progress with our three independent investigations and as result of our inquiries IPCC investigators have served notices on six further officers as part of the ongoing investigation - three from South Yorkshire Police, two from Bedfordshire Police and a second from South Wales Police. 'Arrangements are being made to interview the officers in the coming weeks. 'We have now conducted two interviews with a detective sergeant from South Wales Police about his actions in relation to information about Ian Watkins. We anticipate he will be interviewed again in the near future. 'We are continuing to gather and analyse information in all three investigations in order to establish what steps were taken by police in response to the allegations made against Ian Watkins, whether he could have been brought to justice sooner and whether his celebrity status had any impact on those investigations.' The commission said it has received a substantial amount of documentation from the three forces which is being analysed by investigators. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

The police officers are from three forces across England and Wales . Forces were allegedly warned about Watkins four years before conviction . Singer was jailed for 35 years last year for abusing two fans' babies .

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Article: Judge said . internet was being 'hijacked by those who pander to the unacceptable and evil for . profit' By . Emma Reynolds . PUBLISHED: . 06:50 EST, 1 May 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 19:49 EST, 11 June 2012 . A child porn addict who began looking at indecent images when he was just 15 amassed almost a quarter of a million pictures by the time his 'base' addiction was uncovered. Daniel Hylands, 27, began looking at indecent pictures of children online while he was still a schoolboy and was caught 12 years later when police raided his Merseyside home. He was tracked down after he used a credit card to pay a sophisticated system allowing access to more than 200 websites containing sick images of children. Addiction: According to experts children are more likely to get hooked on pornography and some have even said to be spending 10 hours a day looking at explicit material . A survey this week revealed that two-thirds of the public back the Daily Mail’s campaign for an automatic block on online porn. The Mail has called on Internet Service Providers to block porn sites from homes unless adults ask to see sexual content when they set up internet access. But the Government is resisting the opt-in system, preferring a less stringent opt-out alternative in which users are asked when they set up their internet access whether they want porn blocked. Experts who analysed Hylands's computer tower after it was seized in May 2010 found 228,681 images of abused children, said prosecutor Paul Blasbery. The vast majority were in the least serious category but there were some in all five classifications, including 154 in the two most serious groups. When interviewed, store manager Hylands admitted he had started viewing such images when he was 15, but he initially claimed he had wanted to identify those looking at them so he could expose them to the authorities. Hylands, now of Southport, pleaded guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to 17 offences of downloading child porn images covering a four-year period. Shame: Hylands admitted the charges at Liverpool Crown Court, but he initially claimed he had wanted to identify those looking at them so he could expose them . Judge John Phipps said: 'The . internet, which could be of so much benefit to all, has a tendency to . be hijacked by those who pander to the base, unacceptable and evil for . profit, in particular this kind of filth. 'Each of these images - and there is a massive number in this case - is an image of an abused, exploited child.' Judge . Phipps said Hylands was an intelligent young man still held in . high regard by his employers and being supported by his devastated . parents. 'The support from your family is not unthinking and not unqualified,' he pointed out. The judge said he accepted Hylands was now genuinely remorseful and that if he jailed him it would be for a relatively short time and he would not receive the help he needs to deal with 'his unhealthy obsession.' Judge Phipps added: 'Of course you deserve to be punished. On the other hand I have to consider whether this kind of behaviour to which you had become addicted can be prevented from reoccurring in the future.' He made a three-year supervision order and ordered him to attend the intensive Northumbria Sex Offenders programme. He also ordered Hylands to sign the Sex Offenders Register for five years, made an indefinite Sexual Offences Prevention Order restricting his internet access and confiscated his computer equipment. The Daily Mail's campaign is supported by figures that show 15,000 youngsters have been expelled or suspended from school for sex offences against fellow pupils and teachers in the last five years. More than 1,100 were primary school children, with some as young as four. Offences included sexual abuse, assault, harassment, and lewd behaviour. A study by the London School of Economics found that parents have little idea what their children are looking at, with more than two thirds of parents whose children had looked at adult content saying they were were certain their child had not, or that they did not know. Middle-class children were more likely to access porn online than those from poorer backgrounds, because they were more likely to have computers in their own rooms. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Daniel Hylands was tracked down 12 years after he started looking at indecent images of children . Caught after he used his credit card to access more than 200 websites . Two-thirds of the public back the Daily Mail’s campaign for an automatic block on online porn . Judge said . internet was being 'hijacked by those who pander to the unacceptable and evil for . profit'

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Article: (CNN) -- The cast of the upcoming film "X-Men: Days of Future Past" made a surprise appearance at Comic-Con this afternoon along with director Bryan Singer. The cast members who appeared include those from the original "X-Men" movie franchise and those from 2011's X-Men reboot "X:Men: First Class." Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McEvoy, Patrick Stewart, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Ellen Page, Peter Dinklage, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Jackman, Evan Peters, Shawn Ashmore and Omar Sy assembled in Hall H to debut footage from the film. Dinklage has been rumored to be playing the villain in the film since photos from the set leaked earlier this summer, but at first the "Game of Thrones" actor wouldn't confirm his role. "I'm playing Mystique," he joked. He later officially confirmed his participation by saying, "I get to play Bolivar Trask." Singer directed 2000's "X-Men" and 2003's "X2," and produced 2009's "X-Men Origins: Wolverine." The director set up this new film in the series, which will be released in theaters on May 23, 2014, explaining the character of Wolverine (Jackman) will be the central figure bringing the story together. The upcoming "Wolverine" film out next week will act as a bridge for the character, Jackman said. Another can of "Kick-Ass" "The goal was to try and make a film that would bring this cast together by time travel or time displacement of some kind," Singer said. "Basically, the notion is that consciousness of Wolverine of the future is sent into his past self. And it was nice because Hugh was able to play both parts because the character of Wolverine is ageless. And it was great to be able to place him as a character in both these worlds. For me, it was great to reunite the old cast and get to work as a director with the new cast." Singer also addressed rumors that this new film will rewrite the movie universe he's set up in prior films, specifically changing some of the events from "X2." "Whenever you're going back in time -- and this is every bit as much a time travel movie as it is an X-Men movie -- there is those risks," Singer said. "I'm not the audience, I'm just the filmmaker, but I do believe in certain continuity that we'll maintain and some things we'll change. When you go back and mess about, things happen. So some of those rumors are probably somewhat true." Superman vs. Batman, friends or foes? There will be some interaction between the older and younger versions of the characters, according to Singer. The director screened a reel of film footage that included a teaser of that. "Wolverine is the journeyman," Singer said. "His interaction with the younger cast is primary. There is a moment, which you'll see in this reel, where these characters come face to face, older self with younger self. And we tried to do it in a unique way. It's been done before, but with my first opportunity to make a time travel film I want to create this set of rules and stay with them." One of the big surprises is that Professor Charles Xavier (Stewart) is still alive after the events of 2006's "X-Men: The Last Stand." In that film, the character of Jean Grey killed Xavier -- mostly. Metallica promotes new film . "My assumption was that it was going to be Ian and Halle and Hugh and everybody back, but it won't be me," Stewart said. "But something happened, which I'm not allowed to talk about -- am I?" In my own mind I understand how Xavier is alive at the end of 'X-Men 3,'" Singer responded. "At the end of 'X-Men 3' after the credits when his consciousness is inside of this woman in a hospital and you take that and mix it with some powerful mutants -- mutants can do a lot of cool stuff -- you can imagine that anything is possible." The film takes place during several time periods, including the 1970s, which allowed for some interesting costume choices beyond the X-Men suits. "I personally love the moments when I get to wear the '70s clothes," said Lawrence, who (really) plays Mystique. "I really enjoy them because I love that time and I like wearing clothes when I can. Some of the Mystique stuff, some of the look is a little bit different. We're still using the same paint. When we left the (last) movie, she was mutant and proud. She was kind of struggling with the problem that a lot of normal human people struggle with, which is how they look. So she was very covered up in the first movie, but this time she is mutant and proud." "It's a very collaborative thing," Fassbender added. "That's a thing that I've found as a whole: The clothes we wear, the Magneto outfit, being on set." "The best thing about playing the older Magneto this time -- no helmet," McKellen said, telling Fassbender, "We'll talk about helmets later." The cast members also discussed their ongoing friendships. One of the benefits of the film was bringing the original cast members back together and for Berry, who plays Storm, this film was a chance to reunite with old friends. "We all love the films, but what's nice for me is that in the first movie we all became such good friends," Berry said. "And we really like each other and we like being around each other so to have a chance to do the work and hang out with the people we really respect, admire and like to be around is the joy of coming back to do these movies. The beauty is we pick up as if we just saw each other yesterday. I was really happy to see everybody and meet the new cast." Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

The full cast of X-Men reunited at Comic-Con . They discussed details of the upcoming 'Days of Future Past' Peter Dinklage announced he will play Bolivar Trask . The film finds the characters time traveling .

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Article: Belgian authorities evacuated nearly 300 people from their homes . By . Amanda Williams . PUBLISHED: . 08:45 EST, 4 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 10:16 EST, 4 May 2013 . Two people are believed to have died after a freight train carrying chemicals crashed and exploded in Belgium this morning. It had been thought no-one was seriously injured in the explosion after the train came off tracks near the city of Ghent. But it has now been reported that two people have died, possibly as a result of inhaling toxic fumes from the explosion. Belgian authorities confirmed they had evacuated nearly 300 people from nearby houses. A freight train has exploded on a track near Schellebelle, 20 kms east of Gent, Belgium . It had been thought no-one was injured in the explosion. But it is believed two have died . Belgian authorities evacuated nearly 300 people from their homes after several cars of the train carrying chemicals derailed . The accident happened between the towns of Schellebelle and Wetteren, according to Infrabel which is responsible for the Belgian railway network. The blaze led to a series of explosions in the railway cars. The train came from the Netherlands and was bound for Gent-Zeehaven, the city’s seaport. The blaze led to a series of explosions in the railway cars. The train came from the Netherlands and was bound for Gent-Zeehaven, the city's seaport . The accident happened between the towns of Schellebelle and Wetteren, said Infrabel, the entity responsible for the Belgian railway network . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

It had been thought no-one was injured in the explosion this morning . But it is now believed two have died after inhaling toxic fumes . Belgian authorities evacuated nearly 300 people from their homes .

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Article: A 12 year old Adelaide boy has been missing for more than four days and his family are concerned for his welfare. Selwyn Warren from Campbelltown in Adelaide's north east was last seen at 7:30pm on Thursday December 4. The young boy has been described as being aboriginal with a light brown complexion, slim build, about 58 kilograms, 168 centimetres tall, hazel eyes and short brown hair that is parted to the side. Police are seeking the assistance of the public to help locate missing 12-year-old boy Selwyn Warren from Campbelltown in Adelaide's north east . Selwyn is from Campbelltown in Adelaide's north east and has been missing for four days . Police are seeking assistance from the public to help locate his whereabouts and urge anyone that has seen him to contact police or Crime Stoppers. His disappearance comes just three months after he went missing inside an Adelaide shopping centre. South Australian police confirmed the 12 year old was found 'safe and well' after they appealed to the public for assistance. Selwyn went missing on Monday September 8 and was last seen by a family member near the Firle shopping centre, just north east of Adelaide's CBD. South Australian police are appealing to the public in hope someone might have seen him . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Selwyn Warren, 12, has been missing for more than four days . The Campbelltown boy was last seen at 7:30pm on Thursday December 4 . He is described as being aboriginal, slim build, hazel eyes, short brown hair . It's the second time the teen has gone missing in the last three months .

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Article: Two singles in their seventies who married after a chance meeting at a blues concert have proved that love can come at any age. Margie Goldsmith, a 70-year-old travel writer who lives in New York City, had been divorced twice and no longer had marriage on her mind when she met Jamie Anthony, a 71-year-old retired insurance executive, at the Triad NYC, a theater on Manhattan's Upper West Side, in July 2012. 'I had completely decided that it absolutely was not worth it. I'd done it twice and that was enough,' Ms Goldsmith told DailyMail.com. Just married: Margie Goldsmith, a 70-year-old travel writer who lives in New York City, wed Jamie Anthony, 71, on December 13 after meeting at a blues show in 2012 . 'I was very happy with my life as it was. I was living a life as a complete person with a lot of friends. And I didn't feel I had to have a man. I think if you get to a certain age, you get over that - you don't need to have a man in your life,' she added. She and Mr Anthony, who had also been divorced twice and has three grown children, struck up a conversation about their mutual love of the blues after he noticed that her friend was wearing a shirt from the Shack Up Inn in Mississippi, where Mr Anthony had stayed many times. 'I thought he was absolutely charming and I loved his Southern accent,' she recalled of Mr Anthony, who grew up in Sandy Springs, Georgia, and now produces blues bands. 'I was thrilled to meet someone who had a similar passion.' One day later, he invited her to Maplewoodstock, a music festival near his home in Maplewood, New Jersey. The following weekend, he asked her to take a ride on his motorcycle. 'The moment he told me he loved motorcyles, I thought oh God, he's got to have tattoos all over his body. He's probably got black leather, he's got chains and he rides a Harley. But I liked him enough to be willing to give it a go,' she said. First impression: 'I thought he was absolutely charming and I loved his Southern accent,' Ms Goldsmith recalled of Mr Anthony . However, she found the ride exhilarating, telling the New York Times: 'Riding behind him was very sensual. You can choose how much to put your arms around him. I put my arms around him a lot. We were like two teenagers on our first date. By the time we made it back to the city, I was hooked.' The pair went on to experience other adventures together, including a motorcycle ride in the rain on Bavaria's Romantic Road, during which they got lost, not speaking a word of German, and ended up in Austria. It was in Germany that Ms Goldsmith began to realize the relationship was serious, she added to DailyMail.com. 'It was the first time I'd been away with him for more than two or three nights and he was really easy to be with and we had the same values. And I was very attracted to him, which I hadn't been in a very long time. I had just met a lot of men whom I couldn't wait to get away from after a cup of coffee,' she said. On a subsequent trip to Bali, where Ms Goldsmith was working on a story assignment, Mr. Anthony proposed in Balinese, telling her: 'I will love you forever. Please be a part of my life.' The couple married on December 13 at Mr. Anthony’s church, Prospect Presbyterian in Maplewood. Happy couple: 'He was really easy to be with and we had the same values,' Ms Goldsmith said of Mr Anthony . Ms Goldsmith said she was eager to gain 13 new family members, including Mr Anthony's son and two daughters, and their spouses and children. She found an instant rapport with his daughter Ashlee, whom she met on their first date at Maplewoodstock, and was impressed that all three children were 'so beautifully brought up, and so polite'. Ms Goldsmith said that there are two secrets to a happy marriage. 'First of all, respecting the other one's feelings and compromising instead of blowing up or getting resentful. But even before that, being open about your feelings,' she said. 'In both other marriages, I just let the resentment seethe inside of me. I was too afraid to express what I really felt because I thought each respective husband would get angry. But now that I'm older and wiser, I have no trouble telling Jamie if something bothers me and he does the same. I think the resentments are what drive people to divorce. It's empowering to be able to say what you feel.' Ms Goldsmith has kept her apartment in New York City, where she likes to write in her office, while Mr Anthony will maintain his residence in South Orange, New Jersey, where he's since moved, so that neither has to compromise their lifestyle. The couple will spend weekends together and plan dinner dates during the week. Ms Goldsmith said: 'I think at 20, or 30, or 40, as a woman, you're looking for someone to complete you. Even the second time around, you kind of lose your identity to a man. If you were brought up in an age when your mother said find a guy, marry him and darn his socks and cook his meals, you become an appendage of your husband and you lose whatever identity is your own. 'But when you're 70, if you choose to get married, you have your identity, you're not about to lose it. And if you're marrying someone who's also 70, then they understand that. They're not going to try to mold you into something they want you to be.' Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Margie Goldsmith, a 70-year-old travel writer who lives in New York City, married Jamie Anthony, 71, on December 13 after meeting at a blues show . The pair have traveled to Bavaria and Bali, and their second date involved a ride on Mr Anthony's motorcycle .

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Article: A finance manager stole more than £240,000 to fund her lavish lifestyle - increasing her own salary 135 times and even using a company credit card to pay a £400 vet's bill for her dog Max. Liza Starling, 45, was trusted as a model employee at family-run corporate tailors Stuncroft Ltd of Bury St Edmunds from 2005 to 2012. Its 36 employees had no idea she was secretly giving herself £4,000 bonuses, taking £11,500 loans she had no intention of repaying and clearing her £6,090 credit card bills. Starling had a company Mazda, company credit card, and regularly took flights to Belgium to oversee its operation there. But secretly she was stealing cash to spend on holidays to France, a designer kitchen, a new bathroom, new carpets and an extension on her £200,000 home in Wickham Market. She spent so much rebuilding walls in the Georgian house she described it as her 'money pit'. High life: Liza Starling, 45, pictured enjoying a cocktail was jailed for four years for stealing £241,000 from her firm. She cooked the books and gave herself unauthorised pay rises and payments . Her salary was £23,000 when she started with Stuncroft as the firm grew to 30 employees in Bury St Edmunds and 34 in Goole with a division in Belgium. She took on extra responsibility and claimed her salary ballooned to £75,000 when it should have been only £30,000 with yearly increases. No one knew she was stealing from 2005 to 2012 until she left and a new finance director found a black hole in the company accounts. However, today a jury at Hull Crown Court convicted her of three charges of theft totalling £241,000. The firm suffered financially and had to close its Bury St Edmonds site in 2012. Jailing her for four years Judge Mark Bury said: 'You have been convicted on overwhelming evidence of the systematic theft of more than £240,000. 'That theft started out with fairly modest sums to see what you could get away with and increased substantially. No one knew she was stealing from 2005 to 2012 until she left and a new finance director found a black hole in the company accounts . 'Your offending was motivated by greed and the desire to live beyond your means. You breached the high level of trust given to you by your employer. 'Over the years you stole significant amounts of money to pay yourself extra wages. One of the aggravating features is you sought to blame loyal members of staff, including the former finance director John Grundy saying that he allowed you to borrow £40,000 over four years. 'Mr Grundy is now dead and cannot defend his good character, but you knew that in your police interview. I have watched you give evidence. 'You have shown no remorse. Your arrogance was breath-taking. You tried to hoodwink the jury, but the saw through your obvious dishonest actions.' The jury found her guilty of three charges of theft after a six-day trial. Her husband of 24 years has supported her in the public gallery and gave her one last hug before she was taken away. Defence barrister David Gordon said: 'She has spent her first night in prison and found it shocking. It will have a detrimental effect on her and her husband. 'She suffers from fibromyalgia which leads to joint pain as well as high cholesterol which won’t make her stay in prison any easier. 'For all her offending she has nothing to show for it. The house she took in Suffolk was sold for £155,000 and of the £70,000 equity very little remains because of the debts she paid off. She described is as a project but it became a bottomless pit. 'She is now living in rented accommodation. No one has suggested her husband was involved. It was a shock to him as it will be to the rest of her family. 'Her parents are in their 70s and they have been kept in the dark. Her husband has the unenviable job of telling them about the court case today and one hopes it won’t have too detrimental an effect on their physical and emotional health.' Stuncroft is a corporate clothing supplier and was founded by tailor Brian Long who died in 2008. Starling sought to hide behind his death and that of John Grundy, the finance director, in her efforts to explain why she was receiving thousands of pounds through the company which was not in her contract of employment. Starling, of Gainsborough, accepted in police interview she regularly ran out of money 'because her Suffolk house was falling down' and asked Mr Grundy for a loan who said 'of course, pay yourself the money.' Liza Starling's dog Max. She stole money from her employers £400 to pay for his vets bill . She said she discussed a loan of £40,000 which she took in instalments of up to £11,500 a time in 2008. But money was never paid back. To hide her tracks from auditors she used false codes in the bookkeeping system. In one example she made it look like a payment to clothing outworkers in Bangalore, India. In another case she paid herself £3,875-a-month mirroring a director’s company pension payment so it was overlooked or thought to be an error. She claimed in January 2008 she was given a pay rise to £75,000, but there was no supporting letter or email. In December 2011 she gave herself an additional £4,000 Christmas bonus. But her world came tumbling down in June 2012 when she handed in her notice to managing director Douglas Bailey claiming she was stressed and could not work for him. New finance manager Elizabeth Hay took over and was unable to make the books balance. She contacted the bank for breakdowns for the mysterious payments, finding each time money was paid to Liza Starling. It was the tip of a financial iceberg. Starling did not pay the necessary Inland Revenue tax on her thefts. She had the audacity to make a further five separate thefts after she handed in her notice, coding her final additional payment as 'finished goods' to hide it from auditors. Humberside Police are to launch a separate Proceeds of Crime Act Investigation in an effort to claw back her ill-gotten gains. Judge Bury said he did not believe all her assets had gone. Speaking after the hearing Stuncroft managing director David Bailey said: 'I have 36 hard-working employees in Goole and I gathered them together last night to tell them. 'The staff were all shocked. I sat through the court case and was saddened by what I heard. Liza Starling worked hard, but she stole a lot of money and justice has now been done. 'This all happened before I became managing director and was discovered a year ago and in many ways the company is in a different place now to what it was. 'My main priority is to look after the 36 people we have working for us and our customers and move on. 'We are not flying, but we are in a healthy position and that is down to the hard-work of the staff. We have many of them women in their 50s and 60s who let’s be honest are not paid highly but we are proud to work with.' Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Liza Starling, 45, faked company records to hide the payments . She abused the high level of trust she was given by her employers . Her crimes were uncovered after a new finance director became suspicious .

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Article: By . Madlen Davies for MailOnline . They say cats have nine lives. But mother-of three Lucia Cassidy has proved she has 29. Mrs Cassidy's heart stopped a total of 29 times in just 24 hours due to a rare condition, but she has now recovered has begun competing in fitness competitions. A busy life looking after three children Gerard, 8, Tyson, 6 and Jayden, 5 meant Mrs Cassidy often forgot to eat and drink properly, and one night she became ill with and upset stomach and was sick. Lucia Cassidy, 34, form Edmonton in North London suffered 29 cardiac arrests- where her heart stopped beating- in 24 hours, but has recovered and now enters into fitness competitions . Mrs Cassidy has a burn from when doctors used defibrillators which sent 200 volts of electricity into her heart to shock it into beating normally again, saving her life . She collapsed and suffered the first of 29 cardiac arrests - where the heart stops pumping - and was rushed to hospital, drifting in and out of consciousness. Each time her heart stopped, medical teams had to fight to get it beating again - using 200 volt defibrillators, which send electric shock into the heart to get it beating again. Mrs Cassidy, 34, has now been diagnosed with Long QT Syndrome, a rare heart condition that causes fainting and episodes of abnormally rapid heart rhythm, called arrhythmia. If these episodes of arrhythmia persist, if they are not corrected electrically, they can cause cardiac arrest and death. Mrs Cassidy said: 'I just feel so lucky to be alive - people can't believe it when I tell them what happened.' 'I didn't have any warning before the attacks happened and I didn't see it coming as I try to stay fit and healthy. Long QT syndrome is an uncommon but serious heart condition. It can cause fainting and episodes of an abnormally rapid heart rhythm, called arrhythmia. This happens because the electrical activity of the heart is disrupted – a problem that is either inherited or acquired later in life. For example, some drugs antibiotics and antihistamines can trigger it. Not everyone with long QT syndrome will experience arrhythmia, but when it does happen it can be fatal. Some people with long QT syndrome will suffer arrythmia known as 'torsade de pointes', when their heart suddenly beats in an abnormally fast, uncontrollable way. When this happens, the heart cannot pump blood properly and the brain is temporarily starved of oxygen, causing the person to temporarily pass out. The torsade de pointes rhythm usually returns to normal within a minute, and the person regains consciousness. The heart cannot pump blood properly and the brain is temporarily starved of oxygen, causing the person to temporarily pass out. The torsade de pointes rhythm usually returns to normal within a minute, and the person regains consciousness. These episodes can start at any age and may be triggered by certain things such as stress, a sudden noise, exercise (especially swimming) and a slow heart rate during sleep. However, there is not always a trigger. Long QT is treated by medication, surgery lifestyle changes, such as eating more potassium. Source: NHS Choices . 'I had my three boys one after the other and my main concern is being a good mother to my children. 'I was more concerned with looking after everybody else and I forgot about myself. 'I was always running around after the kids and I found myself too busy to eat or drink, I was just surviving off very little. 'I developed a bit of an upset tummy, and I had painful chest but I just blamed it on breast feeding. 'I didn't realise my body was shutting down. 'I woke up in the middle of the night with an extreme thirst, and the rest is a blur. 'I was woken up by the sound of my boys crying, and I had collapsed on the floor. 'I had an out of body experience where I saw my partner Gerard giving me CPR and begging me to start breathing, and I came back around. 'When the ambulance arrived I had slipped out of consciousnesses again and the staff were performing CPR on me in on the way to hospital.' At Middlesex Hospital Mrs Cassidy was hooked up to drips but doctors found her veins had collapsed and struggled to stabilise her. She suffered cardiac arrest after cardiac arrest, leaving doctors fighting every minute to save her life. She said: 'I kept having cardiac arrests and each time I came round I was certain I was dying. 'I looked down at my feet and they were blue, because I had such poor circulation and I was just crying my eyes out at the thought of not seeing my boys again. 'Oxygen wasn't getting to my brain and it was causing me to pass out. 'I was shocked with the defibrillator each time and I even have a burn on my chest from where I received the 200 volts.' After suffering the first few attacks, and being revived again, Mrs Cassidy managed recognise when she was about to pass out. Doctors told her to try coughing which could stabilise her heartbeat, which seemed to work. Three weeks later, with her condition stable, she was allowed home to her family. She now has an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) fitted, which is similar to a pacemaker. If the ICD senses that her heart is beating at a potentially dangerous rate, it will deliver an electrical shock, which can help return the heart to a normal rhythm or get it pumping again. Looking after her three boys Gerard, 8, Tyson, 6 and Jayden, 5, meant Mrs Cassidy often forgot to eat or drink properly, which led to an upset stomach, sickness, and her first cardiac arrest . She has lost 11kg entering into the Miss Galaxy Universe competition, and hopes to enter more in the future . Though her heart stopped many times, Mrs Cassidy does not shy away from activities which increase her pulse. She now channels her energy into fitness competitions, which have helped her focus throughout her recovery. Contrary to popular belief, a cardiac arrest is not the same as a heart attack. A cardiac arrest occurs when the heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops beating due to a malfunction in its electrical system. It is caused by an abnormal rhythm, or arrhythmia. Anyone can suffer a cardiac arrest and it can happen at any time and without warning. Symptoms include unresponsiveness, loss of consciousness, lack of pulse and stopping breathing. In contrast, a heart attack can be thought of as a problem with the heart's plumbing - it occurs when an artery supplying the heart becomes blocked. This causes the heart muscle to begin to die slowly while the patient usually remains awake and alert. She has even entered her first competition - the Miss Galaxy Universe competition, which celebrates female athletic ability and physique. Lucia said: 'The heart attacks were the worst and best experience I've had. I was so scared but now I have survived it, I have a whole new perspective on life. 'Everything was almost taken away from me, but now I am much braver than I was before and I have decided to fight back and enjoy myself. 'Training for the Miss Galaxy Universe competition really helped me recover from my ordeal. 'It gave me something to aim towards and a reason to get fit and healthy again. 'I worked out with a personal trainer and I wanted to achieve a strong and supple body.' After losing 11kg for the competition, she hopes to enter more in the future. She said: 'I've got the bug now, it is so addictive. The doctors couldn't believe how well I recovered and I am now determined to push myself. 'I want to do more fitness competitions and keep enjoying my life to the full.' Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Lucia Cassidy, 34, forgot to eat and drink as she was caring for her children . Was rushed into hospital having a cardiac arrest - where her heart stopped . She suffered 29 cardiac arrests in 24 hours with doctors reviving her . Was diagnosed with rare heart rhythm condition called Long QT syndrome . Now has an implantable cardioverter defribrillator (ICD) fitted . This sends an electric shock to her heart if it beats abnormally . Enters into fitness competitions and hopes to win Miss Galaxy Universe .

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Article: She is the sex shop queen most well-known for bringing the Rampant Rabbit to Britain. So it is perhaps surprising that Jacqueline Gold has been unveiled as the Tories’ latest campaign weapon. The Ann Summers boss was paraded by the party as its newest supporter, sitting in the front row as George Osborne and his colleagues attacked Labour over spending. Ann Summers boss Jacqueline Gold was unveiled as the Tories’ latest campaign weapon . At the event, Chancellor George Osborne, flanked by four senior Cabinet colleagues, unveiled Treasury figures suggesting that Labour has already made almost £21billion of unfunded spending pledges. Conservative strategists are planning to echo the party’s ‘tax bombshell’ warning about Labour ahead of the 1992 election – the last time it won power outright. Miss Gold, 54, who has a £240million fortune, transformed her father David's business Ann Summers by making the sex-toy and lingerie chain more female-friendly. It has 150 stores and 7,000 party planners, and annually sells two million of the Rampant Rabbit vibrator. After attending an at-home Tupperware party, she saw the potential to use a similar concept to introduce sex toys and lingerie to women. The all-male board initially rejected the idea of having Ann Summers parties, but when they started they proved a success and Miss Gold was made chief executive in 1993. In a 2013 interview, Miss Gold said that she most wants to be remembered ‘for liberating women between the sheets, for bringing sex to the high street, and financial independence to thousands of women via our party planning’. She added that she was often asked if she thought about going into politics, adding: ‘As a woman in business for the past 30 years, I’ve felt like I’ve been in politics all my life.’ Chancellor George Osborne (centre) took the fight to Labour flanked by (left to right) Culture Secretary Sajid Javid, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, Home Secretary Theresa May and Commons leader William Hague . Businesswoman and Apprentice star Karren Brady, a Tory peer, was in the audience at the event in Millbank Tower, Westminster . Miss Gold’s unveiling as a supporter comes after Karren Brady, who used to work for Mr Gold’s downmarket Sport Newspapers, was made a Tory peer last year. Baroness Brady’s big break came when she was asked by Mr Gold to take over the running of Birmingham City football club. Yesterday, Baroness Brady was also sat on the front row over the Conservative Party event. A Tory source said it had not been decided how prominent she would be in the campaign, but added: 'She's a successful entrepreneur. I think we should praise success rather than follow Labour's culture of envy.' Last night Miss Gold told the Mail: ‘I have always been a supporter of the Conservative Party and was proud to support the event. ‘As a British businesswomen I believe that only the Conservatives have the long term economic plan this country needs and that it is essential that David Cameron is returned to Downing Street after the general election to deliver it.’ Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Ann Summers boss Jacqueline Gold paraded by party as newest supporter . She was on the front row as George Osborne attacked Labour spending . Tories want to 'praise success' not follow 'Labour's culture of envy' Tory peer and Apprentice star Karren Brady was also at the event .

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Article: Santiago, Chile (CNN) -- Aid poured in for Chile from home and overseas, with a local television station hoping to raise $27 million by Saturday and the United Nations pledging funds toward recovery efforts after a massive earthquake. "Chile Helps Chile," a telethon that started Friday, runs until Saturday night, according to TV Chile's Web site. The site includes phone numbers and and e-mails for making donations in nearly 20 countries outside the South American nation. Hundreds of people died when the 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Chile last Saturday. The world's fifth-strongest earthquake since 1900 resulted in a tsunami that toppled buildings, particularly in the Maule region along the coast. It's still unclear exactly how many people died. Army divers have been searching the waters near the city of Constitucion for the bodies of as many as 400 tourists who were camping on an island during a summer festival. "There were horrible screams. People calling out for us to go and rescue them. They were crying for help. But there was nothing we could do," local fisherman Agustin Diaz said. Full coverage of Chile's earthquake . United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday pledged up to $10 million to support relief and recovery efforts during a two-day visit, where he met with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet. "I am visiting this city with a deep sadness," Ban told reporters Saturday while in Concepcion. "Standing before this destruction, I can feel for your loss, your struggle. "At the same time I am very grateful, very moved by such a strong determination," he added. "The leaders, the people on the ground, they are all united." Ban also announced Friday a team effort between U.N. agencies and the Chilean government to determine the priority areas for funds, with emphasis on health, shelters, education and water. The secretary-general plans to bring the matter in front of the United Nations on his return. Chileans proud to help out their own . The Chilean government has asked the United Nations for items such as field hospitals with surgical facilities, dialysis centers, generators, saltwater purifying systems, mobile bridges and field kitchens. Chile endured two more strong aftershocks Friday -- the first a 6.0-magnitude earthquake and the other 6.6. They were the latest in scores of aftershocks that have hit in the past week. Friday's aftershocks did not cause any known injuries or damage and no tsunami warnings were issued. A six-member U.S. Agency for International Development disaster response team has been sent to Chile to assist with relief effort, said State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley. Shocking scenes hours after quake . The United States has sent 71 satellite phones, plastic sheeting and two mobile water treatment units, the State Department said. Six more water treatment units are to arrive within a week. A field hospital and two C-130 aircraft to assist with moving supplies around the country have also been deployed. The United States has also sent $1 million to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to aid their efforts. Chile has announced three days of national mourning beginning Sunday. Every house has been authorized to hang the national flag in memory of those who perished. Share your story from the earthquake in Chile . The death toll was revised downward Thursday as authorities reviewed discrepancies in the reported number of dead in the Maule region. To limit confusion, Deputy Interior Minister Patricio Rosende read aloud the names of 279 Chileans whose bodies had been identified by Thursday evening. The new tally does not account for hundreds of unidentified victims. "It takes months sometimes to compile the information, because one of the biggest problems in the affected areas is the lack of precision and uncertainty at the scene," Rosende said. Despite the disaster, the Chilean Davis Cup tennis team will open competition Saturday in Coquimbo, Chile, against Israel. Team officials and players said they would be playing in honor of quake victims. "It will be difficult, but we will do our best for our country," said player Fernando Gonzalez. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Aid efforts for Chile quake victims gain momentum . Region still dealing with aftershocks a week after 8.8-magnitude earthquake . Three days of national mourning set to begin Sunday .

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Article: By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 22:46 EST, 7 February 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 04:56 EST, 8 February 2014 . It had been a day she dreamed of ever since she was a little girl, yet just hours after her wedding day was over Florida woman Amanda Karth's memories of her first dance, cutting the cake, and exchanging her vows were lost forever. 'I don't remember the wedding day at all,' she said. So now ten months later family and friends have gathered to recreate the ceremony and reception so Amanda will have memories to carry forever. Love: Amanda and Cody Karth had a dream wedding, but after a heart attack she couldn't remember any of it . First dance: Amanda can't even recognize footage of her first dance here with new husband Cody . Again for the first time: Amanda can always remember this second chance for her first dance . The first time twenty-seven-year-old Amanda and husband Cody Karth tied the knot, everything went perfectly. 'It was fabulous,' Cody told Inside Edition. 'It was everything you could ever want in a wedding and it was the best day of my life.' The day was a dream, but on their first night as man and wife tragedy struck. Just married: Amanda's can't recall the beautiful cake from her first wedding . Second time around: Now Amanda can laugh at the memory of smearing cake across her new husband's face . Big day: Karth's second dream wedding was attended by family, friends, and the paramedics who saved her life . The first time twenty-seven-year-old Amanda and husband Cody Karth tied the knot, everything went perfectly. 'It was fabulous,' Cody told Inside Edition. 'It was everything you could ever want in a wedding and it was the best day of my life.' The day was a dream, but on their first night as man and wife tragedy struck. Emergency: After Karth's first wedding day husband Cody woke up to find her passed out and immediately performed CPR . Fluke: Doctors said Amanda suffered from 'Broken Heart Syndrome' a rare condition that causes the heart to cease functioning . Just before sunrise, Cody says he woke up to see his new wife struggling to breath. 'I just grabbed her, 'What's wrong? What's wrong? What's wrong?'' he remembered. Amanda passed out on the bed, and Cody wasted no time calling 911. As he waited for help, he moved her body to the floor and administered CPR praying to keep her alive. But when the paramedics arrived, they couldn't find a pulse. Amanda was shocked back to life and sped to the hospital. Take two: After hearing about Karth's story, Inside Edition paid to have a brand new wedding day for the young bride . Miracle: Doctors were stunned when Amanda recovered from her coma four days after suffering her heart attack . Doctors later discovered Amanda had suffered from a rare phenomena known as 'Broken Heat Syndrome,' in which the heart becomes dysfunctional. She remained unconscious for four days. 'I just didn't know what to say,' said Dr. Adam Frank of NCH Heart Institute in Naples, Florida. 'I don't know what to offer these people and what kind of outcome they're going to see. And literally the next day I walked in to start rounds Amanda was sitting up.' Always: This time Amanda can treasure her memories of the day forever . Amanda had achieved a miraculous recovery but couldn't remember a single moment of her wedding day. After hearing Amanda's story, Inside Edition invited Amana and Cody's friends, family, and even the paramedics who shocked her back to life to the West Bay Club for a redo of the young bride's special day. Cody may have had a sense of deja vu when his wife smeared wedding cake across his face, but for Amanda it was brand new, and this time a memory she could keep forever. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Amanda Karth suffered a heart attack that put her into a four-day coma only hours after her big day ended . Karth said she lost all memory of the day she married fiance Cody . Inside Edition paid for a new wedding day inviting the couples friends, family, and the paramedics who saved her life .

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Article: By . Chris Pleasance . PUBLISHED: . 05:39 EST, 14 March 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 09:59 EST, 14 March 2014 . Boris Becker's Spanish villa is being auctioned off for £6million after the tennis star lost a court case involving an unpaid builder's bill. The 46-year-old former tennis player purchased the property on Majorca 17 years ago and has been embroiled in court cases over it ever since. Now the nine-bedroom holiday home is set to be confiscated and sold at auction after Becker failed to pay £340,000 for carpentry, plumbing and layering a basketball court. Boris Becker's Spanish villa is to be confiscated and auctioned for £6million to cover a £340,000 unpaid builder's bill and £20,000 in court costs and interest . In 2003 a court ruled that part of the villa had been constructed illegally and ordered rooms to be torn down . [caption] . Becker also owes a further £20,000 in court costs and interest, bringing the total to £360,000. Seven years ago Becker tried to sell the villa for £12.5million but failed to find a buyer. By 2012 the property value fallen to £7million. The hope that it would turn into a dream holiday retreat on the island came to an end in 2003 when a court ruled that it had been built in part illegally and ordered the extra rooms to be demolished. In June 2012 the German Grand Slam champion nearly lost the property in a dispute over an unpaid debt to a local gardener. On that occasion Becker managed to pay £285,000 just as the villa was about to go under the hammer. The Wimbledon winner, who has also had to pay divorce and paternity settlements in excess of £20million, was then slapped with a £340,000 bill from a builder in a separate settlement. In 2003 a court ruled that part of the villa had been constructed illegally and ordered rooms to be torn down . That bill remains unpaid and the villa will now be sold off to cover the money he owes in interest and court costs. Lawyers for the tennis star argued that the estate agent who sold him the house, Matthias Kuhn, should foot the bills, but this argument was thrown out. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Boris Becker to be forced to auction nine-bed villa for £6million . Court ruling comes after dispute over £340,000 unpaid builder's bill . Former tennis star also owes £20,000 in court costs and interest . Becker nearly lost property once before over £285,000 gardener's bill . In 2003 some rooms had to be flattened after ruling they were built illegally . He tried to sell villa for £12.5million in 2007 but failed to find a buyer .

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Article: By . Daily Mail Reporter . A 16-year-old girl is alive but in critical condition after she and her young boyfriend were hit by a train as they walked to a high school dance together at a school in northern California. Sadly, Mickayla Friend's 16-year-old boyfriend, Mateus Moore - who her family describes as her 'first love' - didn't survive. And according to witnesses, Friend may have been killed as well had Moore not pushed her out of the way at the very last second, keeping her from getting pinned underneath the train. It remains unclear why the teens didn't hear the train's horn when it sounded as it was bearing down on them as they walked down the tracks. It's also unclear what they were doing on the tracks at all - according to witnesses, the couple was walking to grab a bite to eat before heading into the dance, but authorities aren't sure why they chose to walk on the tracks rather than take the road. Young love: This photo of Mateus Moore and Mickayla friend was taken just minutes before the young couple was hit by a train . Both victims initially were named by Fox40.com, however no official identification has been made by law enforcement officials in Marysville -- about 70 miles north of Sacramento - where the incident took place. 'It's her first boyfriend, and her first love,' Friend's sister, Alithya Friend, told KCRA.com. 'And she just got it taken away from her in an instant.' Alithya confirmed to the station that her sister was the teen injured by the train, and says Mickayla currently is in critical condition at Sutter Roseville Medical Center just outside of Sacramento after she was hit by the train about 7 p.m. Friday. Alithya also says she snapped a photo of the happy couple just minutes before they left for the dance. First love: Family members called Moore Friend's 'first love' who was 'taken away in an instant' 'You can't imagine getting the worst call . in your life, knowing that you just dropped your sister off to go to a . dance that was supposed to be a special, amazing night for her and her . boyfriend of a year,' Alithya said. 'And then you get a . call that says he's deceased and she's in critical condition.' Sean Stark witnessed the incident and credits Moore with saving his girlfriend's life. 'The engineer was on the horn,' Stark told KCRA. 'Then finally, they both looked . back at the same time.' Then, Stark says, Moore made a split-second decision that may have saved his girlfriend's life. 'They would have both been underneath that train if he didn't push her out of the way at the last second,' said Stark. The incident occurred just steps from a game on a packed Little League field. Moore died at the scene and Friend was airlifted to hospital with traumatic injuries, a fire department spokesperson said. Horrifying: Emergency personnel work at the scene of a train accident where two pedestrians where one teen was killed and nother critically injured after being hit by a train . The accident happened around 7.00 p.m., and in front of dozens of horrified onlookers scrambling to shield their children from the traumatizing scene, according to the Appeal-Democrat. Parents attending the game raced towards the tracks fearing one of their own had been hit, Marysville Little League Secretary Diane Washburn told the paper. 'It wasn't one of our kids, just get back,' she recalled telling the swelling crowd, adding that her next priority was keeping children from seeing what had happened. 'Once they see that, that can't be unseen.' People who were at the game told the Marysville Appeal-Democrat they heard a long blowing of the train's horn, much longer than usual. Critical: A medivac helicopter arrives at the scene to whisk the critically injured female to a nearby hospital . Every parent's worst nightmare: Police on the scene of the terible accident . 'He honked from so far back there,' a concession stand volunteer told the paper. Another said the engineer honked 'a bunch and a bunch and a bunch.' Investigators were combing the scene for evidence well after dark, according to the paper. The small town of about 12,000 was rocked by the incident. 'Marysville is a small but busy city,' said the fire department spokesperson. 'Everybody knows everybody so it was pretty traumatic.' Union Pacific Railroad is investigating the incident with the help of the Marysville Police Department. Into the night: police worked the scene well after sunset . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

The teens have been identified as Mickayla Friend and Mateus Moore, both 16 . Moore was pronounced dead at the scene . Friend is in critical condition at a local hospital . Witnesses say Friend also would have been killed if Moore hadn't pusher her out of the way at the last second . The accident happened steps from a packed Little League field . Friend's family describes Moore as the young girl's 'first love'

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Article: By . Lucy Osborne for the Daily Mail . A boy bullied for having Asperger’s has been told he will never walk again after falling 50ft from a bridge while trying to escape his tormentors. Joshua Davies, 18, was running away from a gang of boys across a river when he plummeted on to rocks below, breaking his spine in four places and leaving him paralysed from the waist down. His family claim he has been picked on relentlessly over the past five years by a group of younger teenagers, who saw him as an ‘easy target’. Joshua Davies, 18, pictured from his hospital bed in Wales, where doctors have said he will never walk again . Joshua, pictured in his hospital bed, broke his spine in four places and will be unable to even sit up for six weeks . Joshua’s stepfather Michael Morgan, . 35, last night accused police of repeatedly failing to act, after his . family pleaded for help on more than 15 occasions. On . the afternoon of August 17, the teenager and his friend were walking by . the river when they realised the bullies were following them. ‘They heard them shout, “There they are – let’s get them,”’ said Mr Morgan. ‘Joshua . and his pal climbed on to the steel supports of the bridge to get away . but the boys started throwing stones at them. One of the stones hit . Joshua on the shoulder and another hit him on his foot. He lost his grip . and fell.’ Joshua, who also broke both arms and legs in the accident, was still in hospital yesterday. He was attacked by members of the same gang earlier this summer when he refused to buy them alcohol, his family claim. ‘He . came out of the local corner shop and one of the boys jumped on his . back and started hitting him on the back of his head,’ said Mr Morgan, . an electrical engineer. The Broadway which crosses the river Taff in Pontypridd, South Wales. It was here Joshua fell onto the rocks . ‘That was the only time he defended himself and he was arrested and charged, which made him scared to defend himself again.’ Mr Morgan said his stepson, who was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at 14, is ‘trusting and can be easily manipulated’. ‘He . does not always have a sense of danger. We have tried to instil it into . him, but you can’t wrap him up in cotton wool, although now I wish we . had done.’ The bullying . became so bad that Joshua was increasingly anxious whenever he left his . home in Pontypridd, South Wales. ‘He has been forced to avoid certain . areas, which has made him a prisoner in his own community,’ said Mr . Morgan. Joshua pictured before the accident. He was due to start a course in electrical engineering and construction this week - instead, he remains in hospital where he'll be unable to even sit up for the next six weeks . Asperger's syndrome is a form of . autism, which affects people's social skills, ability to communicate and . how they relate to the world around them. As autism is measured on a 'spectrum', there are wide variations in how it affects those who suffer from it. Often . those with Asperger's syndrome have difficulty maintaining eye contact . when speaking to others and are awkward when interacting with people. They can develop unusual preoccupations, or rituals, and show repetitive behaviour. The exact cause of the disorder is unknown, although it is thought it could be genetic given it tends to run in families. It is four times more likely to occur in males than in females. There . is no single cure, although a range of treatments, including special . education, speech, physical or occupational therapy and medication can . be used to help treat it. ‘He has felt . threatened and been constantly on edge ... even if he saw a group of . innocent boys approaching he would start to worry.’ Mr Morgan claimed . that Joshua went to the police more than 15 times about the bullies’ attacks, but that they ‘didn’t take him seriously’. ‘His problems were brushed under the carpet because they thought he was messing around,’ he said. Joshua had recently left school and was due to start a course in electrical engineering and construction this week. However, he has been told he can no longer attend as it is not suitable for wheelchair users. He has undergone three operations and will not be able to sit up for six weeks, but his family say he remains upbeat. Joshua's parents said he was recently chased into a local supermarket by a group of bullies and a security officer had to help him to escape through the back door while the manager called the police . Joshua’s . mother Cheryl, 44, a full-time carer for her other son Michael who also . has autism, said last night: ‘Joshua is not a fighter – he’s a very . gentle young man who now faces life in a wheelchair. ‘I think this could have been prevented if the police had listened to him.’ Detective . Inspector David Peart said: ‘I can confirm that South Wales Police . responded to allegations of assault on three separate occasions between . April 2011 and June 2014. ‘On . each occasion, a thorough investigation took place and appropriate . action was taken. There is no evidence to suggest that the incident . which took place on August 17 is connected.’ Three teenagers – two aged 15 and one aged 16 – were arrested and remain on police bail. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Boy bullied 'because he suffers from Asperger's' paralysed in fall from bridge . Joshua Davies fell 50ft onto dry riverbed rocks after being chased by yobs . He fell onto the rocks, breaking his spine, both arms and both legs . Joshua now faces life in a wheelchair and was told he will never walk again . His parents say police failed to act on their repeated bullying concerns .

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Article: (CNN) -- It is easy to be confused by the welter of headlines and selective excerpts that have been leaked from former Defense Secretary Robert Gates' upcoming book "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War." (I have not yet read the book.) Gates asserts President Obama lacked conviction about his own decision to put more troops in harm's way in Afghanistan. As described in the Bob Woodward summary of the book in the Washington Post, Gates writes that the Commander-in-Chief was "skeptical if not outright convinced it would fail." He also condemns what he saw as "suspicion and distrust of senior military officers by senior White House officials — including the president and the vice president." In one meeting about Afghanistan in particular, Gates said that after listening to the President, he concluded, "The president doesn't trust his commander, can't stand Karzai, doesn't believe in his own strategy and doesn't consider the war to be his." He is particularly brutal about Vice President Joe Biden, who Gates asserts "poisoned the well" against U.S. military leaders, and who he says "has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades." Gates also doesn't mince words about top officials like former National Security Adviser Tom Donilon or key Obama adviser Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute. At the same time, Gates commends Obama's intelligence and character, his decision to go after Osama bin Laden, and in his concluding chapter, according to the New York Times account of the book, as far as the President's overall Afghanistan strategy he writes, "I believe Obama was right in each one of these decisions." He also has strong praise for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mixed in with his lengthy expressions of frustrations with others in the administration and in Washington, notably the dysfunctional crowd on Capitol Hill. Compounding the apparent dissonance within Gates' narrative, there is another conflict to reconcile. Gates is a man known for bipartisanship, discretion and keeping his own counsel, and yet he is blasting a sitting President that he served, and revealing details of private and off-the-record exchanges without apparent regard for confidentiality, and in a manner that is sure to be politicized. It might be easy to dismiss his account — as some, seeking to defend the President, already have done on Twitter and in the blogosphere — as so contradictory as to not be credible. But that would be a mistake. Gates is one of the most distinguished, most widely respected national security public servants the U.S. has produced in half a century. In addition to running the Pentagon for both Obama and President George W. Bush, he ran the CIA and was Deputy National Security Adviser. He is exceptionally intelligent, committed and few can rival his experience or perspective. No, the contradictions in Gates' comments do not invalidate them. Rather, they illustrate important facts. In the first place, they reveal Washington and policy making as they are: Very little is clear cut, and personalities and politics play as big a role in key decisions as do any objective analysis of the merits of any decision. People — including presidents and secretaries of Defense — can be contradictory bundles of good and bad qualities, advocates for decisions that are both right and wrong. But on a deeper level, Gates' narrative is conflicted because he is writing about issues, such as Afghanistan, in which there were literally no good answers. Perhaps, in the very first phases of our engagement there, there was a "best possible path." We could have gone in, sought retribution for 9/11, attacked and killed our attackers and then gotten out. The problem became our desire to reduce in a much more sweeping and lasting way the threat posed by al Qaeda, the Taliban, extremists and instability in the region. This led to a long-term commitment in a place where there were no long term "solutions" — indeed, the threats posed by extremists are problems that cannot be "solved;" they can only be reduced and managed, never eradicated. But once we were into Afghanistan for anything but retaliation, we ended up debating two deeply flawed alternatives. Either we committed significant numbers of troops indefinitely — which would be costly, politically unpopular and unlikely to succeed in doing anything but moving terrorists elsewhere. Or we would pull out and the situation would return to the chaos the region, becoming once again a Petri dish for terror. As it turned out, we will end up demonstrating at great cost that neither approach could work. Gates and the military were right that only an extended military presence could control our enemies on the ground. Biden and his allies were right that getting out sooner would have the same effect as getting out in the medium term. And both will soon see that in Afghanistan — as in Iraq today and in our War on Terror more broadly — our costly investment and that of our brave troops will not change the region for the better. Indeed, right now it looks as if Afghanistan and Iraq are likely to end up worse than we found them, and the sway of al Qaeda and extremists more widespread and powerful. All this is because before Gates and Obama got into office, a fundamentally wrong decision was made by their immediate predecessors. We overreacted to 9/11, seeking not justice but to change the world and a volatile region in ways that were beyond our capabilities. And the battles and tensions revealed among good men and women in the Gates account and others being written of the recent past are the legacy of that watershed error. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of David Rothkopf. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

David Rothkopf: New book by ex-Defense Secretary Gates criticizes Obama, others . Reports: Gates writes that Obama lacked conviction on own Afghanistan policies . He says Gates also says Obama "right" on Afghanistan strategy . Rothkopf: Gates narrative reflects intractable problem of U.S. overreach in region .

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Article: After nearly a century of business, struggling electronics retailer RadioShack has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and says it will sell up to 2,400 stores. The company announced Thursday that up to 2,400 of its 4,000 U.S. company-owned stores will go to General Wireless, an affiliate of the Standard General L.P. hedge fund, according to the company's announcement. RadioShack has been on life support for quite some time, but the decision of the New York Stock Exchange to suspend its trading on Monday forced the company to pull the plug. Scroll down for video . RadioShack: After nearly a century of business, struggling electronics retailer RadioShack has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and says it will sell up to 2,400 stores . CEO: RadioShack worked hard on its turnaround efforts, hiring Walgreen Co. executive Joseph Magnacca (photographed) as its CEO in 2013 . The Fort Worth, Texas company said Thursday that it was also having discussions to sell all of its remaining assets. 'These steps are the culmination of a thorough process intended to drive maximum value for our stakeholders,' Joseph Magnacca, RadioShack CEO, said in the statement. But the bankruptcy will not include the company's more than 1,000 stores in 25 other countries, stores operated by its Mexican subsidiaries, or its Asia operations. RadioShack Corp. introduced one of the first mass-market personal computers and used to be the go-to stop for consumers' home electronics needs. But it struggled as shoppers increasingly shifted to making purchases online and growth in its wireless business slowed. It has suffered years of losses. Warning: RadioShack had warned of a possible bankruptcy in September, but received rescue financing that kept it afloat. Still, its CEO (photographed) recently cautioned the chain might not be able to find a long-term plan to stay in business . The NYSE suspended trading of its shares on Monday and sought to delist it. The NYSE requires companies meet certain market capitalization thresholds to remain on the exchange. RadioShack had warned of a possible bankruptcy in September, but received rescue financing that kept it afloat. Still, its CEO recently cautioned the chain might not be able to find a long-term plan to stay in business. RadioShack worked hard on its turnaround efforts, hiring Walgreen Co. executive Magnacca as its CEO and former Treasury Department adviser Harry J. Wilson as chief revitalization officer. It also developed relationships with popular brands like Beats Audio and redesigned almost half of its U.S. locations — some 2,000 stores — in an effort to entice younger shoppers. Its efforts to revitalize the company's brand image failed to pay off and retailer's shares, which were lower than $1 in the beginning of 2015, dropped to $0.24 when the NYSE suspended the company's trading, according to The Verge. World Wide: The company, which has not turned a profit since 2011, still operates nearly 5,500 stores and employs about 27,500 people worldwide . The company, which has not turned a profit since 2011, still operates nearly 5,500 stores and employs about 27,500 people worldwide, according to its last annual report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. RadioShack, which was founded in Boston in 1921, started as a distributor of mail-order ship radios, ham radios and parts. In the 1950s, it entered the high-fidelity business, touting a device called the 'Audio Comparator,' a then-novel switching system that allowed the customer to mix and match components and speakers in the listening room. In 1977, the chain started selling the TRS-80, known affectionately by its users as the 'Trash 80,' making RadioShack as important in microcomputers as IBM or Apple. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Struggling electronics retailer RadioShack has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and says it will sell up to 2,400 stores . The Fort Worth, Texas company said Thursday that it was also having discussions to sell all of its remaining assets . Up to 2,400 of its 4,000 U.S. company-owned stores will go to an affiliate of the Standard General L.P. hedge fund . The company, which has not turned a profit since 2011, still operates nearly 5,500 stores and employs about 27,500 people worldwide .

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Article: By . Jill Reilly . PUBLISHED: . 05:54 EST, 10 September 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 08:53 EST, 10 September 2012 . 'These Games have changed us all forever,' said International Paralympic Committee president, Sir Philip Craven as he declared the 2012 Paralympics closed last night. And as the sun set on the Olympic Park media commentators from around the world were already reflecting on the legacy of the Paralympic Games. Some 2.7 million tickets were sold for the Games and although the amount of media and television coverage is not yet as big as the Olympics, there was definite surge in interest. Scroll down for video . Opinion: As the sun set on the Olympic Park media commentators from around the world were already reflecting on the legacy of the Paralympic Games . The Washington Post hailed last night's closing ceremony as a 'three-hour party' giving 'the biggest-ever Paralympic Games a rousing send-off, wrapping . up an unforgettable summer of sports in Britain.' China's Xinhua news agency said: 'London has pushed the Paralympics to a new height after taking over the legacy of the Beijing Paralympics.' It added that a better understanding of disability had become 'one of the core parts of the 'Paralympic story'. Some 2.7 million tickets were sold for the Games and although the amount of media and television coverage is not yet as big as the Olympics, there was definite surge in interest . Germany paper Der Tagesspiegel, left, hailed Rhianna's performance as 'spectacular' Bahrain's Gulf Daily News said the Paralympics 'have swiftly taught us to look beyond disability towards achievement.' Canada's Vancouver Sun reflected on the country's performance saying: 'The most watched and most competitive Paralympic Games in history have wrapped up with Canada leaving London following its worst showing ever.' Praise: The Washington Post hailed last night's closing ceremony as a 'three-hour party' giving 'the biggest-ever Paralympic Games a rousing send-off, wrapping up an unforgettable summer of sports in Britain' Katy Brand : 'It's been a mind-expanding, soul lightening, spirit igniting summer - thanks #olympics and #paralympics - you've, we've, been brilliant. Phillip Schofield ‏: Truly inspiring montage at the end of the #paralympics #closingceremony what an incredible face we have shown to the world #MadeinBritain . Mo Farah‏: 'Oh my days! Paralympics closing ceremony is amazing..!! Jay Z Coldplay and Rihanna!!' Clare Balding‏: 'I cheered so loudly when Sir Philip Craven said these had been the greatest Paralympics ever. And they have been.' Greg Rutherford: 'Well done and thank you to everyone who made this the greatest Olympics and Paralympics in history! Rebecca Adlington‏: One of my highlights from the Paralympics has to Matt Walker who dedicated his Bronze to the memory of his dad! Cried my eyes out! Australia's Canberra Times said: 'The London Organising Committee (LOCOG) fulfilled its pledge to not treat the Paralympics as a poor cousin to the Olympics and the athletes themselves put on 11 days of not only enthralling sporting contests but inspiring stories. The Tripoli Post hailed the sporting event as the 'greatest ever Summer Paralympic Games.' On their website France 24 wrote: 'Organisers have won plaudits for the efficient running of both events, with packed venues and vocal crowds, defying naysayers who predicted chaos and a lack of enthusiasm.' The Wall Street Journal put together a photo gallery to commemorate 'a summer of elite sport.' In The New York Times, Joshua George wrote: 'In London, Paralympians are seen as amazing for their feats on the field, and it could not be more refreshing. I hope that one day the United States decides to join the party.' Nigeria's Vangaurd wrote: . 'Paralympics have given humanity an opportunity to push the limits of . human capacity to adapt as evident in the stunning performances of . disabled athletes in various sporting events.' German paper Der Tagesspiegel, left, hailed Rhianna's performance as 'spectacular.' Website Deutsche Welle said: 'It was an event that not only drew millions of viewers but also helped change audiences' perceptions of disability. 'For . most, the lasting memories of the London 2012 Paralympics will be of . sporting achievement and an electric atmosphere inside packed out . venues.' Will the Olympic legacy continue to burn? Mexico's Jorge Benjamin Gonzalez Sauceda takes part in the men's 400m T12 semi-final during the athletics competition at the London 2012 Paralympic Games . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Washington Post: 'An unforgettable summer of sports in Britain' France 24: 'A much-needed spur to help to change attitudes the world over' Canberra Times: 'The London Organising Committee fulfilled its pledge to not treat the Paralympics as a poor cousin to the Olympics'

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Article: New York (CNN) -- Columbia University is seeking to alter the 1920 charter of one of its graduate school fellowships which is still limited "to persons of the Caucasian race," though the fellowship has not been granted in years. The Lydia C. Roberts Graduate Fellowship is, at least on paper, available to white students "of either sex, born in the state of Iowa," according to a Columbia University charter from 1920. The university filed an affidavit in Manhattan Supreme Court last week to support a petition from JPMorgan Chase, the fellowship's designated trustee, to change the whites-only provision, according to Robert Hornsby, assistant vice president for media relations at Columbia. Other restrictions for the fellowship stipulate that a recipient may not concentrate their studies in "law, medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, or theology." Recipients must also agree to return to Iowa for two years after completing their studies at Columbia. The fellowship was established in 1920 by Lydia C. Roberts, an Iowa native, with a $500,000 donation to the university upon her death. However, the school stopped awarding the fellowship in 1997 for several reasons. It's not clear when the university stopped adhering "to the race-related terms of the gift," Hornsby explained. "The university administers gifts in accordance with applicable law and (anti-discrimination) policies, and it has long been the university's practice to disregard donor restrictions that violate either the law or our policies," he added. Douglas Gross, an attorney in Des Moines, Iowa, received the fellowship in 1977 after a college professor recommended it to him. Gross says he was an Iowan interested in pursuing higher education so he accepted, but probably would have rejected the fellowship had he known the provision existed. Some student groups at other universities have established "whites-only" scholarships, including Boston University's College Republicans, which created the "Caucasian Achievement and Recognition" scholarship in 2006. It awarded $250 to students with at least a 3.2 GPA and who are at least "one quarter Caucasian." However, a representative for College Republicans at Boston University says there are no longer any scholarships funded by the organization. "Our club does not currently offer scholarships of any kind. Our club started from scratch this past fall as the previous College Republicans' student group was ultimately defunct," Mara Mellstrom told CNN. Roger Williams University's College Republicans attempted to create a similar scholarship in 2004. In 2003, Texas Tech University student Matt Coday created the United White Person's College Fund, a scholarship that looked to serve "as a source of financial assistance to students whom Coday feels have been discriminated against by organizations designed to give money to minorities," according to the Texas Tech newspaper University Daily. It's not clear if that fund still exists. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

The fellowship has not been awarded since 1997, the university says . The terms of the fellowship required recipient to be a white Iowan . Some student groups at other universities used to offer whites-only awards .

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Article: By . Sarah Griffiths . PUBLISHED: . 08:58 EST, 19 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 09:28 EST, 19 August 2013 . A carving of the face of a moustachioed warrior today greeted archaeologists as they raised part of a huge 17th century ship wreck in the English Channel. The head was carved into the 28ft long rudder section of a Dutch trading ship that sunk off Poole, Dorset, nearly 400 years ago. Its accidental discovery by a dredger led to six years of underwater investigations, which prompted experts to hail the find as the most significant since the Mary Rose. A spectacular carving of the face of a moustachioed warrior today greeted archaeologists as they raised part of a huge 17th century ship wreck in the English Channel . Divers found the sizable carving covering the stern and bowcastle of the 130ft-long merchant vessel, which would have been one of the largest of its kind on the seas at the time. It was decked out with opulent carvings of mermen whose eye sockets would have been decorated with precious stones. Other baroque-style carvings, similar to the one on the rudder, were also found on parts of the ship including the gunports. The head was carved into the 28ft long rudder section of a Dutch trading ship that sunk off Poole, Dorset, nearly 400 years ago . Its accidental discovery by a dredger led to six years of underwater investigations, which prompted experts to hail the find as the most significant since the Mary Rose. Here, archaeologist David Parham from Bournemouth University inspects the carving . Marine archaeologists from Bournemouth University have already recovered scores of artefacts from the vessel that is known as the Swash Channel Wreck after the area of sea where it sunk. And after being given a grant of £500,000 from English Heritage, the team today completed the recovery of the five tonne wooden rudder that had become separated from the main hull. Last month divers spent seven days digging the rudder from out of the sea bed and placing a large steel frame around it, similar to the operation that raised the Mary Rose in 1982. Divers (pictured right) found the sizable carving (left) covering the stern and bowcastle of the 130ft long merchant vessel, which would . have been one of the largest of its kind on the seas at the time . Marine archaeologists from Bournemouth University have already recovered scores of artefacts from the vessel that is known as the Swash Channel Wreck after the area of sea where it sunk. The black squares indicate the gunport locations . It was then towed four miles into Poole Harbour where today it was hoisted onto the quayside by a crane in front of the excited team of archaeologists. The baroque facial carving on the end of the rudder shows a military man wearing a classical helmet.It will be constantly sprayed with special chemicals for the next two years to help conserve it. The rudder will then put on display at Poole Museum alongside other artifacts recovered from the wreckage. The rudder is being temporarily stored at Poole docks, before being transported to York. It was towed four miles into Poole Harbour where today it was hoisted onto the quayside (pictured) by a crane in front of the excited team of archaeologists . Dave Parham, a senior lecturer in marine archaeology at Bournemouth University, said: 'Before now we had just seen the rudder underwater where you could only make out a few feet of it at a time. 'So to see it in day light in all its glory is really quite spectacular. 'It is a very large and impressive item itself so you can imagine how spectacular this merchant vessel would have looked. 'Its discovery is an extremely significant one and has given way to one of the largest shipwreck investigations within the UK.' Another carving previously discovered at the wreck of the Dutch trading ship near Poole, Dorset . Unlike the Mary Rose, little is known of the Swash Channel Wreck, including its identity. Tests on the oak wood from it have dated the felling of the timber to 1628 and from forests on the Dutch/German border. Analysis of some of the recovered artefacts date to the middle of the 17th century. This has led the experts to believe the vessel was an armed Dutch trading ship that was either going to or returning from the Mediterranean or the Far East. Analysis of some of the recovered artefacts date to the middle of the 17th century. This has led experts to believe the vessel was an armed Dutch trading ship . It is thought it hit a sandbank in the approaches to Poole Harbour and water flooded its bilges. The ship is then believed to have rolled over and sunk in 22ft of water. Mr Parham said: 'It would have been a very big vessel for its day and the whole vessel would have been a spectacular work or art. 'It was a sign of prestige and wealth. It was making a statement, showing how great and wonderful the owners were. Mr Parham said the ship could be compared to a 17th century version of the luxurious Titanic liner, although the Titanic was ornate for passengers, and not just for those viewing the ship. A carving of a merman is pictured (right) and (wreckage) left . 'They would have been a large Dutch conglomerate, similar to the East India Company. 'It would not have been a million miles from a 17th century version of the Titanic, although the Titanic was ornate for the passengers and not for those on the outside. 'We think it was a Dutch trading ship and would have taken high quality European goods like tweed to the Far East and traded them for things like exotic spices. Archaeologists believe the ship was a sign of prestige and wealth. It was making a statement, showing how great and wonderful the owners were by including lavish baroque carvings such as the one pictured, for example . 'It was either going out or coming back when it sank outside of Poole Harbour. 'We have received a grant to fund the recovery all the material that is at risk of erosion.' So far the team has brought up artefacts including five baroque carvings, ceramic pieces, leather shoes, copper and pewter plates and cups and a bronze compass divider. They have also recovered animal bones of sheep and cows that would have fed the crew. Mr Parnam (pictured) said he has no idea who the male carving on the rudder might be but thinks as it is a moustachioed man with a classical helmet on, it is depicting a military man of some sort . Mr Parham said: 'Last month we spent seven days excavating beneath the rudder in order to put strops around it and lift it into a steel frame. 'It was then moved four miles to the quayside in Poole and lifted out of the water today. 'We have no idea who the male carving on the rudder might be. It is a moustachioed man with a classical helmet on so it is depicting a military man of some sort.' About 40 per cent of the port side of the wreck lies intact on the sea bed but it will be too costly an operation to recover that. About 40 per cent of the port side of the wreck lies intact on the sea bed but it will be too costly an operation to recover that . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Known as Swash Channel Wreck after the area where it sank in Dorset . Archaeologists from Bournemouth University have recovered scores of artefacts including baroque carvings, shoes, plates and a compass divider . The head was carved into the 28ft long rudder section of a Dutch trading ship that sunk nearly 400 years ago .

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Article: (CNN) -- The judge in James Holmes' murder trial on Tuesday accepted his plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. The suspect in last summer's shooting spree that killed 12 people and wounded dozens at an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater will be taken to the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo for evaluation. He's expected to be returned to the Arapahoe County Jail on August 2. Judge Carlos Samour Jr. has told attorneys he expects the trial to take place in 2014. The burden is on the prosecution to prove that Holmes was sane at the time of the shootings. Attorneys will use the results of the mental evaluation as evidence at the trial. Samour's ruling Tuesday came about a month after Holmes' attorneys asked to change his plea from a standard not guilty. The original not-guilty plea was entered by a judge on Holmes' behalf in March, over his objection, his defense team said. The defendant offered to plead guilty and spend the rest of his life behind bars if authorities would spare his life, but prosecutors in Arapahoe County announced in April they would seek the death penalty. The defense then decided to make an insanity plea. Asked by the judge Tuesday whether he had any questions about the plea, Holmes replied in a clear voice, "No." Samour also ruled Tuesday that a package Holmes mailed to his psychiatrist before the shooting can be processed as evidence. He sent Dr. Lynne Fenton $400 in burned $20 bills, a sticky note with an infinity sign, and a spiral notebook containing a placard. Written on it: "James Holmes, Of Life," according to court documents. The defense had previously argued that the contents of the package is covered by doctor-patient confidentiality. But with an insanity plea, that confidentiality no longer applies. Before the shooting, Fenton, who works at the University of Colorado's medical campus, warned campus police that Holmes was dangerous. Holmes faces murder and other charges in the July 20 shooting spree at the premiere of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises." Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

A package Holmes sent to his psychiatrist will be processed as evidence . James Holmes will be taken to a mental health center for evaluation . He faces murder and other charges in a July shooting at an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater . Trial is set for 2014 .

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Article: By . Suzannah Hills . PUBLISHED: . 15:29 EST, 8 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 15:29 EST, 8 March 2013 . A gang of conmen who tricked investors into paying £35million for almost worthless plots of land in a 'grotesque, cynical and merciless' fraud have been jailed today for a total of more than 26 years. Christopher Demetriou, 30, Daniel Webster, 29, Stephen Allan, 30, and Steven Percival, 29, duped more than 400 clients into the swindle by promises of vast profits. Potential buyers were told the plots . of land were to be used for the Olympics and were enticed with glossy brochures . between 2005 and 2010. But the plots actually turned out to be low-value farm land, in the Green Belt or no had planning permission. Ruthless: Christopher Demetriou, pictured left, was described as a 'dominant figure' in the fraud and jailed for six years and four months. Stephen Allan, pictured right, was instrumental in helping to trick the wife of a cancer sufferer into investing in the fake scheme and was jailed for seven-and-a-half years . Worthless: A group of conmen duped more than 400 clients into investing in plots of land, including this one near Chapel Lane, Dover, pictured, by claiming they would be used for the 2012 Olympics . The ruthless crooks duped one woman, who husband was diagnosed with cancer, out of more than £600,000 in the 'land banking' scam. Other victims of the gang, who hid behind false names and front companies, lost their homes and suffered nervous breakdowns. Judge Martin Beddoe said: 'In short this was a grotesque, cynical and merciless fraud conducted by the greedy who could not have failed to have realised the very great damage they were doing. 'The investors were persuaded by a team of brokers trained in the black art of pressure selling to part with money which in some cases was all they had saved. 'Many, once sucked in to making investments from which they had no return, were then pressured to go on and invest more in the hope something might materialise, trusting the assurances of those they believed to be working in their interests, people who they often came to think of as friend.' He said the four men had treated investors as 'contemptible prey to be chewed up and contemptibly spat out', adding: 'Many, many people have been ruined or brought very close to ruin by this con'. Webster was described by Judge Beddoe as a 'callous and greedy' man who attempted to use his 'arrogance and ridiculous self-belief' to convince jurors he was innocent. He was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail, having pocketed around £260,000 form the fraud. Allan, who was jailed for seven- and-a-half years, was slammed for the 'fake care and concern' he employed to trick the wife of cancer sufferer David Wright. Percival, who netted around £207,000, was also jailed for six-and-a-half years. Judge Beddoe said: 'Like Daniel . Webster you thought your skills as a conman and the employment of . crocodile tears might work here before the jury, they did not.' Demetriou who earlier admitted conspiracy to defraud investors was described as a 'dominant figure' in the fraud. He was jailed for six years and four . months after the court heard he set up five companies to launder almost . £9million of the profits and personally netting around £2million. He used the pseudonym 'Chris . Anthony', Webster gave himself the surname 'Legend', and Allan called . himself George Hackett and even set up a front company Allan and Hackett . Ltd, named after himself and his alter-ego. Percival named himself after . Spiderman star Toby Maguire as he gave the aggressive sales pitch to . lure customers into the web of deceit. Daniel Webster, pictured left, was described as 'callous and greedy' and jailed for six-and-a-half years in prison while Steven Percival, pictured right, who netted around £200,000, was also jailed for six-and-a-half years . Deception: The conmen inflated the value of the land and convinced their victims to invest using high-pressure sales techniques . 'Investors were persuaded to buy the plots by various high-pressure sales techniques, typically by cold-calling,' said prosecutor Andrew Bird. 'They puffed up the value of the plots of land, and making representations that planning permission was being obtained or that a blue-chip purchaser is interesting in purchasing the land. 'Promises were made that the investor could sell the land back to the marketing company.' One plot in Birling Road, Leybourne, West Malling, Kent, which was bought from Kent County Council for £80,000, was divided into 220 mini plots valued at just £363.63 each. The con artists then set about selling each plot for £10,000 a piece, promising rich rewards to investors and drawing up a brochure showing a 'wholly unrealistic' housing project. The scam used front companies including Countrywide Land Holdings Ltd, Countrywide Land, Regional Land, and Plateau Development and Land Ltd, all of which were linked to the same office on the 29th floor of an office block in Canary Wharf. Cancer sufferer Mr Wright and his wife Sandra-May were among those sucked into the scheme, investing a total of £628,013 in Countrywide Land after being promised hefty profits in return for buying land. The retired couple from Shoreham-on-Sea, West Sussex, were first approached in March 2005 by Allan posing as George Hackett. They were persuaded to part with more than £220,000 for plots in Folkestone, Kent, Aylesbury, Berkswell, in Coventry, Hillesden in Milton Keynes, and Marple in Stockport. 'In short . this was a grotesque, cynical and merciless fraud conducted by the . greedy who could not have failed to have realised the very great damage . they were doing.' Judge Martin Beddoe . The couple had received titles for the land but seen no return by November 2007, but were urged to buy more land in Meopham, in Kent. 'They were expecting Countrywide to take steps to get planning permission and for an opportunity to sell at a profit when the land was snapped up by a developer', said Mr Bird. By March 2009, the Wrights were growing anxious but were met with excuses over the delay and encouraged to invest another £17,500 in the West Malling site. Percival, as Toby Maguire, then told the couple some of their land was being bought up by an American investor, but another £100,000 was needed to seal the deal. The conmen strung them along with claims they were 'privileged clients', asking for increasing sums of money to ensure their investment returned a profit, until eventually they refused to pay any more and were told the money could not be returned. 'Mrs Wright felt that they had to keep paying or that they would lose everything', said Mr Bird. 'They had been promised financial returns and got nothing. 'They had been strung along and persuaded to make more and more payments.' The scam eventually unravelled after probes by police, trading standards, and the Financial Services Authority, as well as 2010 exposes in the Mail on Sunday. Paperwork showed plots of land in Slough, Sevenoaks, Plymouth, Horsham, Ely, Ascot, and Dover, were used in the scam, all of which were either green belt land or had no planning permission. Raids of the trio's homes revealed a host of fake passports, paperwork under aliases, and details of their victims. Percival's home computer had been used to search on Google for 'Countrywide Land Holding Scam' as the net tightened on the gang. The mastermind is believed to be a man called James Maynard, who is on the run and is thought to have fled the country. Percival, of Brenchley Close, Chislehurst, Webster, of Southborough Road, and Allan, of Langham Place, both Bromley, Kent, were all found guilty of conspiracy to defraud. Demetriou, of Cranbourne Gardens, Ilford, Essex, admitted the charge. False promises: The conmen convinced investors the land was needed as part of plans to build the Olympic Village and Stadium in London among other lies . Landbanking fraud has become increasingly prevalent in recent years. Companies . divide land into smaller plots and sell it to investors on the basis . that once it is available for development it will soar in value. Fraudsters will use high-pressure sales tactics by cold-calling names and numbers from publicly-available shareholder lists. They can also use email, post, word of mouth or talk at a seminar or exhibition. In . fact, the land is often in areas of natural beauty, historical interest . or has little chance of being built on and the people behind these . companies are actually highly-skilled criminals. The Financial Services Authority estimates landbanking schemes have so far cost UK investors more than £200million. Although . not all landbanking schemes are a scam, it is often not made clear to . investors that there are restrictions on the development of the land or . that it is otherwise protected. They offer this advice on how to protect yourself: . - . Contact the local council where the land is located and asking them . whether the land might ever be released for development. Just because . the person promoting or operating the scheme says it is guaranteed the . land will be developed does not necessarily mean it will be. - . If you have already invested in a scheme and are concerned, stop . sending money to the firm and individuals involved. If you have given . them your bank account details, tell your bank immediately.- . Contact the FSA Consumer Helpline with as much information as you can . about your investment and the company involved, including their contact . details and ‘firm reference number’ (FRN). Source: The Financial Services Authority (FSA) Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Christopher Demetriou, Daniel Webster, Stephen Allan, and Steven Percival have all been jailed for their part in the 'cynical and merciless' fraud . Sold plots to investors promising huge profits when the land was developed . They claimed that the site would be developed for the 2012 Olympics .

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Article: (CNN) -- An autopsy was conducted Monday in the death of a onetime medical student who died of an apparent suicide while facing charges in a killing tied to the Craigslist website. However, the medical examiner is withholding the official cause of death for Philip Markoff pending further tests, prosecutors said. "Markoff was alone in his cell and all evidence collected thus far indicates that he took his own life," Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis and Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said in a statement released earlier. "Nonetheless, as with all such cases, a comprehensive investigation will be conducted to determine the facts and circumstances surrounding his death." Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea Cabral told CNN that Markoff had not demonstrated any notable behavior while in custody and did not pose a disciplinary problem before his death. While Markoff had been on suicide watch from April 23 to May 14, he was not on watch around the time he died, she said. Suicide watch for jail inmates is determined by a psychiatrist, she said. In her eight years as sheriff, there have been four confirmed suicides; Markoff would be the fifth. There's an average of 57 serious suicide attempts a year, Cabral added. Markoff was found unresponsive in his Boston, Massachusetts, jail cell at 10:17 a.m. Sunday and pronounced dead by medics, according to officials. He was found with wounds to his neck and ankles, EMS spokeswoman Jennifer Mehigan said. Markoff, 24, was charged with the April 14, 2009, fatal shooting and attempted robbery of Julissa Brisman, 25, at Boston's Copley Marriott Hotel. Police said that Brisman, a model, advertised as a masseuse on Craigslist, a popular online classifieds service, and said Markoff might have met her through the site. In a statement Sunday, the family of Brisman said it was "shocked and dismayed" at the news of Markoff's apparent suicide. "Their grief for Julissa is as fresh today as the day over a year ago when Markoff took Julissa away from them," said the statement issued by a representative for the family. "The long-awaited criminal prosecution was their only opportunity to confront him, and now he has taken that away as well." The family promised to pursue "other avenues to seek justice for Julissa and help ensure that others do not suffer from such devastating, unnecessary violence," according to the statement. Markoff was also charged with the April 10, 2009, robbery of Trisha Leffler at a Westin Hotel in Boston. Police reports said Leffler was robbed of $800 in cash and $250 in American Express gift cards and was held at gunpoint and bound. At his arraignment in June 2009, Markoff pleaded not guilty to the Massachusetts charges. He also was facing charges in an April 16, 2009, incident at a Holiday Inn Express in Warwick, Rhode Island. In that incident, police said, Markoff tied up and demanded money from a 26-year-old dancer who had posted a Craigslist advertisement. The robbery was interrupted when the woman's husband entered the room, and the suspect fled after pointing his gun at the husband, according to Warwick Police Chief Col. Stephen McCartney. At the time of his April 2009 arrest, Markoff was a second-year student at Boston University's School of Medicine and was engaged to be married. His friends and acquaintances expressed shock, describing him as a model student and the "all-American" guy. A woman identifying herself as Megan McAllister, his fiancee, maintained his innocence in an April 2009 e-mail sent to ABC News, saying Markoff "is the wrong man" and "was set up." "Unfortunately, you were given the wrong information as was the public," she said. "All I have to say to you is Philip is a beautiful person inside and out and could not hurt a fly!" Markoff's attorney had also proclaimed his innocence. Conley, the district attorney, told reporters last year that Brisman's death was "a brutal, vicious crime -- savage. And it shows that Philip Markoff is a man who's willing to take advantage of women -- to hurt them, to beat them, to rob them." Brisman sustained blunt head trauma and was shot three times at close range, prosecutors said. Conley said they believed the motive for her death was robbery. In executing a search warrant at Markoff's home, police found a firearm, along with restraints and duct tape, he said. Police traced internet communications with Brisman to an e-mail account that had been opened the day before her death, Conley said. Using internet provider information, they found the computer was at Markoff's residence in the Boston suburb of Quincy, he said. CNN's John Branch and Logan Burruss and In Session's Beth Karas contributed to this report. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

NEW: Sheriff says Philip Markoff did not behave differently before death . Medical examiner withholding official cause of death for Markoff . He was accused of killing one woman and robbing two others . Authorities believe he met his victims on Craigslist .

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Article: By . Mark Duell . PUBLISHED: . 02:19 EST, 31 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 03:42 EST, 31 January 2013 . Two passenger trains collided during this morning's rush hour, trapping the driver inside his carriage. A moving locomotive crashed into the back of a stationary train at Kalafong station in Pretoria, South Africa, between Cor Delfos and Saulsville, injuring around 20 people. No deaths were reported. Around 17 rescue vehicles were at the scene and the driver - in a critical condition - was airlifted by helicopter to a nearby hospital after being freed, a Tshwane emergency services spokesman said. Location: A moving train crashed into the back of a stationary train at Kalafong (area pictured) in South Africa . Metrorail spokesman Lillian . Mofokeng told News24 that there were around 20 injuries after the . incident near Church Street at 7:20am local time (5:20am GMT), which saw . both trains derail. 'There are two trains that have collided this morning,' Ms . Mofokeng told Agence France-Presse. 'At this stage, we do not have any loss of life.' She added that it was not a head-on collision. Two years ago more than 850 commuters were injured in Soweto, Johannesburg, when a passenger train crashed into a stationary train - a collision which also happened during rush hour, reported AFP. Map: The incident happened at Kalafong station in Pretoria, South Africa, between Cor Delfos and Saulsville . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Moving locomotive crashed into the back of stationary train this morning . Nobody died from incident at Kalafong station in Pretoria, South Africa . Driver was described as critical and taken to hospital after being freed .

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Article: By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 08:10 EST, 27 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 11:18 EST, 27 March 2013 . These young Bengal Tigers went from having a ferocious cat fight to a cat nap after tiring each other out in a heated battle. With a swat of an enormous paw and a fearsome flash of teeth, this pair of young tigers were captured fighting tooth and claw at the Bandhavgarh National Park in India. But despite appearing to be a serious battle, the teenage tigers were actually just flexing their muscles with a bit of playful posturing. Tale of two tigers: Teenage Bengal tigers go head to head in playful scrap at Bandhavgarh National Park in India . Me-ouch: The duo get precariously close to the edge of a lake as they snap and swipe at each other . Their play-fight saw them leaping and dancing around one another - batting out with their huge paws and even appearing to wrestle at one point. The protracted tussle saw them go head-to-head on land, but their antics gradually drove them ever close to a nearby pool. Eventually, the oblivious pair landed in it with a splash. Fighting to win at all costs: The two young Bengal Tigers then plunge into the water - but continue to fight . Rough and tumble: While the fight may look dangerous, the two tigers are just playing with each other . However, even that wasn't enough to cool their fun and they simply continued their fight in the water. Eventually, however, the pair appeared to have worn themselves out. They then flopped down on the bank of the pool side by side for a restorative snooze. Cat nap: The pair both lie down for a well deserved rest after tiring each other out in their play fight . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Two teenage tigers were play-fighting at Bandhavgarh National Park in India . Pair pictured biting, swiping and even wrestling each other in the water . Duo were left needing a rest to cool down after heated battle .

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Article: By . Glen Owen, Mail on Sunday Political Correspondent . PUBLISHED: . 17:42 EST, 26 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 20:32 EST, 26 October 2013 . Advisor: The disclosure comes just days after Mr Campbell revealed that he is considering standing for Parliament . Tony Blair was last night accused of helping to secure a plum job for Alastair Campbell’s firm on a ‘dictator’s payroll’. The claim was made after US Government documents revealed the extent of links between the former Prime Minister and the lobbying company that employs his former spin doctor. According to US Justice Department papers, the authoritarian Kazakhstan regime in central Asia is represented in the US ‘through Windrush Ventures Limited, through Portland PR Limited’. The entry appears to indicate that Mr Blair, whose multi-million- pound earnings are channelled into Windrush, secured the contract in Washington for Portland, a public relations firm for which Mr Campbell acts as an adviser. Mr Blair has always denied receiving money to ‘whitewash’ Kazakhstan’s human rights record, insisting that he has been advising on political reforms to ‘make a difference’ to the country and ‘is not personally making a profit’. However, the US document appears to confirm suspicions that Mr Blair has used his connection with its ruler, Nursultan Nazarbayev, to broker a lucrative deal for his former aide. Tory MP Charlie Elphicke said: ‘This appears to confirm what we have long suspected: that Blair has been directly involved in securing plum jobs for his cronies.’ The disclosure comes just days after Mr Campbell revealed that he is considering standing for Parliament and that he will advise Labour leader Ed Miliband in the run-up to the 2015 Election. The former Downing Street communications chief has been spotted in the oil-rich state, which has been ruled for more than two decades by Mr Nazarbayev – a Soviet-era hardman whose regime has been criticised for serious human rights abuses. According to the Justice Department document, the Windrush/Portland arrangement was registered with the US Government in September 2011. Sources said that such a deal was likely to be worth millions of pounds a year. Portland said: ‘We provide communications support for the government of Kazakhstan. It is mentioned on our own website, as is the fact that Alastair Campbell is one of our advisers.’ A spokesman for Mr Blair said: ‘We don’t lobby but we do carry out work on social and economic reform in Kazakhstan.’ Close: Tony Blair pictured with President Nazarbayev when he was still Prime Minister, he denies that he has received money to 'whitewash' Kazakhstan's human rights record . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

US government documents have revealed the extent of links between the former PM and lobbying group which employs his former spin doctor . One entry appears to indicate that Mr Blair secured a contract with a public relations firm, which represents Kazakhstan in the US, for Mr Campbell .

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Article: Editor's note: James L. Walker, Jr., author of the book, "This Business of Urban Music," is a sports and entertainment lawyer whose firm, Walker & Associates, is based in Stamford, Connecticut. James L. Walker Jr. says the evidence shows Michael Jackson was addicted to drugs. (CNN) -- Michael Jackson died of an overdose, according to the preliminary finding of the Los Angeles coroner described in court documents. The King of Pop apparently was given a variety of drugs that included the powerful sedative propofol, according to authorities. The news came as a shock to some. But the reality it pointed to was this: Michael Jackson was an addict. A drug addict is a person who has become physiologically or psychologically dependent on a habit-forming substance or drug. I operate a halfway house and we deal with this struggle regularly with our men, who have become addicts, and they continually tell me how hard it is to overcome. They also tell me that people are vulnerable to addiction whether white or black, rich or poor: Drugs don't discriminate. I am also an entertainment lawyer who understands the pressures of working in the music industry and the experience of insomnia that Jackson apparently complained about over the years. And, of course, like millions of others, I am a huge Jackson fan and I own all the records and CDs and had THE jacket (from the "Beat It" video). And, I can sympathize with his sad life, legal problems, personal struggles, family issues and financial meltdown. But, while I sing his songs regularly and imitate his dance moves, when the laughter and joy stops, it hurts me to admit the reality: Michael Jackson was a drug addict who didn't need to be the center of another musical tour, but needed to be the star patient at a treatment center. For years, we have heard reports of Michael Jackson being addicted to painkillers and other things. However, in our society, we tend to overlook that when it's a big name celebrity or someone we love in our circle of family and friends. Celebrities drop in and out of rehabilitation centers and drug abuse facilities nationwide. And, their lives go on and it's merely a passing footnote on the TV ticker running across the bottom of the screen. With Jackson's tragic death at the young age of 50, hopefully some folks will wake up. The National Institute on Drug Abuse reports that in the year prior to being surveyed in 2006, 560,000 Americans age 12 and older abused heroin at least once; more than 16 million Americans took prescription pain reliever, tranquilizer, stimulant, or sedative for nonmedical purposes; 6 million abused cocaine in any form; and 1.5 million abused crack. In the case of Jackson, there is a lot of finger pointing at Dr. Conrad Murray and several other doctors, who may or may not be charged. But, while we mourn the Motown legend and the tragedy of his life and death, it is important to note that this sad story sheds light on a much bigger problem in America: drug abuse. Author Deepak Chopra, a friend of Jackson, has been telling us for weeks now on national TV outlets that Jackson had a drug problem. "Dr. Murray is the one who is going to be blamed because he injected the drug, but from what I've learned he did not prescribe the drug," Chopra told CNN in reminding investigators to look deeper and further than Dr. Murray. Like Chopra, I hope investigators will go deeper, but I hope we will go deeper as a society. Jackson sold hundreds of millions of records, including the top selling album of all time, "Thriller." With his death, we can reach and teach billions of the dangers of drug use. Unfortunately, he joins a long list of major artists who have seen superstar careers end by the mortal reality that drug addiction can kill you. It hurts us to talk about Jackson's drug addiction or drug problems, as it hurts us to look at a near-century of great artists struggling with drug issues and in some cases dying at the hands of drugs -- from jazz legend Billie Holiday's drug problem to Marilyn Monroe's overdose to singer Dorothy Dandridge's death from anti-depressants. Elvis Presley's death brought to public light his prescription drug addiction. And, we saw in recent years Kurt Cobain's heroin-induced suicide death, and the 2004 death of Rick James, who wrote "Superfreak," from a drug-related heart attack. Too often these stories don't prompt substantial national outrage and we fail to break the stereotypical picture of what we think of when we hear the words "drug addict." Police and prosecutors are still mum on whether Jackson's death will result in criminal charges. It is not clear who is at fault. But no one is disputing that Jackson asked for these drugs repeatedly over the years, like most drug addicts, and had a sickness that afflicts millions of other Americans. So, let the legal system play out, but let's stop avoiding what hurts the most, so we can save millions of other drug addicts from this horrible nightmare and other families from the pain the Jackson family will now live with forever. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of James L. Walker, Jr. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

James Walker: Coroner's preliminary finding shows Jackson died of an overdose . He says he's one of Jackson's many millions of fans . He says it's painful to admit Jackson was addicted to drugs . Walker: Let's stop avoiding the reality of drug addiction in our society .

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Article: Although he seemed to have forgotten all about it on Friday, Louis van Gaal has been here before. It was in May 1992 that the Dutchman took his young Ajax team to Turf Moor for a post-season friendly to mark Burnley’s success in winning the English Fourth Division. For the Lancastrians it was an afternoon of celebration. For Van Gaal, though, it was just another step on the way to building his great Ajax team. The Amsterdam club had just won the UEFA Cup - Van Gaal’s first trophy at the club - but it was to be another two years before he guided them to the Dutch championship and three before they lifted the European Cup. VIDEO Scroll down Louis van Gaal: I have given every player a fair chance . Bold prediction: Louis van Gaal (right) believes Manchester United can lift the Premier League title this season . All smiles: Winger Angel di Maria (centre) will make his United debut against Burnley at Turf Moor on Saturday . Primed and ready: Manchester United train on Friday ahead of Saturday's lunch-time clash with Burnley . As Van Gaal likes to say so much, it was the start of a process and the similarities with his current situation at Manchester United are quite clear. Van Gaal had to be prompted to remember the game but then said: ‘It’s a long time ago but yes, I know about that game as I was there. We won. I remember that. More importantly, though, it was also a step in the process for me with Ajax. ‘That is what I talk about here. We won the UEFA Cup in the first year but had to wait for other things. Then we won the domestic cup, another step in the process. ‘This game at Burnley will be difficult for us. It’s not a big stadium or a big pitch so it will be a fantastic atmosphere and I believe the supporters shall stimulate the players of Burnley. ‘It’s also a derby, they will play with a lot of passion, a lot of long balls. You have to fight against it. ‘It will be a very difficult game but we have to show we can play football, that we can pass the ball in spite of the pressure of Burnley.’ Skills: Angel Di Maria will showcase his talent during his Manchester United debut against Burnley on Saturday . Van Gaal was in bullish mood despite the fact that his squad will arrive at Turf Moor on Saturday missing 10 players through injury and new defender Marcos Rojo because of work permit issues. The Dutch coach’s message remains the same. If he is given time and shown patience then he will bring success to United. On Friday he even challenged the media to get behind him. ‘We can be the champions still in England now, in my first year,’ said Van Gaal. ‘Maybe you shall laugh, but also in my former clubs I have started like this, so for me it’s not big news or different, because I have already said that. ‘But you have to survive as a trainer-coach, as a manager. You have to survive, because, nowadays, the fans are asking for results and this is the question: Can I receive enough time to do all the steps we have to do? Talking tactics: Louis van Gaal gives some advice to his players during a training session on Friday . Opposition: Van Gaal and Manchester United will face Sean Dyche (pictured) and his Burnley side on Saturday . ‘Maybe you (the media) can support Louis van Gaal. Do you believe in him? Yes? OK. What a fantastic end, a fantastic end.’ There is, of course, no reason for Van Gaal to feel under undue pressure. Much has conspired against him since the season started. Nevertheless, he does need a result on Saturday after taking only a point from Premier League games against Swansea and Sunderland and losing 4-0 in the Capital One Cup to MK Dons. New signing Angel di Maria will go straight into United’s team against Burnley and may find himself alongside players such as Danny Welbeck and Tom Cleverley, even though both know they are not wanted by the new manager. Laughter: Robin van Persie enjoys a joke during training ahead of Manchester United's trip to Burnley . Surplus: The unwanted dup of Danny Welbeck (pictured) and Tom Cleverley could feature against Burnley . Asked about this, Van Gaal said: ‘I am not a short-term coach. I am thinking always for the long-term. You have to take measures that are not good for the short term but better for the long term of the club. ‘That may not be good for me as a coach. But I am not here for me myself as a coach. I am here for the club.’ Details of Ajax’s game with Burnley 22 years ago are so hard to come by that only a Burnley fans’ website threw up the attendance (a little more than 10,000) and the scoreline (1-0 to Ajax) while it is unlikely that Van Gaal himself will remember much about the goalscorer that day, one Ignacio Tuhnretus. Glory: Van Gaal led Ajax to the Champions League trophy in 1995 after building a young side over many years . Return: Van Gaal (right) and his young Ajax team visited Turf Moor in a pre-season friendly in 1992 . Certainly Saturday’s game will be remembered a little longer and the United manager can only hope for a similar result. ‘I am confident about things here,’ he stressed. ‘Because everywhere I have been before I have showed it. That’s why. Not because of other things. ‘I don’t believe my philosophy won’t work at Manchester United. I believe that at the end of the process I think everybody will be happy that I was here. You too, I hope…’ VIDEO Scroll down Louis van Gaal: It is not my choice who comes and goes . Rebuilding: Van Gaal believes it will take time for him to sort things out at United but wants to start winning . Speaking Spanish: United trio (left to right) Juan Mata, Angel di Maria and Javier Hernandez train on Friday . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Louis van Gaal believes Manchester United can win Premier League this year . Dutchman says his record with previous clubs proves it is possible . United have claimed just one points from their opening two league fixtures . Van Gaal's side take on Burnley at Turf Moor on Saturday, kick-off 12.45pm . He brought his young Ajax side to Turf Moor in May 1992 during pre-season . Ajax won 1-0, Van Gaal recalling 'it was step in the process' for Dutch side . Angel di Maria will make his United debut but Marcos Rojo unavailable . Unwanted duo of Danny Welbeck and Tom Cleverley could feature for United .

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Article: If investment banker Antonio Weiss wins Senate confirmation as a Treasury under secretary, he'll walk away with a parting payment of up to $21 million. Talk about a win-win. The financial services firm Lazard, where Weiss is the global head of investment banking, has agreed to pay him about $16 million in unvested income early and give him between $1 million and $5 million in deferred compensation, according to financial disclosure records he filed with the government ethics office. The disclosures are likely to add fuel to the fire being stoked by liberal Senate Democrats who are bucking President Barack Obama by opposing Weiss' nomination -- a charge led by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. She argues in part that there are already too many "Wall Street executives dominating the Obama administration, as well as the Democratic Party's, overall economic policymaking." The practice of Wall Street executives cashing out early when they take government jobs drew criticism during last year's confirmation hearings for the man who might be Weiss' new boss, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew. When Lew left Citigroup in 2008 and later joined the State Department, he made somewhere between $250,000 and $500,000 in early stock payouts. Deferred compensation and vested stock options were originally designed to keep talented employees from jumping ship. That's left people like Heather Slavkin Corzo of the AFL-CIO asking, "Why are we paying these people to leave?" "Unless it's just a backdoor way to pay off newly minted government regulators," she added, "it's hard to see how it's in shareholders' interest." In fact, the practice led AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka to write to seven Wall Street players last month. In a letter to Weiss' firm, he wrote, "Why is it in the interest of Lazard to incentivize such departures? Surely Lazard does not expect favorable government treatment from its former executives." And that, of course, is exactly what critics fear. "The question is why would a company give an executive a special financial reward as they're about to take a government position. Some people say these policies encourage public service, but we worry that they give financial insiders even more sway over the government. In some ways, these companies are ensuring that they'll have friends in high places," said Michael Smallberg of the Project On Government Oversight, a government watchdog group. Smallberg authored a report last year that found a number of major corporations financially reward employees who go through the revolving door. Some Weiss supporters say his appointment isn't a typical revolving door scenario because Lazard isn't regulated by the recent Wall Street reforms aimed at reining in practices that led to the financial crisis. A Lazard spokeswoman said Weiss declined to comment and that the firm does not discuss compensation. Earlier this week, The New York Times' Andrew Ross Sorkin defended the practice writing, "Wouldn't it be nice if all private sector businesses offered their employees the opportunity to pursue public service work ... without giving up income or other benefits that they may have earned? Of course it would be. Well, that's what the compensation policies of many of the firms in question do. Frankly, it should be encouraged more broadly." But to watchdogs like Smallberg these policies "show how the revolving door is literally written into the pay plans of big companies that already have an advantage over public interest groups when it comes to lobbying and making their voices heard." Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Investment banker Antonio Weiss has been picked for a Treasury under secretary post . Weiss stands to gain up to $21 million if he leaves his Wall Street firm for D.C. The information comes from financial disclosure records he filed . The payout has angered some on the left including Sen. Elizabeth Warren .

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Article: Disciplined: Victoria Wasteney, an occupational therapist, was found guilty of three counts of misconduct after she prayed with her Muslim colleague . A Christian NHS worker has been disciplined for 'bullying' a Muslim colleague by praying with her. Victoria Wasteney, an occupational therapist, was also condemned for inviting the woman to a sports day at her church. And a hearing found her guilty of a further count of misconduct: lending the colleague a book about a Muslim woman who converts to Christianity. The 37-year-old, who was suspended for nine months, has now been banned from discussing her faith at work and given a formal warning by East London NHS Foundation Trust that will remain on her record for a year. Challenging the measures, Miss Wasteney, from Essex, has blasted the NHS for being intolerant. 'I believe in tolerance for everyone,' she told the Telegraph. 'It certainly wasn't an attempt to convert her to Christianity,' she added. Miss Wasteney claims she invited the colleague to a number of church events after she showed an interest in the work they do against human trafficking. When the woman went on sick leave, she recommended a book about a Muslim converting that they had discussed at work. And when the colleague came into her office in tears over health problems, Miss Wasteney claims she told her to draw on her faith, before they prayed together. However, in June 2013, Miss Wasteney was told she had received a formal bullying complaint and would have to be suspended while the accusations were investigated. 'Intolerant': Miss Wasteney has blasted East London NHS Foundation Trust for being intolerant as she launches legal action against the disciplinary measures, which has banned her from discussing her faith . In February, a hearing upheld three charges of misconduct. She is now challenging the ruling with the support of the Christian Legal Centre. Contacted for a statement, a spokesman for East London NHS Foundation Trust refused to comment on individual cases. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Victoria Wasteney, an occupational therapist, found guilty of 'bullying' Lent colleague a book, invited her to sports day, prayed with her . She is now banned from discussing faith at work and has a formal warning . Miss Wasteney is challenging ruling by East London NHS Foundation Trust . 37-year-old blasted her employers for 'intolerance', taking legal action .

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Article: West Ham have added to their forward ranks with the signing of striker Diafra Sakho from Ligue 1 outfit FC Metz. The Hammers announced on their official website that the 24-year-old had signed a four-year contract for an undisclosed fee. The Senegalese player has enjoyed a prolific spell at Metz, scoring 43 goals in the last two seasons as the club achieved back-to-back promotions. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Allardyce say West Ham must score more goals this season . Done deal: West Ham have completed the signing of striker Diafra Sakho from Ligue 1 outfit Metz . 'This is a proud day to have signed for West Ham. I really love English football and I've dreamed of coming to play for one of the big English clubs,' he told West Ham TV. 'Today, West Ham have given me that opportunity and I didn't hesitate to grab it. 'I'm looking forward to playing. It's more than a month now that I've been training for this and right now I think I'd be ready to pull on the club colours. 'I've come here to continue as I was at Metz. I'm going to give it my all, going flat out on the pitch and I think the fans will appreciate that.' Hammer time: Sakho was awarded 'Best Player' prize in the French Ligue 2 last season (right) The deal appeared to have collapsed on Wednesday after Metz accused West Ham of altering their offer for Sakho at the last minute having allowed the player to undergo a medical. But the transaction has now been completed as Sakho joins Enner Valencia, Mauro Zarate, Diego Poyet, Aaron Cresswell and Cheikhou Kouyate as summer additions at Upton Park. Hammers boss Sam Allardyce was also been linked with moves for Samuel Eto'o and Peter Crouch as he attempted to strengthen his forward line - whilst a bid for Sunderland's Connor Wickham was rejected. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

West Ham have completed the signing of Metz striker Diafra Sakho . 24-year-old frontman has joined Hammers on four-year deal . Senegalese scored 43 goals as Metz achieved back-to-back promotions .

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Article: By . Emily Crane . A couple who let their toddler urinate in the middle of a busy Hong Kong street have sparked a huge debate about acceptable standards of behaviour in Chinese society. The woman was filmed holding a nappy under her two-year-old daughter as she relieved herself in the middle of Mong Kok, one of the world’s busiest shopping districts, last Tuesday. A row quickly erupted after the toddler’s parents tried to make off with the memory card from the camera of a young man who filmed the incident. Scroll down for video . A Chinese mother allowed her toddler to urinate on a busy Hong Kong street as the lines for the public toilet were too long . Another passser-by recorded the altercation that ensued and the footage has gone viral with more than a million people viewing the video on social media site Weibo. Much of the furore centres around the perceived gap between standards of social behaviour in mainland China and on the former British colony of Hong Kong. It is illegal to let a child relieve themselves in the street in Hong Kong and doing so can result in a HK$2000 fine. However, the practice is relatively common in mainland China. The incident in Mong Kok last week occurred because there was a long line for a public toilet and the child could not wait, according to the Want China Times. Onlookers surrounded the family to take pictures and then blocked their path as they tried to flee with the child and the pram. The Chinese couple got into a physical altercation as they tried to take the memory card from the camera of the young man taking photos of their daughter . ‘The child was going to pee in her pants, what do you want me do?’ the mother can be heard telling onlookers in the video. She was arrested for allegedly slapping one of the locals across the face and ramming another with the pram. The row came to light after a Hong Kong reporter, Luqiu Luwei, posted the details on her blog. An anonymous user of China’s popular online forum, Tianya.cn, has now escalated tensions by calling on mainland parents to bring their children to Hong Kong this week and let them urinate in the streets in protest. ‘Bring children to Hong Kong and let them urinate in Hong Kong’s streets. Let’s see who will come and take photos. They will see it as natural after they have been familiarised with the act,’ user Haijiao No68 posted, according to the South China Morning Post. Since being posted online, the video and images of the toddler has drawn more than one million comments on Weibo social media alone. ‘Why don't the couple let the child wear the diaper as a precaution in the first place?’ Ivan lam posted on Weibo. ‘They could talk to the people in the line to let them use the bathroom first or let the child pee inside the bathroom instead of on the street.’ But Chinese citizens weighing in on the debate have hit back at the treatment of the couple and child. ‘The man had no right to take pictures of a little girl peeing and violate her privacy,’ Weibo user youyouyu wrote. A passser-by recorded the altercation and the footage has gone viral with more than a million people viewing the video on social media site Weibo . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Chinese mother lets two-year-old urinate on busy Hong Kong Street . Heated row erupts as onlookers film the toddler relieving herself . Footage causes heated debate between social media users .

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Article: A prostitute raped and sexually tortured by the 'crucifixion killer' of Florence has told how he promised to return and kill her. The shocking account mirrors the attack on 26-year-old Andrea Cristina Zamfir whose lifeless body was discovered on Monday, bound with tape to an iron bar in a Crucifixion-like pose. The Romanian immigrant, who was naked except for her gym shoes and socks is thought to be the victim of a serial killer akin to the 'Monster of Florence' who killed 16 people over 30 years ago. Murdered: Andrea Cristina Zamfir, 26, was found naked and bound with tape, beneath a bridge in Ugnano, a village near Florence, Italy. A man has now been arrested on suspicion of murder and rape . Since then prostitutes have been lining up at the police station to help bring the killer to justice. One, a Romanian called Martina, described her terrifying ordeal after being picked up two years ago from the park delle Cascine in Florence where she meets her clients. She told Italian newspaper La Nazione: ‘I was tortured by that maniac. He was like a beast. But not even a beast would be capable of such brutality.’ The man, who called himself Alessandro, arrived in a light coloured small car before taking her to a field. He didn’t initially ask for any special requests, she said. ‘But once we arrived he transformed. He had seemed quiet. But as soon as he got out of the car he became a monster. I ran off but he chased me and caught me. At that point I said to him, ‘I’ll do what you want.’ The scene where the woman's body was found stripped naked and crucified in a village near Florence in Italy . He told her to strip naked. In the car boot there was a wooden pole, some electric cables and tape, she said. ‘He tied me to a pole standing up, my arms crossed in front of my face. He came up from behind took the wooden pole and attacked me. ‘Then he took some pliers and came towards my breasts. I was terrified.’ In that moment she some how found the strength to fight him off. She said: ‘I had a surge of energy, I kicked him you know where. Luckily he stopped and got into his car.’ She later identified the suspect as a short, chubby, balding man in his 50s with a white car, who spoke Italian. He left the girl bound, taking her clothes, bag, money, phone and everything that she owned. But miraculously she managed to free herself after several agonizing hours pulling at the tape with her teeth. Then she ran naked to a nearby house to beg for help. A local police inspector said the woman had a slow and terrible death after being found in the crucifixion position . The woman's body was found under this bridge in the small village of Ugnano near Florence . A year later the monster returned to the park to taunt her, she explained. ‘He said: “So do you like sado-masochism?” When I told him to get lost, and that he was a criminal he shouted: “Next time I’ll kill you.”' The terrified woman said the attack still haunts her. She said: ‘I’m not the only one. Many others have had dealings with him. When I think about it I shudder still.’ Florence’s most senior policeman agreed that the killer was ‘a beast’. Police chief Raffaele Micillo said: 'I'm reluctant to offend animals with this comparison but this person is a beast,' 'We are all working to find the killer, who we suspect of committing a series of rapes as well as murders and attempted murders. I would pay any sum to get this person.' The net could be closing in as police have found matching DNA traces at the scenes of three of his maniacal attacks. In all the cases the killer apparently left traces of saliva on the tape that he used to bind his victims, probably as he used his teeth to break the tape. Carabinieri scientists have found the identical DNA in three cases where the maniac has attacked, tortured and raped prostitutes. The attacks took place in July 2011, March 2013 and 21 February 2014 in the Florence area. In the cases of two other rapes of prostitutes in December 2006 and October 2009 there is no DNA but the accounts of the victim are strikingly similar, police say. The autopsy has shown that the woman died of internal hemorrhage. She died in minutes as her internal wounds caused her to go into traumatic shock, police said. Offices have begun house-to-house inquiries in a bid to track down Ms Zamfir's killer. The victim had a criminal record in Italy for prostitution, and was identified through her fingerprints. Sources in the investigation said evidence shows that the dead woman was sexually abused before she was taped to the iron bar and then abandoned. The allegations are supported by numerous bruises on her arms and back, showing that she tried hard to free herself. Ms Zamfir was found by a cyclist . beneath a motorway flyover at the end of Via del Cimitero after they . spotted her body taped by the wrists to a road barrier, with her head . slumped back. Her clothes and handbag were found half a mile down the road near the Tuscan capital. The 'Monster of Florence', also known as Il Mostro, notoriously killed 16 people around Florence from 1968 to 1985. He used a 22 Beretta gun each time, often then mutilating his female victims, and prayed on couples in lovers' lanes in and around the picturesque Italian city. Despite four local men – Stefano Mele, Pietro Pacciani, Mario Vanni, and Giancarlo Lotti – being arrested, charged, and convicted of the different crimes over the years, it is believed the real perpetrator was never caught. The 'Monster' first struck on August 21, 1968, when he killed lovers Antonio Lo Bianco, 29, and Barbara Locci, 32, with the gun in Signa, a small town to the west of Florence. Locci's son Natalino Mele, six, was asleep in the back seat of the car at the time. On September 15, 1974, teenage sweethearts Pasquale Gentilcore, a 19-year-old barman, and Stefania Pettini, an 18-year-old accountant were shot to death and stabbed in a country lane near Borgo San Lorenzo while having sex in Gentilcore's Fiat 127. Then on June 6, 1981, engaged couple Giovanni Foggi, a 30-year-old warehouseman, and Carmela Di Nuccio, a 21-year-old shop assistant, were shot to death and stabbed near Scandicci, where they both lived. Next, 26-year-old workman Stefano Baldi and his fiance Susanna Cambi, a 24-year-old telephonist, were shot to death and stabbed in a park in the vicinity of Calenzano on October 23, 1981. On June 19, 1982 engaged lovers Paolo Mainardi, a 22-year-old mechanician, and Antonella Migliorini, a 20-year-old dressmaker, were shot to death in Mainardi's car while parked on a country road in Montespertoli. Another car murder occurred on September 9, 1983 when two 24-year-old male German tourists, Horst Wilhelm Meyer and Jens Uwe Rüsch, were shot to death in their Volkswagen Samba Bus, in Galluzzo. On July 29, 1984, sweethearts Claudio Stefanacci, a 21-year-old student, and Pia Gilda Rontini, a 18-year-old barmaid and cheerleader, were shot to death and stabbed in Stefanacci's Fiat Panda parked in a woodland area near Vicchio di Mugello. Finally, on September 7–8, 1985, French lovers on vacation Jean Michel Kraveichvili, a 25-year-old musician, and Nadine Mauriot, a 36-year-old tradeswoman, were murdered. Nadine was shot to death and stabbed while sleeping in their small tent in a woodland area near San Casciano. But Jean Michel was killed a short distance away from the tent while trying to escape. Because they were travelling foreigners nobody reported them missing. This led to the killer posting a piece of Nadine's breast and a taunting note to the state prosecutor, Silvia della Monica, informing her of the murder and setting a challenge to find the victims' bodies. However, Ms Mauriot and Mr Kraveichvili's bodies were found a few hours before the letter arrived on the prosecutor's desk. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Prostitute raped and tortured by 'crucifixion killer' comes forward . Woman, named 'Martina', describes horrific ordeal at hands of murderer . Account mirrors attack on Andrea Cristina Zamfir found dead under bridge near Florence . Body found naked, bound by an iron bar in a position similar to crucifixion . Police chief calls perpetrator 'a beast' and would pay 'any sum' to catch him . Another woman was found in similar circumstances in same place last year . Killer the 'Monster of Florence' claimed lives of 16 people from 1968 to 1985 . Case wasn't solved but same prosecutor is investigating Ms Zamfir's death .

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Article: A bitter memory of her father being stopped by police and her own brushes with cops rushed back to Daniele Watts when the actress ended up in cuffs over refusing to hand an officer her ID . The Django Unchained star wrote Saturday in an op-ed in the Orlando Sentinel how a memory of her father being stopped without cause made her unwilling to cooperate with police responding to a 'lewd behavior' call in Los Angeles. 'When I was 16, my father was driving me home from a school play when we saw flashing lights,' Watts explained. 'We hadn't been speeding. I remember my father asking the police officer what was wrong. The officer ignored his question and demanded identification.' Refused: Daniele Watts was not allowed to leave the scene when officers were called to respond to a charge of 'lewd behavior,' where she refused to give ID . The officer did not explain why he had pulled them over. Instead he asked Watts's father questions such as 'Who is she?' while adding a disparaging remark about Watts's costume. Watts explains her father felt he 'was powerless to stop the questioning or protect me from the officer's judgments,' but still handed over his license to avoid the officer making 'life very hard.' So when Los Angeles police approached Watts and her partner Brian Lucas - who is white - earlier this month following a call of 'lewd behavior,' she recalled that memory, she said. She refused to turn over ID to officers after being spotted in a car with Lucas, when she said that the couple was just kissing, though TMZ claimed photos were of something more extracurricular. An audio recording obtained by MailOnline caught audio of when police walked up to Watts to demand identification. 'It is a constitutional right that we do not have to present ID to any member of law enforcement unless we are being charged with a crime,' she's heard saying. Tape: Watts spoke of having police called on her and her partner Brian Lucas because of their races, which brought on a backlash when tape and photos of the incident surfaced . Star: Watts played the role of Coco in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, and she's had roles in shows like Californication . She later walks away from the scene and is detained in handcuffs, in spite of officers not charging her. Watts claimed that the officers grilled her about her relationship with Lucas and made her feel like a prostitute. The audio led many to criticize Watts for 'crying wolf' over racial profiling when it emerged that she is the first to mention race during the interaction with police. In her op-ed, she says that when she said 'Do you know how many times the cops have been called just for being black?' she thought of three recent episodes that echoed the one with her father. During a stop for speeding in Texas, Watts says an officer removed her from the car and interrogated her about how she and Lucas knew each other and why they were traveling together. In California, she watched a police car pass by her and Lucas talking in a parked car, then double back with lights flashing to check out a call of 'suspicious persons' due to a 'flurry of robberies.' Another time Watts says she and Lucas were sorting through his father's garage and were stopped on 'concerns about robbery,' when Watts says she adamantly refused to provide ID. The Daily News reported the officers involved are the subject of a probe by the LAPD for charges including biased policing and conduct unbecoming, though there are no official allegations. As for Watts, she says she couldn't have 'turned my back on the 16-year-old who watched her father' embarrassed by police by turning over ID when she says she had the right not to. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Daniele Watts was detained briefly after refusing to hand over identification when officers were called to a scene of 'lewd behavior' Watts wrote in the Orlando Sentinel of when her dad was stopped without cause and times she and her boyfriend, who is white, were questioned . Watts says they were kissing in a car and that questions about her and her boyfriend's relationship made her feel like she was being profiled . Photos later emerged that suggested they were having sex and Watts faced backlash for her earlier claims . Watts starred as Coco in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained .

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Article: Managua, Nicaragua (CNN) -- Daniel Ortega marked the beginning of his third term as Nicaragua's president during an inauguration ceremony Tuesday -- an event both buoyed by his pledges of moderation and marred by months of discord over voter irregularities. The Nicaraguan leader pledged that his socialist government would continue efforts to promote peace and attack poverty. "Savage capitalism, it is no longer possible. There is no space on this planet for savage capitalism," Ortega said in a wide-ranging inauguration speech that touched on a international events, including war in Afghanistan, last year's earthquake in Japan and the killing of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Shortly after taking his oath of office, Ortega hugged Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who were among a number of dignitaries at the ceremony. "People have tried to give many interpretations to the visit of (Ahmadinejad). I think they still don't understand that it is necessary to look for an authentic path toward peace," Ortega said during his inauguration address, stressing that it was within Iran's right to use nuclear technology for energy needs. "They cannot deny that right to any people," he said. Ahmadinejad's Latin American tour . Ortega is known as a Venezuela ally, had been a public supporter of Gadhafi and remains a stalwart U.S. critic. In his speech Tuesday, the Nicaraguan president decried Gadhafi's killing. "A head of state in Libya was assassinated in the most brutal manner, with some television media basking in the crime. If there were accusations, it was logical to detain him," he said. Cable channels throughout the Central American nation were blocked during Tuesday's inauguration ceremony, which drew a crowd of thousands and was broadcast on national television. Since the country's November elections, Ortega, 66, has reached for the political middle, making overtures to the business class with promises of encouraging foreign investment. But his critics say they fear the former leftist revolutionary is looking to solidify Sandinista party control over state institutions and have pointed to reports of ballot fraud and voter intimidation. According to a report presented by the Organization of American States, irregularities included problems providing identification cards to vote, problems in the accreditation of observers and imbalances in political parties present at polling stations. Ortega, who fought against the U.S.-backed contras during the 1980s, won the country's elections in November with 64% of the vote, though subsequent protests and clashes have left several people dead. Nicaragua's constitution bars presidents from being re-elected, but that did not stop Ortega from running in his sixth straight presidential race. Ortega was first elected as president in 1985, and ran unsuccessfully in 1990, 1996 and 2001 before being elected again in 2006. CNN's Luis Carlos Velez contributed to this report. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

NEW: President Daniel Ortega: "Savage capitalism ... is no longer possible" Ortega officially begins his third term at a ceremony in Nicaragua . In recent months, he has reached for the political middle . November's elections have been marred by months of discord over voter irregularities .

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Article: After a week of wild weather experienced throughout the country, Victorian residents have taken to social media to mock the overturned lawn chairs and rattling windows caused by two minor earthquakes felt in Melbourne. After two people were struck by lightning in Sydney as ferocious storms swept through NSW, Victorians had their own spate of natural phenomena, dubbed by locals as '#MelbourneQuake2014'. The underwhelming experience of the 3.2 magnitude earthquake just after 6am on Thursday prompted social media users to declare a 'We will rebuild' campaign, posting pictures of minor inconveniences caused by the quake. Scroll down for video . The underwhelming experience of the 3.2 magnitude earthquake just after 6am on Thursday prompted social media users to declare a 'We will rebuild' campaign . After two people were struck by lightning in Sydney as ferocious storms swept through NSW, Victorians had their own spate of natural phenomena, dubbed by locals as '#MelbourneQuake2014' Geoscience Australia seismologists confirmed that the quake struck the Melbourne suburbs of Pakenham and Berwick, 56 kilometers from the CBD, with some residents woken up by the shake, but many more residents reported thinking the earthquake was thunder. Many residents living right in the epicentre reported sleeping through the incident or barely registering that a seismological current was running through their suburb. One resident posted a picture on Facebook of an overturned lawn chair with the caption 'we will rebuild', with other users accusing friends' movements for making the ground shake, or suggesting the quake was caused by a resident sending out 'good vibes'. Other social media users suggested that the rumble may have been a result of locals sexual activity, 'rocking beds' and 'shaking the suburb'. Social media users were quick to claim that they had 'been part of Quake Wake 2014', posting sarcastic comments about 'living through' the Thursday morning earthquake . Many residents living right in the epicentre reported sleeping through the incident or barely registering that a seismological current was running through their suburb . An 'I survived the Berwick earthquake' Facebook page was reportedly started, using a photograph of an overturned lawn chair captured in a similarly minor earthquake from 2012 . Social media users were quick to claim that they had 'been part of Quake Wake 2014', posting sarcastic comments about 'living through' the Thursday morning earthquake. 'Horrific tales of lattes being spilt in Pakenham, stay strong Melbourne we'll get through this together' said one Twitter user. An 'I survived the Berwick earthquake' Facebook page was reportedly started, using a photograph of an overturned lawn chair captured in a similarly minor earthquake from 2012. Duty seismologist Marco Naldomi from Geoscience Australia said that there had been in excess of 700 reports from those living around the epicentre, but that no one had been hurt or recorded any property breakages. 'There have been no reports of damage, but people have reported couches shaking or chairs falling over,' Mr Naldomi said. 'Some residents reported hearing a bang or a loud rumble, of windows rattling, but given the population in the area it's not surprising that we've had so many reports.' The interest in the quake continued with social media users in New Zealand ridiculing the minor earthquake, commenting that Australians complaining about earthquakes was akin to Kiwi's complaining of heat waves. 'Where were you when the earthquake hit!? You know, the one that happened the day after that other one,' asked one social media user . Victorian residents have flocked to social media to mock the overturned lawn chairs and rattling windows caused by two minor earthquakes felt in Melbourne . On Wednesday morning Victoria experienced another earthquake, hitting the Gippsland suburb of Korumburra, which the seismologist said experiences quakes much more frequently. 'Where were you when the earthquake hit!? You know, the one that happened the day after that other one,' asked one social media user. Mr Naldomi said that the area of Pakenham does not often experience earthquakes, with only eight on record including the quake on Thursday morning. 'Earthquakes happen along faultlines, cracks in the earth's crust. That stress is released every now and then in form of earthquake along weaker part of faultlines,' Mr Nadomi said . 'The immediate area outside the epicentre is very seismically quiet, and today's earthquake was the largest on record,' Mr Naldomi said. 'Earthquakes happen along faultlines, cracks in the earth's crust. That stress is released every now and then in form of earthquake along weaker part of faultlines,' he said. 'From this we could infer that that there may well be a faultlines in the area but that it is minor, outside of the ring of fire in the state's south which is a much larger faultline.' 'There are much more active faultlines in the Gipsland area, but it's unlikely the two earthquakes are related.' Lightning strikes at Sydney Harbour on Wednesday afternoon as a severe thunderstorm warning is issued for a number of areas across New South Wales . Firefighters finally put out the fire about 9pm, almost three hours after it started . Earlier in the week, two people were struck by lightning as severe thunderstorms swept through Sydney causing flight chaos and traffic delays. Luckily only minor cases, a man in his 20s was hit by lightning in Hazelbrook, in the Blue Mountains while another person was struck in Cabramatta in Sydney's southwest, said an ambulance spokeswoman. The Bureau of Meteorology issued a severe thunderstorm warning on Wednesday afternoon for areas near Parramatta, Sydney Olympic Park and Richmond. The bureau warned the storm was moving towards the north east and was forecast to hit Hornsby, Sydney city, the Harbour Bridge and the northern beaches. The New South Wales capital was plunged into darkness by 5.30pm but by 7pm the worse of the storm seemed to have passed although at least 13,000 homes in the Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury, Southern Highlands and Western Sydney regions were still without power. The fire broke out just after 6.30pm on Wednesday after being struck by lightning . Dark smoke is seen billowing over the inner-city of Sydney, covering the Harbour Bridge from view . Firefighters evacuated 40 units near the substations as they waited for the power to be shut off . The commute home for many Sydneysiders was thrown into disarray with ferries stranded as they were unable to dock and traffic was brought to a standstill on the Harbour Bridge. One driver described the scene on the bridge as a 'car park'. Lightning also wreaked havoc in Pyrmont - in Sydney's inner-city - with an electrical substation catching alight after it was hit. Large amounts of dark smoke was seen billowing out of the building just after 6.30pm, but it has since been extinguished. It took 20 firefighters around two hours to put out the fire and while authorities aren't sure what caused it, they think it may have been due to lightning. The fire proved tricky for firefighters who were prevented from using water to extinguish the substation blaze as it had about 11,000 volts of electricity running through it, Superintendent Ian Krimmer said. Storms stopped traffic on the Harbour Bridge as the east coast was pelted by wild weather . Lightning strikes were seen all over Sydney as the skies fell dark across the city . In this picture, a lightning strike looks to just miss a playing flying over the city . NSW SES is currently working at Mittagong, in the Southern Highlands of NSW, where 40 requests for assistance have been received after the area was flooded with 30mm of rain in only 20 minutes . Social media users captured images of storm clouds rolling in and lighting strikes in the distance . Captured footage of a lightning strike hitting Sydney during Wednesday's storm . This one struck near the inner-city near Sydney Harbour Bridge . Instead, they worked to protect surrounding buildings, which included a five-level residential block, until the energy provider isolated power to the site. Fire and Rescue NSW evacuated 40 units as they waited for the power to be shut off, fortunately there were no reports of injury. Emergency crews have received more than 80 phone calls about fallen trees and power lines by across the Sydney area, sending out more than 80 fire trucks and 300 firefighters to various jobs. NSW SES is currently working at Mittagong, in the Southern Highlands of NSW, where 40 requests for assistance have been received after the area was flooded with 30mm of rain in only 20 minutes. According to Live Traffic NSW, five roads were flooded by 6pm, including the Great Western Highway Springwood, Old Windsor Road and Seven Hills Road. Train services were closed on the T1 Western Line between Richmond and Clarendon, 'due to lightning strikes at Clarendon affecting signalling,' Transport NSW stated. Fire and Rescue NSW had received more than 50 phone calls about fallen trees and power lines by 5:30pm . Large amounts of dark smoke was spotted billowing out of a building at Pyrmont in Sydney's centre during the storm, after lightning struck an electrical sub station and sparked a fire . Social media users instantly took to sharing photographs of the storm's affect in their area . Buses operated as a replacement service between stations, however heavy traffic in the Richmond area caused delays. There was also heavy traffic delays in Strathfield due to flooding. The storms also caused some delays to flights out of Sydney Airport with Qantas and Virgin confirming that its domestic and international runways had been closed since 5.15pm. Qantas said about 10 flights had been affected, some by up to two hours. By 7pm, a Virgin spokeswoman said its flights had returned to normal with the runways reopening. Social media users instantly took to sharing photographs of the storm's affect in their area. Further south in Mildura in Victoria, residents posted photos of hail the size of a 20-cent piece pelting the town. The Bureau of Meteorology predicted large hail stones, damaging winds and heavy rainfall, which could lead to flash flooding, at around 5pm for the areas of Gosford, Sydney, Wollongong, Nowra, Armidale and Orange. By 6:40pm, the Bureau of Meteorology had cancelled their severe storm warning. NSW Rural Fire Service shared this photo of the number of lightning strikes that have struck across the state . The Bureau of Meteorology has predicted large hail stones, damaging winds and heavy rainfall, which could lead to flash flooding, for the areas of Gosford, Sydney, Wollongong, Nowra, Armidale and Orange . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

A minor earthquake was recorded on Thursday morning in the Melbourne suburbs of Pakenham and Berwick, 56 kilometeres outside the CBD . The 3.2 magnitude earthquake was the second in two days, with a 3.4 magnitude earthquake in Gippsland on Wednesday . Social media users were quick to dub the experience #Melbournequake2014, posting photos of minor inconveniences such as overturned lawn chairs and spilled coffee . A 'we will rebuild' campaign started on Twitter, with many users tweeting that they had 'lived through' or were 'multiple earthquake survivors' Geoscience Australia said there had been over 700 reports of the earthquake from residents but no damage .

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Article: By . Associated Press . Last updated at 8:14 AM on 11th November 2011 . A storm forecast to be one of the worst on record in Alaska is lashing lashed the state's western coastline, tearing roofs off buildings and pushing water and debris into communities, authorities said. The storm, which began hitting Alaska late on Tuesday after building over the North Pacific Ocean, brought winds measured at up to 89 miles (143 km) per hour and flooded parts of some Native villages along the coastline. There were no reports of deaths or injuries as of Wednesday evening, and damage tallied so far was caused largely by wind and included reports of tin roofs flying off and power lines down, authorities said. Scroll down for video . Waves pound a seawall near a home in Nome, Alaska, yesterday . Sea surges: Kids plays in sea foam near the Nome harbor late on Tuesday evening as the Bering Sea storm starts kicking up in the coastal Alaskan village . 'This is a storm of epic proportions, . as it's being described,' said Jeff Osiensky, a meteorologist and . regional warning coordinator for the National Weather Service. 'This is . kind of ratcheted up to a level much higher than we've been accustomed . to.' 'I think this would probably be about . a Category 3-type hurricane if we were to do some sort of a similar . comparison,' he said. 'It's on the line of a pretty destructive . hurricane.' Category 3 hurricanes on the . Saffir-Simpson scale, which have sustained winds exceeding 111 miles . (178 km) per hour, can cause devastating damage to homes, buildings and . utilities. Osiensky said that by Wednesday . evening wind speeds were diminishing but water levels would remain high . and new surges of floodwaters were expected. Flooding: River Street is seen covered with ocean water in Nome, Alaska yesterday . High waters: A couple stands in front of River Street while the waves hit the seawall, in Nome, Alaska . Rushing in: Waves splash up on the shore near homes in Nome, Alaska . Most of western Alaska is at high . risk, from the Yupik Eskimo community of Bethel in the Yukon-Kuskowim . delta to the Inupiat Eskimo village of Wainwright on the North Slope, . according to the National Weather Service. But one of the hardest-hit areas so . far has been Nome, a former Gold Rush boomtown famous as the end of the . Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, and surrounding villages. There, the storm tossed debris onto . roads, making driving dangerous, city officials reported. Waves have . launched 'fist-sized rocks' and logs up to two feet in diameter onto the . roadway, officials said. Despite boarding up windows in preparation for the storm, the Nome Trading Company on Front Street was continuing to serve customers yesterday . Nome's River Street was, perhaps aptly, under water yesterday . A trio get a closer look at the large waves cresting over the seawall just south of Nome's Front Street yesterday evening . 'These objects would cause injury to any person that was struck,' the city's emergency managers said in a written statement. Evacuations have been ordered in . low-lying parts of Nome and other sites, with residents housed in . schools and other public buildings. But large-scale evacuations out of . the region are not considered feasible because weather conditions make . flying hazardous, a state official said Tuesday. Nome, with 3,600 residents, is one of . the largest cities in western Alaska. The communities spread along the . coastline are mostly traditional Native settlements, with a few hundred . to a few thousand inhabitants, and no roads linking communities. Destruction: A portion of roof sits on the ground after blowing off of a nearby building in Nome, Alaska yesterday . Water damage: A hose drains water from flooding in the Breakers Bar on Nomeís Front Street in the city . Hurricane-force winds: Barrels washed into the Snake River by the oceanís surge float atop slush and ice in Nome . The Alaska Division of Homeland . Security and Emergency Management set up an incident command to respond . to the storm. The U.S. Coast Guard has stationed helicopters and cutters . in the region to aid mariners involved in the crab fishery. The Alaska National Guard activated an operations center at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage. Powerful storms of this magnitude are . common at this time of year in the Bering Sea and North Pacific, but . this storm is unusual because of its northward trajectory and the lack . of sea ice in near-shore areas like Norton Sound off Nome, National . Weather Service and other agency officials said. Boarding up: Pat Krier, owner of the Polar Cafe in Nome, puts finishing touches to his windows while his crew carries merchandise out of the cellar on Tuesday . Thrashing: Waves bang against the Western Alaska coastline as the storm moves inland . Dangerous: Charlie Weyauvanna plays in sea foam late on Tuesday as the storm intensifies in Nome . 'Forty years ago, a big storm like . this would come through and the sea ice would act as sort of a buffer,' said Mark Serreze, director of the Snow and Ice Data Center. 'The Bering Sea has and always will . have these strong storms. What is different now is their potential . destructiveness as you lose the sea ice cover,' he added. 'It's barely beginning to wind down . along the coast,' Stephen Kearney, a meteorologist for the Weather . Service in Fairbanks, said late Wednesday. 'The sea level will remain steady . into the early morning hours and then start to come down tomorrow . morning,' he told the Anchorage Daily News. The weather service said 'a potent . upper level disturbance' rotating around the Bering Sea storm is . expected to bring 3 to 8 inches (7 to 20 centimeters) of snowfall to the . Anchorage area by Thursday afternoon. The service issued a winter weather advisory for Anchorage in effect until noon Thursday. The last time the communities saw something similar was in November 1974, when a storm created a sea surge that measured more than 13 feet. The surge pushed beach driftwood above the level of the previous storm of its type in 1913. Warnings: A National Weather Service map shows public and marine hazard advisories across the Alaskan coast yesterday . Moving inland: This composite infrared imagery from NOAA weather . satellites taken yesterday shows the storm moving over the Bering Strait . region, bringing heavy winds and flooding . 'Superstorm': An image provided by the NOAA-19 satellite's AVHRR sensor shows the storming bearing down on Alaska on Tuesday . Watch video here . 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Storm stretched 750miles across Bering Sea, nearly the distance from New York to Chicago or London to Milan . Wind gusts recorded as high as 89mph - comparable to a Category 3-type hurricane . Blizzard and flood warnings in effect until this evening . 10ft sea surge expected . Coastal communities ordered to evacuate . Thirty-seven years since forecasters saw something of this magnitude .

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Article: A transgender teenager has killed himself after explaining in a heartwrenching message: 'I'm a prisoner of my own body.' The death of Riley Matthew Moscatel, 17, has devastated friends and relatives, who said they had accepted his decision to drop his birth name, 'Jessica', in favor of 'Riley' in the spring. On Monday afternoon, surveillance cameras recorded the high school senior stepping out in front of an Amtrak train near to his home in Croydon, Pennsylvania, ending his life. 'My mirror reflects Jessica, my heart and mind say Riley,' he posted in an Instagram picture just before. 'You see me as the happiest person in school, I'm a prisoner of my own body. Proud: Riley Matthew Moscatel, 17, was open about his transgender identity and shared this image to Instagram showing how far he had come since freshman year, when he was still known as 'Jessica' 'You see me having a successful future, I can't see me at my graduation day. I say my hearts beating, but it's beating slower and slower each day... I've had enough.' The lengthy message, which also apologized to his parents for not being the daughter they had wanted, was written on the backdrop of a train track and posted to his account. Shocked friends said that he had apparently got through childhood depression but still struggled with his female body, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. 'Everyone supported him,' said Kate Cimino, who had been in a relationship with Riley. But he 'still really wasn't a guy physically', she explained. 'Even though everyone showed support and called him Riley, it didn't match up to what he felt of himself.' Struggle: Before he killed himself on Monday, Riley posted this message to Instagram detailing his pain . Friends said that he had been researching hormone treatments that he hoped to start when he turned 18. His parents had also bought him a breast binder. In June he wrote beneath a photograph of himself on Facebook: 'I just wanna wake up to my actual body, not to what leftovers I've been given.' Speaking to The Trentonian, Riley's family said they were 100 per cent supportive of their son - but admitted that they were so used to calling him their daughter that they sometimes slipped up. 'We knew that it was important to her,' his dad Rich Moscatel said of Riley's male identity. 'If it was important to her, it was important to us whether we understood it or not.' His mother Kristine Moscatel said he had started calling himself Riley a year ago. 'We went from her thinking she was a lesbian, to bisexual, to finally transgender,' she said. 'She didn’t know what she wanted to try and fit into.' Support: Riley had been dating Kate Cimino, who said people's support could not change his opinion of himself . Missed: Surveillance footage captured Riley walking in front of a train on Monday afternoon, police said . When he spoke about his identity to his parents, Kristine Moscatel said she drove him to a local high school to take part in its Gay-Straight Alliance. The teenager also had the support of his teachers at Bucks County Technical High School, where other transgender and gay students attend. Kevin Gentilcore, supervisor of Pupil Personnel Services, said the boy's teachers were devastated. Rates of suicide and suicide attempts are much higher among transgender people - as much as 41 per cent, according to one survey, which is nearly nine times the national average. Arnold Grossman, a New York University professor, told the Inquirer the suicide attempts often came from feelings of not belonging, burdening family members, and seeing no way out of the situation. For confidential support in the U.S., call the National suicide Prevention Line on 1-800-273-825 . In the U.K., contact the Samaritans on 08457 90 90 90 or visit a local Samaritans branch. See www.samaritans.org for details . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Riley Matthew Moscatel, 17, uploaded a long message to Instagram before he took his life on Monday afternoon . He explained that he did not feel like the person he saw in the mirror . Friends and family said they had supported him when he came out as transgender in the spring and changed his name from Jessica to Riley . But they said that their support did not change how he felt about himself .

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Article: (CNN) -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi fired back Sunday at a CBS News' "60 Minutes" report that highlighted several instances of what it suggested could be "soft corruption." The show looked at the investments of various lawmakers -- including Pelosi, House Speaker John Boehner and Republican Rep. Spencer Bachus of Alabama -- who reportedly bought stocks around the same time legislation involving those investments was being discussed. Pelosi and her husband participated in an initial public offering of Visa in 2008, according to CBS. They bought 5,000 shares at the initial price of $44; two days later, shares were trading at $64, CBS said. The network reported the investment came at the same time a piece of legislation that was opposed by credit-card companies was making its way through the House. "Congress has never done more for consumers nor has the Congress passed more critical reforms of the credit card industry than under the Speakership of Nancy Pelosi," Pelosi spokesman, Drew Hammill, said in a statement soon after the report aired Sunday night. "It is very troubling that 60 Minutes would base their reporting off of an already-discredited conservative author who has made a career of out attacking Democrats," he added. CBS said it used as a starting point for its story the research of Peter Schweizer, a fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank at Stanford University. About a year ago, he began work on a book about "soft corruption" in Washington, CBS reported. The network said it had independently verified the material it used. Pelosi's spokesman criticized the CBS story for failing to note that the "legislation in question was reported out of the Judiciary Committee on October 3, 2008 -- the day the House was consumed in passing TARP and also the last day the House was in session before the November election." It also failed to note that in September 2008, the House passed the Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights, Hammill said. "In the next Congress, the House and Senate passed and President Obama signed the Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights and the Dodd-Frank legislation, which included a stronger, more direct approach to addressing swipe fees," the spokesman said. In addition to Pelosi, the CBS report took a look at the investments of of Bachus and Boehner. In mid-September 2008, Bachus, then a ranking member on the House Committee on Financial Services, met with then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and lawmakers about the imminent collapse of the global economy, CBS reported. At the same time, Bachus bought options funds, betting markets would go down, CBS said. He also traded General Electric stock, and roughly a third of GE's business is in financial services, CBS reported. Bachus declined to talk to CBS, but his office provided a statement that said the representative never trades on non-public information, or financial services stock. Meanwhile, Boehner, who in 2009 was the House Minority leader, bought health-insurance stocks during the health care debate, all of which increased in value after the so-called public option was killed, CBS reported. Boehner was very much against the public option. He also declined to be interviewed, but spoke to CBS' Steve Kroft at a press conference. "I have not made any decisions on day-to-day trading activities in my account -- and haven't for years. I don't -- I do not do it, haven't done it and wouldn't do it," he said. A senior House GOP aide told CNN that Boehner's financial adviser bought a range of blue chip stocks around the same time -- not just health care stocks -- after he closed out the retirement account from his small business. "The idea that the Republican leader in the House opposed the public option -- policy favored by the left of the left -- for personal profit is, frankly, stupid," said the aide. CNN's Deirdre Walsh contributed to this report. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

CBS News' "60 Minutes" airs a report looking at lawmakers' investments . Pelosi defends her record on fighting credit-card companies . CBS also looks at investments made by Boehner and Rep. Bachus .

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Article: Shock as EastEnders fails to pick up any awards except Lifetime Achievement . Coronation Street's Alan Halsall took home Best Actor and Hollyoaks' Claire Cooper won Best Actress . Hollyoaks received five awards including Spectacular Scene Of The Year and Sexiest Male . Michelle Keegan won the award for Sexiest Female for the fifth year running . By . Emily Sheridan . PUBLISHED: . 13:32 EST, 18 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 09:35 EST, 20 May 2013 . She missed out on a nomination for Sexiest Female at this year's British Soap Awards. However, it looks like Jennifer Metcalfe was certainly showing awards bosses and the public they may have missed a trick by leaving her off the shortlist. The Hollyoaks star, 29, certainly garnered plenty of attention as she arrived at the Manchester ceremony in a white Roberto Cavalli blazer and nothing underneath. Scroll down for video and a list of winners . Taking the plunge: Hollyoaks actress Jennifer Metcalfe shows off some major cleavage in a white blazer and skinny jeans at the British Soap Awards in Manchester on Saturday . Too much? Jennifer shows off her breasts as the material gapes open . As she bent over, the gaping blazer nearly exposed Jennifer's breasts to the waiting paparazzi. Joining Jennifer on the red carpet was her co-star Gemma Merna, who plays her on-screen sister Carmel in the Channel 4 soap. Ahead of her red carpet arrival, Jennifer had been tweeting about her pampering and cocktail sessions. She's got some front! After three cocktails, no wonder Jennifer was relaxed in her risque ensemble . No clashes tonight: Jennifer may have been relieved to hear her former love rival Samia Ghadie wouldn't be attending . Sibling style: While Jennifer went for sexy androgynous, her co-star Gemma Merna went for a daring lace number . Just before she turned up at Media City in Salford, she admitted she was on her third cocktail. She tweeted: 'Cocktail no 3 now 'av t get ready (sic).' Rather interestingly, her former love rival Samia Ghadie, who plays Maria Connor in Coronation St, chose to stay at home. VERY daring! Gemma, who plays Carmel Valentine, wore a daring black lace gown... and appeared to have no underwear underneath . Catch up: Jennifer and Gemma talk to their co-stars on the red carpet . Grecian goddess: Jorgie Porter, who is up for Sexiest Female, showed some flesh in white Grecian gown and gold belt . Baby on board: Former Coronation Street actress Lucy-Jo Hudson, who was there to support her husband, showed off her baby bump in white . Proud: Lucy-Jo looked delighted as she posed alongside her nominated husband Alan Halsall . Samia started dating Jennifer's . ex-boyfriend Sylvain Longchambon in January, soon after he ended his two . year romance with the latter. Blonde Gemma also went for a more daring look, in a floor-length lace gown with a sheer panel all down the side. No doubt the actress would have done some serious waxing before opting for such a revealing ensemble. Bit more restrained: Corrie star Brooke Vincent wore a white trouser suit... and probably a bra (unlike Jennifer) Old school Hollywood glamour: Sexiest Female nominee Natalie Anderson wore a low-cut white halterneck dress . Ahead of making her entrance in the daring gown, she wrote: '#Blackonblackonblack !!!' Also going for a similar style to Jennifer was Coronation Street star Brooke Vincent, who wore a white trouser suit. White appeared to be a dominant colour . on the red carpet with Sexiest Female nominee Natalie Anderson - who . plays Alicia Metcalfe in Emmerdale - also opting for a low-cut white . gown. Making a statement: Villain Of The Year nominee Natalie Gumede (left) wore a red patterned shift dress, while Sexiest Female nominee Georgia May Foote sizzled in red floor-length . Golden girl: Coronation Street star Kym Lomas was going for a Bond girl look in a gold gown with plunging back . Mother-to-be and former Corrie star . Lucy-Jo Hudson showed off her bump in a flowing white gown as she . arrived to support her husband Alan Halsall. The . Corrie star, who plays Tyrone Dobbs, is up for Best Actor, Best . Storyline, Best Single Episode and Best On-Screen Partnership with . co-star Jennie McAlpine. His former co-star Natalie Gumede, who . played Tyrone's abusive wife Kirsty, is up for Best Villain, Best . Dramatic Performance, Best Single Episode and Best Storyline. Pretty in pink: Sexiest Female nominee Michelle Keegan arrived with boyfriend Mark Wright . Chester's finest: Hollyoaks on-screen couple Andrew Moss (left) and Claire Cooper . Natalie opted for a more colourful ensemble in a red patterned shift dress with a pair of matching killer heels. Her co-star Georgia May Foote, who plays teen mum Katy Armstrong, also opted for the same colour, but a floor-length gown. Also representing Corrie in the glamour stakes was Kym Lomas, who went for a Bond girl style in a gold shimmering dress with plunging back by Nadine Merabi. Blonde on black: (L-R) EastEnders actresses Hetti Bywater (Lucy Beale) and Danielle Harold (Lola Pearce) Red carpet: EastEnders actress Shona McGarty looked dramatic in black and gold, while co-star Jo Joyner kept it simple in a LBD . Meanwhile, her co-star Michelle Keegan went for more understated glamour in a pretty pink column dress by Rachel Gilbert which she teamed with Matthew Campbell Laurenza jewellery. The . brunette beauty, who is up for Sexiest Female and Best Actress, arrived . on the arm of her boyfriend, former the Only Way Is Essex star Mark . Wright. When it came to the EastEnders cast, it appeared black for a popular shade for castmembers young and old. Interesting choice: Jessie Wallace opted for an off the shoulder top with a draped skirt . Keeping it cool: Jessie's boyfriend Tim Arnold decided to keep his shades on as he posed on the red carpet . Sheer delight: Emmerdale actress Lucy Pargeter, who plays Chastity, also opted for sheer panelling . Hollyoaks hotties: Stephanie Waring (L) and Stephanie Davis wore contrasting black and white gowns . Back beauty: Nikki Sanderson showed off her back in her shimmering backless gown . Long and short: Katie McGylnn (R) showed off her figure in a little white dress while Emmerdale's Fiona Wade (L) oozed glamour . Pop injection: Union J made an appearance at the ceremony showing off their impressive hair styles . Hetti Bywater, who plays bad girl Lucy Beale, wore a black dress with sheer panels and a belt which cinched in her tiny waist. Her fellow blonde co-star Danielle Harold, who plays teen mum Lola Pearce, wore a strapless mermaid gown. Fellow young EastEnder Shona McGarty wore a dramatic black and gown creation with long train. Still shinning: Shobna Gulati, dressed in Kirsty Doyle, (L) who has now left Corrie joined co-star Jennie McAlpine at the event . In the pink: Former Coronation Street actress Tina O'Brien wore a pale pink sequinned gown and feathered skirt . Pretty in pink: Hollyoaks actress Anna Shaffer looked chic in a pale pink strapless dress (left), while Strictly Come Dancing pro Ola Jordan wore a prom dress . Suited and booted: Coronation streets Antony Cotton (L) and John Michie (R) made sure they looked dapper in their black suits . Effort: Debbie Rush, who plays Anna Windass on Coronation Street and co-star Mikey North made an effort with their looks . Contrasting looks: EastEnders: Diane Parish opted for a dress with a thigh split, while Jamie Forman went for a simple suit . Careful: Shane Richie forgot to do up his laces as he posed with wife Christie Goddard . Meanwhile, their co-star Jo Joyner kept it simple in a little black dress and beige platform heels. Leading the stars in pinks and nudes were former Coronation Street actress Tina O'Brien, who looked lovely in a pale pink sequinned gown with feathered detail by Nadine Merabi. Hollyoaks star Anna Shaffer, who plays Ruby Button, also opted for a similar shade in a silk number. Strictly Come Dancing professional Ola Jordan looked pretty in pink in a strapless prom dress and silver high heels. The British Soap Awards, hosted by Phillip Schofield, will air on Sunday May 19 at 8pm on ITV. Babes in blue: Coronation Street star Paula Lane (Kylie Platt) in an asymmetrical number by SVE (left) and Emmerdale star Sian Reese-Williams (Gennie) in grey dress . The Branning girls! EastEnders co-stars and on-screen siblings Lorna Fitzgerald and Jacqueline Jossa . Satin dream: Marry Berry looked stunning in a blue gown with embellishment around the collar . Success: Hollyoaks enjoyed a hugely successful evening picking up a total of five awards . Winners: Hollyoaks' Kieron Richardson and Emmett J Scanlan, Ste Hay and Brendan Brady won for Best Onscreen Partnership . Proud: Claire Cooper, who plays Jennifer's onscreen sister, won the award for Best Actress . Sexiest Male - Danny Mac, Dodger Savage, Hollyoaks . Sexiest Female - Michelle Keegan, Tina McIntyre, Coronation Street . Villain of the Year - Natalie Gumede, Kirsty Soames, Coronation Street . Best Actor - Alan Halsall, Tyrone Dobbs, Coronation Street . Best Actress - Claire Cooper, Jacqui McQueen, Hollyoaks . Best British Soap - Coronation Street . Best Comedy Performance - Patti Clare, Mary Taylor, Coronation Street . Best Dramatic Performance - Natalie Gumede, Kirsty Soames, Coronation Street . Best Young Performance - Eden Taylor-Draper, Belle Dingle, Emmerdale . Best Exit - Nigel Havers, Lewis Archer, Coronation Street . Best Newcomer - Joseph Thompson, Dr Paul Browning, Hollyoaks . Best On-Screen Partnership - Kieron Richardson and Emmett J Scanlan, Ste Hay and Brendan Brady, Hollyoaks . Best Storyline - Kirsty's Abuse of Tyrone, Coronation Street . Spectacular Scene of the Year - The Bus Crash, Hollyoaks . Best Single Episode - Emmerdale 40th anniversary live episode . Lifetime Achievement Award - Adam Woodyatt, Ian Beale, EastEnders . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Shock as EastEnders fails to pick up any awards except Lifetime Achievement . Coronation Street's Alan Halsall took home Best Actor and Hollyoaks' Claire Cooper won Best Actress . Hollyoaks received five awards including Spectacular Scene Of The Year and Sexiest Male . Michelle Keegan won the award for Sexiest Female for the fifth year running .

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Article: (CNN) -- The mysterious deaths of 21 prized polo horses Sunday at a club in Florida provides a peek inside the private world of a sport that generally is off limits to all but the very wealthy. The Lechuza Caracas polo team may not recover from the loss of 21 ponies for years, a polo executive says. The University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine in Gainesville and the state-run Kissimmee Diagnostic Laboratories near Orlando are conducting necropsies on the animals. Initial tests failed to reveal a cause, said Liz Compton, a representative of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Tissues, organ samples and blood are now being screened for toxic agents, she said. Scientists have ruled out any contagious disease because the animals died so quickly, said state Agriculture Department spokesman Mark Fagan. Authorities initially requested necropsies for only the eight horses that were insured, according to Sarah Carey, a representative of the veterinary school, which got the bodies of 15 horses. Later, the order was expanded to all 15 horses, she said. The U.S. Polo Association is among the parties cooperating in the investigation. "In the meantime, we all mourn the loss of these horses," U.S. Polo Association Executive Director Peter Rizzo said in a news release. "There are no words to describe the grief and sadness shared by everyone -- particularly the devastated owners of those magnificent horses." Watch what investigators are studying » . Players form strong emotional bonds with the horses they ride, said John Wash, operations president of the International Polo Club Palm Beach in Wellington, Florida, where the horses fell ill. "I've heard a couple of polo players who were affected with this loss the other day, a couple of them I don't think have left their house since Sunday night," Wash said. "There were a lot of tears there -- these big, tough guys just on their hands and knees, crying over what happened." The U.S. Open Polo Championship that was interrupted by the tragedy will resume Wednesday with semifinal matches, Wash said. Lechuza Caracas, the team whose horses died, was offered spare mounts from other competitors so they could remain in the competition, but the devastated team chose to withdraw, Wash said. The Wellington tournament is one of the sport's three major championships, on a par with the U.S. Open in tennis or golf. Authorities say they believe that the competition facility is safe for the other horses and that whatever killed the 21 horses entered their bodies away from the site. Fifteen of the animals fell ill shortly before they were to compete Sunday; some died immediately and others lingered for almost an hour. Six others died overnight Sunday to Monday as they were kept in the same trailer in Wellington. Animals are not kept overnight at the competition site, so no special precautions are in place regarding food, water or bedding, Wash said. Organizers are planning a short memorial and laying of wreaths in honor of the horses, he said. Grief counselors are on hand at the facility to help employees deal with the trauma, Wash said. "The scene can be described as almost like an airplane crash that involved not human life, but horses," he said. "It was horrific." Polo ponies in the United States are not drug-tested, but the U.S. Polo Association has been considering taking up the practice for several years, Wash said. "People are calling for reform, and maybe that needs to happen, but until toxicology reports come back, and autopsy reports, we don't even know if [Sunday's incident is] anything related to that." The Humane Society of the United States has no record of abuse of polo ponies, but that may be a function of the sport's exclusive nature, society spokeswoman Holly Hazard said. "We are learning about this, as is everyone else," she said. "It may be that perhaps because it's not televised or not as popular as other sports, it's not something that either our constituents or our program is particularly focused on. "But if there are either performance-enhancing drugs or some problem that is associated with this, we will investigate and we will offer a reward to bring whoever is responsible to justice." Keith Dane, director of the Humane Society's equine protection program, was en route to Florida on Tuesday to interview people involved in the incident and keep an eye on the investigation, Hazard said. No evidence has been brought forth suggesting someone deliberately poisoned the animals. "I guess everything's possible," Wash said. "I've heard all different rumors. I don't know if I even want to go there and think about that." Compton, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services representative, said authorities have seen no evidence of criminal activity in the case. "Clearly, law enforcement has gotten involved, given the complexity and the scope of the deaths, and they are fact-finding and gathering information, and once we have a specific cause of death, then they can determine where their investigation will go," she said. The devastated team, Lechuza Caracas, is one of the top teams in the world. The loss could set it back for years, Wash said. "It's just like baseball or basketball or football," he said. "You're taking years of grooming, training, nurturing to create, really, a first string of horses. And for four polo players, it takes anywhere from six to eight horses per polo player to play a game of polo. So if you're taking 21 horses, they're probably 21 of your first-string horses ... and you've just lost every one of your best players. "It's not like you could just go out and buy 21 new horses and start at that point." Polo ponies are thoroughbreds, many of them former racehorses retrained for the game, but they cover a wide range of ages, Wash said. When they get too old to play, they are retired to pasture or stud, he said. "A polo horse is treated quite well," Wash said. "In fact, when you're a polo horse, you might play three months here in Palm Beach, you might take three months off, you might play another three months, say, in Argentina or England, you take three months off. They're not pushed 12 months out of the year." CNN's Kim Segal and John Couwels contributed to this report. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Investigators try to determine what killed 21 polo ponies in Florida . Contagious disease ruled out; tissue samples sent for further study . Players form close bonds with horses, club executive says . Humane Society of the United States sends official to watch investigation .

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Article: Amanda Bynes has backtracked on her earlier claims that her father mentally physically and even sexually abused her as a child. The troubled 28-year-old had posted numerous tweets accusing Rick Bynes of inappropriate of fondling himself in front of her. The actress then - hours after her initial Twitter posts - said her dad never abused her and she only said so because of a 'microchip' in her brain. Taking the abusive comments back she said: 'My dad never did any of those things. The microchip in my brain made me say those things but he's the one that ordered them to microchip me.' Scroll down for video . Accusations: Amanda Bynes, pictured Tuesday in New York, had alleged her father, Rick, was abusive to her as a child but then recanted . While she took the comments back they had already done a lot of damage with the embattled star's mother Lynn telling Hollyscoop the family was heartbroken. She said in a statement: 'I am heartbroken today for my husband of 47 years. Rick has been the best father and husband a family can ask for. 'He has never abused Amanda or our other children [Tommy and Julian] physically or sexually. These accusations are absolutely horrible and could not be further from the truth!' Lynn said her daughter's mental illness is to blame for the claims. Taking it back: The 28-year-old revealed just how unwell she is saying a 'microchip' made her accuse her father of the abuse . 'These allegations stem from Amanda's mental state at the moment. They have no basis in reality. It saddens me beyond belief that my husband's character could be slandered in such a way.' Amanda's sister Jillian O'Keefe also came out in support of her father, tweeting a picture of herself with her parents saying 'I love my mom and dad with all my heart.' Shortly after, the star stopped following her sister on Twitter. Family support: Amanda's sister Jillian O'Keefe also came out in support of her father . 'Disturbed beyond words': Jillian and brother Tommy Bynes spoke out saying their father had done nothing wrong and the claims were fabrications . Jillian and brother Tommy Bynes also issued a statement through their lawyer toTMZ saying: 'We are disturbed beyond words that Amanda would come up with such a fabrication as a way to avoid getting much needed help or treatment. 'We are pained by [Amanda's] behavior but we absolutely give our full unconditional love and support to our wonderful parents.' The family's statements come after the Easy A actress' stream of tweets that started with her saying she needed 'to tell the truth about [her] dad'. 'Total nightmare': Explaining why she did not want to live with her father and mother Lynn in California, the actress said on Twitter she could not be in the same house as her father . Explaining why she did not want to live with her father and mother in California - where she has been since been released from an inpatient psychiatric facility in December - the actress said on Twitter she could not be in the same house as her father. The embattled star wrote: 'My dad was verbally and physically abuse to me as a child. 'He called me ugly as a child and then asked me if I wanted to have sex with him and I did not know how to respond and I said no and then. 'I was forced to live with my dad which was a total nightmare.' Disturbing turn: The 28-year-old went on to describe what she says her father did to her . A few minutes later her tweets took an even more disturbing turn. She wrote to her more than 3 million followers: 'My dad fondled himself in front of me so many times that I started recording him on my phone in hopes of catching him... saying or doing something inappropriate around me so I could get him arrested & put in jail for the rest of his perverted life.' The star then accused her mother of knowing that her father was abusing her and not stepping in to help. 'My mom knows that my father's literally and physically incestual towards his own daughter and the fact that she never called the police on.' Taking further action: The star said she plans to get her own lawyer to get a restraining order against her father, a respected dentist . Their lawyer, Tamar Arminak, told MailOnline: 'My clients are heartbroken by these false accusations. Their older children [Jillian and Tommy] are also horrified at the situation.' The star said she plans to get her own lawyer to get a restraining order against her father, a respected dentist. 'Him [sic] embarrasses me to no end. 'So, today I am meeting with a lawyer to get a restraining order against my dad. Racing to her side: The tweets come as Rick and Lynn, pictured last week, have reportedly flown to New York to try to get Amanda into a mental health facility . 'I cannot hear the sound of his incestually charged voice ever again and I'm just being honest. 'I will not be manipulated or brainwashed by anyone anymore. So let me live my own life free of unhappiness and misery.' Anticipating many will dismiss her claims the star pleaded for her followers to take her seriously. 'So call me what you want but please do not call me crazy or insane because that's a joke.' Erratic behaviour: On Friday, video of the star emerged of the star dancing to herself at boutique Pookie & Sebastian emerged two days prior . Amanda's parents are reportedly on their way to New York to try to encourage their daughter into a mental health facility. TMZ reports in an effort to avoid her parents Amanda has tried to flee the city. The website reports the star 'first went to LaGuardia to get out of town but was ordered out of the airport after screaming at a ticket agent. She was agitated that a flight wasn't immediately leaving. She then jumped in a car to make her way to JFK.' On Friday, video of the star also emerged showing her dancing around and behaving unusually at boutique Pookie & Sebastian emerged. In happier times: Prior to her illness, the star was very close to her parents, pictured here in 2004 . In the security footage, obtained by the MailOnline and filmed Wednesday, Amanda dances around and before dancing up against her bodyguard as he tried to help her get a fanny pack off after it got stuck on. Unable to get it off, the star has to buy the accessory, and leaves still behaving erratically. Just an hour later, the child star was accused of trying to shoplift from Barneys on New York's Madison Avenue after she reportedly tried to leave wearing a $200 hat that she had not purchased. The 28-year was allegedly detained by store security but later released, according to TMZ. Amanda has been struggling with mental illness since last year and is believed to have taken a turn for the worse after she moved out of her parents' home in Thousand Oaks, California, as soon as their conservatorship of her ended August. The troubled She's The Man actress was pulled over in the San Fernando Valley, just outside Los Angeles, on September 30 at 4 am and taken into custody, the California Highway Patrol confirmed with MailOnline. She was cited for being under the influence of a controlled substance while driving her Mercedes-Benz. The 28-year-old star was released at 12 noon that same day on $15,000 bail. The former child star is set to appear in court on October 23 in Van Nuys. Guardians: The actress' parents, seen here may, were the star's legal guardians under a court-order conservatorship, which ended in August . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Actress said father Rick 'fondled himself' in front of her as a child . Claims called her 'ugly' then asked her for sex . The star the backtracked saying a microchip in her brain made her do it . Mother Lynn has hit back saying the 'accusations are absolutely horrible and could not be further from the truth' The Bynes have been left 'heartbroken' as Rick is 'the best father and husband a family could ask for'

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Article: By . James Tozer . PUBLISHED: . 06:50 EST, 11 July 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 07:53 EST, 12 July 2012 . A father accused of killing his teenage daughter for dishonouring their strict Pakistani culture wept yesterday as he denied he was a murderer. Iftikhar Ahmed, 52, is accused of suffocating 17-year-old Shafilea with a plastic bag in the culmination of months of rows about her Westernised behaviour. Giving evidence yesterday, his barrister told him: ‘The prosecution say you’re a murderer.’ ‘I am not,’ the Pakistan-born taxi driver responded. Scroll down to watch home video of Shafilea . Tears: Iftikhar Ahmed is seen crying in 2004 after Shafilea's body is found. Yesterday he denied murdering his daughter alongside his wife Farzana Ahmed, pictured yesterday . Asked by Tom Bayliss, QC, how it felt . to stand trial accused of murdering his own daughter, he replied: ‘I . can’t believe it – it’s devastating.’ Ahmed and his wife Farzana, 49 – seen leaving court yesterday in handcuffs (above) – both deny murdering Shafilea. Ahmed, . who sobbed in the witness box, denied there had been any arguments on . the night Shafilea was last seen alive nearly nine years ago. He . said he had been the last one to go to bed apart from Shafilea, who was . downstairs ‘doing her homework’. The next morning, she had vanished, he . said, adding that they had assumed she had run away as she had done . twice before. Earlier in the trial, the jury heard from Shafilea’s younger sister, Alesha, that both her parents took part in a murderous attack that night – September 11, 2003. Victim: . Shafilea disappeared in September 2003 and her body was found on the . bank of the River Kent in Cumbria the following February . She claimed their mother began it by saying – in Urdu – ‘Just finish it here’, before picking up the plastic bag which her husband held in place until Shafilea went limp. Mrs Ahmed originally claimed no argument took place that night, but earlier this week she dramatically changed her account. She now says she saw her husband angrily hitting and punching Shafilea that night. The following morning, she says she asked her husband where Shafilea was, to which he allegedly responded: ‘If you care for your dear life and that of your children, don’t ever ask me this question again.’ Yesterday Ahmed was asked by his barrister how he felt about his wife. He replied: ‘I love her to bits.’ Asked if that had changed now she had altered her account, he answered: ‘No.’ Ahmed, giving evidence at Chester Crown Court, broke down as he denied ever having been violent towards his eldest daughter. Ahmed said the family had endured ‘constant attention’ from police and the media following Shafilea’s disappearance. ‘We never got any rest,’ he said, describing the coverage as ‘constant finger-pointing’. Of the impact of the trial on the family, he insisted: ‘We have been fighting to achieve justice for our daughter Shafilea.’ Shafilea’s body was found in February 2004, dumped beside a river in Cumbria. Her parents were charged with her murder after Alesha, now 23, came forward in 2010. The trial has also heard an account allegedly given by a third sister, Mevish, to a friend describing her father hitting Shafilea on the night of her disappearance. However, Mevish, now 21, told the court she had made it up. The trial continues. VIDEO: Home video of Shafilea at a family wedding in Pakistan in 2003... Sorry we are unable to accept comments for legal reasons. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Iftikhar Ahmed denied ever hurting his daughter or murdering her . This week his wife Farzana claimed she witnessed him beat Shafilea .

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Article: By . Mike Dawes . Aston Villa have dismissed assistant manager Ian Culverhouse following an investigation that followed his suspension in April. Former Norwich player Culverhouse, who previously worked alongside Villa manager Paul Lambert at Carrow Road and at Colchester, was suspended in April due to disciplinary issues. At the time, owner Randy Lerner referred to 'unexpected issues that could have very easily set the club back'. Culverhouse (right) has been dismissed after an incident that took place in April . Karsa (left) and Culverhouse have both been suspended since April following off the field allegations . It is understood Villa have now sacked the 49-year-old, with Lambert now seeking a new assistant manager. Villa have also sacked head of football operations Gary Karsa, whose career at the club was also put on hold in April after he too faced allegations relating to off-field issues. Culverhouse and Karsa were the subject of separate internal investigations by the club, with Karsa understood to have been the first of the pair to lose his job earlier this month. Youth-team coach Gordon Cowans and goalkeeper Shay Given were promoted to assist Lambert and his first-team coaching staff for the closing weeks of the season. Shay Given (left) was promoted to a coaching role during Culverhouse's suspension . On the market: US-based owner Randy Lerner has put the club up for sale . Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Ian Culverhouse previously worked with Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert . Former Norwich player was suspended in April due to disciplinary issues . Head of football operations Gary Karsa has also been sacked . Culverhouse and Karsa were the subject of internal investigations by club .

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Article: New York (CNN) -- A day after state lawmakers were due to head home, a pair of controversial issues seem to stubbornly postpone their summer recess. The first is something that many call a quintessential New York battle: Whether to enact the first statewide cap on property taxes. The cap is linked to the extension of rent control laws that apply to roughly 1 million apartments, most of them in New York City. The second is the subject of national debate: Should New York become the sixth state in the union to adopt same-sex marriage laws? Monday was technically the last official day of the legislative session, but the votes are still pending. On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said lawmakers had reached a "framework for an agreement" on the rent and tax issues, but acknowledged that same-same sex marriage was not a part of those deliberations. The Senate has struggled to bring to the floor a bill that would legalize the unions, but separate talks continued Tuesday, according to a spokesman for Skelos. A vote on the measure, which the state Assembly passed Wednesday night, has been stalled in part by Republican concerns over protections for religious institutions against the potential for litigation in the wake of the proposed law. Republicans, led by Skelos, have expressed concerns over the "unintended consequences" of a bill that redefines the legal parameters of marriage. On Monday, hundreds of demonstrators filled the state Capitol in Albany in anticipation of the vote, chanting slogans and wielding signs for and against the controversial measure. At last public count, 31 senators, including two Republicans, were in favor of the bill. Its backers need one more GOP member to vote in favor for it to pass. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who proposed the bill, says it would grant same-sex couples equal rights to marry "as well as hundreds of rights, benefits and protections that are currently limited to married couples of the opposite sex." The first-term governor has lobbied opposition and undecided senators in an effort to secure the lone vote needed for the bill's passage. Meanwhile, Greg Ball -- one of several Republican senators who are considered on the fence over the pending vote -- reiterated his party's concerns about the legislation's potential impact on religious institutions. "I'm not going to vote for a bill where Catholic adoption agencies or religious organizations are shut down or are opened up to lawsuits," he said Friday, noting that adoption agencies were closed after same-sex marriage laws were adopted in other states. He declined to elaborate. Democrat Tom Duane, an openly gay member of the state Senate, countered Friday that there are "already laws on the books in New York state which protect people of faith." "Marriage is a civil right. People get married, and it is recognized in government," he said. "We're talking about the government recognizing same-sex equality." But the passage of same-sex marriage laws faces a daunting history in the New York state legislature. The Senate rejected a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in 2009 and has blocked the last three attempts by the state's lower house to get the proposed legislation signed into law. Although New York currently does not grant same-sex marriages, a 2008 appellate court ruling upheld the right of couples to have their same-sex marriages recognized if they are performed elsewhere. The current measure would amend the state's Domestic Relations Law to say, among other changes, that "no application for a marriage license shall be denied on the ground that the parties are of the same or a different sex." Five states -- Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont and New Hampshire -- and the District of Columbia currently grant same-sex marriage licenses. CNN's Dana Garrett contributed to this report. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Senate leader says lawmakers reach "framework for ... agreement" on rent, tax issues . Republicans have concerns over "unintended consequences" of same-sex marriage bill . Backers need one more GOP Senate vote for same-sex bill to pass .

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Article: By . Anna Hodgekiss . PUBLISHED: . 06:04 EST, 2 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:09 EST, 2 May 2013 . Three hospital patients have died after contracting a new strain of the superbug Clostridium difficile (C. diff). Doctors in Scotland have been alerted to the strain, named ribotype 332, which has been reported for the first time by Health Protection Scotland (HPS). HPS said two patients being cared for at the same hospital died - one in December and the second in January. A third patient within the same health board area died last month. All were seriously ill with underlying conditions. Doctors in Scotland have been alerted to the new strain of clostridium difficile, named ribotype 332 . HPS did not disclose the hospital locations due to patient confidentiality. A statement said: 'All three cases were severely ill due to other underlying conditions and died following their episode of CDI (Clostridium difficile infection). 'This is the first published report of C difficile PCR ribotype 332 in the UK and worldwide. The report said: 'All three cases were severely ill due to other . underlying conditions and died following their episode of CDI (C . difficile infection). 'HPS has alerted clinicians and laboratory staff throughout Scotland. 'The identification of a novel ribotype does not require any immediate changes to surveillance or in the antibiotics used to treat CDI.' A CDI is a type of bacterial infection that can affect the digestive system. It most commonly affects people who are staying in hospital. Symptoms include diarrhoea and abdominal cramps and it can also cause life-threatening complications such as severe swelling of the bowel. Two of the patients who died were cared for at the same hospital, while the third patient was being treated nearby. All were seriously ill with underlying conditions (file picture) HPS said new ribotypes have emerged 'frequently' over the last decade. A ribotype is the pattern of DNA fragments particular to a bacterial strain. Ribotyping is the name given to the process of identifying this pattern which allows scientists to differentiate between different strains. Camilla Wiuff, strategic lead for microbiology at HPS, said the cases were not classed as an outbreak because the third case had not been linked to the first two. She told The Scotsman: 'But it is an interesting finding that we have this same ribotype and we are doing further investigations to see if there are more patients with this ribotype.' Past samples are now being re-examined to see if the 332 strain could be present and may have been missed. She said the 332 strain had occurred on one occasion previously somewhere in Europe, but this had not been the subject of an official report.“It is quite a common event that new strains develop all the time. It is a natural evolution of genetics in the bacteria,” she added. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

The new strain, named ribotype 332, has been reported for the first time by Health Protection Scotland . Two patients being cared for at the same hospital died - the third was being treated at a hospital nearby . All of the patients had underlying health conditions .

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Article: By . Louise Boyle . A father who fled the U.S. before he could face justice for molesting his daughter has finally been sentenced in central Ohio after she tracked him down and then bravely stared him down in court as he was handed up to 95 years behind bars. Frank K.C. Hertel and his wife Judy, the girl's mother, fled Arizona before his trial in 2000 and lived a secret life in Germany for nine years before his daughter Heather Orr, now 31, tracked him down in 2009 and he was finally arrested in 2012. He had raped his daughter Heather from the time was three until she was 18 and cruelly claimed it was to teach her a lesson about men. Scroll down for video . Frank Hertel, 51, fled to Germany with his wife before he could be tried in 2000 for raping his daughter from the age of three . Heather Orr has revealed her identity saying that she wanted to give a face and a name to victims of rape . The rapist father sobbed in court as he turned to face daughter Heather (pictured right) and apologize . Hertel had used his brother's identity to . take loans from the German government and run a bar and grill. The . parents refused to allow Mrs Orr's brother to contact her. The pedophile was finally captured thanks to the detective work of Mrs Orr herself. Mertel was extradited to the U.S. in 2009 after his daughter who he abused tracked him down running a bar in Germany . In 2009, she typed her abusive father's name into Google and found a news article about her grandfather, who shares the same name, according to the Columbus Dispatch. Hertel Senior had been arrested on tax evasion at Heathrow Airport in London after he allegedly owed $1.2million to the Canadian government. Comments had been made about the Hertel family at the bottom of the article and Mrs Orr contacted people by email to see if they knew more about her father. A website for a bar and grill revealed that her father was the owner and someone sent her a picture of her brother standing outside the business. Hertel was finally arrested and extradited back to he United States in 2012.. His wife Judy Hertel is not believed to face charges. On Tuesday, the 51-year-old Hertel was . sentenced to serve between 19 and 95 years in prison for assaulting his . daughter during their time in Ohio. He pleaded guilty Monday to three counts of rape and two counts of gross sexual imposition. He was sentenced to 5 to 25 years for each count of rape and 2 to 10 years for each count of gross sexual imposition. Hertel admitted in court that between . 1993 and 1995, he raped and molested a female relative under the age of . 13, according to the Columbus Dispatch. Hertel doubles up sobbing in court as he was sentenced to 19 to 95years in jail for raping his daughter. It will be 20 years before he is up for parole . Hertel . moved his family to Arizona where he continued to abuse his daughter. He was charged and found guilty in 2001 of the crimes but fled the . country. Before he was sentenced, the judge allowed Hertel a chance to speak before the Delaware court. Rising . to his feet, he faced his daughter and in a high-pitched wail, sobbed: . 'I'm terrible sorry' adding that he wanted his victim to have 'closure'. Mrs Orr, 31, who is married and has an 11-year-old daughter, faced her abuser in court and revealed her identity. Heather Orr was comforted by her husband Daniel in court, who called his wife a 'hero not a victim' She said: 'I wish more than anything . that a stranger did this to me. I love my dad because he's my dad but he . hurt me more than anyone could imagine.' She added that she now has an 11-year-old daughter, the age she was when the sexual abuse she suffered was at its worst. Mrs Orr's testimony to the court was interrupted by Hertel's cries of 'I'm so sorry Heather.' The married mother said that the only thing her father was remorseful about was being caught and sent to prison. As she finished speaking he yelled, 'I love you, Heather.' Mertel will spend decades in jail for the molestation of his daughter which began when she was just three years old . Mrs Orr's husband Daniel described his . wife as a 'hero, not a victim' and took the stand to ask the judge to put Hertel away . for a very long time. He said: 'She lost her childhood. She should never have had to face anything that she faced.' Outside of the courtroom Mrs Orr told NBC4: . 'I want to give a face and a name to women, I want them to stand up and . say this is not right what is happening to children and women who are abused.' Hertel pleaded guilty to three counts of rape and two counts of gross sexual imposition in Delaware, north of Columbus. Mrs Orr previously told authorities her father molested from from the time she was three until she was 18. He faces 19 to 95 years in prison. Mrs Orr has long sought justice. She first told someone about the abuse when she was in eighth grade in 1991, living in Ohio. While a friend's father reported her allegations to authorities, prosecutors did nothing. Her family then moved to Arizona and the abuse continued. When she was 18 she and her father went to a joint therapy session during which her father admitted what he had done and said it was, according to court records, a 'sexual lesson for his daughter on how men behave'. The therapist then reported him to police and he was arrested. When out on bond, he and his wife fled the country. It will be 20 years before he is up for parole. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Frank K.C. Hertel and his wife Judy, the victim's mother, fled Arizona before the trial in 2000 and lived a secret life in Germany . His daughter and victim Heather Orr tracked Hertel down to a bar he was running after seeing a news article about her grandfather being arrested . Hertel sobbed an apology to his daughter Heather Orr at his sentencing in an Ohio court on Tuesday . Mrs Orr, 31, told the court: 'I love my dad because he's my dad but he hurt me more than anyone could imagine' She was told authorities she was molested from aged three until 18 . Her husband Daniel Orr told the court his wife 'had lost her childhood' and begged the judge to send Hertel away for a long time . Hertel sentenced to up to 95 years in prison and will not be up for parole for 20 years .

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Article: By . Phil Vinter . PUBLISHED: . 04:25 EST, 22 March 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 07:24 EST, 22 March 2012 . Jailed: Nasa space scientist turned spy Stewart Nozette has been jailed . for 13 years after admitting to selling defence secrets to Israel . A former government space scientist has been sentenced to 13 years in prison after admitting he tried . to sell space and defence secrets to Israel in what turned out to be an . FBI sting operation. Appearing in federal court in a prison jumpsuit yesterday, Stewart Nozette said he was 'paying for a fatal lack of judgment.' 'I accept full responsibility,' Nozette told U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman. Prosecutors and Nozette's lawyers agreed to the 13-year sentence, with credit for the two years that Nozette has spent behind bars since his arrest. Nozette had high-level security clearances during decades of government work on science and space projects at NASA, the Energy Department and the National Space Council in President George H.W. Bush's administration. Nozette pleaded guilty to one count of attempted espionage, admitting he tried to provide Israel with top secret information about satellites, early warning systems, methods for retaliating against large-scale attack, communications intelligence information and major elements of defense strategy. In court, prosecutors played a videotape of Nozette telling an FBI undercover agent posing as an Israeli spy that 'I've sort of crossed the Rubicon,' or passed a point of no return. On the video, Nozette said he would charge Israel 'at most one per cent' for passing information about an unspecified program that Nozette said cost the U.S. government $200 million. Nozette, 54, was a 'traitor' who engaged in attempted espionage with 'unbridled enthusiasm,' Assistant U.S. Attorney Anthony Asuncion told the judge. At the time of Nozette's arrest for attempted espionage in 2009, he was awaiting sentencing on fraud and tax evasion charges. On Wednesday, the judge sentenced him to 37 months on those charges, to be served concurrently with the sentence in the espionage case. Lift off: A rocket is launched from Israel's Iron Dome missile system . in response to an aerial attack from Palestinians in the Gaza strip . Nozette was known primarily as a defence technologist who had worked on the Reagan-era missile defense shield effort, nicknamed 'Star Wars' and formally called the Strategic Defense Initiative. As a leading scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the 1990s, Nozette came up with the concept behind the Clementine space mission, which ultimately discovered ice on the moon, according to the sentencing memo in the espionage case by Nozette's legal team. One of Nozette's lawyers, Bradford . Berenson, called the espionage case 'vindictive' and an illustration of . 'overreaching government conduct' at a time when Nozette was already . enmeshed in the tax and fraud case. The . government suspected Nozette might be interested in spying after a . investigators searched his Chevy Chase, at his home in Maryland in . February 2007 as part of the tax and fraud probe. Expert: Nozette came up with the concept behind the Clementine space mission which went on to discover ice on the moon . Nozette ran a non-profit corporation called the Alliance for Competitive Technology that had several agreements to develop advanced technology for the U.S. government, but he was overstating his costs for reimbursement and failing to report the income on his tax returns. Berenson called that case 'relatively minor' and a violation that 'a lot of small businesses engage in.' The search of his home turned up classified documents, though Nozette's lawyers said in his defence that they were not marked as such. Nozette was not allowed to have unsecured classified documents in his home. Agents also discovered Nozette sent an email in 2002 threatening to sell information about a classified program he was working on to Israel or another country. The FBI decided to conduct an undercover operation to see how serious he was. The attempted selling of secrets 'never would have happened but for the tax and fraud case,' said Berenson. 'This was functional entrapment,' said Berenson. Entrapment is a defense to criminal charges when it is established that the agent originated the idea of the crime and induced the accused to engage in it. Nozette also was ordered to pay $217,800 in restitution for fraudulent claims he made to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in Arlington, Virginia and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

'I accept full responsibility,' space boffin tells court . Wanted Israel to have information on how to retaliate against large-scale attacks . Told undercover agent he had 'crossed the Rubicon' Man had worked on the Reagan-era 'Star Wars' shield .

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Article: We all have a bad hair day from time to time but this emu didn’t let its straggly locks get it down. Blissfully unaware, the bird paraded around its enclosure at Toronto Zoo with its tufts of messy curls wafting in the wind. Photographer and web designer Tetyana Kovyrina spotted the scruffy Australian native while visiting the zoo and caught its bad hair day on camera. Bed head: This emu seemed to be blissfully unaware of its straggly locks as it paraded around its enclosure at Toronto Zoo . The Ukrainian said: ‘They looked like they had just woken up and so just ignored us. ‘The birds weren’t paying any attention to the people in the zoo. 'I decided to take a few test shots and got really lucky - for a short moment the emu expressed some interest in the clicking sound of my camera's shutter and turned towards me.’ Ms Kovyrina said her photos had amused many. She said: ‘Men's typical reaction is something like “Oh, that's my wife/girlfriend/mother in the morning". Bad hair day: Photographer Tetyana Kovyrina captured the Australian native's tufts of messy curls while visiting the zoo . Sleepy head: Ms Kovyrina thought the bird looked as if it had just woken up and after looking at her pictures, many men agree, saying it looks like their girlfriend, wife or mother after they've woken up in the morning . ‘I try to trigger people emotions with my works; try to stir up their memories. ‘Photography became my passion about five years ago. The camera gives me an ability to freeze time, capture the mood, the lights and the atmosphere of the moment.’ The emu is part of the Australasia Outdoor Exhibit at the zoo which is home to more than 5,000 animals. Biggest bird: The emu is one of more than 5,000 that live at Toronto Zoo (pictured) and is the largest native bird in Australia and the second largest in the world by height after the ostrich . The species is the largest native bird in Australia and second largest in the world by height after the ostrich. They grow to 60-70 inches tall and can weigh up to 115llbs. They tend to live in sparsely wooded plains, desert and grasslands in eastern and southern Australia. Their eggs weigh 1.5-2lbs, equivalent to up to 12 normal chicken eggs. The female usually leaves the nest after laying the egg, showing no further interest in the egg or her mate. The male then sits on the egg and incubates it for about 55 days without eating, drinking, defecating or leaving the nest. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

The emu was captured on camera by photographer Tetyana Kovyrina . The Australian native bird 'looked like it had just woken up,' she said . The bird was one of more than 5,000 that live at the zoo in Canada .

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Article: By . Tom Roddy . Adam Lallana’s big-money move from Southampton to Liverpool is set to land AFC Bournemouth a massive windfall of £6.25 million. A deal was struck between Saints and the Championship side after Lallana was poached from the Cherries’ academy at the age of 12. It was agreed that Bournemouth would get 25 per cent of any fee Southampton received for the England midfielder. With Lallana on his way to Liverpool’s Melwood training ground to undergo a medical, the £25 million move is imminent. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Liverpool target Lallana reflect on England's World Cup failure . Windfall: Adam Lallana's move to Liverpool will hand Bournemouth a passive payday . Having finished 10th last season following promotion from League One, the huge pay-out would help Eddie Howe establish the Cherries in their second season in the Championship. Howe has recently lamented the potential loss of key members from his squad, having already lost last season’s top scorer Lewis Grabban to Norwich City. Grabban netted 22 of Bournemouth’s 67 goals, leaving Howe concerned at how he would replace the 26-year-old. Moving on: Lallana first signed for Southampton aged 12, and made his debut for them in 2006 . Big spender: Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe will be hoping to use the money to rebuild his squad . ‘Keeping the squad together may be our hardest challenge, given how well they performed,’ he told BBC Radio Solent, . ‘We’re still very ambitious and we want to exceed what we did last year.’ The signing of former Burnley midfielder Junior Stanislas was confirmed on Thursday but Howe will want to add to his squad and fulfil those ambitions when Lallana’s move to Anfield is complete. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Lallana's move to Liverpool will land Bournemouth £6.25m payday . Bournemouth receive 25 per cent of sell on fee from Southampton . Left the Cherries academy when he was just 12 . Boss Eddie Howe hoping to use the money to rebuild his squad .

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Article: By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 11:28 EST, 30 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 13:13 EST, 30 October 2013 . A 29-year-old soldier who didn't return to his Kentucky military base after visiting his parents in Florida has been reported missing. Private First Class Daniel Dezinno was last seen leaving the Sarasota home of his mother, Madelyn Shore, on Thursday morning. Shore said her son should have been back at the Fort Knox post by Friday. Vanished: Fort Knox soldier Daniel Dezinno has been reported missing after failing to return to the Kentucky military base after visiting his parents in Florida on Thursday . Missing: Daniel Dezinno, 29, was in 'good spirits' when he left his mother's house on Thursday morning . Dezinno had taken leave to visit his father, Ben Dezinno, in Orlando, a friend in Miami and his mother. Shore said she was 'confused' by her son's disappearance. 'He was in good spirits. He never had any kind of negative remarks about being in the military,' she told Herald-Tribune. Shore said she asked her son to call her when he returned to the military base. But when she didn't hear from him by Friday, she called officials at the base who told her Dezinno was a 'no-show'. That's when . she alerted the sheriff's office. Worried: Daniel Dezinno was reported missing by his worried parents, Madelyn Shore (pictured with Daniel, left) and Ben Dezinno (right) Manatee County Sheriff's Office spokesman Dave Bristow said Dezinno's credit card was used on Friday at Disney World and a Texas gas station. His phone had also been disconnected. Detectives have subpoenaed . Dezinno's financial records, issued a be-on-the-lookout . alert for his car and plan to request surveillance footage from . businesses where his credit card is used. However Bristow said there was no evidence that Dezinno is in danger. He said this is not the first time a soldier has gone AWOL, citing a similar incident several months ago. 'For whatever reason, they just decide not to show up,' Bristow said. Police say Daniel Dezinno may be driving a 2005 silver Subaru sedan, like this one, with Kentucky tag 168PHP . Herald-Tribune reported Dezinno joined the Army about a year ago. His mother said he was in a 'slump', working as a mechanic and living with her before his career change. He completed basic military training . in Missouri, moved to a Virginia base and was recently working as a . mechanic in the motor pool at Fort Knox. Dezinno is five feet, . seven inches tall, and weighs 150 pounds. He has brown hair and brown . eyes. He was last seen wearing shorts, a T-shirt and tennis shoes. Dezinno may be driving a 2005 silver Subaru sedan with Kentucky tag 168PHP. Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Stephen Ives in Florida at 747-3011, ext. 2493. Summarize the above article in 3 sentences.

Daniel Dezinno, 29, last seen visiting his parents in Florida on Thursday . He didn't show up at his central Kentucky military post . His credit card was used on Friday at Disney World and a Texas gas station and his phone was disconnected . Police said there's no evidence of foul play .

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