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By Spencer Matthews You've always got to support your friends in life and last night was no exception - Binky Felstead, who is on the Made In Chelsea E4 TV show with me, had her book launch at top London nightclub Whisky Mist just off Park Lane. She's hugely popular on the show - and after over three years on MIC together we still get on really well (probably because she's always been sensible enough not to get romantically involved with me.) There were several of the cast in attendance, as well as friends, family, and the publishing team from Simon & Schuster to help celebrate the launch of Being Binky - 165 pages of the life and times (so far) of Alexandra 'Binky' Felstead. @highlight Spencer joined the MIC cast at Whisky Mist for Binky's book launch @highlight Spencer said that he and Binky are good friends because they never dated @highlight He describes her book as 'totes amaze' with lots of good advice @highlight After the launch Spencer couldn't resist sneaking off to a party with Emma

Of course @placeholder was there to witness her daughter's proud moment

MIC

Patrick Sawyer had one stop to make before heading home to Minnesota to celebrate his daughters' birthdays: a conference in Lagos, Nigeria. But when he landed in Lagos, Sawyer, 40, collapsed getting off the plane. He had been infected with Ebola in Liberia, where he worked as a top government official in the Liberian Ministry of Finance. Sawyer was isolated at a local Nigerian hospital on July 20. He died five days later. Sawyer's wife Decontee Sawyer, lives in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, with the couple's three young daughters, 5-year-old Eva, 4-year-old Mia, and Bella, who is 1. The Sawyers are naturalized citizens; their daughters were born in the United States. @highlight Family: Infected American "very physically weak, but his spirit (is) determined" @highlight CNN's Gupta: Curbing Ebola almost "impossible," but it can be contained @highlight Patrick Sawyer's family lives Minnesota; he worked in Liberia and died in Nigeria @highlight Hundreds have been infected with Ebola around Africa

@placeholder is the first known case outside of these three countries.

Patrick Sawyer

One million worshippers from all over the world have gathered in Rome ahead of the ‘unprecedented’ double canonisation of two former popes. Over the last 24 hours, crowds have arrived and camped out in Vatican City ahead of the canonisation of Popes John Paul II and John XXIII at St Peter’s Square. The ceremony, to be held later today, will be an unprecedented event in Catholic history, as two living Popes will be in attendance – the current Pope Francis I and Benedict XVI, who stood down last year and now holds the title Pope Emeritus. Crowds have camped out in Vatican City ahead of the canonisation of Popes John Paul II and John XXIII at St Peter¿s Square @highlight Canonisation of former Popes John Paul II and John XXIII will take place in St Peter's Square, Vatican City @highlight One million people have gathered in Rome ahead of the ceremony, which will be attended by current Pope Francis I @highlight Event will make history and former Pope Benedict XVI - who now holds title of Pope Emeritus - will also attend @highlight However, abuse victims of Catholic priests have called on the Catholic Church not to elevate John Paul II @highlight They say he does not deserve to be a saint and said Vatican should ‘stop honouring those who enabled wrongdoing'

For the past year Benedict has largely dedicated himself to prayer in a monastery in the @placeholder grounds.

Vatican

One million worshippers from all over the world have gathered in Rome ahead of the ‘unprecedented’ double canonisation of two former popes. Over the last 24 hours, crowds have arrived and camped out in Vatican City ahead of the canonisation of Popes John Paul II and John XXIII at St Peter’s Square. The ceremony, to be held later today, will be an unprecedented event in Catholic history, as two living Popes will be in attendance – the current Pope Francis I and Benedict XVI, who stood down last year and now holds the title Pope Emeritus. Crowds have camped out in Vatican City ahead of the canonisation of Popes John Paul II and John XXIII at St Peter¿s Square @highlight Canonisation of former Popes John Paul II and John XXIII will take place in St Peter's Square, Vatican City @highlight One million people have gathered in Rome ahead of the ceremony, which will be attended by current Pope Francis I @highlight Event will make history and former Pope Benedict XVI - who now holds title of Pope Emeritus - will also attend @highlight However, abuse victims of Catholic priests have called on the Catholic Church not to elevate John Paul II @highlight They say he does not deserve to be a saint and said Vatican should ‘stop honouring those who enabled wrongdoing'

@placeholder, who lives in a guesthouse elsewhere in Vatican City, has been quite welcoming to his predecessor, occasionally paying a call on Benedict.

Francis I

One million worshippers from all over the world have gathered in Rome ahead of the ‘unprecedented’ double canonisation of two former popes. Over the last 24 hours, crowds have arrived and camped out in Vatican City ahead of the canonisation of Popes John Paul II and John XXIII at St Peter’s Square. The ceremony, to be held later today, will be an unprecedented event in Catholic history, as two living Popes will be in attendance – the current Pope Francis I and Benedict XVI, who stood down last year and now holds the title Pope Emeritus. Crowds have camped out in Vatican City ahead of the canonisation of Popes John Paul II and John XXIII at St Peter¿s Square @highlight Canonisation of former Popes John Paul II and John XXIII will take place in St Peter's Square, Vatican City @highlight One million people have gathered in Rome ahead of the ceremony, which will be attended by current Pope Francis I @highlight Event will make history and former Pope Benedict XVI - who now holds title of Pope Emeritus - will also attend @highlight However, abuse victims of Catholic priests have called on the Catholic Church not to elevate John Paul II @highlight They say he does not deserve to be a saint and said Vatican should ‘stop honouring those who enabled wrongdoing'

Francis, who lives in a guesthouse elsewhere in @placeholder, has been quite welcoming to his predecessor, occasionally paying a call on Benedict.

Vatican

(CNN) -- A twisted boardwalk, a glowing carousel flooded with water and a cresting river breaching its banks. These are among the memorable images from Superstorm Sandy, but they weren't taken with fancy cameras -- they were shot with smartphones and immediately seen around the world via photography app Instagram. On the day the storm came ashore, users shared 800,000 images tagged #Sandy on Instagram. At one point, Instagram reported people were posting 10 Sandy photos per second on October 29, 2012. "During Hurricane Sandy, we saw people along the Atlantic Coast using Instagram to document how the storm was affecting their communities, and to let loved ones know they were OK," Instagram founder Kevin Systrom told CNN this week. @highlight For Sandy's anniversary, CNN tried an Instagram-only project @highlight Users shared 800,000 Instagram images of the storm as it hit @highlight Photographers visited families in hard-hit areas, captured intimate portraits

For example, with the stories from @placeholder, I was amazed that when I took peoples' portraits, you could see almost the whole experience of the year in their eyes.

Hurricane Sandy

By Leon Watson PUBLISHED: 04:53 EST, 6 November 2013 | UPDATED: 08:29 EST, 6 November 2013 Council officials have banned a jolly lollipop man from giving children high fives after receiving a single complaint that he was holding up traffic. Parents in Warrington, Cheshire, say they are 'outraged' at the way 62-year-old grandfather Steve Allsopp - who recently suffered a stroke - has been treated. Mr Allsopp is so popular with children he has been nicknamed the 'jollyman' and has worked at the crossing on Bridge Lane in Stockton Heath for four years. Scroll down for video The 'jollyman': Parents from Cobbs Infants, Broomfields Juniors and St Monica's Primary schools say they are 'outraged' at the way Steve Allsopp (pictured) has been treated by Warrington Borough Council @highlight Steve Allsopp was told he had to stop by Warrington Borough Council @highlight Father-of-nine, who recently suffered a stroke, was left 'visibly trembling' @highlight Council says: 'He fully understands the need to put road safety first'

'The kids looked forward to it so would always cross the road with @placeholder, which is the safest place for them to cross.'

Allsopp

By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 10:08 EST, 5 September 2012 | UPDATED: 10:45 EST, 5 September 2012 Japan's government has agreed to buy the group of uninhabited islands whose sovereignty has been fiercely disputed with China, it was reported today. It is understood to have paid 2.05billion yen ($26million) to the Japanese Kurihara family for three of the five Senkaku islands, which are known as the Diaoyu group in Chinese. The move would effectively nationalise them and stop China from buying the chain, which lie 200 miles from the Chinese mainland and 200 miles from Japan's Okinawa. It follows months of rising diplomatic tension between the two countries over which has sovereignty over them. @highlight China-Japan tensions over the islands have rumbled on for months @highlight Reported purchase comes less than a month after Chinese protesters took to the streets, overturning Japanese cars

The dispute had been on the back burner as @placeholder struggled to recover from last March's devastating earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.

Japan

(CNN) -- Friday's French Open semifinal between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, billed by some as the real final, lived up to the hype. Nadal, ultimately, was the happier man after an epic match that lasted more than four and a half hours on a sweltering day in Paris. The defending champion moved within a match of making it a record extending eight French Open titles by defeating the world No. 1 6-4 3-6 6-1 6-7 9-7. "I was ready for the fight," Nadal told reporters. Nadal will now be the heavy favorite to beat fourth-seed David Ferrer in Sunday's all-Spanish final. @highlight Rafael Nadal rallies from a break down in the fifth set to beat Novak Djokovic @highlight The French Open semifinal goes to five sets after Nadal fails to serve it out in the fourth @highlight Djokovic was bidding to win his first French Open after topping Nadal in Monte Carlo @highlight Nadal will face David Ferrer in Sunday's final after compatriot beats Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

"Who knows what direction the match may have taken if I had won that point," @placeholder told reporters.

Djokovic

(CNN) -- Friday's French Open semifinal between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, billed by some as the real final, lived up to the hype. Nadal, ultimately, was the happier man after an epic match that lasted more than four and a half hours on a sweltering day in Paris. The defending champion moved within a match of making it a record extending eight French Open titles by defeating the world No. 1 6-4 3-6 6-1 6-7 9-7. "I was ready for the fight," Nadal told reporters. Nadal will now be the heavy favorite to beat fourth-seed David Ferrer in Sunday's all-Spanish final. @highlight Rafael Nadal rallies from a break down in the fifth set to beat Novak Djokovic @highlight The French Open semifinal goes to five sets after Nadal fails to serve it out in the fourth @highlight Djokovic was bidding to win his first French Open after topping Nadal in Monte Carlo @highlight Nadal will face David Ferrer in Sunday's final after compatriot beats Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

He saw off @placeholder in the opener and seemed headed for a win when he broke again for 3-2 in the second.

Djokovic

Will Mauricio Pochettino lead Spurs into the Champions League next season? Will Mauricio Pochettino lead Spurs into the Champions League next season? Now share your opinion The hard work starts here for Mauricio Pochettino. Firing Tottenham into the Champions League positions next season will be no mean feat. But truth be told, the Argentine has already overcome a sizeable task in becoming Daniel Levy's latest managerial acquisition. The potential appointment of Ajax manager Frank de Boer was the prospect that really got Tottenham supporters' mouths watering. When the Dutchman publicly revealed Tottenham's interest in him last month, it seemed the start of the road towards De Boer's appointment. @highlight Mauricio Pochettino signed a five-year deal as Tottenham boss on Tuesday @highlight Pochettino resigned from Southampton to move to White Hart Lane @highlight Pochettino replaces Tim Sherwood who was sacked earlier in May @highlight Ajax manager Frank de Boer was the fans' favourite for the role @highlight De Boer's public revealing of Spurs' interest, irked the Tottenham board @highlight Daniel Levy's dream choice was Real Madrid's Carlo Ancelotti @highlight Adam Lallana and Jay Rodriguez are two possible targets for Pochettino @highlight Emmanuel Adebayor, Roberto Soldado and Michael Dawson could leave

It's already been a busy summer for @placeholder; and it's about to get busier.

Mauricio Pochettino

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Newly released documents from Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's service on the board of a Puerto Rican civil rights organization show the group opposed Robert Bork's nomination to the high court more than two decades ago. Judge Sonia Sotomayor is set to face Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Sotomayor, a judge on the New York-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, was nominated by President Obama in May to fill the vacancy of retiring Justice David Souter. Her confirmation hearings are set to begin July 13. She served as a board member of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund from 1980-92, leaving when she became a federal judge. @highlight Sotomayor once served on the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund @highlight Group opposed the 1987 nomination of Robert Bork to the high court @highlight Supporters: PRLDEF documents add nothing to the nomination debate @highlight Republicans are challenging Sotomayor's record on affirmative action

Opponents, however, claim Sotomayor's prior work for @placeholder, and her off-the-bench comments reveal doubts about her fairness and impartiality as a judge.

PRLDEF

(CNN) -- The Arkansas attorney general is opening an investigation into what caused last week's pipeline rupture that allowed thousands of barrels of heavy crude oil to flow into a residential area. Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said Tuesday he asked Exxon Mobil, the owner of the 60-year-old Pegasus pipeline, to preserve all documents and information related to the spill and cleanup efforts. "This incident has damaged private property and Arkansas's natural resources. Homeowners have been forced from their homes as a result of this spill," McDaniel said in a news release Tuesday. "Requesting that Exxon secure these documents and data is the first step in determining what happened and preserving evidence for any future litigation." @highlight Arkansas tells pipeline owner Exxon Mobil to preserve documents on the spill @highlight Oil spilled into a Mayflower, Arkansas, subdivision from a gash in the pipeline last week @highlight Families evacuated about two dozen homes as oil crawled through yards and down streets @highlight The pipeline carries Canadian crude from Illinois to Texas

@placeholder met with displaced residents over the weekend to explain how they can make claims for losses.

Exxon

A seven-month-old girl was taken to hospital Saturday by concerned parents after an area just below her jaw swelled up to the size of one and a half golf balls with a pimple on top. After initially diagnosing an infection, doctors were shocked when they discovered a two-inch-long black feather had got lodged underneath Mya Whittington's skin. Aaron and Emma Whittington first took their nearly seven-month-old daughter to Hutchinson Regional Medical Center, Kansas on Saturday after the area below her jaw swelled up. The marked area on Mya's neck shows the size of the original swollen infected area caused by a feather that she ingested from a pillow @highlight Mya Whittington's parents became concerned after an area below her jaw started to swell up @highlight Doctors initially diagnosed an infection but then plucked a two-inch-long black feather that was lodged under her skin @highlight Doctors believe Mya inhaled the feather, which then pierced the inside of her cheek and, over time, her body forced it out

immense amount of pain, Emma said, but @placeholder cried mostly only when nurses

Mya

Washington (CNN) -- Frustrated Democrats went to the Senate floor Friday to seek Republican approval for a long list of administration nominees currently blocked by controversial secret holds placed by GOP senators. But a Republican senator objected to each of them as they came up. "Most of the people on the list, we don't know why they're sitting there. We don't even know who's making them sit there," complained Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri, who is spearheading Democratic efforts to banish secret holds. "Enter stage left, the anonymous hold. Or as I like to call it, nobody can blame me cause they don't know who I am." @highlight Senate Democrats seek approval of nominees they say GOP is blocking @highlight Republicans don't deny holding up process, argue it's allowed by Senate rules @highlight Democrats say secret holds keep Obama administration from being able to effectively govern @highlight Republicans say Democrats use the same tactic

"If they think the rule needs to be tightened up they can offer to change the rule," suggested a @placeholder leadership aide.

GOP

Washington (CNN) -- Frustrated Democrats went to the Senate floor Friday to seek Republican approval for a long list of administration nominees currently blocked by controversial secret holds placed by GOP senators. But a Republican senator objected to each of them as they came up. "Most of the people on the list, we don't know why they're sitting there. We don't even know who's making them sit there," complained Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri, who is spearheading Democratic efforts to banish secret holds. "Enter stage left, the anonymous hold. Or as I like to call it, nobody can blame me cause they don't know who I am." @highlight Senate Democrats seek approval of nominees they say GOP is blocking @highlight Republicans don't deny holding up process, argue it's allowed by Senate rules @highlight Democrats say secret holds keep Obama administration from being able to effectively govern @highlight Republicans say Democrats use the same tactic

A top Republican senator accused @placeholder also of using rotating holds.

Democrats

La Paz, Bolivia (CNN) -- Bolivian President Evo Morales handily won re-election Sunday, unofficial preliminary results showed. With 91 percent of votes tallied, Morales' Movement for Socialism party won 62 percent of the vote, according to exit polls. The conservative Progress Plan for Bolivia party came in second with 23 percent, according to preliminary numbers. The resounding victory was not unexpected, as Morales, the country's first president of indigenous descent, was leading in pre-election polls and was widely expected to win. The victory "shows that it is possible to change Bolivia based on the vote of the Bolivian people," Morales said in a victory speech Sunday night. @highlight President Morales was widely expected to win re-election @highlight Morales is the first Bolivian president of indigenous descent @highlight Constitution amended earlier this year to allow a president to run for re-election

In addition to president, @placeholder also voted for a vice president, 130 congressmen and 36 senators.

Bolivia

(CNN) -- Call it the debate before the debates. In this corner: Alex Anderson, a college student in Hillsdale, Michigan, pulling for GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. In that corner: Omekongo Dibinga, a longtime iReporter from Washington and a supporter of President Barack Obama. Both had a chance to see their candidates' political conventions, as winners of the Your Political Ticket iReport contest. With that experience behind them, we asked them to go head to head on Google+ previewing Wednesday's first presidential debate. They are two of hundreds of iReporters who have added their views to the iReport debate, an eight-month project that invites voters to make their voices heard this election season. @highlight Two iReporters who attended political conventions debated on Google Plus @highlight Omekonga Dibinga, for Obama, said the president and Americans agree on many issues @highlight Alex Anderson, for Romney, said the GOP nominee has shown he can get things done

"The biggest plus [@placeholder] has over Romney are the social issues," said Dibinga.

Barack Obama

(CNN) -- Call it the debate before the debates. In this corner: Alex Anderson, a college student in Hillsdale, Michigan, pulling for GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. In that corner: Omekongo Dibinga, a longtime iReporter from Washington and a supporter of President Barack Obama. Both had a chance to see their candidates' political conventions, as winners of the Your Political Ticket iReport contest. With that experience behind them, we asked them to go head to head on Google+ previewing Wednesday's first presidential debate. They are two of hundreds of iReporters who have added their views to the iReport debate, an eight-month project that invites voters to make their voices heard this election season. @highlight Two iReporters who attended political conventions debated on Google Plus @highlight Omekonga Dibinga, for Obama, said the president and Americans agree on many issues @highlight Alex Anderson, for Romney, said the GOP nominee has shown he can get things done

"The biggest plus [Obama] has over @placeholder are the social issues," said Dibinga.

Mitt Romney

(CNN) -- Call it the debate before the debates. In this corner: Alex Anderson, a college student in Hillsdale, Michigan, pulling for GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. In that corner: Omekongo Dibinga, a longtime iReporter from Washington and a supporter of President Barack Obama. Both had a chance to see their candidates' political conventions, as winners of the Your Political Ticket iReport contest. With that experience behind them, we asked them to go head to head on Google+ previewing Wednesday's first presidential debate. They are two of hundreds of iReporters who have added their views to the iReport debate, an eight-month project that invites voters to make their voices heard this election season. @highlight Two iReporters who attended political conventions debated on Google Plus @highlight Omekonga Dibinga, for Obama, said the president and Americans agree on many issues @highlight Alex Anderson, for Romney, said the GOP nominee has shown he can get things done

@placeholder and Obama have very different views on where the country should go.

Mitt Romney

(CNN) -- Call it the debate before the debates. In this corner: Alex Anderson, a college student in Hillsdale, Michigan, pulling for GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. In that corner: Omekongo Dibinga, a longtime iReporter from Washington and a supporter of President Barack Obama. Both had a chance to see their candidates' political conventions, as winners of the Your Political Ticket iReport contest. With that experience behind them, we asked them to go head to head on Google+ previewing Wednesday's first presidential debate. They are two of hundreds of iReporters who have added their views to the iReport debate, an eight-month project that invites voters to make their voices heard this election season. @highlight Two iReporters who attended political conventions debated on Google Plus @highlight Omekonga Dibinga, for Obama, said the president and Americans agree on many issues @highlight Alex Anderson, for Romney, said the GOP nominee has shown he can get things done

Romney and @placeholder have very different views on where the country should go.

Barack Obama

In a David vs. Goliath battle that pitted the Federal Aviation Administration against the operator of a small model airplane, a federal administrative judge has sided with the aircraft's pilot. The judge has dismissed a proposed $10,000 fine against businessman Raphael Pirker, who used a remotely operated 56-inch foam glider to take aerial video for an advertisement for the University of Virginia Medical Center. The FAA alleged that since Pirker was using the aircraft for profit, he ran afoul of regulations requiring commercial operators of "Unmanned Aircraft Systems" -- sometimes called UAS or drones -- to obtain FAA authorization. But a judge on Thursday agreed with Pirker that the FAA overreached by applying regulations for aircraft to model aircraft, and said no FAA rule prohibited Pirker's radio-controlled flight. @highlight Raphael Pirker remotely piloted model plane for commercial purposes @highlight The FAA said he needed to get authorization beforehand @highlight But federal administrative judge sides with pilot, dumps fine

In a press release headlined "Busting Myths about the FAA and Unmanned Aircraft," it stressed that @placeholder enthusiasts could not use drones for commercial purposes.

UAS

In a David vs. Goliath battle that pitted the Federal Aviation Administration against the operator of a small model airplane, a federal administrative judge has sided with the aircraft's pilot. The judge has dismissed a proposed $10,000 fine against businessman Raphael Pirker, who used a remotely operated 56-inch foam glider to take aerial video for an advertisement for the University of Virginia Medical Center. The FAA alleged that since Pirker was using the aircraft for profit, he ran afoul of regulations requiring commercial operators of "Unmanned Aircraft Systems" -- sometimes called UAS or drones -- to obtain FAA authorization. But a judge on Thursday agreed with Pirker that the FAA overreached by applying regulations for aircraft to model aircraft, and said no FAA rule prohibited Pirker's radio-controlled flight. @highlight Raphael Pirker remotely piloted model plane for commercial purposes @highlight The FAA said he needed to get authorization beforehand @highlight But federal administrative judge sides with pilot, dumps fine

The FAA could not be reached Thursday night for comment on the @placeholder ruling.

Pirker

First lady Michelle Obama is in China for an official visit to expand Sino-American relations, but she will refrain from talking about political differences. Mrs. Obama, who flew Wednesday from Washington, D.C., is making a week-long trip to three Chinese cities and will speak with children at several schools about the importance of education and youth empowerment. The U.S. first lady has several activities and events scheduled Friday with Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan. "Her visit and her agenda sends a message that the relationship between the United States and China is not just between leaders, it's a relationship between peoples," said Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes. @highlight The U.S. first lady will meet with Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan on Friday @highlight The two women have several activities planned @highlight Mrs. Obama won't be talking politics during her week-long visit to three Chinese cities @highlight Her mother and her two daughters are also joining the trip

"We don't expect the people of China to agree with all of our policy positions at any given moment, but the more they understand the @placeholder, the more they understand the President and the first lady and their values and their priorities, we think the better it is for both of our countries," Rhodes added.

U.S.

First lady Michelle Obama is in China for an official visit to expand Sino-American relations, but she will refrain from talking about political differences. Mrs. Obama, who flew Wednesday from Washington, D.C., is making a week-long trip to three Chinese cities and will speak with children at several schools about the importance of education and youth empowerment. The U.S. first lady has several activities and events scheduled Friday with Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan. "Her visit and her agenda sends a message that the relationship between the United States and China is not just between leaders, it's a relationship between peoples," said Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes. @highlight The U.S. first lady will meet with Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan on Friday @highlight The two women have several activities planned @highlight Mrs. Obama won't be talking politics during her week-long visit to three Chinese cities @highlight Her mother and her two daughters are also joining the trip

"This is a great opportunity for the Obama family to experience that, and I think for the @placeholder to see that as well in an American family."

China

(CNN) -- Pakistani Taliban leader Qari Hussain Mehsud, whose notoriety includes allegedly recruiting children as suicide bombers, is being targeted by the United States, the State Department announced Thursday. "Widely considered to be the deadliest of all TTP's commanders, Hussain and the TTP (Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan) have taken responsibility for many lethal suicide bombings throughout Pakistan," the State Department said in a news release on Qari Hussain. The released cited a string of such attacks, including a blast last September that killed at least 54 people at a rally in Quetta and a car bombing the same month that killed at least 17 people -- including four children -- in Lakki Marwat. @highlight Qari Hussain Mehsud's notoriety includes allegedly training children as suicide bombers @highlight A tape released after the Times Square bomb attempt purportedly featured his voice @highlight The Pakistani government is offering a $600,000 reward for his capture

But @placeholder forces uncovered a "school" that he is said to have run for child suicide bombers, along with videos of classes.

Pakistan

She says she doesn’t feel a day over 70, but the oldest person in Britain celebrated her 112th birthday today. Gladys Hooper said the secret to her longevity is ‘living a straight life’ and keeping active. She has only just taken the title of Britain’s oldest person after the death of 114-year-old Ethel Lang on Thursday, who was who the last person in the UK born during the reign of Queen Victoria. On finding out the news, Mrs Hooper, who lives in the Isle of Wight, said: ‘I am very surprised, I thought I was just the oldest person on the island.’ @highlight Gladys Hooper said the secret to her longevity is ‘living a straight life’ @highlight The new oldest person in Britain celebrated her 112th birthday today @highlight Taken the title after the death of 114-year-old Ethel Lang on Thursday @highlight Mrs Hooper has a son, four grandchildren and six-great-grandchildren

‘@placeholder told me that she had a very difficult birth, she came out with a misshapen head and the midwife said “I do not think she will do much”.

Gladys Hooper

DURHAM, North Carolina (CNN) -- An operation to remove a malignant tumor from Sen. Edward Kennedy's brain was successful, and the Democrat should suffer no permanent damage from the procedure, his surgeon reported Monday. Sen. Edward Kennedy, right, leaves a Boston hospital with his son Patrick on May 21. The patient himself expressed satisfaction. "I feel like a million bucks," Kennedy said after the surgery, according to a family spokesperson. "I think I'll do that again tomorrow." Kennedy's doctor's statement focused on the 3½-hour operation, which was performed at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. "I am pleased to report that Sen. Kennedy's surgery was successful and accomplished our goals," Dr. Allan Friedman said in a written statement issued after the procedure. @highlight NEW: Kennedy should not have any "permanent neurological effects" from surgery @highlight NEW: "I feel like a million bucks," senator reportedly says after surgery @highlight Chemotherapy and radiation will follow surgery in North Carolina, statement says @highlight Kennedy expected to stay at Duke hospital for about a week

During such operations -- which Friedman and the @placeholder hospital are known for -- surgeons typically ask a patient to identify objects in pictures or make a certain movement, such as squeezing a hand to make sure areas of the brain involving speech and movement are not being impaired.

Duke

By Katy Winter for MailOnline England is set to get a glamorous new WAG soon as Mario Balotelli looks for a new home in the north, bringing with him his stunning Belgian fiancée. The playboy and former Milan striker has caused a stir in the football world by signing to Liverpool for a cool £16 million. And it's all change for Mario on the romantic front, too: the 24-year-old has shunned his old Lothario ways for domestic bliss with new fiancée Fanny Neguesha. Scroll down for video Mario proposed to Fanny earlier this summer before the World Cup and the couple will soon move to the UK @highlight Mario proposed to Fanny earlier this summer before the World Cup @highlight He has just been signed to Liverpool and the pair are set to move to UK @highlight Raised in Belgium, the model has Rwandan, Italian, and Congolese heritage @highlight Has over 200,000 Instagram followers, where she posts plenty of selfies @highlight Fanny has brains as well as beauty, speaking three languages fluently

She has the words ‘your love is the only thing that makes me love’ tattooed on her arm, with @placeholder’s name underneath.

Mario

By Paul Harris for the Daily Mail She shimmied, she bopped – and of course, she swung her famous derriere to the beat of the music. This is Pippa Middleton strutting her stuff on a dancefloor as she relaxed with friends in the luxury Swiss ski resort of Gstaad. Perhaps what she didn’t expect was an unorthodox move from the chap alongside her as he swept in to steal a kiss. Scroll down for video Cheeky: Pippa laughs as her friend appears to lean in for a kiss on the cheek at the Swiss ski resort in Gstaad Grainy footage posted on the internet shows him apparently planting one on our future queen’s little sister as she enjoyed herself at a disco with some cringe-makingly dreadful dance moves. @highlight Pippa Middleton, 31, filmed strutting stuff on dancefloor at hotel in Gstaad @highlight Man is filmed sweeping in to steal a kiss from Duchess of Cambridge's sister @highlight Video has been generating interest from around world as websites share it @highlight Pippa was at resort with boyfriend Nico Jackson watching polo tournament @highlight It’s enough to make Homer eat his shorts – but the Duchess of Cambridge has just been ‘Simpsonized’. Italian blog artist and satirist Alexsandro Palombo has released cartoon images of Kate in a succession of poses based on the popular Simpsons TV series. She is shown, Marge-style, against a backdrop of various royal locations – including some with the Queen at Buckingham Palace, and wearing various outfits based on real life.

The surprised reaction of a blonde dance companion alongside @placeholder, however, might seem to suggest the former.

Pippa

Danny Welbeck admits he is frustrated by his failure to hold down a first-team place up front for Manchester United. The England forward wants a central role for club and country to prove he can score goals regularly at the highest level. Welbeck has scored eight times in 21 appearances for England but spent most of the season struggling for form at United under David Moyes. Main man: Welbeck (right) wants a central role for Manchester United and for England Team: Welbeck (second left) has played a very sefless role for Manchester United this season ‘It does get frustrating,’ said the 23-year-old. ‘You want to be playing in a certain position and you’re not getting the opportunity to do that. @highlight Welbeck was played out of position during David Moyes' time at United @highlight The England man says he is 'let off the leash' more under Roy Hodgson @highlight It is unclear how new United boss Louis van Gaal will utilise Welbeck

‘For @placeholder I’m more likely to be left wing of a four-man midfield with only two centre-mids so it’s a bit more difficult for me to make runs to score when I’ve got to think about my defensive duties as well.

Manchester United

By Chris Waugh It was the documentary that took you behind the scenes at Manchester United and showed Ryan Giggs during his brief tenure as Manchester United boss. And if you missed Life of Ryan: Caretaker Manager - or simply want to re-watch some of the highlights - here are three of the best clips from ITV's documentary. In the first clip, Giggs discusses selection for the match against Hull City at Old Trafford with fellow Class of '92 legends Paul Scholes, Phil Neville and Nicky Butt. VIDEO Scroll down to watch three clips from ITV's Life or Ryan documentary @highlight Watch highlights from ITV's documentary Life of Ryan: Caretaker Manager @highlight The show followed Giggs behind the scenes during his spell as United boss @highlight Giggs talks tactics with fellow Class of '92 stars Scholes, Neville and Butt @highlight The 40-year-old reveals he cried after his last game in charge of United @highlight He also shares an intimate moment with his family after last home match

All smiles: (from left to right) Scholes, Neville, Butt and @placeholder at the premiere of the film The Class of '92

Giggs

Barnaby Lenon, former head of Harrow School, argued at an Oxford University debate that a degree is a privilege and not a right The former headmaster of Harrow has said that University is a privilege which is wasted on some pupils. Speaking at an Oxford University debate, Barnaby Lenon, who was headmaster of the £33,000-a-year boys school until 2011, said that 'excellence for all is nonsense.' He argued that a degree had become seen as a right because of an 'everyone must win prizes' mentality that had developed after the Second World War. Speaking alongside Tim Waterstone, who owns the book store of the same name, the pair were arguing that a University education is a privilege and not a right. @highlight Barnaby Lenon spoke at a debate at Oxford University @highlight He said that a degree was a privilege and not a right @highlight David Willetts, universities minister, argued against him @highlight Said that access to taxpayer-funded institutions should not be restricted @highlight Mr Lenon won the debate by a margin of 24 votes

neither of his parents had been to @placeholder and had turned out fine.

Oxford University

NEW YORK (CNN) -- As his presidency nears its end, a reflective President Bush suggested Tuesday that he regrets some of his more blunt statements on the war on terrorism over the last eight years and said he wishes he had not spoken in front of a "Mission Accomplished" banner only a month after U.S. troops in Iraq were deployed. President Bush says his wife told him that as president, he should watch his words carefully. "I regret saying some things I shouldn't have said," Bush told CNN's Heidi Collins when asked to reflect on his regrets over his two terms as president. "Like 'dead or alive' and 'bring 'em on.' My wife reminded me that, hey, as president of the United States, be careful what you say." @highlight In CNN interview, president reflects on his term @highlight "Mission Accomplished" banner, "dead or alive" comment among his regrets @highlight He says meeting with Obama was relaxed, Obama will bring sense of family @highlight Bush says Texas, book in his post-presidential future

There are a lot of people in @placeholder who did not believe they would ever see this day.

U.S.

PUBLISHED: 19:37 EST, 10 April 2013 | UPDATED: 14:33 EST, 11 April 2013 Murder-for-hire plot: Georgios Spyropoulos was arrested at the Tick Tock Diner that he manages in Clifton, NJ on conspiracy charges in a plot to have a hit man kill his uncle The manager of a beloved New Jersey diner who felt he wasn't getting his fair share of the profits tried to have a hit man kill the co-owner of the eatery, who also happens to be his uncle, police said. Georgios Spyropoulos, the 45-year-old manager of the Tick Tock diner in Clifton, asked an undercover trooper posing as a hit man to kill Alexandros Sgourdos and to get rid of the body so it couldn't be found, authorities revealed Wednesday. @highlight Georgios Spyropoulos, 45, is manager of popular Tic Tock diner in Clifton, NJ @highlight Spyropoulos alleged tried to hire state trooper posing as hit man to kill his uncle in return for $20,000 @highlight Plot included kidnapping Alexandros Sgourdos, 57, torturing him to get safe combination, killing him and disposing of his body

‘Everybody knows that @placeholder is full of criminals and killers.’

NJ

(CNN) -- Two men convicted of killing a British soldier on a London street last year were sentenced Wednesday, one to life in prison and the other to a minimum of 45 years. In a brutal attack recorded on closed-circuit TV and by bystanders, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale hit soldier Lee Rigby with a car then hacked him to death with a meat cleaver and knives in May 2013. The Islamic converts, through testimony or their lawyers' arguments in court, indicated they killed Rigby for Allah. Cellphone footage replayed at the trial showed Adebolajo, still clutching a cleaver in his bloody hands, ranting that the killing was "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" for British soldiers killing Muslims overseas. @highlight NEW: Michael Adebolajo is sentenced to life in prison for killing UK soldier @highlight NEW: Michael Adebowale is sentenced to at least 45 years in Lee Rigby's death @highlight The pair hit Rigby with a car, hacked him to death with meat cleaver and knives @highlight Adebolajo, a convert to Islam, indicated he believed himself a warrior for Allah

"As a solider, Fusilier @placeholder was targeted in a clear act of revenge, deliberately carried out in full view of members of the public for maximum impact."

Lee Rigby

By Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor PUBLISHED: 09:11 EST, 24 January 2013 | UPDATED: 11:53 EST, 24 January 2013 David Cameron’s insistence on an EU referendum would not prevent the Lib Dems entering into a new coalition with the Tories, Nick Clegg revealed today. The Deputy Prime Minister repeated his attack on Mr Cameron’s ‘vague’ promise of a renegotiation of Britain's membership of the European Union, claiming it would damage jobs and growth. But he insisted he did not object to a referendum ‘in principle’ as Business Secretary Vince Cable predicted the British public would vote to stay in the EU. @highlight Lib Dem leader says he does not object to a referendum in principle @highlight Uses radio phone-in to warn against 'years and years' of uncertainty @highlight PM tells World Economic Forum he is not turning his back on Europe

of his party, fear of voters, and fear of the @placeholder itself, which he

EU

Chelsea Manning, the U.S. soldier serving a 35-year sentence for leaking a trove of classified documents to WikiLeaks, has spoken out from his military prison cell in Kansas to warn Americans that they are being lied to about Iraq once more. In a remarkable New York Times Op-Ed piece written from behind bars, Manning said she believes the 'limits on press freedom and excessive government secrecy make it impossible for Americans to grasp fully what is happening in the wars we finance.' Manning, who changed her name from Bradley after beginning sex-reassignment treatments, also defended her leak of 700,000 secret documents - the largest leak of U.S. intelligence in history. @highlight Detained US soldier Chelsea Manning warned Americans they were being lied to about Iraq once more in a recent op-ed @highlight Said 'the current limits on press freedom and excessive government secrecy make it impossible for Americans to grasp fully what is happening in the wars we finance' @highlight Manning is serving a 35-year prison sentence on espionage charges and other offenses for passing along 700,000 secret documents, including diplomatic cables and military intelligence files, to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks

Critical: Manning's piece has claimed that the US is lying to @placeholder about Iraq

Americans

Britain is now the party drugs capital of the world, a new United Nations report has revealed. One in 40 Scots use cocaine - the highest in the world - and just under one in 50 people in England and Wales. Overall, Scotland sits top of the world cocaine league table, ahead of Spain, the US, Australia and Uruguay. England and Wales sit sixth in the global list of cocaine users. Scroll down for interactive map Ecstasy use in the UK is among the highest in the world, according to the UN report. Only Australia and New Zealand use the banned drug more often @highlight Cocaine use in Scotland is higher than anywhere else in the world, according to the UN's 'World Drug Report' 2014 @highlight One in 40 Scots take the class A drug, but the figure is just one in 50 in England and Wales @highlight Ecstasy use across Britain also among highest in the world, with only Australians and Kiwis use the drug more

One in 59 Scots take ecstasy, the @placeholder report found.

UN

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Stories about Sly Stone usually start with the word "reclusive." Sly Stone sometimes takes the stage at Los Angeles clubs with daughter Novena and her group, BabyStone. Don't call him that anymore, because the superstar who blended funk, rock, soul and psychedelic sounds in the 1960s and '70s before disappearing from the scene in the '80s is not in hiding, his youngest daughter said. Stone's media shyness in recent decades earned him a comparison to the late billionaire recluse Howard Hughes, but he's just been living his life and making his music out of the glare of great expectations that superstars suffer. @highlight Stone is talking to interviewers again years after gaining a reputation as a recluse @highlight Stone takes the stage with his daughter, Novena, and her group, BabyStone @highlight Once known for being a no-show, Stone now shows up for performances early

Sly Stone -- who was @placeholder before changing his name as a radio DJ -- didn't reminisce in the interview about past troubles.

Sly Stone

Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) -- In a country as small as a newborn baby is tiny, the birth of Ghadi has been a very big deal for Lebanon. "Ghadi was born pure, was born a Lebanese citizen," explains his happy mother, Kholoud Sukkarieh, as she holds her nearly 2-month-old baby close. "He was not born a sectarian person." Sukkarieh calls that accomplishment "a step forward for a better Lebanon" and "the result of a long struggle." You certainly wouldn't know from glancing at Ghadi's uncluttered birth certificate -- a simple document that belies the complexity of his status. Sukkarieh points proudly to a line that would normally denote her son's sect. But on this historic, yet flimsy little square of paper, it's been very deliberately left blank. @highlight Lebanese parents refuse to mark baby's sect on birth certificate @highlight Parents have received threats in Lebanon, a country deeply divided on sectarian lines @highlight Parents also fought two-year battle to get first civil, non-religious marriage certificate @highlight Divisions among sects in Lebanon deepen as Syria's civil war spills into country

"It's very hard because, when @placeholder and I started down this path, we got threats, but it didn't make a difference to us, we were proud of what we were doing and the steps we were taking," he says.

Kholoud Sukkarieh

For parents that have already up to £659 on the latest top of the range iPad, there is bad news. Experts say that toys that connect to iPads are being tipped as one of the 'must have' gifts for children this Christmas. From remote control helicopters and robots to toy cars that can be driven on the iPad's screen, they toys, costing up to £40 each, are set to cost parents dearly. Scroll down for video Toy's such as Disney's AppMates cars, costing up to £40 per set, could be bestsellers this Christmas As studies show rocketing numbers play games on their parents' tablets, manufacturers have begun to target children with a range of 'real' toys such as cars that can interact with a tablet. @highlight Rise of app toys could cost parents hundreds of pounds @highlight Hi-tech toy cars and helicopters from Disney and others expected to top Christmas bestseller lists

'I'm a dad, I want to be able to play on my @placeholder more, so my son can play with me, and we both have a great time.'

iPad

(CNN) -- You can calm down now, Internet. Ben Affleck has gotten the original TV Batman's stamp of approval. Adam West told People magazine at San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday that he has faith in Affleck's ability to carry the role of the Caped Crusader in the highly anticipated movie "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice." "My feeling is that Ben Affleck will be really good simply because he's a great talent," West said. "And I'd be very interested in seeing him in the role." The release of a close-up shot of Affleck at Batman had Comic-Con has once again stirred debate about whether the role was miscast with the Academy Award winner. @highlight TV Batman Adam West spoke on the Affleck casting at Comic-Con @highlight Affleck will be "really good" in new movie, West believes @highlight The complete "Batman" TV series is being released on DVD

The 85-year-old actor had some words of wisdom for @placeholder.

Affleck

By Daniel Martin PUBLISHED: 11:02 EST, 17 September 2013 | UPDATED: 04:41 EST, 18 September 2013 David Cameron was drawn into a row over offensive football chants yesterday as he defended Tottenham Hotspur fans who shout the word ‘Yid’. The Prime Minister revealed that he thought supporters of the North London club should not face prosecution for chanting the terms ‘Yiddos’ and ‘Yid army’ at games because they are jokingly referring to themselves and therefore not ‘motivated by hate’. But he said other people should be discouraged from using the term, because of the offence it could cause. @highlight Prime Minister backs Spurs fans who call themselves 'Yids' @highlight Warns against someone calling someone a Yid as an insult @highlight FA issues guidance suggesting fans face criminal charges for using word @highlight Comedian claims only a small minority of Spurs fans are actually Jewish

act of defiance, some started using the word ‘@placeholder’ themselves and chants

Yid

By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 10:02 EST, 16 April 2013 | UPDATED: 10:16 EST, 16 April 2013 Suicide: Justin Alan Helzer, 41, was pronounced dead at San Quentin State Prison after hanging himself from a sheet in his cell The death row inmate who killed guitarist Elvin Bishop's daughter and four others in 2000 murder-extortion plot died of an apparent suicide, California prison officials announced Monday. Justin Helzer, 41, was found dead Sunday night in his single cell at San Quentin Prison, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told NBC Bay Area Corrections Lt. Sam Robinson said Helzer used a sheet tied to his cell bars to hang himself. He was found dead during a security check at around 10.17pm. @highlight Justin Helzer, 41, received three death sentences in 2005 for the murders @highlight Helzer's brother, Glenn Taylor Helzer, called himself a prophet who wanted to kill Mormon leaders and take over the church @highlight The siblings and a female accomplice called themselves Children of Thunder and hatched a plot to extort $100,000 from an elderly couple

After @placeholder’s suicide Sunday, his brother has been paced under intensive screening to ensure that he does not attempt to take his own life as well.

Helzer

Edgar Tamayo was convicted of the January 3, 1994 shooting death of Houston police officer Guy Gaddis and and was executed last month in Texas Thousands of mourners poured out to see the burial of the Mexican man put to death by lethal injection in Texas last month, a move that has sparked diplomatic tensions between the U.S. and the central American state. Friends and relatives carried the coffin of Mexican Edgar Tamayo to the cemetery in his home town of Miacatlan, Morelos state, amid an outpouring of grief from local residents. The 46-year-old Mexican was controversially executed in Texas less than two weeks ago for the killing of a Houston police officer in 1994, despite outrage from human rights groups and last minute appeals from his lawyers for clemency on the grounds that Tamayo was mentally disabled. @highlight Thousands line streets of Mexican city for burial of Edgar Tamayo @highlight He was executed by lethal injection last month for killing a policeman @highlight His lawyers say he didn't receive a fair trial

The Mexican government also sharply criticized the decision, saying failure to review Tamayo's case and reconsider his sentence would be 'a clear violation by the @placeholder of its international obligations'.

American

Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- The suspected cyberattack that appeared to target South Korean banks and broadcasters Wednesday originated from an IP address in China, South Korea's Communications Committee said in a statement Thursday. The attack damaged 32,000 computers and servers of media and financial companies, the committee said. South Korean officials are analyzing the cause and are working to prevent any further damage, the committee said. The attack infected banks' and broadcasters' computer networks with a malicious program that slowed or shut systems down, officials and the semiofficial Yonhap News Agency said. Suspicion immediately fell on North Korea, which has recently renewed threats to go to war with the South amid rising tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons and missile testing and international efforts to stop them. @highlight NEW: Attack traced to IP address in China, officials say @highlight North Korea has staged similar attacks in the past, expert says @highlight Banks, broadcasters targeted; government networks unaffected, Yonhap reports @highlight South Korean military steps up its cyberdefense efforts in response

@placeholder has accused the North of similar hacking attacks before, including incidents in 2010 and 2012 that also targeted banks and media organizations.

South

(Entertainment Weekly) -- Punctuation promises comedy in "The Informant!" as if the title subject is a cartoon secret agent -- maybe Agent 86 in "Get Smart." Matt Damon, as a corporate turncoat, offers up secrets in "The Informant!" But he's not. The whistle-blower worthy of an exclamation point in this groovy-looking, chuckle-baiting, fact-based movie from protean director Steven Soderbergh is Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon), a biochemist and well-placed executive at the agri-processing giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in Decatur, Illinois. It's the early 1990s. The company man is helping expose ADM's alleged global price-fixing activities to the FBI, cooperating with the feds long enough to gather invaluable evidence. But what Whitacre doesn't confide to his FBI handlers, and what his wheat-colored jackets, Dilbert ties, and weakling mustache hide, at least at first, is that this inside source is not completely trustworthy. @highlight "The Informant!" stars Matt Damon as corporate worker giving info to FBI @highlight Damon's character is an untrustworthy provider, and actor's performance great @highlight But movie plays situations too much for laughs, says EW @highlight "The Informant!" is directed by Steven Soderbergh

Watch why @placeholder gained 30 pounds for the role »

Damon

Top Gear star Jeremy Clarkson has revealed how Argentina allegedly told Chilean officials to stop the crew entering the country as they tried to flee from an angry mob upset over their car’s H982FKL number plate. The 54-year-old BBC presenter claims the South American country tried to stop their quick getaway so that Clarkson – along with the show’s fellow stars Richard Hammond and James May – could be arrested. However, Argentina’s plan was thwarted when the Chilean officials refused to succumb to the request – instead letting the crew into the country where they were able to safely fly back to the United Kingdom. @highlight Jeremy Clarkson and Top Gear crew hounded out of Argentina by a mob @highlight Forced to abandon cars by side of road and leave country three days early @highlight Clarkson's H982 FKL number plate was taken as reference to 1982 conflict @highlight The Top Gear convoy was attacked with rocks, sticks and pickaxe handles @highlight Presenter said authorities tried to stop film crew crossing border into Chile @highlight Said country asked Chilean officials to block entry so they could be arrested @highlight However, Chile allowed crew into country where they safely flew back to UK

They faced a gruelling six-hour journey to the @placeholder border in a collection of hired 4x4s, trucks and the three 'star' cars that the crew had planned to use in the ‘car football match’ for the show.

Chile

Top Gear star Jeremy Clarkson has revealed how Argentina allegedly told Chilean officials to stop the crew entering the country as they tried to flee from an angry mob upset over their car’s H982FKL number plate. The 54-year-old BBC presenter claims the South American country tried to stop their quick getaway so that Clarkson – along with the show’s fellow stars Richard Hammond and James May – could be arrested. However, Argentina’s plan was thwarted when the Chilean officials refused to succumb to the request – instead letting the crew into the country where they were able to safely fly back to the United Kingdom. @highlight Jeremy Clarkson and Top Gear crew hounded out of Argentina by a mob @highlight Forced to abandon cars by side of road and leave country three days early @highlight Clarkson's H982 FKL number plate was taken as reference to 1982 conflict @highlight The Top Gear convoy was attacked with rocks, sticks and pickaxe handles @highlight Presenter said authorities tried to stop film crew crossing border into Chile @highlight Said country asked Chilean officials to block entry so they could be arrested @highlight However, Chile allowed crew into country where they safely flew back to UK

Clarkson described him as a ‘real hero’ and also praised the police officers who escorted the film crew safely into @placeholder.

Chile

Guatemala City (CNN) -- The courtroom erupted in cheers after former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was found guilty of genocide in May 2013 for allegedly allowing massacres of more than 1,700 indigenous Ixil Mayans in the early 1980s. Hundreds dressed in traditional ethnic "huipiles," crossed their arms over their chests in a sign of gratitude to the tribunal for being the first in the world to try a head of state for genocide in his own country's judicial system. But the verdict would only stick for 10 days. Guatemala's Constitutional Court annulled the conviction and ordered a retrial in 2015, a move critics considered politically motivated. @highlight A year ago, Efrain Rios Montt was found guilty of genocide @highlight But the verdict was overturned within 10 days @highlight The attorney general and judge in the case have had their jobs affected @highlight Some say it is in retaliation for prosecuting Rios Montt

During the trial, prosecutors argued that @placeholder's junta government oversaw the bloodiest period of the country's 1960-1996 civil war that left more than 200,000 people dead and 1 million refugees, according to various truth commission reports.

Efrain Rios Montt

(CNN) -- It was conceived in secret in the 1980s but it's difficult to miss the Airbus A380 these days. The giant aircraft is a true leviathan of the sky and has just marked its fifth year of commercial service. In October 2007 Singapore Airlines became the first airline to fly the A380, the world's longest commercial airliner at the time. That title is now claimed by the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental, but the A380 is still wider and carries more passengers. Read more: Boeing 747-8 vs. Airbus A380 Since first taking to the skies to great fanfare, 89 A380s have come into service around the world, with Thai Airways recently becoming the ninth airline to operate the "Superjumbo." @highlight The Airbus A380 has just celebrated its fifth anniversary as a commercial aircraft @highlight It's 15 meters wider than a Boeing 747 "Jumbo Jet" @highlight There are now 89 A380s in service around the world, operated by nine airlines

Stiff challenges will undoubtedly come from Boeing's 747-8i, but with a few years' head start, @placeholder hopes the A380 will see off the competition.

A380

By Steve Doughty PUBLISHED: 20:39 EST, 25 November 2012 | UPDATED: 03:03 EST, 26 November 2012 British aid to Rwanda is ‘funding a dictator’ and worsening the misery of his victims, a former senior aide to the African state’s president claimed last night. The £270million of aid earmarked for the country over the next three years is ‘sustaining a bad regime’, said David Himbara, who was private secretary to President Paul Kagame until two years ago. Kagame’s regime is alleged to be funding and arming a bloody rebellion in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo, in a conflict marked by the use of child soldiers and widespread rape and murder. @highlight President Paul Kagame's former private secretary said £270million of aid earmarked for Rwanda is 'sustaining a bad regime' @highlight Kagame's regime is alleged to be funding and arming a bloody rebellion in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo

‘It has not stopped @placeholder going into Congo.‘We have never seen UK say anything about Rwanda, no matter what it does.

Kagame

A Sydney mayor who was allegedly assaulted at a polling booth on Saturday afternoon has been released from hospital after he was reportedly 'king hit'. Bill Pickering - who is the mayor of Ryde in Sydney's northwest - said he barely saw the punch coming but said it will take a few days to get over the shock. Mr Pickering, 52, said he can identify the man who assaulted him at Putney Public school on Saturday but he declined to give specifics because a police investigation is underway. Bill Pickering (pictured) has been released from hospital after being assaulted outside a polling station on Saturday @highlight Mayor of Ryde Bill Pickering has been released from hospital following an alleged attack @highlight He said it will take a couple of days to recover from the shock @highlight The mayor barely saw the punch coming and 'it was too late to react' @highlight He was reportedly handing out sandwiches at a primary school for a council by-election on Saturday @highlight A witness says Cr Pickering was then confronted by independent candidate Vic Tagg @highlight Cr Pickering reportedly hit the ground and began to have a seizure @highlight Mr Tagg has denied his involvement in the attack

Mr @placeholder (pictured) was taken to hospital after the attack.

Bill Pickering

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (CNN) -- Cement-block walls are being built around the shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro. Authorities say it's to save rainforests. The city's poorest residents say it's an attempt to shut them out. When Francisco de Moraes looks at the wall, it angers him. He has one of the best views of Rio, overlooking the city, its shimmering beaches and Sugarloaf Mountain jutting from the sea. "We don't have the right to have our opinion heard," he said. He speaks during a break from a soccer game on a makeshift cement field that's wedged in by the wall. The "eco-wall," as officials call it, runs up next to his house and around most of the Santa Marta shantytown where he and about 7,000 others live. @highlight Rio de Janeiro is erecting walls around shantytowns to protect rainforests @highlight Residents say it amounts to social segregation @highlight "The state government walled us in, so more houses wouldn't be built in the forest" @highlight Officials say the wall is needed to keep the regions from spreading further into jungle

It's estimated about 20 percent of @placeholder's 6 million people live in the shantytowns.

Rio

By Associated Press The Mormon church has excommunicated the prominent founder of a Mormon women's group, Ordain Women, the organization announced Monday afternoon. Kate Kelly's former church leaders in Virginia notified her of the decision after weighing the high-profile decision overnight. She did not attend the disciplinary hearing Sunday by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, instead holding a vigil in Salt Lake City with about 200 supporters. As the leader of Ordain Women, Kelly is accused of apostasy, which is repeated and public advocacy of positions that oppose church teachings. Distressing: Kate Kelly wipes a tear from her face during a vigil Sunday in Salt Lake City. Church leaders informed her Monday she had been excommunicated @highlight Kate Kelly ran Ordain Women, a group that sought to convince the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to give women leadership rules @highlight She was ruled an apostate by church elders and kicked out of the church @highlight Leaders are considering a similar ban for gay advocate John Dehlin

Vigils to support @placeholder were held in 17 countries, according to Ordain Women.

Kate Kelly

(CNN) -- Every day for decades, it was an essential part of the day for millions of listeners. A voice would boom out over the radio airwaves, announcing, "Hello, Americans, this is Paul Harvey! Stand by for news!" Paul Harvey gave Brent Burns his "big break," giving one of his songs national exposure for the first time. After more than 70 years on the air, Harvey died Saturday at the age of 90. His broadcasts were heard on more than 1,200 radio stations, according to his Web site. iReporters shared their memories of hearing Harvey's program through the generations and told how he affected their lives, and in some cases their careers. @highlight iReporters remember how legendary radio host Paul Harvey affected their lives @highlight John Hargis lost 70% of his hearing, but Harvey's voice was one he recognized @highlight Brent Burns believes that Harvey gave him his "big break" in music @highlight Share your memories of Harvey on iReport.com

Cummins says that she modeled the way she told bedtime stories to her daughter after @placeholder.

Harvey

A string of police blunders meant a psychiatric patient and convicted killer remained free to commit murder. Just before knifing a woman to death, Nicola Edgington rang 999 four times from a hospital begging to be arrested. A simple check would have told officers that she had stabbed her mother to death in 2005, but no-one accessed the Police National Computer and a crucial opportunity to section her under the Mental Health Act was missed. Scroll down for video Sentenced: Nicola Edgington, left, has been jailed for 37 years after murdering Sally Hodkin, right, and attempting to murder Kerry Clark in a street attack in south east London in 2011 @highlight Nicola Edgington killed Sally Hodkin in Bexleyheath, Kent @highlight She also attacked 22-year-old Sally Clark who managed to fight her off @highlight She had made four 999 calls asking to be arrested earlier that day @highlight But she walked out of a mental health clinic and killed Mrs Hodkin @highlight Police did not carry out a computer check on Edgington which would have alerted them to her previous conviction for manslaughter; @highlight Officers missed an opportunity to use their powers under the Mental Health Act when Edgington tried to leave the A&E department shortly after she arrived with police; @highlight Edgington’s second 999 call from the A&E department was downgraded because she was considered to be in a ‘place of safety’ and an officer was not asked to return despite Edgington saying she could be very dangerous; @highlight The police contacted the hospital only after her fourth 999 call.

The @placeholder family said the tragedy highlighted fears about the treatment of dangerous offenders in the community.

Hodkin

(CNN)Police officers are among the two dead and 15 wounded after an explosion during a peaceful protest in the eastern city of Kharkiv, Ukraine's Interior Ministry said Sunday. Four people belonging to a group that received training in Belgorod, Russia, have been arrested, Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov of Ukraine's National Defense and Security Council said on his website. A gun was also confiscated. Though there were reports that someone threw an explosive device from a vehicle, the blast appeared to be caused by a remote-controlled device, Turchynov's statement said. Footage from the rally shows an estimated 500 people marching through a Kharkiv street, many hoisting Ukrainian flags, when the explosion sends rally participants and onlookers scurrying for cover. @highlight Video from scene shows police, onlookers tending to 3 men, two of them in fatigues @highlight Ministry of Internal Affairs official says explosion is a suspected terror act

The Interior Ministry and @placeholder agreed that one policeman was among the dead and five officers were among the wounded.

Oleksandr Turchynov

Amir Khan has conceded that the spectre of Floyd Mayweather will never be far from his mind when he steps in the ring for his welterweight showdown with Devon Alexander in Las Vegas in the early hours of Sunday morning. Khan has spent the majority of the pre-fight build-up insisting he is only concerned with the immediate threat posed by the former IBF champion and that there remain plenty of other options in the 147lbs division. But the 28-year-old Bolton native betrayed his true concerns when questioned over his ability to see off Alexander in explosive enough style to make the prospect of a future showdown with the self-styled 'Pretty Boy' a reality. @highlight Amir Khan praises trainer Virgil Hunter for improving his all-round game @highlight Devon Alexander lost his title to fellow American Shawn Porter last year @highlight Alexander bounced back with a win over Jesus Soto Karass in June

'They're going to be like, 'wow, he should fight @placeholder'.

Floyd Mayweather

An English woman who did not want her two children to live with her ex-husband in Australia has lost a fight from beyond the grave. The woman had written a will and said 'under no circumstances' did she wish the youngsters - a girl aged eight and a boy aged seven - to return to their Australian father. Her parents and her ex-husband, who is of Aboriginal descent, became embroiled in a family court fight over the children's futures after she died late in 2014. A judge today ruled in favour of the woman's ex-husband following a hearing in the Family Division of the High Court in London. @highlight Two children will be returned to their father in Australia from England @highlight The children, now aged 8 and 7, were born and raised in Australia @highlight Their mother took them overseas temporarily in 2012 and never returned @highlight She died of cancer, requested in her will that they remain in England @highlight 'Under no circumstances' did she want the children be with her husband @highlight A judge ruled in favour of the woman's ex-husband who resides in Darwin

Their mother, now deceased, took them to @placeholder before her death.

England

An English woman who did not want her two children to live with her ex-husband in Australia has lost a fight from beyond the grave. The woman had written a will and said 'under no circumstances' did she wish the youngsters - a girl aged eight and a boy aged seven - to return to their Australian father. Her parents and her ex-husband, who is of Aboriginal descent, became embroiled in a family court fight over the children's futures after she died late in 2014. A judge today ruled in favour of the woman's ex-husband following a hearing in the Family Division of the High Court in London. @highlight Two children will be returned to their father in Australia from England @highlight The children, now aged 8 and 7, were born and raised in Australia @highlight Their mother took them overseas temporarily in 2012 and never returned @highlight She died of cancer, requested in her will that they remain in England @highlight 'Under no circumstances' did she want the children be with her husband @highlight A judge ruled in favour of the woman's ex-husband who resides in Darwin

She said she wanted a friend or a relative in @placeholder to bring them up - and the judge said they were in England being cared for by their grandparents.

England

An English woman who did not want her two children to live with her ex-husband in Australia has lost a fight from beyond the grave. The woman had written a will and said 'under no circumstances' did she wish the youngsters - a girl aged eight and a boy aged seven - to return to their Australian father. Her parents and her ex-husband, who is of Aboriginal descent, became embroiled in a family court fight over the children's futures after she died late in 2014. A judge today ruled in favour of the woman's ex-husband following a hearing in the Family Division of the High Court in London. @highlight Two children will be returned to their father in Australia from England @highlight The children, now aged 8 and 7, were born and raised in Australia @highlight Their mother took them overseas temporarily in 2012 and never returned @highlight She died of cancer, requested in her will that they remain in England @highlight 'Under no circumstances' did she want the children be with her husband @highlight A judge ruled in favour of the woman's ex-husband who resides in Darwin

He said they had been born in Australia, had grown up in Australia and their habitual residence was in @placeholder.

Australia

By Suzannah Hills PUBLISHED: 08:12 EST, 18 December 2013 | UPDATED: 09:54 EST, 18 December 2013 The 'Peru Two' today began their six-year stretch behind bars at a Peruvian jail notorious for its unsantinary conditions and over-crowding. Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum Connolly were yesterday sentenced to six years and eight months in jail for attempting to smuggle £1.5million worth of cocaine out of Peru. Following their sentencing, the pair were taken from court to the Santa Monica prison in Chorrillo. Pictures from inside the jail show the tough conditions McCollum Connolly, 20, from Dungannon, Northern Ireland, and Reid, from Lenzie, near Glasgow, would have woken up to this morning. @highlight Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum were detained in August in Lima @highlight Arrested on suspicion of trying to smuggle cocaine on a flight to Spain @highlight Some 24lbs of cocaine worth £1.5m was allegedly found in their luggage @highlight The two women from Scotland and Northern Ireland were jailed in Peru @highlight Today they started their sentence in the notorious Santa Monica jail @highlight HIV and tuberculosis are rife in the filthy and overcrowded prison

'@placeholder has never been in trouble before so this is a very big shock to us and we will all support her.'

McCollum Connolly

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called Friday on the United States to exchange ambassadors just days after expelling three American diplomats from the country. The request came during an hours-long news conference aired on state-run TV, where Maduro called on President Barack Obama to begin talks, even as he repeatedly accused the United States of interfering in Venezuelan internal affairs and stoking sometimes violent anti-government protests in recent days. "I call for a dialogue with you, Obama," Maduro said. "You can designate (U.S. Secretary of State John) Kerry or whoever you want to come to this dialogue and I will send my foreign minister ... for this high-level meeting." @highlight Nicolas Maduro calls for talks with the United States @highlight Venezuela's government says eight people have been killed in the violence @highlight The western state of Tachira is a flashpoint of the tension @highlight The government is considering sending more troops to Tachira

@placeholder's government has responded strongly to protests in Tachira as he faces the largest demonstrations since coming to power almost a year ago.

Maduro

(CNN) -- Western powers on Thursday were debating using military power against Syria's government to counter a chemical weapons attack in Damascus' suburbs last week. On Wednesday, U.S. President Barack Obama said there's no doubt that Syria launched chemical weapons attacks against its own people. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime has blamed the August 21 attack on rebels. Most recent: -- The United States may have to take unilateral action against Syria after British lawmakers voted down a proposal for military action, a senior U.S. official said. -- British Prime Minister David Cameron was dealt a blow Thursday in his push for a strong response, including possible military action, against Syria after the House of Commons rejected the measure. @highlight NEW: The United States may have to take unilateral action against Syria, says an official @highlight British lawmakers vote down possible military action against Syria @highlight They also reject a Labour Party motion calling for additional time for U.N. inspectors @highlight A U.N. Security Council meeting ends with no agreement on a resolution on the crisis

-- "The use of chemical weapons by the @placeholder regime is a serious crime of international concern, as a breach of the customary international law prohibition on use of chemical weapons, and amounts to a war crime and a crime against humanity," the UK government's statement read.

Syria

(CNN) -- Buddy Cianci has been convicted twice, and twice he's been forced out as mayor of Providence, Rhode Island. But for him, this was a first. The 73-year-old Cianci lost a Providence mayor's race for the first time in seven runs on Tuesday, falling to political neophyte Jorge Elorza. "It just didn't happen," Cianci said in his concession speech. "But that doesn't mean that we don't have the heart and the spirit and the love for this city to say that we wouldn't do it again if we needed to." Unofficial results, posted on Rhode Island's elections board website, showed Elorza winning 53% of the vote, with Cianci getting about 44% support. @highlight NEW: Buddy Cianci loses Providence mayoral race; says "it just didn't happen" @highlight NEW: The 73-year-old says, "This will be my last campaign," then adds "for this year" @highlight Cianci was mayor from 1975 to 1984 and again from 1991 to 2002 @highlight He resigned the post twice over felony convictions

He urged his supporters to offer help to @placeholder, saying "we need to bind together as a city."

Elorza

By Wills Robinson British families travelling to Disneyland Paris are paying up to £500 more than French visitors for identical holiday packages. Customers trying to book a stay for two adults and two children on the UK site are being charged more than if they had go onto the French site, even though the details are exactly the same. The huge price gap is based on a four-night stay break at the end of June, but packages throughout the summer are still between £300 and £400 more expensive. Scroll down for video Not so magical: British families are being charged more than the French for holidays to Disneyland Paris @highlight Groups booking stays through the UK site are paying higher prices @highlight Prices based on stay for two adults and two children for four nights @highlight British children have shorter summer breaks so peak time is competitive @highlight Around 2.1million of the 14.9million annual visitors are from the UK

French children have longer school holidays than in @placeholder, making bookings in August very competitive.

British

Beijing (CNN) -- I was at the last public speech by the former U.S. ambassador to China Gary Locke. During the Q & A session, a Chinese student asked the outgoing ambassador to compare the Chinese dream and the American dream. The ambassador said he didn't know much about the Chinese dream, so he talked instead about the American dream. Like Americans, the Chinese people also have their dreams -- a powerful country, a good education, a happy family, or a bountiful harvest. Yet the dreams of the ordinary Chinese have never been articulated as powerfully and eloquently as the American dream, until Xi Jinping came into power. @highlight March 14 marks one year since Xi Jinping was officially appointed China's president @highlight After Xi's first presidential speech, the "Chinese dream" became a household phrase @highlight Xi's campaign against corruption can be seen as the first steps to restore public trust, says Xie @highlight Xie says reforms will enable all people in China to be truly proud of the Chinese dream

Yet at the same time more and more @placeholder seem to have lost faith in the government and the future of China.

China

(CNN) -- It's a plot twist that even a thriller writer might have struggled to come up with during Serbia's European qualifying clash with Albania in Belgrade. A drone flying a flag depicting the "Greater Albania" over a major international soccer game Tuesday was the subject of a 'whodunnit' mystery after the brother of the Albanian prime minister hit back at allegations by a Serbian government official that he had been piloting the quadcopter. "I am very disgusted by the allegation of my having any involvement in the piloting of the drone," Olsi Rama told CNN Wednesday, who said he had been taking pictures of the game from a VIP suite at the stadium. @highlight Prime minister of Albania's brother hits back at allegations @highlight Serbian official told CNN that drone was controlled by Olsi Rama @highlight Serbia vs. Albania game abandoned after 41 minutes @highlight Flag flown over stadium by drone sparked chaos

"According to the information from the police he (Olsi Rama) was in possession of the navigator," said a @placeholder official as the country's football federation labeled the drone flight a "terrorist action planned in advance."

Serbia

(CNN) -- It's a plot twist that even a thriller writer might have struggled to come up with during Serbia's European qualifying clash with Albania in Belgrade. A drone flying a flag depicting the "Greater Albania" over a major international soccer game Tuesday was the subject of a 'whodunnit' mystery after the brother of the Albanian prime minister hit back at allegations by a Serbian government official that he had been piloting the quadcopter. "I am very disgusted by the allegation of my having any involvement in the piloting of the drone," Olsi Rama told CNN Wednesday, who said he had been taking pictures of the game from a VIP suite at the stadium. @highlight Prime minister of Albania's brother hits back at allegations @highlight Serbian official told CNN that drone was controlled by Olsi Rama @highlight Serbia vs. Albania game abandoned after 41 minutes @highlight Flag flown over stadium by drone sparked chaos

The @placeholder prime minister's office also stated that Rama was arrested and sent home to Albania, a claim denied by the Albanian government's spokesman.

Serbia

(CNN) -- It's a plot twist that even a thriller writer might have struggled to come up with during Serbia's European qualifying clash with Albania in Belgrade. A drone flying a flag depicting the "Greater Albania" over a major international soccer game Tuesday was the subject of a 'whodunnit' mystery after the brother of the Albanian prime minister hit back at allegations by a Serbian government official that he had been piloting the quadcopter. "I am very disgusted by the allegation of my having any involvement in the piloting of the drone," Olsi Rama told CNN Wednesday, who said he had been taking pictures of the game from a VIP suite at the stadium. @highlight Prime minister of Albania's brother hits back at allegations @highlight Serbian official told CNN that drone was controlled by Olsi Rama @highlight Serbia vs. Albania game abandoned after 41 minutes @highlight Flag flown over stadium by drone sparked chaos

The Serbian prime minister's office also stated that Rama was arrested and sent home to @placeholder, a claim denied by the Albanian government's spokesman.

Albania

(CNN) -- It's a plot twist that even a thriller writer might have struggled to come up with during Serbia's European qualifying clash with Albania in Belgrade. A drone flying a flag depicting the "Greater Albania" over a major international soccer game Tuesday was the subject of a 'whodunnit' mystery after the brother of the Albanian prime minister hit back at allegations by a Serbian government official that he had been piloting the quadcopter. "I am very disgusted by the allegation of my having any involvement in the piloting of the drone," Olsi Rama told CNN Wednesday, who said he had been taking pictures of the game from a VIP suite at the stadium. @highlight Prime minister of Albania's brother hits back at allegations @highlight Serbian official told CNN that drone was controlled by Olsi Rama @highlight Serbia vs. Albania game abandoned after 41 minutes @highlight Flag flown over stadium by drone sparked chaos

When the banner came up we had no idea, we thought some @placeholder set it up."

Serbia

(CNN) -- It's a plot twist that even a thriller writer might have struggled to come up with during Serbia's European qualifying clash with Albania in Belgrade. A drone flying a flag depicting the "Greater Albania" over a major international soccer game Tuesday was the subject of a 'whodunnit' mystery after the brother of the Albanian prime minister hit back at allegations by a Serbian government official that he had been piloting the quadcopter. "I am very disgusted by the allegation of my having any involvement in the piloting of the drone," Olsi Rama told CNN Wednesday, who said he had been taking pictures of the game from a VIP suite at the stadium. @highlight Prime minister of Albania's brother hits back at allegations @highlight Serbian official told CNN that drone was controlled by Olsi Rama @highlight Serbia vs. Albania game abandoned after 41 minutes @highlight Flag flown over stadium by drone sparked chaos

@placeholder's first visit to Belgrade since 1967 was expected to be a tense occasion, though the events of Tuesday evening appeared to catch security authorities by surprise.

Albania

(CNN) -- It's a plot twist that even a thriller writer might have struggled to come up with during Serbia's European qualifying clash with Albania in Belgrade. A drone flying a flag depicting the "Greater Albania" over a major international soccer game Tuesday was the subject of a 'whodunnit' mystery after the brother of the Albanian prime minister hit back at allegations by a Serbian government official that he had been piloting the quadcopter. "I am very disgusted by the allegation of my having any involvement in the piloting of the drone," Olsi Rama told CNN Wednesday, who said he had been taking pictures of the game from a VIP suite at the stadium. @highlight Prime minister of Albania's brother hits back at allegations @highlight Serbian official told CNN that drone was controlled by Olsi Rama @highlight Serbia vs. Albania game abandoned after 41 minutes @highlight Flag flown over stadium by drone sparked chaos

He was also eligible for @placeholder through his mother's lineage.

Albania

By Daily Mail Reporter and Associated Press Reporter PUBLISHED: 23:03 EST, 30 November 2013 | UPDATED: 07:06 EST, 1 December 2013 Paul Crouch, who built what has been called the world's largest Christian broadcasting network, has died. He was 79. Trinity Broadcasting Network reported Saturday that Crouch died after a decade-long fight with degenerative heart disease. A message was left for Crouch's grandson Brandon, who wrote about Crouch's death on his Twitter page. Passed away: Evangelist Paul Crouch, left, with his wife, Jan, right, died Saturday after battling degenerative heart disease for 10 years @highlight Paul Crouch, who built Trinity Broadcasting Network, died at the age of 79 on Saturday @highlight He passed away after a decade-long fight with degenerative heart disease @highlight The network, which he and his wife, Jan, started in 1973, says it has 84 satellite channels and more than 18,000 television and cable affiliates as well as a Christian amusement park in Orlando

1998, the elder @placeholder secretly paid an accuser $425,000 to keep quiet

Crouch

By Daniel Mills Comedian Josh Richards wasn't joking around when he said he wanted to spend his 40th birthday party in space. The Australian, who is now 28, is already planning the occasion with 23 strangers when he hopes to touch down on Mars in 2024. It is a long-shot, he said, but his chances are more than a pipe dream now with the West Australian pushing his claims for a place on the hotly-contested Mars One expedition which will see just 24 people travel to space and never return. Josh Richards is hoping to celebrate his 40th and first birthday on Mars as part of the Dutch-funded 2024 Mars One mission @highlight Josh Richards and Korum Ellis are shortlisted for the Mars One mission @highlight Just 24 people will travel to space to start a new life on the Red Planet @highlight It is a Dutch-funded project aiming to set up a human colony on Mars @highlight Mr Richards will turn 40 in 2024 - the same year he touches down @highlight He has left a long term partner in the UK to pursue his dream

The @placeholder, and friend Korum Ellis, are two of 705 people in the running for the mission that will see space goers undergo a 10-year training regime in order to prepare for the rest of their lives in space.

Australian

A Republican tide ripped the Senate away from Democrats Tuesday, giving the GOP full control of Congress and the power to pin down President Barack Obama during his last two years in office. The thumping win upends the balance of power between the White House and Capitol Hill only six years after Obama's Democrats swept to power and marginalized Republicans in a rush to reform health care, Wall Street and pass a huge stimulus package. Now, it's Democrats who will take the back seat on Capitol Hill, relying mostly on the power of the filibuster to stymie Republicans and keep Obama's legacy intact. @highlight GOP wins Senate seats in Iowa, Colorado, Arkansas, S. Dakota, Montana, W. Virginia, N. Carolina @highlight CNN projects GOP will keep the House and Senate @highlight Mitch McConnell beat Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky @highlight Obama to make a statement Wednesday afternoon

But Democrats will console themselves with a more favorable Senate map in two years' time and the belief that shifting demographics and an unresolved war between the Republican grassroots and the party establishment will make the next presidential race a tough climb for the @placeholder.

GOP

By Jeff Powell Follow @@jeffpowell_Mail The fighter for whom Amir Khan was so unceremoniously dumped by Floyd Mayweather believes his elevation to next month’s Money fight has spared the boxing public a night of expensive tedium. Marcos Maidana, not content with having gate-crashed Khan’s party, has added insult to the Englishman’s wounded pride by saying: ‘If Amir had got this fight it would have been very boring.’ Since the one thing Khan has never been accused of is being unexciting, that requires explanation. When pressed Maidana adds: ‘Both he and Mayweather are pure boxers. So, unlike me, neither of them would go on the attack.’ @highlight Marcos Maidana says Amir Khan and Floyd Mayweather are 'pure boxers' @highlight Argentine says he will 'go on attack' against Mayweather @highlight Maidana working on his speed before May 3 bout with Mayweather @highlight Freddie Roach has fun by sending letter and socks to Tim Bradley

VIDEO Scroll down to watch @placeholder offering tickets in true Pretty Boy style

Floyd Mayweather

By Jeff Powell Follow @@jeffpowell_Mail The fighter for whom Amir Khan was so unceremoniously dumped by Floyd Mayweather believes his elevation to next month’s Money fight has spared the boxing public a night of expensive tedium. Marcos Maidana, not content with having gate-crashed Khan’s party, has added insult to the Englishman’s wounded pride by saying: ‘If Amir had got this fight it would have been very boring.’ Since the one thing Khan has never been accused of is being unexciting, that requires explanation. When pressed Maidana adds: ‘Both he and Mayweather are pure boxers. So, unlike me, neither of them would go on the attack.’ @highlight Marcos Maidana says Amir Khan and Floyd Mayweather are 'pure boxers' @highlight Argentine says he will 'go on attack' against Mayweather @highlight Maidana working on his speed before May 3 bout with Mayweather @highlight Freddie Roach has fun by sending letter and socks to Tim Bradley

‘Most of @placeholder’s opponents have done that but his defence is so good.

Floyd Mayweather

By Jeff Powell Follow @@jeffpowell_Mail The fighter for whom Amir Khan was so unceremoniously dumped by Floyd Mayweather believes his elevation to next month’s Money fight has spared the boxing public a night of expensive tedium. Marcos Maidana, not content with having gate-crashed Khan’s party, has added insult to the Englishman’s wounded pride by saying: ‘If Amir had got this fight it would have been very boring.’ Since the one thing Khan has never been accused of is being unexciting, that requires explanation. When pressed Maidana adds: ‘Both he and Mayweather are pure boxers. So, unlike me, neither of them would go on the attack.’ @highlight Marcos Maidana says Amir Khan and Floyd Mayweather are 'pure boxers' @highlight Argentine says he will 'go on attack' against Mayweather @highlight Maidana working on his speed before May 3 bout with Mayweather @highlight Freddie Roach has fun by sending letter and socks to Tim Bradley

I will catch @placeholder at some point and when I do I will finish him.’

Floyd Mayweather

By Victoria Woollaston PUBLISHED: 17:49 EST, 4 June 2013 | UPDATED: 03:19 EST, 5 June 2013 Older versions of Apple products - including the iPhone 4 and the iPad and iPad 2 3G models - have been banned in the U.S. after an official ruling claimed the devices breach Samsung patents. The devices are assembled in China and because the ruling by the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington bans imports of affected Apple products into America, these devices could be removed from the shelves as early as August. Apple has been given 60 days to stop selling the products but is appealing the decision, which ruled that Apple copied Samsung's 3G technology in its devices. @highlight Apple's iPhone models and 4 and 3GS and iPad 3G and iPad 2 3G cannot be imported into the U.S. because they violate patents of rival Samsung @highlight The electronics are made in China, effectively ending their sales in the U.S. @highlight Apple plans to appeal the ruling by the US International Trade Commission @highlight President Obama has 60 days to invalidate the ruling

In a separate patent dispute in @placeholder federal court last year, Samsung was ordered to pay £652m ($1bn) for patent infringement, an award that was later slashed to £390m ($598.9m).

America

A mother and daughter have given birth at the same hospital on the same day. Heather Penticoff, 40, and her 20-year-old daughter Destinee Martin each discovered they were pregnant the same afternoon earlier this year. They had the same due dates and, for separate medical reasons, doctors at Lee Memorial Hospital in Fort Myers, Florida, decided to induce both of them on Tuesday. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO Overjoyed: Destinee Martin, 20, (left) cradles her newborn son Damien, hours after her mother Heather Penticoff, 40 (right) gave birth to her sister Madeline at Lee Memorial Hospital in Fort Myers, Florida Penticoff's daughter Madeline was born first. @highlight Destinee Martin, 20, and Heather Penticoff, 40, told each other they were pregnant at the same time earlier this year @highlight For separate medical reasons, they were induced on the same day @highlight Heather's daughter Madeline was born first, Destinee's son Damien came hours later

'Like carrying twins': @placeholder's mother Heather said it is like having twins without having to carry both

Destinee

(CNN) -- Germany's greatest golfer tried time and time again to conquer the U.S. Open, and failed. But where Bernhard Langer fell short, Martin Kaymer succeeded, becoming the first German to ever get his hands on the feted trophy. Kaymer has already made it to world number one, bagged his first major at the U.S. PGA Championship and sunk the winning putt in a Ryder Cup before he is 30. Langer did win the Masters twice in his illustrious career but now his successor has two of the four major titles in his back pocket after an emphatic win at Pinehurst. @highlight Martin Kaymer cruises to victory in the U.S. Open at Pinehurst @highlight The German wins by eight shots from Erik Compton and Rickie Fowler @highlight Kaymer becomes the first German player to win the U.S. Open @highlight Compton had two heart transplants before making the PGA Tour

@placeholder laid the foundations for victory by recording the lowest score over two rounds in the tournament's history and duly kept his nearest challengers at arm's length to win by an incredible eight shots.

Kaymer

London, England (CNN) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Conservative rival David Cameron both offered to form an alliance with the minority Liberal Democrats Friday as they jostled for power after an election that failed to create an outright winner. The center-right Conservatives won more seats than Brown's Labour party in Thursday's fiercely-contested vote but lacked the majority needed to form an effective government -- a rare outcome in British politics. Cameron emphasized areas where his party and the Liberal Democrats agreed, including education reform and scrapping plans for national ID cards, while drawing red lines on defense and the economy. @highlight No party wins clear majority in British elections, resulting in hung parliament @highlight Leader of Conservative Party David Cameron indicates he could work with Lib Dems @highlight Brown: "My duty is to play my part in Britain having a strong, stable and principled government" @highlight Liberal Democrat leader says he will talk first with Conservatives about possible alliance

The Liberal Democrats' principal policy aim is reform to the electoral system which is currently weighted in favor of Labour and the @placeholder.

Conservative

By Shari Miller PUBLISHED: 09:15 EST, 13 August 2012 | UPDATED: 09:16 EST, 13 August 2012 U-turn: Prime Minister Julia Gillard said her government is now backing detention camps for asylum seekers, despite previously opposing the idea Australia plans to deport asylum seekers to detention camps in the poorer nations of Papua New Guinea and Nauru. The proposal is a U-turn for the ruling Labour party, which previously argued that Australian-funded detention camps were a waste of money that would fail to deter new arrivals. But in the face of 'too many lives being lost' in rickety boats, prime minister Julia Gillard said her government has accepted recommendations to reopen camps established ten years ago by a conservative administration. @highlight Expert panel recommends building new camps in poorer nations of Papua New Guinea and Nauru @highlight Proposal is U-turn for government, which previously said camps were a waste of money @highlight Prime Minister concerned 'too many lives are lost' as asylum seekers travel on rickety boats to country @highlight More than 7,000 people have so far reached the Australian Indian Ocean territory of Christmas Island this year @highlight Amnesty International said proposal was a major setback for refugee policy

happening at sea as people attempt dangerous journeys to @placeholder, too

Australia

(CNN) -- A Canadian woman who said actor Alec Baldwin promised her "omelets every morning" for the rest of her life after a sexual encounter was found guilty Thursday of stalking and harassing the "30 Rock" star. A judge sentenced Genevieve Sabourin, 41, to 210 days in jail for the five counts, as well as for violating a protection order and for a contempt of court ruling issued after her repeated outbursts in court. The three-day trial in a New York City court included tearful testimony from Baldwin, who denied he had a romantic relationship with Sabourin as she claimed. @highlight NEW: "Now that it's finally over, we feel safe, relieved and happy," Hilaria Baldwin says @highlight "Her intent was clear, that she wanted closure from this relationship," lawyer says @highlight Alec Baldwin denies he had ever had a romantic relationship with Genevieve Sabourin @highlight Sabourin claims Baldwin promised omelets every day for life after having sex on a date

The date ended the next morning, after they had sex in her hotel room and he made romantic promises, @placeholder testified.

Genevieve Sabourin

(CNN) -- A Canadian woman who said actor Alec Baldwin promised her "omelets every morning" for the rest of her life after a sexual encounter was found guilty Thursday of stalking and harassing the "30 Rock" star. A judge sentenced Genevieve Sabourin, 41, to 210 days in jail for the five counts, as well as for violating a protection order and for a contempt of court ruling issued after her repeated outbursts in court. The three-day trial in a New York City court included tearful testimony from Baldwin, who denied he had a romantic relationship with Sabourin as she claimed. @highlight NEW: "Now that it's finally over, we feel safe, relieved and happy," Hilaria Baldwin says @highlight "Her intent was clear, that she wanted closure from this relationship," lawyer says @highlight Alec Baldwin denies he had ever had a romantic relationship with Genevieve Sabourin @highlight Sabourin claims Baldwin promised omelets every day for life after having sex on a date

@placeholder called Hilaria a prostitute and another derogatory term before leaving the building, the doorman said.

Genevieve Sabourin

(CNN) -- A Canadian woman who said actor Alec Baldwin promised her "omelets every morning" for the rest of her life after a sexual encounter was found guilty Thursday of stalking and harassing the "30 Rock" star. A judge sentenced Genevieve Sabourin, 41, to 210 days in jail for the five counts, as well as for violating a protection order and for a contempt of court ruling issued after her repeated outbursts in court. The three-day trial in a New York City court included tearful testimony from Baldwin, who denied he had a romantic relationship with Sabourin as she claimed. @highlight NEW: "Now that it's finally over, we feel safe, relieved and happy," Hilaria Baldwin says @highlight "Her intent was clear, that she wanted closure from this relationship," lawyer says @highlight Alec Baldwin denies he had ever had a romantic relationship with Genevieve Sabourin @highlight Sabourin claims Baldwin promised omelets every day for life after having sex on a date

@placeholder never intended to "harass, annoy, alarm, stalk, violate an order of protection," Spodek said.

Genevieve Sabourin

(CNN) -- A Canadian woman who said actor Alec Baldwin promised her "omelets every morning" for the rest of her life after a sexual encounter was found guilty Thursday of stalking and harassing the "30 Rock" star. A judge sentenced Genevieve Sabourin, 41, to 210 days in jail for the five counts, as well as for violating a protection order and for a contempt of court ruling issued after her repeated outbursts in court. The three-day trial in a New York City court included tearful testimony from Baldwin, who denied he had a romantic relationship with Sabourin as she claimed. @highlight NEW: "Now that it's finally over, we feel safe, relieved and happy," Hilaria Baldwin says @highlight "Her intent was clear, that she wanted closure from this relationship," lawyer says @highlight Alec Baldwin denies he had ever had a romantic relationship with Genevieve Sabourin @highlight Sabourin claims Baldwin promised omelets every day for life after having sex on a date

He said she "absolutely" told the truth when she testified that she was romantic with @placeholder and had sex during a 2011 date.

Alec Baldwin

(CNN) -- A Canadian woman who said actor Alec Baldwin promised her "omelets every morning" for the rest of her life after a sexual encounter was found guilty Thursday of stalking and harassing the "30 Rock" star. A judge sentenced Genevieve Sabourin, 41, to 210 days in jail for the five counts, as well as for violating a protection order and for a contempt of court ruling issued after her repeated outbursts in court. The three-day trial in a New York City court included tearful testimony from Baldwin, who denied he had a romantic relationship with Sabourin as she claimed. @highlight NEW: "Now that it's finally over, we feel safe, relieved and happy," Hilaria Baldwin says @highlight "Her intent was clear, that she wanted closure from this relationship," lawyer says @highlight Alec Baldwin denies he had ever had a romantic relationship with Genevieve Sabourin @highlight Sabourin claims Baldwin promised omelets every day for life after having sex on a date

After she is released from jail -- which her lawyer estimates will be in about five months -- @placeholder plans to return to Canada "and pursue acting, and you know, the film industry and the entertainment industry there, the lawyer said.

Genevieve Sabourin

(CNN) -- An Idaho man accused of uttering a racial slur and slapping a crying 19-month-old boy on a Delta Air Lines flight is now out of a job. Joe Rickey Hundley of Hayden, Idaho, was charged with assaulting a minor in the February 8 incident. His company, which initially suspended him, said Sunday that Hundley no longer has his job. "Reports of the recent behavior of one of our business unit executives while on personal travel are offensive and disturbing," said a statement from AGC Aerospace & Defense. "We have taken this matter very seriously and worked diligently to examine it since learning of the matter on Friday afternoon. @highlight NEW: Man accused of using racial epithet against toddler "is not a racist," lawyer says @highlight Joe Rickey Hundley is accused of slapping a crying 19-month-old on an airline flight @highlight Passengers say Hundley also used a racial epithet to describe the boy @highlight Attorney for parents say they have not yet decided if they'll sue

The family might have a case against Delta for serving @placeholder alcohol if he was already intoxicated, CNN legal contributor Paul Callan said.

Hundley

The French government has thrown down the gauntlet to the jihadists of Ansar Dine and their fellow travelers in Mali -- and insists its goal is nothing short of eradicating these militant groups. It is a major undertaking, even with U.S. logistical and intelligence help and the prospect of reinforcement from African states. And the outcome is far from assured. Operation Serval seeks to push Islamist groups out of northern Mali's key cities as well as smaller towns dotted through this vast region. But these groups have had nine months to establish defenses and a chain of command and improve their arsenals. @highlight Operation Serval seeks to push Islamist groups out of northern Mali's key cities @highlight France insists its goal is nothing short of eradicating these militant groups @highlight Flood: Most ordinary Malians are welcoming the French intervention @highlight But enthusiasm may wear off if result is prolonged urban warfare, he says

@placeholder's army, national police and paramilitary gendarme force, who had been stationed in the north, relocated to the safety of garrisons and cinder-block station houses south of a rapidly created front line.

Mali

(CNN) -- The City of Fullerton, California, has reached a $1 million settlement with the mother of a mentally ill homeless man who died last year after a beating he received at the hands of police officers. The settlement comes a week after a California judge ordered that two Fullerton police officers stand trial in the beating death of Kelly Thomas. The city council unanimously approved the award during a closed-door session Tuesday. "To lose a son at the hands of rogue police officers is an indescribable horror," said Brian Gurwitz, the attorney representing Cathy Thomas, Kelly's mother. "There is nothing this council could ever do to compensate her for the loss she's suffered." @highlight A wrongful death suit is pending against the city @highlight Kelly Thomas, 37, who was homeless, was beaten last year in Fullerton, California @highlight Officer Manuel Ramos and Cpl. Jay Patrick Cicinelli are charged in the death @highlight They have pleaded not guilty to the charges

@placeholder, who is unarmed and shirtless, stands and another officer walks over.

Kelly

They call it an airbridge, but it feels more like a flight to another planet. The "easiest" way to get to the Falklands is on a British Royal Air Force charter flight from RAF Brize Norton in central England. But it's not that easy. From the time I shut my front door in Britain to the time we touch down on these remote islands, 24 hours have elapsed. An eight-hour leg to the Ascension Islands -- a tiny speck of land in the Atlantic -- and then another eight hours down to RAF Mount Pleasant on the Falkland Islands -- a slightly bigger speck of land. @highlight The Falkland Islands, or Las Malvinas, are the source of a long-running dispute between the UK and Argentina @highlight Most residents on the British protectorate are loyal to the UK despite their proximity to Argentina @highlight Life in the capital is reminiscent of an English village -- red telephone boxes, warm beer, and fish and chips -- with penguins @highlight As international tensions simmer, locals are analyzing every word coming from Argentina's president

The two countries went to war over the issue in 1982, and tensions between the two countries are rising again over the islands which Argentina calls @placeholder.

Falkland Islands

They call it an airbridge, but it feels more like a flight to another planet. The "easiest" way to get to the Falklands is on a British Royal Air Force charter flight from RAF Brize Norton in central England. But it's not that easy. From the time I shut my front door in Britain to the time we touch down on these remote islands, 24 hours have elapsed. An eight-hour leg to the Ascension Islands -- a tiny speck of land in the Atlantic -- and then another eight hours down to RAF Mount Pleasant on the Falkland Islands -- a slightly bigger speck of land. @highlight The Falkland Islands, or Las Malvinas, are the source of a long-running dispute between the UK and Argentina @highlight Most residents on the British protectorate are loyal to the UK despite their proximity to Argentina @highlight Life in the capital is reminiscent of an English village -- red telephone boxes, warm beer, and fish and chips -- with penguins @highlight As international tensions simmer, locals are analyzing every word coming from Argentina's president

They say they are Falkland Islanders first, @placeholder second, and most won't countenance the idea of becoming Argentine.

Britain

For most people, honeymooning involves stretching out on the beach and doing very little. But not this couple. Anne and Mike Howard, from New York, USA, spent 675 days travelling the world after they decided that a two-week holiday just wasn't enough when they tied the knot. The adventurous spouses returned to the US one year ago after visiting a total of 302 places across 33 countries, and six continents - and all on a budget of around just £50 a day. Scroll down for video Honeymooners Anne and Mike Howard, pictured here, at Eduardo Avaroa National Reserve, in Bolivia spent 675 days travelling the world @highlight Adventurous New Yorkers, Mike and Anne Howard, logged a total of 125,675 miles on their epic global honeymoon @highlight Couple visited a total of 302 places across 33 countries, and six continents - and all on a budget of around just £50 @highlight The pair are now teaching others how to turn their travel dreams into reality, through trip coaching sessions

@placeholder, 37, said: 'Instead of spending all of our funds in a couple of weeks, we stretched our budget to last a couple of years.

Mike

By Will Stewart PUBLISHED: 07:52 EST, 24 June 2013 | UPDATED: 19:32 EST, 24 June 2013 Russian media magnate Alexander Lebedev faces up to five years in prison if convicted of hooliganism motivated by 'political hatred' after clashing with Sergei Polonsky on television Supermodel Natalia Vodianova has called on a Russian judge to reach a fair verdict in Alexander Lebedev’s controversial trial in Moscow. This comes as Sergei Polonsky, whose evidence could jail billionaire Lebedev for up to five years, has himself admitted that he was unhurt by two punches thrown by the media tycoon, a court heard today. @highlight Lebedev and Sergei Polonsky clashed during economy debate in 2011 @highlight Moscow court today watched video of Polonsky claiming he was unhurt @highlight Martial arts expert also told court that Lebedev did not touch the other man @highlight If found guilty the 53-year-old billionaire could face five years in prison

told of @placeholder’s unpublicised commitment to her charity Naked Hearts

Alexander Lebedev

Canton, Massachusetts (CNN) -- A Massachusetts judge on Thursday unsealed testimony by Mitt Romney in a lawsuit linked to a colleague's contentious divorce battle more than 20 years ago. The Boston Globe, with the support of attorney Gloria Allred, sought to make public the testimony Romney gave in the lawsuit that followed the divorce between Tom Stemberg, a co-founder of business supply chain Staples, and Maureen Stemberg Sullivan. While heading Boston private equity firm Bain Capital, Romney worked closely in the 1980s with Stemberg in the development of Staples. Stemberg spoke at the Republican National Convention in August that nominated Romney for president. @highlight The Boston Globe sought Mitt Romney's testimony related to a colleague's divorce @highlight The divorce involved Staples co-founder Tom Stemberg, who worked with Romney @highlight A gag order on Stemberg's ex-wife remains in place @highlight The divorce and ensuing lawsuit happened more than 20 years ago

Lawyers for Stemberg and @placeholder told Thursday's hearing they had no objection to releasing the Romney testimony to the Boston Globe.

Mitt Romney

Canton, Massachusetts (CNN) -- A Massachusetts judge on Thursday unsealed testimony by Mitt Romney in a lawsuit linked to a colleague's contentious divorce battle more than 20 years ago. The Boston Globe, with the support of attorney Gloria Allred, sought to make public the testimony Romney gave in the lawsuit that followed the divorce between Tom Stemberg, a co-founder of business supply chain Staples, and Maureen Stemberg Sullivan. While heading Boston private equity firm Bain Capital, Romney worked closely in the 1980s with Stemberg in the development of Staples. Stemberg spoke at the Republican National Convention in August that nominated Romney for president. @highlight The Boston Globe sought Mitt Romney's testimony related to a colleague's divorce @highlight The divorce involved Staples co-founder Tom Stemberg, who worked with Romney @highlight A gag order on Stemberg's ex-wife remains in place @highlight The divorce and ensuing lawsuit happened more than 20 years ago

Allred announced after the hearing she would provide copies of the @placeholder transcripts to other media outlets.

Mitt Romney