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### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- Heavy snow pummeled much of the East Coast on Wednesday, battering states for the second time in a week and forcing many people to stay home from school and jobs. Several cities had record snowfalls. The storm canceled or delayed flights in several cities, kept federal workers home for a third straight day in Washington, and taxed local government budgets as cities and counties scrambled to pay for snow removal, overtime, salt, supplies and equipment. In Washington, the snow was falling at a rate of 2 inches per hour at one point in the afternoon, CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras said. Forecasters predicted that Washington winds would gust to 50 mph overnight. A blizzard warning was to be in effect in the Washington area until 7 p.m., the National Weather Service said. Blowing snow caused such poor visibility at midday that snowplows temporarily parked by the side of the road, authorities said. Forecasters predicted that the storm would dump a total of 8 to 10 inches inside the Capital Beltway (Interstate 495), with higher amounts to the north. Watch the forecast on the storm's trek . "Even if you're in a SUV, it's difficult to get around," Washington Police Chief Cathy Lanier said. "You can't see the Capitol dome through the snow," even standing a few yards away. Share your winter weather photos, videos . Government buildings were eerily quiet. The Department of Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service buildings were shut. No one answered the door at the Justice Department, though the attorney general's office said work was still being done at key counterterrorism offices. The U.S. Postal Service said it was experiencing delays in processing mail. Subway service was expected to be limited Thursday to underground stations, and bus service was expected to be suspended on Thursday. Federal agencies were to be closed Thursday, too, and non-emergency employees were to be granted the day off. This winter already has become the snowiest on record for Washington and its suburbs, as well as Baltimore, Maryland, and Wilmington, Delaware, the National Weather Service said. It's also on pace to become the snowiest season on record in other cities, including Atlantic City, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Blizzard warnings also were in effect Wednesday for Asheville, North Carolina; Newark and Atlantic City, New Jersey; Baltimore, Maryland; Dover, Delaware; New York and nearby Long Island; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Under a blizzard warning, the following conditions are expected to be seen for three hours or longer: wind speeds of 35 mph or more and considerable falling and/or blowing of snow with visibility near zero (less than one-fourth mile), the weather service said. In Atlantic City, the landmark Boardwalk -- lined with shops, restaurants and casinos -- remained open despite the snow. New York was to be under a blizzard warning until 6 a.m. Thursday, but the snow was expected to stop falling late Wednesday night. Forecasters predicted wind gusts up to 50 mph and predicted the city will have received 12 to 20 inches of snow by the time the storm ends. In Pennsylvania, all of Interstates 76, 78, 83, 176, 476 and 676, as well as state road 581, were closed Wednesday because of blizzard conditions, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said on its Web site. Part of I-81 was closed, it said. Interstate 80 near Clearfield, Pennsylvania, was shut after two pileups -- one involving 17 cars and the other involving seven cars, said Rich Kirkpatrick from the state's Department of Transportation. One person died and another person was seriously injured, police said. Philadelphia was under a blizzard warning until midnight, and could have as much as 20 inches of snow by the time it stops, forecasters said. In Boston, Massachusetts, snowfall rates of 2 to 3 inches an hour were expected along the Interstate 95 corridor into the evening. A winter storm warning was in effect until 1 a.m. Thursday, with final snow totals of 5 to 10 inches, the weather service said. Thousands of flights were delayed or canceled to and from airports in Baltimore, Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, airlines reported. East Coast storm grounds thousands of flights . "We're working, and we're plowing as best we can, and then once the winds diminish some, we'll be able to start hauling snow off the airfield as we've been doing for six days now," said Tara Hamilton, spokeswoman for Washington Dulles International and Reagan Washington National airports, both of which closed Wednesday. The airports did not plan to reopen until about 7 a.m. Thursday. New York area airports were operational Wednesday afternoon, but airlines canceled most flights in and out of LaGuardia, Newark Liberty International and John F. Kennedy International airports. Rajesh Moorjani, one of the stranded travelers at the Newark, New Jersey, airport, had flown from India on Tuesday night, intending to get a connecting flight to California. On Wednesday, he was getting used to the idea of being stuck on the East Coast for a day, CNN affiliate WABC reported. "I'm just kind of trying to get in touch with old classmates, ex-colleagues ... trying to put a message on Facebook saying: 'If anybody is in New York, let's get in touch,' " he told WABC. WABC: Storm socks New Jersey . Amtrak was still providing limited service for Boston, New York and Washington. But most passenger rail service south of Washington was canceled. "The massive storm has resulted in downed trees and power lines on portions of CSX freight railroad tracks south of Washington resulting in continued service cancellations in Virginia, and the Carolinas," the rail line's Web site said. Bus travelers fared no better. "Pretty much everything out of Virginia, New York, D.C., etc. at this time has been canceled," said Maureen Richmond, director of media relations for Greyhound, which transports 22 million passengers per year. "We're operating where we can, based on weather and road conditions," she said. She urged would-be passengers to call the company's ticketing line. Due to improved weather conditions in the Chicago, Illinois, area, airlines were reporting no delays at O'Hare and Midway International Airports. Many businesses in Greenwich, Connecticut, about 30 miles northeast of New York City, closed early Wednesday, in part to allow workers to travel home before the worst of the storm hit. Diane Garett planned to keep her bookstore open, but she gave her employees the day off, WABC reported. "I just felt it was just safer if they stayed home," she told WABC. "Plus a lot of their children are home from school. So I didn't think it was right to ask them to come to work." Hardware store owner Troy Usnik was taking somewhat of a breather Wednesday in snowy Philadelphia. The owner of 10th Street Hardware said he sold well over 100 shovels and 200 to 300 bags of salt Tuesday. "Today seems kind of quiet, but there was a mad rush yesterday. Sales were brisk. Last night was a panic and everyone who didn't have it came out to buy shovels and salt." Early Wednesday, the snow turned to sleet in Philadelphia, but roads were passable and buses were driving along emergency routes, Usnik said. The National Weather Service predicted 9 to 13 more inches of snow. New York deployed 1,600 salt spreaders to care for 65 miles of roads, CNN meteorologist Rob Marciano said. The winter of 2009-2010 has become the snowiest on record for: . • Baltimore, which has received at least 72.3 inches of snow this winter . • Washington, where Dulles airport has received 72 inches of snow this winter and Reagan National airport has received 54.9 inches . • Wilmington, Delaware, which has received at least 59.5 inches of snow this winter, breaking its previous record of 55.9 inches. CNN's Sean Morris, Nicole Saidi, Steve Kastenbaum, Scott Spoerry, and Jean Shin contributed to this report. ### SUMMARY:

NEW: Many Interstate highways closed in Pennsylvania . Two main Washington airports aren't set to reopen until Thursday morning . Washington area, New York, Philadelphia under blizzard warning . This winter is snowiest on record for several cities, National Weather Service says .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- Nelson Mandela: Two decades before he became the first president of a democratic South Africa, Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment in June 1974. Jailed on charges of treason and sabotage -- but fundamentally for his anti-apartheid activities -- he spent nearly 27 years in various prisons. During that time, his mother and son died, and his wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (now his ex-wife), faced continual arrests and harassment, according to his official biography. Twenty years ago today, Mandela was released from what was known as Victor Verster Prison, near Cape Town. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 and was elected president in April 1994. He will turn 92 in July. Today, although frail, he celebrated his February 11, 1990, prison release with South Africa's parliament and with millions of people all over the world. Mandela once said, "To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." CNN: South Africa 20 years after Mandela release . Nelson Mandela Foundation: Biography . Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Iran's Supreme leader said on Monday that his country will deliver a "punch" that will stun the world during the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution today. Khamenei told a meeting of air force personnel, "The Iranian nation, with its unity and God's grace, will punch the arrogance [Western powers] on the 22nd of Bahman [February 11] in a way that will leave them stunned." Today is the anniversary of the day when revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini toppled the U.S.-backed government of the shah, who fled Iran. This key date in Iran's history comes amid protests by the opposition after last year's disputed presidential election, won by incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The so-called Green Movement has been protesting for social justice, freedom and democracy in demonstrations throughout the country since the June polls -- using slogans that are often identical to those heard during the 1979 Islamic revolution. Many of the recent demonstrations became violent and bloody. Two leading Iranian opposition leaders have called on supporters to protest today, the day of the anniversary. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been Iran's supreme leader for more than 20 years. As a young cleric, his political activism led to many arrests and torture by the shah's secret police -- the same shah who was supported by the United States and Great Britain. CNN: Iran marks revolution anniversary amid ongoing dissent . Christian Science Monitor: Iran's supreme leader . Nicholas George: The 22-year-old senior at Pomona College in California was detained at an airport last August, handcuffed and then jailed for several hours in a holding cell. George passed through a screening checkpoint at the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, airport with a set of Arabic-English flashcards and a book critical of American foreign policy. Also, George's passport had been stamped in Jordan, where he had studied for a semester, and in Sudan and Egypt, where he'd gone backpacking. A Transportation Security Administration supervisor arrived and allegedly questioned George aggressively, asking him how he felt about 9/11, whether he knew "who did 9/11," and whether he knew what language Osama bin Laden spoke. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Pennsylvania charge that the TSA officials, the Philadelphia police and the FBI violated George's Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable seizure and his First Amendment right to free speech. George told CNN he no longer flies with his flashcards and reading material. He said he's learning Arabic in hopes of one day helping the U.S. government. In September, Dave Davies in the Philadelphia Daily News reported that among the 200 flashcards were words like "terrorist" and "explosion." George told the newspaper last year, "I didn't have a weapon or anything seditious, just words on paper. As an American citizen, I think I'm allowed to learn a foreign language and have flashcards." Philadelphia Daily News: Student traveler handcuffed . ACLU: George v. TSA - Complaint for damages . CNN: Passenger detained with Arabic flashcards sues . Ken Bourland: On January 12, from his room at the Hotel Montana near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, U.S. Air Force Maj. Ken Bourland sent an e-mail to his wife, Peggy, telling her that he was fine and had just settled in for what was going to be an exciting time taking a disaster preparedness course. It was 4:51 p.m. Less than 10 minutes later, an earthquake leveled much of the Haitian capital, including the Hotel Montana. Peggy Bourland, at home in Florida, saw the news on TV, popped her laptop open and fired off an e-mail: "Please tell me you're OK." No response. Yesterday, CNN received a copy of a message from Air Force Gen. Douglas M. Fraser to his troops, announcing that Bourland's body was found on Monday in the rubble of the Hotel Montana. He reported that Bourland's remains were transferred to Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, and met by his wife, family members and fellow service members. Gen. Fraser wrote, "Many of you knew Ken through his outstanding work as a Caribbean Desk Officer. All of us who worked with Ken regarded him as the consummate Air Force professional, who could always be counted upon for the toughest assignment, as well as a caring teammate who went out of his way to help others and build cohesion amongst his peers." The Bourlands had two sons and a stepson and their fifth wedding anniversary would have been in March. CNN: E-mail from Haiti, then minutes later, a nightmare . Jaimee Grubbs: The 23-year-old Los Angeles, California, cocktail waitress, whose post-Thanksgiving voice mail to Tiger Woods helped lead to the unraveling of the golf great's pristine public image, gave an exclusive interview to Los Angeles TV station KTLA. She did not deny that her relationship with Woods lasted for nearly three years. She explained that after the car crash incident outside of Woods' home, she left him a voice mail out of concern, but didn't "think it through" when she released it to US Weekly magazine. She said all of the subsequent attention has been tough. "I don't like to show my emotions. I just do it when nobody's around, so my friends all think I'm solid rock, a strong person. But there are times when I get up in the morning, get in the shower, then sit there on the shower floor and cry for 30 minutes." KTLA: Grubbs sets the record straight . What makes a person intriguing? There are people who enter the news cycle every day because their actions or decisions are new, important or different. Others are in the news because they are the ones those decisions affect. And there are a number of people who are so famous or controversial that anything they say or do becomes news. Some of these people do what we expect of them: They run for office, pass legislation, start a business, get hired or fired, commit a crime, make an arrest, get in accidents, hit a home run, overthrow a government, fight wars, sue an opponent, put out fires, prepare for hurricanes and cavort with people other than their spouses. They do make news, but the action is usually more important than who is involved in the story. But every day, there are a number of people who become fascinating to us -- by virtue of their character, how they reached their decision, how they behaved under pressure or because of the remarkable circumstances surrounding the event they are involved in. They arouse our curiosity. We hear about them and want to know more. What they have done or said stimulates conversations across the country. At times, there is even a mystery about them. What they have done may be unique, heroic, cowardly or ghastly, but they capture our imaginations. We want to know what makes them tick, why they believe what they do, and why they did what they did. They intrigue us. ### SUMMARY:

20 years ago today, Nelson Mandela was released from prison . Iran's supreme leader says a "punch" will be delivered during revolution anniversary . Jaimee Grubbs says she didn't think through releasing Tiger Woods' voice mail .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (The Frisky) -- When you're in a relationship -- and have been for quite some time -- you and your love bird are bound to have gone on all the usual dates many, many times over. So for Valentine's Day this year, don't visit the restaurant the two of you eat at on a regular night and order the usual. We gathered romantic spots from around the country, along with some ideas that'll work wherever you live, to help you plan a memorable day (and night) together. Because even though there's a lot of emphasis on buying presents that are pink, red, and covered in hearts and roses, Valentine's Day is about showing how much you appreciate your honey. Spend the day enjoying each other's company and think of the rest as trimmings. Phoenix, Arizona . For great food, delicious wine, and a hip, sexy atmosphere, visit Postino Winecafé. But don't eat too much! You'll want to save room for dessert at La Grande Orange Grocery next door. Pop over some for decadent, gourmet goodies before heading back to your love nest. Postino Winecafé, 3939 East Campbell Ave., 602-852-3939 . La Grande Orange Grocery, 4410 N 40th St., 602-840-7777 . New Orleans, Louisiana . There are plenty of romantic restaurants in New Orleans. In fact, almost everything in NOLA is swoon-worthy, save for Bourbon Street at 3 a.m. Feelings Cafe is singular for both its ambiance and location. The piano bar is dimly lit, so it's obviously got that going for it, and it also features delicious food and an intimate courtyard festooned by plants, a fountain, and fairy lights. But perhaps its most attractive quality is that it's hidden in the Fauberg Marigny, which is a lovely, picturesque neighborhood around the Bywater area that's close enough to walk to from the French Quarter, but far enough away to weed out the tourists. Feelings Cafe, 2600 Chartres St., 504-945-2222 . San Francisco, California . The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers is an under-appreciated romantic gem located in Golden Gate Park. Built in 1879, it's the oldest building in Golden Gate Park, and the grounds around it are perfect for taking a daytime stroll while holding hands, of course. San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, 100 John F. Kennedy Drive, 415-831-2090 . The Frisky: Goodwill wants your relationship baggage . Chicago, Illinois . The Green Mill, a jazz bar on the north side where Al Capone's henchman hung out in the '20s, is full of history and has sexy lighting, great music, and doesn't really get going until well after dark. Green Mill Jazz Club, 4802 N Broadway Ave., 773-878-5552 . Providence, Rhode Island . If you're the type who believes food is the ultimate aphrodisiac, Al Forno is the place to get you in the mood. Rhode Islanders and weekenders from all over the Eastern seaboard travel to come sample their how-do-they-do-it grilled pizza, which rivals any of the best pies in New York City. Because the wait is usually long, here's a trick: Put your name on the wait list and travel across the street for a drink at the Hot Club, which overlooks the water. Al Forno, 577 S Main St., 401-273-9760 . Hot Club, 575 S Water St., 401-861-9007 . Reno, Nevada . In a city that built its reputation on quickie divorces and casinos, it's best to avoid tourist destinations and romantic casino packages for a memorable date. Reno has an attraction that's getting harder to find across the country: a drive-in movie theater. The El Rancho , which opened in 1971, is one of two drive-ins in the state. While you can pick up a tub of popcorn or a hamburger at the concession stand, part of the fun is packing food that you wouldn't be allowed to enjoy if you went to the local multiplex. El Rancho Drive-In, 555 El Rancho Drive, 775-358-6920 . Chapel Hill, North Carolina . The bar at Lantern Restaurant is dimly lit and sexy with brocade wallpaper. Make your way through the main restaurant or cut through the alley for the direct entrance. Plus, you can order delicious Asian fusion appetizers. Lantern Restaurant, 423 W. Franklin St., 919-969-8846 . The Frisky: What woman are really saying with their clothes . Mobile, Alabama . Since the last century, downtown Dauphin Street has been vibrating with the musical sounds of Mobile. You'll hear jazz, rock and country tunes filling the night air. A favorite spot for lovers around the corner from Dauphin Street is the Blind Mule, which features interesting new artists and taste bud-tingling Southern food. The Blind Mule, 57 N. Claiborne St., 251-694-6853 . New York, New York . While the cocktails at the Bowery Hotel aren't cheap (around $10-$20), it's a small price to pay to sit in one of the most gorgeous hotel lobbies in Manhattan. Lush Persian rugs, Art Deco touches, and rich mahogany and leather furnishings lend the place a unique kind of hunter's-lodge-in-Morocco feel, and there's nothing dreamier than sipping hot spiced wine beside the cozy fireplace. The Bowery Hotel, 335 Bowery, 212-505-9100 . The Frisky: When is the ideal time to get married? London, England . The most obvious way to express love is physically, with hugs, kisses, and other good stuff, but on the London National Gallery's special Valentine's Day tour at 4 p.m., you and your honey will see how love has been depicted with a paintbrush. National Gallery Love Tour, Trafalgar Square, 020 7747 2885 . Paris, France . Le Petit Prince de Paris is a cozy restaurant on a super quiet street with some of the best food in Paris. The rich red interior provides a lush background for inspiring feelings of l'amour. Le Petit Prince de Paris, 12, rue de Lanneau, 01 43 54 77 26 . The Frisky: The power of first loves . Places to go anywhere . 1. Get out of the house: Go ice skating, take a walk, or swim in the ocean. You spend a lot of time indoors in your day-to-day life, so enjoying the outdoors (and each other's company) will feel different and special. 2. Learn something: Shared experiences are a lot of what makes a relationship. Visit a museum, check out an art gallery, or go to a reading. You might discover new things about each other as you pick up some new knowledge. 3. Test-drive a hobby: Instead of spending another night cuddling on the couch, watching reruns of "The Biggest Loser," try out a new activity. The two of you could even pick up a pastime that you'll continue beyond Valentine's Day. 4. Relive the past: Stop by the dive bar that was the site of your first date or another relationship-related location, but only if you haven't been there in ages. It'll help you remember the early feelings of excitement and pull you out of the rut of familiarity that's developed. 5. Celebrate with friends: We put a lot of emphasis on couples in February, but friendships enhance relationships. Toast your significant other in the company of intimates with a dinner celebration full of shared stories and laughter. TM & © 2010 TMV, Inc. | All Rights Reserved . ### SUMMARY:

A list of 13 romantic spots and ideas that'll work wherever you live . San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers is an under-appreciated romantic gem . Relive the past by stopping by the site of your first date . Try a new activity that you could continue beyond Valentine's Day .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (RealSimple.com) -- "I am leaving," I murmured to my husband. "You cannot leave," he hissed back. "It is 3 a.m. These are our friends." "Don't worry. I'll just find a hotel and be back here in time for breakfast. They won't even know I left." "You cannot do this again! People think we're mad. You cannot leave someone's house just because a doorknob is sticky." Oh, but it wasn't just the doorknob. It was everything, at least in my mind. This was about 10 years ago, and my husband and I had been invited as weekend guests to the home of dear friends with a one-year-old son. This was before I had my own kids, before I realized that the essential condition of childhood is stickiness and that I would spend the first five years of their lives fearfully clutching wet wipes. RealSimple.com: How to be a good friend . Right then I knew only one thing: A doorknob was whispering to me, all Amityville Horror-like: GET. OUT. I have never been a good houseguest. And -- despite what this episode might imply -- it's not because I'm impressively fastidious. I am a complete slob in my own home, albeit one with dry, noncling surfaces. But after years of trying very hard to enjoy myself when other people invite me over for the weekend, I've basically given up. I like to think I'm the best kind of guest: one who doesn't actually stay with you. Oddly, people don't always see it my way. Particularly the house-proud, those who love their 1,000-count sheets and cunning window treatments and Viking stoves with the special tiny flame for heating chocolate or whatever the hell it does -- those people don't like me. They don't like me a lot. I have lost friends over my inability to just get with the program and bask in their hostessy generosity. Here's the thing: My husband -- a Brit whose love of staying at other people's homes could rival that of Bertie Wooster, from P. G. Wodehouse novels -- thinks I am rude. He is incorrect. What I suffer from is an overabundance of politeness, and a terror of all the ways I can fail to live up to my own standards. I am cursed with the knowledge of my impolitic nature, and if I have to spend more than a couple of hours being courteous, I become convinced I will get too cavalier and say whatever stupid thing is on my mind. And there are many stupid things on my mind. RealSimple.com: Small, helpful gestures with big impact . So I have to be eternally vigilant. I'm like a werewolf who, when espying a full moon, knows that the only way the people he loves will live to see tomorrow is if he locks himself in the closet and swallows the key. When I confessed this problem of mine to a friend, she immediately started listing all the wonderful times she's had in other people's houses: the hammocks she's lain in, the Pimm's she's sipped in tall, icy glasses while allowing herself to feel loved and nurtured. She is insane. Allow me to catalog The Many Ways Things Can Go Wrong When You Stay With People. People hide the items you need most. Where's the coffee? No, not that decaffeinated imposter; the real coffee. No wonder everyone in this house is still asleep at 6:30 a.m. Fine, I will just go out and buy coffee at the corner store. Oh wait, there's no store at the corner -- that's a pond. It's 6:30 a.m. and all I want to do at this point is run home. I will be repeating the same interior monologue at midnight, only this time it will be about gin cocktails. I mean, what kind of people don't keep their limes in plain sight? RealSimple.com: 5 ways to win people over . People in other houses eat things that are not, in fact, edible. I think the idea is that when you're having guests, the experience must involve "special food," and "special food" nine times out of 10 is completely horrifying. Seriously, if octopus really tasted that good, wouldn't there be Octo Shacks dotting America? Of course, I also despise people who make a big to-do about their precious little eating habits. So I say nothing. Instead, now and then, I bring little treats with me that I like and, naturally, intend to share. Occasionally this goes over well. "How thoughtful!" the host exclaims. More often, though, she shoots me an icy stare: Oh, my cooking isn't good enough for you? People's houses are quiet. I live in Manhattan, and as a result I'm a little weird about silence. Out in the hinterlands, the no-noise freaks me out. Where are the car horns? The garbage trucks backing up? Why is nobody screaming, "I will kill you!" in the middle of the night? It's unsettling. In this frame of mind, every owl hoot sounds like the arrival of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. People have trick mirrors. Truly, I am 10 pounds fatter in everyone else's home. Is it the mirrors? Or maybe it's the fact that other people have mirrors, which I do not. RealSimple.com: 5 ways to stay cool under pressure . People you never want to visualize without shoes will inevitably appear before you, naked. OK, maybe not naked. But not dressed enough. And to me that generally means something on either the top or the bottom is missing. People don't appreciate poorly worded compliments. Personally, I never seem to strike the right chord. I think the problem is that I'm a Decor Moron: I don't know the difference between Pottery Barn and Precious Heirloom. Once, I visited a particularly grand family and started gushing over the adorable handiwork of their fourth grader, who had molded all these tiny circus animals and placed them in a whimsical diorama on the coffee table. "That's a Calder," the father replied coolly. People have problematic toilets. Need I say more? People's houses seem to invite trouble. They just do. All the time. I mean, I'm not Miss Marple; it's not as if when I show up at someone's house homicidal shenanigans follow. But I have never been to someone's home without bringing some sort of bad karma with me. RealSimple.com: 13 productive things to do while watching TV . How did I arrive at the home of a friend whose three-year-old had, just at that moment, contracted chicken pox, ensuring that I -- one of the three adults in the entire universe who had not suffered from the disease as a child -- would end up in the emergency room 10 days later? Why did I knock on the door of a friend's house the day it was swarmed by ladybugs -- thus guaranteeing that I, an insectophobe, would spend the night listening to the gentle plink of tiny hard-shelled creatures kamikaze-ing themselves onto my bedclothes? Please let me be clear: In theory, I want to visit you. (And I hope you visit me, because my fear and loathing of being a houseguest does not, oddly enough, apply to having houseguests.) After all, I like you so much. I want to coo at your kids, cuddle with your pets, inventory the drugs in your medicine cabinet, and talk into the wee hours. And then I want to go to a hotel, empty the minibar, and write you a thank-you note before hanging my breakfast order on the spotless doorknob so the pot of hot, fully caffeinated coffee will be delivered at exactly 6:30 a.m. Judith Newman is the author of You Make Me Feel Like an Unnatural Woman ($13, amazon.com). She has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and Vogue. She lives in Manhattan. RealSimple.com: How to make a good first impression . Get a FREE TRIAL issue of Real Simple - CLICK HERE! Copyright © 2011 Time Inc. All rights reserved. ### SUMMARY:

Judith Newman lists the many ways things can go wrong when you stay with people . Newman believes she suffers from 'an overabundance of politeness' Newman would rather spend time with friends and family then sleep at a hotel .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Washington (CNN) -- A winter storm slammed the East Coast all the way from Maine down to D.C., leaving massive drifts of snow and skull-cracking cold. Power grids collapsed. Citizens wrapped themselves in layers of fleece like the townsfolk from "Dr. Zhivago." Yet inside the Capitol, an unusual spirit of warmth greeted President Barack Obama's third State of the Union address. The still recent shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords prompted dozens of members to cross the aisle and sit among political foes in a show of solidarity. Some 43 million people tuned in on TV to hear the president lay out his assessments, hopes and dreams about how we could or would pull the nation out of its economic deep freeze. In a far-ranging speech, he did just that: Talking up some of his signature items, such as clean energy, education, and health care. He also addressed growing concerns about the need for tax reform, deficit control, and of course foreign affairs. So how much of it heated up and moved forward, and how much remains on ice a year later? Health care/IRS regulations . Republicans have never liked the president's health care reform plans. No secret there. So he invited them to tell him how it should be changed, and just to get the ball rolling, he made a proposal of his own: . "If you have ideas about how to improve this law by making care better or more affordable," Obama said, "I am eager to work with you. We can start right now by correcting a flaw in the legislation that has placed an unnecessary bookkeeping burden on small business." He was talking about a requirement that forced companies to expand their reporting to the Internal Revenue Service. It was a measure that pretty much everyone thought was wasteful and annoying, so Democrats and Republicans climbed on board, passing a bill to remove the regulation. The president signed it in April, making that a proposal accepted and a PROMISE KEPT. Health care/malpractice . The president made it clear that he will not go along with broad GOP designs to dismantle health care reform. "Still," he said, "I am willing to look at other ideas to bring down costs, including one that Republicans suggested last year: Medical malpractice reform to rein in frivolous lawsuits." The Congressional Budget Office has analyzed the impact of this idea and estimated that it would reduce the cost of care to the government in programs like Medicaid and Medicare, and in turn that would reduce deficits by about $50 billion over the next nine or 10 years. But the legislation to make this happen got tangled up in bigger debates, and went nowhere. This one is not entirely dead, but it is certainly STALLED. Oil company tax breaks . Rising gas prices, oil company profits, and the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico had many voters on the warpath, a circumstance not missed by Obama. "I'm asking Congress to eliminate the billions in taxpayer dollars we currently give to oil companies." But just because you ask does not mean you will receive, especially in D.C. In May, the Senate considered a Democrat-sponsored bill to cut oil company tax breaks by $2 billion annually. A few Democrats joined the Republican opposition; a couple of Republicans helped the Democrats, but in the end it failed by four votes. So, adjusted for inflation, oil companies continue to enjoy $4.4 billion in tax breaks annually. Last year was the first ever that the average price of a gallon of gas never went below $3. Our cars are still running, but like an old DeSoto, this idea STALLED. Earmarks . The president drew a few lines in the sand, and this was one of them. "If a bill comes to my desk with earmarks inside, I will veto it." True to his word, he has not signed any bills since containing earmarks -- at least, none we can find. He did not veto any either, however, because they never came his way. The Senate Appropriations Committee declared an earmark moratorium; not just because of the veto threat, but also because the House said it would not approve any bills with earmarks. In any case, the president has often straddled this fence: He has been a sharp critic of earmarks but he also hassigned bills containing multiple pet projects, including a spending bill in 2009 that had almost $8 billion worth. So we'll have to say circumstances left this proposal a PROMISE KEPT, though only on a technicality. Tuition tax credit . The cost of higher education jumped last year for many families, up as much as 20% in several states. Many local governments are in such economic straits that they can't help much, so the president turned to the legislative branch. "I ask Congress to go further, and make permanent our tuition tax credit worth $10,000 for four years of college." That did not come close to happening. Legislation extending the tuition tax credit did not even make it to the floor in either house of Congress. Proponents say that could change, however, since that temporary tax credit will expire at the end of this year increasing the political pressure for some kind of action. But for the moment, the idea is STALLED. Iraq . More than eight years after the U.S. and coalition forces invaded Iraq, with thousands of U.S. lives lost and enormous sacrifice on the part of our military and their families, Obama told the American people that their troops were coming home. "This year, our civilians will forge a lasting partnership with the Iraqi people, while we finish the job of bringing our troops out of Iraq." By the end of the year, the president had kept his word. The last U.S. troops crossed the Iraq border in December, marking the end of military combat operations. PROMISE KEPT. Afghanistan . This one is trickier. "This year, we will work with nearly 50 countries to begin a transition to an Afghan lead," the president said, "and this July, we will begin to bring our troops home." Some troops have started coming home, true; so if you focus on only that narrow statement, you have to give the president credit. But there is a bigger picture that many critics insist must be considered. Right before Obama took office, 32,500 American troops were in Afghanistan. However, he approved two troop surges which doubled our military presence there. So by the time we vote for president again this fall, just under 70,000 will still be fighting among the poppy fields. For that reason, we have to call this pledge a WORK IN PROGRESS. Transparency . This White House has promised from the start to be more open, more transparent about the way it does business, than any that we've seen before. For the tweeting president, that meant cueing the tech talk about a special new program in the West Wing. "Because you deserve to know exactly how and where your tax dollars are being spent, you'll be able to go to a website and get that information for the very first time in history." The administration lit up the Federal Taxpayer Receipt project in April, on tax day. It can be found at whitehouse.gov under the taxes section, and you can indeed get a breakdown on where your tax dollars go. PROMISE KEPT. Reorganizing government . One of the chief planks in the president's campaign platform was a promise to change the way Washington does business, and in his last State of the Union, he got specific. "In the coming months, my administration will develop a proposal to merge, consolidate, and reorganize the federal government in a way that best serves the goal of a more competitive America." He did it, in the sense that after almost an entire year, he finally unveiled what he had in mind: combining six departments and agencies, all related to business, investments, or trade. It is a reorganization, but not nearly as broad as many of his critics expected, or arguably as robust as what he hinted was coming. This is a judgment call, but because of the timing and limited scope of what he finally came up, we will say this seems a WORK IN PROGRESS at best. Bipartisanship . The president promised from the very start that he was the man who could get everyone to work together. He echoed that theme several times in his State of the Union in 2011, but with the 2012 address upon us, the two parties seem perhaps more deeply divided than ever before. You can't say that's all his fault, but it is absolutely an idea that has STALLED in a big way. ### SUMMARY:

Promises kept on Iraq withdrawal, reducing reporting burden in health care law . Improving transparency with the Federal Taxpayer Receipt project was another . Promises stalled: Bipartisanship, malpractice reform, oil company tax breaks .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: HAMILTON, Bermuda (CNN) -- The Obama administration's agreement with Bermuda to settle four Uyghurs from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was causing a rift Friday between the United States and its strongest ally, Britain. Bermuda's premier, Ewart Brown, calls accepting the four Uyghurs from Guantanamo Bay "a humanitarian act." Also Friday, the U.S. Justice Department announced five other Guantanamo detainees -- one from Iraq and one from Chad and three from Saudi Arabia -- had been transferred to their home countries. Iraqi national Jawad Jabber Sadkhan was sent to Iraq on Thursday night, and Chadian national Mohammed El Gharani went to Chad early Friday, the department said. The Saudi men are expected to be taken to a re-education center where previous Guantanamo detainees have been held, one U.S. official said. Watch rare interview with the ex-detainees » . The men were identified as Khalid Saad Mohammed, Abdalaziz Kareem Salem al Noofayaee and Ahmed Zaid Salim Zuhair. The transfer of the prisoners brings to 10 the number of prisoners who have been removed from the U.S. military prison in recent days, as the Obama administration attempts to move toward closure of the facility by January. A UK official familiar with the agreement on the Uyghurs but not authorized to speak publicly told CNN the United States informed the British government of the agreement "shortly before the deal was concluded." The official said, "We feel we should have been consulted" before the deal was struck between the United States and the British "overseas territory." A U.S. official, on background, said the British feel blindsided. Bermuda's government said Thursday the four had been resettled in Bermuda. "Above all, this was a humanitarian act," Bermudian Premier Ewart Brown said. Bermuda's opposition party has called for a no-confidence vote in the House of Assembly, which could lead to Brown's ouster. The vote was tabled until next week. On the issue of the Uyghurs, the British official said that by law Bermuda decides many day-to-day issues, and "it seems to have been a decision Bermudian authorities made based on their immigration responsibility." However, the British government is responsible for decisions on defense and foreign policy. Bermuda "should have consulted the UK government," he said. With the Uyghurs already in Bermuda without travel documents, the UK is helping the Bermudian government carry out a security assessment, he said. U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said, "We understand that there are some concerns about some of the details of the resettlement, and we're confident that we can work these things through with the government of the UK." "I don't think we bypassed anyone," Kelly added. The four were twice cleared for release -- once by the Bush administration and again this year, according to a U.S. Justice Department statement. They were among 17 Uyghur detainees at the facility set up to hold terror suspects. The four flew by private plane Wednesday night from Cuba to Bermuda, accompanied by U.S. and Bermudian representatives as well as their attorneys, according to Susan Baker Manning, part of the men's legal team. The men, who are staying in an apartment, were free to roam about the island. They can't leave the country because they have no passports. President Obama has pledged to close the Guantanamo facility, raising questions of what will happen to the more than 200 remaining detainees. A political backlash against bringing detainees to the United States has increased the focus on sending them to other countries. The Justice Department on Friday said the two detainees from Chad and Iraq were approved for transfer after the Guantanamo Review Task Force looked at their cases. A federal court also ordered the U.S. government in January to take all necessary and appropriate steps to facilitate the Chadian national's release. "As our review of detainees continues, the support of the international community is critical to the closure of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and the security of our country," said Matthew Olsen, executive director of the task force. "We are grateful for the cooperation of the governments of Iraq and Chad and for their assistance on the successful transfer of these individuals." Since 2002, more than 540 detainees have departed Guantanamo for other countries, including Albania, Algeria, Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Belgium, Denmark, Egypt, France, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Libya, Maldives, Mauritania, Morocco, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uganda, the United Kingdom and Yemen, the Justice Department said. Brown, Bermuda's premier, said he had read a Washington Post article on the issue of the Guantanamo Bay detainees' fates while in the United States for a White House meeting in May and decided to put an offer to the U.S. government "on the table." He said Bermuda, a British colony, told the UK of its intentions, but not until late in the process. Britain must approve the transfer for it to be permanent, Brown said, adding that he believed the issue might raise tension between Bermuda and Britain. The issue is controversial because of China's opposition to the Uyghurs being sent to any country but China. Uyghurs are a Muslim minority from the Xinjiang province of far-west China. The 17 Uyghurs had left China and made their way to Afghanistan, where they settled in a camp with other Uyghurs opposed to the Chinese government, the Justice Department said in its statement. They left Afghanistan after U.S. bombings began in the area in October 2001, and were apprehended in Pakistan, the statement said. "According to available information, these individuals did not travel to Afghanistan with the intent to take any hostile action against the United States," the statement said. Manning said the 17 were picked up as a matter of circumstance and never had terrorist training. They left China because they did not agree with the government, she said. However, China alleges the men are part of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement -- a group the State Department considers a terrorist organization -- that operates in the Xinjiang region. East Turkestan is another name for Xinjiang. China on Thursday urged the United States to hand over all 17 of the Uyghurs instead of sending them elsewhere. The Chinese statement followed an offer by Palau, a Pacific island nation, to accept Uyghur detainees. The Xinjiang region of 20 million people is largely populated by ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities who have traditionally opposed Beijing's rule and clamored for greater autonomy. A senior U.S. administration official said the State Department is working on a final agreement with Palau to settle the matter of the 13 remaining Uyghur detainees. Issues to be worked out include how to transfer the Uyghurs to Palau and how much money the United States would give the men for resettlement, the official said. The official said the average in such cases is $100,000 per person. The United States won't send Uyghur detainees cleared for release back to China out of concern that Chinese authorities would torture them. China has said no returned Uyghurs would be tortured. Palau said it will take in the ethnic Uyghur detainees for humanitarian reasons and because of the "special relationship" between Palau and the United States. Palau, with a population of about 20,000, is about 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) southeast of Manila, Philippines, and about 4,600 miles (7,400 kilometers) west of Hawaii. It has received nearly $900 million in U.S. aid since independence in 1994, according to congressional auditors, and depends on Washington for its defense. CNN's Jill Dougherty and Terry Frieden contributed to this report. ### SUMMARY:

Four Uyghurs free to roam about Bermuda but don't have passports to leave . Briton: "We feel we should have been consulted" before deal with "overseas territory" U.S. State Department official: "I don't think we bypassed anyone" U.S. transfers five others from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, back to home countries .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Oslo, Norway (CNN) -- The masked henchmen grabbed three fingers on each of the Syrian political cartoonist's hands and pulled them back all the way -- so far that they cracked. "Break his arms so that he doesn't ever draw again," one said. Ali Ferzat -- the cartoonist who described the 2011 attack to me in a recent interview -- soon found himself bleeding and left for dead near the Damascus airport. His assailants, who he believes were acting on behalf of the Syrian regime, dragged him alongside a moving car. His head and shoulder bounced on the pavement and then the men shoved him out of the vehicle, dumping him on the side of the road. Ferzat wondered if he would live, let alone draw again. It would be months before he would learn the second answer. Before I'd heard these and the other horrifying details of this attack against one of the Arab world's most notable artists, I asked Ferzat -- an Arab-Santa-looking character with a smile that could cheer up Tilda Swinton -- if he was sure his hands were broken to stop him from drawing cartoons critical of Syria's leader, Bashar al-Assad. His answer made me laugh. "Obviously," he said. "What do I look like to you, a chef?" I met Ferzat in at the Oslo Freedom Forum, a gathering of dissidents and human rights activists, where he received the Vaclav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent. Being in his presence was the human-rights nerd version of a basketball fan meeting LeBron. But what impressed me most about Ferzat is that he's maintained his wit and cheer despite the darkness that has fallen on him and on his country, which is in the grips of an intractable two-year war that's killed an estimated 80,000 people. He is almost naively optimistic about Syria's future. And it's infectious. The rest of Syria's opposition should take note. As his story shows, the true strength of a revolution is in its ideas -- in nonviolent actions such as drawing truth to power. Dictators do have reason to be scared of cartoons. That's why Ferzat's hands became some of the most feared objects in Syria. "They came after me," he said. "Obviously (cartooning) has power." The self-taught artist, who's in his early 60s, has been using them to mock authority since he was a young boy -- first imitating cartoons he admired and then creating satire of his own. He went pro in the 1970s, gaining notoriety for publishing cartoons domestically and internationally. Back then, before the current war, Ferzat never dared to depict specific people in his cartoons. He drew autocrats and dictators, but they never looked like real, identifiable people. He did it to avoid censorship or retaliation. But that was before the war -- before reports emerged, in May 2011, that a 13-year-old had been tortured and killed in Daraa, Syria. Stories like those of Hamza Ali al-Khateeb's death, which reportedly involved his genitals being mutilated, pushed Ferzat across a threshold. He started to draw exact likeness of al-Assad in his satire. Enough was enough. His pen would hold no punches. Ferzat drew al-Assad standing on the side of the road with his thumb in the air, ready to hitchhike out of Syria. A crazed Moammar Gadhafi, who was still alive at the time but later would be killed in Libya's uprising, was driving a getaway car. The message was clear: Syria's leader had to go. That was the image, he told me, that led to his attack on August 25, 2011. Ferzat's animated demeanor -- his eyebrows bounce when he talks and his hands, now unbandaged, gesture wildly -- flattened as he told me the story. That day, a white car with darkly tinted windows followed him out of the studio before dawn. He's been working there by candlelight to avoid detection. Frightened by the car, he drove to the center of Damascus, to a square he knew to be home to government buildings and the president's palace. The car followed and crashed into him at the square, he said, forcing him stop. Three men emerged and yanked off the doors of Ferzat's car. They pulled him from it, beat him with crowd-control batons and then yanked plastic handcuffs around his wrists. "They handcuffed me so tightly I felt that one of my wrists was going to break," he said. SANA, the Syrian state news agency, reported Ferzat "was attacked by veiled people" and that "authorities concerned are conducting an investigation." My e-mail requesting further information, however, was not responded to. And the U.S. State Department condemned the attack, saying in a statement that the al-Assad regime was sending "a clear message that (Ferzat) should stop drawing." They beat him so badly that his vision failed for days in one eye, Farzat told me, and he could barely see out of the other. Confused, Ferzat asked what was happening to him. "Don't you ever dare to cross your bosses and to cross your leaders, because Bashar al-Assad's shoe is on your face and on your head." (For evidence of the severity of that insult, recall the Bush and Ahmadinejad shoe-throwing incidents). They drove 30 minutes to a road near the Damascus airport. That's where they threw him from the car. "My white shirt was completely, totally, red from the blood," he said. He thought he surely would bleed to death there. Cars wouldn't stop, perhaps afraid to pick up a person targeted by the regime or by police. But then the first of three miracles happened: A truck's tire burst, forcing it to stop exactly in front of Ferzat. "This is like something out of a freakin' movie," Amir Ahmad Nasr, a blogger-author friend who was translating the conversation from Arabic, said to me. Ferzat threw himself into the bed of the pickup and begged the three men who drove it to take him back to the city. They agreed to drop him at the gates of Damascus, but wouldn't take him further -- definitely not to a hospital -- for fear of being targeted themselves. Still bleeding and barely able to see because of the beatings to his head, Ferzat wandered up to a house and asked its guard for help. Then the second miracle: The guard agreed to give him a ride to a nearby clinic, where (here's the third) doctors recognized the cartoonist and were sympathetic to his cause. They treated him at his house to avoid detection. But there was always the worry: his hands. Would he draw again? "My hands became stuck like this," he told me, tensing up his digits into a wooden, claw-like shape. "The doctors told me I needed to get treatment overseas." Fate, again, would intervene. Using a newspaper contact in Kuwait, Ferzat arranged to leave Syria and seek treatment in a hospital there. After six months of surgery and physical therapy, he was able to put pen to paper. The first cartoon he created after the attack was not diluted by fear. He drew al-Assad and Russia's Vladimir Putin walking side by side, their legs intertwined to make the shape of a Nazi swastika. Ferzat is still living in exile. But the revolution needs him. It needs his art. He's seen images of protesters and rebels carrying printouts of his drawings. So he contributes art from outside the country. The outcome of the war in Syria is anything but sure. But talk to Ferzat and his optimism will rub off on you. He's convinced he will live and draw in Syria again -- that people in his country, a cradle of civilization that invented one of the world's first alphabets, are no longer afraid and eventually will triumph over the regime that would crush their spirits and their art. After hearing his story, I'm hard-pressed not to believe him. The opinions expressed in this column are solely those of John D. Sutter. ### SUMMARY:

Syrian political cartoonist details 2011 attack in which his hands were broken . John Sutter: Ali Ferzat's story offers hope for the Syrian revolution . He says meeting Ferzat is the 'human-rights-nerd version of a basketball fan meeting LeBron' Sutter: 'Ferzat's hands are some of the most feared objects in Syria'

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- President Barack Obama's strategy for the Ukraine crisis reflects his internationalist foreign policy while adhering to the age-old maxim that money talks. He sent Secretary of State John Kerry to Kiev on Tuesday to forcefully condemn Russia for seizing effective military control of the Crimea region. At the same time, Kerry announced $1 billion in loan guarantees to help insulate the Ukrainian economy from the effects of reduced energy subsidies from Russia. It all is part of the still simmering breakup of the old Soviet Union more than two decades ago, with Russian President Vladimir Putin seeking to maintain Russia's influence and economic ties in a region being wooed by the European Union and Washington for increased trade and other links. On Tuesday, both Obama and Kerry warned Putin of possible international sanctions and other steps to isolate Russia diplomatically and economically if he escalates the Ukraine crisis by sending in more troops. The goal of such an approach would be to hit Putin where it hurts by weakening the ruble and Russia's economy while avoiding the possibility of igniting an already volatile crisis to a new level of confrontation and possible violence. Isolation, not confrontation, is the goal . "It is diplomacy and respect for sovereignty, not unilateral force, that can best solve disputes like this in the 21st century," Kerry told reporters to wrap up his one-day stop in Ukraine's capital. "President Obama and I want to make it clear to Russia and to everybody in the world that we are not seeking confrontation." However, he continued, "if Russia does not choose to de-escalate, if it is not willing to work directly with the government of Ukraine, as we hope they will be, then our partners will have absolutely no choice but to join us to continue to expand upon steps we have taken in recent days in order to isolate Russia politically, diplomatically and economically." What are U.S. options? One possible move, hinted at by Kerry, would be to kick Russia out of the G8 group of industrial powers that also includes the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada. Those nations already are skipping a preparatory meeting for the next G8 summit set to be hosted by Putin in June in Sochi. "It is not appropriate to invade a country and, at the end of a barrel of a gun, dictate what you are trying to achieve," Kerry said. "That is not 21st century G8, major nation behavior." The United States "will stand by the Ukrainian people," he said after accusing Russia of making up reasons for further military intervention in Ukraine based on alleged persecution of Russian speakers and native Russians. "Not a single piece of credible evidence supports any one of these claims," he said, adding that it was clear "that Russia has been working hard to create a pretext to invade further." Told by a reporter that Putin had earlier indicated no Russian troops were in Crimea, Kerry shook his head with disbelief and asked: "He really denied there were troops in Crimea?" Putin decision near? A U.S. official familiar with the latest administration assessment said Tuesday that national security agencies believe Putin will decide in the next few days whether to send more troops into Ukraine. According to the official, the diplomatic pressure by Obama and Kerry sought to influence Putin's decision. In remarks Tuesday, Obama said Putin realized that the United States and its European allies consider the Russian military buildup in Ukraine a violation of international law. "There have been some reports that President Putin is pausing for a moment and reflecting on what's happened," Obama said. "I know President Putin seems to have a different set of lawyers making a different set of interpretations but I don't think that's fooling anybody," Obama continued. "I think everybody recognizes that although Russia has legitimate interests in what happens in a neighboring state, that does not give it the right to use force as a means of exerting influence inside of that state." U.S. moving fast on possible sanctions . In another sign of increasing pressure on Putin, a Chinese government statement Tuesday quoted President Xi Jinping as calling for a diplomatic solution. "The situation is highly complicated and sensitive, affecting both regional and entire global situations," said the statement attributed to Xi. "I believe Russia can coordinate with all sides, use political means to resolve the issue, and maintain peace and stability for the region and the world. China supports conciliatory measures from the international community that help mitigate the situation." Critics want a more robust U.S. response . No one calls for a U.S. military response in Ukraine, and polls show strong public opposition to the United States assuming the role of global policeman by taking the lead in international conflicts. During his presidency, Obama has sought a more international approach to crises, as exemplified by the NATO coalition that imposed a "no-fly" zone on Libya with logistical help from the United States. However, his inability to build an international coalition to attack Syria for its use of chemical weapons resulted in criticism that Obama failed to fulfill his earlier threat to act. Hawkish U.S. politicians want a more robust response by the Obama administration to the Russian aggression, calling for tough economic sanctions and reviving plans to build a missile-defense shield in Poland that Putin opposed. Republican Rep. Ed Royce of California, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, called for pursuing aggressive sanctions that would undermine the ruble and Russia's state-owned banks. "We should do it, frankly," he told CNN, but adding that Russia should be offered an "exit ramp" out of the crisis through negotiations. Jim Walsh, an international security analyst with the MIT Security Studies Program, told CNN that any sanctions must be in concert with European allies to be effective. So far, Walsh noted, there has been little sign of support from key allies Britain and Germany for tough economic sanctions against Russia. Meanwhile, House Speaker John Boehner called for Obama to speed up government approval of U.S. natural gas exports to the Ukraine. "We should not force our allies to remain dependent on Putin for their energy needs," Boehner said, describing the current approval process as a "de facto ban." "Expediting approval of natural gas exports is one clear step the U.S. can take to stand by our allies and stand up to Russian aggression, while creating American jobs at the same time," he said. Putin: Russia has no plans to annex Crimea . To Obama and his supporters pursuing what they consider to be a 21st Century world order, the Russian military moves would arouse the suspicions of other countries in the region. "If anything, it will push many countries further away from Russia," Obama said. "There is the ability for Ukraine to be a friend of the West and a friend of Russia's as long as none of us are in Ukraine trying to meddle and intervene, certainly not militarily, with decisions that properly belong to the Ukrainian people." Loan guarantees . The loan guarantees announced Tuesday will help Ukraine move forward with an assistance package from the International Monetary Fund, which is calling for the country to raise energy prices. Obama administration officials traveling with Kerry said Treasury Department technical advisers would travel to Ukraine to help its national bank and finance ministry deal with economic challenges and implement energy sector reforms. The United States also will train observers for the May 25 elections, and is sending a team of experts to help identify stolen assets and support anti-corruption measures. With Ukraine looking to reduce dependence on Russian energy, the United States also will provide assistance and financing to help businesses find new export markets and will offer technical advice to the government on Ukraine's World Trade Organization rights with respect to Russia. Obama and Kerry both urged Russia to pull its forces back into their barracks and agree to international observers in Ukraine to monitor the situation. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, a regional security bloc, sent in 10 monitors Monday, and Kerry called for a larger mission. "These are the people who could actually identify legitimate threats, and we are asking, together with the government of Ukraine, together with the European community, for large numbers of observers to be able to come in here and monitor the situation and be the arbiters of truth versus fiction," he said, alluding to the Russian claims of persecution. CNN Foreign Affairs Reporter Elise Labott reported from Kiev and Tom Cohen from Washington, and CNN's Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report. ### SUMMARY:

NEW: Analyst says European allies must join U.S. in sanctions effort . President Obama says most nations believe Russia violated international law . $1 billion aid package announced as U.S. considers sanctions against Russia . Secretary Kerry says Russia tries to create a false pretext to further invade Ukraine .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday searched desperately for ways it could avoid a sweeping ruling in what one justice called a "tinderbox" legal fight over perhaps the most vexing diplomatic issue -- unrest in the Middle East. Menachem Zivotofsky, 12, and his family want the American citizen's passport to say he was born in Jerusalem, Israel. But the U.S. State Department, ignoring a congressional law, will not allow the boy to list his country of birth on the document, only Jerusalem. The Obama administration maintains a strict neutrality policy over the holy city's sovereignty. Both Israelis and Palestinians claim Jerusalem as their capital, but the international community does not recognize either position. The Zivotofskys framed the case as a "small gesture" for a boy, which does not implicate the U.S. government's ongoing efforts to secure a binding, lasting peace settlement for the troubled region. Supreme Court to decide if boy can list Israel as passport birthplace . At issue is a classic tug of war between the executive and legislative branches of government -- specifically whether a federal law that explicitly directs the State Department how to record the birthplace of an American citizen on a passport impermissibly infringes on the president's power to recognize a foreign sovereign. More than 50,000 Americans were born in Jerusalem since the law was passed in 2002. In a brisk hour of oral arguments, the nine justices seemed especially torn about how to decide the case, many looking for a way perhaps to rule narrowly. Many on the bench were at odds over whether this mix of politics, diplomacy and religion will result in de facto recognition of Israel's unilateral sovereignty over Jerusalem. "You say that this isn't recognition," Justice Anthony Kennedy told the Zivotofskys' attorney. "So the ultimate conflict is not before us and therefore, the government's policy, which says that this is recognition, should be given deference and it trumps." Justice Antonin Scalia said, "Congress is entitled to do what it is authorized to do under the Constitution, even when that contradicts" with the views of the executive branch, And as far as the passport issue, "the fact that the State Department doesn't like the fact that it makes the Palestinians angry is irrelevant." Case heard during growing unrest in Jerusalem . The debate comes during a week of unrest in Jerusalem, with daily protests near sacred sites and fears of a third intifada, or Palestinian uprising. Temple Mount crisis fuels unrest in volatile Jerusalem . The case could have broader implications over U.S. foreign policy. The justices raised ongoing debates over those born in British-controlled Northern Ireland; whether Taiwan should be recognized as independent of China; and the armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine over disputed territory, including Crimea. Jerusalem's Old City is the heart of the region, a holy symbol to the three major Abrahamic religions -- Christianity, Islam and Judaism. That tiny area -- just a third of one square mile -- contains the Temple Mount, Western Wall, Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque. It has been destroyed twice -- and attacked, besieged and captured more than 100 times. Canaanites, Hebrews, Arabs, Greeks, Romans, Persians, Crusaders, Turks and the British have all laid claim to the land. Its status today remains one the thorniest issues blocking a comprehensive Mideast peace agreement, with both Israel and the Palestinian people claiming sovereignty. During the 1948 war, the western part of the city was annexed by the newly formed nation of Israel, and the eastern part annexed by Jordan. Israel then captured the eastern part during the 1967 Six-Day War. It considers East Jerusalem part of its "undivided capital," but most of the international community deems the annexations illegal and a part of Palestinian land. The Israeli government is based there, but no foreign embassies are. The city is home to Ari and Naomi Zivotofsky. The couple and their two oldest sons were born in the United States, but the family migrated to Israel a decade ago, and in October 2002 the youngest, Menachem Binyamin, was born. "We're very proud of the fact that he was born in Israel and that we live in Israel and it's the modern state of Israel," Ari Zivotofsky told CNN. "Religiously and historically, that's very significant." The father said his son -- who has been at the center of this legal fight for 11 of his 12 years -- frequently reminds his siblings he is the one Zivotofsky born in their current home. The boy is preparing for his bar mitzvah. Bush's 'signing statement' Three weeks before Menachem was born, Congress gave American citizens born in Jerusalem the individual discretion to ask that Israel be listed on passports and consular reports, where it says "Place of Birth." President George W. Bush signed the bill but issued an executive "signing statement" indicating he would not comply. The law, he said, "impermissibly interferes with the president's constitutional authority to conduct the nation's foreign affairs and to supervise the unitary executive branch." The State Department's official Foreign Affairs Manual still reads: "For a person born in Jerusalem, write Jerusalem as the place of birth in the passport. Do not write Israel, Jordan or West Bank for a person born within the current municipal borders of Jerusalem." It is not the first time Congress and the White House have clashed over the region. The American Embassy remains in Tel Aviv over U.S. lawmakers' objections. Competition to speak among justices . During Monday's oral arguments in the case, Zivotofsky v. Kerry, there was much competition on the bench to speak. Chief Justice John Roberts at one point had to referee and allow Kennedy, with his seniority, to go first. "You want us to say in our opinion that this is not a political declaration?" Kennedy asked attorney Alyza Lewin of the 12-year-old congressional law. When told that was true, "Well, then, I'm not sure why that Congress passed it then." Kennedy offered a compromise, suggesting what a select number of U.S. passports might say: "The place of birth on this Jerusalem-born citizen's passport has been listed as Israel at the holder's request. This designation is neither an acknowledgment nor a declaration by the Department of State or the President of the United States that Jerusalem is within the borders of the State of Israel." But Justice Elena Kagan -- who along with Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor seemed most supportive of the administration's assertions -- wondered "(i)f Congress then passed a law saying that (hypothetical) statement had to come off the passport, could Congress do that?" "Why is it that it's OK for Congress to say something that hasn't happened, meaning to say that someone born in Jerusalem is actually born in Israel?" Sotomayor added. "I mean, they can self-identify all they want, but can they do that?" Representing the government, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli framed the issue in larger terms, saying the congressional law in effect would "force the executive branch to issue official diplomatic communications that contradict the position of the United States." Justice Samuel Alito asked, "But is that really true? Could Congress pass a law saying that every passport issued to an American citizen must list the place of birth, including country, and that for this purpose, the country is the nation that issued the birth certificate to that individual? Could Congress do that?" Zivotofsky's attorney, Lewin, concluded by saying granting the boy's request would be a "nonissue" and have no long-term effect since the Jerusalem passports -- by simply listing "Israel" would be indistinguishable from those who were born elsewhere in Israel. "This seems a particularly unfortunate week to be making this kind of, 'Oh, it's no big deal' argument," said Kagan, referring the recent violent protests in Jerusalem. "History suggests that everything is a big deal with respect to the status of Jerusalem. And right now Jerusalem is a tinderbox because of issues about the status of and access to a particularly holy site there. And so sort of everything matters, doesn't it?" A ruling in the case is due by the spring. ### SUMMARY:

A boy, 12, and his family want his passport to say he was born in Israel . Ignoring law passed in 2002, U.S. State Department policy is to list only Jerusalem, not Israel . At issue is a classic tug of war between the executive and legislative branches . Justices weigh arguments in case that could have impact on U.S. policy in Mideast .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (Health.com) -- When Megan Kenny was five years old, she began to exhibit a strange and troubling symptom: Every time she stood up for more than two minutes, she collapsed. The episodes were particularly bad after Megan had been sitting or lying down for prolonged stretches, such as when she woke up in the morning or walked between classes at school. "Church was always a disaster," recalls Mary Kenny, Megan's mother. After sitting or kneeling for a time, Megan would stand up with the congregation and invariably fall down. As Megan got older, other worrisome signs emerged. Her eyelids began to droop. She continued to wet the bed and suffered from constant bladder infections. And, about once a week, she experienced extreme hypoglycemic episodes -- a sudden drop in blood sugar levels -- that left her shaking and unable to function for the rest of the day. The Kennys visited a parade of doctors and specialists who considered, and ultimately ruled out, a grab bag of diagnoses: epilepsy, diabetes, cancer, liver failure, kidney failure. One time, after testing Megan for epilepsy, a neurologist observed that she appeared to have a severe form of orthostatic hypotension, a not-unusual condition in which a person's blood pressure drops suddenly upon standing or sitting up, causing the sensation known as a head rush. Health.com: Surgery saves girl's face from rare disorder . The doctor was only half right. Megan did have orthostatic hypotension, but the underlying cause was a far more exotic condition that wouldn't be diagnosed until she was an adult. In the meantime, she had to cope with having blood pressure that could dive from a relatively normal 110/70 when she was lying down to 50/30 upon standing. "I've seen dead people with higher blood pressure," one nurse told her. A family affair . It was clear from the first minute of her life that Megan wasn't in good health. She was a small baby, barely five pounds, in a family that had a history of strapping, nine-pound newborns, and she immediately required oxygen for respiratory distress. "She was literally blue," Mary remembers. Later, as an infant, Megan's sucking reflux was so poor that her mother wasn't able to nurse her. Orthopedists said her motor coordination was below average and referred her for physical therapy. When Megan was eight years old, her brother, Brendan, was born. As he grew up, he too would develop symptoms similar to hers, suggesting the mysterious condition had a genetic component. Megan's parents continued visiting doctors, seeking explanations for what ailed the two siblings. While some people get the occasional head rush or dizzy spell, Megan and Brendan experienced the sensation almost constantly. "Mostly it was a feeling as if you're going to black out, like walking through life with permanent black spots," Megan says. Megan learned how to compensate for the strange spells. At school, if she had to climb a flight of stairs to get to a class, she'd sit on the landing to regain her composure or lean over and pretend to tie her shoes. She even played softball throughout high school, although she needed a teammate to run the bases for her. Health.com: Doctors induce 5-month coma to save woman's life . Megan and her brother lived like this for years. Finally, after Megan had graduated from college and was living on her own in San Francisco, a psychiatrist at the University of Connecticut began to unravel the mystery. After hearing a description of the Kenny children, the psychiatrist said some of their symptoms resembled those of a rare disorder he was researching: dopamine beta hydroxylase deficiency (DBHD). As the name suggests, people with DBHD lack dopamine beta hydroxylase, an enzyme needed to convert the neurotransmitter dopamine into norepinephrine and epinephrine (also known as adrenaline), hormones that are critical to maintaining normal blood pressure. The psychiatrist suggested the Kennys fly Brendan, who was still in high school and living at the family home in Connecticut, to see a specialist at Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tenn. "It was like winning the lottery," Megan says. An 'extraordinarily rare' condition . David Robertson, M.D., a neurologist at Vanderbilt's Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, is the country's leading DBHD expert. In 1986, he was the first person to identify the disorder, in a 33-year-old woman who hadn't opened her eyes for the first five days of her life -- a common feature of DBHD. After performing blood work and numerous other tests on the woman, Robertson and his colleagues recognized that her abnormally low norepinephrine levels were caused by a genetic defect in dopamine beta hydroxylase. It was thought that no one could survive for long without norepinephrine, but that woman lived to be 62. If people with DBHD are in a situation where they're unable to sit or fall down safely, the resulting loss of blood flow to the brain can be fatal, but most people with the condition learn how to compensate and can live a relatively long life, Robertson says. Health.com: 10 states where rare and exotic diseases lurk . Robertson confirmed the suspicions of the UConn psychiatrist and diagnosed 15-year-old Brendan with DBHD. The diagnosis put Brendan in very exclusive company. "DBHD is extraordinarily rare," says Robertson, who is also the principal investigator of the Autonomic Rare Disease Consortium at the National Institutes of Health. It is so rare, in fact, that the 10 patients Robertson personally has seen represent the lion's share of the documented cases worldwide. Another eight patients have been identified in Europe and Australia, though Robertson says there could be thousands more still undiagnosed. A night and day treatment . In the late 1980s, Robertson began to formulate a drug to treat the norepinephrine deficiency associated with DBHD, but he soon learned that such a drug was already being marketed in Japan. Droxidopa, also known as L-DOPS, was being used in that country for Parkinson's disease, a movement disorder characterized by dopamine deficiency. Roberston's first patient responded immediately to droxidopa. "The drug allowed us to replace the norepinephrine not only in the blood, but even in the nerve cells of the body," Robertson says. Health.com: Prescription drugs that lead double lives . Brendan, too, responded to droxidopa within days. Two years later, he ran a victory lap of sorts across the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, while his sister watched. Megan had visited Vanderbilt soon after Brendan. Not surprisingly, Robertson diagnosed her with DBHD, but due to a protocol change in the clinical trial he was leading, Megan had to wait three years before she could take droxidopa herself. When she finally did the results were just as dramatic. "I felt different immediately," Megan says. "This feeling of strength -- being able to walk up a hill in San Francisco at the same pace as my friends, or actually [being] able to do it without sitting down -- was incredible." Megan herself took a sprint across the Golden Gate Bridge as part of her training for the New Orleans Marathon. She finished that race in a little over six hours in the winter of 2005. In 2010, she completed an Olympic-length triathlon: a 1,500-meter swim, 40-kilometer bike ride, and 10K run. "For me it was like checking this off the list," Megan says. "I was so grateful for my new physicality." Megan takes 300 milligrams of droxidopa three times a day, and even now, a decade after her diagnosis, feels lightheaded if she misses a dose. She no longer runs marathons but climbs San Francisco's steep hills with ease. "It's such a small thing in the grand scheme of things, being able to walk a block up the hill," she says. "People take it for granted. I was like, 'This is incredible.'" Copyright Health Magazine 2011 . ### SUMMARY:

Megan Kenny and her brother would collapse after standing for two minutes . The siblings were diagnosed with dopamine beta hydroxylase deficiency (DBHD) After receiving proper treatment, Megan ran marathons, completed triathlons .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama on Wednesday replaced Gen. Stanley McChrystal as commander of U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan and nominated Gen. David Petraeus to replace him while affirming support for a counterinsurgency strategy encountering problems. The dramatic shift came a day after McChrystal's disparaging comments about America's civilian leadership surfaced, and reignited the national debate on the war in Afghanistan -- now in its eighth year with a June death toll of coalition forces that is close to becoming the highest of the war. Obama accepted McChrystal's resignation "with considerable regret" and named Petraeus, the head of the U.S. Central Command, to take over pending Senate confirmation. "It is the right thing for our mission in Afghanistan, for our military and for our country," Obama said outside the White House, flanked by top civilian and military leaders including Vice President Joe Biden; Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Petraeus. McChrystal's remarks in a Rolling Stone article undermined the civilian control of the military "at the core of our democratic system," Obama said, noting the decision to replace the general did not involve any disagreement over strategy or personal issues. "I believe that it is the right decision for our national security," Obama said. "The conduct represented in the recently published article does not meet the standard that should be set by a commanding general." Obama said that as hard as it is to lose the general, the "war is bigger than any one man or woman." More importantly, he said, the war requires a unified effort from civilian and military leaders, warning that he won't tolerate division within his team. "I believe that this mission demands unity of effort across our alliance and across my national security team," Obama said. "And I don't think that we can sustain that unity of effort and achieve our objectives in Afghanistan without making this change." The president urged the Senate to swiftly confirm Petraeus, who would leave his Central Command position. Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Carl Levin, D-Michigan, later said a confirmation hearing would begin no later than Tuesday, and he expected it to take one day. "We know Gen. Petraeus," Levin said. "I don't think there will be anybody who will say we need more time." McChrystal issued a statement Wednesday saying that he strongly supports Obama's strategy in Afghanistan and is "deeply committed" to the coalition forces and the Afghan people. "It was out of respect for this commitment -- and a desire to see the mission succeed -- that I tendered my resignation," McChrystal's statement said. "It has been my privilege and honor to lead our nation's finest." A source close to McChrystal offered a description of the roughly 30-minute meeting between Obama and McChrystal that led to the general's resignation Wednesday morning. McChrystal briefly explained the magazine article at the center of the controversy, took responsibility and then offered his resignation, the source said. Obama accepted the resignation, the source said. The president "had no intention of keeping him," and McChrystal knew that going in, the source said. McChrystal is not returning to Afghanistan, and his personal belongings will be shipped home, according to the source. Immediate political reaction from both parties was positive, with lawmakers saying Obama had little choice in making a change and that Petraeus was the best choice for the job. Levin noted that Petraeus authored the counterinsurgency strategy now being followed in Afghanistan. The spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai expressed disappointment at the loss of McChrystal but called Petraeus the "obvious" replacement, while statements from allied governments and NATO also offered support and commitment to the Afghanistan mission. In the magazine article, McChrsytal and his top officers are quoted making disrespectful comments about civilian officials including Biden, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry, special representative to Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke and National Security Adviser Jim Jones. News of the article set off a political firestorm Tuesday. Obama was "angry" after reading the general's remarks, said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, who added that McChrystal had a "profound" mistake. McChrystal apologized Tuesday, but was recalled to Washington and met with Gates and Mullen on Wednesday before going to the White House, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said. After he met with Obama, McChrystal was not invited to participate in a separate White House national security meeting on the war in Afghanistan, two sources told CNN. The reported remarks by McChrystal and his staff were strongly criticized on Capitol Hill. Three key Senate leaders on defense and foreign policy issues -- Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and independent Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut -- said in a news conference Wednesday that Obama had no choice but to replace McChrystal. "The statements of the general not only were outside the norm, they really did put into question military subordination of civilian control," Graham said, taking particular issue with unnamed officers in the article who he said showed disrespect and a cavalier attitude he termed "unacceptable." "This is a low point in my view for the armed forces in a very long time, and I'm glad the president made this decision," Graham said. "There are some other officers that need to be looked at, and they need to be replaced." At the same time, the senators and others said Obama should now make clear that a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan will only occur when conditions allow it, rather than on the July 2011 date set by the administration. Petraeus "is an outstanding military leader, but even he can't win in Afghanistan if the president continues to insist on an arbitrary withdrawal date -- a fact our enemies are counting on and our allies fear," said Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri, the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Levin, D-Michigan, told reporters that Petraeus supports the July 2011 date for starting a troop withdrawal based on conditions on the ground. "What will be conditions-based is not whether reductions begin in July 2011, but the pace of those reductions," Levin said Petraeus told him. Levin acknowledged that Petraeus or Obama could change their minds on the issue, saying, "nothing is etched in stone." Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, said in a written statement that Obama's "decision to return Gen. (David) Petraeus to the battlefield provides not just continuity in philosophy, but tested diplomatic skill that is at the very center of a military strategy which hinges on progress in governance to sustain military gains." House Armed Services Committee chairman Ike Skelton, D-Missouri, said that Petraeus "is the best that we have." "I have great confidence in his ability to bring about a successful outcome in Afghanistan. The commander-in-chief must have confidence in his commanders in the field," he said. "It is time to move on and return our focus to waging the war in Afghanistan." A spokesman for the Afghanistan Defense Ministry said his government would have preferred to see McChrystal stay, but was happy Petraeus had been tapped as the replacement. "We're not happy to see Gen. McChrystal go, but of all the choices that could have been made, we are happy to hear it is Petraeus who will continue the mission," Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi said. Obama tapped McChrystal to head the U.S. military effort in Afghanistan in the spring of 2009 shortly after dismissing Gen. David McKiernan. McChrystal was strongly recommended as the best choice to carry out the counterinsurgency strategy created by Petraeus in Iraq, but administration officials later expressed displeasure with what they thought was McChrystal's leak of his request for more troops for Afghanistan before Obama completed his review of the issue. The president eventually ordered 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, most of the number sought by McChrystal. CNN's John King, Suzanne Malveaux, Barbara Starr, Dana Bash, Alan Silverleib, Ted Barrett and Tom Cohen contributed to this report. ### SUMMARY:

NEW: Key senator says Petraeus backs July 2011 start of withdrawal from Afghanistan . NEW: Confirmation hearing for Petraeus to start no later than Tuesday . Lawmakers praise choice of Petraeus and say Obama had no choice but to accept McChrystal resignation . Obama urges the Senate to confirm Petraeus swiftly .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: The tour bus bounces along one of North Korea's potholed roads, pop music blasting out over the speakers. It's a catchy tune and even though none of the tourists can understand the lyrics, a few are tapping their feet to the beat. The hit song, "Without a Break," is by Moranbong, by far North Korea's most popular band. The driver is clearly a fan and plays the DVD several times a day. Most tourists are busy looking out the window and pay little attention to the video screened at the front of the bus. They don't notice the nuclear missile being launched behind the all-girl band, nor do they see it smash into our little blue planet, blowing up the Earth. "'Without a Break' is about the nuclear destruction of the U.S.," says Australian Mark Freeman, who has visited North Korea four times. "Tourists dance to it because they don't know the lyrics, they don't know what the song is about." Travel to North Korea raises a number of sticky issues, not least of all the ethical issue of supporting a repressive regime. For those who opt to go, it's an opportunity to glimpse one of the most isolated, unfathomable and feared countries in the world. "There have been about 6,000 Western tourists this year -- that's a tenfold increase on a decade ago," says Koryo Tours general manager Simon Cockerell. But when you sign up to visit the DPRK you have to play by their rules. There are strict guidelines in place about what you can and cannot do. Break with the protocol -- or even be suspected of it -- and not just you but the rest of your group will be sent back early. Or worse, as U.S. military veteran Merrill Newman discovered. According to his family, the Palo Alto, California, resident had gone on a 10-day organized private tour of North Korea in October. From phone calls and postcards he sent, the trip was going well and there was no indication of any kind of problem, son Jeff Newman said. The day before he was to leave, "one or two Korean authorities" met with Newman and his tour guide, the son added. They talked about Newman's service record, which left "my dad ... a bit bothered," according to Jeff Newman. Then, just minutes before his Beijing-bound plane was set to depart Pyongyang in late October, he was taken off the aircraft by North Korean authorities. More: U.S. 'deeply concerned' about citizens held in North Korea, including Newman . Getting into North Korea . Unless you're invited as part of a business delegation, the only way to visit North Korea is by joining a tour. Depending on the number of tourists and whether or not it includes Americans, two to three trained guides-cum-minders accompany each group. Aside from the hotels where tourists can roam freely between their room, the bar and the restaurant, a guide accompanies visitors at all times. The guides are friendly and accommodating. They go out of their way to keep their charges happy -- singing songs and ensuring there is plenty to eat and drink. The lavish meals, with a big spread put out for every meal, is all part of the package. The DPRK wants Westerners to return home raving about how much they were given to eat. American Kent Rutter, a lawyer, has visited North Korea twice and says he liked the guides and asked plenty of questions, but was frustrated when he didn't get a straight answer. "Their job was to tell us whatever the government wanted us to hear, even if it contradicted what we could see from the bus window," he says. More: Touring North Korea: What's real, what's fake? Florian Seidel, a German localization expert for a computer game company in Japan, says he got a lot more out of his second trip to North Korea because he had a better grasp of what was going on. He did some research -- mostly online, reading blogs and scouring Google Earth images -- ahead of his second visit to the remote North East of the country and was wise on what to look out for in the region. "Don't worry about being lied to, worry about not getting the interesting information," says Seidel. "Guides repeat certain random things a dozen times, but when you drive right past the entrance to a concentration camp they won't tell you." If you don't want to bow, stay home . A key aspect of any trip to North Korea is the need to show reverence for past and present leaders. This means not only referring to them with respect, but also bowing in front of the statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. Pyongyang has a number of statues, so this can mean laying flowers and bowing several times on a week-long trip. For those traveling around the country, there's a Kim Il Sung statue in every city. Koryo Tours, the longest running and most specialized travel company for the DPRK, advises tourists in their briefing notes that they will be expected to bow in front of the statues and warns: "If you are not willing to behave at some points as expected by the local customs then we recommend you do not visit the DPRK, the potential for offense to be taken by the hosts which then adversely affects the tour is too great." German tourist Seidel didn't enjoy the obligatory bowing but understood that it was a necessary part of being allowed to visit. "I felt like an atheist during Holy Mass -- I couldn't relate, but I played along to avoid offending anybody," he says. Repeat visitors to the DPRK quickly realize that the best way to get the most out of a trip is to stick to the rules. There's little point grilling the guides about politics or gulags because you won't get a straight answer. Every tour is a carefully choreographed affair, designed to show the country in its best light, but much can gleaned on the drive between approved tourists sites. It's especially interesting when unexpected events force a sudden change of plan. Australian tourist Freeman was on a tour of the north east when road works meant the bus had to take a side road through an old village. "The guides got very flustered because all of a sudden they couldn't use the road they knew was safe for us to travel," says Freeman. "They even got off the bus and tried to reason with the construction guys, they were incredibly nervous." More: Behind the veil: Rare look at life in North Korea . He compares a tour of the DPRK to the film "The Matrix." The occasional glitches in the tour, say when the bus breaks down and is forced to make an impromptu stop, are like the scene in the film when the cat walks through twice -- a crack in the Matrix. So long as you don't break the rules -- disrespect the leaders, wander off on your own, try to speak to the locals without permission -- then North Korea is a very safe place to visit. Haydon Howlett, a New Zealand tourist who visited Pyonyang for the first time this summer, says it's one of the safest places he's ever visited. "There aren't many countries where you can leave your bag loaded with cash, cameras and passports and know that it'll be there when you return," says Howlett. Travel blogger Earl weighed up the pros and cons of visiting on his site, www.wanderingearl.com. The reasons for not going were fairly convincing: money from the tour would support the regime and it's repressive policies; foreigners are used as propaganda tools by the North Korean government by presenting tourists as people who come to pay their respects to the regime and leaders; it would be a controlled and limited experience; and there would be little interaction with North Koreans. But in the end he decided to go and didn't regret his decision. "I still believe that the benefits of traveling to North Korea do indeed outweigh the negatives," he wrote on his blog. It's quite possible to visit North Korea and buy into the vision of the country that's offered, without question. Many do. Freeman was stunned by two young Australian women who announced at the end of their week-long tour that they were going to tell everyone back home that North Korea was nothing like what the media portrays. "They were so naïve," says Freeman. Had they forgotten that there are 300,000 plus people who are going to die in concentration camps? They aren't called Death Camps because people are executed there, they are called Death Camps because you stay there until you die." More: Gallery: Unseen face of Pyongyang . ### SUMMARY:

About 6,000 Western tourists have visited North Korea this year, says North Korea travel company Koryo Tours . North Korea visitors are given a strict set of guidelines to follow . Outside the hotel, a guide accompanies visitors at all times and every tour is a carefully choreographed affair .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Former CIA Director David Petraeus is expected to tell House and Senate committees Friday that soon after the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, it suspected Ansar al Sharia was responsible. But just what is Ansar al Sharia, and why wasn't it identified as a prime suspect two months ago? There is no easy answer. Ansar al Sharia is more a label than an organization, one that's been adopted by conservative Salafist groups across the Arab world. The name means, simply, "Partisans of Islamic Law." In Benghazi, Ansar al Sharia was one of many groups that filled the vacuum of authority following the overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi. Its members guarded the Al Jala hospital in Tripoli, where a number of the war's wounded were treated. For a while, the group provided security at the airport, according to Noman Benotman, a senior fellow at the Quilliam Foundation in London who has closely followed the evolution of the Libyan brigades. Ansar al Sharia took over a security building in Tripoli following Gadhafi's ouster and came up with a logo -- a pair of AK-47s, a clenched first and an open Koran. The group's central belief is that all authority is derived from the Prophet Mohammed, that democracy is un-Islamic and that other branches of Islam, such as the Sufi, are heretical. Ansar al Sharia and members of another brigade, dubbed the Libyan Shield, have been accused of destroying Sufi shrines near Benghazi days before the attack on the consulate. The description on the Twitter feed of Ansar al Sharia of Benghazi proclaims: "The goals of Ansar al-Sharia brigade is to implement the laws of Allah on the land, and reject the human implemented laws and earthly made constitutions. There will be nothing ruling in this country other than the laws of Allah." As with many of the brigades that roam Libya, Ansar al Sharia in Benghazi appears to have a fluid membership in the low-hundreds but some identifiable leaders, who have denied the group had any part in the consulate attack. In Benghazi, the membership includes Mohammed al-Zahawi and Sheikh Nasser al-Tarshani, its religious authority. Neither has been detained. Al-Zahawi -- who fought to overthrow Gadhafi -- has given a number of interviews since the September 11 attack on the consulate. In a BBC interview a week after attack, al-Zahawi denied Ansar al Sharia had any role in the attack, but said the group would not give up its weapons. "We are in a battle with the liberals, the secularists and the remnants of Gadhafi," he told the BBC. Al-Tarshani told The Irish Times the attack was wrong. "The killing of the ambassador was not intentional — he died as a result of suffocation," he told Mary Fitzgerald in a telephone interview. He also said that just because the assailants carried the black flag often associated with Salafist groups, it did not mean Ansar al Sharia was responsible. A CNN analysis of photographs of a large Islamist parade in Benghazi in June -- and similar shows of strength elsewhere -- indicates the flag is widely used by Libyan Islamist militia. Another prominent Ansar al Sharia figure is former Guantanamo Bay detainee Sufian bin Qumu. But his "patch" is east of Benghazi, near the town of Derna. In the wake of the September 11 consulate attack, the 53-year old bin Qumu is thought by analysts to have left the area for a hide-out in the nearby coastal mountain range. Al-Tarshani told The Irish Times that the Benghazi group had nothing to do with him. Benotman, himself a former Libyan jihadist, thinks that blaming Ansar al Sharia for the attack oversimplifies the situation. He told CNN in September that its loose structure made it easy for any group with a terror agenda to infiltrate it because of a shared ideology. One such group, Benotman said, was the Imprisoned Omar Abdul Rahman Brigades, named for the blind Egyptian Sheikh imprisoned in the United States for his role in the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. The group claimed responsibility for a crude IED attack on the Benghazi consulate in June. There does not appear to be organizational links between Ansar al Sharia and al Qaeda, but there is solidarity. Al-Zahawi praised al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri in his BBC interview, and said al Qaeda's statements "help galvanize the Muslim nation, maintain its dignity and pride." Benotman said most people in Benghazi have little time for the Islamist brigades, as evidenced by the crowd of thousands who attacked Ansar al Sharia's headquarters in the days following the consulate attack. But he says their animosity was less ideological than borne of frustration. "They felt the attack on consulate was a threat to their well-being. For many of the protestors, it's an opportunity to help the government make serious decisions to boost security in Benghazi," he said. U.S. unsure of Ansar role . The narrative from U.S. officials -- on the record and off -- about who was responsible for the consulate attack in Benghazi has been, at best, confusing. In part, that's because of the blurred lines and overlapping memberships of the different militia. On the day of the attack, a U.S. diplomatic cable sent from Benghazi described a meeting of several brigade commanders with U.S. officials two days earlier. According to the cable, during the meeting Libyan Shield commander Ben Hamed and another Islamist militia leader "discussed the very fluid relationships and blurry lines they say define membership in the Benghazi based Brigades under the February 17, Libya Shield, and SSC [Supreme Security Committee, a Libyan government created fighting outfit] umbrellas." Hamed and the other militia leader described themselves as members of multiple brigades, the cable said. Then there are the conflicting reports from U.S. officials. On September 18th, a U.S. official told CNN that Ansar al Sharia had not been positively identified as responsible for the attack, "which is more likely to turn out to be a bunch of various elements and basically (al Qaeda) militants." Another senior official told CNN: "Ansar al Sharia is only one of the elements they are looking at. The notion that the intelligence community has zeroed in on either Ansar al Sharia -- its leader Sufian bin Qumu in particular -- is completely untrue." At the same time, Matthew Olsen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, told a congressional panel: "We are looking at indications that individuals involved in the attack may have had connections to al Qaeda or al Qaeda's affiliates -- in particular, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb." The possibility that al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb was somehow involved in the attack was recently revived by U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Carter Ham, commander of the U.S. Africa Command. "It appears to me very likely that some of the terrorists who participated in the attack in Benghazi have at least some linkages to AQIM," Ham told reporters in Paris this week. At other times U.S. officials have suggested that Libyan jihadists who fought with al Qaeda in Iraq played a role along with Egyptian militants. Little is known about who Libyan authorities detained in the wake of the consulate attack, and whether they are still detained. A Tunisian, meanwhile, has been detained in connection with the attack, though nothing is known publicly about his links to Ansar al Sharia. Ani Ali al Harzi was arrested in Turkey and is now being held in Tunis. What can be said with some confidence is that the Salafist trend has been revitalized across the Arab world as dictatorships have crumbled. A number of Ansar al Sharia groups have emerged not only in Libya but in Yemen, Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco. "The Muslims today are not like they were before," al-Tarshani told the BBC. "They cannot stand any action that would insult our Prophet or other symbols." ### SUMMARY:

Ansar al Sharia is one of a handful of militias operating in Libya . Ansar al Sharia serves more as a label than an organized group . Its identifiable leaders are Mohammed al-Zahawi and Sufian bin Qumu . Both have denied the group had any role in the consulate attack .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 19:09 EST, 11 May 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 20:11 EST, 11 May 2012 . A second woman has been arrested on Thursday night as the third suspect in connection with the killing of the young wife of a U.S. Marine at Camp Pendleton. Dorothy Grace Marie Maraglino, 36, of Fallbrook, California, was taken into custody at a hotel in downtown San Diego, Sheriff Bill Gore said in a written statement. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service assisted in the arrest, according to the statement. Mystery suspect: Dorothy Grace Marie Maraglino (pictured) was arrested in San Diego in connection with the April murder of 22-year-old Brittany, Dawn Killgore . Gore said that Maraglino was taken into custody as a result of information and evidence obtained during the ongoing investigation into Brittany Dawn Killgore's death. Killgore, 22, was last seen April 13, three days after she filed for divorce from her husband, Lance Corporal Cory Killgore. Her body was found in brush near Lake Skinner on April 17. Authorities did not mention what role investigators believe Maraglino played in the alleged murder. The 36-year-old was ordered held without bail. She is expected to be arraigned on Monday at the Vista branch of San Diego County Superior Court . The other suspects in the killing are Maraglino's boyfriend, Louis Ray Perez, 45, a . Camp Pendleton Marine staff sergeant, and Jessica Lynn Lopez, 25, who . was a roommate of Perez and Maraglino. Both have pleaded not guilty to . murder. During Perez's arraignment in April, prosecutors revealed that Killgore met him for a night out after she filed for divorce. Another woman was supposed to join them, but canceled last minute. During their date, however, something apparently went awry. ‘She sent a text saying, 'Help,'' said Patrick Espinoza, a deputy San Diego County district attorney. ‘She was missing from that point on.’ According to Espinoza, investigators found Killgore's blood and a weapon in Perez's car. He also said Perez told investigators he dropped off Killgore in downtown San Diego's Gaslamp District, but investigators concluded that he lied about his whereabouts and stayed about 60 miles north in Fallbrook, where Killgore lived. Authorities said Killgore's body was found hours after paramedics were called to a San Diego motel and found Lopez with self-inflicted cuts and a suicide note. Tragic: The body of Brittany Killgore was discovered on Tuesday, four days after she was last seen with a marine who was later arrested on an unrelated charge . Suspect: Authorities believe that the victim knew Jessica Lynn Lopez (pictured here), and the two were involved in some kind of sex slave ring . While authorities would not elaborate . on the nature of the relationship between Lopez and the victim, Lopez's . neighbor claims she and Mrs Killgore were involved in a dangerous sex . ring, playing sex slaves. According to online profiles cited by the San Diego Union-Tribune, Perez and Maraglino were also involved in sadomasochism and bondage. The prosecutor said Lopez and . Perez once lived together but didn't indicate when or where. Lopez lives . a mile from Killgore's second-floor apartment overlooking Camp . Pendleton.It is still unclear how Killgore died. Cory Killgore has not been named as a suspect or person of interest in the killing. The couple married in July of 2010. Lopez's attorney Dean Broyles said he . didn't know if his client knew Perez or Mrs Killgore, who was reported . missing one day after Lopez turned 25. 'There's a lot of speculation, a lot of innuendo, a lot of weak allegations and charges out there,' he said. 'I would caution everyone to not jump to conclusions and prejudge based on all the information flying around right now.' Suicide attempt: Jessica Lynn Lopez was found with numerous self-inflicted stab wounds on her body at this Ramada Inn near the San Diego Airport . Estranged: Brittany Killgore, right, filed for divorce from husband Cory, left, last week . Lopez's parents, who live in nearby Escondido, . released a statement saying they loved their daughter. 'We . pray for the family of Brittany Killgore and ask that the Lord comfort . them during their time of grief and anguish,' the parents said. 'We ask that you pray for all of those impacted by this tragic situation, including our family.' Authorities have not disclosed Mrs Killgore, Lopez, and Perez are connected. A neighbour, who declined to be identified, told ABC 10 that both Lopez and the victim took part in some kind of sex ring. She said: 'They're into the sex slave things... I try not to judge, but that's what they're into.' Missing: Brittany Killgore lived in Fallbrook, California, not far from Camp Pendleton US Marine base . Perez, 45, had initially pleaded not guilty to stealing a AR-15 rifle from Camp Pendleton, but was re-arrested on April 24 and charged with Killgore's death. Lopez's bail was set at $3 million. Mrs Killgore went missing shortly after . filing for divorce from her husband, Cory Killgore a 22-year-old Marine deployed to . Afghanistan. Her body was found in brush in Riverside . County about 25 miles northeast of her modest, two-story apartment in . Fallbrook, a San Diego County community known for its avocado orchards. Killgore lived a short walk from an . entrance to Camp Pendleton, and her complex - like others around it - is . full of Marines and their families who tend to be short-term residents . and often don't get to know each other well. Fears: Cory, right, is returning from Afghanistan after hearing about the disappearance of his wife, left . Killgore's husband, Lance Corporal . Cory Killgore, flew back to California after learning his wife was . missing. The couple from Missouri were married . in July 2010. Brittany Killgore filed for divorce April 10 and listed . 'irreconcilable differences' as the reason. She gave no details on the . paperwork. Her cellphone was found in the Gaslamp District of downtown San Diego, an area populated with bars and restaurants. Darryl J Wrest of Rolla, Missouri, . confirmed Brittany Killgore is his daughter but said he was not . commenting on anything at this time. Killgore's other family members . also declined to comment. Authorities investigating the homicide said a suicide note . of the prime suspect contained key details about the case, including . the location of a body. Serious: The Fallbrook scene where Louis Ray Perez is being questioned in connection with the disappearance . Authorities in California are now reportedly examining a possible link between Killgore, the suspect, and a seedy sex ring. ABC 10 reported that officers later responded to a Ramada Inn near the San Diego Airport, . where they found a woman with stab wounds all over her body in an . apparent suicide attempt. That woman, 25-year-old Lopez, was arrested at the scene but hospitalized at UCSD Medical Center. Cory Killgore was deployed to Afghanistan earlier this year as a vehicle operator. Since his wife's murder, Killgore has spoken . publicly about her just once, saying in a statement that she . was 'beautiful beyond words' and that he was 'devastated' by her loss, according to Patch. 'My duty to her memory is now to ensure her good reputation remains . intact, and help law enforcement and prosecutors secure justice for the . person or persons who took her away from me,' he said. ### SUMMARY:

Dorothy Grace Marie Maraglino was arrested at a San Diego hotel . Brittany Killgore went missing on April 13 . 22-year-old's body was discovered on April 17 . Suspect Jessica Lopez arrested after trying to kill herself in hotel room . Found with suicide note containing key details on Killgore's disappearance . Another Marine, Louis Ray Perez, was also charged in the killing .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Christian Gysin . PUBLISHED: . 04:10 EST, 25 May 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 09:17 EST, 26 May 2012 . Libya's Prime Minister has claimed his country's former head of intelligence holds the key to solving the murder of policewoman Yvonne Fletcher, who was shot dead outside London's Libyan embassy in 1984. Leader Abdurrahim El-Keib, who yesterday visited the spot where Wpc Fletcher was shot dead, described Abdullah al-Senussi as the 'black box' who would know who carried out the killing. Senussi was one of Muammar Gaddafi's most senior henchmen who fled Libya last year and was arrested in Mauritania in March. He is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. He is also suspected of involvement in the Lockerbie bombing. Dramatic: Members of the security team of Libyan Prime Minister Abdurrahim El-Keib's pose for photos at the spot where Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead . Mr El-Keib, Libya's interim prime minister, said Abdul Senussi - also Gaddafi’s brother-in-law - was central to solving the murder case. He added: ‘He’s the black box. I guarantee he was almost directly or indirectly involved in most if not all of the crimes [of the former regime]. That doesn’t mean others weren’t involved. But he definitely knows who they were.' A team of detectives from the Metropolitan Police are to fly to Libya to continue their investigations into the unsolved murder, it was announced this week. During yesterday's visit, the Libyan prime minister paused and bowed in front of the memorial to Wpc Fletcher and laid a wreath of white roses and carnations at the spot. But Mr El-Keib said yesterday his country would 'work very closely together' with the UK after talks with Prime Minister David Cameron. Joining the Prime Minister at the memorial were two of his body guards who - with their sunglasses, designer stubble and smart suits - struck a seemingly dramatic stance,reaching out an arm to grasp the metal railings behind, for the camera. Respect: Libyan interim Prime Minister Abdel Rahim al-Kib prepares to lay a wreath in London, at the spot where British policewoman Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead . Investigation: Abdurrahim el-Keib has pledged that his country would work closely with the British government in a renewed investigation of the killing . WPC Fletcher, who was 25, was shot dead as she policed an anti-Gaddafi demonstration outside the Libyan People’s Bureau. She was cradled by colleague John Murray, who has been behind a long-running campaign to find justice for her. What is known is that the bullets which killed her and injured ten protesters came from inside the embassy. No-one has ever been brought to justice for the killing. Ms Fletcher's mother Queenie, father Tim and sister Sarah Parsons have been hoping to see justice for their daughter ever since. WPC Fletcher’s death led to an 11-day siege of the building in St James’s Square and the severing of diplomatic links between Britain and Libya. Mr El-Keib worked with the opposition while in exile during Gaddafi’s dictatorship and said he knew some of those involved in the demonstration. Tribute: The memorial to murdered British policewoman Yvonne Fletcher . Mr El-Keib worked with the opposition while in exile during Muammar Gaddafi's dictatorship, and said he knew some of those involved in the demonstration. Senussi is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity in Libya while France wants to try him in connection with the 1989 bombing of an airline over Niger in which 170 people died. He may also have some information about the Lockerbie bombing. Officers from New Scotland Yard and Home Office Minister James Brokenshire met Mr El-Keib today to discuss the Fletcher case. Commander Richard Walton, head of the Met's Counter Terrorism said he was determined to get justice for Ms Fletcher. He added: 'We have never lost our resolve to solve this murder and achieve justice for Yvonne's family. We see today's announcement as significant.' Detectives remain in regular contact with Wpc Fletcher's family and update them on developments. Tragic: The killing of Wpc Yvonne Fletcher sparked an 11 day police siege of the Libyan embassy in St James's Square . Mr El-Keib said Libya wanted to be 'long-term friends and partners' with Britain, and paid tribute to the role which the UK played in the international military mission to protect civilians from Gaddafi's forces during last year's uprising. Addressing Mr Cameron he said: 'You took a bold decision when it was very difficult for many to even consider supporting the Libyan people. You took that decision which inspired many of us.' Mr Cameron said: 'I am very proud of the role that Britain played to help secure a successful outcome in Libya and the support we gave through the Nato mission. 'I am very much looking forward to hearing about the progress towards a full democracy in Libya and the elections which you hope to hold before Ramadan this year.' Mr El-Keib was appointed interim prime minister of Libya in October last year. Elections for a national assembly for Libya are expected in June or July, though no date has yet been set. Mr Cameron and Mr El-Keib were also thought to be discussing the reconstruction of the country following last year's revolution. Changing Times: David Cameron said allowing British police to fly to Libya investigate Wpc Fletcher's killing was a really positive step. Diplomatic relations were cut with Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi, right, following the incident in 1984 . And just days after the death of the only person convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, they may also discuss whether any further evidence relating to the atrocity has emerged in the wake of the downfall of the Gaddafi regime. Mr El-Keib spent much of his life working abroad as an academic and businessman in the United States and UAE, and played no part in Gaddafi's administration. David Cameron, left, greets Libya's Prime Minister, Abdurrahim el-Keib before their meeting at 10 Downing Street . Speaking today, he dismissed his predecessor's regime saying his nation 'was a country where Libyans felt like aliens' and where people lived 'as close as you can get to the poverty line'. Saying that citizens 'lived in fear of the security apparatus', he spelt out his objectives for the country after elections are held on June 19 - for which 2.5 million people have registered to vote. The premier said life had already changed in the short time since Gaddafi's downfall with freedom of the press, human rights and transparency as cornerstones of life. 'These are special values that caused the revolution to take place,' he said. He also promised laws banning people from insulting Libya and glorifying Gaddafi would be erased after the election. Speaking at a talk in London, titled Re-establishing The State, Mr El-Keib said: 'I guarantee such laws will disappear completely.' The prime minister also spoke of the massive job of rebuilding the country and its infrastructure with health, education and the economy high on his list of priorities. 'Under the circumstances we have been making excellent progress and we have been making that progress continuously to democracy and the rule of law,' he said. Mr El-Keib told the audience of 250 that the times of corrupt deals being organised had gone.Contracts for rebuilding the nation would no longer get signed off by "just the man upstairs and he then starts asking you to do him favours'. Referring to the country's oil and gas capabilities and future business with international companies, Mr El-Keib said: "The door is well open in a transparent fashion. 'You are welcome, everyone, that can help us move forward and enhance our production in the future.' Mr Cameron and Mr El-Keib were thought to be discussing the reconstruction of the Libya following last year's revolution . ### SUMMARY:

Libya's PM claims former head of intelligence holds key to solving murder . Visit comes a day after Abdurrahim El-Keib meets Cameron . Wpc Fletcher shot dead controlling demonstration in London in 1984 . Believed that PC was hit by shot fired from embassy .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Daily Mail Reporter and Associated Press Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 08:58 EST, 22 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:58 EST, 22 March 2013 . Give those Harvard kids an A-plus in another subject: Bracketbusting 101. The school known for producing U.S. presidents, Supreme Court justices and Nobel Prize winners earned its first NCAA tournament victory Thursday night - a 68-62 upset of No. 3 seed New Mexico - and it didn't feel like a fluke. What makes the Cinderella win even more impressive is that the team lost both its co-captains before the season began as a huge cheating scandal swept the Ivy League school. Joy: Harvard's Siyani Chambers #1 and Laurent Rivard #0 celebrate the team's shock win in their first-ever NCAA tournament game . But on Thursday, Wesley Saunders scored 18 points and Laurent Rivard made five 3-pointers to help the 14th-seeded Crimson pull the biggest surprise of March Madness so far.Reaction came quickly, and from various corners. 'America, we are sorry for messing up your brackets and also your financial system and everything else,' tweeted the jokesters at the Harvard Lampoon. And this from Harvard's most famous hoops alum, Jeremy Lin: 'YYYYYEEEEESSSSSSSSS!!! HARVARD winssss!!! hahahahhah i told you,' he tweeted shortly after the victory. Everybody ready for Crimsonsanity? Still, this season's Harvard story is not all about the warm-and-fuzzies. The team lost its two co-captains, Kyle Casey and Brandyn Curry, before the season began because of an academic scandal that involved more than 100 students. Representing: Harvard's most famous hoops alum, Jeremy Lin, showed his support for the team on Twitter.'YYYYYEEEEESSSSSSSSS!!! HARVARD winssss!!! hahahahhah i told you,' he tweeted after the win . It was revealed in September that Casey and Curry voluntarily withdrew from the school after being implicated in the plagiarism row. It is believed both men withdrew before they were suspended in order to retain their final year of sporting eligibility in the event they are readmitted to the school. In the previous season, Casey averaged 11.4 points per game while first-choice point guard Curry made a team-high 5.0 assists per match. Harvard investigated allegations that at least 125 undergraduates in Government 1310: Introduction to Congress, a spring 2012 class with an enrollment of 279, cheated by collaborating on answers for a take-home final exam. The students were accused of 'acts of academic dishonesty, ranging from inappropriate collaboration to outright plagiarism.' Harvard announced in February that half of the students investigated have been asked to withdraw from the school. Row: Harvard got their surprise victory despite losing co-captains Kyle Casey (left) and Brandyn Curry (right) following a cheating scandal in 2012 . Next up for Harvard basketball (20-9), a meeting with sixth-seeded Arizona, which beat Belmont 81-64 earlier in the West Region. 'This is the No. 1 moment in my career,' said Harvard senior Christian Webster, who finished with 11 points. 'The thought came to mind that this could be the last game. We showed a lot of toughness, just persevering.' Indeed. The Ivy Leaguers put the clamps down on New Mexico's Tony Snell, holding him to nine points on 4-for-12 shooting after he dominated in the Mountain West Conference tournament. They banged inside with Lobos big men Cameron Bairstow and Alex Kirk, whose 22 points provided New Mexico's only consistent offense. Mostly, they showed none of the jitters that marked their trip to the tournament last year, a 79-70 loss to Vanderbilt in the Crimson's first NCAA appearance since 1946. Rivard went 6 of 7 from 3 in that one - played on New Mexico's home court in The Pit - and was clearly pumped for an encore against the Lobos themselves. He was 5 of 9 this time, with three of them coming in the first half, while Harvard was holding a small lead and, more importantly, answering every surge the Lobos (29-6) could muster. Rivard finished with 17 points. 'I hit my first one, and you know, you hit the shot and then you keep shooting after that, and then I hit another one, so I knew it was going to be a good game after that,' Rivard said. Coach Tommy Amaker called Rivard the best 3-point shooter in Boston this side of former Celtic Ray Allen. Victory: Crimson coach Tommy Amaker (left) said: 'I'm very proud of our guys.' Webster can also shoot the 3. He was more of a role player last year, but jumped to the fore in 2013; he made three 3s and gestured after each one of them, even pointing to his forehead after swishing one from the corner in the first half. Yep, these smart kids really can play. 'We battled a really good basketball team in a tough environment,' Amaker said. 'I'm very proud of our guys.' Amaker outcoached his contemporary, Steve Alford, exacting revenge of sorts for the time Alford's Indiana team beat Amaker and Duke back in the 1987 regional semifinals. 'I've got all the respect in the world for Tommy. He does it the right way,' Alford said. 'His staff was very well prepared. They had a good game plan and they executed it well.' Based on their regular-season and conference tournament victories, the Lobos were a popular pick to head to the Final Four this season. The school even gave Alford a new, 10-year contract Wednesday that called for a $125,000 bonus for a Final Four trip. They'll save the money but feel the pain. The Mountain West Conference, judged one of the top two leagues in college basketball all season, fell to 1-3 so far this week. Meanwhile, the Ivy League moves on for the first time since Cornell made the regional semifinals in 2010. This year's standard-bearer is Harvard - that school we've all heard of, but not usually this time of year. Shock: Harvard shot 52 percent for the game - that's almost 15 percent better than New Mexico's stingy defense normally allows. Steve Moundou-Missi (right) of Harvard is fouled by Alex Kirk (left) of New Mexico in the second half . Amaker, who had plenty of experience in rebuilding projects when he coached a Michigan team recovering from NCAA violations, didn't wave the white flag after losing his captains. He simply asked his team for more. In stepped freshman point guard Siyani Chambers, who played like a veteran. He wasn't great against the Lobos, finishing with five points and seven assists, but he kept his team under control, poised and found open players. The Crimson shot 52 percent for the game - that's almost 15 percent better than New Mexico's stingy defense normally allows. New Mexico, meanwhile, shot only 37 percent. 'We can't shoot for them,' Alford said. 'We've had games like that, several games where we haven't shot the ball well. It's a glaring weakness on this basketball team.' It allowed Harvard to take a lead for good with about 6 minutes left. When Kenyatta Smith made an 8-foot, left-handed shot to put the Crimson up 59-53 with 4:40 left, Alford called timeout and Amaker ran onto the court to calm his kids down. They acted like they belonged down the stretch, making five free throws and hanging onto the ball. The buzzer sounded and they stormed the court like any 14 would after beating a 3. But just as quickly, it was over. 'We mentioned to our kids coming into the tournament, we talked about how meaningful this season has been, how they adjusted and adapted and believed,' Amaker said. 'This adds to that.' ### SUMMARY:

No 14 seed Harvard shocks No 3 seed New Mexico in first NCAA appearance . Alum Jeremy Linn tweets his congratulations . Harvard team lost both co-captains after massive plagiarism row at school in August 2012 .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Jaymi Mccann . PUBLISHED: . 13:19 EST, 17 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 02:08 EST, 20 May 2013 . Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla died in prison aged 87 . Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla died in his sleep while serving life in prison for crimes against humanity aged 87. Videla took power over Argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow citizens in a dirty war to eliminate people considered to be subversives. Federal Prison Service Director Victor Hortel said Videla died in the Marcos Paz prison. He was found lifeless in his bed and declared dead at 8:25 a.m.. Videla ran one of the bloodiest military governments during South America's era of dictatorships, and later sought to take full responsibility for kidnappings, tortures, deaths and disappearances when he was tried again and again for these crimes in recent years. He said he knew about everything that happened under his rule because 'I was on top of everyone.' Videla had a low profile before the March 24, 1976, coup, but quickly became the architect of a repressive system that killed about 9,000 people according to official accounts. Human rights activists believe the real number was as high as 30,000. In 2003, during the presidency of . Nestor Kirchner, the Supreme Court nullified the amnesty laws, and a new . era of human rights investigations began, finally reaching the trial . stage in the last few years. In 2010, Videla was condemned to life in . prison for killing 31 political dissidents, and was ordered to serve the . time in common prison. The baby thefts conviction, with its . 50-year sentence, was handed down in 2012. All of the crimes involved in . both convictions were considered crimes against humanity under . Argentine law. Videla ultimately served only five . years in prison after his right to serve his time at home because of his . advanced age was revoked in 2008. Videla died while standing trial in a . case focused on kidnappings and killings related to Operation Condor. This 'dirty war' introduced two frightening terms to the global lexicon of terror: 'disappeareds' - people kidnapped and never seen nor heard from again - and 'death flights,' in which political prisoners were thrown, drugged but alive, from navy planes into the sea. Argentine dictator Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla with Former Paraguayan dictator Gen. Alfredo Stroessner in 1977 . Complaints from families looking for missing loved ones were later heard internationally, and suggested that the regime many Argentines initially welcomed as an antidote to political violence and economic chaos was much bloodier than first thought. 'The disappeareds aren't there, they don't exist,' Videla told a news conference defensively in 1977. Videla's dictatorship also stood out from others in Latin America for its policy of holding pregnant prisoners until they gave birth, and then killing the women while arranging for illegal adoptions of their babies, usually by military or police families. This happened hundreds of times, and the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo rights group has relentlessly sought to reunite these children, now in their 30s, with their biological families. Last year, Videla was convicted and sentenced again, to a 50-year-term, for the thefts of these babies. Adolfo Perez Esquivel, who spent 28 months in prison during the dictatorship and won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work documenting Videla's crimes, said the general's death should not be cause for celebration, and urged Argentina's justice system to keep investigating the dirty war era. Videla was among 46 officials of the former regime being sought for extradition by Spanish judge Baltazar Garzon to face trial for crimes against humanity . 'The death of Videla should not bring joy to anyone. We need to keep working for a better society, more just, more humane, so that all this horror doesn't ever happen, never again,' Esquivel said in an interview with Radio Once Diez. Neither does Videla's death end an era, Esquivel said: 'It goes beyond Videla, it's a political system that they implemented throughout the country and in Latin America.' Videla's regime, known as the 'Process of National Reorganization,' fought against armed leftist guerrillas, but these movements were already weakened and nearly destroyed at the time of the coup. The junta soon pursued political opponents, union members, student activists and social workers, rousting people from their homes and torturing them in clandestine detention centers. The process soon spread internationally as the junta joined Operation Condor, an effort launched by Chile's dictator, Gen. Augusto Pinochet to make sure the countries of South American's southern cone provided no refuge to each other's leftist enemies. 'Paraguay's dictator Alfredo Stroessner joined the pact, as did the leaders of Bolivia, Brasil, and Uruguay. Secret documents released decades later showed that U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was kept well informed. Videla told journalists Maria Seone and Vicente Muleiro, authors of his 2001 biography 'The Dictator,' that the three essential elements of his state-sponsored terror campaign were clandestine detention centers, torture to obtain information and the subsequent disappearance of the prisoners, so that they "don't have identity," and are "neither alive nor dead." Videla's junta closed Congress, banned political parties, intervened in unions and universities, and imposed an iron censorship over the media. The military leaders engineered a joint venture with the owners of the newspapers La Nacion and Clarin to control newsprint and thus ensure sympathetic coverage. The high point of Videla's regime came in 1978, when Argentina hosted soccer's World Cup. Just blocks from the River Plate stadium where Diego Maradona's goals made Argentina the champion, detainees were being tortured inside the Navy Mechanics School, a leafy campus where thousands were taken, never to be seen again. Argentinian former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla (L) and Reynaldo Bignone (2L), last President of the dictatorship, attending a judgment against them in Buenos Aires . Videla retired in 1981 and handed leadership to a succession of other generals. By then the government was already weakened, pressured by persistent inflation, a sluggish economy and explosive growth in foreign debts after nationalizing the debts of leading private corporations. The dictators then launched an ill-advised war against Britain for the Falkland Islands, which Argentina claims as the Malvinas and considers part of its territory. That military defeat hastened the return of democracy on Dec. 12, 1983. With constitutional rule restored, then-President Raul Alfonsin created a truth commission to investigate the dictatorship's crimes, and its report, titled "Never Again," served as the basis for a historic trial of the dictators, which ended with Videla's first life sentence in 1985. Alfonsin's government also passed amnesty laws designed to put an end to human rights trials for everyone other than the junta leaders, and his successor, President Carlos Menem, then pardoned Videla in 1990. Videla was free until 1998, when a judge charged him in the baby thefts. He spent a month in prison before asserting the right that Argentines over 70 have to house arrest pending trial. Videla came from a long line of military officers dating back to Argentina's war of independence from Spain. He was born on August 2, 1925, in Mercedes, a town in Buenos Aires province. His father, Lt. Col. Rafael Videla, participated in an earlier coup that toppled President Hipolito Yrigoyen in 1930. Following family tradition, he went to Argentina's military college, became a general in 1971 and was designated commander of the army in 1976. He married Alicia Raquel Hartridge in 1948 and had seven children. ### SUMMARY:

Videla took power over Argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta . The 'dirty war' was meant to eliminate people considered to be subversives . Was found lifeless in his bed and declared dead at 8:25 a.m . Said he knew everything that happened under his rule because 'I was on top of everyone.'

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Jack Doyle, John Stevens and Vanessa Allen . PUBLISHED: . 05:44 EST, 16 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 09:55 EST, 16 July 2013 . Ian McLoughlin is an 'astonishingly bright' man who has a violent hatred of gay men despite being bisexual himself . A double killer on the run who is suspected of murdering a third is bordering on genius level but harbours a violent hatred of gay men. Bisexual Ian McLoughlin, 55,  viciously attacked a paedophile he met in jail and is believed to have stabbed a neighbour who rushed to his aid after a row broke out on Saturday. Grandfather and father of three, Graham Buck, 66, was killed as he tried to help paedophile Francis Cory-Wright, 87, in the village of Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire. Today, it emerged that convicted killer McLoughlin – now the focus of a ‘massive manhunt’ has an IQ of 140 and is described as 'astonishingly bright'. Anyone with a IQ above this is considered a ‘genius’. The killer has already served one sentence for killing one gay man, and was 22 years into a second jail term for murdering another homosexual. McLoughlin, who also uses the surname . Baker, absconded on Saturday while on day release from an open prison . where he is serving a 25-year sentence for murdering homosexual Peter . Halls, 55, in 1990, just months after he finished a jail term for . another homophobic killing. He murdered Mr Halls by stabbing him . through the neck while he lay face down on a bed in 1990, seven years . after he killled Len Delgatty, 49, in Stoke Newington, north London.  Mr Delgatty, who . was also gay, was battered with a hammer before being strangled with a . tourniquet and then left upside down to drown in his own blood. McLoughlin, . who is bisexual but is said to hate gay men, fled the scene but later . crashed his car while drunk and was found to have used Mr Delgatty's . credit card. McLoughlin was charged with murder but . convicted of manslaughter after claiming he was incensed by Mr Delgatty . playing him a tape in which he fantasised about having sex with a . teenage boy.  The alleged tape was never found. Scroll down for video . Police looking for double killer Ian McLoughlin in connection with a suspected murder in a quiet village have released this image . Wanted: Ian McLoughlin is believed to have met convicted paedophile Francis Cory-Wright, 88, in prison . Family man: Graham Buck, 66, who died in the latest killing, is circled in a family photo . The trial heard that Mr Delgatty had previously served time in prison for under-age sex and another sex offence. McLoughlin's 13-year sentence for the killing was reduced to eight years on appeal, but within 17 months of his release, McLoughlin, a drifter from Barrow-in-Furness who is said to have worked as a rent boy, killed again in September 1990. Again, his victim was gay: Peter Halls, a . publican with whom McLoughlin had been living in Brighton.  He forced . him to lie face down on his bed and then stabbed him through the neck . with such force that the knife came out the other side. Forensics officers yesterday worked at Cory-Wright's stone house in the village of Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire . McLoughlin then stole luxury goods worth thousands of pounds from him. The most recent killing took place in a quiet Hertfordshire village where, it is alleged,on his first day of unsupervised . release, McLoughlin is said to have targeted the £1million home of Old . Etonian Francis Cory-Wright, 87,a convicted paedophile he got to know . while the two were in prison together. He is believed to have been . interrupted by a neighbour, named yesterday as grandfather and . father-of-three Graham Buck, who overheard shouting and went to help. McLoughlin is suspected of grabbing a . knife from the kitchen and repeatedly stabbing Mr Buck, 66, a retired . businessman, before fleeing with thousands of pounds in cash. Victim's home: A statement released by Mr Buck's family today said: 'We were all in such a happy place as a family... We cannot get over that we have lost him' At the time of Mr Halls’ death, his sister Pamela . condemned his release from jail in the first place, saying: ‘McLoughlin . should not have been released after he committed this sort of crime the . first time.’ Yesterday, when it emerged that he was . granted day release from an open prison as part of his . ‘rehabilitation’, she branded the justice system ‘a joke’. The 71-year-old mother-of-two from . Brighton said: ‘This monster has struck again and has been allowed to . strike again because he has been freed to walk the streets just as he . was with my poor brother.' ‘I pray he is caught soon. Nothing can . change men like McLoughlin, he is evil and should have been left . rotting in a prison cell where he deserves to be, not free to kill and . kill again.’ Company director Graham Buck, 66, left, died after he went to help neighbour Francis Cory-Wright, 87, right . She said she had spent more than 20 years trying to come to terms with her brother’s killing. She said: ‘I have tried to put Peter’s . killing behind me but you never forget. Now all the terrible emotions I . felt have come back to the surface. ‘McLoughlin has never shown a scrap of remorse for what he did to Peter. I would be happy if they gave him a lethal injection.’ Mr Buck leaves a wife, two sons, a . daughter and two grandchildren, and a wife from a previous marriage. His . wife, Karen, a 55-year-old nurse, said: ‘I’ve lost my rock. I wouldn’t . be able to do half the things I’ve done since being with Graham if it . wasn’t for him. He and his family have always been there for me in . difficult times. I don’t know what I’ll do without him.’ In a statement, his family added: ‘We . have no words to express how much Graham will be missed. We were all in . such a happy place as a family. We were all so settled, with growing . numbers of grandchildren whom he adored being around. ‘We haven’t seen him happier than being around his grandchildren, he was so proud. We cannot get over that we have lost him.’ Police and forensics officers worked on the houses belonging to both Mr Buck and Cory-Wright today . Police guard the home of Cory-Wright in the sleepy Hertfordshire village of Little Gaddesden, near Berkhamsted . McLoughlin was known to the police in Cumbria where he grew up, and ended up in a juvenile care home.  He was convicted of a string of crimes including theft and burglary, and was described as  a 'drifter'. He was married briefly but, troubled by his sexuality, it did not last, and he soon turned to more serious crime. Yesterday Detective Chief Superintendent Jeff . Hill said McLoughlin went to Cory-Wright's house for a ‘purely financial . motive’ but warned the public that McLoughlin is ‘extremely dangerous’ and should not be approached. Paying tribute to Mr Buck, he said he had . ‘paid the ultimate price for intervening at the home of an elderly . neighbour’. Cory-Wright, who suffered injuries during the attack, was discharged from hospital yesterday. ### SUMMARY:

Bisexual Ian McLoughlin has an IQ of 140 and is described as 'astonishingly bright', but has killed two men previously in violent homophobic attacks . McLoughlin was 22 years into a 25-year sentence before he walked out of open prison on day release on Saturday and failed to return . 'Extremely dangerous' McLoughlin is on the run from Spring Hill open prison near Aylesbury and could be armed . He is suspected of killing Graham Buck, 66, who rushed to help his paedophile neighbour Francis Cory-Wright, 87 .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Neil Ashton . PUBLISHED: . 09:59 EST, 14 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 18:41 EST, 14 March 2013 . Is England boss Roy Hodgson right to recall Rio? Roy Hodgson admitted Rio Ferdinand has every right to feel a . 'grievance' towards him as he ended the Manchester United defender's . international exile. Ferdinand, who has not played for England since a Euro 2012 qualifier . against Switzerland in June 2011, returns for the World Cup qualifiers . against San Marino and Montenegro. England head coach Hodgson has dropped Joleon Lescott from the 26-man . travelling party, which includes the recalled Ben Foster, Michael Dawson . and Scott Parker. Rio returns: Manchester United defender Ferdinand is back in the England squad. His last game for the Three Lions was in June 2011 . GOALKEEPERS Hart (Man City), Foster (West Brom), Forster (Celtic). DEFENDERS Baines (Everton), Cahill (Chelsea), A Cole (Chelsea), Dawson (Tottenham), Ferdinand (Man United), G Johnson (Liverpool), Smalling (Man United), Walker (Tottenham). MIDFIELDERS Carrick (Man United), Cleverley (Man United), Gerrard (captain, Liverpool), Lampard (Chelsea), Lennon (Tottenham), Milner (man City), Osman (Everton), Parker (Tottenham), Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal), Walcott (Arsenal), Young (Man United). FORWARDS Defoe (Tottenham), Rooney (Man United), Sturridge (Liverpool), Welbeck (Man United). Hodgson, who has yet to speak with the Manchester United defender about his selection, said yesterday: 'If Rio has a grievance and does hold it against me because I haven't previously selected him there's not much I can do about that. It's a concern, but I can't do more than I am by giving him a chance to come back and making it clear I would like to use him. I can't do more. 'I like to do my talking to players face to face. The telephone sometimes is not the greatest of instruments, especially if you don't know people extremely well.' Hodgson has always quoted footballing  reasons for Ferdinand's omission and inadvertently appeared to end his England career in an unguarded conversation with a fellow passenger on a Tube train last October. The defender is understood to have been shocked by yesterday's announcement, but honoured to be playing for his country again. Ferdinand has had an uneasy relationship with Ashley Cole after the Chelsea defender gave evidence on behalf of retired England skipper John Terry in his court case with Anton Ferdinand last July. Rio was fined £45,000 by the FA over his infamous 'choc ice' tweet after the trial, a slang reference to Cole's ethnicity. Cole was later fined £90,000 for calling the FA a 'bunch of t****' when Terry was banned for four matches and fined £220,000 after he was found guilty of racially abusing Anton Ferdinand. Recalling Rio: Hodgson has brought back Ferdinand . England manager Roy Hodgson and Under 21 counterpart Stuart Pearce will go head-to-head at the Madejski Stadium in May as the Football Association help celebrate 125 years of football in the British Army. A line-up of FA legends, managed by Hodgson, will take on the current British Army team who will be bossed by Pearce. The likes of Jens Lehmann, Gary Neville, Gareth Southgate, Paul Merson, Ledley King, Matt Le Tissier and Dietmar Hamann will line up for the FA Legends. The FA have donated £10,000 to help get the event off the ground with ticket sale proceeds going to service charities that promote sporting opportunities for soldiers, including wounded servicemen who play sport as part of their rehabilitation. The fixture also forms part of the FA's 150th anniversary celebrations and chairman David Bernstein said: 'We at the FA greatly value our close relationship with the Armed Forces and believe that we should celebrate their work whenever possible. 'In fact, the Army has a proud heritage with the Football Association going all the way back to our formative years in the 1860s. This match will be more than fitting, especially with the Army FA marking their 125th anniversary.' However, Cole and Rio Ferdinand shook hands before Sunday's FA Cup clash . between United and Chelsea and it is understood they are prepared to . put their differences behind them in the interests of the national team. Hodgson added: 'They were very good friends, but we are talking about England as a football team and not purely individuals. 'I expect the pair of them to do their job with England. Ashley has to . do his job at left back and Rio has to do his at centre half. 'I don't expect any problems. If there are any I will have to deal with . them, but I'm rather hoping the long-term friendship can re-emerge and . the unfortunate incident along the way can be forgotten. The spirit in . the group is good and they do seem to care about each other. 'I would be unhappy if there were tensions between players in a group, . but this is an  England team and these players are fierce rivals . sometimes on the field of play. 'We are talking about two very experienced professional players here and . we are talking about the England football team. I don't envisage any . problems.' England's head coach watched Ferdinand, who has 81 caps, play against . Real Madrid in the Champions League at Old Trafford last week and again . in the FA Cup quarter-final with Chelsea. Hodgson added: 'If he is still . playing in 2014 like he is now then there is no reason why he cannot be . part of the squad in 2014 for the World Cup.' Football reasons: Hadgson said it was a no-brainer to recall Ferdinand . England play San Marino a week today  and then travel on to Montenegro . for a World Cup qualifier that could shape Hodgson's destiny. England go into the game behind  Montenegro in second place in Group H, . knowing they need a win to put automatic qualification for Brazil 2014 . back in their own hands. The big test for the squad will come in Podgorica, when Wayne Rooney . will return to the stadium where he was sent off in a Euro 2012 . qualifier against Montenegro. Together again: Ferdinand and Cole have not played with each other since June 2011 . At arm's length: Hodgson insists Cole and Ferdinand are good friends but it will be interesting to see how they get on . Glove story: West Brom goalkeeper Ben Foster has ended his international sabbatical and returns to the squad . Hands on: Manchester City's Joe Hart is expected to be first choice with Celtic's Fraser Forster challenging him . How it stands: Group H . Hodgson added: 'You don't forget  a sending off but his disciplinary . record, ignoring the occasion when he  paid dearly against Montenegro, . has been very good. I will be speaking to  all the players. 'Away matches at this level require a  lot of discipline, but I won't . single  out Wayne. He has not let me down as  a player, so I have no . reason to  doubt him.' Dawson, who has won only four caps,  is back in the squad for the first  time since his appearance against Wales in March 2011. Hot spurs: Tottenham's Michael Dawson and Scott Parker (R) are back in the England fold . National service: Chelsea defender Gary Cahill keeps his place in Hodgson's squad . Leading the way: Liverpool midfielder Steven Gerrard will captain England . Centre of attention: Chelsea's Frank Lampard and Manchester United's Michael Carrick are options in midfield . Hands up if you're in the England squad: Wayne Rooney will look to lead the line for the Three Lions in San Marino and Montenegro . Forward thinking: Manchester United star Danny Welbeck and Arsenal ace Theo Walcott (R) are also included . ### SUMMARY:

Boss Roy Hodgson describes decision as a 'no-brainer' Ben Foster and Michael Dawson also make return . 26-man party named for forthcoming World Cup 2014 qualifiers .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Matt Chorley . and Ray Massey . PUBLISHED: . 19:20 EST, 1 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 14:37 EST, 2 January 2014 . Train firms barely make a profit, the rail minister insisted today as passengers were hit with New Year fare rises of 3.1 per cent, three times higher than average increases in pay. Stephen Hammond denied operators were using the railways as a 'cash cow', with companies making 'less than three pence in the pound' as profit. But despite government efforts to limit annual rises to the rate of inflation, passengers returning to work today complained of high costs and poor service with some annual season tickets now costing more than £5,000. Scroll down for video . Hike: Regulated rail fares have risen by 3.1 per cent today, much higher than average pay rises of just 1 per cent . The 3.1 per cent rise taking effect today is for regulated fares which include season tickets. The increase on unregulated fares, typically off-peak leisure tickets, is not capped. The regulated fare increase pushes some commuters into the £5,000-a-year club, with annual season tickets to London from Deal and Dover Priory costing £5,012. But despite the cost of a ticket, many commuters struggle to find a seat and are forced to stand, with ministers now considering paying rail firms millions of pounds to remove first class carriages to free up space for standard class passengers. Despite the latest round of fare hikes, rail minister Mr Hammond insisted profit was 'certainly not the aim'. 'That cannot be the aim if you look at the reality. The idea that there’s a huge amount of cash cow is just a nonsense. The average operator earns less than three pence in the pound,' he told ITV's Daybreak. 'The reality is that this is a Government that for the first time is guaranteeing to spend £16billion over the next five years, Network Rail will be spending £38billion over the next five years, putting in extra seats, extra capacity, upgrading the infrastructure of this company. Much of the fares passengers pay go exactly to that.' But a new study shows that rail fares are rising so fast that the Government will be making a profit from passengers by 2018. The report said that by then fares revenue will cover 103 per cent of the operating costs of the railways – up from 80 per cent in 2009. Research has found rail fares are rising so fast that the Government will be making a profit from passengers by 2018 . Average rises in regulated fares like season tickets have been capped at 3.1 per cent, in line with the rate of inflation in July. But with wages increasing by only 1 per cent a year, the costs increase the squeeze on family finances and mean some annual season tickets now cost more than £5,000. The impact on annual tickets includes: . Leeds-Wakefield Jan 2013: £964, Jan 2014: £992, increase 2.9% . Basingstoke-London £3,952, £4,076, 3.13% . Ramsgate-London £4,864, £5,012, 3.04% . Folkestone Central-London £4,836, £4,984, 3.06% . Bedford-London £4,172, £4,300, 3.07% . Sevenoaks-London £3,112, £3,208, 3.08% . Cheltenham Spa-London £9,184, £9,468, 3.09% . Deal-London £4,864, £5,012, 3.04% . Woking-London £2,896, £2,980, 2.9% . West Malling-London £3,876, £3,996, 3.1% . Guildford-London £3,224, £3,320, 2.98% . Dover Priory-London £4,864, £5,012, 3.04% . Ludlow-Hereford £1,992, £2,032, 2% . Morpeth-Newcastle £1,008, £1,040, 3.17% . Milton Keynes-London £4,620, £4,772, 3.29% . Tunbridge Wells- London £4,132, £4,260, 3.1% . Aylesbury-London £3,632, £3,732, 2.75% . Hastings-London £4,304, £4,432, 2.97% . The report by Credo commissioned by the Campaign for Better Transport (CBT) also showed that by 2018, the Government's funding of the railways will have fallen to just 20 per cent, down from 38 per cent in 2009. Under the capped price-rise formula, each January rise is calculated from the Retail Price Index rNate of inflation figure for the previous July, which was 3.1 per cent. But train companies can also use a 2 per cent flexibility regulation, which lets them put some regulated fares up by 5.1 per cent, provided their overall average does not exceed the 3.1 per cent cap. In the cold and dark at King's Cross station in London, travellers spoke of their anger at the annual rise and their view that rail travel offered poor value for money. 'It's a lot of money for a poor service,' said teacher Simon Jones, 30, as he waited to board a train to Newcastle upon Tyne with his friend Ben James, 33. Mr Jones was on a leisure trip today but he and Mr James normally commute to work in London from Wandsworth in south west London. Mr Jones said: 'Fares are pretty high. My salary has just gone up 1% but fares are rising around 3%. There are delays on practically every day.' Mr James said: 'We're not really getting value for money. At Clapham Junction (in south London) you can hardly get on a train.' Labour's shadow transport secretary Mary Creagh said the fare rise was 'a continuation of David Cameron's cost-of-living crisis', while Bob Crow, general secretary of the RMT transport union, said 2014 was 'all set to be another year of racketeering and greed on Britain's privatised railways'. Sustainable transport organisation Sustrans said: 'Commuters will still feel the pinch this new year because salaries aren't increasing by anywhere near the level of inflation.' Consumer group Which? said the fare increases 'will be a blow to people already feeling the financial squeeze', while campaign group Railfuture said: 'This latest fare rise comes after 10 years of inflation-busting fare increases, meaning that our trains are easily the most expensive in Europe.' The report also showed that by 2018, the Government's funding of the railways will have fallen to just 20 per cent . The CBT wants the Government to switch the measure on which they allow inflationary fare rises from 'retail' to the 'consumer' index of inflation, which they say is more in line with incomes. The CBT report said that between 2008 and 2013 the cost of a weekly season ticket from Reading to London has increased by 25 per cent, while average take-home pay rose by 9 per cent. CBT chief executive Stephen Joseph said: 'The Government must re-examine its fares policy as a matter of urgency and commit to a fairer system in line with the consumer price index so that fares only rise in line with wages.' The call comes as rail unions stage a protest today at King's Cross station in London highlighting the high cost of fares which they blame in part on the costs of rail privatisation. ### SUMMARY:

Regulated rail fares rise by 3.1%, after ministers axed inflation-busting hike . But increase is three times higher than average growth in wages . Latest round of price rises pushes more commuters into £5,000 club . Rail minister Stephen Hammond denies railways are treated as a 'cash cow'

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . James Nye . Sordid new details about the night when Maryville teenager Daisy Coleman claims she was raped by high school senior, Matthew Barnett have been released by police in the Missouri town. In a taped interview with police, recorded just hours after the alleged assault, Barnett told police that he and the then 14-year-old did have sex in his house, but it was consensual and crucially, Coleman began drinking heavily afterwards. The newly released material from the police also reveals that Daisy admitted texting Barnett 'once a month' and indicated to the star-football player that she would provide him with sexual favors if he gave her alcohol. Scroll down for video . New revelations: Daisy Coleman told police that she traded suggestive text messages with Matthew Barnett before she was allegedly raped by the teen in Maryville in January 2012 . The case files from the police include the July 2012 criminal depositions of Daisy and her mother, Melinda Coleman. Daisy claims that before the allged incident, Barnett, who was 17 at the time, said, 'sometimes me and my friends would see if he would bring us alcohol.' Barnett tells police that he picked Daisy up from her house on January 8, 2012 and that she was not intoxicated but appeared 'buzzed'. Police also shared Daisy's text messages the night of the alleged assault, which show they did agree beforehand to meet. 'U wanna come drink wit me and chill,' wrote Barnett according to the files and tapes from ABC News. 'OMFG. Sweeet,' replied Coleman, who later wrote, 'do you want me to bring alchol [sic]?' Matthew Barnett, arriving at court in January (left). He was convicted of Child Endangerment but escaped sex . charges for the assault on Daisy Coleman Right, his High School Yearbook photo . While it is not disputed that Daisy drank at least five shots of vodka at Barnett's house on January 8, what is important is when she drank them. Missouri law states that a 14-year-old girl cannot consent to sex if she is incapacitated. Barnett has never disputed that he and Daisy had sex, but has insisted it was consensual and she was not drunk at the time. Another witness, a boy, at the house, said that Daisy drank heavily after her sexual encounter with Barnett. Daisy has always said that she sneaked out of her house with her friend after drinking and was picked up by Barnett who fed her shots in a tall glass causing her to blackout. She claims that Barnett then raped her and dropped her off in her own front yard in the freezing cold. The identities of alleged sex assault victims are generally not published, but Coleman's family decided to go public with her identity and accusations . The case divided the small town and Barnett has never been convicted of rape charges - which were dropped. Scene: Photo of Matthew Barnett's family basement where the teens were drinking on the night of January 8, 2012. Daisy has experience two years of bullying since . she accused Barnett. Pictured left at her home in Albany, and right, a . high school wrestling photograph . Daisy was suspended from the cheerleading team because she admitted to drinking and the family were forced to move, but that didn't stop the slew of online attacks. 'The stuff on Facebook and Twitter was just unbelievable, so horrible ... saying stuff like, 'Why don't you slit your wrists,' Daisy' mother, Melinda Coleman told 20/20 in a January interview. Then almost exactly two years after the initial incident, Daisy attempted to commit suicide for the third time after ingesting a mix of cough medicine and prescription drugs. The case was reignited in October 2013, when he Kansas City Star reported on the allegations and Robert Rice's decision to drop charges against Barnett, who was initially charged with felony sex and child endangerment. The state appointed a special prosecutor to re-investigate the case, which ended in Barnett pleading guilty to the misdemeanor charge on Jan. 9, 2014 - two years almost to the date of the alleged incident. Barnett and his attorney maintain that the fact that two independent investigations have cleared him proves that he didn't do anything wrong. Indeed, last month, depositions in the sexual assault case show contradictions in statements between Daisy and her mother. Bullied: Daisy and her family have reportedly been followed by private investigators and had to leave the Maryville after reporting the alleged rape . In more than 100 pages of testimony, the Colemans described the night in January 2012 when Daisy, who was 14 at the time, claims she was raped. Jackson County prosecuting attorney Jean Peters Baker served as special prosecutor after Nodaway County Prosecutor Robert Rice asked for someone else to review the evidence amid questions about why he dropped charges against the alleged attacker. The testimony describes how Daisy and a female friend had been drinking before asking Matt Barnett, then 17, to pick them up after they sneaked out of Daisy's home. Daisy claimed Barnett took her to his house, plied her with alcohol and raped her when she blacked out. Mrs Coleman found her daughter shivering on the front porch at about 5am the next day. According to the depositions released on Friday, Mrs Coleman told Rice that Daisy had been less than truthful on some things in her deposition and attributed that to the girl's embarrassment over the ordeal. Age difference: Daisy was a 14-year-old freshman at the time of the alleged assault while Matthew Barnett was a 17-year-old senior . For example, Rice at one point had asked Daisy about an incident in which she burned the name of a boy into her skin. Mrs Coleman said that it was Barnett's name; Daisy said in her deposition that it was another boy's name. At one point, the mother suggested that the contradictions would likely keep the case out of a courtroom. 'I don't think that you probably can try this case now. I think there's been too many lies,' she said, according to the newly released documents. The Colemans and their supporters later claimed Rice dropped a felony assault charge against Barnett because of insensitivity, prosecutorial ambivalence and political pressure from the boy's grandfather, a retired state trooper and four-term state legislator. Claims: Daisy alleged that Barnett took her to his house and gave her alcohol before assaulting her . Mrs Coleman told The Associated Press that she hadn't seen the depositions, which she claimed Rice had denied even existed, and she didn't believe some of what was purported to be in them. Quite frankly, Robert Rice is a liar and I wouldn't be surprised if he put that in there himself,' Mrs Coleman said. Daisy's story made headlines nationwide after The Kansas City Star published a 4,000-word article in October detailing the girl's claims against Barnett. The AP generally doesn't name the victims of sexual assault but it is naming Daisy because she and her mother granted public interviews. In January, Barnett pleaded guilty to misdemeanor child endangerment after Baker concluded there wasn't enough evidence for a felony conviction. Barnett has not denied the two had sex, but has insisted that it was consensual. Robert Sundell, an attorney who initially represented Barnett after he was charged, said on Friday he was glad the documents were released. 'If all of the records and all of the evidence were made public, I think it would be pretty easy for anyone to recognize why the case didn't go forward,' he said. ### SUMMARY:

New tapes and documents from the alleged sexual assault of Daisy Coleman in Maryville in 2012 have been released . Interview with alleged attacker Matthew Barnett recorded just hours after the alleged rape on January 8 released . He claims that Daisy Coleman, who was 14 at the time, was not drunk and their sex was consensual . Daisy Coleman told police in a criminal deposition that she suggested sexual favors to Barnett if he brought her alcohol . Michael Barnett was convicted of Child Endangerment in January but escaped sex charges . Daisy Coleman has tried to commit suicide three times since the incident . The high school student has been . subjected to constant cyber-bullying from classmates - and even parents - . in the quiet town after she reported being raped in January 2012 by Barnett .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Emma Innes . A child with severe cerebral palsy has learned to sit up unsupported, to walk with a frame and to crawl unaided after joining a special school where his brain is ‘retrained’. Sonny Pikett, seven, had problems eating and could not control his head, roll over or sit up until he became a student at PACE in Buckinghamshire. The charity, which offers specialised education for children with motor disorders, helps to ‘retrain’ the brains of children like Sonny so as to bypass the damaged areas and teach others parts to substitute for them. Sonny Pikett, seven, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy when he was just a few weeks old . Sonny’s mother, Louise Taylor, 38, from Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire, said: ‘It really works and Sonny has come on so much. ‘For me personally, it is remarkable. He’s so much more active and he enjoys social interaction whereas before he was almost scared. ‘He is now much happier and he enjoys going to school.’ Sonny was born two months early, at just 30 weeks gestation, and when he was born he was unresponsive. He had to be delivered using forceps after Miss Taylor unexpectedly went into premature labour. When he was delivered he was not breathing properly – he was in respiratory distress. Until he was three, Sonny was unable to sit up unaided, crawl, walk or hold up his own head . As a result, he was rushed to the hospital’s special care baby unit and was put on a respirator. It is still not known why he was born so early but he had to spend seven and a half weeks in hospital before he was able to go home. Miss Taylor said: ‘We are very lucky to have him – he is a wonderful lad.’ She added: ‘We knew from a very early age that he would be disabled – we were told when he was seven weeks old that he had brain damage and would probably have cerebral palsy.’ Cerebral palsy is a general term for a number of neurological conditions that affect movement and co-ordination. These conditions are caused by a problem in the part of the brain responsible for controlling muscles. The condition can occur if the brain develops abnormally or if it is damaged before, during or shortly after birth. Causes of cerebral palsy include an infection caught by the mother during pregnancy, a difficult or premature birth, bleeding in the brain and gene mutations. It is thought that in the UK about one in every 400 people is affected. Symptoms include muscle stiffness or floppiness, muscle weakness, uncontrolled body movements and balance and co-ordination problems. Symptoms vary in severity from one person to another - some only have minor problems while others are severely disabled. Some patients also have seizures, swallowing problems, difficulties with communications and learning difficulties. There is no cure but patients can benefit from physiotherapy and occupational therapy. Source: NHS Choices . Sonny failed to meet any of his developmental milestones and had problems eating and drinking, had a squint, was unable to control his head and could not walk, talk or sit up. He was also hypersensitive to touch and to loud noises meaning he became distressed if he was exposed to loud sounds and when he touched something unexpectedly. When he was three years old, Sonny started attending PACE in Aylesbury after Miss Taylor was told about it by a health visitor and it was recommended by another parent. The charity provides an innovative education for children with motor disorders, such as cerebral palsy. The centre provides a rounded education for children while making the most of the plasticity of children's brains. It attempts to 'retrain' children's brains while they are still very malleable so that some of the undamaged parts learn to take over the function of some of the damaged parts. It does this through repetition - encouraging children to carry out the same movements again and again until they are able to do them. The centre also offers physiotherapy and occupational therapy to help with the children's development. Miss Taylor said: ‘Within five minutes of going to PACE we were hooked. ‘Straight away we knew it was the right place for Sonny. We knew we wanted him to be there because of the positivity – At PACE they immediately offered to try and help Sonny and we liked that about it.’ She added: ‘Sonny is probably not going to be able to live a totally independent life, but we feel much more positive about the future. ‘When he was first born we were given details of a bleak and uncertain future but he is now highly motivated and has made massive achievements since he started to attend PACE and we feel this will continue as he gets older.’ Sonny attends the centre full-time and has come on in leaps and bounds. Miss Taylor told MailOnline: ‘He has become so strong by doing the activities daily. When he was three, Sonny started attending a special school called PACE. Here specialists have worked on 'retraining' his brain so that the parts that are undamaged take on some of the function of the damaged parts . ‘It has improved him so much and I believe it will continue to do so.’ She went on to explain that he is still unable to talk but that he can communicate by using a picture and word book. She said he used to get frustrated when people couldn’t understand him but that he is now much happier and that he is also able to move around on his own by crawling or using a walking frame. She explained that he also no longer becomes distressed by loud noises and that he can sit up and hold his head up independently. He also now has much greater use of his hands which used to be clenched. Miss Taylor said: ‘Every child with cerebral palsy has the right to this sort of intervention. Sonny is now able to sit up unaided, to hold his head up, to crawl and to walk with a frame . ‘I don’t know where we’d have been if Sonny hadn’t gone to PACE – thanks to the school he will now be able to lead as independent a life as is possible for him.’ She added: ‘PACE has helped us to understand cerebral palsy – now I understand why he used to react in certain ways. ‘There has been such a transformation – people always notice the huge changes in him when they haven’t seen him for a while. ‘They really have made a huge difference to him.’ Miss Taylor does not believe that Sonny will ever be able to live independently but she is confident that he will continue to improve at PACE. She said: ‘I believe that he may well be able to speak and to become physically stronger. Sonny's mother, Louise Taylor, says that the change in Sonny has been amazing since he started at the school . ‘I don’t think he will ever live independently but I do hope he will have some degree of independence.’ Miss Taylor is now supporting a new campaign and parliamentary inquiry focused on getting a better deal for children with cerebral palsy across the whole country. The campaign is being organised by Action Cerebral Palsy which is a consortium of charities working with children with cerebral palsy, including PACE. One of the primary objectives of the campaign is to call for more consistent access to early and intensive support - such as that offered by PACE and which Sonny is lucky enough to have access to. Sonny's parents do not believe that he will ever be able to live independently but they hope he will continue to improve while he is at PACE . Amanda Richardson, Chair of Action Cerebral Palsy said: 'We see every day the amazing progress that children with cerebral palsy can make, given the right support. ‘But we are fully aware that only a small proportion of the 1,800 children born with cerebral palsy every year receive the early and intensive intervention that can transform their lives. ‘By joining forces, we aim to get a better deal for all children with cerebral palsy.' The campaign is also fighting for the earliest possible diagnosis for people with cerebral palsy and better training for professionals working with children with the condition. For more information about PACE, click here. For more information about the campaign, click here. ### SUMMARY:

Sonny Pikett, seven, was born two months early and struggling to breathe . His parents, Louise and Adrian, were told he had suffered brain damage . They were also told that he would probably have cerebral palsy . By the age of three he couldn't walk, talk, crawl or sit up unaided . He then started at a special school for children with disabilities - PACE . There, specialists use repetition to teach undamaged parts of his brain to take over the function of some of the damaged parts . He can now sit up, walk with a frame, crawl and communicate .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Charlie Scott . Follow @@charliefscott . He failed to score in 120 minutes of open play but Neymar showed nerves of steel in the penalty shoot-out to stroke his sudden death spot-kick past his future Barcelona team-mate Claudio Bravo. After making a stunning start to the World Cup, scoring four goals in Brazil’s three group stage matches, much was expected of Neymar against their South American opponents Chile. Sportsmail takes a closer look at how the poster boy of the tournament got on during the match at Estadio Mineirao… . VIDEO Scroll down to watch Neymar scores outrageous penalty in Brazil training . People on Facebook tended to post these exuberant mentions right after key moments in matches. In particular, goals scored by Neymar Jr. (pictured after scoring Brazil's winning penalty against Chile) consistently garner a high number of exuberant mentions . All smiles: Neymar and Dani Alves greet their Barcelona team-mate Alexis Sanchez before kick-off . Ready for battle: Neymar walks out on to the pitch at Estadio Mineirao ahead of kick-off against Chile . 5mins – The forward receives treatment on his knee after being caught in the opening stages by Chile defender Francisco Mena. 8mins – There are worrying signs for Brazil boss Luiz Felipe Scolari as Neymar limps for a couple of minutes, clearly still struggling from the earlier foul. Hurt: Brazil's talisman goes down clutching his knee in the opening stages of the game . Touch and go: The forward goes off the pitch to receive treatment from Brazil's medical staff . 15mins – The Barcelona attacker looks back to full fitness as he embarks on brilliant run down the left and into the area, but when an opportunity arises for him to shoot he uncharacteristically passes to Fred and the move breaks down. Step-over: Brazil's No 10 showed glimpses of brilliance in the first half when he worked some space . 18mins – GOAL: BRAZIl 1-0 CHILE - Neymar whips a corner in from the left which Brazil captain Thiago Silva flicks on to David Luiz and the Paris Saint-Germain man deflects the ball in at the back post with his knee. 23mins – Neymar . does what many footballers try their best to avoid by going . head-to-head with Chile's intimidating midfielder Arturo Vidal. Referee . Howard Webb is quickly in to stop the pair's verbal sparring and play is . able to continue. Head first: Luiz deflects Neymar's corner past Claudio Bravo to give Scolari's side the lead . Assist: Luiz slides in front of Neymar after getting the final touch to the forward's corner to make it 1-0 . 26mins – Steams past the struggling Silva after sprinting from the halfway line, but can only drag his  shot wide from the edge of the Chile box. 29mins – Gets upended by Vidal as the Juventus midfielder flies into a challenge right in front of the dugouts. Brazil's medical team are called into action once again to check he is okay. Sandwich: Neymar is fouled by Gary Medel as Chile keep a close eye on him in the first half . Support: Neymar's girlfriend Bruna Marquezine watches on from the stands at Estadio Mineirao . 32mins – GOAL: BRAZIL 1-1 CHILE - Brazil gift Chile possession with an awful throw deep in their own half and Vargas quickly moves the ball to Alexis Sanchez inside the box, who sweeps a low finish past Julio Cesar and into the bottom corner. Sweeping home: Sanchez makes it 1-1 after Chile profit from a poor throw-in by Brazil . 39mins – Controls a crossfield pass brilliantly inside the penalty area before being crowded out by Chile defenders. The 22-year-old manages to deflect the ball into the path of Fred but he skies his effort from close range. 40mins – Chile's Silva ends a horrible half by being booked for a foul on Neymar, what seems like the 20th of the first half on the Brazil attacker. Graceful: Four Chile players watch on as Neymar drives towards Claudio Bravo's goal . Close attention: Neymar is challenged by Silva, Vidal and Gutierrez . HALF-TIME: BRAZIL 1-1 CHILE - Despite fears Neymar’s game might have been over before 10 minutes had passed after he appeared to be struggling with a knee injury, the Brazil forward shrugged off the knock to stretch Chile’s backline and win a number of free-kicks. He swung in the corner that was flicked home by Luiz to give Brazil the lead, before a neat finish from Sanchez drew Chile level. 55mins – Hulk handles a cross from the left and shins a shot into the bottom corner. Brazil think they have the lead but Webb pulls play back and instead shows the forward a yellow card. Controversy: Hulk slides into the corner to celebrate only for play to be pulled back for handball . 68mins – Brazil nearly find themselves behind as a cut-back from the byline finds Chile's Charles Aranguiz at the near post, but his powerful strike is pushed behind well by Julio Cesar. 81mins – Neymar wastes a glorious opportunity to put Brazil ahead by heading straight at Bravo from eight yards after connecting with a diagonal pass from Dani Alves. Instructions: Scolari encourages Neymar as he takes a water break in front of the Brazil dugout . 84mins – Bravo saves brilliantly from Hulk after the Brazil forward drives into the box and smashes a right-foot shot towards the top left corner. 89mins – Medel steals the ball away from Neymar at a vital moment on the edge of the Chile box just as the Brazilian appears to be through on goal. END OF NORMAL TIME: BRAZIL 1-1 CHILE – Brazil might feel aggrieved the game is going to extra-time, after Hulk had a goal disallowed for handball early in the second half. Neymar was dangerous in the first half but faded after the break. Tactics: Alves and Neymar chat while receiving treatment before extra-time gets underway . 92mins – Hulk wins a free kick on the left-hand side after dribbling with the ball for 50 yards from one side of the pitch to the other. Neymar steps up to take the set piece, but his vicious cross is headed off target. 105mins – Neymar teases Silva on the left before winning a corner off the legs of the Chile defender. He takes the corner, firing it in at pace on to the head of the Brazil substitute Jo who nods over the crossbar. 119mins – Mauricio Pinilla crashes a long-range striker on to the Brazil crossbar, as Chile go within an inch of knocking the hosts out in the final moments of extra-time. END OF EXTRA-TIME: BRAZIL 1-1 CHILE - A tight game goes to penalties after neither side could score a winner in extra-time. Pinilla came the closest, rocketing a shot against the crossbar in the last minute of open play. A Brazil physio massages Neymar's right leg as the teams prepare for the penalty shoot-out. Isolated: Neymar walks up to take his penalty in the shoot-out . PENALTIES: BRAZIL 3-2 CHILE – With the weight of expectation on his shoulders Neymar strode up to the penalty spot and rolled his spot-kick, Brazil's fifth of the shoot-out, into the bottom left corner to put his side 3-2 ahead.Gonzalo Jara missed Chile's fifth penalty, meaning Neymar's successful effort sealed Brazil's spot in the quarter-finals. Calm: Neymar showed nerves of steel in the shoot-out to beat Bravo with Brazil's fifth spot-kick . Touch the sky: Neymar points to the heavens after scoring his penalty with the shoot-out at sudden death . Tears of happiness: Scolari and Neymar after Brazil win their penalty shoot-out against Chile . ### SUMMARY:

The forward scores his side's final penalty in the shootout against Chile to put Brazil through to the quarter-finals . Brazil won their three group games but struggled in Belo Horizonte . Neymar scored four goals in the group stage but failed to net versus Chile . The Selecao are favourites to win the tournament on home soil .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Damien Gayle for MailOnline . and Associated Press . The Pope sheepishly asked thousands of nuns and priests to skip their vespers today after he run behind schedule on a busy day touring South Korea. Francis had three consecutive meetings in Kkottognae, a religious community which cares for disabled people, but by the time he hit the second, he was running out of time. 'I've got a little problem,' he told the crowd of 5,000 nuns and priests who had come to see him give a vespers service in Latin and Korean. Scroll down for video . Never skip your prayers... unless the Pope tells you to: The Pope sheepishly asked thousands of nuns and priests to skip their vespers today after he run behind schedule on a busy day touring South Korea . 'If there's one thing you should never do, it's skip your prayers, but today we'll have to do it and I'll tell you why: I came by helicopter, and if we don't take off in time, there's a danger we might smash into a mountain.' Thankfully for Francis, the crowd erupted in laughter once his apologies in Italian were translated into Korean. The Pope had already today celebrated a Mass before about 800,000 people in Seoul, during which he beatified 124 Korean martyrs. He told the hordes of Catholics who turned out for his open-air Mass that their ancestors' willingness to die rather than renounce their faith two centuries ago was a model for Asian missionaries today. The streets leading up to Seoul's iconic Gwanghwamun Gate were packed with Koreans honoring the lay Catholics who founded the church here in the 18th century. Pope Francis swings a thurible as he takes part in an open-air mass at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul where beatified 124 early Korean martyrs in front of a massive crowd that the Vatican estimated at 800,000 . The streets leading up to Seoul's iconic Gwanghwamun Gate were packed with hordes of Korean Catholics honoring the lay Catholics who founded the church in the country during the 18th century . Korea's church is unique in that it was founded not by foreign missionary priests - as occurred in most of the world - but by members of Korea's own noble classes who learned of Christianity by reading books about it. These early Catholics were killed in the 18th and 19th centuries by the Joseon Dynasty, which tried to shut the Korean Peninsula off from Western influence. Police in Seoul declined to give an estimate of the crowd size, but the Vatican said about 800,000 people had turned out. The number was significant given that Catholics represent only about 10 percent of South Korea's 50 million people. The Mass kicked off a busy day for Francis as he passed the halfway mark of his five-day South Korea visit. Later he travelled to Kkottognae and prayed briefly at a monument to aborted babies. It was a strong albeit silent gesture from a pope who prefers to stress other aspects of church teaching rather than emphasize hot-button 'culture war' issues like abortion. The Mass in Seoul, though, was one of the highlights of his trip, providing Francis with an opportunity to stress how the lessons of Korea's early martyrs were relevant today for Korea's church, which is small but growing and is seen as a model for the rest of the world. 'They were willing to make great sacrifices and let themselves be stripped of whatever kept them from Christ - possessions and land, prestige and honour - for they knew that Christ alone was their true treasure,' he said. 'They challenge us to think about what, if anything, we ourselves would be willing to die for.' Pope Francis rides the popemobile, through the crowds towards the Gwanghwamun Gate . The numbers who turned out to see the Pope were significant given that Catholics represent only about 10 percent of South Korea's 50 million people . Francis praised in particular the fact that laypeople were so crucial to the church's foundation and growth in Korea - a theme he stressed later in the day when he met with leaders of Korean lay movements. The church is counting on such laymen and laywomen to spread the faith in Asia, which the Vatican considers the future of the church. The main reason for Francis' visit to South Korea, in fact, was to attend an Asian Catholic youth festival; the church sees such rallies as a crucial way of inspiring the next generation of Catholics to evangelise. 'Today as ever, the church needs credible lay witnesses to the saving truth of the Gospel,' Francis said, stressing in particular the need for their outreach to focus on the poor and most marginalized. A collective cheer erupted from the masses when Francis declared the 124 'blessed' - the first step toward possible sainthood. Many of the women in the crowd wore lace veils; others sported paper sun visors with 'Papa Francesco' written across them, protecting them from the overcast, hazy skies. The scene was impressive, with thousands of people neatly packed into fenced-in sections leading away from the altar, which was set up in front of Gwanghwamun, the south gate to Gyeongbokgung palace, with mountains looming above and the presidential Blue House on the lower slope. Police in green vests stood guard along the barricades and volunteers handed out water to guard against the warm, humid temperatures. A child looks away in terror as the Pope strokes her head while riding through the crowds in Seoul . Worshippers hold prayer beads as they attend the mass lead by Pope Francis at Gwanghwamun Square . 'I'm so thankful that the pope visited South Korea,' said 75-year-old Yu Pil-sang, a Catholic who was trying to get a glimpse of Francis just outside the police barricades. 'But I'm so sorry that all the ways to see the pope are blocked. I came to hear at least his voice.' En route to the altar before Mass, Francis stopped his open-topped car so he could get out and bless a group of families who lost loved ones in the sinking of the Sewol ferry in April, in which more than 300 people, most of them high school students, were killed. On his white cassock, Francis wore a yellow ribbon given to him by the families a day earlier when he met with them privately to try to console them. 'We want the truth,' read a yellow banner, a reference to the families' demands for an independent inquiry into the sinking. Officials said 400 families had been invited to the Mass. The main figure in the group that was beatified is Paul Yun Ji-Chung, who was born in 1759 and was among the earliest Catholics on the peninsula. He was beheaded in 1791 - the first Korean martyr - after he violated the traditional Confucian funeral rites for his mother. In all, the Joseon Dynasty killed about 10,000 Catholics for refusing to renounce their faith. Pope Francis prays as he arrives at the martyrs' shrine at Seosomun in Seoul, the place where in the 18th and 19th century unrepentant Catholics were publicly executed . Historians say Korea's early believers were struck by the idea of a religion that preached universal equality in divine eyes at a time when the nobility's discriminatory hierarchical system brutally exploited ordinary people. St. John Paul II canonized another 103 martyrs during a visit to South Korea in 1984. Francis began his day by praying at a monument in Seoul commemorating the martyrs on the site where many of them were killed. Even non-Catholics turned out for the Mass, impressed by Francis' humble gestures and call for South Koreans to pay more attention to the poor than their own material gain. 'I do not know much about Catholics and South Korea's Catholic history, but it seems that the pope is making sure to reach out equally to everyone,' said Eom Yae-sung, 49, a Protestant who said Francis had inspired her to make changes in her own life. 'I plan to do volunteering and a lot of sharing so that when I look back at my life 10 years from now, I will think that the pope's visit motivated me to change,' Eom said. ### SUMMARY:

Pope holds up Korean martyrs as models for church's expansion in Asia . 800,000 come to see him give an open-air mass in central Seoul . Catholic leader warns if he doesn't miss vespers his helicopter might crash .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Leon Watson . Updated: . 05:03 EST, 15 December 2011 . A street sweeper casually rakes leaves from a path before ducking behind a bush. Seconds later he emerges with a bazooka and gets a clear shot on a Syrian army tank. It is blasted into oblivion. This is what is happening in the war-torn city of Homs, and it is mirrored across the country. SCROLL DOWN TO SEE VIDEO . A bazooka is fired at a tank in the Syrian city of Homs as violence erupts around the country . Street fighting has broken out as President Assad orders a crackdown on anti-government protesters . Today, activists said Syrian forces fired on a funeral and charged a U.S.-born blogger with trying to incite sectarian strife. After a bloody day of attacks that left at least 28 people dead yesterday five passengers in a car were also killed before anti-government insurgents hit back attacking a army convoy and killing eight soldiers. Razan Ghazzawi is the latest among dozens of activists, journalists and bloggers who have been detained since the revolt against President Bashar Assad began nine months ago. The brutal crackdown that followed has now killed more than 5,000 people and put thousands into security lockups, the U.N. said. Blogger Razan Ghazzawi was traveling to Jordan to attend a conference on freedom of the press in the region when she was arrested, her friends said . Ms Ghazzawi, 31, had been documenting human rights abuses in recent months, and was arrested on December 4 at the border while on her way to Jordan for a conference on press freedoms. On Monday, she was charged by Syrian authorities with trying to incite sectarian strife, spreading false information and weakening national sentiment. It is a charge often leveled against those who challenge the Syrian regime, according to rights activists, and could carry a prison sentence of up to 15 years. The Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression in the Arab World where Ghazzawi worked said today that Ms Ghazzawi denied all the charges. 'We demand the immediate and unconditional release of our colleague Razan Ghazzawi as well as an end to her trial and the annulment of the completely baseless charges against her,' the SCM said. Despite growing international pressure on his regime, Assad has forged ahead with his crackdown, unleashing security forces and the army on cities in a bid to crush an uprising inspired by similar revolts across the Arab world. Syrian mourners, shown on YouTube, carrying the coffin of a woman who was reportedly killed in the al-Hula region of central Homs province on December 12 on Monday . Unrest: Demonstrators protesting against Syria's President Assad march through the streets in Homs last week . Black smoke rising from an oil pipeline after a blast in Homs on December 8. The Syrian regime and opposition activists traded accusations over the explosion . On Tuesday, regime forces fired on thousands of people taking part in a funeral procession in the northern city of Idlib, killing two people and pushing the day's death toll to at least 28. The flare-up of violence near the Turkish border is fresh evidence that the Syrian uprising is growing into a full fledged insurgency. Military defectors known as the Free Syrian Army have recently been fighting back with increasingly sophisticated attacks. It has given many protesters hope of a fighting chance against President Assad's fiercely loyal forces, but also complicating an uprising that was once largely peaceful. Troops opened fired on a car traveling through central Syria today, killing all five passengers inside, activists said. The Local Coordination Committees . activist network and the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human . Rights said five people were traveling near the village of Khattab in . the countryside of the central Hama province at dawn, when their car . came under a barrage of gunfire from Syrian soldiers. The groups did not say why the car . was targeted, but security forces frequently target suspected . anti-government activists in the restive area. The Observatory also reported heavy . gunfire in Hirak village in the southern province of Daraa as troops . backed by tanks and armored personnel carriers hunted for activists. Three anti-regime military defectors were wounded in clashes with Syrian . security forces in the area, it said. In retaliation, gunmen believed to be army defectors opened fire on a military convoy in . central Syria, killing eight soldiers, an activist group said. The vehicle 'exploded in a ball of fire,' said Rami Abdul-Rahman, . director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which . relies on a network of activists on the ground inside the country. The defectors have found shelter in . cities and villages among sympathetic Syrians, their presence giving the . regime a pretext to crack down even more strongly than before. Authorities . have also used the attacks by defectors to support their official . narrative that the unrest in Syria is the work of armed gangs and . terrorists, not true reform seekers. The U.S., EU and the Arab League have imposed economic sanctions on Syria, and Washington and its Western allies are pushing for U.N. sanctions as well on Assad's regime. Russia and China - two veto-wielding countries on the U.N. Security Council - have resisted the idea, and on Tuesday Russia's foreign minister accused the West of taking an 'immoral' stance on Syria and ignoring violence by the Syrian opposition. Sergey Lavrov added that armed groups attacking Syrian government forces are 'aiming to provoke a humanitarian catastrophe and get a pretext for demanding an outside interference into the conflict'. Tuesday's violence began in two villages near the Turkish border, after security forces entered and shot dead two civilians, according to Rami Abdul-Rahman of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Regime forces also swept through villages in the area and attacked infiltrators at the border. Residents of the villages of Maaret Musreen and Kfar Bahmoul responded by closing a main road with rocks and burning tires to the Syrian troops, who then opened fire at random, Mr Abdul-Rahman said, killing 11 civilians and wounding 26. Message: Demonstrators protesting against the regime gather in Kafranbel, near Adlb, last week . 'These are intentional killings by the terrorists gangs of the regime,' said Mr Abu Mohammed, a resident of the nearby town of Maaret al-Numan, said, . 'We will not abandon our demands,' he said. 'We want the downfall of the regime and we want the president to be put on trial, because he is behind the killings that the Syrian people are being subjected to.' Under fire: Syrian President Bashar Assad has ordered a crackdown on protesters that has left an estimated 5,000 people dead . Army defectors later retaliated by attacking a security convoy in the nearby town of Bab el-Hawa with AK-47s and rocket propelled grenades, killing seven troops, activists said. Mr Abdul-Rahman said security forces also killed three other people in the provincial capital of Idlib and two in the central province of Homs. The Local Coordination Committees, another activist group, gave a similar death toll. Syria's state media reported that border guards intercepted 15 gunmen trying to sneak into the country from Turkey on Monday night. It said two were killed in the ensuing firefight and others were wounded. It was the second such infiltration attempt from Turkey in a week. Members of the Free Syrian Army have found shelter alongside thousands of Syrian refugees on the Turkish side of the frontier, making use of mountainous terrain, local smuggling networks and support among villagers on the Syrian side to stage cross-border attacks. SANA also reported that 'armed terrorists' - its usual term for regime opponents - shot and killed Brigadier General Ghanem Ibrahim al-Hassan, who teaches at the Assad Military Engineering Academy in the town of Saraqeb in Idlib. Since the revolt began, the Assad regime has blamed the bloodshed on terrorists acting out a foreign conspiracy to divide and undermine Syria. Until recently, most deaths appeared to be caused by security forces firing on mainly peaceful protests. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy . ### SUMMARY:

Troops open fire on a car, killing five . Protesters hit back taking out eight soldiers . U.S. born blogger held by regime .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Rescuers have called off the search for the small private plane that passed its Florida destination and traveled on a ghostly journey before crashing into the sea off Jamaica. Yesterday, both the Jamaican military and the U.S. Coast Guard decided to suspend air-and-sea searches for the single-engine plane carrying New York couple Larry and Jane Glazer. The plane flew on its own for 1,700 miles last Friday - after Mr Glazer apparently lost consciousness at the controls - before running out of fuel and crashing into deep waters some 14 miles off Port Antonio on Jamaica's northeast coast. Scroll down for video . Both the Jamaican military and the U.S. Coast Guard decided to suspend air-and-sea searches for the single-engine plane carrying New York couple Laurence and Jane Glazer . Rochester real estate developer Larry Glazer and his wife Jane, both 68, were aboard the aircraft that lost contact with air traffic controllers and flew 1,700 miles before crashing in the water off Jamaica . Glazer, a father-of-three and a grandfather, is pictured in front of another small plane. Both he and his wife Jane, an entrepreneur, were experienced pilots . U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Todd Coggeshall, chief of response management, said the agency called off search-and-rescue operations with 'extremely great care and deliberation'. He said a decision is made to suspend a search only after the 'area is saturated several times with a maximum number of assets, resources and crew effort, and persons in distress are still not located'. Later Sunday, Major Basil Jarrett said the Jamaica Defense Force ended its sea search after reassessing the diminishing probability of having any success. But he stressed that the Caribbean country's military 'will be vigilant along the coastline to see if any debris washes up' in coming days. After scouring an expanse of waters off Jamaica, early Saturday morning Jamaican officials said a search and rescue team had spotted and photographed 'what is believed to be debris' from the wreckage of the crashed aircraft. But the floating material had apparently sunk before search and rescue team were able to recover the debris, and it was no longer visible later that day. The plane, which took off from New York on Friday morning, sparked panic when the pilot stopped responding to radio calls about an hour after take-off and passed its destination of Naples, Florida . Jamaican authorities believe these images show debris from the wreckage, but the material appeared to have sunk and is no longer visible in the water . Jamaican Marine Police return to the Port Antonio Marina after a fruitless search for a plane that crashed into the ocean near Port Antonio, Jamaica, Friday, Sept. 5, 2014 . The plane, which took off from New York on Friday morning, sparked panic when the pilot stopped responding to radio calls about an hour after take-off and passed its destination of Naples, Florida. It continued flying south for several hours at an altitude of 25,000 feet before entering Cuban airspace - triggering a U.S. security alert - and heading towards the Caribbean. Larry Glazer, a real estate developer in Rochester, New York, was seen slumped over the controls by a fighter jet sent to escort the plane. He and his entrepreneur wife Jane, both 68, were experienced pilots. The single-engine plane, which was traveling from New York to Florida, failed to land, entered Cuban airspace and headed towards the Caribbean. It crashed just off Jamaica on Friday after running out of fuel . Two F-15 fighter jets (file picture) were dispatched after the pilot of a private plane failed to respond but when he entered Cuban airspace, they were forced to break off . One of the fighter jet pilots said he could see the pilot of the small plane, a SOCATA TBM 700, which has a pressurized cabin, was still alive. 'I can see his chest rising and falling,' he said in a recording of his dispatch. 'Right before I left... we could see that he was actually breathing.' The plane also had 'frosted windows', an indication of a sudden loss of cabin pressure and officials said they suspected hypoxia - a deprivation of oxygen - could have caused them to pass out. The single-engine plane eventually went down in the water 14 miles North East of Port Antonio in Portland . According to ABC, the pilot requested to fly lower during two calls to air traffic control, however when they asked if he wanted to declare himself in a state of emergency, he said no. The plane was flying at 28,000ft at 10 am when Glazer asked to descend to 18,000ft because of an issue with the plane. He was cleared to drop to 25,000ft but then asked to go lower. The unresponsive plane flown by Larry Glazer was a SOCATA TBM 700, a single-engine turbo-prop with a pressurized cabin that is used as a light business and utility aircraft. Seats: Seven including pilot and co-pilot . Max cruising speed: 345mph (300 knots) Max certificated altitude: 30,000ft . Wing span: 41 feet, 6 inches . Length: 34 feet, 9 inches . History: Built by American and French engineers. Been in production since 1988 but periodic upgrades have boosted its horsepower and speed . Production: More than 125 worldwide . Air traffic control denied the second request because of the traffic traveling below Glazer. They said if he made a left turn he could bypass the traffic and descend. He made the turn, but then stopped responding. Experts say cases of pilots becoming unresponsive while their planes wander the sky are unusual, with probably not much more than a handful of such incidents over the last decade. Jamaican rescuers yesterday shut down an emergency operation center in Port Antonio, an off-the-beaten-track place with a smattering of luxury villas. The next steps for locating the New York couple's remains or wreckage from their single-engine turboprop Socata TBM700 were not immediately clear. The Caribbean waters where the high-performance plane went down has depths of roughly 6,560 feet. Jamaica Coast Guard Commander Antonette Wemyss-Gorman said it was 'beyond our capacities locally' to recover wreckage at such depths. But Leroy Lindsay, director general of Jamaica's civil aviation authority, said that French authorities have volunteered equipment and expertise is raising wreckage of the French-made plane if it is ever located on the sea floor. The plane, a Socata TBM-700 light business and utility aircraft, was registered to a development, Buckingham Properties, which is owned by Glazer. A company bio for Glazer notes: 'Larry spends some of his spare time on the ground - gardening around his house with his wife, Jane; and some in the sky - flying his plane.' The turboprop was flown by Larry Glazer, right, and his wife Jane Glazer, left, of Rochester, New York. They were en route from their hometown to Naples, Florida . An article about Glazer in the Rochester City Newspaper called him 'downtown's patron saint'. His company 'owns, co-owns, or manages nearly 13 million square feet of real estate space', it says. Jane Glazer was herself an entrepreneur, setting up and running QCI Direct, which delivers home care items through catalogs and websites. The couple, who met at camp at Seneca Lake when they were both counselors in 1964, had been married for more than 45 years and were considered stalwarts of the community. 'The City of Rochester has lost two heroes,' Mayor Lovely Warren and City Council President Loretta Scott said in a statement. 'It is difficult to put into words how much Larry Glazer has meant to our community. Larry worked hard to return a sense of vitality and excitement to our Center City. 'His efforts helped to lift our spirits and restore our sense of optimism. He has been a treasured friend and partner. 'Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Glazer family, the partners and employees of Buckingham Properties, and all of Larry's many friends.' ### SUMMARY:

U.S. Coast Guard said agency called off rescue teams with 'extremely great care and deliberation' Rochester real estate developer Larry Glazer and wife Jane were killed in crash . Private plane took off from New York on Friday and was headed towards Florida but passed its destination . Officials suspect an oxygen deprivation could have caused pilot to pass out .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Lynda Bellingham died from colon cancer, which kills nearly 700,000 people worldwide each year . Lynda Bellingham died from colon cancer - the fourth biggest cancer killer worldwide, causing on average 694,000 deaths each year. In countries such as the UK and U.S., more than 80 per cent of cases occur in people aged 60 or over, such as Lynda. The actress and TV presenter had been diagnosed with colon cancer a little over a year ago. The disease later spread to her lungs and liver. Despite knowing she may only have weeks to live, her death was quicker than many had expected. Lynda, 66, was expecting to live until January 2015, and had planned to spend one last Christmas with her family. Writing in The Mail on Sunday last month, she said: ‘I would love to make one more Christmas, if possible, but I want to stop taking chemo around November in order to pass away by the end of January.’ Her death came just days after she made an emotional return to TV show Loose Women  - where she used to be a panellist - for one final appearance. This morning, it was announced the much-loved actress and TV presenter died yesterday. Her husband Michael was by her side in a London hospital. Such a rapid decline is unusual, but not uncommon, oncologist Professor Karol Sikora told MailOnline. He said: 'It's how most cancer patients want to die - where the final episode is very short. 'It's not uncommon for people to be very well one day and die shortly afterwards. Scroll down for video . 'It is quite unusual for it to be as dramatic as just four days later, but it does happen.' He explained there are many reasons why cancer patients die. Ultimately, however, as the cancer grows, the burden becomes too much for the body. 'In the end, multi-system failure occurs - with vital organs such as the liver and kidneys slowing down and then packing up. 'No one knows exactly what causes it.' He added that different patients die at different stages of the disease. This may be the differences in biochemistry, or sometimes, a will to live. 'There are people who realise they aren't going to make it, just curl up and want to die. 'Then there are those who are the opposite - they want to make it to their daughter's wedding, make themselves live and die shortly afterwards.' Lynda's death came just days after the she made an emotional return to the TV show Loose Women for one final appearance, where she appeared lively and in good spirits . The spread of the cancer - known as metastasis - is very often what ends up killing patients. Metastasis is when cells from a tumour separate from it, find their way into the lymph system or the bloodstream, and spread throughout the body. Particular types of tumours often spread to particular organs. In bowel cancer patients, it tends to be the liver. This is because the main vein that drains the bowel goes to the liver, explains Professor Sikora, founder of Cancer Partners UK. This can disrupt the delicate balance of chemicals and salts in the body - with fatal consequences. When cancer spreads to the lungs, there is eventually insufficient healthy tissue to absorb oxygen. Cancer can block off part of the lung. This area may collapse and become infected, which can lead to death. 'However it is possible there was a medical emergency,' he adds. 'The bowel may have become obstructed - there could have been internal bleeding.' Cancer patients are also more likely to suffer from blood clots. If a clot gets into the lung, for example, it can trigger a pulmonary embolism, which can be fatal. Lynda, with sons Michael, Robert, her step-son Bradley and husband Michael, had wanted to spend one last Christmas with her family . Bowel cancer does also not respond as well to chemotherapy as some other cancers, such as breast, explained Professor Sikora. This is because it very quickly becomes resistant to it. Appearing on ITV's This Morning two weeks ago, Lynda discussed how she had planned to stop chemotherapy in November, due to the severe side effects she had suffered. She said: 'There's no getting away from it with chemo - the ulcers in your throat, the thrush, plus the fact I'd had major, life-saving surgery for a perforated colon. Colon cancer is also referred to as bowel cancer or rectal cancer. In countries such as the UK and U.S., more than 80 per cent of cases occur in people aged 60 or over, such as Lynda. People who are older, who eat a diet low in fibre and high in fat, those who are overweight and those who take little exercise are most at risk. Smoking, alcohol and a family history of the disease also increase the risk. The cancer can present itself in a number of ways, explains Dr Stuart Riley, a consultant gastroenterologist, and clinical director of the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme in South Yorkshire. ‘The usual symptoms are rectal bleeding, a change in bowel habits - usually looser stools, though it could also cause constipation or needing to go to the toilet more frequently - abdominal discomfort and anaemia.’ He says if any bleeding is accompanied by a change in bowel habits, or if any other signs persist for several months, then a ‘full clinical assessment’ should be carried out. This includes a colonoscopy - where a tiny camera is inserted into the colon. It’s also important to establish if a patient has a family history of bowel cancer as this can increase the risk. 'When you're in terrible pain, you make decisions.' She told hosts Phillip Schofield and Amanda Holden: 'I want my husband and children to see me off happy, contented. 'So I put the chemotherapy in a box. 'In this box, I could stop the chemotherapy after Christmas - I'm determined to hang on until Christmas. 'If my quality of life fades after that, I want to be able to open the box, make a choice and stop the chemotherapy.' She said before this, she'd had no control over the decision - but had struggled with the idea of refusing treatment offered. 'I don't want to look ungrateful,' she explained. 'The box [decision] is there to be used if I need it. 'If my quality of life remains as it is now [after Christmas], then why would I hasten my death? ' Yesterday, appearing on BBC Breakfast, she explained she had the option to resume treatment if her health improves. 'It's there on the table if I want it,' she said. Lynda also admitted today there were times when she lay awake wondering about the future. Speaking about her new book, There's Something I've Been Dying To Tell you, she said: 'The book is for everyone - every single day people are going through this. 'As my oncologist says, the smallest cancer cell can outwit the brightest oncologist.' In the piece she wrote for The Mail on Sunday last month, she described the devastating moment she was diagnosed. 'The pleasant gentleman in front of me visibly crumpled. He stared at his computer then seemed to pull himself up and looked me straight in the eye. ‘"I am so terribly sorry, I thought you had already been informed of your position. You have cancer of the colon, and lesions on your lungs and your liver".' 'I felt nothing except disbelief.' The actress said she had been ill the Christmas before and ended up in A&E. 'I had been having really bad indigestion and then diarrhoea quite badly, and I was short of breath. 'We finally saw a doctor who said that it was probably nothing and to take Omeprazole for a couple of weeks. I did, and everything seemed to clear up.' Months later, she was told there was a problem with a shadow on her liver - and see a colon specialist urgently. She wrote: 'The day finally came and those unforgettable words resounded round the surgeon’s office – "Now about your cancer Miss Bellingham", and, well, you know the rest by now.' The actress said recently: 'As my oncologist says, the smallest cancer cell can outwit the brightest oncologist' ### SUMMARY:

Actress and TV presenter was diagnosed with colon cancer last July . Disease later spread to her lungs and liver, before claiming her life yesterday . Had said recently she was expecting to live until January 2015 . As a result, she had planned to spend one last Christmas with her family . Had also spoken at length about stopping chemotherapy . Colon cancer is the fourth biggest cancer killer worldwide . Disease is responsible for 694,000 deaths globally each year .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Arrested: Lauri Love, from Suffolk, is alleged to have stolen 'massive amounts' of confidential information, including details of military servicemen, by breaking into thousands of computers . The British son of a Baptist minister has been arrested and charged with hacking into the computer networks of the US military and Nasa, causing millions of dollars of damage. Lauri Love, an activist in the Occupy movement, is alleged to have stolen ‘massive amounts’ of confidential information – including details of military servicemen – by breaking into thousands of computers. The 28-year-old from Stradishall, Suffolk, is said to have bragged in messages with his co-conspirators: ‘You have no idea how much we can f*** with the US government if we wanted to’. Neighbours of his family spoke of their shock at seeing him arrested in the quiet, rural community. Love was described as a ‘sophisticated . and prolific’ hacker in court documents filed in New Jersey, where he is . charged with one count of accessing a US department or agency computer . without permission and another charge of conspiracy. He was arrested . on Friday at his parents’ semi-detached home in Suffolk, from where he . is thought to have hacked the computers. The operation was carried out by the National Crime Agency, the new elite force known as 'Britain's FBI'. Love could be extradited to the . US, where if convicted he faces up to ten years in prison and a fine . for twice the damage caused. The US government said Love worked with . two other people in Australia and one in Sweden – who have not been . charged – ‘to disrupt the operations and infrastructure’ of the federal . government. From October 2012 until July this year it is claimed he . hacked into thousands of government computer systems – including those . of the US Army, US Missile Defense Agency and Nasa – and left behind . ‘back doors’ through which he could return to get sensitive data. The . hacking ‘substantially impaired the functioning of dozens of computer . servers’ and caused ‘millions of dollars in damage’ to government . agencies, according to the indictment. It includes pieces of instant . message conversations Love allegedly had with his partners as the hacks . took place. In one from July [2013], he seems to brag about infiltrating . Nasa networks. He allegedly wrote: ‘lol Nasa. Ahaha, we owning lots of . Nasa sites … I think we can do some hilarious stuff with it.’ In . another post, he wrote: ‘This stuff is really sensitive. It’s basically . every piece of information you’d need to do full identity theft on any . employee or contractor for the [government agency].’ It is claimed that . Love, who used the online pseudonyms ‘nsh’, ‘route’, ‘peace’, ‘shift’ and ‘love’, planned to use social media, including Twitter, to publicise . the attacks. Scroll down for video . Love, 28, photographed here during an Occupy protest at Glasgow University, has been charged with allegedly hacking into the computer systems of the United States army, Nasa and other federal agencies . In one message he planned to announce an attack ‘so it . rolls along the morning news in US and gets Europe for the afternoon and . evening.’ Last night, at his parents’ home, Love said after being . released on bail: ‘I can’t say anything right now. I only just got home . after being at government headquarters today. ‘My dad is ill and my . parents both work at the prison so it wouldn’t be fair on them to talk . about what’s going on with all this just at this moment.’ Love’s . father Alexander Love, 60, a Baptist minister, works as a chaplain at . HMP Highpoint North. His mother Sirkka-Liisa Love, 59, also works at the . category C prison as a teacher. Last night neighbours in the small . Suffolk village told of their shock at the allegations. Student Kayleigh Streeton, 18, said: 'My brother came home and saw police cars park up outside and they were taking computers away. 'We knew there was something going on but it wasn't until we heard it on the news that we realised what he was accused of. 'You didn't see him around the estate much and, when you do see him out, he mostly keeps to himself. His parents are friendly with their neighbours and they seem like nice people.' Another resident said: 'We didn't have any suspicions and to think something like that might have happened under our noses is certainly a surprise.' Love’s father, who is Scottish, was previously . minister at the London Road Baptist Church in Lowestoft. A worshipper . there said: ‘Alexander was a very respected minister in the town.’ Raid: Love was arrested at his parent's home in the village of Stradishall on Friday from where he is thought to have hacked the computers . Love . was a leader in protests at Glasgow University, where he was a student. He helped organise demonstrations including a . sit-in as part of a protest against cuts to higher education. He is also believed to have been a high-profile figure in the Scottish Occupy movement, part of the protests which swept throughout much of the world in 2011, and has been pictured at Occupy marches. Love, who is believed to have studied physics, maths and computing, was apparently involved in 2011's 'Hetherington House Occupation', in which dozens of protesters took over an unused university building in Glasgow and stayed there for seven months. The . charges against Love were filed at the federal court in Newark, New Jersey, because he  allegedly used a server in the state as part of his activities. He . also faces charges in Virginia for other alleged intrusions. The . National Crime Agency said Love had been arrested under the . Computer Misuse Act and had been released on bail until February. Daniel . Andrews, director of the US Army’s computer crime investigative unit, . said: ‘Computer intrusions present significant risks to national . security and our military operations.’ In the past, convicted hackers and leakers have faced stiff penalties in the U.S. - former soldier Bradley Manning, now known as Chelsea, was this year sentenced to 35 years in prison for passing official secrets to WikiLeaks. Gary McKinnon was not extradited to the United States to face hacking charges . Lauri Love's indictment for allegedly hacking into U.S. government computers has raised parallels to the case of Gary McKinnon, who fought a 10-year battle to avoid being extradited to America. Mr McKinnon, from Wood Green, North London, was first arrested in 2002 after U.S. authorities told the police that he had hacked into military computer systems, deleting key files and leaving a message saying: 'Your security is c***.' The American government insisted that the 47-year-old was a grave threat to national security - but Mr McKinnon, who has Asperger's syndrome, said that he was searching for proof that the authorities had covered up the existence of aliens. In 2005, Mr McKinnon was placed on bail following the signing of a controversial new treaty which allows the U.S. to request the extradition of suspects from Britain without having to provide solid evidence of their guilt. He would have faced up to 70 years in prison if convicted of hacking - and said he feared he could be sent to the terrorist prison camp in Guantanamo Bay. Medical experts said that he would be very likely to kill himself if confined to an American prison. Mr McKinnon fought a decade-long legal battle, backed by supporters including the Daily Mail, but was defeated in the House of Lords, the High Court and the European Court of Human Rights. However, in October last year Home Secretary Theresa May blocked his extradition on the grounds that it would be 'incompatible with Mr McKinnon's human rights' due to the high suicide risk. Two months later, he learned that he would not stand trial in Britain either. Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, ruled that the chances of a successful conviction were 'not high' and that it was therefore not in the public interest to pursue Mr McKinnon further. Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article. ### SUMMARY:

Lauri Love from Stradishall, Suffolk arrested by National Crime Agency . Love, 28, described in court papers as 'sophisticated and prolific hacker' Charges follow a joint operation by a number of international police forces . He could be extradited to US where if convicted he faces 10 years in jail . Love has previously been a leader in the Occupy protest movement .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: 'The Grizz': Tire tycoon Maurice Taylor said French workers were 'lazy' and 'overpaid' An American industrialist has provoked fury in France after attacking the workforce of a factory he was asked to take over. Tyre and wheel magnate Maurice Taylor said he would be ‘stupid’ to take on staff at the ailing Goodyear plant in Amiens because they stood around chatting and worked only three hours a day. Mr Taylor, who stood as a Republican presidential candidate in 1996, has a track record of turning around failing businesses around the world. He was approached by the French government to take over the Amiens factory after Goodyear announced it was closing it, putting 1,173 jobs at risk. But after a trip round the base, the famously abrasive boss of Titan International told French industry minister Arnaud Montebourg he can ‘keep his so-called workers’. Yesterday he told the Daily Mail there was no comparison between the hard-working staff at his UK plant in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, and the union-cosseted tyre makers he found in northern France. ‘At Titan Steel Wheels in Kidderminster, we can have our disagreements but they work,’ he said.‘They have an hour off for lunch but the rest of the time they work. When I went round the Goodyear factory, the workers have a seven-hour day. One hour they’re paid to do nothing but eat, scratch themselves or whatever. Scroll down for video . 'Lazy': Workers leaving the doomed Goodyear tire plant in Amiens, northern France, which Mr Taylor has refused to rescue as Goodyear announces a 39 per cent cut to their French workforce . Blunt: The Titan International boss was scathing in his assessment of the work ethic of staff at the Goodyear factory in Amiens . ‘But the problem was that they spent three more hours just moseying around, talking. ‘But when I told their union leaders this, they told me that’s the French way!’ Mr Taylor said he was stunned by the . attitude of the factory’s myriad union leaders – led by the local head . of the communist-backed CGT union – when he met them at a hotel to . discuss how he might rescue the plant. The French have some of the best working conditions in the world - but its economy is flatlining. It has been beset by the combined effects of a rigid job market, complex labour laws, and fraught labour relations. Under socialist rules introduced in 2000 workers put in 35 hours a week, down from 39 hours a week. Yet its jobless rate is at a 13-year high. More than one in ten of the workforce is unemployed. France's economy stalled in 2012 and growth contracted by 0.3 percent in the final quarter of 2012. If it contracts again in the first quarter of 2013, it will be back in recession — officially defined as two straight quarters of negative growth. Public spending already accounts for almost 57% of national output, the public debt stands at over 90% of GDP and in January 2012 it lost its AAA grade from Standard & Poor’s, a rating agency. French President Francois Hollande is desperately trying to make the country, the world's fifth largest economy, more competitive by slashing government spending and relaxing Labour regulations. But he faces opposition from the traditionally strong union movement which resists changes to employment law. In January the country's powerful unions finally agreed to labour law reforms following talks that had dragged on for three months. The measures will allow for greater latitude in slashing salaries and firing staff, but will also offer more protection for employees, including better health cover. In France, the legal length of the working week is 35 hours in all types of companies. The working day may not exceed 10 hours, and employees may not work for more than 4.5 hours without a break.The maximum working day may be extended to 12 hours under a collective agreement. In principle, no more than 48 hours a week may be worked, 44 hours per week on average over a period of 12 consecutive weeks (up to a maximum of 46 hours, under conditions). Workers are entitled to a break of at least 20 minutes every six hours, and all staff must be allowed a daily rest period of 11 consecutive hours - although that figure can be reduced to nine in some cases. The minimum weekly rest period is 35 consecutive hours (11 hours plus a 24 consecutive hour rest period per week). Sundays are largely considered to be rest days in France. The average salary in France is €20,783, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, significantly higher than the OECD average of €16,749. ‘The first thing out of the CGT guy’s mouth was, “You’ve got to guarantee our jobs for life”,’ said Mr Taylor. ‘They were telling us, “We’re not going to agree to anything until you do what we say”. ‘That’s when I said, “Hey you’ve got . it all backwards. I’ve got enough people thinking I’m nuts even . attempting to come over and run this facility and spend millions of . dollars on it”.’ ‘The French worker can be as productive as anyone else when he works, but he’s not working,’ Mr Taylor said. The US businessman, who is based in . Illinois, has told the French government in no uncertain terms he will . not be taking up its offer of taking on the factory. ‘Do you think we’re stupid?’, Mr . Taylor asked Mr Montebourg in a letter published in French business . newspaper Les Echos. ‘I’ve visited this factory several times. The . French workers are paid high wages but only work three hours,’ he said. ‘They get one hour for breaks and lunch, talk for three hours and work for three.’ He warned that Chinese and Indian . tyre makers were taking over the market in Europe, adding: ‘In five . years, Michelin won’t be producing tyres in France. You can keep your . so-called workers.’ Mr Taylor’s remarks have provoked . anger in France where the high tax, big government policies of socialist . president Francois Hollande are raising fears about declining . competitiveness. Mr Montebourg has declined to comment on the American’s letter, saying only: ‘I don’t want to harm the interests of France.’ The CGT union – the main target of Mr . Taylor’s anger – said the ‘insulting’ letter showed that its author was . more of a ‘lunatic’ than someone fit to ‘hold the reins of a . multinational’. Four years ago, . former French finance minister Christine Lagarde, now head of the . International Monetary Fund, also branded French workers as 'lethargic'. She . told French newspapers: ‘Instead of thinking about their work, people . think about their weekends, organising, planning and engineering time . off. ‘If you say to a French person, “would you like to be an entrepreneur?” all they do is run scared.’ A recent global study of working hours also revealed the French worked the fewest hours of any country on earth. The report by Swiss bank UBS found . the French work for just 1,480 hours a year, with 27 days annual holiday . meaning they have more free time than any other nation on the planet. Britons . work 1,782 hours a year - 301 more than the French - and have 20 days . holiday a year, making us the world's 36th most lazy nation, it was . found. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co's . Amiens Nord plant employs 1,250 workers, who have been battling demands . that they work more shifts or accept layoffs. The government said in . January that the site faced imminent closure. 'The French way': Mr Taylor wrote to the French industry minister Arnaud Montebourg (left) saying that French workers are 'lazy'. He said he visited the factory in Amiens (right) several times where the 'workforce gets paid high wages but works only three hours' 'They all run scared': Former French finance minister Christine Lagarde, now head of the International Monetary Fund, said French workers were 'lethargic' and scared of becoming entrepreneurs . ### SUMMARY:

Chairman of US tire giant Titan International attacks work ethic in France . Maurice Taylor, aka 'The Grizz', tells French industry minister: 'You are lazy' He REFUSES to buy Goodyear tire plant which employs 1,170 people . Goodyear announced it was cutting its workforce in France by 39 per cent . Even International Monetary Fund boss has said French workers 'lethargic'

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: From lavishly decorated rooms to a stuffed jaguar and table football, the private life of a dictator has been laid bare by this extraordinary series of pictures. Taken from inside the former presidential palace of deposed Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the photographs show some of the former dictator's everyday enjoyments, as well as some of this more extravagent expenditures. The palace, in Sidi Dhrif, in a seafront suburb of capital city Tunis, has been left virtually untouched since Ben Ali and his family fled in January 2011 in the face of the first of the Arab Spring uprisings. The luxurious interior of the former presidential palace of depiosed Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali . A stuffed jaguar stands as part of the decoration inside the palace in a seafront suburb of capital city, Tunis . A child's play area in the palace, believed to have been used by the former president's son and heir, Mohamed. The pictures offer revealing insights into the life of Ben Ali, who now lives in exile in Saudi Arabia with his wife, and how he spent his time with his young family. While among the items they left behind include family portraits, statues and expensive-looking marble carvings, there also rests children's toys and DVDs of blockbuster films, untouched since the family fled. The former Tunisian presidency was toppled in the first of the Arab Springs after having been in power for 23 years. The country then voted in its first election since the uprising in October 2011, which led to the appointment of the Ennahda Movement, a moderate Islamist party in Tunisia, which nominated Hamadi Jebali to be prime minister. Mr Jebali today kicked off viewing for an auction of thousands of luxury items once owned by ousted dictator Ben Ali and his family. Jebali inspected 40 luxury cars, thousands of clothing, jewellery items and art works on the eve of the public auction which is being held in the Tunis suburb of Gammarth in a bid to raise millions of euros for government coffers. Highlight of the month-long sale is . expected to be the cars, which include a Lamborghini Gallardo LP 460, a . Bentley Continental sports car, an armoured Cadillac and a Maybach . About 42,000 items have been confiscated by the state from the palace, which was home to statues including the one pictured above left, in the living, room, while two degree certificates were left hanging in Ben Ali's personal study . Among the luxurious items were more everyday objects, such as this DVD of the Hollywood blockbuster Mr & Mrs Smith, starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie . In front of a row of marble carvings stands this table football set, showing the sometimes bizarre clash of cultures . The palace itself towers over the sea on a Sidi Bou Said hill, and includes all the hallmarks of a luxurious lifestyle, including vaulted ceilings, a seaside helicopter landing pad, a grandiose pool, two antique cannons, and a chandelier in nearly every room. Journalist Youssef Gaigi had never seen images of the palace before visiting it to report on the state auction of the former dictator's confiscated belongings. He told CNN: 'It was full of extravagance and extreme luxury and bad taste. 'All these signs of power... Nobody . could afford to have such things in Tunisia, unless they were the . president -- and not just any president, but a dictator.' The palace's main bathroom, which remains as it was since the family abandoned the palace in the first of the Arab Springs in early 2001 . A Porsche, Lamborghini and Jaguar sit in an army yard where other cars belonging to Ben Ali and his family are being held . A dressing table belonging to former Tunisian first lady Leila Ben Ali, whose portrait was covered up due to privacy considerations, left, and pages of the Quran, which were displayed on a giant projector in the master bedroom . But journalists who visited the palace were also taken by some of the more revealing everyday objects. Tunisian journalist Youssef Gaigi told CNN: 'It was very interesting because you enter into the private life of a president and discover a human side which we didn't have access to.' Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali kicked off . viewing today for the auction of thousands of luxury items once owned by . the ousted dictator and his family.Jebali inspected 40 luxury cars, thousands of clothing, jewellery items and art works on the eve of the public auction. Jewellery items that once belonged to the family of the ousted Tunisian dictator on display at an auction in the Tunis suburb of Gammarth . Tunisian President Zine Ali Abidine Ben Ali and First Lady Leila, who fled the presidential palace early last year . One of the luxury cars which once belonged to Ben Ali which is on display at the auction . The cars are one of the highlights of the auction, which is to be held to raise millions of euros for the government . A Porche belonging to a daughter of Tunisia's deposed ruler parked in the grounds of the National Guard barracks . The month-long sale is being held in the Tunis suburb of Gammarth in a bid to raise millions of euros for government coffers. Among the highlights of the sale is expected to be the cars, which include a Lamborghini Gallardo LP 460, a Bentley Continental sports car, an armoured Cadillac and a Maybach 62. Suits belonging to the toppled despot . are expected to go for 3,000 euros each, while coats belonging to his . wife Leila Trabelsi, who was notorious for her expensive tastes, could . fetch as much as 4,000 euros. Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, centre, walks past luxury cars that once belonged to the ousted dictator . Jewellery items and pens once owned by the family which have now been confiscated by the state to be auctioned off . Shoes, handbags and accessories once worn by Leila Trabelsi, who was well-known for her expensive taste . Footwear belonging to the couple could bring between 100 and 300 euros, organisers believe . Organisers of the auction have said items which have gone up belonged to Ben Ali and 114 of his relatives . Her handbags are exepcted to go for 3,000 euros, while the couple's footwear is expected to bring in between 100 and 300 euros. Earlier this week acting finance minister Slim Besbes said items valued at less than 5,000 euros would be sold at fixed price, but anything priced above that would be put to auction. The government hopes to raise at least 10 million euros from the sale. The month-long sale is being held in the Tunis suburb of Gammarth and is expected to raise millions of euros altogether . Organisers show suits once owned by Ben Ali, some of which are expected to go for 3,000 euros each . While some of the dresses and coats of the former dictator's wife could go for as much as 4,000 euros . One of the coats which once belonged to Leila Ben Ali, wife of ousted Tunisian dictator, which is to be sold to raise money for the government . The interior of one of the luxury cars included in the sale of the deposed ruler's items . Mr Besbes said the items belonged to Ben Ali and 114 of his relatives. Ben Ali, who fled in the face of the first of last year's Arab Spring uprisings, lives in exile in Saudi Arabia with his wife. Commentators however say his overthrow has done little to address the economic grievances that fuelled the revolt, with protests against the new government multiplying in recent weeks. Items valued at less than 5,000 euros are to be sold at a fixed price, but anything priced above would be put to auction . Tunisian Prime minister Hamadi Jebali, centre, listens to an organiser while looking at a display of jewellery and watches taken from the palace . ### SUMMARY:

From chandeliers and stuffed animals to DVDs of Hollywood films, these pictures reveal the inside life of a dictator . The shots were taken at the former palace of deposed Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali . Thousands of items confiscated by the current government to go for auction to raise millions of euros .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Nokia as a brand might be down, but it's not out. The firm today gave internet users a hint of a new product that looks unlike a mobile phone - setting the inter alight with speculation over what it could be, from a TV set top box to take on the Apple TV and Amazon Fire, to a small computer. However, one thing it will not be is a mobile phone - as part of a recent deal with Microsoft, Nokia is not allowed to use its branding on phones until 2017 - but that means after this date, Nokia phones could also be resurrected. The firm today tweeted this mysterious image - . Following Microsoft's plans to ditch the Nokia brand across its smartphone range, the FFinnishfirm has unveiled plans to start licencing its name and expertise to other manufacturers, starting this quarter . Following Microsoft's plans to ditch the brand across its smartphone range, the Finnish firm also  unveiled a strategy to start licencing its name, expertise and technologies to other manufacturers, starting this quarter. Microsoft bought Nokia's phone business for £4.5bn ($7.2 bn) in April and announced it was dropping both the Nokia and Windows Phone brand names in October, in favour of just using Lumia. But, the Finnish firm will continue to trade as a separate company, focusing on mapping and network infrastructure. As part of the deal, Nokia is not allowed to use its own branding on smartphones until 2016, and on feature phones until 2024. The recent licencing plans were announced at the Nokia Capital Markets Day by president of Nokia Technologies, Ramzi Haidamus. Microsoft bought Nokia's phone business for £4.5bn ($7.2 bn) in April and announced it was dropping both the Nokia and Windows Phone brand names in October, in favour of just using Lumia. As part of the deal, Nokia is not allowed to use its branding on smartphones until 2016, and on feature phones until 2024 . He said: 'It is our goal to start licensing our brand in areas other than these two restricted areas, starting this quarter actually, in the areas we can and the areas where the brand is relevant.' Mr Haidamus did not go into detail what these areas are. It was a strategy used by Polaroid to bolster its failing brand over the past decade. Polaroid licenses its polarising technology to flat-screen TVs, for example, and its camera technology to tablets. Nokia Networks recently made a significant breakthrough in boosting battery life on phones, by increasing capacity by up to 49 per cent. The Finnish-based firm saw the results during its first live trial of a software known as High Speed Cell FACH on a 3G network. Nokia Networks has completed its first live testing of High Speed Cell FACH technology, with support from chip manufacturer Qualcomm. When using apps, phones send and receive small amounts of data, and Nokia's technology is designed to handle these so-called 'data packets' more efficiently. Nokia Networks recently made a significant breakthrough in boosting battery life on phones, by increasing capacity by up to 49 per cent. The Finnish-based firm saw the results during its first live trial of a software known as High Speed Cell FACH on a 3G network . This increases browsing speeds, power savings and response times . When running applications such as WhatsApp, Facebook, and Twitter, as well as browsing the web, sending emails and using services such as FaceTime, phones often send and receive small amounts of data, known as packets, of just a few hundreds of bytes or a few kbytes. High Speed Cell FACH is designed to handle these small data packets more efficiently than other software. This makes apps run faster, and also means they use less energy over the course of a day, for example. The technology additionally means operators can boost the speed and quality of their services, and support a higher number of phones on their networks. According to the recent Nokia tests, the 3G software boosts speeds and network response times by up to 65 per cent, and leads to up to 20 per cent faster browsing. Users also saw power savings of up to 49 per cent, which meant their battery life lasted almost twice as long - depending on which applications were being used. The lowest power saving was nine per cent. It also recently partnered with photography experts at C&A Marketing, which owns Ritz Camera stores and Calumet photography, to make Polaroid-branded cameras and accessories. After the restrictions on smartphone branding lifts, however, Nokia would be able to brand devices made by other manufacturers. These devices may also use technology being developed by Nokia's Network division. After the restrictions on smartphone branding lifts, however, Nokia would be able to brand devices made by other manufacturers. Microsoft's recent move brought to an end nearly three decades of Nokia phones, which will likely elicit fond memories for many. The iconic Nokia 3310 from 2000 is pictured . The division recently boosted battery life on smartphones by 49 per cent, and the results were seen during its first live trial of a software known as High Speed Cell FACH on a 3G network. The technology additionally means operators can boost the speed and quality of their services, and support a higher number of phones on their networks. 'Some of today's press reports related to rumours about Microsoft dropping the Nokia brand have declared the death of the Nokia brand,' said Barry French, Executive Vice President, Marketing and Corporate Affairs. 'But, to paraphrase Mark Twain, "reports of our death are an exaggeration." 'Yes, we have sold our mobile phone business to Microsoft. But the Nokia of today is financially robust and has moved from weakness to strength. 'We have one of the world's best telecom infrastructure businesses, a global leader in the mapping and location business, a stellar intellectual property portfolio and some of the finest innovation capabilities of any company anywhere. 'Remember, Nokia started almost 150 years ago with just one paper mill. Over time we have repeatedly and successfully reinvented ourselves. 'We may not be the same Nokia of several years ago, but we are here, we are strong, and our brand is very much still alive. Not to mention kicking!' The recent name change by Microsoft brings an end to Nokia's brand being on mobile phones - a run that stretches back into the 1980s. It was first hinted at when Microsoft moved Nokia.com to be hosted on Microsoft's own site. Each country will gradually see branding changed from Nokia to Microsoft Lumia across various social media accounts, beginning with Nokia France. Nokia phones will likely elicit fond memories for many, though, with the Nokia 3310 in particular being one of the defining phones at the dawn of the cell phone age. First released towards the end of 2000, the phone went on to sell 126 million units world wide and continues to enjoy a cult status. Nokia has been quick to assure customers that the company will live on, albeit no longer in the mobile phone business. In a blog post in September Barry French, executive vice president of marketing and corporate affairs at Nokia said: 'To paraphrase Mark Twain, 'reports of our death are an exaggeration.' 'Yes, we have sold our mobile phone business to Microsoft. 'But the Nokia of today is financially robust and has moved from weakness to strength. 'We have one of the world's best telecom infrastructure businesses, a global leader in the mapping and location business, a stellar intellectual property portfolio and some of the finest innovation capabilities of any company anywhere.' He continued: 'We may not be the same Nokia of several years ago, but we are here, we are strong, and our brand is very much still alive. Not to mention kicking!' ### SUMMARY:

President of Nokia Technologies said the firm will start licensing its brand in other areas, starting this quarter . Nokia phone's owner Microsoft recently ditched brand in favour of Lumia . As part of this deal, Nokia can't use its brand on smartphones until 2016 . But it could be used for various devices including cameras, for example . Nokia will then let smartphone manufacturers use its branding from 2017 . Microsoft's announcement brought an end to 30 years of Nokia phones . Software giant bought Nokia's phone business for £4.5bn ($7.2 bn) in April . However, Finnish firm Nokia Technologies lives as a separate company .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: He was one of the most infamous and feared gangsters of his time. But Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel's unsolved murder in June 1947 sparked decades of mystery. Now, the family of his former best friend, Moe Sedway, has told Los Angeles magazine that they know who was behind the brutal shooting - and why they did it. Siegel, an American mobster with the Luciano crime family, was shot dead in his girlfriend Virginia Hill's Beverly Hills home, just south of Sunset Boulevard, on the night of June 20, 1947. Scroll down for video . Mystery: Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel (pictured), an American mobster with the Luciano crime family, was shot dead in his girlfriend Virginia Hill's Beverly Hills home, just south of Sunset Boulevard, on June 20, 1947 . The 41-year-old was reading a newspaper in the living room when a gunman fired a .30-caliber military M1 carbine through the window, fatally striking him in the head and torso. Iconic black-and-white photos, later released by police, show the glamorous Hollywood gangster slumped backward on a sofa, his head drooped to the side and his left eye blown out. In subsequent decades, Siegel's murder became Beverly Hills Police Department's most famous unsolved case, leaving both historians and law officials perplexed. It sparked a series of rumors over the circumstances of his death, including that Mob boss Meyer Lansky ordered his murder due to his overspending on the Flamingo Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Siegel, who named the hotel after his girlfriend's 'flamingo-like' legs, had spent up to six times his original $1million budget, including vast amounts of Lansky's money, on the venture. But in a new interview, Robbie Sedway, whose father, Moe, was Siegel's best friend for years, claims the famous gangster was not killed in a dispute over money. Killed: This iconic black-and-white photo shows Siegel's body on a morgue table, with a tag looped on his toe . Famous: 41-year-old Siegel was reading a newspaper in the living room when a gunman fired a .30-caliber military M1 carbine through the window, fatally striking him in the head and torso. Above, his gravestone . Instead, Siegel was apparently murdered for love. 'It's a love story,' said Robbie, revealing his mother, Bee Sedway, was at the center of the dispute. Bee, who lived her later years in a ranch house in Corona, California, gave a two-hour interview to documentary filmmakers in 1993, which was recently obtained by the magazine, . In the footage,the 75-year-old told of how she had been introduced to Siegel by her husband Moe, whom she met while working at The Paradise Cabaret in Manhattan and married in 1935. Plot: Siegel was murdered by his friend Bee Sedway's (left) lover, Mathew 'Moose' Pandza (right), on behalf of Bee's husband, Moe Sedway, it is claimed. Bee and Moose met at a Los Angeles club and later married . Family: When asked why he has finally decided to break his silence over Siegel's death, Robbie Sedway (right), who was the son of Moe (left) and Bee, replied: 'Everyone's been wondering for 67 years. I mean, why not?' Six weeks after they met, Moe reportedly told Bee: 'I want you to meet one of my best friends in all the world,' before introducing her to Siegel, whose 'beautiful blue' eyes 'fascinated' her. However, Siegel was apparently not as enamored with Moe's new woman, telling his friend: 'Moey, she's so pretty, but she's got that little hairline space between her teeth.' But in following years, the pair became close friends, with Siegel teaching Bee how to walk properly, introducing her to his fellow gangster friends and calling her his 'little lunatic'. In the footage, Bee confirmed the star was not gunned down over money, saying he would 'never' have been killed for financial reasons. In trouble with the law: It was in a proposal for a book called Bugsy's Little Lunactic that Bee Sedway revealed what she claimed to be the truth behind Siegel's murder. Above, Siegel (left) with his attorney Jerry Giesler . However, it was only in a proposal for a book called Bugsy's Little Lunactic - that was never published amid fears it was 'too dangerous' - that she revealed the 'truth' behind Siegel's murder. In the document, also seen by the magazine, Bee explained how Siegel had threatened the life of her husband, who was tasked with keeping track of the money Lanskey was fronting for the casino, which was poorly received when it first opened in December 1946. She said Siegel had declared he wanted Moe 'gone', saying: 'I'll have Moe shot, chop his body up, and feed it to the Flamingo Hotel's kitchen garbage disposal.' She revealed that she had then called up her lover - Mathew 'Moose' Pandza, a truck driver and crane operator - and asked him to help protect her husband from the gangster. Partner: Siegel's girlfriend, Virginia Hill, testifies before the Kefauver organized crime hearings in New York . Interview: Al Tannebaum (l-r), Abe 'Kid Twist' Reles and District Attorney Burton Fitts give evidence on Siegel . Bee had met Moose, a 6ft 3in native Angeleno whom she described as a 'great cook', at a Los Angeles club at a time when Moe was seeing a mistress. The pair quickly fell in love. She later told her husband that she had met someone and wanted to get married, before he insisted on meeting Moose and agreed on a deal to 'share' his wife. Moe and Moose shortly became 'as close as two fingers on one hand,' according to Bee's book proposal. Threat: Shortly before his death, Siegel (pictured) appearnetly declared he wanted Moe Sedway 'gone', saying: 'I'll have Moe shot and chop his body up' It was this man - Bee's lover, Moe's trusted friend and a non-member of the crime family - who killed Siegel, according to Robbie. Robbie, who saw Moose as a 'fatherly figure' during his childhood years, revealed he had asked his mother aged 16 whether she knew who killed the gangster. 'She said, 'Moose.' And I'm like, 'Moose?' She said, 'Don't ever tell anybody', he said. Bee later told him that Moe had finally decided he could no longer live in fear of Siegel following his death threat, Robbie said. 'Moose, he's got to be gotten rid of,' Moe reportedly told Bee's lover. 'What other answer is there?' Robbie added that Lansky gave his blessing to the murder - but insisted that no-one within the 'family' could be involved. In the following weeks, Moose reportedly practiced shooting targets in the sand dunes of El Monte, before monitoring police patrols on Linden Drive and waiting for the perfect moment to strike. He then stepped through Siegel's flowerbeds, rested his gun on Miss Hill's windowsill and fired at the mobster, is is alleged. He later covered his tracks and was never found out. When asked why he has finally decided to break his silence over Siegel's death, Robbie, who was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2007, replied: 'Everyone's been wondering for 67 years. I mean, why not?' Robbie passed away in July this year following the interview with Los Angeles magazine, which features in its October edition. ### SUMMARY:

Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel was shot dead in his girlfriend's home in June 1947 . His murder became Beverly Hills police's most famous unsolved crime case . Led to series of rumors, including that he was killed in dispute over money . Now, the family of Siegel's friend, Moe Sedway, has claimed they know truth . Say gangster was murdered after turning against Moe and threatening him . Moe's wife Bee's lover, Mathew 'Moose' Pandza, 'agreed to shoot mobster'

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Roy Hodgson has been taken to task by some psycho-babble fitness guru for failing to understand that Raheem Sterling, at coming up to 20, needs more rest between football games than stars just a few months older than he is. What nonsense. The England manager’s only real mistake was sending on Sterling as a second half substitute in Estonia and thereby giving a cap to a player who had announced himself too tired to give his all for his country. Raheem Sterling (right) told England boss Roy Hodgson that he was too tired to start against Estonia . Hodgson started Sterling (second right) on the bench for England's 1-0 Euro 2016 qualifying win in Estonia . If Sterling was being that precious he ought not to have been granted an honour which should be deemed priceless. The trolling to which this young man has been subjected on the internet has been unpleasant, unnecessary and in some cases downright sick. However, he did need reminding that it is a privilege to pull on the England shirt and that great players do not pick and choose their international appearances. Sterling (centre) came on as a second half substitute for Jordan Henderson against Estonia in Tallinn . Of the players England used against Estonia, only Gary Cahill has played more minutes this season than Raheem Sterling... Gary Cahill 1164 minutes played . RAHEEM STERLING 1079 mins . Jack Wilshere 1064 mins . Jordan Henderson 1035 mins . Calum Chambers 995 mins . Joe Hart 990 mins . Leighton Baines 990 mins . Phil Jagielka 919 mins . Danny Welbeck 836 mins . Wayne Rooney 758 mins . Fabian Delph 741 mins . Adam Lallana 538 mins . Paul Scholes, a surprisingly outspoken commentator after spending his distinguished playing career saying next to nothing, performed that service by confirming that he would never have failed to turn out for England unless he was really sick or injured. Pele’s record talks louder than words. At the age of 17 he shook off the injurious effects of an arduous club season with Santos to lead Brazil to 1958 World Cup glory in Sweden with six goals in four matches, including a hat-trick in the semi and a brace in the Final. He then collapsed with exhaustion at the final whistle but the effects of his exertions did not prevent him going on to score more than a thousand goals in a career overflowing with honours, including more World Cups. But then not even the greatest footballer of all time was pampered in those days. And it is difficult to resist the conclusion that it is the money which spoils today’s young players. If our Premier League princelings were not banking hundreds of thousands of pounds a week would any of them even consider pulling out of an England match? Paul Scholes (centre), training here in his Man United days, claimed rest days should be for older players . Pele collapsed with exhaustion at the end of the 1958 World Cup final after scoring a brace for Brazil . Pele, aged just 17, scored six goals in four matches at the World Cup following a gruelling season with Santos . Not, I would suggest, if they still needed international fame to cement their fortune. Also - and never mind that it risks abuse from the 'twitterers' for saying this – it is worth drawing to Master Sterling’s attention that younger men than he fight and die for this country. The war-zone is no place for feeling a mite too tired for action – and the rewards are nothing like as enormous. With Sterling volunteering for England duty in the Under-21 European championships next year, it does seem he has got the message. So when Hodgson bumps into Brendan Rodgers at QPR this very Sunday, I trust he will not be making any apologies. Liverpool’s manager is never slow to make excuses for his players. Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers (left) is set to meet Hodgson at Loftus Road on Sunday for the clash with QPR . Like so many, he puts the interests of his club first. He can hardly be blamed for doing so, especially in this case where there are unsettling suggestions that Sterling may already be fidgeting for a move elsewhere. But that does not mean that Rodgers paints the full picture. Sterling is a precocious talent and I for one will be disappointed if he does not develop into a vibrant force for both Liverpool and England. Yes, he may need nurturing to some extent – but not over-protecting. Since England could pretty well qualify for Euro 2016 even if they failed to turn up for the rest of their group matches, there was no need to send him on in the second half last Sunday. Better to have sent him home to bed. Sterling returned to Liverpool's Melwood training ground on Tuesday ahead of the Premier League's return . As Wayne Rooney closes in on Sir Bobby Charlton’s record of 49 England goals, there are many who would begrudge him usurping such a legend of the beautiful game. So it is worth putting on record that Charlton is not one them. As a director of Manchester United, Sir Bobby is a frequent and inspirational visitor to the Old Trafford dressing room and has struck up a warm relationship with Rooney. Wayne Rooney closed in on Sir Bobby Charlton's scoring record of 49 England goals by netting against Estonia . Charlton, pictured with Rooney in 2010, has struck up a warm relationship with the Manchester United striker . 1) Sir Bobby Charlton - 49 goals (106 caps) 2) Gary Lineker - 48 (80 caps) (Own goals - 47) 3) Jimmy Greaves - 44 (57 caps) 4) Wayne Rooney - 43 (99 caps) 5) Michael Owen - 40 (89 caps) 6) Naf Lofthouse - 30 (33 caps) =6) Alan Shearer - 30 (63 caps) =6) Tom Finney - 30 (76 caps) 9) Vivian Woodward - 29 (23 caps) =9) Frank Lampard - 29 (106 caps) Sunday’s penalty in Estonia brought Rooney to within six goals of that magic number and Charlton will be applauding if he closes the gap still further when England meet Slovenia at Wembley on November 15. And why not? Memory may insist that Jimmy Greaves and Gary Lineker – who are also in the throes of being overtaken - were sharper goalscorers but there should be no denying the magnitude of Rooney’s impending achievement. Not that he should count those chickens yet. As Lineker discovered when he missed the penalty from which he should have equalled Charlton’s record, there can be many a slip between opportunity and delivery. Nor do statistics alone assert who is the greater. The circumstances in which those goals are scored brings its own perspective. Not until his third tournament did Rooney score his so-far solitary goal at the World Cup finals – that mere consolation tap-in during defeat by Uruguay this summer. Jimmy Greaves and Gary Lineker are third and second respectively in the list of England's all-time goalscorers . Rooney celebrates after scoring his so-far solitary goal at a World Cup - against Uruguay during the summer . Bobby Charlton shoots and scores against Portugal in England's 2-1 semi-final victory at Wembley in 1966 . Charlton celebrates and runs with arms upraised as England progressed to the 1966 World Cup final . Charlton scored three in England’s winning of the 1966 World Cup, two of them against Portugal in the semi-final. His England record is one of the longest-standing in world sport – at 44 years and five months, so far. Given today’s context of so many more matches against tiny football countries – some of which used to be but corners of the giant Russia against whom Charlton played – Rooney will have to score plenty more than 50 if his record and stature are to stand the test of him. But like Sir Bobby, we wish him well. VIDEO Sterling rest row rumbles on . ### SUMMARY:

Raheem Sterling started England's Euro qualifier with Estonia on the bench after complaining he was too tired . Roy Hodgson's only mistake was putting Sterling on as a substitute . If Liverpool wideman was so tired he should not have been given a cap . Pele, aged just 17 years old, collapsed with exhaustion as Brazil won the World Cup in 1958 .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: The right of people from across Europe could be curtailed under David Cameron's plans to overhaul Britain's relationship with Brussels. The Prime Minister has drawn up a 'battleplan' for talks with other EU countries in which he wants to claw back powers over who can move to Britain, find work and claim benefits. Mr Cameron is already under pressure to urged to slash benefits and access to public services for immigrants from Europe, but Downing Street suggested he could go further. Pressure: Prime Minister David Cameron is ready to look at freedom of movement rules which allow anyone from in the EU to settle in Britain . Mr Cameron will use a meeting of European leaders next week to step up pressure for reform, demanding major cuts to red tape which threaten competitiveness. But the government is under pressure to do more to tackle the 'pull factors' which draw thousands of people to Britain every year. A new study reveals a . sharp rise in the number of EU migrants without a job living in Britain . to more than 600,000 – the equivalent of a city the size of Glasgow. There . was a 73 per cent increase in the number of ‘job-seeking’ EU immigrants . in the country in the three years to 2011, according to the European . Commission. Asked if the government was now examining ways to curb the freedom of movement rules - allowing people from anywhere in the EU to settle in Britain - Downing Street confirmed it was on the table. Mr Cameron's official spokesman said: 'I think it is understandable that in the UK and a number of other countries, questions are being asked in this area. 'We have a programme underway, bilateral discussions with other member states. It is not right to pre-empt that now.' Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith is already working with other member states on plans to toughen the habitual residence test to make it harder for immigrants to claim benefits. Mr Cameron’s spokesman added: ‘The government’s view clearly is changes do need to be made in this area and actually the fact that we are co-operating and working in partnership with a good number of other member states I think is significant.’ He added that there are ‘widespread concerns’ across Europe about access to state benefits and public servants of migrants. ‘We don’t think that the current system is working in the right way. By definition we are seeking to take action on these pull factors. ‘There is an issue here fundamentally with regard to access to the welfare system and others around fairness.’ European Commission figures show there has been a 73 per cent increase in 'job-seeking' EU immigrants . Meanwhile, a poll has found that two-thirds of the public want ministers to take ‘drastic action’ to cut immigration. London . Mayor Boris Johnson said migrants should have to work for ‘quite a long . time’ before they can claim any benefits in this country. The . London Mayor said it was wrong that ‘we have no control over the time . lapse between arrival in this country to work and the ability to . withdraw benefits’. And he . suggested the Prime Minister should press for a change in the law as . part of his renegotiation of Britain’s relationship with the EU. ‘That . is something that could be considered by the Government for the . renegotiation of the European Treaty that is about to come up,’ he said. Tory . MP Douglas Carswell also called for a clampdown, saying that migrants . appeared to be fleeing to Britain to escape the eurozone crisis. Boris Johnson said migrants should have to work for 'quite a long time' before claiming benefits in the UK . ‘We . cannot both continue the free-at-the-point-of-use welfare state and . benefits system and allow Europeans to flee the eurozone and come here,’ the Eurosceptic MP added. The European Commission study, . published today, reveals that in 2012 there were 611,779  economically . ‘non-active’ EU migrants living in Britain – up from 431,687 six years . ago. The annual cost to the NHS of treating ‘non-active’ migrants is . estimated at £1.5billion. The Commission’s  291-page report sheds new . light on the impact of EU immigration on Britain. ‘Between . 2006 and 2012 there has been a steady increase of 42 per cent in the . number of non-active EU migrants in the UK,’ it says. ‘A . particularly high increase can be noticed between 2009 and 2011. The . number of job-seeking EU migrants increased by 73 per cent, while the . total EU migrant population increased by only 28 per cent.’ The report . was commissioned by Laszlo Andor, the Commission’s employment . commissioner, who is suing Britain over rules that mean some benefits . are not immediately available to EU migrants. A Commission spokesman said it was ‘ridiculous’ to suggest the report’s findings meant there are 600,000 unemployed migrants, because the figure includes older children, students, pensioners and other economically inactive adults. ‘All existing studies without any exceptions say that EU migrants are more likely to be in work than the native population and make a positive contribution to the Exchequer,’ he added. Despite the evidence it uncovers, the report concludes that the impact of ‘non-active’ immigrants on the benefits system is ‘very low’. Sixty-seven per cent of Britons said they want Cameron to take 'drastic action' to cut immigration (file picture) 611,779: The number of 'non-active' EU migrants in Britain - up 42 per cent in six years . £1.5bn: Estimated annual cost to NHS of treating 'non-active' migrants . 73% increase in the number of 'job seeking' EU migrants in Britain between 2009 and 2011 . 3.7m: Increase in the population of England and Wales between 2001 and 2011, of which 2.1million attributed to immigration . £2bn: Potential cost of EU bid to end curbs on migrants claiming benefits . 67% of public want 'drastic action' to cut immigration . 52% of voters say they are more likely to back party promising to cut immigration 'significantly' But Stephen Booth, of the think-tank Open Europe, said the conclusion was ‘misleading… wilfully or otherwise’. A poll carried out for Sky News by Survation suggests the public want ministers to take a much tougher stance on immigration. Sixty-seven . per cent said the UK’s population is too high and want ‘drastic action’ to cut immigration, while 52 per cent said they are more likely to vote . for a party promising to reduce immigration ‘significantly’. And 27 per . cent said the wave of immigration in the last decade had brought no . benefit to Britain. Seventy-four . per cent said they were concerned that Romanians and Bulgarians will be . allowed unfettered access to Britain from the end of this year. Britain uses the Habitual Residency Test to establish whether EU migrants are eligible for benefits. To . qualify for jobseekers’ allowance, employment support allowance, . pension credit and income support they must demonstrate they have either . worked here previously or have a good chance of getting a job. Last . night the Department for Work and Pensions said it was determined to . tighten the test to limit migrants’ access to benefits. But the Commission says this ‘right to reside’ test indirectly discriminates against nationals from other EU states by enforcing a set of conditions that effectively tests their right to state handouts. The test is being challenged in court by Mr Andor, despite warnings from Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith that the existing rules save Britain up to £2billion a year. Mr Duncan Smith pledged last year to toughen up the test to curb ‘benefit tourism’. A DWP spokesman said: ‘We have strict rules in place to protect the integrity of the British benefits system and make sure it is not abused. ‘But we are also going further by strengthening the Habitual Residence Test and time-limiting how long some migrants can claim benefits. ‘Ministers are also working with their counterparts across Europe to address concerns about the abuse of free movement.’ ### SUMMARY:

European Commission found 73% rise in 'job-seeking' EU immigrants . Boris Johnson has urged David Cameron to demand change in EU law . Said migrants should work 'for quite a long time' before claiming benefits . 67% of public want Cameron to take 'drastic action' to cut immigration .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Wayne Rooney was among those wishing fans merry Christmas on Twitter after Louis van Gaal went against the norm and gave his squad of stars the day off. Rooney was joined by team-mates Radamel Falcao, David De Gea and Juan Mata as they gave their best wishes 24 hours before their match against Newcastle United on a mouth-watering Boxing Day fixture list. Manchester City's Sergio Aguero and Edin Dzeko joined in but, with both injured for their match against West Bromwich Albion at the Hawthorns, what they'll want most is three points. Wayne Rooney wishes his followers a merry Christmas on December 25 as he was given the day off . The Rooney family later posted this picture on Instagram, showing a festive scene . Radamel Falcao joined in by tweeting 'merry Christmas full of magic and happiness, peace and love' The Colombian took to Instagram to post this picture of his family, presents and a well-lit tree . Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea tweeted a 'big hug for everyone' after getting the day off . Gareth Bale did not take long to get into the festive spirit as the Welshman was snapped in some seasonal kit . Manchester City striker Edin Dzeko tweeted 'merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates' on Thursday . Juventus's official Twitter uploaded this selfie with the team, including Andrea Pirlo, and Santa Claus . Cristiano Ronaldo tweeted this snap of him and his family on Christmas day . Andy Carroll posted this with fiance Billi Mucklow and 'my little pudding' with baby emoticons attached . Sergio Aguero posted this snap of him and his family as they were celebrating Christmas . Luke Shaw was another Manchester United star to wish his followers the best on Christmas Day . Laura Trott announced her engagement to fellow British Olympic cycling star Jason Kenny on Twitter . Samir Nasri's girlfriend Anara Atanes poses and sends 'all the love from the Atanes/Nasri household' Atanes posed for a selfie next to her Christmas tree as she celebrated it from her home with Nasri . Manchester United defender Luke Shaw posted this picture wishing his followers a happy Christmas . Southampton's James Ward-Prowse didn't beat around the bush in admitting what present he is after most . Former Chelsea player David Luiz tweeted his festive cheer with his snap of a doodle on his hand . Andy Murray dons an Alexis Sanchez shirt while his brother Jamie (right) wears Manchester United . Chelsea vs West Ham (12.45) Burnley vs Liverpool . Crystal Palace vs Southampton . Everton vs Stoke . Leicester City vs Tottenham Hotspur . Manchester United vs Newcastle United . Sunderland vs Hull City . Swansea City vs Aston Villa . West Brom vs Manchester City . Arsenal vs Queens Park Rangers (17.30) The AON Training Complex in Carrington will remain a ghost town on Thursday after Van Gaal did what predecessors David Moyes and Sir Alex Ferguson didn't, and told his players to stay at home. With Christmas Day training cancelled and the stars not having to report for duty until Friday morning, they took the chance to celebrate the festive season in style. Among those was Mata, who took selfies to another level by snapping a photo of himself in a bauble and writing: 'Merry Christmas to everyone!!' Elsewhere, Southampton's James Ward-Prowse didn't beat around the bush in admitting what present he is after most, as he wrote: 'Let's all get three points on Boxing Day.' Andrea Pirlo and his Juventus team-mates took a selfie with Santa Claus, too, during training, with their next Serie A match coming on January 6 against Inter Milan. Still, there's always room for someone to act the part of Ebenezer Scrooge, as Stoke City's German centre-back Robert Huth simply tweeted: 'I hate Christmas.' Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker wished his fans merry Christmas on Thursday morning . Max Chilton tweeted that he went for a morning run on Christmas Day 'so I have an excuse to eat more' Ronaldinho poses with his family as he uploaded this snap to Twitter and wrote 'merry Christmas to all' Aaron Ramsey posted a selfie on Christmas Day, giving his fans a thumbs up ahead of their QPR match . Former Southampton defender Calum Chambers posts a selfie showing off his T-shirt . Formula One star Jenson Button tweeted this from Hawaii as he celebrated Christmas in the sun . Mata took a photo of himself in a bauble and wrote on Thursday: 'Merry Christmas to everyone!!' James McCarthur tweeted a picture of his dinner table on Christmas Day on Thursday . Jonas Gutierrez tweeted merry Christmas to his supporters as the Newcastle player gets back to his best . QPR goal machine Charlie Austin tweeted he was on his way home for Christmas the night before . Austin tweeted a snap of him and 'my princess' on Christmas day as he relaxed with his family . Michael Owen tweeted: 'Never mind the kids, I can't sleep through excitement! Happy Christmas everyone' Newcastle United's Ayoze Perez gives a thumbs up and poses next to a Christmas tree on Thursday . Danny Simpson tweeted a picture of the pile of presents under his tree on Thursday . Chelsea's Andre Schurrle tweeted a snap of his family as he celebrated Christmas in good company . Wilfried Zaha was among those wishing his followers merry Christmas on Thursday . There's always room for one Ebenezer Scrooge, as Stoke's Robert Huth simply tweeted: 'I hate Christmas' Didier Drogba, meanwhile, had a message for his supporters at Stamford Bridge: 'To all the Chelsea fans around the world, merry Christmas and happy New Year.' Drogba's team-mate Andre Schurrle tweeted a photo of him and his family on Thursday ahead of their early lunch-time kick-off against West Ham at Stamford Bridge the day after. Formula One's Jenson Button tweeted from Hawaii, too, as he wrote 'hoping you have a beautiful day with your loved ones.' Nigel de Jong shows off his new attire as he sports a Home Alone-themed jumper on Christmas . Dante tweeted merry Christmas and a snap of him and the Bayern Munich stars during their sing-along . Ben Amos tweeted a snap of his dogs dressed up for the occasion on Christmas Day . Southampton star Nathaniel Clyne tweeted: 'Merry Christmas everyone. Hope you all have a great day' Curtis Davies tweeted: 'No matter how big you are, I hope Santa got you some great gifts' David Villa tweeted this selfie with a Christmas tree on December 25, wishing his supporters well . Willian tweeted a mock-up of himself as he got into the festive mood with baubles and ribbons in his hair . Shane Long took to Twitter to wish his followers merry Christmas on Thursday . Marcelo tweeted a photo of himself when he was younger, holding a football he got for Christmas . Tim Cahill celebrated Christmas in Australia and took to Instagram to show off his view . Sunderland striker Connor Wickham shows off his new Christmas present . Jack Grealish wished his fans merry Christmas on Twitter, writing he hopes 'everyone has a great day' Jay Rodriguez took to Twitter to wish his followers merry Christmas ahead of Crystal Palace vs Southampton . Clubs got in on the act, too, as Everton tweeted merry Christmas to their fans ahead of their Boxing Day tie . Everton's Steven Pienaar followed suit and tweeted: 'Merry Christmas everyone. God bless' Leicester City goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel wraps up warm for the cold weather in the Midlands . Neymar dyed his beard to try his best Father Christmas impression as the Barcelona star enjoys his break . Rio Ferdinand donned a Santa Claus outfit ahead of Christmas as he got in the mood for the festive season . Aguero has been stepping up his push to get back to fitness as he had 'recovery work' on Wednesday . ### SUMMARY:

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal gave his stars the day off . Wayne Rooney was among those wishing his followers merry Christmas . Manchester City's Sergio Aguero and Edin Dzeko among the well wishers . Chelsea striker Didier Drogba wishes supporters well in vine . Stoke's Robert Huth proves Ebenezer Scrooge, tweeting: 'I hate Christmas'

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: After years of quietly conceding defeat in our battle for wardrobe space, my husband Tom has finally snapped. Perhaps he’d overheard me grumble ‘I don’t have anything to wear!’ one too many times. Or he had stumbled across the summer dresses I’ve hung on his clothes rail to make way for my winter purchases. Determined to prove I have far more clothes than I need (or have time to wear), he decided to compile an inventory. Scroll down for video . Charlotte Kemp's (right) husband, Tom, (left) sorted through her huge collection of coats, dresses and trousers and put similar items into piles . While I was out one day last week, he sorted through my vast collection of coats, jackets, dresses, skirts and trousers. He’d taken on quite a task because my clothes have spread from my wardrobe and drawers into every inch of storage space, from the cloakroom to the attic. When I returned home, I was stunned to discover a long line of near identical winter boots in the hallway. On the bed were piles of identical T-shirts, a mountain of long-sleeved tops and jeans, at least 20 black dresses and two dozen jackets. In the spare room was a forgotten rail of party gowns — all worn just once or twice. I stood there in silence, taking it all in. There were no other words for it: I’d been wardrobe shamed. Not only had Tom made it glaringly obvious I have far too much of everything, he had cast a spotlight on something even more absurd: I buy the same thing over and over again. I have 32 white tops. Every year, I buy new ones without a thought for those I already own. Yes, there are subtle differences in cut and sleeve style, but seeing them en masse I could understand Tom’s complaint: ‘Isn’t a white top a white top?’ Charlotte (pictured) says Tom made it glaringly obvious she has too much of everything . Tom has just one suit, four pairs of jeans, three jumpers and a handful of shirts. So, why do I — and so many other women — have so many clothes? Just last month, Jennifer Lopez revealed her wardrobe, filled with hundreds of pairs of jeans. London Fashion Week is testament to the fact women are for ever searching for their next ‘look’. ‘Men and women have been socially conditioned to value clothes differently,’ says psychologist Kate Nightingale, of Style Psychology consultants. Men buy a new jumper to replace an old one but for women, clothes are more an emotional investment than necessity. Each purchase is tied up with self-esteem, body image and a desire to fit in or stand out. After Tom sorted her clothes, Charlotte (pictured) started to wonder how she had managed to buy similar items over and over again each year . We keep buying new things, says Nightingale, because we feel under pressure to constantly prove our allure. We may be subconsciously seeking approval from friends or have reached a crossroads in our lives and want to reflect that by changing our image. ‘Women are more likely to hold on to things with positive associations or which represent a life goal, such as a dress that doesn’t fit, but hopefully will one day.’ Seeing my wardrobe laid out before me was as much a trip down memory lane as a wake-up call. There was the floral maxi dress from our honeymoon in 1999, and the linen blazer and matching dress I wore on my first day at work. Though I have friends who shop as often as me, they clear out their wardrobes regularly. They’d never hold on to a moth-holed top because it reminds them of a holiday. Seeing her wardrobe laid out in front of her was like a trip down memory lane for Charlotte . I also need to stop buying clothes that don’t suit me. Of all the clothes Tom discovered, I wear only a few regularly. Women often mistakenly believe that the more clothes, shoes and accessories they have, the better dressed they’ll be, but the opposite is often true,’ says Debbie Roes, author of new book End Closet Chaos: Wardrobe Solutions From An Ex-Shopaholic (recoveringshopaholic.com). ‘Having a large wardrobe produces a false sense of security and abundance, but most women wear only 20 to 30 per cent of what they own.’ Debbie suggests we should do a wardrobe audit at least once a year. ‘Once you organise like with like, you can see where you are duplicating clothing and what, if any, real shopping needs you have,’ she says. ‘Try on everything and see if it fits, if you like it and if it works for your lifestyle. ‘An item could be in good condition, but may be dated or not suit your needs any more. ‘Our bodies also change, even if we remain the same weight and dress size.’ Tom (left) says he can't understand how someone could want so many similar items . In my defence, I have been through a decade of sartorial upheaval due to three pregnancies and a work/life shift that saw me swap full-time office work to be a freelancer and full-time mother. Now I need to be tough and get rid of the power skirt suits and party dresses I no longer need. So, I’ve started selling dresses I no longer wear on eBay. I’m also working through the identical white shirts, black trousers, skinny jeans and so on, with the aim of whittling each clothing group down to three. The rest must go. My best discovery is the website girlmeetsdress.com, which loans out party frocks for less than £40. So, on the rare occasions I do go out for the night, I can keep up with fashion trends without clogging up my wardrobe. TOM SAYS: Browsing a magazine last weekend, Charlotte spotted a £295 denim dress and announced her intention to buy it. I said surely it would be easier — and cheaper — to rummage through her wardrobe, where she’d find half-a-dozen identical denim dresses she already owns. Charlotte (pictured) says Tom's wardobe consists of just one suit, four pairs of jeans, three jumpers and a handful of shirts . But Charlotte told me they were all subtly, yet significantly, different. And I should actually be praising her for her frugality! By stockpiling all her purchases over the past two decades, she explained, she had worn them many times as they went in and out of fashion. But take one of her wardrobe staples — the grey woollen top. She has amassed so many I have no way of knowing whether she has splashed out on a new one (as I suspect) or it really is ‘just that old thing I’ve had for years’. I can’t understand why anyone would want so many similar items. Unlike my cricket jockstrap or skiing long johns, it’s not as if each performs a separate, essential function — they are so alike as to be indistinguishable. And so I took matters into my own hands and played a game of fashion snap, piling up matching garments and shoes while Charlotte was out. Charlotte has started selling the clothes she no longer wears on eBay and is using the website girlmeetsdress.com to rent dresses for a night instead of splashing out on a new outfit . It confirmed she owns far too many clothes that are very similar in style, colour and cut. But is that really surprising? We all have particular styles in which we think we look good. Every time I buy a winter jacket, I return thinking I am at the cutting edge of male fashion. But then Charlotte asks why it is identical to every jacket I’ve bought since 1992. But while that may be the case, for every jacket I buy, she buys five. And until now, she never throws anything out. I am not convinced her new efforts to streamline her wardrobe will come to much. She put a pair of unworn ankle boots for sale on eBay. Just a day later, the listing had disappeared. She explained that seeing the boots on the site made her realise how nice they were. They wouldn’t fetch more than £10, so by not selling them, she would not have to buy another pair. In other words, she was saving us money. It’s logic, Jim, but not as any man would know it. Video courtesy of Howcast . ### SUMMARY:

Charlotte Kemp's husband, Tom, decided to take on her wardrobe . Tom was determined to prove his wife has too many clothes . He sorted all the similar items into piles, with shocking results!

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: The world's oldest working barmaid has died aged 100 after pulling more than two million pints during her 74-year career behind the bar. Great-great grandmother Dolly Saville began her first job at a Buckinghamshire public house in 1940, when a pint cost just eight pence. Over the last seven decades she has pulled millions of pints and served many famous faces, including James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan, former Prime Minister Ted Heath, footballer Stanley Matthews, singer Vera Lynn, ballet dancer Margot Fonteyn and actress Elizabeth Taylor. Mrs Saville at work in the beer garden in The Red Lion in 1949 (left) and last year still working three days a week (right) has sadly passed away . Until six years ago, she was still working at least six hours a day, six days a week at The Red Lion Hotel in Wendover and has only ever had two weeks sick leave her entire life. She had to reduce her shifts to three hours a week, but still spent time working on her feet clearing tables, serving customers and polishing glasses. At her 100th birthday party in April last year, she'd had no plans to stop working. 'They will have to carry me out from the Red Lion,' she said. 'I love the people, that's what keeps me going. Dolly Saville had served a number of celebrities in her 74-year career including with James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan, pictured at the Red Lion . 'I didn't think I would stay for such a long time but I've never thought about leaving.' Sam Hughes, the pub's deputy manager, said at the time: 'She's full of energy and has a good sense of humour. She keeps us all in check half the time. 'It's a shame we don't have more people like her.' The pensioner, who leaves behind three grandchildren, three great-grandchildren . and one great-great granddaughter, even had the bar she works at . named 'Dolly's' in her honour. Mrs Saville, whose two children are both retired, said last year: 'I love my work and I love the people, it keeps me going and it's better . than sitting around. 'I . never thought I would be here this long, but I've loved every minute of . it. My family keeps asking if I want to stop, but I have no plans to . retire. 'My boss is lovely and if he asked me to work an extra shift I would say yes as he has been so kind to me.' Born in Eton, Berkshire, Mrs Saville left school at 14 and went into service as a house maid. She married in her late teens and her daughter Anne was born soon after, followed by her son Roland. When war broke out several years later, her husband joined the RAF and Dolly had to get a job to support the family. Despite the fact that both her children are both retired, Mrs Saville had not wanted to give up work at the Red Lion in Wendover . She . had never done bar work before but was offered a job in the hotel by . the landlord who spotted her walking past one day with her children. She said: 'The . landlord asked if I would like to work there, but I said no as I hadn't . worked in a bar before and I never thought anymore about it. 'Then . he saw me up the High Street and asked if I'd thought anymore about it. I said I hadn't but he said 'why don't you give it a try' so I said I . would. 'I started just washing up glasses in the saloon bar. Then, . after I'd been there about five or six weeks he said I think you could . serve. 'I said 'Oh I don't think so, I'd give them the wrong change!' But I did, and I got on very well.' When Mrs Saville first started the 16th Century hotel had three bars, a public bar, a saloon bar and a cocktail bar, and she would work in all three. Her children, who were three and five at the time, would be left to play in the staff room or the beautiful hotel gardens. Dolly Saville, aged 3, in 1917, with her mother (right) and her brother Fred . Another celebrity pal: Dolly Saville with footballer Sir Stanley Matthews in 1982, one of the many celebrities she met during her time as a barmaid at The Red Lion . She said: 'I worked in all three bars and over the years I've also cooked in the kitchen, done the bedrooms, the reception and the teas. I've done the lot. 'It has always been great fun and sometimes after a long shift I would be tired but we would go out dancing.' 'Even after the hotel, which has historical links with Oliver Cromwell and Robert Louis Stevenson, was closed five years ago for six months refurbishment Dolly refused to give up work. Instead she went to the nearby King and Queen pub in Wendover, and continued working at the bars. She said: 'I was so sad when they closed for six months. 'But I went to the King and Queen instead, they asked me if I would go there and I quite enjoyed that I must say! (Left) Dolly Saville in 1979, the year that the smallpox virus was eradicated, and Dolly Saville aged 27 in 1941 (right) Mrs Saville's granddaughter Kim Leemans said: 'We tried to get her to retire years ago but she said no, so we gave up the fight and let her carry on' 'I get very bored if I'm sitting too long. I must be doing something and working keeps my brain active. 'I think that comes from when I left school at 14 and I went into private service. You had to work then, there was no nonsense, and if you didn't do it properly you did it again.' The pensioner had just started working at the bar and was just 26. King George VI was on the throne, Winston . Churchill was Prime Minister and Britain was in the grip of World War . Two. The battle of France began, and the Dutch official surrendered to the German forces. Paris was eventually bombed and invaded, while the French Resistance began their preliminary planning for guerrilla counter-attacks. Later, the 'Battle of Britain' began, with the Nazi Luftwaffe consistently bombing London, and several parts of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, at strategic points, such as docks and aeronautical manufacturing plants. This led to a period called the Blitz (a result of the British 'blackout') a pattern of strategic bombings by Nazi planes over populated areas. The draft of around 16 million men began in the U.S, prior to their involvement in the war. Also, Bugs Bunny made his debut in the Oscar-nominated cartoon short, A Wild Hare. Mrs Saville, who became famous herself for being such a long-serving bar maid, also served many celebrities. 'I served Pierce Brosnan when he had lunch at the hotel while he was filming one of the Bond films,' she said previously. 'I also made tea and toast for Ted Heath when he came in on a chilly afternoon. 'Vera Lynn has also popped into the hotel several times for lunch. I think everyone in the village knows me now.' Mrs Saville's daughter Anne Edwards, 79, from Wendover, said until she was 94 her mother would work a morning shift, come home for lunch, then go back again in the evening. 'When she started the job it was out of necessity, but I think it gradually became her life,' she added. Mrs Saville's granddaughter Kim Leemans said the family had tried to get her to retire but she would hear none if it. Robert Hynes, deputy manager, said last year: 'She is amazing and the customers absolutely love her. She has told me she doesn't want to leave until the day she dies. 'The younger members of staff aspire to be like her and think she'd brilliant. I think the job keeps her going and gives her something to look forward to. 'We get regulars who come in especially to see Dolly and in the run up to her birthday they've been travelling from further afield to see her.' Hideko Arima, from Japan, was formerly the world's oldest bar maid. She worked at her tiny bar, Gilbey Ai in Tokyo's Ginza district for 52 years until she was 101, and died in 2003. ### SUMMARY:

Dolly Saville, from Buckinghamshire, had been a barmaid since 1940 . During her long career she pulled millions of pints and served celebrities . At her 100th birthday last year Mrs Saville said she'd had no plans to retire .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- Back in 2005, when he stopped studying third down tendencies long enough to work on a motivational self-help book, Nick Saban kept hammering on one phrase. The book's title was "How Good Do You Want to Be? A Champion's Tips on How to Lead and Succeed at Work and in Life." The phrase the University of Alabama's football coach was stuck on was mercifully shorter. "Eliminate the clutter." The clutter is you. The clutter is me. The clutter is this story, another horn in the vast media brass section trumpeting a college football game taking on Homeric proportions. "It's everything out there that can take away from your focus," said Saban's co-writer, Brian Curtis. This week Saban -- called "the most powerful coach in sports" by Forbes magazine in 2008 -- is up to his furrowed brow in clutter. His No. 2 Crimson Tide plays No. 1 Louisiana State Saturday night in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in the most anticipated college football game in years. Both teams are undefeated, and it's the first ever SEC regular season game matching the country's two top teams. SI.com: LSU vs. Alabama really does mean everything to some, and that's OK . Saban, who just turned 60, is not exactly a willing contributor to the ruckus that surrounds big-time college football. When his own players doused him with the traditional Gatorade victory shower after Alabama won the BCS Championship Game in January, 2010, he looked genuinely irked by the display. Saban's no-nonsense nature -- he and a statue of him outside Alabama's football stadium are tied for number of memorable one-liners -- perfectly equips him for a moment like Saturday night. "It's fun to play in games like this," Saban said this week. And then he broke out the wet blanket. "But I also think it's important to be able to stay focused on what you need to do to play well. You can't drain yourself emotionally because of all the things that are happening surrounding the game." SI.com: Alabama hosts LSU in the Game of the Year . The Saban method certainly has paid off. His overall college coaching record is 137-53-1, a .717 winning percentage. He has won as many national titles (two) as all-time major college wins leader Joe Paterno. But Saban is the only coach to win a BCS championship with two different programs. It is a testament to both Saban's coaching genius and his tumbleweed past that his DNA is on both programs involved in Saturday's showdown. Here's how he got there: . The son of a West Virginia gas station owner, he began coaching as a grad assistant at alma mater Kent State in 1973. Over a lengthy career, he has been employed by nine different college programs, and three more NFL franchises. Following four years as head coach at Michigan State, Saban was brought to Baton Rouge in 2000 after LSU had gone 7-15 the previous two seasons. Within four years, Saban delivered a national title. His professional travelogue didn't end there. Saban left to test himself as an NFL head coach with the Miami Dolphins in 2005. Two seasons there produced a 15-17 record, and then Saban was seduced by a once proud southern belle who had fallen into disrepute. "I'm not going to be the Alabama coach," Saban infamously declared on December 21, 2006. On January 4, 2007, he was introduced as the Crimson Tide's next coach. He was apologizing for that one three years later in a Sporting News interview. Sort of. "I apologize for any professional mishandling that might have occurred," he said. But there is a reason Alabama ponied up $4 million a year for Saban (university President Robert Witt makes a reported base of $490,000 a year). He is one rainmaker of a coach. While perhaps not always so dedicated to the truth about his comings and goings, Saban is all in with building winning football programs. And in 2007 Alabama needed him badly. With 13 national championships in the bank, and the legend of Bear Bryant growing dim, the Alabama football program of the early 2000s was a mess. One coach was tangled up in a sexual harassment charge and eventually got the program placed on NCAA probation. One hire never coached a game, fired after an off-season Florida strip-club romp became public. One abandoned ship after two seasons, informing his team he was leaving for Texas A&M via video conference. Another had the name (Mike Shula, son of Hall of Fame NFL coach Don Shula) but won few hearts with his 26-23 record. Then came Saban, whose stern dictatorship cut through all the nonsense. He is 51-11 at 'Bama, with one national title and the hopes of another resting on Saturday. His success did not sit well a couple states to the left. When Saban first left for the pros, LSU fans were mostly understanding. They even cheered him when he returned to Baton Rouge with the Dolphins in 2005 to take on the New Orleans Saints, who had been displaced from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. But when he took over a conference rival, he was a direct threat to their team and the game changed. On Saban's trip to Baton Rouge in 2008, he was greeted with the requisite effigy burning. The LSU student newspaper produced an editorial that proclaimed: "For the record, Nick, the Tiger faithful hate your guts." "What people suddenly didn't seem to understand is that he didn't leave LSU for Alabama," said Glenn Guilbeau, who covers the Tigers for Gannett News Service. After ditching the Dolphins, "the only open jobs were Alabama, Louisville and Tulane. What was he supposed to do?" Time has somewhat softened the Saban-is-Satan storyline when LSU and Alabama play now. His connection to LSU was brought up only once in his press conference last Monday. In response, Saban sounded almost wistful. "I really don't think a lot about that, but there are a lot of personal relationships we have with a lot of people because of the association we had with LSU," he said. "The older you get -- and everybody knows I'm getting old -- you kind of cherish those relationships and really respect and appreciate them. I'm happy to say a lot of those things don't get affected by this game and what happens in this game." Are the halcyon days of Saban-hating gone? After his clumsy departure from the Dolphins, Saban appeared as No. 9 on a Forbes top 10 list of most disliked people in sports. He has not made the last two editions of that list. When he completes this season, his fifth, it will match his longest stay at any of his coaching posts. "I think there's a feeling that this is the right place for him and his wife at this stage of their lives," Curtis said. The Saban family was out front in the recovery effort after a devastating tornado swept through Tuscaloosa in April, only reinforcing his Alabama identity. Saban's Nick's Kids Foundation provided the $50,000 seed money to start Project Team Up, which coordinates aid for those who lost homes and loved ones to the storm. Saban, his wife Terry and his team have been out front throughout the recovery process, said Riz Shakir, Project Team Up's managing director. "As you know, Nick is not one to be exuberant, but he shows he really cares through his actions," Shakir said. "When he cracks a little smile (doing the relief work), it's like you or me jumping for joy." Maybe some will even begin taking him at his word that, "When I came here, I came here with the idea I'd be here for the rest of my career." Saban may never be the warm and fuzzy good ol' boy kind of southern football coach. Because that is just the kind of clutter that has nothing to do with a final score, he's unlikely to spend much time courting favor. At least he has settled into one place long enough now that those who wish to appreciate him know where to find him. ### SUMMARY:

No. 1 LSU faces No. 2 Alabama Saturday in college football game of the year . Alabama coach Nick Saban has coached both teams to national championsips . Saban has angered some with his ugly departures from previous coaching jobs . Saban is only coach to take two different schools to college football's BCS championship .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- Apple Store employees, dressed in matching blue T-shirts, clapped and sang and made intermittent "woo!" cheers, as they walked past John H., who was waiting in line to buy the iPhone 5 in Atlanta last month. The 29-year-old, who had never before waited in one of Apple's I-need-the-product-immediately-so-I'm-willing-to-stand-here-for-hours lines, didn't look amused. About the time the sun was coming up, John leaned against a railing at Lenox Square mall and pretty much scowled at all the hoopla. "I didn't have anything better to do," he said of his decision to come to the mall and wait in line to buy the newest Apple smartphone. John, who asked that his last name not be used, had just come off of an overnight shift with an airline. "My girlfriend's out of town," he added. "I'm just hanging out." One year after the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, that kind of indifference seems almost sacrilege when set against the history of Apple fanboy-dom that surrounds the company's product launches. And while it's true that that a woman in New York waited in line for eight days, braving rain, police, wrecks and everything else that would be horrible about sleeping outside in Manhattan for a week, the excitement for the iPhone 5 seemed less palpable than in the past, at least among the masses. The cause? That's anyone's guess. Maybe it's that this phone seems less exciting than its predecessors. Maybe it's harder for fans to drum up enthusiasm for Apple now that the once-scrappy underdog has become the world's richest and most powerful tech company. Or, more troubling for Apple loyalists, maybe some of the company's sparkle is fading with consumers now that Jobs, the design perfectionist, is no longer signing off on new products. #WhatSteveJobsTaughtMe: Share your thoughts on his life and career . Obviously, there's no lack of luster in Apple's stock price, which is reaching such heights -- it recently flirted with $700 a share -- that it's been accused of swaying trends for entire markets. And Apple sold 5 million iPhone 5s in the first weekend, although that number was less than analysts had expected given the attendant hype and pent-up demand for the device. A shift, however, seemed evident at the launch of the new phone, at least with the random sampling of consumers who spoke with CNN that morning. It's not that Apple isn't popular. It's that perhaps the fans aren't as hyped up as they used to be. For starters, no one would claim Apple as a hero of the counterculture these days. That was evident in the fact that some of the line-standers in Atlanta talked about the phone not as some life-altering blessing from on high (the iPhone has been dubbed the "Jesus phone," let's remember) but in consumer-y and practical terms. One man, 31-year-old Nick Loner, wanted a better camera before he went on a family vacation. Ed Veillette, 45, was in line to buy the phone for his teenage son, who wanted to be able to show it off to friends in the school lunchroom. "It could be a rock," Veillette said. "If everybody had a rock, he'd want it." Opinion: Apple seems to have gotten a little bit lost . The vibe shift was apparent to die-hard Apple fans as well. "The excitement has settled," said Justin Henderson, 32, who has waited in line for the new Apple smartphone every year since the iPhone launched. "The biggest line I've seen in the last five years was for the iPhone 4. That line was ridiculous." This line? Less so. "I think people know what they're getting, and they're just wanting to upgrade, versus getting the phone for the first time" and being super-thrilled about it, he said. In a YouTube video of the recent opening of an Apple store in Stockholm, some customers looked nonplussed, if not downright perturbed, by Apple's clapping, chanting mob of blue-shirted employees. The company is having trouble controlling the tech pundits, too. In a post titled "Confessions of a former Apple fanboy," blogger Roy Choi writes that he is losing faith in Apple's ability to gin up the same level of fanaticism in the post-Steve-Jobs era. "I'm not saying this iPhone iteration is an awful device, but I question whether Apple has the ability to maintain industry-leading innovation," Choi writes on the site TechnoBuffalo. "Apple has historically been known for creative design and disruptive technology, signature features that are surprisingly missing this time around. It is uncharacteristic of Apple to deliver an average product. My thoughts are that these specs can be found on nearly every other mid-to-high-end smartphone on the market." Apple loyalist John Gruber, author of the influential blog Daring Fireball, wrote favorably about Amazon's unveiling of its newest iPad competitor. "Om Malik argues that (Amazon CEO Jeff) Bezos is the inheritor to Steve Jobs's crown. I agree. Not because Bezos has copied anything Jobs did, but because he has not. What he's done that is Jobs-like is doggedly pursue, year after year, iteration after iteration, a vision unlike that of any other company -- all in the name of making customers happy." Forbes points out that the iPhone 5 was supposed to cement Jobs' legacy. "Reports around Steve Jobs' passing talked about how he was focused on the iPhone 5 during his last days and predicted that it would be his 'legacy device,' " contributor Chunka Mui writes. "That seemed plausible, given Jobs' reputation and the incremental nature of the iPhone 4S that came out around the same time, and helped to heighten the anticipation for this week's iPhone 5 launch. "The new iPhone does not meet those lofty 'legacy' aspirations, however. The iPhone 5 is bigger, faster, thinner, etc. -- definitely a creditable offering that reiterates Apple's design, engineering and marketing chops. While it does nothing to detract from Jobs' design genius reputation, it does nothing to enhance it, either." Apple has come under fire for its new error-filled maps application, which replaces Google Maps on iPhone 5s and in iOS 6, the company's new mobile operating system. In a rare public letter, Apple CEO Tim Cook apologized for the quality of the maps last week. Frustrated iPhone 5 users have also complained about a bug that causes their phones to suck cellular data even when connected to a Wi-Fi network. Of course, there's always a counter-argument. Here's one from Kris Abarilla, who responded to my question about the changing state of Apple fanboydom on Google+: "Fanboydom certainly hasn't changed much since Jobs. The people are loyal to the brand, not to the person who ran it. "Even after people realize how bad the Maps App is in the new iOS 6, those very same users are touting the greatness of Apple." It's clear Apple employees (check out this gallery; hilarious) and the company's fanboy and fangirl loyalists will continue not just to buy Apple products but to love them, and the company behind them. The question is: What about everyone else? "Though Apple will remain a highly profitable company for years to come, I would be surprised if it ever gives us another product as transformative as the (original) iPhone or the iPad," writes Joe Nocera in the New York Times' opinion section. "Part of the reason is obvious: Jobs isn't there anymore," he wrote. "It is rare that a company is so completely an extension of one man's brain as Apple was an extension of Jobs. While he was alive, that was a strength; now it's a weakness. Apple's current executive team is no doubt trying to maintain the same demanding, innovative culture, but it's just not the same without the man himself looking over everybody's shoulder." Good or bad, what lessons did you learn from Jobs? Share your responses in the comments below, or join the conversation on Twitter using #stevejobstaughtme. ### SUMMARY:

Some Apple consumers seem less enthused about the company these days . Maybe that's because of the death of Steve Jobs; maybe it's iPhone 5 glitches . "The excitement has settled," one Apple fan in Atlanta says . Still, the company's stock is near an all-time high, and the iPhone 5 is selling well .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Washington (CNN) -- A government official at the center of lavish spending at a Las Vegas conference claimed his Fifth Amendment rights against testifying at a congressional hearing Monday, while his former boss said she mourned her departure from public service over the controversy. Jeff Neely, the General Services Administration official who organized the 2010 conference that cost $800,000, repeatedly refused to answer questions, saying more than five times: "I respectfully decline to answer any questions here today based on my Fifth Amendment constitutional privileges." Rep. Darrell Issa, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, then excused Neely and proceeded with the hearing on what he described as an unacceptable waste of taxpayer money. "We're here today to get answers to questions that should have been asked and answered a long, long, long time ago," Issa said in his opening remarks, adding that the controversy raised "serious questions in the minds of the American people about how government is using their tax dollars." Issa also injected politics into his comments, saying the situation should raise questions in the minds of people about whether "government and its reach should be expanded," a common Republican criticism of Democrats. The controversy involving a normally obscure federal agency has become politically toxic after reports and video clips of the lavish 2010 conference in Las Vegas were released. The revelation has prompted taxpayer indignation, embarrassed the administration and put a spotlight on wasteful spending by the GSA, which acts as a real estate agency for the federal government. Particular questions raised by Issa included why it took 11 months for the results of an inspector general's investigation to become public, and why a former congressional aide to President Barack Obama remained in his top job at GSA when he likely knew of the wrongdoing -- or should have. In later tough questioning of that official, GSA Chief of Staff Mike Robertson, Issa determined that a lawyer in the White House counsel's office knew of the ongoing investigation of the GSA in the middle of 2011, nine months before the earliest time acknowledged to date by the administration. However, Robertson later issued a statement to clarify his testimony to the committee, saying: "I only mentioned in passing the existence of an IG (inspector general) investigation as I bumped into a White House staffer that I regularly worked with on GSA issues. This was in late May or June of 2011." Committee members from both parties expressed outrage Monday over the GSA's excessive spending, contracting violations and other abuses cited by the inspector general's report. Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the panel, called the GSA behavior "indefensible and intolerable," taking aim at Neely, a Public Buildings Service regional commissioner for GSA who organized the Las Vegas conference. "In one e-mail," Cummings began, "Mr. Neely invited personal friends to the conference, writing, and I quote -- and this is simply incredible -- quote: 'We'll get you guys a room near us, and we'll pick up the room tab. Could be a blast.' End of quote. He then went on and wrote this -- 'I know I'm bad, but as Deb and I often say, why not enjoy it while we have it and while we can. Ain't gonna last forever.' End of quote. Well, Mr. Neely it stops now." In her opening statement, former GSA administrator Martha Johnson said she found a badly managed GSA when she took over in 2010 after more than two years of interim leadership. She added that the Western Regions conference at the heart of the problem had become a "raucous, extravagant, arrogant, self-congratulatory event that ultimately belittled federal workers." When she received a draft of the final inspector general's report outlining the abuses, Johnson said, she started thinking immediately she might have to resign. Her final decision to step down came "three or four days" before the final report was released in March because she wanted to send a message to the American people that "this was unacceptable, it was appalling and not the norm," said Johnson, who had a long career in public service. "I will mourn for the rest of my life the loss of my appointment," Johnson said of her resignation. Johnson stepped down nearly two weeks ago as the Obama administration revealed details of the Western Regions convention at a Las Vegas casino. Videos then surfaced of David Foley, a deputy commissioner of the Public Buildings Service, an arm of the GSA, appearing to mock congressional oversight. In it, he gave a talent show award to an employee whose video featured a rap about spending too much and joking about avoiding investigation. Additional videos also came out, including one that seemed to make fun of President Barack Obama, as well as a fake red carpet ceremony with Neely, a deputy GSA commissioner, boasting that his goal was to make the Las Vegas conference he helped organize "over the top." Details also emerged of an employee incentive program that violated limits on awards or gifts. Johnson, Foley, Robertson and Neely were all witnesses at Monday's hearing, along with GSA Inspector General Brian Miller, who wrote the report on GSA spending that set off the public controversy. Issa said Neely was the only witness who required a subpoena. Neely also was the only one who refused to answer questions under constitutional protections against self-incrimination. Committee members took the witnesses to task over the violations of government regulations and policies cited by Miller's report. In particular, conservative Republican members repeatedly listed the excesses -- more than $6,000 for commemorative coins for conference attendees, $75,000 for a team-building exercise to construct 24 bicycles then given to underprivileged children, the hiring of a mind reader as entertainment -- as well as bypassing a staff event planner to pay outsiders to prepare the conference and repeated "scouting visits" to Las Vegas by officials and family members. "I want indictments," Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-South Carolina, said to Miller. "That's a great way to get people's attention. Not a memo, not a report. An indictment." Working for the government "is a sacred trust, which you have blown," Gowdy said to the GSA officials. He lamented the culture of waste and extravagance, saying of the team-building exercise that "I hate that you robbed yourself of the satisfaction of knowing what it feels like yourself instead of spending somebody else's money to do it." The hearing included several harsh exchanges, including when Issa questioned Robertson, a former staffer for Obama in the Senate, about when he first told anyone in the White House of the investigation of GSA. In a long back-and-forth, Issa tried to narrow Roberton's responses to a specific date and person. "I communicated to the appropriate people," Robertson initially answered, then acknowledged he spoke to the White House as part of his regular dealings. Asked when he first told anyone at the White House about the investigation, Robertson eventually said it was within a few weeks after GSA officials were first notified by the inspector general of a problem in May 2011. Issa then asked who he told, and Robertson twice said it was an unnamed person in the White House counsel's office before Issa insisted: "What's the name?" Only then did Robertson answer the person was Kim Harris. White House salary disclosures for 2011 list a Kimberley D. Harris as a deputy assistant to the president and deputy counsel to the president. Previously, a senior administration official told CNN that the White House was notified by GSA about the final inspector general's report shortly before it was released last month, more than nine months after Robertson said he told Harris about the ongoing investigation. Issa acknowledged that over-the-top GSA spending existed during the preceding Bush administration, though he disputes figures released by Obama officials that show a 102% increase from 2006 to 2008. However, information provided by his staff on Monday showed the increase from 2006 to 2008 approached that figure. "Wasteful spending is a problem that transcends multiple administrations," he said, adding that it was up to the current administration to halt it now. CNN's Stacey Samuel contributed to this report. ### SUMMARY:

Committee members express outrage over GSA actions . A GSA official says he told a White House lawyer of the problem in May or June 2011 . The GSA chief who resigned over the controversy mourns her departure . Republicans try to score political points at the House Oversight Committee hearing .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- Dan Hyatt's wife, Shelley, had been worried for a while by the time he hit 337 pounds. Her husband had a short fuse and a bad attitude because he hated the way he looked and felt. He was on multiple medications for high blood pressure and used a CPAP machine at night to treat his sleep apnea. She tried to dance around the problem, but she was afraid of becoming a widow. "A couple times I said something like, 'How much life insurance do you have?' " she said. "I was afraid if I said, 'I'm afraid you're going to die,' that would make it come true." On January 13, 2012, Hyatt crawled to the top of a tower at the plastics plant where he worked, doubled over and struggled to catch his breath. That was when it finally hit him -- if he didn't lose weight, he might not live to see his three daughters graduate college, get married or have children of their own. Read Dan Hyatt's story on CNN iReport . Heavy all his life from poor eating habits and little exercise, Hyatt had lost weight before only to gain it all back. So this time, he didn't set a weight loss goal. He gave himself a bigger challenge: Compete in an Ironman triathlon in five years or less. Arguably the world's most grueling endurance race, the Ironman consists of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bicycle ride and a marathon 26.2-mile run with no break. "I can't explain how my logic works, but I just decided, if I try to run the Ironman, even if I don't get there, I'm going to lose the weight and I'm going to get fit," said the 44-year-old from Ottawa, Illinois. Eight months later, Hyatt had completed his first triathlon, run his first marathon and lost nearly 100 pounds. To date, he has lost 135 pounds and 12 inches off his waist by working out 12 to 14 hours per week -- swimming, running, cycling and doing yoga -- and sticking with a fairly rigid diet. "I love the fact that I've done what I've done, but it pales in comparison to what I want to do," he said. Cruel taunts in childhood . Hyatt was overweight as a child. He remembers the other kids calling him "Moby Dick" and yelling, "There she blows." Sports weren't his thing. He liked to swim, but the only time he went jogging was when his concerned parents would make him run around the block to try to help him lose weight. That just brought him more shame and ridicule. "I'd have people I didn't even know yell names at me -- 'Here comes the fat boy running.' " But decades later, when he laid down the Ironman gauntlet, there was no turning back. Follow Dan's journey to the Ironman on Facebook . He didn't tell his wife at first. The Monday morning after his January 2012 epiphany, he snuck out of bed and got to the YMCA when it opened at 5:30 a.m. He texted his wife something like: "I just went for a swim." "I'm like, what? What are you talking about? You don't just go for a swim in the middle of January," she said. As the months went on, she got a clearer picture. "At first it was just the swimming, and then he comes home and goes, 'I'm going to do a Couch-to-5K.' And then, 'I'm going to take up cycling,' and he signed up for a cycling class. And then he said, 'I'm going to do the Ironman.' " The workouts escalated slowly. During the first month, Hyatt swam four mornings a week, adding a couple laps every other day until he got to a mile. After a couple weeks, he signed up for a weekly spinning class. When he joined up with some people starting the Couch-to-5K nine-week training program for beginner runners, he was still more than 300 pounds and breathing so heavily that the other joggers would ask if he was OK. But he made it to every run, three days a week. He finished his first 5K in 39 minutes and 56 seconds. From there, it was onto a 10K. Learning to ignore his detractors . Dealing with naysayers was the hardest part. In the beginning, people told him he'd destroy his knees. He was too big to be running, they said. When he hadn't lost all the weight, some people even accused him of lying about swimming a whole mile or running six. He said his wife and two friends were the only ones who believed in him. A nutritionist helped Hyatt balance his diet around running and cycling. He sticks to whole grains, lean meats, fruits and vegetables and tries to eat a combination of 55% carbohydrates, 30% fat and 15% protein, per her recommendation. If the family goes to a Chinese restaurant, he orders steamed chicken and rice with the sauce on the side. He treats himself to a Skinny Cow ice cream sandwich most days, and if he's training for a marathon, he'll eat a few slices of pizza. In September 2012, he ran a half marathon, and later that month, a triathlon. A couple months later, he did a full marathon. This past July, he completed a half Ironman, his proudest accomplishment so far. Swimming 1.2 miles in Lake Michigan was "like swimming in a washing machine," and as he swallowed water and felt his chest tighten, he seriously contemplated dropping out of the race. But he kept going. "When you get to that finish line ... it brought tears to my eyes," he said. "At the same time, it was a stark reality that I'm only at half of where I need to be." Early to rise: A disciplined regime . No one doubts him now. He wakes up at 3 a.m. on weekdays to run, swim and strength train before he leaves for work at 6 a.m. On weekends, he's usually up by 6 a.m. to cycle. When the family travels, his first call is to find the nearest YMCA with a pool. He weighs 202 pounds, about 20 pounds from his goal weight. He has gotten off two blood pressure medications, sleeps better and is a much more pleasant person to be around, his wife reports. "Nobody would ever say anything to me anymore," he said. "I'm way more fit than the average person these days, and I'm proud of that. And I'm not going to quit." Hyatt is saving money for the $625 entry fee required to participate in the Louisville Ironman in August. And he won't be stopping there. After the Ironman, he's got his sights set on ultramarathons, trail running and the Boston Marathon (to qualify, he'd need to shave more than an hour off his current time). He also wants to win a race. "The human body is capable of so much more than you can fathom if you have the mental fortitude to put past the artificial limits that your brain places on it," he said. "The harder it sounds or the more challenging it is, the more appealing it is to me." Shelley no longer worries how much life insurance they have, though she does wonder when he'll be home from his long runs or bike rides. On the upside, he cooks dinner for the family nearly every night to make sure the food is prepared healthily. "There are time when I'm like, 'Oh my gosh, I can't believe you're doing this; I can't believe how insane I am to let you do this,' " she said. But, ultimately, she said, "I'm so happy and so thankful because he's adding years to his life." Update, Nov. 4, 2013: After learning about Hyatt's story, the Ironman organization waived his entry fee for the Louisville race. Hyatt has committed to give back by raising money for childhood obesity. He has set a goal of raising $5,000 by August 24. Visit his Ironman page to learn more. ### SUMMARY:

Dan Hyatt went from 337 pounds to 202 pounds . Rather than set a weight loss goal, he trained for an Ironman . Though he's already come a long way, "I'm not going to quit," he says . Do you have a weight loss story? Share it with CNN iReport .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- There are few more concrete examples of the longtime rift between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland than the walled city on the River Foyle. Its official name, and the name used by most residents of the UK, is Londonderry. But Irish nationalists and Catholics call it simply Derry. The city was a flashpoint for the violent conflict between unionists and nationalists that swept Ireland from the 1960s through the 1990s. Its Catholic and Protestant children attend segregated schools. Even today it's not uncommon for road signs pointing motorists to Londonderry to have the "London" blacked out by graffiti. This weekend, however, Derry-Londonderry plays host to an event its organizers hope can help unite this divided city, at least for a few days. Called Lumiere, it's a four-day festival expected to attract tens of thousands of spectators to see the city's historic cathedrals, walls, bridges and squares illuminated by splashes of light. Projects range from LED and neon sculptures to large-scale projections by leading artists and lighting designers from Ireland and beyond. "It (the city) has been a contested space for a very long time. And we're going there in the hope that ... maybe people who haven't felt comfortable standing next to each other in the streets will find an opportunity to do that," said Helen Marriage, co-director of Artichoke, a London-based company that stages large-scale public events across the UK. "It may be a naive hope, but the hope is that communities who are divided by heritage or tradition or faith will find something new they can all enjoy together." Marriage knows what she's talking about. In her eight years at Artichoke, which she co-founded with Nicky Webb, she has orchestrated numerous public, artistic spectacles in London and other cities. Each have drawn throngs of people who packed the streets, faces bright with wonder, to witness their city be transformed if only for a moment into something magical. "I don't exaggerate the power of what we do," Marriage told CNN during her recent appearance at the PopTech conference, an annual gathering of artists, scientists and thought leaders in Camden, Maine. "But the way people are moved by the work, and the way it makes them feel about their town, is something that's hard to describe. You can absolutely feel it in the air." The Sultan's Elephant . In retrospect, the birth of Artichoke's first project was a minor miracle. In the early 2000s, Marriage and Webb wanted to bring Royal de Luxe, a French street-theater company, to London to mount a spectacle in the streets with enormous marionettes acting out a fanciful story about a young girl and a time-traveling elephant. Marriage had to persuade skeptical city officials to shut down parts of central London and reroute traffic while convincing them the event wasn't just a piece of frivolous disruption. "You can imagine sitting in front of 25 gentlemen in various uniforms and suits, and saying, 'Hey guys, it's a kind of fairy story, about an elephant and a little girl. And we'd like to shut the city (down) for four days,'" she said. "A lot of them admitted afterwards that they thought we were mad." This lobbying effort took Marriage five years. "I used to go to these meetings and say, 'Please, may I do this?' And then I realized I was asking the wrong question. If you say to somebody, 'Please may I do this thing that's a bit unusual,' you're placing them in a position where they have to authorize your unusual behavior. And of course their instinct is to say no," she said. "So I said, 'This is happening, on these dates. How can you help me?' And immediately the response was different. Because nobody was being asked to take responsibility for something they couldn't possibly imagine. Nobody ever really said yes. They just stopped saying no." The event, "The Sultan's Elephant," was a huge success in May 2006. Londoners, despite anxieties about crowded public spaces after the terrorist bombings that had rocked the city 10 months earlier, turned out in droves. Crime in London plummeted that weekend, and the event -- funded by government arts agencies and private donors -- generated an estimated 28 million pounds to the city's economy, Marriage said. To her, the emotional impact was even greater. "People really took it to their hearts," she said. "It's always an incredible moment when the city is returned to the people who live and work there. And they can wander freely as if in a playground, for no better reason than something is happening that they love. The real point of it is to create a moment of magic and wonder in people's lives." Plinthers and a Telectroscope . Artichoke's subsequent projects were smaller in scale but no less imaginative. In 2008, they worked with British artist Paul St. George to unveil the Telectroscope, a fanciful contraption that claimed to link London and New York by means of a transatlantic tunnel and lots of mirrors. Thanks to a fast broadband connection, people in London could peer into the "tunnel" and see a live feed of New York City, and vice versa. Thousands invested in the illusion that they were peeking through a subterranean scope at the other side of the world. Marriage and her team followed that in 2009 with "One & Other," which took over London's Trafalgar Square for 100 days and nights. The square's famous monument to Adm. Horatio Nelson is flanked by four smaller plinths, or platforms -- one of which sits empty. So Artichoke turned it into a monument to living Brits by inviting people to be hoisted atop the plinth to do whatever they pleased for one hour. The rules: Only one person would be allowed at a time, they could take up only what they could carry, and they couldn't do anything illegal. More than 35,000 applied and the winners -- "plinthers," they were called -- were picked randomly by lottery and assigned a time. The event began in July and ran for 2,400 hours, day and night, with a new person occupying the plinth each hour. Many used their 60 minutes for performance art, others for tribute or protest. Some played music. Twelve stripped naked. One man proposed to his girlfriend. "People used it in incredibly imaginative ways," Marriage said. "The summary of all of those hours became the artwork. It was sort of a portrait of a nation at that point in our history. "We always choose projects where we can insert the project itself into the DNA of the city," she continued. "We don't work in galleries or opera houses or theaters. We work in the streets, using the buildings of the city, the architecture of the city, as the stage." Cities of light . Then came the first Lumiere festival, held in November 2009 in Durham, a small medieval city in northern England. For four dark, wintry nights, Artichoke's artists transformed its cityscape of castles, stone walls and cobbled streets into gleaming spectacles of light. The festival proved so popular that it was repeated in 2011 and then again earlier this month, when an estimated 175,000 people came to view 22 installations across the city. The success of Lumiere in Durham inspired Marriage to double down this year on the festival in Derry-Londonderry. In planning the event, she and Artichoke were careful to embrace both Irish and English traditions and to include members from Catholic and Protestant communities. "Many of the works that we have commissioned have been made to reflect on the city's divided history and the current progress being made towards its shared future," she said. At its simplest level, Lumiere invites people to come out and enjoy artworks specially designed for each nook and cranny of its historic host cities. Whether the Derry-Londonderry festival, which closes Sunday night, has a more profound, lasting impact remains to be seen. But Marriage is optimistic. Based on her experiences with past Artichoke events, she believes "the simple act of sharing a newly imagined world leaves a lasting legacy in all those who experience it." ### SUMMARY:

Helen Marriage is co-director of Artichoke, a creative company that stages big public street events . The company's newest project, a festival of illuminated art, is underway in the UK . Festival, called Lumiere, seeks to help unite divided Irish city of Derry-Londonderry . Marriage spoke to CNN at PopTech, an annual conference in Camden, Maine .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Washington (CNN) -- On the walls of Barbara Mikulski's Capitol hideaway are some of her most prized possessions -- portraits taken every two years of all the women in the Senate. The first picture from 1988 is Mikulski, a Democrat, and one other female senator, Republican Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas. "The hemline's a little different, the hair color," Mikulski mused, staring at the photograph. "That's when there were two." The two forged a bond across party lines. The most recent picture, taken last year, features 17 female senators -- five Republicans and 12 Democrats. Mikulski remarks that there are more women in that photograph than had served in the Senate in all of American history when she arrived some three decades ago. The Maryland senator knows a lot about the history of female lawmakers, and she should. She has made a lot of it herself: the first Democratic woman ever elected to the Senate in her own right; the first woman in the Senate Democratic leadership; and in late 2010 she became the longest-serving woman ever in the Senate. On Saturday she will top that, becoming the longest-serving woman ever in the history of the U.S. Congress, surpassing Rep. Edith Norse Rogers of Massachusetts, who represented Massachusetts from 1925 to 1960. To mark the milestone, she invited three other women senators who span parties and generations, to talk about what Senate women call their "zone of civility." Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Republicans Olympia Snowe of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joined Mikulski to sit at a table that came from her childhood home and explained how hard the women of the Senate work to maintain a lost dynamic in Congress these days: comity. Ironically, it is a relic of the old boys network that doesn't really exist anymore in today's era of partisanship: Get to know each other personally, so they can work better together professionally. Regular dinners across party lines . It starts with regular dinners organized by Mikulski, whom some call the "Dean," others call "Coach Barb." "When the day's over, let's kick back and put our lipstick on and have a glass of wine, and keep the institution and America going," Mikulski said. Though the dinners are strictly off the record, the senators spilled a few details. "We talk about our families, our concerns in our lives. Sometimes we talk about what we are working on but it's a very collegial setting where we are trying to cultivate friendship first and foremost," said Gillibrand, who jokes they "rarely get nights off anyway, so that's our big night out." Snowe, a moderate Republican who recently made a surprise announcement that she is retiring because she is fed up with the polarization in Congress, said, "We made the commitment to do it on a monthly basis, and to get together because it's critical, and we naturally bond, and we have an opportunity to let our hair down." Murkowski said when her husband sees one of the Senate women dinners on the calendar, he knows it's non-negotiable. "He doesn't say, 'My gosh, why are you at work so late tonight?' He knows that that is a time that I value because I derive so much from the conversation, from the camaraderie that we have in the hour and a half at the end of a very long day, so I make it a priority when the dinners are scheduled to be there and enjoy that conversation with friends," Murkowski said. Mikulski notes that the Senate can be a "lonely place," so the dinners are a refuge with "no agenda, nothing to prove [except] finding common ground where we're going to talk about what we're going to work on in other committees or circumstances." "I think it's a place that gives us energy, gives us a sense of our own community and we all really do know we can count on each other if something comes up we would be the first there," Mikulski said. A bipartisan sisterhood . But does this bipartisan sisterhood translate into bipartisan legislative action? Murkowski replied that just this past week she was able to work out differences in the highway bill with Barbara Boxer, the Democrat overseeing it, primarily because of their personal friendship. Gillibrand recalled getting tremendous help from Snowe and Murkowski on the 9/11 first responders legislation. "I remember when I was trying to so hard to pass the 9/11 health bill, both Lisa and Olympia were encouraging me. They said we're not going to be name sponsors in the bill for instance, but we believe in what you are doing, and I think that if you approach it a, b and c, you'll be more effective," Gillbrand remembered. "I think we're just natural allies and we trust each other. It's almost instinctive," Snowe said, turning to Gillibrand, "I can remember the conversations that we had. She was eliciting ideas about how to advance the bill, and so we trust another to give solid advice and to take that advice." "We are all a team as women. We may not agree on every issue but that's not the point," Snowe continued. "We know how to work together in the give and take of it and achieve results." Murkowski offered another explanation for what makes Senate women different from the men: ego. "I don't think that we have as much ego attached with who's getting the credit," said Murkowski, who noted that oftentimes with the men, it's "my way or the highway." "We're all pretty competitive or we wouldn't have gotten here in the first place, but in order to achieve the results that we are looking for, I think there is less personal ego on the line," she said. There is also another female trait that factors in here. They all say they instinctively know how to listen. "I think it is how we communicate the message and how we listen to what is being communicated. And I think that the listening part of it is an important part of how we get the results," Murkowski said. Four generally agree on women's issues . Though they differ on everything from taxes to energy policy, they generally agree on women's issues. But Lisa Murkowski recently voted with fellow Republicans against free access to contraception. Women back home in Alaska got upset, and she said she regretted her vote. Asked if any of her female colleagues went to her and urged her not to side with her party on this one, Murkowski made clear the answer was no. "I wish that we had had that discussion, I can honestly tell you that," she said, and then ripped into the GOP on the issue. "I think that my party is in an unfortunate place right now as viewed by many women in this country who are feeling very anxious about what they believe to be attacks on women's health," she said. In a bitterly partisan era, Senate women cherish this cross-party sisterhood. Columnist Margaret Carlson wrote recently in the Daily Beast that Senate men complain they no longer have time to forge such relationships. She joked that Senate women somehow do it, and it's certainly not like they get more time in the day from their extra X chromosome. "If anything, these women have more demands upon them," said Mikulski, who notes Gillibrand has two young sons and Murkowski is the mother of teenagers. "I had to make school lunch this morning," Gillibrand chimed in, laughing. They talk surrounded by Mikulski's female-oriented memorabilia adorning her walls: a poster of Geraldine Ferraro, the first female vice presidential candidate; a photograph with Madeleine Albright before she was appointed the first female secretary of state; even a picture of the Girl Scouts. Mikulski's female colleagues credit her with cultivating and maintaining these relationships, and say she starts by mentoring new Senate arrivals. "I remember when I first got appointed, she was one of the first to ask me to visit her, gave me guidance on how things work, how to pass legislation," Gillibrand recalled. After 12,858 days of service, that makes her the longest-serving woman in congressional history, it's abundantly clear that creating a collegial oasis for women inside the intensely partisan atmosphere is one of her proudest accomplishments. "I won't always be here, but I hope the legacy of civility, that I've worked with the other women to create will remain," she said. CNN producers Laurie Ure and Ted Barrett contributed to this report . ### SUMMARY:

Mikulski will become the longest-serving female member of Congress on Saturday . Women senators say they try to maintain their "zone of civility" Mikulski credited with cultivating relationships among women in Congress . She is proud of creating a collegial oasis inside a partisan atmosphere .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- Almost 70 years after the U.S. military dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, effectively ending World War II, the site of the devastation remains one of the most popular tourist attractions in the country. And it appears to be getting more popular. According to a recent report in The Japan Times, visits to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum by foreign tourists hit a record high of 200,086 in 2013. Local officials confirm that the memorial site is attracting an increasing number of tourists to study the burnt wreckage, painful witness testimonies and human shadows left permanently visible after the atomic bomb explosion's incandescent destruction. A number of factors lay behind the site's continuing hold on travelers. Some people describe Hiroshima as a gripping, educational and emotional example of "dark tourism," "grief tourism" or "battlefield tourism," which includes Nazi concentration camps in Europe, Cambodia's torture prison and killing fields, West African slave ports and Manhattan's 9/11 crater. Most tourists gaze in mute awe at Hiroshima's Atomic Bomb Genbaku Dome, which became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. The now-iconic structure, designed in 1915 by a Czech architect, was the city's Industrial Promotion Hall. When the United States dropped the bomb on August 6, 1945, it exploded just above the building, but didn't totally destroy it because the immediate blast and heat buffered the air at ground zero. TripAdvisor calls Peace Memorial a top Japan attraction . About 363,000 tourists visited Hiroshima City during 2012, according the most recent statistics. Americans comprise the largest number, followed by Australians and Chinese, according to statistics for the city and surrounding prefecture. Countless Japanese also visit. "The name 'Hiroshima' has been well-known among foreign countries from its history, and recently word-of-mouth effect from visitors adds more reality to it," Hiroshima Convention and Visitors Bureau representative Taeko Abe told CNN in an e-mail. "In recent years, word-of-mouth information from Internet and so on also has a strong influence. "For example, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum ranked number one ... for the ranking of 'the most popular tourist spots in Japan for foreign tourists' at the travel website TripAdvisor two years in a row." The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and A-Bomb Dome appeared at the top of a 2012 TripAdvisor list of Top 20 Travel Destinations for Foreign Visitors in Japan. The Peace Memorial Museum ranks number-two (behind the "shrine island" of Miyajima, also in Hiroshima Prefecture) on the site's current list of Top 20 Must-see Attractions in Japan Awarded by Inbound Travelers. Nightmarish displays . The atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima from an American B-29 bomber. The explosion obliterated nearly everything within 10-square kilometers (six square miles) in the downtown area, killing 60,000 to 80,000 people. Radiation poisoning eventually sickened others, resulting in an estimated final total death toll of 135,000 people. Across the Motoyasu River, which flows in front of the A-Bomb Dome, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum displays evocative exhibits, including a blistered and fused tricycle that a four-year-old boy was riding during the blast that burned him to death. Photos and documentary films, nightmarish drawings by survivors, scientific explanations of the explosion, plus other artifacts including melted glass and charred clothing, hint at the unimaginable. "This museum was established by the city of Hiroshima to convey the reality of the atomic bombing to the world, and contribute to the total abolition of nuclear weapons, and realization of lasting world peace," Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum director Kenji Shiga told CNN in an e-mail. The museum's growing popularity among tourists is due in part to "the weaker yen and various tourism-promoting activities conducted by the national and local government," Shiga said. "We also consider the high reputation of TripAdvisor, which attracts a lot of foreign visitors, as one of the biggest reasons" that more travelers arrive each year, he said. From devastation to hope . The concept of "peace" is one of Hiroshima's biggest attractions. "Hiroshima City has achieved a remarkable recovery from that devastation, although the first atomic bomb in history was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, and has pursued everlasting world peace for mankind," said Abe of the Hiroshima Convention and Visitors Bureau. "Visitors say they feel its most powerful message, that of hope, and appreciate anew the importance of peace," he said. "The impression of Hiroshima that visitors take away seems to be affected by whether they have had the opportunity to meet and communicate with local people," Abe said. Bruce Bottomley, 45, an English instructor from Canada, has visited the Memorial Museum, A-Bomb Dome and related sites during repeat trips to Hiroshima. "My strongest memory is of the watches that stopped at the moment the bomb detonated," he said. "The burnt metal lunch boxes of the young students with the petrified rice still inside is a quiet, jaw-dropping sight. "I don't know what it is, but I can feel and sense it when I am there. The tales of survivors with photographs are striking and even shocking to a degree. "I couldn't help think of my grandfather and what he would have been doing in Canada at the same time there was such tragic destruction," said Bottomley, who has also visited the second atomic bomb blast memorial in Nagasaki. Making the bombing 'real' for new generations . "I visited Hiroshima in July 1998, during my first visit to Japan," said Evan Hayden, 34, an American graphic designer who teaches English in Nagasaki. "My student group went to the Memorial Museum, the Peace Memorial and the Peace Memorial Park. We saw the [origami] paper cranes while there. "It made the bombing more of a reality for me and my fellow high school students. Only reading about it in textbooks, and seeing footage on TV, made the event seem abstract and remote. "It was profound to see artifacts such as a mangled, charred tricycle, as well as people's shadows burned into concrete from the blast," Hayden said. Difficult history . Debate about whether or not the United States should have dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki continues to swirl. "I'm against the fact that Japan was bombed, of course, but at the same time, the war kept going in a nasty direction and neither Japan nor the U.S.A. was backing down," said Hayden. "A tragic story." Hiroshima's memorial is "not a fun thing to do on one's vacation, obviously, but it is an important experience that people can learn a lot from," he added. Some remain reluctant to visit the site. "If I do have the chance, I don't know if I will make a visit or not," said Maki Hakui, 43, a Tokyo-based Japanese publisher and translator. "I should go as a Japanese citizen, taking my daughter with me. Honestly speaking, I feel very reluctant to go, as I know that it will be a tough experience for me," she said. Today, Japan's National Tourism Organization describes Hiroshima's atomic bomb site simply as, "Negative cultural heritage that tells of the mistakes humanity has made." Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, 1-2 Nakajimacho, Naka Ward, Hiroshima; +81 82 241 4004 . Richard S. Ehrlich is a freelance writer from San Francisco. He's reported for international media from Asia since 1978, based in Hong Kong, New Delhi and now Bangkok. CNN Travel's series often carries sponsorship originating from the countries and regions we profile. However CNN retains full editorial control over all of its reports. Read the policy. ### SUMMARY:

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is one of TripAdvisor's top Japan travel sites . The museum attracted a record number of foreign tourists in 2013 . Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum features photos, films, scientific explanations of the explosion .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- Could a massive passenger jet slip past radar, cross international borders and land undetected? That's a key question investigators are weighing as they continue the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished March 8 on a flight between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Beijing. Radar does have some blind spots, and it's possible to fly at lower altitudes to avoid being spotted, analysts told CNN. But experts are divided over whether that could be what happened to the missing Boeing 777. Jeffrey Beatty, a security consultant and former FBI special agent, says someone could have planned a route that avoided radar detection. "It certainly is possible to fly through the mountains in that part of the world and not be visible on radar. Also, an experienced pilot, anyone who wanted to go in that direction, could certainly plot out all the known radar locations, and you can easily determine, where are the radar blind spots?" he said. "It's the type of things the Americans did when they went into Pakistan to go after Osama bin Laden." On Monday, the Malaysian newspaper New Straits Times reported that the plane may have flown low to the ground -- 5,000 feet or less -- and used mountainous terrain as cover to evade radar detection. The newspaper cited unnamed sources for its reporting, which CNN could not immediately confirm. And a senior Indian military official told CNN on Monday that military radar near the Andaman and Nicobar Islands isn't as closely watched as other radar systems. That leaves open the possibility that Indian radar systems may not have picked up the airplane at the time of its last known Malaysian radar contact, near the tiny island of Palau Perak in the Strait of Malacca. U.S. officials have said they don't think it's likely the plane flew north over land as it veered off course. If it had, they've said, radar somewhere would have detected it. Landing the plane somewhere also seems unlikely, since that would require a large runway, refueling capability and the ability to fix the plane, the officials have said. Malaysian officials said Monday that they were not aware of the Malaysian newspaper's report. "It does not come from us," said Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya. Analysts interviewed by CNN said that it would be extremely difficult to fly such a large aircraft so close to the ground over a long period of time, and that it's not even clear that doing so would keep the plane off radar scopes. "Five-thousand isn't really low enough to evade the radar, and that's kind of where general aviation flies all the time anyway, and we're visible to radar," said Mary Schiavo, a CNN aviation analyst and former inspector general for the U.S. Department of Transportation. "It just seems really highly improbable, unless we've been overestimating a lot of other countries' radar system capabilities," said Daniel Rose, an aviation and maritime attorney. Buck Sexton, a former CIA officer who's now national security editor for TheBlaze.com, said radar would have detected the plane if it flew over land. "This is a bus in the sky. It's a lot harder to get under the radar with this kind of thing than I think most people realize," he said. "So really, while the search I know has extended to this vast area stretching up into (the nations and central or south Asia), clearly there really should be much more of a search over open water, because this is not getting past people's radars." It wouldn't be easy to avoid radar detection, experts say, but it could be done. "Anything like this is possible," radar expert Greg Charvat told CNN's Piers Morgan Live. "But to do it, you'd have to have very detailed information of the type of radars, their disposition, their heights and their waveforms to pull that off." Different countries would likely be using different radar systems, he said, but it's unclear how advanced the technology is in many countries. "It took a great deal of skill to do this," CNN aviation analyst Jim Tilmon said. "I think somebody was at the controls who understood the value of altitude control to eliminate the possibility of being spotted and tracked on radar." Whoever was in control in the cockpit, he said, "really had the ability to map out a route that was given the very best chance of not being detected." One other possibility, he said: the plane could have shadowed another plane so closely that it slipped by radar detection. Other analysts say that would require so much skill that it would be nearly impossible to pull off without getting caught. There's another possible wrinkle, experts say. Some countries may be hesitant to reveal what they've seen on radar. "They want to protect their own capabilities," Beatty said. "Their intelligence services are not going to want to publicize exactly what their capabilities are." Here are other developments in the search and investigation, as search crews from 26 nations continue scouring vast swaths of ocean and land for any trace of the airliner: . Timeline clarification . Ahmad Jauhari said Monday that it wasn't clear whether the final words from the cockpit came before or after the plane's data-reporting system was shut down. Earlier, Malaysian authorities had said the message "All right, good night" came after the system had been disabled. The voice message came from the plane's copilot at 1:19 a.m. Saturday, March 8, Ahmad Jauhari said. The data system sent its last transmission at 1:07 a.m. and was shut down sometime between then and 1:37 a.m. that day, Ahmad Jauhari said. Grief counselor: Families holding on to hope . As authorities keep searching for the plane, the loved ones of the 239 passengers and crew members who were on board are left in limbo. Helping them has been difficult, grief counselor Paul Yin told CNN's "AC360." "Grief counseling, or any kind of recovery from this, has to have a starting point. And the starting point is having a verdict of what happened," he said. "Without a starting point, every day people's emotions go up and down, from hope to despair." He heard some family members cheer when they learned that hijacking was possibly what caused the plane's disappearance. "Because that means they could still be alive," he said. "They're trying to hold onto any little bit of hope." Chinese response . China said Monday that it had deployed 10 ships, 21 satellites and multiple aircraft to aid in the search. Premier Li Keqiang spoke with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to ask for more information to help speed the search along, according to a statement posted on the Chinese government website. A top Malaysian official denied the allegation that his country had held back information about the missing flight. "Our priority has always been to find the aircraft. We would not withhold any information that could help," Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Haishammuddin Tun Hussein told reporters. "But we also have a responsibility not to release information until it has been verified by the international investigations team." U.S. Navy pulls out destroyer . The USS Kidd and its helicopters have stopped combing the Andaman Sea and are no longer part of search efforts for the missing plane, the Navy said. The move is partially because Australians are taking over the majority of the searching in that area, U.S. officials said. A U.S. P-8 aircraft will move to Perth, Australia, to be based there for searching. Fewer U.S. assets will be involved in the search for the missing plane, but U.S. officials said the P-8 will be able to cover a wider range of ocean more quickly than the ship could. "This is actually much more effective for the overall search," Cmdr. William Marks of the U.S. 7th Fleet told CNN's Wolf Blitzer Monday. "The real challenge is this huge expanse of water. I keep saying, if you superimposed a map of the U.S. on here, it'd be like trying to find someone anywhere between New York and California. so that's the challenge here," he said. "We have amazing, dedicated air crews. it's just a matter of how much area we can search." CNN's Barbara Starr, Brooke Baldwin, Wolf Blitzer and Elizabeth Joseph contributed to this report. ### SUMMARY:

NEW: Grief counselor: Families are trying "to hold onto any little bit of hope" Experts are divided over whether plane could have slipped past radar . Analyst: Radar blind spots could be determined "easily" USS Kidd pulls out of the search for the missing plane .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: London (CNN) -- For visitors and newcomers, the mention of London conjures up images of the queen, gray skies, Big Ben and Parliament. But the opening of the Games of the 30th Olympiad will confront millions around the world with unfamiliar scenes of London's East End, the vibrant and distinctly proletarian heart of the capital. East London has long housed the capital's working, criminal and creative classes. And Stratford, where the Olympic Park now stands, has been regarded by many as little more than a post-industrial wasteland, a relic of the city's bygone manufacturing era. When I moved to London from Arizona in 2006, I thought the East End might look like the gilded west London settings I'd seen during my first trip to the capital in 2001. But Mile End, where I settled, one train stop from Stratford, was no one's destination of choice. Nor was Stratford -- unless, that is, you needed to buy flimsy housewares from the Poundland discount store in the grim outlet mall flanking the train station. Read more: Olympic park sets gold standard for sustainability . This may sound obvious, but one of the first things I realized when I moved to London is how old everything is when compared to Phoenix, where I was born and raised. For those who haven't been, Phoenix is a sprawling expanse of scalding hot desert and cactus-lined asphalt in southwest Arizona. Almost nothing has been around for more than a hundred years. London, on the other hand, has been lived in for thousands of years. An East End bell foundry made the Liberty Bell, that famous icon of American independence, in the 1750s, before the U.S. even became a country. Read more: Is the Olympics worth more than Google? The areas surrounding Queen Mary University in Mile End were miles from the well-kempt tourist attractions of central London. While many west London neighborhoods have aged gracefully, large eastern swathes of the capital merely look dilapidated and rundown. Fortunately, what the area lacked in towering monuments to British glory, it made up for in gruesome historical footnotes. Forget Big Ben, the London Eye and St. Paul's Cathedral. East London's top tourist attraction is the Jack the Ripper tour -- a guide around the dark streets and alleys in Whitechapel where an unidentified madman stalked, murdered and disemboweled prostitutes in 1888. Not quite the same as a double-decker bus tour past Parliament. Read more: London's World Heritage Sites . For someone who spent years piloting a car down Phoenix's broad, unclogged desert boulevards, taking a bus through the traffic-choked East End was a more adventurous prospect -- and I developed a theory early on that the number 25, cutting a path east from the West End, London's default nightlife center, had to be London's worst route. I once saw a drunk man get his face split open during a fistfight aboard the 25, a long, single-decker accordion-style monstrosity, the back section of which regularly turned into a smoking section for gangs and drunks and the only bus that ever made me truly miss my car. The only thing more surprising than the fight was that no one moved a muscle, or seemed to think it was unusual. Rather than call the police, the driver simply opened the doors to let the man off, leaking blood across the floor as he limped away. Read more: UK faces security questions ahead of Olympics . The 25 also passes the Blind Beggar pub in Whitechapel. It was outside this historic old boozer that William Booth delivered his sermon that established the Salvation Army -- and inside it that notorious Cockney gangster Ronnie Kray shot George Cornell through the forehead in 1966 in front of shocked drinkers. East London has always been rough around the edges, but that's what makes it interesting. Waves of immigrants have settled amongst the white working-class locals in the East End for generations -- Bangladeshi communities in Mile End and Whitechapel; Afro-Caribbean communities in Hackney; and Turkish, Kurdish and Orthodox Jewish communities in Dalston -- and the area's extreme diversity means that virtually anything you want is only a bus stop away. On a single morning at Roman Road market in Bow, you'll pass designer clothes, donuts the size of your head, pirate DVDs, and the stall whose chief product appears to be thermal socks (my personal favorite), before nipping into east London institution G. Kelly for the area's signature dish: handmade beef pies, served with mashed potatoes drenched in parsley sauce. Read more: Orbit Tower unveiled at Olympic Park . If you run out of money, you can walk across the street to an ATM that offers Cockney rhyming slang as an alternative to English. Depending on how flush you are, you can enter your huckleberry finn (PIN) and withdraw anything from a speckled hen (£10) to a nifty (£50). Ten minutes down the road, along the south end of Brick Lane, fabric shops sit alongside dozens of Bengali curry houses; at the north end, you can rummage through vintage clothing shops before tucking into a salt beef bagel at the world-famous Beigel Bake, a 24-hour reminder of Jewish migration to the area more than a century ago. A steady stream of educated, creative types have gentrified Shoreditch and Dalston in a generation, and the dozens of cafes, bars and nightclubs that sprouted up have turned the rundown road connecting the two neighborhoods into London's most fashionable destination for a night out. The smartening-up of these working-class neighborhoods -- with their cheap rent, relatively large spaces and newly opened train lines -- was inevitable in a way, but it has only added to, not dimmed, the cacophony of eclectic voices ringing through the streets. Video: Olympic spending to boost London economy . Gentrification is going on in unimaginable parts of east London today. In Hackney -- voted Britain's worst place to live by Channel 4 in 2006 -- a recently refurbished theatre and new boutique cinema flourish alongside the Vietnamese restaurants dotting Mare Street, just hundreds of feet from an area previously known as Murder Mile for a string of gangland killings which took place around 2000. But opening a series of glossy gastropubs and flower markets doesn't change the fact that three of the five official Olympic boroughs (Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets) are among Britain's poorest districts -- a fact which became painfully clear during last summer's riots. The shooting in August 2011 of a young black man by police in north London set off days of the worst rioting across the capital in 30 years. The epicenter of the chaos in Hackney was on Mare Street, where rioters set cars alight, battled police and took everything from shops they could carry. Read more: Four billion reasons to watch the Olympics . Today, the riots stand as a reminder that the deep-seated poverty in many parts of east London can't be wiped out by a three-week international sporting event any more than it can be eradicated by a handful of college kids moving into the neighborhood. Last summer's riots showed the worst London is capable of. But what happened the day after, when hundreds of volunteers turned up with brooms to help clean up east London's broken neighborhoods, showed an extraordinary sense of community that might have surprised some people in the capital. No one's sure yet what the Olympics will mean for the East End. Roughly £9.3 billion ($14.5 billion) of the public's money has been spent on the Games, three-quarters of which has reportedly been invested in long-term regeneration. But while the Olympic stadium is visible from much of east London, how many people there will actually see tangible benefits from the Games? Regardless of its future legacy, the Olympics are here now, and east London has much to be proud of. As for whether the Games can mark a turning point in the fortunes of some of Britain's poorest areas, the verdict on that won't be returned until long after the athletes have gone and the world's eyes have again turned away. Read more: London prepares for an Olympics to remember . ### SUMMARY:

East London has long been home to the capital's working, creative and criminal classes . The East End is one of Britain's most ethnically diverse -- and poor -- areas . Many doubt the Olympics will bring long-term benefits to east London .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: A teenage boy wielding two kitchen knives went on a stabbing rampage at his high school in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, early Wednesday, before being tackled by an assistant principal, authorities said. Twenty students and a security officer at Franklin Regional Senior High School were either stabbed or slashed in the attack, Westmoreland County District Attorney John Peck told reporters. The accused attacker was been identified as 16-year-old Alex Hribal, according to a criminal complaint made public. Hribal, who was arraigned as an adult, faces four counts of attempted homicide, 21 counts of aggravated assault and one count of possession of a weapon on school grounds, the documents show. "I'm not sure he knows what he did, quite frankly," Hribal's attorney, Patrick Thomassey, said, adding he would file a motion to move the case to juvenile court. "...We have to make sure that he understands the nature of the charges and what's going on here. It's important that he be examined by a psychiatrist and determined where he is mentally." A doctor who treated six of the victims, primarily teens, said at first they did not know they had been stabbed. "They just felt pain and noticed they were bleeding," Dr. Timothy VanFleet, chief of emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, told CNN. "Almost all of them said they didn't see anyone coming at them. It apparently was a crowded hallway and they were going about their business, and then just felt pain and started bleeding." Arguing against bail for Hribal, the district attorney told the court that four of the victims were in critical condition, including one who was "eviscerated." There's a question whether the victim will survive, Peck said. Hribal is being held without bail at the Westmoreland County juvenile detention center. Authorities have not detailed a possible motive in the attack, but the district attorney said in court the teen made "statements when subdued by officials that he wanted to die." 'Don't know what I got going down' The carnage began shortly before the start of classes, when an attacker began stabbing students in a crowded hallway and then went from classroom to classroom. Student Matt DeCesare was outside the school when he heard a fire alarm ring and then saw two students come out of the school covered in blood. Then he saw teachers running into the building and pulling "a couple of more students out," he told CNN. The students had been stabbed. To stanch the bleeding, the teachers asked the students for their hoodies. "We all took our hoodies off and handed them to the teachers to use as tourniquets to stop the bleeding," he said. Recordings of emergency calls released in the wake of the attack provide a soundtrack of sorts to the terror and chaos that played out inside the school. "I don't know what I got going down at school here but I need some units here ASAP," one officer can be heard saying. Minutes later in another call, another official, breathlessly, can be heard detailing casualties: "About 14 patients right now." Then another call for help. "Be advised inside the school we have multiple stab victims," one of the officers said. "So bring in EMS from wherever you can get them. 'Saw the kid who was stabbing people' Student Mia Meixner was standing at her locker. "I heard a big commotion like behind my back," she told CNN. "And I turned around and I saw two kids on the ground." She thought a fight had broken out, but then she saw blood. "I saw the kid who was stabbing people get up and run away," she said. Then she saw a girl she knew standing by the cafeteria. "She was gushing blood down her arm." Meixner dropped her books and went to help the girl. Bystanders step up in time of crisis . "I started hearing a stampede of students coming down from the other end of the hall, saying 'Get out, we need to leave, go, there's a kid with a knife.' Then a teacher came over to me and the girl I was trying to help. And she said she would handle the girl and that I should run out. So then I just ran out of the school and tried to get out as soon as possible." Meixner never heard the attacker utter a word. "He was very quiet. He just was kind of doing it," she said. "And he had this, like, look on his face that he was just crazy and he was just running around just stabbing whoever was in his way." She said she didn't know the boy, but he had been in a lot of her classes. "He kept to himself a lot," she said. "He didn't have that many friends that I know of, but I also don't know of him getting bullied that much. I actually never heard of him getting bullied. He just was kind of shy and didn't talk to many people." Hribal's attorney described him as a "nice young man," who has never been in trouble. "He's not a loner. He works well with other kids," he said. "...He's scared. He's a young kid. He's 16, looks like he's 12. I mean, he's a very young kid and he's never been in trouble so this is all new to him." At least a dozen FBI agents could be seen going in and out of Hribal's family home in the hours after the attack. Shortly before the agents arrived at the house, a man believed to be Hribal's father drove up. "My prayers go out to everyone who was injured today, and I hope they recover as soon as possible," he told reporters. Hribal's attorney said the family was upset by the allegations. "They did not foresee this at all," he said. Stabbing shatters peace in quiet, upscale community . Tackled by an assistant principal . Assistant Principal Sam King is being credited with bringing to an end the 5-minute rampage that authorities say began about 7:15 a.m. ET. King tackled the teen, Peck told reporters. A school resource officer was able to handcuff the suspect, Police Chief Thomas Seefeld said. Assistant principal called 'great man' The accused teen was being treated for injuries to his hands, the chief said. Police Officer William "Buzz" Yakshe, who also serves as a resource officer at the school, helped subdue the suspect, said Dan Stevens, the county deputy emergency management coordinator. Yakshe is "doing fine," Stevens said. "He's more upset than anything else over what happened, because these are his kids." A fire alarm that was pulled during the attack probably helped get more people out of the school during an evacuation order, Seefeld said. Students were running everywhere and there was "chaos and panic." At one point, a female student applied pressure to the wounds of one of the male victims, possibly helping to save his life, said Dr. Mark Rubino, chief medical officer at Forbes Regional Hospital in nearby Monroeville, Pennsylvania, where seven teens were taken for treatment. The students who were hurt range in age from 14 to 17, Stevens said. The injuries were stabbing-related, such as lacerations or punctures, he said. 'It doesn't happen here' The attack in Murrysville is the latest in a string of school violence that has occurred across the nation. But mass stabbings, such as the one at the high school, are rare. The attack has rattled the town, a residential enclave with a population of about 20,000. A message on the Franklin Regional School District's website said all of its elementary schools were closed after the incident, and "the middle school and high school students are secure." Franklin Regional Senior High will be closed "over the next several days," district school Superintendent Gennaro Piraino said. The district's middle school and elementary schools will be open Thursday, and counseling will be available for the whole district, he said. Information on what led to the stabbings and the conditions of the injured are still unfolding. Bill Rehkopf, a KDKA radio host and Franklin Regional High School graduate, called the stabbing shocking. He said he kept thinking, "It doesn't happen here, it can't happen here." ### SUMMARY:

The DA says 4 people are in critical condition, including one who was "eviscerated" Alex Hribal, 16, faces 4 counts of attempted homicide, 21 counts of aggravated assault . Teachers use students' hoodies as tourniquets on injured teens, student says . An assistant principal tackled the accused attacker, authorities say .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Gleneagles, Scotland. (CNN) -- Try as it might, Team USA couldn't pull off its own miracle, having suffered the ultimate Ryder Cup indignity two years ago at Medinah in Chicago when leading 10-6 going into Sunday. Led by its talisman Rory McIlroy -- the world number one -- Europe saw off a brave challenge from those in red to retain the trophy by a ultimately comfortable margin of 16½-11½. It was the continent's third straight victory, its sixth in the last seven and one that provoked searching questions for United States captain Tom Watson, not least from his star player Phil Mickelson. But "Lefty" is also facing some questions after he was accused of throwing his "captain right under the bus," by former European skipper Nick Faldo. Watson's European counterpart Paul McGinley will be subject to no such inquisition, universally lauded by his players and serenaded by a vibrant Scottish crowd once his triumph was rubber-stamped. Rookie triumphs . Rookie Jamie Donaldson secured the clinching point by beating Keegan Bradley, and was promptly enveloped on the 15th green by cameramen, photographers and his wife, not to mention a jubilant European team. "I can't really put it into words," Donaldson, from Wales, said. "It's unbelievable. There is nothing like it in golf. The Ryder Cup is just a total one off and it's amazing to be a part of it." Before him Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell had overturned a three-hole deficit to topple rookie Jordan Spieth 2&1 while McIlroy's 5&4 takedown of Rickie Fowler had a brutal edge to it. "Early in the match, the trending was exactly where we wanted it to go," Watson told reporters. "We had a lot of red scored up there. The players responded early, we just couldn't keep it going. "The bottom line is they kicked our butts. They were better players this week." Mickelson speaks out . Watson was then forced to defend his own methods during a tense press conference after thinly veiled criticism from Mickelson, the five-time major champion, who has won on just two of his ten Ryder Cup appearances. The last of those came in 2008 and 'Lefty' praised the approach of then captain Paul Azinger, who he said had involved the players in his decision making process and formulated a "real game plan." Watson responded by saying: "(Phil) has a difference of opinion. That's okay. My management philosophy is different than his. I had a different philosophy than Paul. I decided not to go that way." Mickelson's comments drew withering criticism from former PGA Tour player and Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee, who labeled the five-timer major winner as a golfer who had "corrupted the experience of the Ryder Cup." Chamblee added: "That was as close to a one-man mutiny as I ever seen." There was no such acrimony in the European press conference, Donaldson being spirited into it on the back of Thomas Bjorn, which was punctuated by the regular sound of champagne corks popping. Asked to describe his sense of achievement, McGinley said: "Proud is the first word. I want to say as captain it has been a real honor to get these 12 players, they have all been Colossus." Foursomes dominance . In truth, McGinley's men had wrested the Ryder Cup decisively away from the United States on Saturday afternoon, thanks to a dominant European performance in the foursomes. And while both camps paid lip service to the miracle possibility before taking to the fairways on Sunday, there would be no second successive seismic turnaround. The jubilant air around Gleneagles confirmed that few in blue considered an upset feasible, 2010 U.S. Open champion McDowell roared off by a crowd that had been entertaining themselves in song long before the first ball had been addressed. For several hours the first tee box was the epicenter of world golf, 18-time major champion Jack Nicklaus and former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson -- the most successful manager in the history of English soccer -- both present. Unlikely prospect . And though the task was tall, the United States requiring eight-and-a-half points to pull off an unlikely victory, a few hours into the contest it led in five matches. Heeding Watson's call to "smoke 'em early", Spieth raced into a three-hole lead over McDowell, the 2010 U.S. Open champion from Northern Ireland. Behind him, the other standout U.S. rookie, Patrick Reed, also advanced into an early lead over Sweden's Henrik Stenson. Hunter Mahan, who succumbed in the crucial match at the climax of the 2010 Ryder Cup, birdied four of the opening six holes to seize the initiative in his clash with Justin Rose, from England. But as he had promised prior to the competition, four-time major winner McIlroy proved he was the fulcrum in Europe's engine-room. Birdie burst . Five birdies in six holes took him five clear of Rickie Fowler, and in effect, sealed the outcome of their tussle before they had even reached the ninth hole. For an hour or so, that lone sliver of blue on the leaderboard was engulfed by red. Slowly, the tide began to turn. Martin Kaymer, the reigning U.S. Open champion from Germany, took advantage of a wayward opening from Bubba Watson, the two-time Masters champion. Sergio Garcia and Ian Poulter forged ahead in the early stages of their matches, while Stenson was chewing away at the lead of Reed. But the top match was symptomatic of U.S. fortunes, as McDowell recovered from his stuttering start and stealthily set about hauling in Spieth. Trailing by three going down the tenth, the man who had been serenaded by European fans with with a chorus of "You've got Big Mac, we've got G-Mac," before teeing off, found his stride. Inspired play . An inspired stretch of four birdies, acquired through a combination of formidable iron play and accurate putting, meant a symbolic switch from red to blue at the top of the leaderboard. It galvanized those behind him. Rose now roared back with four straight birdies of his own and ended with half a point against Mahan. Roars populated the course as the majority of the 40,000-strong crowd grew in energy and belief, fans glued to the big screens when there was no action to be seen in front of them. McDowell ended Spieth's challenge on the 17th, and though Reed won the last to see off Stenson, Kaymer's chip-in in front of huge crowds on 16 sealed another point. Mickelson carved out a win over home favorite Stephen Gallacher, while Matt Kuchar holed out from 160 yards on his way to a comprehensive win over Denmark's Thomas Bjorn. But further down the leaderboard, Donaldson had assumed complete control of his battle with Keegan Bradley, the 2011 U.S. PGA Champion. Crowds gathered . As it became clear the Welshman was most likely to be the one to retain the trophy, crowds scampered up to the 14th green and jostled for position as Donaldson stood over his ball. Though that one didn't drop, but glory wasn't far away. A pitch perfect iron shot on the next hole landed barely two feet from the cup and once Bradley got down to the green he conceded. Following that decisive moment, Spain's Sergio Garcia broke down on the 17th green after beating Jim Furyk, Ian Poulter and Webb Simpson halved their match, while rookie Jimmy Walker got the better of Lee Westwood to win another point for USA. It was left to Zach Johnson to strike the final blow of the 2014 Ryder Cup as he holed out to secure a half from French rookie Victor Dubuisson. With handshakes exchanged, Dubuisson was engulfed by his teammates, as a sea of champagne spray kickstarted a European party that is set to endure for another two years at least. ### SUMMARY:

Europe retains the Ryder Cup . Jamie Donaldson secures the winning point against United States at Gleneagles . U.S. mounts fightback in singles after trailing 10-6 overnight . Crucial Europe wins for Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell and Martin Kaymer .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In" venture is being rightly attacked for all the wrong reasons. She's been drubbed for being too privileged and too powerful. What could a Harvard MBA who hopped from the World Bank to Google to Facebook's COO know about the lives of "real" women? So much of the flap -- pro and con -- over Sandberg's attempt to jump-start a women's revolution has less to do with the attempt than with resentment over her class status. Her antagonists can't get two sentences into their critique without invoking her net worth and the square footage of her house ($500 million and 9,000, respectively). And her proponents can't get two sentences into their defense without telling us how marvelous she was at that tete-a-tete at that five-star restaurant or that world power brokers' summit that they had the good fortune to attend. Economic envy is the skunk at Sandberg's book release party. We hate her for being so anointed, or we love her because we were deemed anointed enough to rub shoulders with her at some post-TED-talk party -- "we" being the comfortable middle-to-upper class women fueling this media debate. Either way, what's been missed is a real opportunity that Sandberg's proposal unintentionally spotlights: the opportunity to talk honestly about feminism and class. The unmentionable issue of class . Americans are notoriously averse to discussing class. We want to believe the prime barrier to socioeconomic advancement is ourselves. Sandberg believes that, too. "We can reignite the revolution by internalizing the revolution," she writes in "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead." All we need to do is "lean in" to our ambitions, and up, up and away we go. The handpicked positive stories posted on the Lean In website all attest to the same ethos: "You are the boss of you," writes Beth Comstock, "CMO, G.E." Or, as Reese Witherspoon, "Actress & Global Ambassador," puts it: "Just jump!" What we need to do, Sandberg tells us in her book, is jettison our fears: "Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. ... And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter." In this feminist-sounding riff on "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself," the only fear not raised is the one FDR was addressing: economic. It's remarkable oversight in the wake of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. But Sandberg isn't alone in her silence. Mainstream feminist debate, for all the lip service paid to the "intersectionality" of race, class and gender, has also left economic divisions on the cutting-room floor. It's more marketable to talk about sex or pop culture. The recoil from class issues came early, when American feminism began retreating from its examination of root causes. In a 1972 article in the feminist newspaper, The Furies, Coletta Reid observed: "Early in the women's liberation movement, I saw class as an issue that men in the Left used to put down feminism. Later it became an issue that many women said we had to discuss," but never seriously did. And yet, we won't ever productively confront women's secondary status without confronting class. Our economic framework is founded on women's subjugation. The power structure that Sandberg wants to feminize was built to cement the power of (some) men, and on the backs of (most) women, who would not only stay out of the power suites but would make all the power plays possible by assuming every backstage duty, from minding the kids to handling the least glamorous and lowest-paid work. It's in capitalism's DNA, and no cosmetic paste-ons at the top are going to change the dynamic without significant change on the bottom. Charlotte Bunch, whose sane voice on so many feminist questions deserves more notice, limned that connection years ago in her essay, "Class and Feminism." "Class distinctions are an outgrowth of male domination," she wrote, "a political mechanism for maintaining not only capitalism but also patriarchy and white supremacy." You can't change the world for women by simply inserting female faces at the top of an unchanged system of social and economic power. "You can't," to quote Bunch again, "just add women and stir." Could Sandberg's book have launched such a necessary discussion? Well, actually, yes, if you skip the many pages devoted to variations on her exhortation to "have the ambition to lean in to your career and run the world," and linger instead on one sentence that should be at the forefront of such a conversation: "The number of women supporting families on their own is increasing quickly; between 1973 and 2006, the proportion of families headed by a single mother grew from one in 10 to one in five." Breadwinners and barely staying afloat . Since 2000, as many households depend on a single mother as the breadwinner as depend on a traditional male breadwinner. One fourth of mothers are single, and at least half of children will spend some time in a single-mother home. In short, single mothers are now a huge demographic and a potential force for change. And they're a subjugated majority. Most single mothers operate under extreme social and economic impediments -- triple the poverty rate of the rest of the population, the highest rate of low-wage employment, the worst wage gap, the lowest net worth, the highest risk of bankruptcy -- that add up to a massive inequality in American society. And this isn't because of a lack of lean-in self-confidence. The U.S. provides the worst support structure for single parents of any economically comparable nation, a recent major study by Legal Momentum found. And it's only getting worse, as politicians aim to slash welfare programs, enforcement of child support, child tax credits and anything else they can think to deny single mothers, as they blame them for all that's wrong with society. Nor is their plight because of a lack of lean-in commitment. The study found that American single mothers work more hours than single mothers in any developed nation. And many of them work for subsistence wages for the same companies that have signed up to sponsor Sandberg's Lean In campaign for executive equality. Wal-Mart, a Lean In "partner," is facing sex discrimination claims from 2,000 female employees in 48 states. Sandberg's book mentions single mothers in passing. But what if she were to champion them? What if the Lean In community or any group of feminist-minded women were to organize around the cause of single motherhood instead of the cause of their own self-congratulation? It would involve, first of all, a change in Sandberg's rules. Testimonials on her Lean In website must be inspirational, not troubling: "Share a positive ending," its story guidelines instruct. The flip side of the view that women can do anything if they "just jump" is the assumption that anyone who doesn't should remain invisible. That message is the precise opposite of feminism. Consider instead the benefits of a campaign that bore down on the causes behind the negative endings that mar so many single mothers' lives. It would not only be confronting a problem that affects huge numbers of women, it would be mounting a significant challenge to a system that will otherwise continue to stand between women and full emancipation. Because what does a single mother signify? She is an adult woman with responsibilities who is not supported by a man. Symbolically, she stands for the possibility of women to truly remake the patriarchal structure. That would require a movement built not around corporate bromides, but a collective grassroots effort to demand the fundamental social change necessary to grant independent mothers a genuine independence. Single mothers can only be insulted by the advice to "lean in" -- they couldn't lean out if they wanted. And any brand of feminism that leaves them out is a faux liberation. Liberating single mothers requires more than showing other women of privilege how they can be queen of the system. It means following the advice of Charlotte Bunch, and changing -- even destroying -- the system that the Lean In women are so happy and eager to run. ### SUMMARY:

Susan Faludi: Sheryl Sandberg's detractors and supporters focus on her class . "Lean In" movement is missing the chance to talk about feminism and class . Faludi: U.S. single mothers have massive disadvantages and no support systems . Feminism that leaves out single mothers is a false campaign that misses mark, she says .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Authorities charged former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez with first-degree murder on Wednesday, hours after police arrested him and the NFL team that once gave him a $40 million contract dropped him from its roster. Hernandez is accused in last week's shooting death of Odin Lloyd, whose body was found in an industrial park area less than a mile from Hernandez's home. Hernandez "drove the victim to the remote spot, and then he orchestrated his execution," First Assistant District Attorney Bill McCauley said in court Wednesday. "He orchestrated the crime from the beginning, he took steps to conceal and destroy evidence, and he took steps to prevent the police from speaking to ... an important witness," the prosecutor said. Hernandez pleaded not guilty. A judge ordered him held without bail. Defense attorney Michael Fee had said that the evidence is circumstantial and that bail should be granted so that Hernandez can return home to spend time with his fiancee and 8-month-old child. "It is a circumstantial case. It is not a strong case," Fee said, arguing that Hernandez was not a flight risk and had cooperated with authorities. Lloyd's family tearfully watched during Wednesday's hearing. They did not speak to reporters after leaving the courthouse. Hernandez, 23, wore a white T-shirt when he appeared in court. He stood beside his attorney, his hands cuffed. After the court hearing, Fee said Hernandez is "doing fine." A gag order issued during the hearing stopped attorneys from providing additional details afterward. The Patriots released Hernandez Wednesday after he was arrested and booked at a police station in North Attleborough. Hernandez's next court date, for a probable cause hearing, is scheduled for July 24. That's when the state would have to prove it has enough evidence to move forward. But it's possible that Hernandez will be indicted before then, in which case a probable cause hearing would be unnecessary. The rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez . Prosecutor: Surveillance footage shows Hernandez with gun . After days of secrecy in the closely watched investigation, the prosecutor's comments in court provided the first detailed account of Lloyd's killing and the evidence detectives have uncovered. A jogger found Lloyd's body, riddled with gunshot wounds, in a secluded area of an industrial park near Hernandez's house June 17, McCauley said. Investigators later found five shell casings at the scene. Inside Lloyd's pocket, McCauley said, they found a wallet and keys to a car that Hernandez had rented. Earlier that same day, around 2:30 a.m., the prosecutor said, the 27-year-old Lloyd was seen leaving his Boston home with Hernandez in a silver Nissan Altima. Twitter reacts as Hernandez charged, released from Patriots . Less than an hour later, surveillance cameras at the North Attleborough industrial park showed the vehicle heading toward the remote area where Lloyd's body was later found, McCauley said. "The car goes down there at 3:22," McCauley said. "Four minutes later, the car is visible again. During the interval between 3:23 and 3:27, people who were working the overnight shift hear gunshots." Minutes later, surveillance video from Hernandez's home security system shows the former NFL player arriving back at his house with two other people, according to the district attorney. Hernandez appears to be holding a firearm, McCauley said. "The defendant goes walking through the house with the gun in his hand. That is captured in the video. ... And they all go down to the basement," McCauley said. "Once in the basement, the surveillance gets shut off." McCauley said the gun Hernandez was carrying in the surveillance video has not been found. Hernandez's American dream turns into nightmare scenario . Investigation continues . For several days, investigators searched the area near Hernandez's home as they investigated Lloyd's death. Authorities said Wednesday the investigation was ongoing. In addition to the first-degree murder charge, Hernandez faces five weapons-related charges, including carrying a firearm without a license. It was unclear whether there had been any additional arrests in the case. "One critical part of this case that we don't know anything about at this point is the two other men (Hernandez is) accused of being with," CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said. "Were they shooters? Were they involved? Will they flip against Hernandez? They are obviously key figures in this, and we'll watch how that unfolds." In court on Wednesday, the prosecutor described what he alleged was a tense conversation between Hernandez and Lloyd inside the Nissan Altima and described what Hernandez and his associates had done at the scene of the shooting. He did not reveal how investigators had learned that information. Inside the car, according to McCauley, Hernandez told Lloyd he was angry because of Lloyd's behavior at a Boston club they had gone to together several days earlier. "There were certain things that had happened during the night that he was upset about and now didn't trust the victim," McCauley said. "He told him one of the things he was mad about. ... At the club the victim had spoken to a couple of people, and the defendant told him that he was upset about that because he had some troubles with those people." Hernandez reportedly will be sued for shooting man in face . Victim's family reacts . Lloyd's sister, Olivia Thibou, told CNN last week that her brother and Hernandez went to a Boston nightclub together a few days before Lloyd's death. Her brother was dating the sister of Hernandez's fiancee, she said. She said she didn't know of any problems between Hernandez and her brother, who worked for a landscaping company. Before Wednesday's hearing, Thibou said she was glad to hear about Hernandez's arrest. "God is great," she said. "It's the best news I've had since my brother was killed last week." House searched again . Patriots drop Hernandez . The Patriots -- who gave Hernandez a five-year, $40 million contract last year -- released him from the team after his arrest, but before the charges against him were made public Wednesday. "Words cannot express the disappointment we feel knowing that one of our players was arrested as a result of this investigation," the team said in a statement. The NFL released its own statement, calling the involvement of a player in the case "deeply troubling." What does his release mean for the Patriots? Both the NFL and Patriots expressed sympathy for the victim's family. On Wednesday, about a half-dozen plainclothes police officers went to Hernandez's house and then led him out in handcuffs. He was wearing a white T-shirt and shorts. Death inquiry, silence from player and cops . Sheriff: Gang unit will investigate Hernandez's tattoos . Bristol County Sheriff Tom Hodgson said he expects living behind bars will be a major adjustment for the former NFL star. Wednesday night's dinner at the Dartmouth House of Correction was chop suey, green beans and a slice of bread, the sheriff said. Hernandez will only be allowed out of his one-person cell for showers and phone calls. Authorities will perform background checks on any visitors. Hodgson said he met with Hernandez "as soon as he came in" to the facility and told him he'd receive no special treatment. Hernandez took selfie with a gun . Asked how Hernandez responded, Hodgson said, "He did not seem nervous," adding he was "polite and respectful." Hernandez is currently being held in the jail's medical unit while he undergoes further screening, including mental health, physical and security tests. As part of the security screening, authorities will determine whether he has any gang affiliations. "He had tattoos that our gang unit would be looking at ... to see if he's involved in any kind of gang," Hodgson said. "Doesn't mean he is." The tattoos raise suspicion, the sheriff said, and investigators will follow up with interviews to further determine the significance of what they saw. "He'll be treated no better and no worse than any other inmate," the sheriff said. ### SUMMARY:

Sheriff: A gang unit will investigate Hernandez's tattoos . The former New England Patriots player is charged with murder . Prosecutor: "He orchestrated the crime from the beginning" A defense attorney says the evidence is circumstantial .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Every day, 22 veterans take their own lives. That's a suicide every 65 minutes. As shocking as the number is, it may actually be higher. The figure, released by the Department of Veterans Affairs in February, is based on the agency's own data and numbers reported by 21 states from 1999 through 2011. Those states represent about 40% of the U.S. population. The other states, including the two largest (California and Texas) and the fifth-largest (Illinois), did not make data available. Who wasn't counted? People like Levi Derby, who hanged himself in his grandfather's garage in Illinois on April 5, 2007. He was haunted, says his mother, Judy Casper, by an Afghan child's death. He had handed the girl a bottle of water, and when she came forward to take it, she stepped on a land mine. When Derby returned home, he locked himself in a motel room for days. Casper saw a vacant stare in her son's eyes. A while later, Derby was called up for a tour of Iraq. He didn't want to kill again. He went AWOL and finally agreed to an "other than honorable" discharge. Derby was not in the VA system, and Illinois did not send in data on veteran suicides to the VA. Experts have no doubt that people are being missed in the national counting of veteran suicides. Luana Ritch, the veterans and military families coordinator in Nevada, helped publish an extensive report on that state's veteran suicides. Veteran confronts rape and suicide . Part of the problem, she says, is that there is no uniform reporting system for deaths in America. It's usually up to a funeral director or a coroner to enter veteran status and suicide on a death certificate. Veteran status is a single question on the death report, and there is no verification of it from the Defense Department or the VA. "Birth and death certificates are only as good as the information that is entered," Ritch says. "There is underreporting. How much, I don't know." Who else might not be counted? A homeless person who has no one who can vouch that he or she is a veteran, or others whose families don't want to divulge a suicide because of the stigma associated with mental illness; they may pressure a state coroner to not list the death as suicide . If a veteran intentionally crashes a car or dies of a drug overdose and leaves no note, that death may not be counted as suicide. An investigation by the Austin American-Statesman newspaper last year revealed an alarmingly high percentage of veterans who died in this manner in Texas, a state that did not send in data for the VA report. "It's very hard to capture that information," says Barbara van Dahlen, a psychologist who founded Give an Hour, a nonprofit group that pairs volunteer mental-health professionals with combat veterans. Nikkolas Lookabill had been home about four months from Iraq when he was shot to death by police in Vancouver, Washington, in September 2010. The prosecutor's office said Lookabill told officers "he wanted them to shoot him." The case is one of many considered "suicide by cop" and not counted in suicide data. Carri Leigh Goodwin enlisted in the Marine Corps in 2007. She said she was raped by a fellow Marine at Camp Pendleton and eventually was forced out of the Corps with a personality disorder diagnosis. She did not tell her family that she was raped or that she had thought about suicide. She also did not tell them she was taking Zoloft, a drug prescribed for anxiety. Her father, Gary Noling, noticed that Goodwin was drinking heavily when she returned home. Five days later, she went drinking with her sister, who left her intoxicated in a parked car. The Zoloft interacted with the alcohol, and she died in the back seat of the car. Her blood alcohol content was six times the legal limit. Police charged her sister and a friend in Goodwin's death for furnishing alcohol to an underaged woman: Goodwin was 20. Noling says his daughter intended to drink herself to death. Later, Noling went through Goodwin's journals and learned about her rape and suicidal thoughts. A recent analysis by News21, an investigative multimedia program for journalism students, found that the annual suicide rate among veterans is about 30 for every 100,000 of the population, compared with the civilian rate of 14 per 100,000. The analysis of records from 48 states found that the suicide rate for veterans increased an average of 2.6% a year from 2005 to 2011 -- more than double the rate of increase for civilian suicide. Nearly one in five suicides nationally is a veteran, even though veterans make up about 10% of the U.S. population, the News21 analysis found. The authors of the VA study, Janet Kemp and Robert Bossarte, included many cautions about the interpretation of their data, though they stand by the reliability of their findings. Bossarte said there was a consistency in the samples that allowed them to comfortably project the national figure of 22. But more than 34,000 suicides from the 21 states that reported data to the VA were discarded because the state death records failed to indicate whether the deceased was a veteran. That's 23% of the recorded suicides from those states. So the study looked at 77% of the recorded suicides in 40% of the U.S. population. The VA report itself acknowledged "significant limitations" of the available data and identified flaws in its report. "The ability of death certificates to fully capture female veterans was particularly low; only 67% of true female veterans were identified. Younger or unmarried veterans and those with lower levels of education were also more likely to be missed on the death certificate." "We think that all suicides are underreported. There is uncertainty in the check box," says Steve Elkins, the state registrar in Minnesota, which has one of the best suicide data recording systems in the country. Websites become tool for stopping suicide . VA Secretary Eric Shinseki requested collaboration from all 50 states to improve timeliness and accuracy of suicide reporting, key to improving suicide prevention. At the time the VA released its last suicide report, at least 11 states had not made a decision on data collaboration. Combat stress is just one reason why veterans attempt suicide. Military sexual assaults are another. Psychologist Craig Bryan says his research is finding that military victims of violent assault or rape are six times more likely to attempt suicide than military non-victims. More than 69% of all veteran suicides were among those 50 and older. Mental-health professionals said one reason could be that these men give up on life after their children are out of the house or a longtime marriage falls apart. They are also likely to be Vietnam veterans, who returned from war to a hostile public and an unresponsive VA. Combat stress was chalked up to being crazy, and many Vietnam veterans lived with ghosts in their heads without seeking help. Even though more older veterans are committing suicide, it's difficult to predict what the toll of America's newest wars will be. A survey by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America showed that 30% of service members have considered taking their own life, and 45% said they know an Iraq or Afghanistan veteran who has attempted suicide. "There's probably a tidal wave of suicides coming," says Brian Kinsella, an Iraq war veteran who started Stop Soldier Suicide, a nonprofit group that works to raise awareness of suicide. Between October 2006 and June 2013, the Veterans Crisis Line received more than 890,000 calls. That number does not include chats and texts. President Barack Obama says there is a need to "end this epidemic of suicide among our veterans and troops." In August 2012, he signed an executive order calling for stronger suicide prevention efforts. A year later, he announced $107 million in new funding for better mental health treatment for veterans with post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury, signature injuries of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. ### SUMMARY:

The data the suicide rate is based on are incomplete . Examples of uncounted: "suicide by cop," by overdoses and by vehicle crashes . "There's probably a tidal wave of suicides coming" VA makes appeal for more uniform reporting of suicide data .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . James Chapman . PUBLISHED: . 15:39 EST, 7 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 03:32 EST, 8 November 2012 . Germany last night warned Britain ‘you won’t be happy alone’ in the world, amid deepening tensions over David Cameron’s threat to veto an increase in the EU’s vast budget. Chancellor Angela Merkel, who visited Downing Street for talks with the Prime Minister last night, even raised the spectre of the Second World War as she issued a provocative suggestion that the UK would flounder on its own outside the EU. British officials said that despite Mrs Merkel’s visit to attempt to broker an agreement ahead of a crunch EU budget summit this month, chances of a deal were rapidly receding. Scroll down for video . 'Alone they would not be happy in this world': Angela Merkel made the comments ahead of dinner with David Cameron at Downing Street tonight . Warm welcome: Mr Cameron greeted the German leader with a kiss on the steps of 10 Downing Street, ahead of a meeting expected to be dominated by the increasingly tense talks on the EU's 2014-2020 budget . Mrs Merkel has set out her vision of a more closely integrated EU core ¿ one likely to antagonise British eurosceptics still further . Mr Cameron yesterday branded a . proposed EU budget increase ‘completely ludicrous’ and demanded Mrs . Merkel stick to an earlier agreement to back Britain in pushing for at . least a freeze. Senior figures in Brussels are . increasingly frustrated with the stance of the British Government, . demanding it either makes a clear commitment to the EU or quit. 'You can be very happy on an island - but alone they would not be happy in this world' German Chancellor Angela Merkel . But Mrs Merkel’s suggestion that she . would ‘do everything’ to keep Britain in the EU is likely to be seized . upon by Mr Cameron as an indication that she is ready to offer . concessions on budget demands. ‘I want a strong Britain in the EU. Britain was there when we were liberated from National Socialism,’ the . German leader said, in a reference to the end of the Second World War. ‘I cannot imagine Britain not to be . part of Europe. I think that it is good for it, too, to be part of . Europe. When you are somewhere alone in a seven billion-strong global . population, I don’t think it is good for Britain. ‘You can be very happy on an island – but alone they would not be happy in this world.’ Mrs Merkel, speaking in the European . Parliament in Brussels before travelling to London for dinner with Mr . Cameron, set out her vision of a more closely integrated EU core – one . likely to antagonise British eurosceptics still further. ‘I want all countries to become . members of the euro,’ she said. ‘I’m sure the European Commission will . become a government one day . . . but we must give people a little more . time.’ A riot police officer is engulfed by petrol bomb flames thrown by protesters in front of the parliament during clashes in Athens . A protester holds a petrol bomb during clashes with riot police as the demonstration quickly turned violent . Mr Cameron has expressed outrage that . the European Commission is seeking an £80billion budget rise for the . seven-year period from 2014, accusing it of ‘doing nothing’ to tighten . its belt while member states imposed austerity measures. The Prime . Minister last night urged Mrs Merkel to stick to a letter she signed in . 2010 calling for a real-terms freeze in EU spending. Government sources said different . sides in the budget row were so far from agreement that a summit due to . start on November 22 was likely to collapse. That would mean the 27 EU . leaders reconvening next year to try to hammer out a deal. If an agreement cannot be reached by . the end of the year, the existing budget will roll on, plus inflation – . meaning Britain will be required to pay more. In a sign of increasing impatience . with Britain in Brussels, French MEP Joseph Daul, chairman of the main . centre-Right EPP group in the European Parliament, last night called for . an end to what remains of the UK’s historic budget rebate. The British Conservatives used to . belong to the EPP group, along with Mrs Merkel’s CDU party, before Mr . Cameron pulled them out over their commitment to a federal Europe. Mr Daul, responding to an attack from . UKIP leader Nigel Farage, said he would accept an ‘amicable divorce’ of . Britain and the EU – but he wanted ‘custody of all the children’. Some . took that as a reference to an independent Scotland. Mr Farage told Mrs Merkel there was ‘growing anger in Britain’. Greek police today used tear gas to disperse demonstrators protesting outside parliament ahead of a key vote on a new round of austerity measures . The 13.5 billion euro package is expected to scrape through Parliament, following a hasty one-day debate, despite fierce public anger . Police and protestors clashed with fire and petrol bombs as the deeply unpopular austerity measures were depressed . ‘Why are we pumping £53million a day . of British taxpayers’ money into this Union? It is Britain’s place in . this Union that is the real question. And increasingly Britain looks . like a square peg in a round hole.’ A Downing Street spokesman said: ‘You . have got 27 countries sitting round the table and they all want . different things from the budget, so it is always going to be difficult . to get agreement. We are going to be arguing for an outcome that is in . Britain’s interests.’ At dinner last night, Mr Cameron . served Mrs Merkel spinach and mushroom tart, followed by venison, and a . German pudding, Donauwelle – a cake made from cherries, buttercream and . cocoa. There was also a cheese course, and the two leaders drank red . wine. As the two leaders discussed Britain's future in the EU, Greek protests ended in tears as outraged residents protested against the austerity bill the Government were voting on. Greek police fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters armed with petrol bombs last night during one of the biggest rallies in the country in months. The clashes came as the country’s parliament voted on a hugely unpopular austerity bill. Up to 100,000 people gathered in Athens¿ Syntagma Square, with some fighting running battles with riot police as the clashes turned ugly . Greece's fragile coalition government faces its toughest test as lawmakers voted on new painful austerity measures demanded to keep the country afloat, on the second day of a nationwide general strike . Up to 100,000 people gathered in Athens’  Syntagma Square, with some fighting running battles with riot police. More . chaos reigned inside the assembly, where the session was interrupted . when parliamentary workers went on strike to protest against a clause . that would have cut their salaries. In a humiliating about-face, the . government was forced to cancel the measure. Outside, loud booms rang out as protesters hurled petrol bombs and rocks at police, who responded with tear gas, stun grenades and water cannons – the first time they had been used in an anti-austerity protest. Earlier in the evening, protesters braved a downpour, holding flags and banners saying ‘It’s them or us!’ and ‘End this disaster!’ Some held Italian, Portuguese and Spanish flags representing other nations facing austerity measures. ‘These measures are killing us little by little and lawmakers in there don’t give a damn,’ said Maria Aliferopoulou, a 52-year-old mother of two. ‘They are rich, they have everything and we have nothing and are fighting for crumbs, for survival.’ The proposed cuts and tax hikes, expected to be worth £10billion, are required to unlock a loan tranche of more than £20billion from the European Union and International Monetary Fund bailout. ### SUMMARY:

Angela Merkel told the European Parliament she wants a 'strong Britain in the European Union' Comments came as the economic forecast for the entire region was downgraded amid warnings unemployment could remain high for years . German leader was speaking ahead of a dinner with Prime Minister David Cameron at 10 Downing Street tonight . As leaders discussed Britain's place in the EU, protests in Greece exploded into violent clashes as the Government voted on the deeply unpopular austerity measures .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . James Rush . PUBLISHED: . 11:35 EST, 20 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:28 EST, 20 February 2013 . On trial: Jakir Uddin has been accused of helping an ex-fiance of socialite Tamara Ecclestone blackmail her for £200,000 by claiming he would sell his story to a newspaper . A man accused of helping an ex-fiance of socialite Tamara Ecclestone blackmail her for £200,000 by claiming he would sell his story to a newspaper told a court today he thought it would be good work experience for his media studies degree. Prosecutors claim Jakir Uddin, 20, sent an email to Miss Ecclestone’s then manager Dana Malmstrom in November 2011 pretending to be co-defendant Derek Rose’s official representative. In it he claimed a tabloid newspaper had offered Rose, 33, who went out with Miss Ecclestone, 28, when she was 17, £200,000 for details of their relationship. But no newspaper had made such an offer. Giving evidence today at their trial at London’s Southwark Crown Court, Uddin told jurors he had looked up to Rose, who was more than 12 years his senior. Uddin said Rose had helped with the lifestyle magazine he had set up with a friend while studying at Coventry University. The older man had introduced him to celebrities and given him advice drawn from his own experience in working in the media industry, Uddin told the court. 'I regarded him as someone with a high status in the media,' he said. Uddin told jurors he had filmed Rose talking about his relationship with the eldest daughter of Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone for a university project. But Uddin said that when it was rejected by his tutor, Rose suggested to him that they offered it to the newspapers. 'I saw it as a sort of favour for Mr Rose,' he said. Accused: Derek Rose (pictured left arriving at court today) went out with Miss Ecclestone (right) when she was 17 . 'I’d never contacted the papers before and it was an opportunity for me.' Uddin, who denies a charge of blackmail, said: 'Mr Rose pointed out to me that the story could be worth a quarter of a million pounds.' Asked by his defence lawyer Ali Bajwa QC if they discussed how much money he himself would get, Uddin told the court: 'In general terms maybe a quarter, maybe half. It was just sort of brushed under the carpet.' Asked by Mr Bajwa how he became involved in writing the email to Miss Ecclestone’s agent, the softly-spoken student said: 'Mr Rose sold me the idea that it would give me experience. Romance: Uddin told jurors he had filmed Rose talking about his relationship with the eldest daughter of Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone for a university project . 'That it would give me an opportunity to speak with someone who was in a high position in the industry that I wanted to go into.' Uddin denied he meant any harm against Miss Ecclestone, telling the court: 'If Tamara was unhappy with anything, I wouldn’t have wanted anything to do with it.' Prosecutors claim Rose was the 'driving force' behind the plot and planned to keep £150,000 if they were successful. Both men blame each other over the scheme. Rose, from Camden, London, and Uddin, from Birmingham, both deny blackmail. Rose had already sold one story about Miss Ecclestone to the Mail on Sunday for £10,000 in 2002. The pair had split up in August of that year, when Rose was then named Jonathan Ketterman. An email he sent to Miss Ecclestone after they broke up was previously shown to the jury. The three pages were not read aloud in court but were described by prosecutor William Boyce QC as 'extraordinarily offensive'. Asked by Mr Bajwa if he had known about it, Uddin said he had not, but had seen it since being arrested. Questioned about what he thought of the letter, Uddin said: 'Really unpleasant, unattractive. 'You could feel there was some sort of clear anger towards her.' Asked if he would have become involved in the plot if he had known of it, Uddin told the court: 'I wouldn’t have taken part. 'I didn’t want to get in between a volatile sort of relationship.' The court previously heard that Uddin had spoken to Sun journalist Alex West about selling Rose’s story to the tabloid and they had been given an offer of £10,000. Defendant: Prosecutors claim Rose was the 'driving force' behind the plot and planned to keep £150,000 if they were successful . Uddin said Rose told him they 'should see if Tamara would be interested in purchasing the story or not'. Mr Bajwa said the £200,000 mentioned in the email to Miss Ecclestone’s agent was a 'grossly exaggerated' figure in comparison. But Uddin said that when he sent the email - that it is claimed had been drafted by Rose for him to then check for spelling or grammatical mistakes - he had not read it that thoroughly. He told the court that while his own punctuation and grammar were of a high standard, Rose’s were 'very poor'. 'In hindsight and looking back it's the most stupidest thing I have ever done. It was very naive of me. I let someone have a lot of influence over me. I didn't think for myself. It was stupid' - Jakir Uddin . Uddin told the court he had not thought of the implications of the email he had sent. 'I thought we were only inviting Tamara and Ms Malmstrom for a discussion. 'At the time things were moving really quickly and I just didn't have much time to think.' But he added that, since he has had time to think about it, he has realised it was wrong. 'I wouldn't send this to my worst enemy,' he said. 'It was very displeasing. Very shameful and very, very stupid of me. 'I wouldn't write with such punctuation and grammatical errors.' Asked by his lawyer why he did not go to police after news of a blackmail plot hit the headlines in December 2011, he said it was because Rose had told him not to and he 'panicked'. 'In that time in my life I was taking a lot of advice from Mr Rose. I looked up to him quite a lot,' he said. Implications: Uddin told the court he had not thought of the implications of the email he had sent . He said Rose had advised him to delete any emails between them concerning the plot but he did not do so as he felt he had done nothing wrong. Asked how he felt now, Uddin, who is now in the third year of his media production degree, told jurors: 'In hindsight and looking back it's the most stupidest thing I have ever done. It was very naive of me. 'I let someone have a lot of influence over me. I didn't think for myself. It was stupid. 'I should have gone to the police on the seventh of December but at all times, in my life I felt that everything I was doing was lawful and proper.' During cross examination from Mr Boyce, Uddin was asked what he thought the purpose of the email he sent was if it was not to blackmail Miss Ecclestone. Uddin said: 'It was simply an invitation to discuss. I didn't think what we would be discussing at that point.' Referring to the 'vile' things that Rose wanted to accuse Miss Ecclestone of in the story, Mr Boyce said it was obvious she would not want it published. He asked the defendant: 'The discussion was silence or money, wasn't it? That was the only possible discussion.' 'No,' Uddin replied. 'In my mind I didn't think as far ahead as what the discussion would be about.' 'Publishing this, you knew, would tear her to pieces didn't you?' Mr Boyce said. 'No,' Uddin replied once again. The court heard neither defendant has any previous convictions. The trial was adjourned to 10am tomorrow when Uddin will continue to be cross examined. Sorry we are unable to accept comments for legal reasons. ### SUMMARY:

Jakir Uddin tells court he looked up to co-defendant Derek Rose . Uddin said he regarded Rose as someone with 'a high status in the media' Rose and Uddin both deny blackmailing Tamara Ecclestone for £200,000 .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Anna Hodgekiss and Emma Innes . PUBLISHED: . 06:14 EST, 3 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 09:12 EST, 3 October 2013 . A Zumba instructor says her devotion to the fitness classes nearly killed her - after they caused an undetected hole in her heart to grow bigger and bigger. Nicole Saville, 20, had to have her chest cut open in January to allow doctors to sew up the hole which was 'insignificant’ when she was born. The fitness fanatic from Mirfield, West Yorkshire, first noticed something was awry when she became tired and breathless, but never suspected it could be something so serious. Nicole Saville, 20, was diagnosed with a hole in the heart after becoming tired and breathless. The Zumba instructor had probably had the hole since birth but her active lifestyle could have made it worse . Without major open-heart surgery, Ms Saville would have been at risk of suffering a severe heart attack or stroke as the hole in her heart caused one side of the vital organ to become enlarged. She said: 'I wasn’t feeling well at all. I was really run down and I was finding teaching difficult. 'Doctors did a series of tests and found an infection, which led them to tell me I had a virus in my liver. 'I put up with it for a couple of months until I started having trouble breathing and I was admitted to hospital.' Further tests and an ECG revealed Ms Saville had a heart murmur and an ultrasound soon found the hole in her heart - something that she is likely to have had since birth. Doctors told her the hole could have been made worse by exercise. In January, surgeons at Leeds General Infirmary performed open-heart surgery on the Zumba instructor after a keyhole procedure failed. Surgeons tried to close the hole in Ms Saville's heart during a keyhole procedure but it failed so she had to have open-heart surgery which involved breaking her sternum . After the surgery, Ms Saville had to sleep sitting up for five weeks and she has to spend six months recovering before returning to Zuma . But in order to operate on her successfully, doctors had to break her sternum. This involved making an incision in her abdomen and disjointing the ribs behind her chest. To close the wound, medics inserted metal wires to pull Ms Saville’s chest back together, for her bone to grow around and heal. She said: 'When I woke up, I must have just twitched a tiny amount and the whole top half of my body was in agony. Ms Saville said: 'When I woke up, I must have just twitched a tiny amount and the whole top half of my body was in agony. There was a searing pain across my chest and it took my breath away' 'There was a searing pain across my chest and it took my breath away. Just the slightest movement made everything hurt. 'I had to be washed, dressed, showered, and even have my teeth brushed and walking was particularly difficult. 'I couldn’t walk and my arms hanging down by my side was incredibly painful.' As well as being forced to sleep sitting upright for the first five weeks, Ms Saville then faced a six-month recovery period, before she could get back to her active self. She said: 'I had to be washed, dressed, showered, and even have my teeth brushed and walking was particularly difficult. I couldn't walk and my arms handing down by my side was incredibly painful' She said: 'It was really hard . stopping my fitness. It was going really well before I found out about . the hole in my heart and I was developing a client base who I didn’t . want to let down. 'Everything . stopped and came to a standstill. I was just trying to establish myself . when I had to wait until I was better to carry on.' She . added: 'I didn’t talk about it much while I was ill. It would have been . really easy to just mope about and I wanted to stay as positive as . possible. To correct the hole in Ms Saville's heart, surgeons had to open up her chest and separate her sternum . 'When you’re told something like that you have to stay strong for self-preservation. 'It . was really hard being in a hospital surrounded by elderly patients but I . knew I needed the operation, even though I am so young.' Ms . Saville’s heart condition was not picked up on while she was a baby, . she and her parents Sandra and Andrew Saville, have since discovered . that a simple test could have been done. Mrs Saville, 51, said: 'Nicole’s . condition wasn’t picked up when she was born because the hole was so . small and wasn’t causing her obvious symptoms. 'But . now I think back to things that were unexplained and now they make . sense. I just didn’t want to over-react and panic over the smallest of . things. 'It’s such a cheap test and most parents would pay out of their own pockets just to be sure if they knew it could potentially save their child in the future. 'It should be something that is checked as standard.' Despite still getting aches and pains, Ms Saville is now back to her active self and she is looking forward to a successful life as a Zumba instructor with the support of fiancé Oliver Horne. She said: 'My family and Oliver have been so supportive throughout everything and been there for me through all the bad times when I wasn’t feeling myself. 'This is something that is associated with people in their 70s and 80s but people need to realise that it happens to young people like me as well.' Ms Saville (pictured with her fiancé, Oliver) is now hoping to return to work as a Zumba instructor. She also hopes to raise awareness about holes in the heart so people realise they can happen to anyone . Ms Saville is hoping to raise . awareness of her experience to help other young adults who may suffer . with a hole in their heart that is not detected until later in life. She . has so far raised £500 for Take Heart, a Yorkshire-based charity which . aims to help patients suffering from heart conditions and offers support . to their relatives. He . mother added: 'Take Heart gave me a room next door to where Nicole was . in the hospital with a bed and a shower. It was all free and it was . fantastic because I could just be there for her the whole time.' Maureen Talbot, Senior Cardiac Nurse at the British Heart Foundation, said: 'If there is something wrong with a baby’s heart at birth they are said to have congenital heart disease. Ms Saville said: 'It was really hard stopping my fitness. It was going really well before I found out about the hole in my heart and I was developing a client base who I didn't want to let down' 'There are many types of congenital heart disease and "hole in the heart" is a rare defect in the wall between two of the heart’s chambers. 'Some congenital heart problems are now picked up during pregnancy but sometimes they’re not found until the baby has been born. 'Some conditions may not be discovered until the child is an adult, although a hole in the heart is more commonly spotted in childhood. 'It’s vitally important a hole in the heart is picked up as early as possible so children can be monitored and get the right treatment, which is normally heart surgery. If you want more information about congenital heart disease, call our Heart Helpline on 0300 330 3311.' Holes in the heart are congenital heart defects which change the normal flow of blood through the heart. The hole is usually found in the wall between the two different sides of the heart - the septum. About eight in every 1,000 babies have a hole in the heart. Symptoms include fatigue, shortness of breath, a build up of fluid in the lungs and swelling in the ankles, feet, legs and abdomen. If the hole is not closed, it can cause heart failure or stroke. Whether treatment is required depends on the severity of the problem - some people never require treatment for the hole in their heart. If the hole is large, surgery if often required to close it. Source: National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute . ### SUMMARY:

Nicole Saville, 20, was diagnosed with a hole in the heart after becoming tired and breathless - it put her at risk of a heart attack or a stroke . Probably had hole at birth but was told exercise could have made it worse . Doctors tried to close the hole during a keyhole operation but it failed . Had to have open-heart surgery which involved breaking her sternum . She will have to spend six months recovering before returning to Zumba .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Victoria Woollaston . PUBLISHED: . 09:20 EST, 13 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 10:34 EST, 14 November 2013 . Motorola officially unveiled its ‘budget’ Moto G handset in Brazil yesterday, with hopes of capturing the emerging markets. The £135 Moto G is a 4.5-inch handset running the latest version of Android and will launch across Latin America, Europe, Canada and parts of Asia in the coming weeks. A notable omission in the rollout plans, however, is China - a region that Apple recently considered important enough to include in its iPhone and iPad release, but one that has a chequered past with Motorola's parent company, Google. Scroll down for video . The budget Moto G handset, pictured, was unveiled during an event in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It has a 4.5-inch screen, 1GB RAM, runs on a 1.2GHz quad-core processor and comes with 8GB built-in storage. It also has a 5MP camera . Screen size: 4.5-inch . Pixels-per-inch: 329 PPI . Camera: 5MP rear-facing, 1.3MP front-facing . Basic storage: 8GB and 16GB . UK Price: £134.95 for 8GB and £159 for 16GB . U.S Price: $179 for 8GB and $199 for 16GB . Speaking at the event, Motorola's CEO Woodside said: 'Most people in the world can't afford a $500 or $600 phone. 'The average price is close to $200 and the experience of these devices is really, really bad. 'We . think the industry should deliver more value, we think people deserve . better. So that's why today, we're introducing Moto G.' The firm chose Brazil as the first country on its rollout schedule because the South American region is seen as an important emerging market for smartphone makers. It is seen by many to be as significant as the emerging markets of China. Apple certainly believes China is a lucrative country after the tech giant made its new iPhone 5S and 5C phones, as well as its new iPad Air, available in the region from launch for the first time ever. Yet Google, which bought Motorola last year, has had previous run-ins with the Chinese government over censorship concerns. The firm chose Brazil as the first . country on its rollout schedule because the South American region is . seen as an important emerging market for smartphone makers. It is seen by many to be as significant a region as China, yet Google, which bought Motorola last year, has had previous run-ins with the Chinese government over censorship concerns. China heavily censors the web, across the country, and up until March 2010 Google adhered to some of these laws. However, since then it has spoken out . against the restrictions, and after talks with the Chinese . government broke down, Google began redirecting people who visited its . Chinese site to its Hong Kong service. A move that was criticised by the . Chinese government. The country and the company continue to disagree on . the matter and its thought this rift may have been the reason why China . was not included in the Moto G plans. China heavily censors the web, across the country, and up until March 2010 Google adhered to these laws. However, since then it has spoken out . against the restrictions, and after talks with the Chinese . government broke down, Google began redirecting people who visited its . Chinese site to its Hong Kong service. A move that was criticised by the . Chinese government. The country and the company continue to disagree on . the matter and its thought this rift may have been the reason why China . was not included in the Moto G plans. The Moto G is set to be a cut-price . alternative to the firm's Moto X handset, released in August, yet . reports claim the firm has sold just half a million of these high-end . phones meaning there's a lot resting on the success of the Moto G. Success that could be hindered further by the fact Motorola won't be selling in China. By comparison, rival Samsung shipped more 10 million Galaxy S4s in the same period. This may be due to the fact Motorola’s . Moto X is only available in the U.S., while Samsung’s model is available . worldwide, yet the Moto X is $100 cheaper than the $699.99 S4. When . compared to these Moto X prices, the £135 Moto G is ‘cheap’, yet there . are other similarly priced smartphones on the market, including the . Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini, the HTC Desire X and Nokia’s Lumia 520 with . similar features. Motorola's new £135 Moto G handset is set to be a cut-price alternative to the firm's Moto X phone, pictured, released in August. However, reports claim the company has sold just half a million of these high-end phones meaning there's a lot resting on the success of Moto G . The . Moto X's poor sales follow reports in the summer in which Motorola . announced losses of $342 million in just one quarter - a 34 per cent . drop compared to same period in 2012. It has 1GB RAM, runs on a 1.2GHz quad-core processor and comes with either 8GB or 16GB of storage built in. The Moto G has a curved back, designed to fit comfortably in the user's hands, and the edge-to-edge display as seen on the Moto X. In what seems to be becoming a trend, . the majority of the Moto G's details were leaked before the . announcement, including a post appearing on Amazon earlier this week. The leaks revealed the size and price of the device, as well as hinted at the different coloured cases. The customisable colourful design of the Moto G was originally seen on the Moto X due to the Moto Maker. When customers in the U.S. order the phone they can fully customise by choosing from a list of tones and colours. Motorola initially said customers would be able to engrave their new Moto X handsets, but this option was removed at launch. Moto . G goes on sale this week in Brazil and parts of Europe and will be . available within the next few weeks throughout Latin America, Canada and . parts of Asia. It will be available in the U.S., India, the Middle East and more of Asia in early January. Google-owned Motorola has also taken its lead from Apple by offering the Moto G in a variety of colours, with interchangeable cases - or Motorola shells, pictured. The customisable colourful design of the Moto G was originally seen on the Moto X due to the Moto Maker . The phone costs £134.95 for 8GB and £159 for 16GB in the UK. In the U.S., Moto G will be sold for $179 with 8GB of storage and $199 for 16GB. David Phelan, Mobile Technology Advisor at Carphone Warehouse, told MailOnline: 'The Moto G offers plenty of bang for not many bucks - in fact, it’s the cheapest quad-core device on the market. 'It’s ideal for someone looking for all the latest functionality without the wallet busting price tag associated with many smartphones and is likely to be a very popular gift this Christmas.' The Moto G will be available from Carphone Warehouse from 11 December for £149 on Pay As You Go. While Ernest Doku, telecoms expert at uSwitch.com added: ''Rather than having to wait for . hand-me-downs, a starting price of less than £135 could see the Moto G . become a great choice as a stocking filler as well as a great option for . those wanting a device that wows and yet doesn't break the bank. 'The customisation aspect is another string to its bow for the emerging and modern markets alike, with a selection of appealing changeable covers available to lend a sense of style.' ### SUMMARY:

Moto G has a 4.5-inch screen and costs £135 in the UK and $179 in the U.S . It is a budget alternative to the Moto X handset released in August . Launch comes after reports only 500,000 Moto X handsets have been sold . Google-owned Motorola reported losses of $342 million earlier this year . Phone is launching initially in Brazil and Europe - but China will miss out .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: EXCLUSIVEBy . Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor . PUBLISHED: . 04:59 EST, 23 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 12:38 EST, 23 January 2014 . Pitch: David Cameron said he wanted to make clear that Britain is open for business . David Cameron tonight vowed to make a 'sales pitch' to investors amid fears attacks by MPs on the tax affairs of global firms are deterring companies from doing business in Britain. MailOnline revealed that the Treasury is concerned about the impact of high-profile criticism of companies like Google, Amazon and Starbucks by Margaret Hodge, the Labour MP who chairs the public accounts committee (PAC). The Prime Minister will use a speech to global business leaders in Davos tomorrow to make clear Britain is open for business. He is expected to trumpet that the coalition is cutting corporation tax rates to just 20 per cent, the lowest in the G7, tearing up red tape and investing billions in infrastructure to attract more firms. Mr Cameron will seek to counter the negative messages emerging from the PAC which has resonated around the world. After a Treasury source told MailOnline there is 'no doubt' the attacks are having an impact on business, the CBI warned MPs against 'personal attacks'. Ahead of his major speech, Mr Cameron said he was in Davos to 'fly the flag for Britain and to attract investment to British shores'. He met with some of the largest investors into the UK including car firm Tata, which owns Jaguar Land Rover and British Steel, and Siemens which is investing in renewable and energy technology in the UK. He said he asked them: 'You’ve invested in Britain – we’ve had the biggest share of inward investment in Europe over the last couple of years – what more can we do to get more investment, more jobs?' He added: 'We are a very welcoming, open economy – that’s one of our sales pitches for Britain and I’m here to make that sale.' Global internet firms including Amazon, Google and Starbucks have faced the wrath of Margaret Hodge, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, but there are fears the attacks could deter other investors coming to the UK . The government faces a difficult balancing act between offering a low tax regime which appeals to international firms while also being seen to take action against companies which do not pay their way. Miss Hodge has used her role as chairman of the PAC to repeatedly accuse multi-nationals of ‘siphoning’ profits out of the UK to low-tax countries. She has called for a boycott of companies including Starbucks, Amazon and Google in protest at what she said was ‘immoral’ avoidance of UK tax. But senior ministers have been warned by business leaders that the sustained attacks on well-known companies are deterring some from moving their headquarters to the UK. Treasury source . A Treasury source told MailOnline: ’There is no doubt it is having an impact. 'We are trying to show we have one of the most competitive corporate tax regimes in the world, but the message is being sent out if you come here you will be exposed to this sort of criticism from Margaret Hodge and her committee.’ Some companies which have a lower public profile are nervous of being subjected to the scrutiny of their financial affairs. The source added: ’The head of a company looking to move here would see the way other people have been hauled in front of MPs and subjected to criticism and will think: “I’m not doing that.” ‘The likes of Starbucks and Amazon will always be here, but other companies looking at Britain are being put off the idea of moving their headquarters here because they fear the level of public exposure for behaving perfectly legally.’ Critics note that the amount of tax uncollected by HM Revenue and Customs rose to £35billion last year . 'We're not accusing you of being illegal, we're accusing you of being immoral.' November 2012"I think one should boycott these companies. I do actually think that is the right thing to do.' November 2012 urging customers to snub Starbucks, Amazon and Google‘Companies like Amazon should pay their fair share of tax based on their economic activity in this country and the profits they make here. Its behaviour is not only unfair, it is anti-competitive, putting British businesses that do pay their proper tax at a disadvantage.’ May 2013‘I think you do do evil. That is, you use smoke and mirrors to avoid paying tax.’ May 2013, referring to Google's slogan 'Don't be evil'‘Why have you not litigated against one single internet company? Make a few cases, a few show cases. It’s so bloody obvious.’ October 2013, urging HMRC to take the likes of Google, Amazon and Facebook to court . There is particular concern about the effect of the PAC’s attacks in the US, where it is viewed as being as influential as powerful congressional committees which hold sway over major decisions on tax and spending. Katja Hall, CBI Chief Policy Director, said: 'It is right to have high levels of scrutiny into the activities of businesses, and companies recognise the increasing level of public interest in many areas of their operations. 'Any questioning into business  activity should be robust, fair and professional, and should not turn into personal attacks.' The unease was hinted at by Treasury minister David Gauke in a speech last year when he said it was ‘quite understandable’ that companies would be put off moving to the UK if they are ‘worried that their reputations will be unfairly damaged’ and if ‘perfectly legal and perfectly legitimate behaviour might be presented to the public as something different’. Mr Gauke said: ‘Tough action on tax avoidance, yes. But we must also recognise that if the debate is driven by myths and misunderstandings, we could risk jobs and investment in the UK.’ However, Miss Hodge insisted that she would be ‘completely robust’ in challenging any suggestion her committee’s work was damaging investment. Companies looking to relocate look at a range of factors, including the skills base of the workforce, the potential and whether employees would see it as a good place to live and work. ‘There is a range of issues and tax is just one,’ she added. ‘To be absolutely honest I think if we don’t get this right, if we don’t get the tax from one set of people we have got to find it from others and you end up damaging British companies with British workers. ‘I think it’s a completely fallacious argument that I am happy to have with them because I think they are wrong.’ David Cameron at the Davos summit last year took a swipe at Starbucks, saying companies had to 'wake up and smell the coffee' and pay the right tax, but this week he will present a more upbeat message to investors . While Ms Hodge’s committee has launched a sustained campaign against large companies’ tax arrangements, ministers have also joined the chorus of disapproval. A year ago at the Davos summit Mr Cameron appeared to single out Starbucks when he said ’companies need to wake up and smell the coffee’ and realise that customers wanted them to pay their way. The Prime Minister is expected to strike a very different tone when he returns to the gathering of global business and political leaders, instead emphasising efforts to attract investment into the UK. Chancellor George Osborne has repeatedly cut corporation tax - which is paid on the profits companies make - in order to persuade more foreign firms to set up the HQ in the UK. ‘The best way to help businesses is by lowering the burden of tax’, he said last month as he published data showing reducing the corporation tax rate actually increased the amount of money raised for Treasury coffers. When the coalition was formed it stood at 28 per cent but in April this year it will be 21 per cent, falling eventually to 20 per cent. Downing Street defended the right of Miss Hodge's committee to challenge companies about their tax affairs. Mr Cameron's official spokesman said: 'Committees and their business, that’s for them. What the Government is focused on of course is around the economic conditions which encourage inward investment into this country. How committees do their business, that’s for them.' ### SUMMARY:

Public Accounts Committee chairman Margaret Hodge is accused of deterring investors . Treasury says MPs' comments have a greater impact in the US . Companies who could relocate to UK fear being humiliated in Parliament . But Miss Hodge dismisses the 'completely fallacious argument' Last year David Cameron mocked Starbucks but is now wooing investors .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Ted Thornhill . Chilling video footage appears to show a British militant taking part in the cold-blooded execution of a prisoner loyal to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. The film shows a man kneeling with his feet crossed and head bowed in a field in Syria, then being shot in the back of the head by a man armed with a pistol. Another man then fires at the prisoner with a machine gun. Researchers at the International Centre . for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) believe that this gunman is . from London and is part of a militant group called Rahat al Tawheed . (Banner of God). SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO . Sentenced to death: The video begins with a man pointing a pistol at the prisoner's head . Chilling: After the man keels over another militant armed with an AK-47, who researchers believe is British, prepares to fire more shots . Cold-blooded: The man believed to be British then fires a volley of shots into the prisoner, though it's not clear if he's already dead at this point . After analysing the physique, wristwatch and balaclava of the man with the machine gun, ICSR concluded that it’s very probably the same man seen making pronouncements in a series of Rahat al Tawheed YouTube videos. ICSR researcher Joseph Carter told MailOnline: 'The guy with the AK-47 who fires shots into the body is in several other Rahat al Tawheed videos. On the videos the group claims to have four British brothers with them and two of those guys feature very prominently. They both wear distinctive balaclavas and big fat black watches. They're the only two who wear these watches. 'We spent a day looking at the group's YouTube videos and the footage of the execution - in which he doesn't speak - and concluded that the stature, balaclava and watch of the gunman matches that of the man in the other videos. We don't know the history of the man who was shot.' Shiraz Maher, a senior researcher at the King’s College London-based ICSR said the killing of prisoners may constitute a war crime. He told Sky News: ‘It's incredibly serious.' Plea: In one YouTube video the British fighters ask friends and relatives back home to donate money so more arms can be bought . Connection: The British militant on the left, filmed on a YouTube video urging Muslims to support jihad, is believed to be one of the gunmen that took part in the execution . Extreme viewpoint: On one Rahat al Tawheed YouTube video a fighter says 'for each arrow that is thrown at the enemies of Allah, it is as though you've freed a slave' Ayman al Zawahiri, the head of Al Qaeda, has ordered its Syrian branch, the al Nusra Front, to stop fighting rival militants as divisions are 'a gift to Assad'. The pronouncement was made by the terror chief in an audiotape that was posted online. Al Zawahiri told Al Nusra's leader, Abu Mohammed al Jolani to refocus and target Syria's ruling party, the Baath, which is run by President Bashar al Assad. He said he should 'devote himself to combat the enemies of Islam, specifically Baathists, Shiites and their allies', according to Sky News. ICSR found the footage of the killing, which took place in Raqqa in northern Syria, on the Instagram account of a man thought to be from London, and it was posted with a message describing the prisoner as ‘one of bashars [sic] dogs’. The note claimed that the man shot was a murderer and rapist. It continued: ‘Wallahi he testified to killing four brothers and raping a sister. The punishment was carried out by a dawlah shari'e. It is not for a Prophet that he should have prisoners of war (and free them with ransom) until he had made a great slaughter (among his enemies) in the land.’ In separate videos posted to YouTube by Rahat al Tawheed, the man believed to have fired a machine gun at the prisoner is filmed urging Muslims in the UK to support the fighters and their families. In one, he says: ‘Whoever equips a fighter or takes care of a fighter's family, it's though he has fought himself.' He continued: ‘Brothers may have the opportunity to equip the fighter and if it's not to equip a fighter it's to look after the family of those brothers we have lost. It's not much to go to the family of a lost fighter and maybe drop 10 or 20 pounds, 40 or 50 pounds, especially if you know this woman. She is our sister. The true man that left her behind has left her behind with kids. Left to go to jihad. Where are you now, when you know this woman is in need?' In another video the man, alongside another militant, documents the machine guns, ammunition and tactical vests that were bought using donations - and urges people back in the UK to give them money so more can be purchased. The other fighter says: 'For each arrow that is thrown at the enemies of Allah, it is as though you've freed a slave. The brother [indicating the man to his left] shot three magazines. How many slaves is that?' Mr Carter said the British government should be very worried about the videos being produced by Rahat al Tawheed, as they could lead to acts of terrorism. He said: 'At the very least the major concern is that you've got British citizens producing videos inviting young people to come and fight in Syria. It's not being framed in terms of a defence narrative. It's just glorifying violence. We have to be seriously concerned about what training they have out there. 'The government should have a very thorough method of assessing people who come back. It could lead to a terrorism threat.' A UK government spokesperson said: 'This demonstrates why we have consistently called for the situation in Syria to be referred to the International Criminal Court. Whether this barbaric act is specifically a war crime is for a court to decide. Horrific atrocities have been committed by both the Assad regime and by extremists. The international community must ensure that all those responsible are held to account. 'We advise against all travel to Syria by British citizens. Even people travelling for well-intentioned humanitarian reasons are exposing themselves to serious risk, including being targeted for recruitment by terrorist groups. The best way to help the Syrian people is to donate to UK-registered charities that have ongoing relief operations. 'Our priority is to dissuade people from travelling, but any extremists should know we are prepared to take action to protect national security, and intelligence agencies and police are working to identify potential threats.' On Friday Syria's government and rebels agreed to a ceasefire in the battleground city of Homs to allow hundreds of fighters holed up in its old quarters to evacuate, a move that would surrender almost total control of the city once known as the 'capital of the revolution' to forces loyal to President Bashar Assad. The capture of Homs, Syria's third largest city, would be a significant victory for Assad, weeks before presidential elections set for June 3 - if the agreement goes through and rebel fighters leave. It is . feared that hundreds of young Britons are being lured to join fighting . in Syria by the ‘glamorous’ image painted in videos online. They spend months training with terrorists and then return to the UK. Some . videos have graphic pictures, videos and blogs posted by others on the . chaotic frontline. They include videos of masked militants, deadly . firefights and bomb explosions set to music as well as horrific images . of victims, including children. Last . November extraordinary pictures emerged of British jihadists fighting . alongside Al Qaeda-linked gangs in Syria. One man referred to fighting . in Syria as ‘5-star jihad’ because of its ‘relaxing’ nature. Around 400 Britons are believed to have gone to Syria over the past two years with about 20 killed. Counter-terrorism . chiefs have repeatedly highlighted the dangers posed to the UK by . fighters returning here after training with terrorists in Syria. ### SUMMARY:

Chilling footage has emerged of a man being executed in a field in Syria . Researchers believe that one of the gunmen involved is from London . The gunman is thought to be from radical group Rahat al Tawheed . The same man appears on several separate YouTube videos, say experts . Assad set to retake control of rebel stronghold Homs, after ceasefire agreed . WARNING: GRAPHIC FOOTAGE .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Steph Cockroft . Even though Becky Tully loves her three boys with all her heart, she had always craved a baby girl who she could dress up, style and spoil like a real princess. So when doctors told Mrs Tully that she could not have any more children, the 38-year-old was devastated about giving up her dream. But the former care home worker soon found comfort - in five life-like plastic dolls. Becky Tully, 38, from south London, who has three sons, adopted five life-like dolls after she was told she could not have any more children. The babies - Emma, James, Max, Sophie and Connor - are treated as part of the family . Now their doting 'mother' has spent £17,000 buying the silicone models - known as reborn dolls - their own cots, dummies and stylish wardrobes to make them part of the family. Mrs Tully said: 'The boys thought it was a bit strange at first, but once they knew how happy their mummy was, they didn’t mind.' Mrs Tully, from south London, already had three sons  - Joshua, 20, Jack, 17, and Jacob, 11 - when she had to undergo a hysterectomy in 2009, after developing endometriosis and liver disease. The mother-of-three - who had to give up her job in a residential care home because of her illness - became so unwell that her husband Andrew, 40, became her full-time carer. As well as being house-bound for months on end, Mrs Tully was heartbroken that she would never have the chance to mother a young girl. But Mrs Tully's life was completely changed one year later, when she saw a documentary on TV about the reborn dolls. The silicone dummies are hand-picked by would-be mothers for . their realistic weight and soft feel, although they lack the sounds and . smells of a real baby. Just days later, Mrs Tully had ordered Sophie - who she even designed with matching brown hair, so she would look like part of the family. Mrs Tully, pictured here with one of her babies Max, has now spent £17,000 on clothes, accessories and prams to make the five children her own. She says she often scrimps and saves to ensure her babies - who have more than 500 outfits between them - never have to wear the same outfit twice . She said: 'I . spent £840 on Sophie with the care home wages I had left, but it was . worth it - I fell in love with her straight away. These babies are so . unique and precious. 'I ordered Sophie from an online reborn artist and paid for her over nine months in instalments. 'Waiting for her to arrive almost felt like a real pregnancy - it was so exciting. 'I wanted her to look like she could be a part of the family, and her dark brown hair matched mine exactly.' Sophie, pictured left, was the first doll to be adopted by Mrs Tully in 2010. She loved Sophie so much that she went on to adopt four more babies, including Emma, pictured right . Reborn doll Max is one of the five babies who is treated as children by Mrs Tully. The babies have their nappies changed, sleep in a cot in her room and are taken out on day trips with the family . Connor, pictured left, and James, pictued right, are showered with lavish gifts and never wear the same outfit twice . Sophie was the start of a new-found love for Mrs Tully. In the following year, Mrs Tully bought another four dolls - Emma, James, Max and Connor - who she started showering with lavish gifts. She changed their nappies, gave them dummies and put a cot in her bedroom for the babies to sleep in. She even spent more than £5,000 on clothes for the dolls, as well as £500 on shoes, ensuring they never had to wear the same outfit twice. Mrs Tully loves shopping for her the dolls' outfits at GAP, Next, George at ASDA and Mothercare and has spent £5,000 on clothes alone for the babies . The reborns have more than 500 outfits between them and Mrs Tully loves shopping . for the clothes at GAP, Next, George at ASDA and Mothercare. Dolls - £8,000 . Clothes - £5,000 . Shoes - £500 . Cots, cribs and prams - £1,000 . Baby accessories - £2,000 . Hair accessories and hats - £500 . Mrs Tully says she scrimps and saves to pay for new outfits for reborns, sacrificing treats for herself to spoil the children. She says: 'I’ve taken the babies to Bluewater Shopping Centre, and I’ll often treat them to a day out at our local wildlife park. 'Me . and Andrew take them out shopping together and, although he was . embarrassed at first, now he’s more than happy to take over Daddy-duty . and hold their pram. 'He knows how happy they make me and when my oldest son moves out, he’s going to help me turn the spare room into a nursery.' Mrs Tully’s reborns are so realistic that shop assistants often can’t believe she’s cradling a fake baby. Mrs Tully says the bill for the dolls' shoes comes to more than £500. She also spent £500 on hair accessories and hats, as well as £2,000 on what she described as 'baby accessories' She said: 'I love going to Claire’s Accessories to buy pretty hair slides and accessories to style the girls' hair. 'One day the shop assistant was cooing over Sophie, and couldn’t believe it when I revealed she wasn’t a real baby.' For Mrs Tully, her new 'children' have brought her the happiness she never thought she would feel. 'Sometimes . I will hear people talking about the dolls, questioning whether they’re . fake or not, but it doesn’t bother me, they make me happy. 'I love my boys so much, but I desperately wanted a little girl so I could style her hair and pick out pretty dresses' 'I was heartbroken when I had to give up work, and then to make matters worse, my dream of having another child was also in tatters. 'Andrew had to give up his job as a lorry driver to look after me. Now he’s my full-time carer. 'I love my boys so much, but I desperately wanted a little girl so I could style her hair and pick out pretty dresses.' Mrs Tully said the rest of her family have also learned to love the dolls. She said: 'Andrew doesn’t mind sharing our bedroom with the dolls, and I’ve even taught my youngest son how to care for them too. 'He knows how to hold their tiny heads properly, and will put them to bed for me. 'I’ve brought three prams, two moses baskets, a swinging crib and play gyms for the babies to use.' The reborn addict hopes to expand her brood and has recently ordered her most expensive baby yet, Evie Margaret, priced at £900. Mrs Tully said: 'I said I wouldn’t buy any more dolls, but I couldn’t resist Evie, she was too cute. 'Evie will have new outfits for special occasions, and just like the other babies, she won’t leave my side. 'I know I’ve spent a lot, but Andrew supports my spending because these babies have changed my life. 'Some people might think it’s strange, but it’s only the same as men being obsessed with cars - instead my obsession is reborn babies. 'My health condition does get me down and these babies have brought me so much happiness. 'Nothing can ever replace the love I have for my real kids, but I still love my vinyl brood, and I’ll keep making a special home for them.' ### SUMMARY:

Becky Tully, from London, had a hysterectomy in 2009 due to ill-health . The 38-year-old already had three sons but craved a girl to style and spoil . She bought 'Sophie' after watching a programme about the life-like dolls . Now has five 'reborn' dolls - made from silicone - which she takes on outings . Has spent £17,000 on outfits and accessories but says they make her happy .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Nick Enoch . Some of the earliest photos of Victorian women have come to light in a revealing and historical album of prints from the pioneering days of photography 150 years ago. The rare set of pictures taken by Lady Clementina Hawarden, one of Britain’s first female photographers - whose work was avidly collected by Alice In Wonderland writer Lewis Carroll - is set to fetch £150,000 at auction. The photos, which date back to the 1860s, were taken by Lady Hawarden of her daughters and rank as one of Britain’s first ever fashion shoots. She is rated as one of the . most influential Victorian fine art photographers, blazing the way for . women in the profession when it was dominated by men. Lady Clementina Hawarden is rated as one of the most influential Victorian fine art photographers, blazing the way for women in the profession when it was dominated by men. Above, one of her daughter's, Isabella Grace, strikes a pose in the 1860s . Lady Hawarden's photographic exploration of identity - and female sexuality - was incredibly progressive. Above, Lady Clementina's daughter, also called Clementina, reading a book . Lady Hawarden enlisted her daughters (Isabella, above) as models and got to work with a stereoscopic camera and set the standard to which aspiring photographers reach for today . She enlisted her daughters as models and got to work with a stereoscopic camera and set the standard to which aspiring photographers reach for today. Born Clementina Elphinstone Fleeming in . Dunbartonshire in 1822, she was the third of five children of a British . father, Admiral Charles Elphinstone Fleeming (1774-1840), and a Spanish . mother, Catalina Paulina Alessandro (1800-1880). One of five children, she grew up on the family estate, Cumbernauld, near Glasgow. Much . of Hawarden’s life remains a mystery. But in 1845 she married . Cornwallis Maude, an Officer in the Life Guards. In 1856, Maude’s father, . Viscount Hawarden, died and his title, and considerable wealth, passed . to Cornwallis. Hawarden and her husband had ten children, two boys and eight girls, out of whom eight survived to adulthood. In 1859, the family also acquired a . new London home at 5 Princes Gardens, in South Kensington. Much of the square survives as . built, but No. 5 has gone. From 1862 onwards, Lady Hawarden used . the entire first floor of the property as a studio, within which she . kept a few props, many of which have come to be synonymous with her . work: gossamer curtains; a freestanding mirror; a small chest of . drawers; and the iconic ‘empire star’ wallpaper, as seen in several of . the photographs. Lady Hawarden used the entire first floor of the property as a studio, within which she kept a few props, many of which have come to be synonymous with her work: gossamer curtains; a freestanding mirror; a small chest of drawers; and the iconic 'empire star' wallpaper, as seen in several of the photographs. (Above, daughter Clementina) In 1859, the family acquired a new London home at 5 Princes Gardens in South Kensington, London, where an unidentified model poses (above) An important collection of 37 albumen prints by Lady Hawarden and a pair of pencil sketches of her and her husband are to be sold. Above, Isabella . The superior aspect of the studio can . also go some way to account for Hawarden’s sophisticated, subtle and . pioneering use of natural light in her images. It was also here that Lady Hawarden . focused upon taking photographs of her eldest daughters, Isabella Grace, . Clementina, and Florence Elizabeth, whom she would often dress up in . costume tableau. The girls were frequently shot - . often in romantic and sensual poses - in pairs, or, if alone, with a . mirror or with their back to the camera. Hawarden’s photographic exploration . of identity - and female sexuality - was incredibly progressive when . considered in relation to her contemporaries, most notably Julia . Margaret Cameron. Graham Ovenden said in his book, . Clementina Lady Hawarden (1974): 'Clementina Hawarden struck out into . areas and depicted moods unknown to the art photographers of her age. Her vision of languidly tranquil ladies carefully dressed and posed in a . symbolist light is at opposite poles from Mrs Cameron’s images... her . work... constitutes a unique document within nineteenth-century . photography.' Lady Hawarden's daughter Eppy Agnes (left), who is also seen facing the camera with another girl on the balcony of their London house . She exhibited, and won silver medals, . in the 1863 and 1864 exhibitions of the Photographic Society, and was . admired by both Oscar Rejlander, and Lewis Carroll who acquired five . images which went into the Gernsheim Collection and are now in Texas. Tragically, Hawarden was never to . collect her medals. She died at on 19 January 1865, after suffering from . pneumonia for one week, aged 42. It has been suggested that her immune . system was weakened by constant contact with the photographic chemicals. Now an important collection of 37 albumen prints by her and a pair of pencil sketches of her and her husband are to be sold. The images are derived from a single . album, the vast majority not represented in the Victoria & Albert . Museum’s collection, where the majority of her work is housed. Francesca Spickernell, photography specialist at Bonhams, said: 'It was pioneering for a woman to be taking photos like this at this point in the 19th century. On January 19, 1865, Lady Hawarden died after suffering from pneumonia for one week, aged 42. It has been suggested that her immune system was weakened by constant contact with the photographic chemicals. (Isabella, pictured) 'Her output was prolific and she won awards for her work. She struck out into areas and depicted moods unknown to the art photographers of her age. 'The photography scene at this point in history was dominated by males so for a female to achieve the amount of recognition she did in such a short space of time was a tremendous achievement. 'Most photography was very masculine and mostly architectural so these elegant, feminine shots really stood out at that time.' In 1939, her granddaughter presented the V&A with 779 photographs, most of which had been roughly torn from their original albums with significant losses to corners. Proper examination, and appreciation of this gift, was delayed by World War Two, and it was not until the 1980s that there was a detailed appraisal and catalogue of the V&A holdings. This comprises almost the entire body of Hawarden’s surviving work apart from the five images now in Texas, and small groups or single images at Bradford, Musie d’Orsay and the Getty. Some smaller images are arranged on album leaves that are still intact - measuring 322 x 235mm. As distinct from the V&A’s holdings, it is presumed that these images have been taken from an album which may have belonged to one of the sitters or their siblings. The most significant group in the present collection are all approximately 198 x 144mm. and tend to depict one figure in the first floor front room at 5 Princes Gardens. Curiously there are no images of this size in the V&A collection, but the presence of close variant images in a smaller format suggests that Lady Hawarden was using two cameras in the same session. The photographs have been in the same . private collection for the last 50 years and will be auctioned by . Bonhams in London on March 19. ### SUMMARY:

Photos dating back to 1860s were taken by Lady Clementina Hawarden of her daughters . She dressed her three eldest girls - Isabella Grace, . Clementina, and Florence Elizabeth - in . costume tableau at their London home, which acted as studio . They were shot - in romantic and sensual poses - in pairs, or, if alone, with a . mirror or with their back to the camera . Lewis Carroll was a big fan of Lady Hawarden's work .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Associated Press Reporter . and Nick Fagge . and Tom Kelly . and Ben Spencer . Greek police said today they have arrested a childless couple in Athens on suspicion of buying an eight-month-old Roma girl and trying to register her as their own. The arrest comes amid an international search for the parents of another little girl known as Maria who was found living with unrelated Gypsies in Greece. Bulgarian authorities are now trying to establish whether local Roma woman Sasha Ruseva, 35, is the mother of Maria, a strikingly-fair girl aged 5 or 6. The woman has been tested for a DNA match and served with preliminary charges of child selling, but has not been detained. Gypsy dwelling: A Bulgarian Roma woman in front of a house with a child in the Roma district of the central Bulgarian town of Nikolaevo . Taken? Greek police said today they have arrested a childless couple in Athens - some 600 miles from this Roma Gypsy camp in Bulgaria - on suspicion of buying an eight-month-old Roma girl and trying to register her as their own . In Bulgaria: A Bulgarian Roma girl smiles holding a toddler on her back in a Roma neighborhood of Nikolaevo, where Maria's alleged family are from . The case of Maria has drawn global . attention, playing on the shocking possibility of children being stolen . from their parents and sold. But its handling by media and authorities . raised has concerns of racism toward the European Union's estimated 6 . million Gypsies - a minority long marginalized in most of the continent. The couple arrested in Athens on Wednesday allegedly paid a Roma woman 4,000 euros (£3,400) for the baby, a Greek police statement said. Authorities are looking for the baby's birth parents and potential intermediaries in the alleged transaction. The suspects, aged 53 and 48, were expected to be charged later today with child abduction, which under Greek law can include cases where a minor is voluntarily given away by its parents outside the legal adoption process. The same charges were brought against the couple with whom Maria was found living in a Roma settlement outside Farsala, in central Greece, a week ago. They have been jailed pending trial and are also suspected of fraudulently obtaining birth certificates for a total 14 children. 'Blonde angel': The arrest comes amid an international search for the parents of another little girl known as Maria (left) who was found living with unrelated Gypsies in Greece. Bulgarian authorities are now trying to . establish whether local Roma woman Sasha Ruseva (right), 35, is her mother . A Bulgarian Roma boy eats in front of a house in the Roma district of the central Bulgarian town of Nikolaevo . Concern: The case of Maria has drawn global attention, playing on the shocking possibility of children being stolen from their parents and sold . Charges: The suspects, aged 53 and 48, were expected to be charged later today with child abduction, which under Greek law can include cases where a minor is voluntarily given away by its parents outside the legal adoption process . Scam? Greek authorities are trying to work out whether the children all exist, or whether the alleged document fraud was part of a welfare scam - the couple allegedly received more than 2,500 euros a month in family benefits . Greek authorities are trying to work out whether the children all exist, or whether the alleged document fraud was part of a welfare scam - the couple allegedly received more than 2,500 euros a month in family benefits. They insist they were looking after Maria with their own five children after an informally arranged adoption. The girl was placed into the care of a children's charity and her DNA details were provided to Interpol which has so far failed to match her to any missing children declared in its records, from Poland to the U.S. Informal: The couple in Greece insist they were looking after Maria with their own five children after an informally arranged adoption (pictured: a Roma family in Bulgaria) Charges: The same abduction charges were brought against the couple with whom Maria was found living in this Roma settlement outside Farsala, in central Greece, a week ago . It comes after mother-of-ten Mrs Ruseva, the Bulgarian Roma woman believed to be the real mother of Maria - dubbed the 'blonde angel' - demanded authorities hand her daughter back. Mrs Ruseva, 35, claimed she did not sell Maria, now four, but was forced to leave her daughter with a friend in Greece as a baby because she could not afford the legal documents required to take her home to Bulgaria. But the Daily Mail can reveal that a woman of her name has twice previously been arrested for trying to sell babies in Greece – and on both occasions skipped bail. A DNA test has confirmed Sasha Ruseva a Bulgarian Roma woman is the mother of a mystery girl known as Maria, found living with a couple in Greece . The Mail tracked down Mrs Ruseva, who police believe will be shown by DNA tests to be Maria’s real mother, to an impoverished gypsy camp in Nikolaevo in rural Bulgaria where her family share a one-room home without running water. Her husband Atana Rusev, 37, has an albino gene in his family that may have resulted in Maria’s blonde hair and pale complexion. Five of the couple’s other children are blonde and closely resemble Maria. Mystery has surrounded the identity of the parents of the blue-eyed girl since she was discovered after police raided a Roma gypsy camp in central Greece last week. A couple who posed as her parents for four years to make money from her begging are believed to have bought the child for £850. Maria’s case attracted global attention, with thousands of calls from people who believe they may know her identity. Mrs Ruseva wept yesterday as she insisted: ‘I did not sell Maria, nor did I give her away. For the past four years I have never forgotten Maria. I pray for her every day. I want her back, I want her back.’ Mother-of-ten Sasha Ruseva, 35, whose children are pictured here, claims she did not sell Maria . A woman with the name Sasha Ruseva has twice previously been arrested for trying to sell babies in Greece . Mrs Ruseva, who was just 13 when she had her first child, said she was pregnant with Maria when she went to Greece to work as a field hand on a farm with her husband. She said her eldest daughter remained in Bulgaria to look after her other children but that arrangement stopped when she got married and wanted to move out, forcing Mrs Ruseva to return home. She claimed she could not bring Maria back with her as the Greek authorities required she pay ‘hundreds of euros’ for a birth certificate for her daughter, which she could not afford. She said: ‘I gave birth to Maria about four and a half years ago. I can’t remember the exact date. ‘I cared for Maria for seven months but I had to come back to Bulgaria look after my other children. ‘I left my daughter with my room-mate. She is also Roma. When I left Maria I asked the woman to send  her to Bulgaria. But she hasn’t. I cannot remember her name, it was four years ago. This is the family's one-bedroom home in the impoverished gypsy camp in Nikolaevo in rural Bulgaria . ‘I missed Maria but I don’t have any . money so I did not know what to do. I called the woman several times and . I knew she was safe and well. I don’t know why she kept her so long, . why they did not send her back to me. ‘I . don’t have enough money to call the woman in Greece any more so I . stopped trying to get in touch with her. I didn’t know what was . happening with my child. But I have never stopped wanting her, she is my . own flesh and blood.’ Mrs Ruseva and her husband registered the birth of a child four years ago at a hospital in Lamia, an hour from the Farsala camp where Maria was found. Greek police think Maria may have been sold on by a baby-smuggling gang who offer newborns to childless couples for up to £22,000. It is believed that Maria was sold for a knockdown price because police were moving in on child smugglers in the area. ### SUMMARY:

Couple, aged 53 and 48, allegedly paid a Roma woman 4,000 euros for baby . They are now awaiting charges of child abduction expected later today . Sasha Ruseva claims she did not sell Maria, who is now four years old . Says she was forced to leave daughter with friend in Greece because she could not afford the legal documents to take her back to Bulgaria . But Daily Mail can reveal a woman sharing her name has twice been arrested for trying to sell babies in Greece - and skipped bail both times .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Alan Roden . Scottish soldiers will desert Alex Salmond’s independent army to fight alongside their British comrades if the SNP wins next year’s referendum. A devastating new study which quizzed servicemen has left the Nationalists’ defence blueprint in tatters, concluding that Mr Salmond’s proposals ‘do not withstand serious scrutiny’. For the first time, serving soldiers were asked for their views and ‘a majority – perhaps even a large majority’ would prefer to remain with the British Armed Forces’ because they will see action instead of spending their time in Scotland 'thumb twiddling’. Scroll down for video . Desertion: Troops in Scottish regiments will reject Alex Salmond's independent army, a new report reveals, raising doubts about the future of regiments like the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders pictured on a parade through Port Glasgow Town last month . In one platoon, 30 of the 32 men who returned from Afghanistan earlier this year said they would not join a Scottish defence force (SDF). One soldier was undecided and another admitted he would join the SDF for an easier life, adding: ‘All we’d be doing is checking passports on the M6.’ One officer questioned why a young Scottish man would sign up to ‘sit on the border in Cyprus or Lebanon with a blue beret and no rounds in his rifle’ when he could instead train at Sandhurst and join an elite fighting force. The findings have raised fears of a ‘two-tier’ military structure in Scotland, with the brightest and best youngsters choosing to defend Britain before transferring to the SDF once they are married, have children and want to ‘calm down a bit later in life’. Scotland would also need its own special forces to protect the North Sea oil rigs, but there would be a major recruitment crisis because the job would involve ‘thumb twiddling’. Other findings in the 128-page report from the highly respected Henry Jackson Society include: . The report, launched in Edinburgh today, has been written by defence expert and author George Grant. He has previously provided briefings to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. Latest figures show that Scotland’s notional share of the UK’s defence budget was nearly £3.3billion in 2011-12. The SNP has drawn up plans to spend £2.5billion on a 15,000-strong Scottish military if there is a ‘yes’ vote in next year’s referendum, although it claims this is around £500million more than is currently spent within Scotland’s borders. Check point: The report is a devastating blow to Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, who yesterday launched the official 2014 Ryder Cup Tartan at Lochcarron of Scotland mill in Selkirk, Borders with tournament director Richard Hills . Mr Grant’s report concludes that ‘if one is being objective on this subject, it is almost impossible not to arrive at the conclusion that – as things currently stand – defence policy is one of the SNP’s weak points’. ‘This is not because they have attempted to put forward a fully thought-through defence strategy that nevertheless appears to have some deficiencies, but rather because their strategy appears to be predicated more on how not to alienate voters, than on how to actually defend Scotland.’ He adds: ‘It is the considered conclusion of this report that not only have the SNP failed to answer most questions adequately to date, but that any – if not the majority – of their proposals for defence do not withstand serious scrutiny.’ The SNP wants to keep all of Scotland’s historic Army regiments, but that would require around 14,000 personnel – leaving just 1,000 for an air force and a navy. And one of the major problems would be persuading Scots soldiers to desert the British Armed Forces. One officer told the report’s author: ‘What of the young officer born, raised, and educated in Scotland? He can either join the Paras [British Army Parachute Regiment] or the local Scots regiment. ‘If he chooses the latter, he cannot go to Sandhurst; so he would be going to a new training school in Scotland, with the best hope of going and sitting on the border in Cyprus or Lebanon with a blue beret and no rounds in his rifle. ‘Or he can join the Paras, one of the most recognisable regiments in the world. What’s he going to do? It’s a no brainer; the SDF would be too dead-end and too parochial.’ The officer said the SDF would be staffed by ‘second-class Scots soldiers’. Elite: Scottish troops would prefer to train at Sandhurst in Berkshire (pictured) before fighting on the frontline around the world, instead of joining peacekeeping operations with a Scottish force . Defence experts Professor Sir Hew Strachan told Mr Grant: ‘I can envisage a two-tier military service, where ambitious young Scots join the British Army, and then, once he’s married and got children and wants to calm down a bit later in life, he transfers to the Scottish Army.’ The report outlines potential massive job losses in the shipyards and at the Faslane naval base on the Clyde, where the UK’s Trident nuclear missile system is based. But it also warns of the impact on defence companies. ‘Privately, concerns have been raised about the potential loss of access to the world’s second-largest defence market, and there have been some discussions about the possibility of relocation south of the border in the event of a ‘Yes’ vote in 2014,’ it claims. Criticism: Labour's shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy said the SNP's plans are NP defence plans are 'quarter-baked' ‘One well-placed source told this report . that, following discussions he had had with the board of one of the big . defence companies, ‘they said quite clearly that, if Scotland became . independent, they would move their operation out from near Edinburgh’. The company in question employs several thousand people in Scotland who, . the source said, would consequently lose their jobs.’ Addressing military infrastructure, the study found that the Eurofighter Typhoon would likely be too ‘expensive and complex’ for a separate Scotland, while the ageing Tornado GR4 ‘lacks an air-to-air capability’ and the Hawk trainer is ‘comparatively slow, with no radar and only limited offensive capability’. ‘Therefore, it would be unable to fulfil the air-defence function envisaged by the party,’ the report states. The study also suggests that purchasing four diesel-powered submarines would cost Scotland up to £2.6billion, which is described as ‘prohibitive’. Shadow Defence Secretary Jim Murphy said: ‘It’s official. The SNP defence plans are quarter-baked. ‘There’s a growing army of experts who have shown just how flawed their defence plans are. The defence and security of Scotland’s people and national interests must be the top priority, but all we get from the SNP is political posturing.’ But a spokesman for the Scottish Government said an independent Scotland would have ‘first-class conventional forces which will play a full role in defending the country and cooperating with international partners’. ‘Scotland stands to inherit a fair share of existing UK defence assets, and an annual defence and security budget of £2.5billion would represent an increase of more than £500million on recent UK levels of defence spending in Scotland,’ he said. ‘We have also been clear that we will retain all current defence bases, including Faslane - which will be Scotland’s main conventional naval facility – and our long-term commitment will ensure continued support for jobs and local economies in all the communities around Scotland that are home to military bases.’ ### SUMMARY:

Damning report reveals reluctance of soldiers to join Alex Salmond's army . Officers dismiss Scottish Defence Force as 'too dead-end and parochial' Troops would rather stay in British forces so they can see action . The SNP’s defence strategy is not geared towards defending Scotland, but is designed ‘to help it win the independence referendum’. A separate Scotland would have an ‘Army-centric’ military, when a greater focus on maritime and air defence ‘would be preferable’. Defence firms that employ thousands of Scots could be forced to relocate to England to access the world’s second-largest defence market. Orders for the UK’s Type 26 global combat ship would ‘almost certainly’ be lost, and – in time – ‘most’ of Scotland’s shipyards would close. SNP plans to base Scotland’s navy on the Clyde raise ‘legitimate questions’, given that oil and gas rigs are located almost entirely in the north and east.

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Linda Kelsey . When, early one morning, my partner and I told our 11-year-old son we were going to get married after 15 years together, he excitedly rushed to school and broke the good news to his teachers. Months later, after proudly acting as ring bearer at the register office and delivering the best man speech at our wedding party, Thomas declared it had been the best weekend of his life. So eight years on, in 2007, when my husband Christian walked out, the personal sense of loss and anguish that I felt was accompanied by a profound sense that we had let down our son. I was convinced he would now see love as an illusion, a sham, and that his view of marriage would be skewed for ever. Thomas (right) said that his mother Linda' s wedding to his father Christian was the 'best weekend of his life' My husband believed that if our relationship was to end, it should be when our son was going off to university. He said this would be ‘best’ for Thomas, in so far as he was grown up enough to lead an independent life. I thought it might be the worst of all times, given that it would coincide with him starting to form tentative romantic and sexual relationships. If his own parents — who for a large part of his life, had seemed so loving and happy — could drift apart, what kind of confusing message would that convey to him about the possibility of having a successful marriage as he embarked on an important stage in his life? New research from The Marriage Foundation — which suggests that half of today’s 20-year-olds will never marry — reminded me of all this. It may have come as a shock to the researchers, but it is no surprise to me. Given that 42 per cent of marriages will end in divorce, my generation — and the generation of 40-somethings behind me — haven’t exactly been good role models. Growing up in the 50s and 60s, I can’t recall a single divorced couple among my parents’ friends. My own mother and father, who were always companionable and affectionate, were married for 60 years before my dad died. Bad example? Linda, who has been divorced twice, with her son Thomas, 26 . My assumption then, based on example and expectations within society, was that love led to marriage and that marriage was for eternity. My own brutal awakening was a disastrous first marriage that began when I was 19 and ended six years later when I realised we were incompatible in every way. Although I was shaken by this break-up, I was still able to look at my parents’ wonderful example of long-lasting love and believe in its possibility. Sadly, my son and his generation have far fewer such examples to hang on to. Now 26, Thomas is still single and house-sharing with friends. And, as for most of his generation, marriage is currently the last thing on his mind. He doesn’t describe himself or his friends as commitment-phobic, as such, but he does regard himself as one of the ‘wary generation’. Happier times: Linda with her ex-husband Christian . So many of his pals’ parents are divorced too that he knows, however loving a relationship, it may not last. On the one hand, it saddens me that his eyes are as wide open to the possibility of failure as they are to success. On the other, I think it’s no bad thing if romantic aspirations are tempered by pragmatism rather than fuelled by fairytales with a ‘happy ever after’. Last week’s report points to a general decline in marriage and a dramatic fall in the wedded state among those in their 20s. In 1970, the peak year for marriage, 564,818 men and women aged 25 tied the knot. In 2010, just 56,598 did — a 90 per cent drop. It’s astonishing that there’s been such a shift in so short a time. But today’s 20-somethings are just reacting to what they’ve seen from us parents. A few years ago, I was editor of a glossy wedding magazine, and we decided to take a stand at a wedding fair. Unlike the other enterprises, selling favours, frocks, flowers and cakes, we had nothing much to offer beyond magazine subscriptions. So we opted to offer emotional support from our agony aunt. Dozens of girls queued for our stand and most ended up in tears as they talked, fortified with a glass of wine. The number one stress factor, it turned out, was warring divorced parents and arguments about whether new partners should be invited or banned, who would be allowed to sit at the top table and in a couple of cases whether stepdad or real dad — or mum — should take the bride down the aisle. Many brides-to-be said it was causing problems with the families and rows with their boyfriends, too, and they were thinking of calling the whole thing off. 9.7 per cent of the adult Welsh population are divorced - that's higher than in Northern Ireland, England or Scotland . No wonder they were reluctant to marry. Of course, parental divorce is not entirely to blame. The acceptability of sex before marriage has made the teens and 20s a time for freedom, experimentation and fun rather than settling down for life. And girls’ desire for babies is often put on hold until careers have taken off. Perhaps the biggest stumbling block for 20-somethings is economic. Some 3.3 million youngsters aged between 20 and 34 — nearly a quarter — still live with their parents. They can’t afford to get married, even if they want to. For those who do manage to set up home with a boyfriend or girlfriend, living together is no longer simply a prelude to marriage, it’s an alternative to it. Student debt and high house prices mean saving for a deposit, rather than a wedding, is the priority. When the daughter of a friend rang her mum to say she had exciting news about her and her boyfriend — with whom she had been renting a flat for two years — my friend assumed she was about to announce her engagement. ‘I’m SO SO happy,’ her daughter gushed down the phone. ‘Ben has asked me to buy a flat with him. He’s inherited a bit of money and I’ve saved a few thousand. Isn’t it wonderful?’ Thomas has told Linda that his family still means a lot to him . Marriage wasn’t even mentioned. That seems to tie in with my son’s thinking. Thomas says marriage is not high on his list of what he believes constitutes commitment. He explained: ‘Commitment is living together. It’s buying  a home together. Or having a child together. For me a wedding seems more like a big public performance than anything else.’ I can’t reverse the fact I’ve had two divorces. Nor can I undo the effect of those marriage failures on my son. So I’ve tried to mitigate the impact by remaining on civil terms with his dad and not burdening Thomas with our hurts and resentments. Last Christmas, for example, Thomas was torn between coming to me for a Christmas feast with my sister, her family and close friends, or joining his dad, who was going to be on his own. So I invited his dad to join us, which he did. Thomas tells me family still means a lot to him. He gets on well with Ron, my partner of the last few years, and Ron’s two daughters. I make a point of fixing extended family gatherings, and at every opportunity mixing up the generations. Thomas always seems happy to join in. I’ve told Thomas that Ron has asked me to marry him but I have turned him down, because, although I intend to stay with Ron for the rest of my life, I do not want to make that very public commitment for a third time. Thomas simply smiled and nodded knowingly, but I think he may be relieved that, having witnessed his parents’  wedding, he doesn’t have to witness another ceremony. I may not have been a good role model for marriage, but hope I’ve tried to show love and forgiveness. Whether or not Thomas ultimately marries is a decision for him and any future partner. I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t shed a tear of happiness to see him walking down the aisle. But, sadly, I have to admit that I’d be a hypocrite if I were ever to suggest it. ### SUMMARY:

Linda Kelsey's son Thomas was delighted when she married his father, yet eight years later they were divorced . She had previously had a disastrous six year marriage . Now she worries her example is putting Thomas off walking down the aisle . 42 per cent of marriages now end in divorce .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Jeremy and Christine Moody admitted to killing Marvin and Gretchen Parker in July 2013 and the Moodys were sentenced today . The Moodys said that they targeted Marvin Parker, 59, because he was a registered sex offender and his wife, 51, was 'a casualty of war' 'Killing that paedophile was the best day of my life,' Christine said as she left . 'See you perverts later,' Jeremy shouted at victim's family as he walked out . Told police that they had a second sex offender target in mind . Are self-proclaimed skinheads and proud members of a local white supremacist group in South Carolina . Sheriff said that Jeremy Moody shot both victims and Christine Moody slit the wife's throat . By . Meghan Keneally . A white supremacist couple in North Carolina have been sentenced to consecutive life sentences after killing a registered sex offender and his wife. Jeremy Lee Moody and Christine Moody admitted to purposefully targeting and killing a couple in July of last year. The couple admitted to killing Marvin Parker, 59, and his wife Gretchen Dawn Parker, 51, and said that they chose their victims because he was a registered sex offender. Scroll down for video . Horrific: Jeremy and Christine Moody (seen in court today) admitted to killing a sex offender and his wife and though they are self-proclaimed 'skinheads' they say that the local white supremacist group that they are affiliated with did not have a role in the murders . Appalling: The couple said later after the sentencing that they had a second sex offender target in mind and added that the female victim was 'a casualty of war' since they really wanted to kill her sex offender husband . Delusions: Jeremy Moody's lawyer said that at the time of the slaying, he 'felt he was the right hand of God' Acted alone: Though they had personal connections to a local supremacist group, Crew 41, which the Southern Poverty Law Center notes has a history of targeting sex offenders, the Moodys claimed that the Parkers murder had nothing to do with the group. Pictured are Jeremy and Christine Moody's mugshots from their July arrests in Union County . They were unrepentant at the sentencing on Tuesday and even kissed after being sentenced to two consecutive life sentences each. Initially, Jeremy and Christine Moody apologised to the judge and asked for a 30-year sentence so they could see their children and grow old together. But after Union County Judge Lee Alford handed down the maximum punishment, they showed how they really felt. 'See you perverts later,' Jeremy Moody shouted at Charles Parker's family as he walked out of court. 'That's what child molesters get.' 'They got exactly what they deserve,' Jeremy also told reporter. 'Had to do it over again, I'd kill more.' 'I think Jeremy and I would have done it again if given the opportunity,' Christine Moody said to reporters. 'I have no regrets. Killing that pedophile was the best day of my life.' If authorities had not acted fast enough, they may have: Christine Moody said that they had another sex offender in mind as their third victim but were caught in connection to the Parker killings before they could strike again. The Moodys plead guilty to murder, kidnapping, burglary and firearm possession. Though they had personal connections to a local supremacist group, Crew 41, which the Southern Poverty Law Center notes has a history of targeting sex offenders, the Moodys claimed that the Parkers murder had nothing to do with the group. Happy for themselves: The couple smiled and kissed one another as they were awarded consecutive life sentences in a Union County, South Carolina court on Tuesday for the July murder of Marvin and Gretchen Parker . Medical conditions: Jeremy Moody's lawyer says he is bipolar and schizophrenic (left) while Christine Moody is said to have PTSD and borderline personality disorder (right) Union County Sheriff David Taylor told the SPLC that Jeremy shot both of the victims while Christine slit the wife's throat after they told Parker and his wife exactly why they were going to kill them. A surveillance camera on Parker's land caught them leaving, and deputies recognised Jeremy Moody from the word 'skinhead' tattooed on his neck and the 'Made in America' tattoo on the side of his head. Lawyers said both defendants were sexually abused as children and that made them want revenge against the type of people who hurt them. They believed they had a divine assignment to kill all sex offenders, said psychologist Harold Morgan, who analyzed Jeremy Moody. After he was arrested, Jeremy Moody directed investigators to a sheet of paper in his home. He wrote the name and address of another sex offender, telling police he was going to kill that person the next day if he had not been arrested. The Parkers were killed on a Sunday and he planned the next murder for that Wednesday. Brackett said the Moodys had no right to act as a judge and a jury after Parker had already served a sentence for taking advantage of a disabled woman. 'I'm going to tell you, she's cold as hell,' Sheriff Taylor said of Christine Moody. 'She wants to get the glory.' Crew 41 is believed to be a loosely . associated group that connects largely online, but they had their first . meet-and-greet scheduled for August in Nebraska, and the Moodys . apparently planned to attend after the July 21 double murder. Sheriff . Taylor went on to explain that Christine Moody, who was 36-years-old at . the time of the murder, said that Gretchen Parker 'was a casualty of . war'. Target: Marvin Charles Parker (left) and his wife Gretchen Dawn Parker (right) were killed in their home in July and the Moodys said Marvin's sex offender status is what led them to target him . Outside of reading the 69th Psalm from the Bible and letters from their church members, the couple showed little remorse. They smiled and looked longingly at each other during the hearing. Jeremy . Moody smirked as members of the Parker family asked the judge for the . maximum sentence. When the judge asked Christina Moody the standard . question of whether anyone offered her anything for plea, she answered . 'just fame and fortune.' The couple told authorities they had killed others, but investigators found no evidence of other crimes, Brackett said. Defense . lawyers pointed out Christine Moody was a breast cancer survivor who . underwent a double mastectomy four years ago and Jeremy Moody suffered . from schizophrenia and was not on his medicine when the killings took . place. When Moody, who was 30 at the time of the . murder, does not take his prescribed medication, he suffers from . paranoia and delusions, according to his attorney Harry Dest. Christine Moody has her own share of . medical conditions, in addition to cancer she has borderline . personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and antisocial . personality disorder. Parker's family . didn't hear Jeremy Moody call them perverts because they were already . being taken out of the courtroom. They shrugged off his words outside. 'He . got what he deserved. He would kill again if he was let out,' said . Charles Parker's sister Brenda Franklin. 'He can say whatever he wants. He's dying in prison.' In this particular instance, Moody believed that he was acting as 'the right hand of God'. According to the local Fox station, Charles Parker was listed as a registered sex offender after being convicted in 2003 of third-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a 31-year-old woman and was also convicted in a sexual assault case involving a child in 1991. ### SUMMARY:

Jeremy and Christine Moody admitted to killing Marvin and Gretchen Parker in July 2013 and the Moodys were sentenced today . The Moodys said that they targeted Marvin Parker, 59, because he was a registered sex offender and his wife, 51, was 'a casualty of war' 'Killing that paedophile was the best day of my life,' Christine said as she left . 'See you perverts later,' Jeremy shouted at victim's family as he walked out . Told police that they had a second sex offender target in mind . Are self-proclaimed skinheads and proud members of a local white supremacist group in South Carolina . Sheriff said that Jeremy Moody shot both victims and Christine Moody slit the wife's throat .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Kevin Pietersen’s much anticipated autobiography is published on Monday and English cricket waits to see the extent of his score-settling at the end of a chequered international career. Yet KP seems intent on avoiding difficult questioning, with no press conference planned for the cricketing media and one-on-one interviews being refused, even to the likes of respected BBC correspondent Jonathan Agnew. Here, cricket correspondent Paul Newman asks the questions that, with respect to Graham Norton and the presenters of Blue Peter, he is unlikely to face. Why have you fallen out throughout your career with significant people wherever you have played — a pattern that began in your native South Africa, carried on in English club cricket with Cannock and continued at Nottinghamshire, Hampshire and, it is suggested now, Surrey? Most significantly, of course, there is England. Andy Flower, Alastair Cook, Andrew Strauss, Peter Moores and Matt Prior, to name but five, are all good, team-oriented people who have the best interests of English cricket very much in their hearts. Can they all be wrong and you be right? Why is it always you? Kevin Pietersen’s autobiography is published on Monday and English cricket eagerly awaits its release . English cricket is waiting to see the extent of his score-settling at the end of a chequered international career . And just what has happened at Surrey? The bottom line is that you have been released and there is very little prospect of you playing at The Oval next year. Yet a magnificent piece of spinning in a Pietersen-friendly paper last week suggested that it is all a ploy to dash the hopes of the bad old ECB to fine you. Pull the other one, Kevin. If you had scored more runs or shown any enthusiasm for county cricket, maybe played the odd first-class match, your argument that you want to play for England again would have some substance. As it is, it seems even your old mentor Graham Ford has been frustrated at your lack of desire to work at your batting this year. And what about the suggestion that you have somehow won the ‘PR battle’ this season? If so, why did large sections of the sell-out crowd at Edgbaston for Twenty20 finals day roundly boo you while treating your old adversary Andrew Flintoff, for instance, as a returning hero? More pertinently, Cook has had complete support at every ground he has played throughout the summer, most notably at the Ageas Bowl where he received standing ovations when he went out to bat and when he was undefeated in the 40s at lunch. Yes, there was sympathy in January at the way it all ended for a player who touched greatness but that was quickly dissipated by your willingness to allow Piers Morgan to be your mouthpiece. You sitting there with Morgan at Lord’s while he tweeted about Cook being ‘a weasel’ was a low point. Pietersen has been released and there is very little prospect of him playing at The Oval next year . Pietersen bats for Surrey during a T20 Blast match against Essex Eagles at The Oval in June 2014 . Sportsmail revealed Pietersen sent derogatory messages to South African opponents about Andrew Strauss . The biggest question, of course, is Sportsmail’s revelation from 2012 that you sent derogatory messages to South African opponents about your captain Andrew Strauss. Why on earth did you do that? And why, if they were just ‘banter’ between old friends, have you consistently refused to show them to the ECB ever since or properly to apologise for your actions? That really should have been the end of the road with England for you, we all know that now, but then we would have been denied your incredible century in Mumbai that went a long way towards securing an historic series win in India. That’s the thing, you see Kevin, there’s always that contradiction and frustration with you. Your relationship with England fell apart during that 2012 summer and your behaviour during and after the Headingley Test was bizarre to say the least. You went out of your way to mix with the South Africans on the field in training and at intervals rather than your team-mates. You did not acknowledge the applause from the England dressing room when you scored a century — another world-class knock, by the way — and then there was the dressing room incident involving James Taylor. A glum-looking Pietersen has been a controversial figure for England on and off the cricket pitch . What did you say behind his back that so annoyed your team-mates? Why did you say ‘it’s tough being me’ after that game? And while we are at it what did you say about Michael Carberry behind his back in the Sydney dressing room as England crumbled to that 5-0 Ashes thrashing? You had a horrible habit of undermining inexperienced team-mates when the going got tough. It is widely understood that Cook played a huge part in convincing the ECB to take you back after the text scandal but what is not as well documented is that it was mainly Flower who persuaded England to give you another chance. Pietersen has had a chequered international past and his autobiography may include a spot of score-settling . Pietersen had his feuds with Andy Flower, Alastair Cook, Andrew Strauss, Peter Moores and Matt Prior . Are you really going to make Flower the No 1 target in your book after all he did for you — and more importantly, for England? You wanted him sacked along with Moores in 2008, a move that was to catastrophically backfire. Why did you feel so strongly that Moores and Flower had to go? Flower still worked with you and managed you after that and then agreed to have you back in 2012 even though he felt personally let down by your betrayal of Strauss. It is difficult to see how he has wronged you. Let’s go back to one of the most controversial episodes in recent cricket history, the Allen Stanford affair. To be fair, you conducted yourself as England captain as well as could be hoped as the team were effectively hired out to a crooked Texan. Much was made of the winner-takes-all aspect of the week in Antigua and we all know the England players won nothing while the Stanford team walked off with a million dollars each. It is not as well documented that Flower (right) persuaded England to give Pietersen another chance . Pietersen wanted Flower sacked along with Peter Moores (left) in 2008, a move that backfired catastrophically . But did you have a separate agreement with Stanford to promote the whole tawdry business? If so, did you hand back the money once it was found to be ill-gotten gains by Stanford? What did you think when Graeme Swann said in his autobiography that you were never the right man to captain England? And did you really think Swann and other England players like Stuart Broad were involved in that fake ‘KP genius’ Twitter account that seemed to offend you so much. What about when Swann said, after his retirement in Australia, that ‘some players are up their own backside’ and show a lack of humility? ‘It will bite them on the a*** one day and when it does I hope they are embarrassed about how they carry on,’ Swann said about the unnamed player or players. Who do you think he was talking about? Finally Kevin, why did you walk out of that last meeting with Cook and Paul Downton when they told you about your deselection, rather than hang around to hear the reasons and talk it through? Cook wanted to have a full discussion on where it had all gone wrong but you did not give him a chance, instead getting your mate Morgan to suggest Cook wouldn’t front up. The same cheerleader later misinterpreted the pivotal Melbourne team meeting and made groundless accusations about Matt Prior attacking Flower when you know he did nothing of the sort. Confidentiality agreement, anyone? The fact is your departure has been horrible and nasty. There’s only one person to blame for that, Kevin. It’s not Flower, Cook, Strauss, Prior, Downton, Swann, Moores, Hugh Morris, Ali Bacher, Jason Gallian or anyone at Hampshire and Surrey. It’s you. Alastair Cook (right) wanted to discuss where it went wrong with Pietersen, but he refused to do so . ### SUMMARY:

Kevin Pietersen releases his autobiography on Monday and English cricket eagerly wants to know if any burning questions will finally be answered . KP has been avoiding difficult questioning with no press conferences for cricketing media and one-on-one interviews being refused . Pietersen has fallen out with significant people wherever he has played . Can Andy Flower, Alastair Cook, Andrew Strauss, Peter Moores and Matt Prior - to name just five - be wrong about Pietersen?

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Detective Hercule Poirot is set to make a triumphant return in a new thriller - almost four decades after he last featured in an Agatha Christie novel. The Monogram Murders is to be written by poet and crime novelist Sophie Hannah and is set for release on September 8. The publication comes almost 39 years after the last Poirot novel Curtain - which was published in September 1975. Hercule Poirot, pictured here played by actor David Suchet, will return in a new thriller novel called The Monogram Murders. It will be written by crime novelist Sophie Hannah and published on September 8 . Hugh Fraser, David Suchet and Philip Jackson star in The Mysterious Affair At Styles - published by Christie in 1920. The prolific author's family have backed the latest novel - which will be released in 29 languages . The detective, who was famous for his reliance on his 'the little grey cells' for solving crimes, was  killed off in the book - but Ms Hannah is said to be avoiding this creative set-back by setting her story early in Poirot's career. The Monogram Murders will be told from the perspective of a new character - a policeman - who knows Poirot and asks for his involvement in the case. Other famous Christie characters will make cameo appearances in the book - which will be published in 29 languages in 50 countries. The novelist has today said writing the book, which comes four decades after Agatha Christie's last novel Sleeping, was a great honour. Novelist and Poirot fan Sophie Hannah (left) said writing the book was 'extraordinary'. Her novel Kind Of Cruel (right) was nominated for Crime Thriller of the Year in 2013 . She added she had read scores of Chrisitie's previous works in preparation for the book. Sophie Hannah said: 'As a huge fan of Agatha Christie, it has been an extraordinary experience revisiting all of her magnificent novels and creating a Poirot mystery of my own. I cannot tell you how thrilled I am to be part of this story.' Ms Hannah says she was asked to write the book after a lunch with her editor - who knew Christie's publishers HarperCollins were taking on contemporary novelists to re-write other classic novels. Born in Manchester, Ms Hannah lives in Cambridge with her husband and two children. She was a Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge between 1999 and 2001. She was also a junior research fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, before embarking on a career as a writer. Although Ms Hannah has written scores of poems and children's books, she is best know for her eight crime novels - some of which have been adapted for television. Her 2008 novel The Point of Rescue was transformed into two-part drama Case Sensitive - shown on ITV. Her novel Kind of Cruel was shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards Crime Thriller of the Year in 2013. She is also expected to publish another novel this year calling The Telling Error. In an interview with the Western Daily Press, she said: 'My agent knew that HarperCollins was Agatha Christie's publisher and suggested that if they were doing that sort of thing, they should get Sophie Hannah to write an Agatha Christie novel'. Ms Hannah then met with the author's family - who have since backed the project. Speaking about meeting Christie's family, she said: 'Well, actually when I met them, I didn't think it was going to happen, so I wasn't that daunted. 'I felt daunted when they liked it and thought, "Yikes! Now I actually have to do this!"' Christie's grandson Matthew Prichard said: 'Agatha Christie would have been really honoured at the thought of so many people around the world enjoying a new Poirot story and I am certain that all those who read Sophie Hannah’s novel will be reminded of the ingenious character my grandmother created.' Hilary Strong, MD, Acorn Productions, which manages the rights to the Agatha Christie estate added: 'As we continue to build the Christie brand globally we are delighted to be working with HarperCollins and our publishing partners around the world to make this a truly memorable publishing event.' Belgium Poirot is one of the most famous literary detectives in history - appearing in 33 novels, over 50 short stories and two plays between 1920 and 1975. He is also one of Christie's most famous and loved characters - appearing in numerous screen adaptations, portrayed by several well-respected actors. David Suchet is perhaps the most famous example - playing the detective in television series Agatha Christie's Poirot between 1989 and 2013. Agatha Christie, left, with actress Margaret Lockwood in 1976. She wrote her last Poirot novel - Curtain - in September 1975 shortly before her death in 1976 . Born in Manchester, Ms Hannah lives in Cambridge with her husband and two children. She was a Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge and a junior research fellow in Oxford. She is best know for her eight crime novels - some of which have been adapted for television. Her 2008 novel The Point of Rescue, for example, was transformed into two-part drama Case Sensitive - shown on ITV. Her novel Kind of Cruel was shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards Crime Thriller of the Year in 2013. She is also expected to publish another novel this year calling The Telling Error. David Suchet in How Does Your Garden Grow, a show from the Third Series of the ITV programme . Fictional Belgian detective Hercule Poirot was created by Agatha Christie, making his first appearance in novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles - published in 1920. He made his exit in Curtain, published in 1975, dying from heart complications. His passing saw him gain an obituary on the front page of the New York Times. Between 1920 and 1975, he appeared in 33 novels, 50 short stories and two plays named Black Coffee and Alibi. The character has been adapted from film, television and radio and has been played by scores of actors - including Tony Randall, David Suchet and John Moffatt. The first actor to portray the detective was Charles Laughton in 1928 in the play Alibi. It was an adaptation by Michael Morton from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Austin Trevor played the character in the screen production of the show a few years later. David Suchet is quite possibly the most famous Poirot, starring in the ITV series from 1989 to June 2013 - when he said he was leaving the role. Aptly, his last appearance was in an adaptation of final novel Curtain: Poirot's Last Case. It aired on 13 November 2013. In An Autobiography, Christie sites Arthur Conan Doyle as a major inspiration, saying: 'I was still writing in the Sherlock Holmes tradition – eccentric detective, stooge assistant. Christie is said to have not particularly enjoyed writing the character. In 1930, she said she found Poirot 'insufferable'. OTHER NOVELS WRITTEN AFTER THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR . Poirot is not the only character to be reborn following an author's death. Famously, scores of James Bond novels have been written following the death of Ian Fleming - including John Gardner's Licence to Kill and GoldenEye. The author wrote 16 Bond novels following the original author's death in 1964. Contemporary novelist Sebastian Faulks was commissioned to write a new Bond novel to mark the 100th anniversary of Fleming's birth. Devil May Care was published by Penguin Books and was released on 28 May 2008 . Solo, written by William Boyd was published in 2013. Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes featured in four novels and 56 short stories - but the character has also been adapted for screen, television and radio on scores of occasions since. ### SUMMARY:

Hercule Poirot to make a comeback in thriller The Monogram Murders . Is first novel featuring the detective since Curtain - published 39 years ago . Will be written by crime novelist Sophie Hannah and released in September . Agatha Christie's infamous character has featured in 33 novels since 1920 .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: You've probably seen the hands of Ashly Covington countless times before, and assumed they belonged to the likes of Adriana Lima, Brooke Shields or Charlize Theron, for example. In fact, Miss Covington is the woman crouching just under the camera frame in a contorted position, her perfectly manicured hands spread across the model's face, or lurking suggestively onto her bottom lip. 'I’ve had to stick my fingers in model's mouths for countless beauty product shots,' Miss Covington, 37, tells MailOnline. 'Sometimes it's creepy, sometimes it's hilarious.' Scroll down for video . Hands off! Ashly Covington (left) is a professional hand model who has built a lucrative 14-year career by leasing out her perfect mitts for TV and print commercials . Blink and you'll miss it, but Miss Covington's hands have replaced those of Ms Lima in Maybelline commercials, Ms Theron on a Dior J'adore fragrance spot, and Brooke Shields for Colgate. Not to mention the pages of every magazine you've ever heard of, and for brands including Clinique, Canon, Gillette, Sephora and Rolex. Miss Covington has built a lucrative 14-year full-time career out of leasing her hands. Based in Old Church, Virginia, but with accommodation in Los Angeles and New York, she has at times flown cross-country several times in one week, and has an agent in almost every major city on the East Coast. Messy work: Miss Covington's hands have appeared in countless major print campaigns (left), editorials (right) and TV commercials . Wound up: No two job is ever the same, and Miss Covington has had to make friends with hundreds of unusual co-stars over the years - this snake for example (pictured) Keeping her hands in tip-top condition, ready to rush to a last-minute job at any hour of the day, is no mean feat. 'I'm always almost wearing gloves and I have to adopt certain habits for everything I do,' she says. 'How I open a car door, how I pick up a box, even where my hands swing when I'm walking down the street. 'I've had accidents with all three of those types of situations that have lost me work in the past!' Perks: Based in Virginia, but with accommodation in Los Angleles and New York, she flies cross-country several times a week, and has an agent in almost every major city on the East Coast . Bling: Keeping her hands in tip-top condition, ready to rush to a last-minute job at any hour of the day, is no easy task. Pictured (left and right) Miss Covington's hands on the faces of models . Miss Covington's hands were first discovered while she working as a waitress, soon after she finished college in Virginia, where she had studied theater. 'An agent flipped over them,' she recalls. 'She insisted I stop biting my nails and then took me for my very first manicure.' Soon, she was building a strong portfolio of 'hand jobs' as she fondly refers to them, and before she knew it, it was her full-time profession. 'I'm lucky,' she says. 'Hand modeling has afforded me the time to explore my love of photography. 'My dad gave me my first camera when I was five, and I used to dress up my long-suffering cats and photograph them in amusing poses. 'How I - or the cats - didn't destroy my hands is a mystery.' Clench: 'It’s very important that I can hold [props] without shaking or showing signs of strain,' she says. 'My wrists must be veinless!' Blink and you'll miss it: Miss Covington's hand (right) in a Maybelline commercial starring Adriana Lima (left) Here I am again! Miss Covington poses in a supermarket with a Hamilton Beach product that bears her hands on the packaging, a frequent occurrence . Surprisingly, Miss Covington has a cat even now. 'I never thought I could risk it but Lily was a street rescue. She promised she wouldn't hurt my hands and she never has.' The jobs Miss Covington gets booked for vary in scope enormously; from two-hour shoots to 18-hour marathons with huge pythons wrapped around her arms, or caressing the torsos of male models. One of her more memorable encounters with a man was a job she shot with comedian Andy Sandberg. 'I had my arm slithering up his tuxedo shirt sleeve and my hand on his face,' she recalls. 'It seems like an easy job. Until you try it.' Precious: Miss Covington has to consider every move she makes. 'How I open a car door, how I pick up a box, even where my hands swing when I'm walking down the street,' she says . Precautions: Miss Covington, a photography enthusiast herself, wears sunglasses in the studio to protect against the bright lights (left) and all but her hands are hidden (right) Fell into it: Miss Covington's hands were first discovered while she working as a waitress, by an agent who snapped her up, and sparked her long and successful career . Miss Covington spent many of her earlier years sitting in front of a mirror and practicing positions. 'You have to have steady hands, and you have to be able to repeat small motions over and over with perfect precision.' Take a pizza commercial for example. A crew will spend hours painstakingly choreographing what will turn out to be a three-second shot. 'So in I come, the rest of my body at a bizarre angle so it's hidden out of the way, and then I wait for the crew to call action,' she explains. 'Then I smoothly pick up the slice of pizza - again and again - until that cheese stretch is the best cheese stretch in the history of cheese stretches.' Patience: 'You have to have steady hands, and you have to be able to repeat small motions over and over with perfect precision,' Miss Covington explains . Dedication: She spent many of her earlier years sitting in front of a mirror and practicing positions . How it's done: 'Extra virgin olive oil is my not-so-secret weapon,' she says. 'I carry it with me and slather it on under my gloves wherever I go' Miss Covington suspects a lot of her success is down to her patience, practice and the speed with which she can get the shot perfect. 'One job I did for Miller Lite required me to push six beer bottles across the table and have them spin so the label stopped in front of the camera,' she says. 'My body was out of the shot and the set-up meant I couldn't even see my hands. But I practiced it enough times before the shoot that, incredibly, I nailed it on the first take.' In addition to leading most of her life wearing gloves and avoiding - at all costs - breaking a nail, moisturizing is key in keeping Miss Covington's hands camera-ready. 'Extra virgin olive oil is my not-so-secret weapon. I carry it with me and slather it on under my gloves wherever I go,' she reveals. The face behind the hands! Miss Covington (pictured) is also a professional photographer . 'That, and a soap line I discovered called Pure Harmony. It's the best soap I have ever found for nourishing my skin and keeping it squeaky clean.' Finally, she works out and keeps her arms fit. 'It’s very important so that I can hold products with my arm outstretched - think Warrior Pose for hours on end - without shaking or showing signs of strain,' she says. 'My wrists must be veinless!' She may have fallen into this unusual career by chance, but did Miss Covington always know she had nice hands, even growing up? 'Not at all,' she remarks. 'I do remember my grandmother's hands though. 'She had beautiful long fingers and her nails were always perfectly polished with a dark red. 'After I was booked on my first job, I called my mom to tell her and she laughed. 'Turns out my grandmother was a hand model for typewriters in the 1930's. 'I'm a legacy hand model and just never knew it.' ### SUMMARY:

Ashly Covington has been a full-time professional hand model for 14 years . To protect her prized extremities off the job, Miss Covington is almost always wearing gloves . She has posed as the hands of Adriana Lima, Brooke Shields and Charlize Theron, for clients including Dior, Maybelline, Rolex and Sephora .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: The sister of a glamour model who was brutally murdered by her husband has died after turning to alcohol to help her cope with the loss. Hayley Wilkinson, 31, from Whoberley, Coventry, struggled with the pain of losing her beloved younger sister five years ago and died from poor health after turning to drink. Her heartbroken mother Catherine Bloomfield said her daughter started drinking heavily after her sister Kirsty, 24, was strangled by her lorry driver husband Paul Grabham in March 2009. Hayley Wilkinson, 31, from Whoberley, Coventry, struggled with the pain of losing her beloved younger sister . Hayley (left) turned to alcohol after her sister Kirsty (right) was brutally murdered five years ago by her husband following a violent vow. Their mother Catherine (centre) said she 'could not believe' she had lost both daughters . The 58-year-old, of Bridgend, South Wales, said: 'Grabham has got the blood of both my daughters on his hands. Hayley would still be here if her little sister hadn't been taken away. 'I just cannot believe what has happened - losing one child was bad enough. 'Kirsty's death was awful. You can't even comprehend it. You think you could predict the heartache but you couldn't come close. 'I just think if there was a God why does he let this sort of thing happen? I think to myself what have I ever done in my life to deserve this?' Grabham, 29, is currently serving a life sentence for murdering Kirsty after a row at their home in Swansea, South Wales. Kirsty was working part-time as a glamour model and in the entertainment business when she was strangled to death by Grabham. He later attempted to chop her body in half before stuffing it in a suitcase and dumping it at the side of the M4 motorway near Bridgend. The body was discovered by a lorry driver less than a week later. Hayley (left) had struggled to cope with the death of her younger sister (right) and started drinking to excess . Catherine Wilkinson (pictured left with her daughter Hayley and right with Kirsty) said Grabham had the 'blood of both her daughters on his hands' after her eldest daughter died after failing to cope with her sister's death . Kirsty's sister Hayley was in court for Grabham's trial and was forced to relive the final moments of her sister's life. After the trial, she moved to Coventry to try and get away from the painful memories. Ms Wilkinson said: 'She loved life, she was always giggling and didn't have a bad bone in her body. 'She was nice to everybody and she never ran anybody down. Hayley took people at face value.' However, she said her daughter turned to alcohol after failing to cope with her sister's death and died on October 11 due to alcohol-related causes and under-lying health problems. She said: 'She started to drink to excess five years ago. She had just lost her little sister and she couldn't cope. Hayley, who had a daughter, died on October 11 . 'Hayley would never have drank to the extent that she did if her little sister had still been here. 'The drink took over everything. It stopped her going out. She just sat on her own in her house. 'She never really had anyone for her in Coventry. She was basically on her own. 'Five years of drinking led to her death. She wasn't eating either, she was just drinking. 'I want to help people that have drink problems. Maybe they will look at Hayley and see what has happened to her and seek help. 'I honestly don't know what I could have done differently. Maybe I'd have locked her in her room, anything to protect her. 'I did try to get her help. I tried everything to help her but Hayley marched to her own tune and she was her own person. 'She thought she was invincible. She never thought for a second that this would happen.' Hayley's funeral was held at Canley Crematorium in Coventry on October 17 and was attended by dozens of friends and family, including her young daughter who she hadn't seen for a number of years. Ms Wilkinson said: 'She had been searching for her little girl and she turned up. It was Hayley's dying wish to see her to see her little girl and she never got that. 'She had a lovely turnout for her funeral considering it all happened so quickly. 'It was beautiful. I asked everybody to wear something purple because it was Hayley's favourite colour.' Paul Grabham, 26, of Swansea, South Wales, murdered wife Kirsty, 24, after a violent drink and drug-fuelled row at their city flat in March 2009. He strangled her to death before attempting to chop her body in half, hiding it in a suitcase and dumping it beside the M4 near Bridgend. It was found nearly a week after she was last seen by a lorry driver. A Swansea Crown Court jury took just five hours to find Grabham unanimously guilty of her murder at the end of a 15-day trial. The judge, Mr Justice Butterfield, angrily threatened to clear the court after family and friends of the victim shouted in triumph as the verdict was delivered. He jailed Grabham for life with a recommendation that he serve a minimum term of 19 years in prison. Paul Grabham (right) strangled his wife Kirsty and stuffed her body in a suitcase after a violent drink and drug-fuelled row in 2009. He was jailed for life after her body was found dumped next to the M4 in Wales . Passing sentence, Mr Justice Butterfield told Grabham that his actions had been 'cold and calculated' and without remorse. 'I have watched throughout this trial for the merest flicker of remorse in your eyes and I have seen none,' he told him. He added: 'You have been convicted of murder - just one year after you promised to love and cherish your new bride, you battered and strangled her to death. 'It was a vicious and sustained attack fuelled by drink and drugs that you had taken and it is without doubt that your intention was to kill her. 'But she was not to have, even in death, the decency and dignity to which, undoubtedly, she was entitled. 'You crammed her bleeding and still warm body into a suitcase like so much rubbish, hoping it would not be found for many years.' Grabham shoved his wife's battered body in a suitcase before dumping it by the side of the M4 in Bridgend . During the trial, Grabham insisted he had had nothing to do with his wife's violent murder. Despite evidence from neighbours detailing a violent two-hour argument they heard the couple having, he claimed it had never happened. Grabham returned early to the couple's flat on March 27 2009 after arguing with his wife at a Swansea nightclub. His wife came home in the early hours of the next day and was never seen again. Confronted with evidence showing her blood on his shoes and jeans and the walls and ceiling of their home, Grabham said he had no explanation for it. Asked why he had painted over areas of the walls and ceiling stained by his wife's blood, he simply said he had not. He maintained that he had come home drunk and was asleep on the sofa when his wife returned and left, never to be seen again. Kirsty was strangled to death by Grabham at their Swansea flat (pictured) in March 2009 following a row . When he got up the next day he surfed an online 'dogging' site looking for sex and in the afternoon visited a local brothel for sex. Two days after the murder he reported his wife missing and quickly became the key suspect in the police inquiry. After the verdict, Mrs Grabham's family praised the jury and thanked South Wales Police for bringing Grabham to justice. For confidential support in the UK, call the Samaritans on 08457 90 90 90, visit a local Samaritans branch or click here. ### SUMMARY:

Hayley Wilkinson, 31, turned to alcohol after her sister was murdered in 2009 . She died in Whoberley, Coventry, after failing to cope with her sister's death . Kirsty, 24, was murdered by lorry driver husband Paul Grabham after a row . Grabham was jailed for life for murder in which he ditched body at side of M4 . Mother of the two women said Grabham has 'the blood of both on his hands'

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Honolulu detectives are following the spending spree on Robert Allenby's stolen credit card, as they try to solve the mystery surrounding his alleged abduction last week. Investigators have also been door-knocking businesses throughout the city for video surveillance footage that might help them piece together what happened to the Australian golfer on the night he was bashed and robbed. 'Detectives are reviewing witness statements and gathering security video footage,' Michelle Yu of the Honolulu Police Department said. 'They are also looking into recent charges made on Mr Allenby’s credit card. No arrest has been made.' Scroll down for video . Four days have passed since Robert Allenby's attack. As yet local police have made no arrests and are still seeking more surveillance video to help with their investigation. Authorities believe the spending spree on his stolen credit card is their best chance of an arrest . Robert Allenby is disputing reports regarding conflicting details provided by a female witness to the aftermath of his alleged kidnapping, robbery and bashing on Saturday morning. He said the injuries he suffered are proof . An emotional reunion. Robert Allenby meets the homeless woman, now identified as Charade Keane, at the park in Honolulu where she came to his aid at the weekend . 'Thank you for looking after me,' Allenby said to Ms Keane when they were reunited . 'It’s such a shame that people are focusing on whether the story is true,' Robert Allenby is believed to have said in text messages to the Golf Channel. 'I say you only have to look at me to see the truth.' 'Detectives have opened second degree robbery and fraudulent use of credit card investigations,' Ms Yu added. 'That means we investigate it as a felony rather than a misdemeanour. ''Second degree robbery is punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment; fraudulent use of credit cards is punishable by up to five years.' But other CCTV is being sought from the strip around the wine bar where Allenby was last seen. 'The (extra) video will be very helpful,' Honolulu Police Department Captain Rade Vanic said. Staff at the wine bar in which Allenby, 43, was last seen at about 11pm on Friday said 'we can't say anything about that', when contacted by Daily Mail Australia and asked if they had seen anything untoward on the night. With varying stories from Allenby and Charade Keane, the woman who helped the dazed and bruised Australian in the early hours on Saturday morning, detectives are trying to reconstruct the incident. They are believed to be already in possession of vision which shows Allenby leaving the Amuse Wine Bar at about 11pm on the Friday, with two, as yet unidentified men, and a woman. And more CCTV footage of two men buying alcohol, apparently with the golfer's credit card, has been taken from a store at Waikiki. Allenby said he couldn't remember much in the hours after being assaulted and robbed. Capt Vanic said not only were detectives attempting to find more surveillance footage of what Allenby described as a Hollywood-style attack and kidnapping, but they were now seeking video from stores where the culprits might have used his stolen credit cards. Police said they could publicly release video of suspects in the hope of identifying the thieves. 'We do have video from various retail establishments, so we are looking into it,' Capt Vanic said. 'Of course, if it does show individuals who are possible suspects, we will do our best to identify them and may even put it out with our Crime Stoppers information. 'But it is still very early on in our investigation.' Capt Vanic said Keane gave police a statement and they would interview her again if needed. Ms Keane 'dragged' Allenby to safety as he was arguing with two men in the park telling him 'you have to leave or they will kill you' The spot where Allenby was found 'dazed and confused'. 'Honolulu Police say 'we do have video from various retail establishments, so we are looking into it' The Amuse Wine Bar in Honolulu where Allenby was dining with friends before being bashed and robbed . The Amuse Wine Bar is inside the Honolulu Design Centre. It's where Allenby and friends were before the golfer was beaten and robbed . Robert Allenby missed the cut at the Sony Golf Open in Honolulu . Allenby was drinking with friends at the upmarket Amuse Wine Bar in Waikiki on Friday night and believed he was drugged, bashed in the face with a fist or baseball bat, tossed in the boot of a car, robbed and then dumped in a park 10 kilometres away. The drama began when Allenby was separated from his friends in the bar, caddie Mick Middlemo and Anthony Puntoriero. 'I didn't think I was going to survive this one,' Allenby said. 'I was separated from my friend in the bar after we had paid the tab at 10:48pm and he went to the bathroom and next thing you know I'm being dumped in a park miles away. 'I only know this part because a homeless woman found me and told me she saw a few guys pull up and throw me out of the car. 'That is where I got the scrapes above my eye, from the side-walk.' The homeless woman he referred to is believed to be Ms Keane, who said she found and helped Allenby a short distance away from the bar, perhaps 50 metres down the road, at about 1.30am - some two and a half hours after he disappeared. An image of the intersection where Charade Keane found Robert Allenby slumped in the gutter, bashed and trying to fend off two men . Australian golfer Robert Allenby was bloodied and bruised and without his wallet and phone before being placed in a taxi back to the Kahala Hotel by two good Samaritans, an ex-military officer and Charade Keane . The confusion over what happened to Robert Allenby includes his belief that he was found two and a half hours after he left his friends and some 10 kilometres away from where he was dining and Charade Keane's claim that it was just 50 metres from the Amuse Wine Bar . Bizarrely Allenby had an emotional reunion with the homeless woman, just hours after he accused her of being paid to spread false stories about what happened that night. The golfer embraced and kissed Ms Keane, as they greeted each other back at the spot where she said they first met, across the road from the Amuse Wine Bar in Waikiki on Saturday morning. 'I really appreciate what you did,' Allenby told her. The reunion came a few hours after the multi-millionaire pro-golfer reportedly speculated in text messages to Golf Central that Keane was was 'getting paid' to relay details of the incident to the media. Capt Vanic said robberies similar to the way Allenby described were not common in Honolulu, a popular destination for tourists from Australia and around the world. 'Honolulu is a big city and there are tourists who, unfortunately, are victims of a crime, but it is not something that happens very frequently in Honolulu,' Capt Vanic added. Allenby was in Hawaii to compete in the PGA Tour's Sony Open, but missed the halfway cut on Friday. Allenby, whose face was badly cut and bruised, announced on Tuesday he would not play in this week's PGA Humana Challenge event in La Quinta, California, on the advice of his doctor. 'This will enable me to ensure I am fully recovered prior to rejoining the PGA Tour,' he added . Allenby, whose face was badly cut and bruised, announced on Tuesday he would not play in this week's PGA Humana Challenge event in La Quinta, California, on the advice of his doctor. 'This will enable me to ensure I am fully recovered prior to rejoining the PGA Tour,' Allenby said in a statement. 'I anticipate a full recovery and look forward to returning in the near future.' ### SUMMARY:

Honolulu police confirm there have been several 'recent charges' on Robert Allenby's missing credit card . They are seeking more surveillance vision from local businesses as they and piece together Robert Allenby attack . Investigating detectives confirmed that his rescuer, Charade Keane, has provided an official statement and may be interviewed again today . She said 'a confused and dazed' Allenby was offering to pay $500 to two men to get his wallet back . Allenby claimed in texts that Ms Keane was 'getting paid' to spread false stories . Hours later Allenby was reunited with Ms Keane and gave her a $1000 gift card for coming to his rescue . The Australian cannot recall almost two and a half hours of that night after being bashed .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: It wasn't just members of the royal family turning heads at this morning's thanksgiving service, as the politician's wives stepped into the spotlight. Overall they demonstrated a sharp sense of style - Samantha Cameron looking especially sophisticated in a black, silk Paul Smith dress and netted beret - however some stood out for all the wrong reasons. Sally Bercow, who made up the 2,000-strong congregation offered onlookers a generous glimpse of thigh as she exited St Paul's Cathedral wearing a black and white ensemble with her husband and Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow in tow. Last year the 42-year-old's fashion sense was scrutinised as she showed scant regard for royal protocol when she attended the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's wedding in a black lace wrap dress with plunging neckline and daring hemline, complete with split. Dressed to impress: Sally Bercow, Samantha Cameron and Miriam Gonzales were among today's congregation at St Paul's Cathedral . Nick Clegg's spouse Miriam Gonzales also made an impression choosing a bright fuchsia number adorned with an eye-catching rose design, as did Boris Johnson's wife Marina who fashioned a bold silk scarlet gown, accessorised with a striking feather headpiece.. Meanwhile Justine Thornton - accompanying husband and Labour leader Ed Miliband - and Foreign Secretary William Hague's partner Ffion plumped for  neutral colours. The nation will celebrate the Diamond . Jubilee at a service of thanksgiving today, but missing from the Queen's . side will be the Duke of Edinburgh. Philip is being treated in hospital for a bladder infection and will not be part of a series of events today, planned to mark the Queen's 60-year milestone.The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, will give the sermon at the St Paul's Cathedral thanksgiving service and is expected to pay tribute to the Queen. Gathered will be leading national figures and members of the Royal Family including Charles, the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry. Prime Minister David Cameron will lead the large representation from the coalition Government and other figures will include governor generals, diplomats and foreign leaders. After the 10.30am service, conducted by the Dean of St Paul’s, The Very Reverend Dr David Ison, the Queen will attend a reception at Mansion House while other senior royals including Charles and Camilla will attend a similar event at the Guildhall. At both events will be members of the thanksgiving congregation. Labour leader Ed Miliband poses for a shot with wife Justine who chose a navy blue and cream ensemble . Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and his wife Miriam Gonzales (left) joined the service along with Chancellor George Osborne and his wife Frances  (right) Going neutral: Foreign Secretary William Hague and his wife Ffion, who opted for shades of black and beige . The Queen and her family will then attend a City of London Livery companies lunch at Westminster Hall - The Livery Companies of the City of . London originated in medieval times as Guilds responsible for trade . regulation, including checking the quality of goods, weights and . measures and training. Today the companies use their funds to undertake charitable and community work. Some 700 guests representing the . companies’ abundant trades and professions, ranging from grocers and . gunmakers to fruiterers and fishmongers, will join for the . tribute. Prince William will be placed at the Engineers and Arbitrators table, while Kate will be joined by the Master Glovers and Pattenmakers. The Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers . was founded in the 17th century as a trade association for the makers . of pattens - under-shoes of wood and metal which were worn strapped . beneath the shoes to raise the wearer out of the mud on the streets. The Company now draws its membership . from the City of London and the Footwear industry, with its main focus . being charitable works. The Worshipful Company of Glovers was formed in 1349 by glove makers in London to protect their craft. Harry will be on the Fruiterers and Gardeners table. Among the vast range of participating . Livery companies are the Worshipful Companies of Goldsmiths, Butchers, . Innholders, Weavers, Distillers, Clockmakers and even Tax Advisers. London Mayor Boris Johnson and his wife Marina arrive at St Paul's Cathedral for the morning event . 2,000 people were invited to the National Service of Thanksgiving to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee . Guests will dine on marinated Uist . Island salmon with Lyme Bay crab, followed by saddle of Welsh Cambrian . Mountain lamb with braised shoulder of lamb, grilled Isle of Wight . asparagus, Jersey Royal potatoes and an aptly named Jubilee sauce. The 'symphony of dessert' is chocolate delice, bread and butter pudding and berry compote with Sandringham apple sauce . A Ceylon tea will also be served made . from a bush planted by the Duke of Edinburgh during a state visit to Sri . Lanka in 1954 in the Pedro Tea Plantation in Nuwara Eliya. The National Children’s Orchestra of Great Britain will perform during the event while the House of Commons’ speaker John . Bercow will say grace and the loyal toast will be proposed by the Lord . Speaker Baroness D’Souza. The highlight of the day will be a glittering carriage procession through the streets of Whitehall before the Queen and her family gather on Buckingham Palace's balcony to watch a flypast of Second World War aircraft and the Red Arrows. The Prince of Wales paid a heartfelt tribute to his mother last night, following the Diamond Jubilee concert staged near Buckingham Palace. Stood on stage with the Queen a few feet away, Charles told hundreds of thousands who had gathered to watch the star-studded event that they were 'celebrating the life and service of a very special person'. But he added there was a disappointing element to the night. Build up on the Mall, ahead of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Procession . 'The only sad thing about this evening is that my father cannot be her with us because unfortunately he's taken unwell," he said.The Prince went on to say: 'And we're now celebrating the life and service of a very special person, over the last 60 years. I was three when my grandfather George VI died and suddenly, unexpectedly you and my father's lives were irrevocably changed when you were only 26. 'So as a nation this is our opportunity to thank you and my father for always being there for us. For inspiring us with your selfless duty and service and for making us proud to be British.' Celebrities attending the concert included Brian May, who famously played the national anthem on the palace's roof during the 2002 Golden Jubilee concert, television presenters Floella Benjamin and Kirstie Allsopp, and ex-Bond Girl Barbara Bach who is married to former Beatle Ringo Starr. Many of the hosts, who included Lenny Henry and Jimmy Carr, poked fun at the royals. But Rob Brydon got one of the biggest laughs from the crowds when he said: 'Sixty years of reign. Sounds like a Welsh summer.' Kylie Minogue arrived on stage dressed as a Pearly Queen, wearing a romper-style black shorts suit adorned with mother of pearl buttons. She completed the look with a black jacket that had a crown design in buttons on the back, and a peak cap. Sir Elton John's Crocodile Rock was one of the biggest tunes of the night, with William, Harry and Beatrice singing and dancing in their seats to the 70s tune. The palace was transformed into a row of terraced houses, via a projection, for Madness' performance from the historic building's roof. Lead singer Suggs ended the tune Our House by changing one of the lines of the lyric and saying in a posh accent, 'In the middle of one's street'.The royals stood for the final act, Sir Paul McCartney, who ran through a string of Beatles songs including Magical Mystery Tour, All My Loving and Let It Be. After Charles' speech there was a huge fireworks display fired from the roof of the palace. ### SUMMARY:

Sally Bercow opts for thigh-skimming black and white shift dress . David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband, William Hague and Boris Johnson also attend with spouses .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: President Barack Obama warned Republicans in Congress on Friday that he was prepared to act without them to plug financial holes in America's immigration infrastructure, which is increasingly burdened by a flood of children and teens slipping into the U.S. from the south. 'While they're on vacation, I'm going to have to make some tough choices to meet the challenge, with or without Congress,' he said during a 45-minute-long press conference at the White House. Obama's opening statements were entirely about domestic issues, but journalists in the room asked mostly about foreign policy, teeing up softballs about Russia's antagonism in Ukraine and the Israel-Hams conflict. 'I thought you guys were going to ask me how I was going to spend my birthday,' Obama said near the end of his appearance in the press briefing room. Scroll down for video . Ready to go it alone: Obama warned he will continue his pattern of making laws without Congress if they don't act on his immigration funding request . The president took questions but reporters were mostly interested in foreign policy, not his immigration squabbles with the GOP . Reporters' actual interest in immigration seemed limited to why Republicans don't trust the White House to act in good faith, given the president's habit of issuing high-profile executive orders without their consent. In turn, the president was most focused on needling his GOP opposition about their lack of enthusiasm for passing immigration legislation, saying he expects to 'act on my own to solve the problem' while they are away from Washington for the next five weeks. Citing '80 per cent' of border issues on which he claimed 'there is agreement' between House Republican leaders and his administration, he skewered his opposition for its intramural squabbling – most in evidence Thursday night as warring GOP factions held a funding bill in limbo. That measure would have provided Obama with $659 million, a fraction of the $3.7 billion he has asked for. Competing versions passed around the Republican caucus focused alternatively on funding to strengthen the border and an outright ban on any White House efforts to expand the Deferred Action . for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, a 2012 mini-amnesty program for people brought to the U.S. illegally as children. The result, said Obama is 'not a disagreement between me and . the House Republicans; it's a disagreement between the House . Republicans and the House Republicans.' Conservatives in the House Republican . caucus are most worried about the possibility that Obama could . unilaterally make a larger move than just rearranging Border Patrol . budgets: They fret about an executive expansion of DACA, and have pushed for any border bill to include an outright prohibition on the program's growth. Rep. John Fleming, a Louisiana Republican, summed up the situation on Capitol Hill by telling The Hill that the conflict is 'insurmountable.' 'We are a completely wide spectrum' of opinion, he said. 'We've got some members of the House Republicans, and maybe even in the Senate, that agree with Democrats much more on this issue than Republicans.' 'But on top of that, you've got a president who does what he wants – who ignores the law, enforces only parts that he wants – and we can't trust that he'll do anything.' On Thursday, House GOP leaders withdrew their own bill from consideration after it became clear that not enough Republicans would support it in a vote. Almost immediately, White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer presaged Obama's likely move to make a unilateral policy change. 'By pulling their own bill,' he tweeted, 'the House GOP once again proves why the President must act on his own to solve problems.' The GOP was set to give up but House Speaker John Boehner and newly minted Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy brought boos and catcalls by announcing that they would delay the August recess for another day of wrangling. The most recent rewrite added $35 million for an increased National Guard presence on the U.S.-Mexico border, but it's unclear if that will be enough to cement a Republican coalition large enough to bring the measure to a vote – and then to an inevitable rejection in the Senate. The game is a familiar one in Washington, with the two house of Congress controlled by opposing parties and trying their best to not be the chamber holding the legislative ball when the music stops before a month-long intermission. Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said Friday that 'when it comes to the humanitarian crisis on our southern border, President Obama has been completely AWOL – in fact, he has made matter[s] worse by flip-flopping on the 2008 law that fueled the crisis.' 'Senate Democrats have left town without acting on his request for a border supplemental [budget request]. Right now, House Republicans are the only ones still working to address this crisis.' Man of the hour: On his first day in a new leadership role. House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy had to tell a groaning House chamber that the August recess was delayed . No drama: Obama seemed unflappable as he cautioned Republicans against defying his immigration funding demands . Obama has suggested he would veto any bill that denied his administration the funding he wants – most of which would grow programs that process and house the tens of thousands of unaccompanied children pouring across the border. Less than 3 per cent of his funding proposal would beef up border security. But he insisted Friday that a cash-strapped federal government would soon lack the means to respond to the current problem without Republicans' say-so. 'We've got to take action,' he said, referring to his domestic policy team at the White House. 'I'm going . to have to act alone because we don't have the resources. We've already . been clear. We don't have the money. ... We're going to have to . reallocate some resources.' Instead of writing him a blank check, Obama complained, the Republican Party's right wing has been steering the discussion toward solutions that are destined to meet his veto pen. 'House Republicans as we speak are trying to pass the most extreme and unworkable version of a bill that they already know is going nowhere, that can't pass the Senate,' the president said Friday. 'They're not even trying to to solve the problem,' he said. 'This is a message bill ... just so they can check a box before leaving town tomorrow.' Each side of the ideological aisle has accused the other of posturing for political gain as fundraising kicks into high gear for November's congressional midterm elections. DELUGE: A flood of new illegal immigrants, mostly children and teens, has swept across the southwest U.S. border in the two years since Obama announced a mini-amnesty for those who arrived unlawfully as children before 2007 . In the Democrat-controlled Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid failed Thursday to advance a smaller $2.7 billion version of Obama's supplemental funding request, effectively killing it until September. The measure was killed on a 50-44 procedural vote, fully 10 votes shy of what was needed to stop debate and vote on the bill's merits. Several moderate Democrats, including some facing tough re-election fights, voted 'no.' Obama only briefly mentioned his usually foremost 'comprehensive immigration reform' refrain, claiming that his preferred approach – a complete overhaul of American immigration policy – 'might have . forestalled some of the problems we're seeing now in the Rio Grande . valley with these undocumented children.' He has argued in the past that a rewrite of immigration law would give him the power to stop pursuing illegal immigrants who came as children – so-called DREAMers – and redirect those resources to more pressing problems at the border. But in teeing up Democrats' disgust with slow-moving Republicans, he set the stage for an August recess full of recriminations about a 'do-nothing' Republican House. 'If in fact House Republicans are concerned about me acting independently of Congress ... then the easiest way to solve it is – pass some legislation. Get things done.' ### SUMMARY:

President is angry at House Republicans for refusing to consider his $3.7 billion supplemental funding request . Most of that ask would pay to care for thousands of illegal immigrant children, while just a few per cent would strengthen the U.S. border . The GOP failed to build a consensus Thursday on a compromise bill, but Obama said he would veto it regardless . As August congressional recess looms, a lack of action will mean endless political recriminations in advance of the November midterm elections .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Sarah Palin has come out in defense of her daughter Bristol who allegedly punched a man in the face during a family brawl. The former Vice President candidate hailed her child as a 'straight shooter' in a Facebook which appears to be her first veiled reference to the fight two weekends ago. The 23-year-old is said to have repeatedly hit the owner of a home in Anchorage, Alaska, during an outburst in which her brother Track broke four ribs and her father Todd was left with a bloody nose. First response: This Facebook post appears to be Sarah Palin's first veiled reaction to the family brawl . Straight shooter: Palin shared pictures of her daughter firing a rifle and linked to an article by Bristol . It came after Willow Palin's ex-boyfriend allegedly engage in some unspecified 'questionable behaviour'. Writing on Thursday, Sarah Palin said: 'I love my Bristol! My straight-shooter is one of the strongest young women you'll ever meet. 'I have to say this as a proud mama: right up there with their work ethic and heart for those less fortunate, my kids' defense of family makes my heart soar! 'As you can imagine, they and my extended family have experienced so many things (liberal media-driven) that may have crushed others without a strong foundation of faith, and I'm thankful for our friends' prayer shield that surrounds them, allowing faith to remain their anchor. 'Thank you, prayer warriors! I love you!' The post was accompanied by pictures of Bristol firing a rifle, other family photos. She also linked to an article by Bristol condemning reports that suggest Todd and Sarah Palin are getting divorced. Bristol's post, topped with a picture of her father kissing her mother, blasted the reports as 'garbage'. The comments are the first from the family following widespread media attention to the fight on September 6. On Monday, Sarah Palin emerged for the first time following the melee as she was photographed sweaty and make-up free running errands around Anchorage, Alaska. No make-up Monday: Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was pictured running errands in Anchorage, Alaska on Monday . Trouble at home? Palin appeared to have just worked out when she was photographed, wearing casual dress and without her wedding right . Palin looked like she had other things on her mind as she stepped out in the casual attire and with damp hair . Bristol Palin (pictured right) and little sister Piper (left) hit Costco in Anchorage, Alaska on Monday to stock up on groceries including bulk purchases of toilet paper, bottled water, yogurt, whipped cream and apple sauce. The Palin family were recently caught up in a reported disturbance at a house party in Anchorage . The fight which allegedly broke out at a house party most of the Palin family was attending came as daughter Willow's ex-boyfriend Connor Cleary tried to get in a Hummer limousine after engaging in some unspecified 'questionable behavior'. RealClearPolitics spoke with a source close to the Palin family, who wanted to provide their version of the events in question. The source said oldest son Track, 25, soon found himself struggling against four men who had 'piled on him'. That was when father Todd Palin - who was celebrating his 50th birthday that night, although it was not his party- became involved. Partygoer Eric Thompson told Good Morning America: 'I heard Sarah Palin scream out, 'You know who we are, don't you?'' Palin was captured make-up free as she ran errands in her first appearance since the family brawl . Palin is pictured for the first time since the incident, which involved 'roughly 20 people' at a house party . But the source told the website Palin was shouting: 'Don't you know who he is? He's a vet!' Her son Track served with the U.S. Army in the Iraq War. According to the source, Track left the fight nursing four cracked ribs, while his father suffered a bloody nose. The former vice presidential candidate has yet to publicly comment on the brawl. On Monday, she left a shopping mall dressed casually, and without wearing her wedding ring. Exes: The fight allegedly broke out when Willow Palin's ex-boyfriend Connor Cleary (pictured) tried to get in a Hummer limousine after engaging in 'questionable behavior' Her daughters Bristol, 23, and 13-year-old Piper were also spotted out and about on Monday in Anchorage, stocking up on food supplies at a CostCo. The two sisters looked serious as they pushed a cart into the parking lot, filled to the brim with bulk purchases of toilet paper, bottled water, apple sauce, yogurt and whipped cream. Several local sources reported on the incident, initially scooped by Alaska political blogger Amanda Coyne. She wrote: 'Word is that Bristol has a particularly strong right hook, which she employed repeatedly.' But the source said that Bristol is left-handed. One report suggested host Korey Klingenmeyer was allegedly punched in the face seven times by Bristol when he politely asked her to leave the party. Another report claimed that Willow and Bristol apparently tried to go after the mother of Willow's ex-boyfriend. The fight involved 'roughly 20 people' and alcohol is believed to have been a factor in the incident, which took place around 11pm on Saturday night, The Anchorage Police Department said. 'Anchorage police responded to a report of a verbal and physical altercation taking place between multiple subjects outside of a residence,' police spokesperson Jennifer Castro told Alaska Dispatch News. 'A preliminary investigation by police revealed that a party had been taking place at a nearby residence and a fight had broken out between multiple subjects outside of the residence. 'At the time of the incident, none of the involved parties wanted to press charges and no arrests were made. 'Alcohol was believed to have been a factor in the incident. Some of the Palin family members were in attendance at the party.' Although none of the parties wanted to press charges at the time of the incident, police confirmed that the case is still an active investigation and is being reviewed by APD and the Municipal Prosecutors Office. It had been reported that the drunken brawl started when the Palin pack allegedly had a run-in with Connor Cleary, an ex-boyfriend of Willow, 20 (pictured to the left of her mother, in a blue dress). The Palins are pictured in 2007 . Sarah Palin has claimed that she owes the United States a 'global apology' for the 2008 Republican presidential ticket's loss to President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. During an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Mrs Palin, who ran for vice-president on John McCain's ticket, spoke about Obama's long-term strategy for defeating ISIS, which he laid out in a speech on Wednesday night. 'As I watched the speech last night, Sean, the thought going through my mind is, I owe America a global apology,' she said. 'Because John McCain, through all of this, John McCain should be our president.' She added: 'It's not just a vision that's so obvious. It's an articulated mission that they're on, and that is the caliphate. That is a takeover of the region. And guess what? We're next on the hit list.' The former Alaskan governor compared ISIS to Hitler and questioned how seriously Obama is taking the threat. She said: 'So when Barack Obama, like the rest of us, hear these bad guys, these terrorists, promising that they will raise the flag of Allah over our White House, for the life of me I don't know why he does not take this serious, the threat. Because yes, it's more than a vision. 'They're telling - just like Hitler did all those years ago, when a war could've been avoided, because Hitler, too, did not hide his intentions. Well, ISIS, these guys aren't hiding their intentions either.' ### SUMMARY:

The former VP candidate has spoken for first time since family fight . Bristol Palin 'repeatedly punched a man' at family party on September 6 . Her father Todd Palin left with bloody nose, her brother Track broke 4 ribs . Source claims daughter Willow's ex-boyfriend Connor Cleary started fight . Sarah Palin wrote Facebook post applauding the strength of her family . She was seen for the first time since the fight on Monday looking tired .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa could infect more than 20,000 people, the World Health Organisation has revealed in a bleak assessment of the deadly disease. The United Nations health agency issued plans to combat the outbreak in four West African nations - Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria - where it said the actual number of cases could already be two to four times higher than the reported 3,069. The current death toll stands at 1,552. The news comes as a new outbreak was confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a pregnant woman contracted the disease from infected bush meat and passed it on to health workers. Scroll down for video . Treatment: The World Health Organisation has revealed plans to combat Ebola in four West African nations - Guinea (pictured), Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria - where it said the actual number of cases could already be far higher than the reported 3,069. The death toll in the West African epidemic alone currently stands at 1,552 . Grim: A group of young volunteers wear special uniforms for the burial of people in Kptema graveyard in Kenema, Sierra Leone earlier this week. The victims' bodies are sterilized after dying from the virus . Describing plans to tackle the West African outbreak, the WHO said: 'This roadmap assumes that in many areas of intense transmission the actual number of cases may be two-four fold higher than that currently reported.' 'It acknowledges that the aggregate case load of Ebola Virus Disease could exceed 20,000 over the course of this emergency,' the agency added. The deadly West African outbreak that began in Guinea in March and has since spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, requires a massive and coordinated international response, the WHO said. 'Response activities must be adapted in areas of very intense transmission and particular attention must be given to stopping transmission in capital cities and major ports, thereby facilitating the larger response and relief effort,' the WHO said. The virus is still being spread in a 'substantial number of localities', aggravating fragile social and economic conditions and has already killed an unprecedented number of health workers. Today it was revealed that Nigeria has confirmed its first Ebola death outside the city of Lagos, with a doctor succumbing to the virus in the oil hub Port Harcourt last Friday. A further 70 people are now under surveillance in the city, with the man's wife among those that have been placed in quarantine. Protection: The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa - which began in Guinea (pictured) - could infect more than 20,000 people, the World Health Organisation has revealed in a bleak assessment of the deadly disease . A woman washes her child with salted water in a suburb of the Côte d’Ivoire capital Abidjan. The woman was relying on a rumor that was spread in the area claiming that salted water helps to fight against the deadly virus . A wider U.N.-led plan being launched by the end of September is 'expected to underpin support for the increasingly acute problems associated with food security, protection, water, sanitation and hygiene, primary and secondary health care and education, as well as the longer-term recovery effort that will be needed,' the WHO said in today's report. A separate outbreak of Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo - identified as a different strain and thought to have started when a pregnant woman contracted the virus from infected bush meat - is not included in the WHO's forecast. An unnamed woman in the village of Ikanamongo in DRC's northern Equateur Province is believed to have butchered an animal that had been captured and killed by her husband shortly before falling ill. The woman was subsequently transported to a private clinic in nearby Isaka village for specialist care due to her pregnancy, but she subsequently died of a then-unidentified haemorrhagic fever. The Ebola then infected and killed a number of the woman's relatives and health care workers due to local customs and rituals carried out on her corpse that delayed her funeral by more than a week. Infection zone: People stand on the shoreline near a sign reading 'No Dumping', amongst rubbish at West Point - an area of the Liberian capital Monrovia that is badly hit by the Ebola virus . Lock down: Local residents not allowed to leave the West Point area, as Liberian government forces clamp down on movement to prevent the spread of Ebola in the capital city Monrovia . The DRC's Ministry of Health notified the World Health Organization of the outbreak on Tuesday, following the woman's death on August 11. Since then a number of her relatives and at least four health-care workers who were exposed to her corpse have died, and there a reports several others are seriously ill. In a report, WHO blamed 'local customs and rituals associated with death' for delaying the woman's burial and dramatically increasing the number of people coming into close contact with her body. Between 28 July and 18 August this year, a total of 24 suspected cases of Ebola have been identified in the DRC, leading to at least 13 deaths. It is Congo's seventh outbreak since the deadly hemorrhagic fever was discovered in 1976 in the same isolated northwestern jungle province in which the pregnant woman died. Spread: Nurses wearing protective suits enter a Liberian village in order to search for a man suspected of being infected with the deadly Ebola virus. The man was later taken to a hospital in Monrovia for treatment . Crucially, the strain currently infecting people in DRC is different to that which has already killed at least 1,427 people in West Africa - which has somewhat allayed fears that the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history could have somehow travelled thousands of miles to the continent's centre. Among the healthcare workers known to have died shortly after coming in to contact with the pregnant woman are one doctor and two nurses who performed her surgery, a male ward assistant, and a hygiene specialist working in the clinic. WHO said an unknown number of her relatives involved in 'local customs and rituals' relating to her death have also now died, without expanding on what those practices might have been. A further 11 cases are being held in isolation centres suffering the suspected symptoms of the disease - which kills in the vast majority of cases - with tissue samples sent to laboratories in the DRC's capital Kinshasa, and in neighbouring Gabon for further analysis. In total it is believed at least 80 people came into close enough contact to contract the virus from the pregnant woman between the time of her infection and eventual burial. Tragic: A Liberian man in a truck looks down on another man believed to be dying from the Ebola virus, in one of the main streets on the outskirts of the capital city Monrovia earlier this week . In response to the outbreak, the DRC's Ministry of Health has dispatched teams of scientists and investigators to Equateur Province in order to evaluate the situation there and work out how many other people may be at risk - either from human-to-human transmission or from infected bush meat. Neither the deceased pregnant woman nor any of her 80 contacts have any history of travel to the areas of West Africa currently hit by an alternative strain of Ebola. News of the DRC outbreak comes as U.S. health officials prepared to announce that a human study of an Ebola vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline will begin within a couple of weeks. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, will start the study no later than the end of the year, according to people familiar with the plans. In addition, a steering committee made up of senior officials from NIH and the Department of Defense last week approved the first step toward using three advanced laboratories to manufacture Ebola vaccines and treatments. The three labs, in Texas, Maryland and North Carolina, were set up in 2012 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in partnership with private industry to respond to pandemics or chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear threats. A GSK spokeswoman confirmed that the trial would begin but declined to specify when. ### SUMMARY:

World Health Organisation delivers bleak assessment of African outbreak . Number of infections already likely to be far higher than the reported 3,069 . Death toll stands at 1,552, making West African outbreak the worst ever . News comes as second strain is confirmed in Democratic Republic of Congo . Woman contracted virus from bush meat and passed it on to health workers .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Martin 'Mad Dog' Allen returns with the latest installment of his column for MailOnline Sport. The Barnet boss does not hold back with his views on current issues in football and this week reflects on Manchester United's transfer policy and team building Strachan style. STRACHAN TEAM SPIRIT . I remember a few years ago Gordon Strachan speaking about team bonding. He was of the opinion that a round of golf and 10 rounds of Guinness was supposed to be good for team spirit. He thought that if you were together as a team, trained hard and practiced collectively then on those cold, windy, rainy nights when you travel miles to get to the ground, you'll know you can rely on your team-mates in tough, testing conditions. When you earn that hard-fought 1-0 away win, get back on the bus for that long journey home, you are exhausted but proud. Great Scot! Gordon Strachan had his own methods of team building, which can involve golf and Guiness . Top. Barnet lead the Conference . Well, I thought of that advice from Strachan after our first game of the Conference season away to Chester. Our bus set off from north London at 8am for the three-hour and 42 minute journey. We're having no over-night stops this year at Barnet as all that extra expenditure is going towards paying higher wages. Our bus driver Ricky has the latest device, called a Traffic Finder. In essence, it appears to mean we find traffic wherever it is. Lo and behold there was a serious traffic accident on the M6. We took a diversion, using the Traffic Finder, across country. Ricky said we should be there in half-an-hour. Two hours later, we were stuck on an A road, in single-file traffic, moving at five miles per hour. We finally pulled into Chester's Deva Stadium at 2.27pm. We threw all the match kit in the middle . of the changing room floor, emptied the boots into the shower room and . turned the shinpad box over. The lads grabbed what they could, we warmed . up for only 10 minutes before taking to the field for the three o'clock . kick off. On the road: Getting caught in traffic led to Barnet beating Chester 5-0 in the Conference Premier . By 30 minutes we were 3-0 up and ended up winning by five. On the bus journey home, I reflected that in the face of adversity and a six-and-a-half hour bus ride there, the team spirit was Strachan-esque to perform like we did. It's one of the most extraordinary days I've had in football. KEVIN CAN'T GET ENOUGH . We've had Kevin Blackwell as a guest at training this month. He is an excellent coach and to save him from boredom I got him in with us. Kevin's . energy and enthusiasm rubs off on everybody. He's got good knowledge and . it's been a pleasure having him with all our players. The only problem . I've got, is getting him off the training pitch. He just loves working, . developing and improving our players. Kevin, . who has been out of work since he was sacked by Bury last year, has got . a tremendous record and I find it strange that he is not working at a . very high level. Coach trip: Kevin Blackwell's only problem at Barnet has been getting him off the training pitch . COOKY IS ON FIRE . A week before the season started I had a phone call from a bloke called Lee Cook asking if he could train with us just to get fit, as he had no club. I told him we were no longer having anyone on trial as we were in the key stages of preparing for the season. I wished him luck, and just out of decency I asked Lee who he played for previously. He replied: 'I'm the Lee Cook who got transferred to QPR from Fulham for £2.5million five years ago.' Recipe for success: Former QPR star Lee Cook has earned himself a contract after pitching up to to train . I thought we had got to get him in, so I invited him to training the following day. I warned him that we didn't have any money to pay him. We trained him hard – and in the first session he vomited everywhere. Lee was playing in the Greek Premier League for Apollon Smyrni since January but he didn't have a club. He can hardly run, but he's always got a smile on his face and has a wicked left foot. Well, he earned himself a one-year deal, has already scored a hat-trick and is our top scorer with six goals. Cook has certainly got the recipe for success. ALLEN'S ANALYSIS... The person I keep hearing about this month... Neil Aspin. Halifax Town have had a resurgence under former Leeds United defender Aspin. I have been impressed with his managerial methods. I met him recently and he told me he only recruits players from the lower levels who are hungry for football, rather than those who can't get a club elsewhere and are dropping into the Conference. Remember the name! Leeds United could do worse than take a chance on Halifax boss Neil Aspin (L) Halifax beat Barnet 4-0 at the end of last season – and it could have been 10. Afterwards, I met Neil in my office. As he was shutting the door to leave, he stepped back in and asked if I knew where the nearest supermarket or off-licence was. I told him I didn't have a clue and asked why. He replied that they had no midweek game and winning away from home called for a case of lager for the lads to share at the back of the bus, rewarding them for their hard work. I loved it. Watch out for him. Leeds are looking for a new manager and he would be ideal. ONE THING I WOULD CHANGE ABOUT... Fergie Time . Football should follow rugby and have the old time keeper sat up in the stands, separate from everybody. It would help avoid any question or doubt about Fergie Time. Tick tock! Using an independent timekeeper as they do in rugby would prevent a 'Fergie Time' fiasco . They should have full control of the clock, the time-wasting and the ball being out of play and independently decide on added time. As soon as that time comes to an end, a massive foghorn should be blown around the stadium to end the game, wherever the ball is on the pitch. It would create entertainment and talking points. I reckon that would be magic – unless we were a goal down, on the attack and it went off! THE BIG ISSUE...Why has Louis van Gaal splashed almost £60million on Angel di Maria? My old youth team manager at QPR George Graham, from whom I learnt so much, always said that you have to build teams from the back. He stood by that. Building from the back: United chose to spend £60m on Angel di Maria when what they needed was defenders . Manchester United should've spent that huge fee for Di Maria on German centre-back Mats Hummels and Real Madrid's Sami Khedira. Hummels would've been a central figure and a leader and Khedira could've been an enforcer in front of him. Real were making noises that they were willing to let him go for £27.5million. United now have Robin van Persie, Wayne Rooney, Juan Mata, Danny Welbeck, Adnan Januzaj – they were not crying out for Di Maria. Mr Van Gaal was pleading for patience after their Gaal-ing performance against my old club MK Dons in the League Cup. But that . was a real chance of silverware for them and he blew it. They've got no . chance of winning the Premier League, are not in Europe and the only cup . they could win is the FA Cup. Their team needs strengthening – and fast – to have any chance of that. Oops! Manchester United have no chance of winning any silverware under Louis van Gaal this season . It’s not too late to play MailOnline Fantasy Football… There’s £1,000 to be won EVERY WEEK by the highest scoring manager . CLICK HERE to start picking your Fantasy Football team NOW! There’s £60,000 in prizes including £1,000 up for grabs EVERY WEEK… . ### SUMMARY:

Gordon Strachan's team building advice usually involves golf and Guiness . Manchester United needed defenders not blowing £60m on Angel di Maria . Kevin Blackwell's only problem has been getting him off the training pitch . Halifax boss Neil Aspin could be an ideal candidate for the Leeds United job . Former QPR star Lee Cook has earned himself a contract at Barnet . Independent timekeepers used in rugby are the only answer to Fergie Time .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Louis van Gaal will walk into Yeovil’s ‘bunker’ on Sunday, the ominous-sounding office where manager Gary Johnson has been plotting the downfall of English football’s biggest name for the last six days. But if he wants a good glass of red wine, whatever the result, he has been warned he may have to bring his own. ‘There are no windows,’ said Johnson before a game he puts up there with the biggest in the club’s history. ‘If it’s fresh air he wants then we’ll have to go outside. VIDEO Scroll down for FATV's preview of Yeovil vs Manchester United . Gary Johnson's Yeovil welcome Manchester United to Huish Park in the FA Cup third round on Sunday . Johnson joked that Louis van Gaal will have to bring his own wine if he wants an expensive bottle post-match . United striker Radamel Falcao earns as much in one day as Yeovil pay out in weekly wages . Falcao scores for United as Louis van Gaal's side drew 1-1 with Stoke on New Year's Day . ‘Unfortunately, if Louis wants an expensive bottle of wine in my office afterwards he’s going to have to bring it with him — he’s probably got a stash somewhere in his kit bag. We’ll go for a mediocre red, but if he wants a real top one then I’ll be happy to share.’ How much they are willing to spend on a decent Merlot isn’t the only thing that’s a little different about these two clubs. Yeovil’s weekly wage budget stands at £37,500 — the amount United striker Radamel Falcao earns in a single day. Wayne Rooney takes home more in a month than the minnows shell out in a year. Not that it really bothers Johnson, who is the epitome of pragmatism but holds that sparkle which fills this small Somerset town with hope of an unlikely upset to match their greatest ever, against Sunderland in 1949. Incidentally, the prize for that scalp was an 8-0 fifth-round drubbing by United. Yeovil Town goalkeeper Dickie Dyke (third right) punches clear during the 1949 victory over Sunderland . Yeovil player-manager Alec Stock, who scored the first goal against Sunderland in the fourth round of the FA Cup, is carried shoulder high during a dance and cabaret at the Prince's Ballroom to celebrate the victory . Manchester United fan John Butterfield attended the fifth round FA Cup game against Yeovil in 1949 . ‘We’d like to keep our reputation as a good FA Cup side,’ he added. ‘We’ve told all the new lads that Yeovil were the best non-League team for Cup upsets for years, and that we do well when we’re the underdogs. We’re certainly the underdogs here by a million miles.’ They are even more up against it than when the draw was made, with Johnson fully admitting that Yeovil have taken their eye off the ball since beating Accrington in the second round replay. None more so than on Monday, when they were battered 3-0 at home by Leyton Orient in a defeat which leaves them bottom of League One. Johnson's side go into the match with United on the back of a 3-0 defeat by Leyton Orient last Monday . ‘Some of the players subconsciously saved themselves in that game and lost their place for United. They will learn from that pretty quick. ‘If Louis watched us against Leyton Orient he’d probably feel they could put out their Under 14s against us. ‘Hopefully the boys will go in with a different feeling, without the pressure of the points. Now it’s finally here we just can’t wait.’ Johnson, who says his experience managing Latvia stands him in good stead for games such as this, can’t be far off legend status in this pocket of the West Country. He was the man who won promotion to the Football League in 2003 and then did the unthinkable by taking Yeovil to the Championship two years ago. Johnson was not happy with some of his players' attitudes during the defeat by Orient . Johnson embraces Yeovil captain Joe Edwards after the second round win Accrington Stanley in December . League One Yeovil stand to pocket £221,000 from the third round tie with Man United. The FA dish out £27,000 in prize money for a second-round victory, plus the club will earn a further £144,000 from BT Sport, who will broadcast the third round tie live. Yeovil are set to earn in the region of £50,000 in gate receipts with the United tie sold out at Yeovil’s 9,565-seater stadium. Yeovil could be set to earn a staggering £1.5m from the third round tie if they force a replay at old Trafford. ‘If we win they might even put a statue up of me,’ he laughed. ‘I reckon I’ve earned one already, but the chairman says I’ve got to do a little bit more yet. I’m only 5ft 7in so it wouldn’t take a lot of metal, would it?’ Johnson’s side are going to have to show more than a bit of mettle if they want to inflict anything worse than a cheap bottle of wine on Van Gaal. However, when the two teams walk out of the Huish Park tunnel there will be one among them wearing a United shirt under his Yeovil Town kit. Ten-year-old Harris, a United fan, was handed a late Christmas present by his father, Yeovil striker James Hayter, when he was told he had got him a place as a home mascot for the game. Yeovil striker James Hayter's Manchester United-supporting son will be a mascot for the tie . Hayter celebrates after scoring in the FA Cup third round exactly one year before the United clash . The fixture is one of the biggest in Yeovil’s history and Hayter admits, at 35 years old, that it will be the greatest in his long career as a forward. But there was one in the Hayter household who celebrated even more than him when Van Gaal’s team were pulled out of the hat. ‘Harris said he wants to wear his Manchester United kit under his Yeovil kit,’ Hayter explained. ‘He was buzzing about the draw. I only told him on Tuesday he was going to get to be a mascot as well. So it’s even better he’s going to get to shake hands with all the players. He just can’t wait for the game.’ Hayter’s wife and their two daughters will be at the game, too, although his parents, Mary and Richard, are unable to attend. They famously missed the moment their son scored the fastest hat-trick in Football League history in 2004. Hayter, playing for Bournemouth at the time, arrived from the bench in the 84th minute to score three times in just 140 seconds. But his parents had left the ground early to catch a ferry back to their home in the Isle of Wight. Hayter is congratulated by his team-mates after his third round goal against Leyton Orient in 2014 . Johnson will be hoping for more third-round heroics from the Yeovil front man on Sunday . ‘They were listening to the radio on the way back,’ Hayter said. ‘They were obviously pleased, but they’d left to get the earlier ferry. They still shake their heads about it.’ His father is too unwell to travel to the match on Sunday, but both parents will be watching back home on television, eager not to miss this one. Hayter spent a large part of his career at Bournemouth, raised on stories of them knocking United out of the FA Cup in 1984 when Harry Redknapp was in charge. Yeovil’s giant-killing exploits are even more legendary and an unlikely victory for the League One team against this United side, worth hundreds of millions of pounds, will perhaps mark their greatest moment of all. Everyone in a Yeovil shirt will be celebrating wildly if they can pull it off, apart from one young boy with his Manchester United kit on underneath. ### SUMMARY:

Manchester United travel to Yeovil in the FA Cup third round on Sunday . Gary Johnson warns Louis van Gaal he'll have to bring his own wine if he wants an expensive bottle after the game . Radamel Falcao earns in one day what Yeovil pay out in weekly wages . Johnson joked he may have a statue erected if his side pull off giantkilling . Yeovil striker James Hayter's son is a United fan and will be a mascot . Harris Hayter, 10, wants to wear a United kit under the Yeovil strip .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: The Duke of Cambridge has backed calls for a public inquiry into the case of three men who were mown down and killed by a car during the Birmingham riots of 2011. MailOnline can exclusively reveal it is the first time Prince William has expressed his support for the idea in the case of Haroon Jahan, 20, and brothers Shazad Ali, 30, and Abdul Musavir, 31. The trio were killed in Dudley Road in the Winson Green area of Birmingham in the early hours of August 10, 2011 as they tried to protect businesses from looters. The Duke (left) supports calls for an inquiry into the death of Haroon Jahan (image right, being held by his father Tariq) Prince William meets with Tariq Jahan in Balsall Heath to discuss the lack of justice for the death of his son . Mr Jahan pictured reading messages at the scene where his 20-year-old son Haroon was killed in Winson Green, Birmingham after being hit by a car . Left to right: Haroon Jahan, 20, Shazad Ali, 30, and Abdul Musavir, 31, were run over and killed by a car . During a private meeting with Haroon's father Tariq and senior police officers and community leaders in Balsall Heath, Birmingham, on Friday, the Duke threw his weight behind proposals for an investigation into why there has been no justice for the families of the three men. Eight men were charged with their murder, but were cleared by a jury at Birmingham Crown Court after a senior officer was accused during the case of lying on oath about the late disclosure of an offer to give eye-witnesses immunity from prosecution. A subsequent IPCC report cleared him of any wrongdoing but did criticise another officer for making the offers of immunity, though he has faced no punishment as he has since retired. Abdullah Rehman, who is CEO of the Balsall Heath Forum community group and was at the meeting, said: 'The Prince had asked to meet Tariq for an update on the case. 'It was quite amazing. He showed real sympathy towards him and his situation. 'We feel there had been no accountability (because of) the fact eight men were cleared of this horrific act during the riots. 'We feel the police, the CPS, and the judge were completely incompetent and we as a community are asking for accountability. The Prince listened. 'He then spoke directly to Tariq and said some really reassuring words: never to underestimate himself, keep his chin up and he was 100 per cent backing a public inquiry, which was great news.' Detective Chief Inspector Anthony Tagg was adamant in court during the murder trial that he had disclosed the relevant information regarding the offers of immunity. He and another officer, Detective Inspector Khalid Kiyani, were investigated after the accused walked free. The judge had to tell the jury to disregard much of the evidence and the eight accused were cleared. The Prince at the meeting with police representatives and community leaders, with Mr Jahan to his left . The Duke was praised for 'putting everyone at ease' during the meeting on Friday . The second in line to the throne impressed community leaders with his knowledge of the case . He said he was 'not just words' and was lobbying senior officers for a public inquiry . The IPCC examined the manner of the police probe into the deaths and declared it had been mishandled in a finding unveiled in May this year. During the trial the judge accused DCI Tagg of having lied on oath about the late disclosure of an offer to give eyewitnesses immunity from prosecution. The IPCC report said Mr Tagg had no case to answer for misconduct. But it ruled DI Kiyani had acted recklessly in offering immunity to witnesses at a public meeting and would have faced misconduct charges had he not retired in 2012. The new West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson and his deputy Yvonne Mosquito were also at the discussion on Friday . After the meeting with the Duke, Mr Rehman told BBC West Midlands radio interviewer Arshia Riaz: 'It was quite overwhelming really, the way he talked to Tariq, the way he spoke to all of us and the sympathy that he showed towards this whole injustice was really heartwarming.' Mr Rehman said the Duke insisted he was 'not just words' but he was talking with senior police officers and the Governor General to get a public inquiry. He said the Prince wanted it 'to happen as soon as possible because there is an amount of trust that has been lost.' He added: 'In my job it is a big disadvantage if people in the community do not trust the police and the justice system. 'The meeting was really heart-warming and has given us a lot of confidence that there will be a public inquiry now. 'With the fact that the crime commissioner and the deputy crime commissioner were there as well, we hope something will come from this. Tarmiq Jahan addresses community groups in Birmingham following his son's death . Haroon Jahan as a boy (left) with his father Tariq pictured right . 'I think there will be more support now the Prince has given his approval and this will get the ball rolling.' Mr Rehman paid tribute to William's knowledge of the case and the way he made everyone feel at ease. 'I didn't know what to expect, but the Prince was really down to earth', he said. 'I do think it is down to his wonderful mother and the way she brought him up. 'How he welcomed us, spoke to us and how he really put us at ease when we were talking to him and the compassion he showed Tariq was really heart-warming.' The atmosphere on the streets of Birmingham was extremely tense after the deaths of the three young men in 2011, with some groups calling for revenge. Mr Jahan was credited with restoring calm after urging local youths to put their faith in the justice system. But his own faith in that system has since been sorely tested after he was denied justice for the death of his son. Mr Jahan wrote on Facebook that his bid for a public inquiry had also been backed by the family of the two brothers who died alongside Haroon. Birmingham community groups stage a peace rally protest in Summerfield Park following the death of Haroon Jahan and brothers Shazad Ali and Abdul Musavir . Prayers are held at Summerfield Park before the funeral for three men killed while guarding against looters in Winson Green area of Birmingham on August 18, 2011 . He posted pictures of his meeting with the Prince on the site and wrote: 'The Prince has given his full support and backing in calling for a public inquiry into the case of the three murdered boys. 'Three years on we still need answers and ultimately justice.' A spokesman for Clarence House declined to comment on the meeting, but did say the Duke has met privately with Mr Jahan on each of his last three visits to Birmingham. This includes last week's trip, with the other two taking place in 2011 and 2013. A statement from West Midlands Police said: 'A comprehensive and high profile investigation was carried out in relation to the deaths of Haroon Jahan, Shazad Ali, and Abdul Musavir. 'Extensive evidence was presented to the Crown Prosecution Service, who authorised the charge of eight men with murder. 'Following a lengthy crown court hearing they were found not guilty of murder by a jury on July 19, 2012. 'If substantial new information or evidence were to become available, it would examined by West Midlands Police, and if appropriate we would take it to the Crown Prosecution Service for their consideration. 'However it is difficult to see where that evidence could come from. What happened that night and who was involved was not really in dispute. 'The jury, having heard all the evidence and having seen all the CCTV, decided that the defendants were innocent. 'The judge therefore remarked that what happened must have been a terrible accident.' ### SUMMARY:

Prince William meets Haroon Jahan's father Tariq in Birmingham . 20-year-old died with two other men in Winson Green in August 2011 . Murder case against eight men collapsed at Birmingham Crown Court . Two police officers investigated by IPCC over failure of the prosecution . Probe related to offers of immunity from prosecution made to witnesses . Senior officer cleared of lying under oath but second officer criticised . He retired before he could be punished for wrongly making immunity offers . Duke tells Mr Jahan to 'keep his chin up' and that he backs him '100%' Prince is praised for being 'down to earth' and putting meeting 'at ease'

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: The man who shot two NYPD cops dead on Saturday had threatened to take his own life that morning before his ex-girlfriend talked him out of it - and he turned the gun on her instead. Early on Saturday morning, before murdering officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu in Brooklyn, Ismaaiyl Brinsley turned up unannounced at his ex-girlfriend's home in Owings Mills, Maryland and pointed a gun to his head, according to Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce. His ex, Air Force reservist Shaneka Thompson, managed to talk him out of taking his life - before he turned the gun on her instead. 'The young lady he shot, a very courageous young woman,' Boyce siad. 'He put the gun to his own head when he broke into her apartment, and then she talked him out of that, and he later shot her before he left. She said she'd never seen him with a gun before.' Victim: Shaneka Thompson, pictured, managed to talk her ex-boyfriend Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, out of shooting himself on Saturday. But he shot her instead and went on to kill two police officers in Brooklyn . He fired a single shot at her stomach around 5.50am before fleeing with her cell phone, which he later used to call her mother to apologize, cops said. A neighbor, Yevette Seay, 41, said she was woken by Thompson's screams on Saturday. 'I could hear something going on and it wasn't pleasant,' Seay said. 'Then I heard some screaming, then she went out onto her balcony and screamed for help.' Gunman: Brinsley killed himself after he was chased into the subway by cops following the murders . According to Seay, Thompson shouted: '"He shot me, I don't want to die, I don't want to die."' Thompson ran to Seay's apartment and banged on her door, and Seay said she could see the bloodied 29-year-old woman through the peep hole. Thompson wanted her to open her door, but she didn't know what was going on, so she kept it closed and called 911, she said, adding there was blood all over the carpet in the hallway. 'I told her to hang in there. I was afraid to ask her too many questions because she was hysterical,' Seay said. Her sister said she saw the gunman running through the parking lot. After seeing news reports about the New York shooting and the suspect's photo, Seay's sister figured out it that she had seen Brinsley running. 'We were right there in the middle of that, and to know what he did afterwards was even more disturbing,' Seay said. Within minutes, help arrived and Thompson was rushed to a University of Maryland Medical Center and is expected to survive. She was interviewed by investigators in hospital on Sunday night. She told officers that she had been romantically involved with Brinsley and that he somehow got inside the lobby of her building before knocking on her door. He did not have a key. Thompson told investigators that Brinsley didn't say anything about harming police officers and or mention police in any way, police said. Scene: Early on Saturday morning, he turned up at Thompson's apartment complex (pictured) unannounced before holding a gun to his head. He then shot her once in the stomach and she ran to a neighbor for help . Final image: He then jumped on a bus to New York City, where he was captured on surveillance footage in a mall near the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Afterwards, he shot dead the two officers in their car . He shot her following a dispute about their relationship status, Baltimore County police said. Thompson's grandfather, James Delly, said from his home in Blythewood, South Carolina, on Monday morning that he had been in touch by phone with Thompson's mother and that Thompson was doing OK. He said he didn't know Brinsley and that Thompson had never mentioned him. 'She's my granddaughter. She's a hard-working girl, and I love her,' Delly said. Thompson is an Air Force reservist, stationed at Pope Field at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where she works in medical administration and carries the rank of staff sergeant, said Major Lisa Ray, a spokeswoman for the 440th Airlift Wing. She told police that she had never seen her ex with a gun before. The weapon he used to shoot her and the two officers was bought in Jonesboro, Georgia in 1996, according to the New York Daily News. It is unclear how Brinsley, who had a long rap sheet, got the weapon. NYPD officers: The gunman fired a fatal round of bullets at Wenjian Liu (left) and Rafael Ramos (right) Murder site: Forensic officers work to find evidence at the car where the two officers were killed . After his attack on Thompson, he rode a Bolt bus to New York - as police started tracking Thompson's cellphone in a bid to follow him. After arriving in New York City, he took the subway to Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center in Brooklyn, where he dumped his ex-girlfriend's stolen cell phone. Around this time, Baltimore County Police sent the NYPD a fax alerting them to Brinsley and his intentions - but it did not reach cops on the streets in time. Brinsley identified his targets at Tompkins Avenue in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, then instructed passersby to watch before firing four shots at the two police officers in their car. He then ran into the subway station but a waiting train closed its doors. With police making chase, he then shot himself dead. On Monday, police released an image of Brinsley caught on surveillance footage walking though a mall next to the Barclays Center before he murdered the two cops. Deadly weapon: Police issued this image of the gun Brinsley used both against his girlfriend and to murder the officers and are trying to trace its history. Thompson said she had never seen him with a gun before . Threatening post: While he was travelling to New York, Brinsley posted this threat to police on Istangram . In the footage he is carrying a bag, which police believe contains the silver Taurus handgun he used to kill officer Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu. 'What you see over here are some images, we have a tape of the Atlantic Center Mall,' Boyce said. 'We're asking the public's assistance if they see him - because right now we don't know where he was for two hours. 'He's walking round there, he has a bag in his hand, he's had that bag in his hand for most of the day. We have him with that bag over by the crime scene as well. We believe the gun was in that bag.' The Atlantic Center is about two miles from the scene of the shooting. On Monday, Brinsley's estranged family told the New York Post that his life had been 'spiraling out of control'. Estranged: On Monday, Brinsley's sister Jalaa'a Brinsley, pictured, said she had cut off ties with him when he had turned to a life of crime. She said the family had tried to get him help but he would not listen . 'We were best friends when I was a kid,' his sister Jalaa'a Brinsley said. 'But when he turned to a life of crime, I had to separate myself from him. 'We tried to give him help. We tried to ask him to get some help. [But] he’s a grown man.' Brinsley's mother, Shakuwra 'Cheryl' Dabre, apologized to the families of the victims. 'I am deeply sorry for the loss of the two innocent men who were killed, and offer my sincerest condolences to their families,' she said in a statement. 'I am also grieving the loss of my son, and ask that my privacy be respected at this time.' ### SUMMARY:

Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, shot his ex-girlfriend Shaneka Thompson in Maryland before taking a bus to New York and killing two cops on Saturday . He had turned up at Thompson's apartment unannounced and put a gun to his head, threatening to kill himself, police said . But she managed to talk him out of it - and he shot her in the stomach . A neighbor recalled Thompson banging on her front door pleading for help and screaming: 'He shot me. I don't want to die' She is now recovering in hospital . Brinsley then went to New York and took the subway to Brooklyn where he shot officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu as they sat in their car . He fled and cops followed him into the subway, where he shot himself .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: A top parenting expert has warned mothers that being too possessive of their sons and not letting men be strong father figures can be detrimental to their boys' upbringing. The frank advice comes from parenting expert Noël Janis-Norton in her new book Calmer, Easier, Happier Boys. According to the parenting and behavioural specialist and former teacher, fathers have much greater influence than mothers in shaping boys into well-adjusted young men - but too often mothers find it hard to back off and let dad take control. A top parenting expert has warned mothers that being too possessive over their sons and not allowing fathers to get enough of a look can be detrimental . 'Without a strong father-figure, (which could also be a step-father or grandfather), boys may struggle to learn how to express their emotions constructively, how to handle their physical strength and learn to respect others - and themselves,' Janis-Norton tells the MailOnline. ‘Mothers need to allow dads to be dads and to have their own relationship with their children - and in particular with their boys - without trying to micromanage,' she says. The parenting expert, who has been credited by the likes of Helena Bonham-Carter turning her family life around, also warns mothers about being barking too many orders. 'A boy will lose respect for the mother who appears to bossing the father around – or criticising him,' she says. So when Dad gets little Tommy dressed in the wrong clothes, feeds him the wrong breakfast and then starts a pillow fight should Mum just look on through gritted teeth? 'Yes - absolutely she should!' says Janis-Norton. 'And the gritted teeth part comes because mums assume they know best - but actually none of us is perfect. We’ve got weaknesses too. 'We’re not doing it right all the time. So really we shouldn’t be judging the dads!' Despite the title of her book, the Calmer, Easier, Happier Boys author, is at pains to point out that keeping calm is not always the goal. In fact, she actively encourages play-fighting for boys . Of course mums are usually more familiar with the routines: 'Even in families where both parents work long hours outside the home, children tend to spend more time with their mothers,' says Janis-Norton. 'That’s not a problem for a girl – but for a boy it is. Because the genetically preprogrammed urge is for boys to copy their fathers. And it’s hard for a boy to do that when he doesn’t spend enough time with Dad.' Despite the title of her book, the Calmer, Easier, Happier Boys author, is at pains to point out that keeping calm is not always the goal. In fact, she actively encourages play-fighting for boys - especially when it's with their father. 'Mums generally don’t have an interest in play fighting and they worry someone's going to get hurt, or feelings will get hurt, or clothes will get ripped or something will get damaged. 'But none of that is as important as boys getting their energy out and through play fighting they learn a lot about how to fight fair. 'They learn how to control themselves, they learn how not to be too rough - and they also learn how to make amends if it does go too far.' By play fighting with Dad, boys can learn how to control themselves, how not to be too rough - and how to make amends if they have been too rough . 'Dads can teach boys all of that,' she says but does advise that play fighting that is likely to become manic or annoy others in the house is best taken outside. Of course mothers are not the only ones that need to make an effort to encourage that father-son relationship to flourish. Fathers needs to work at it too: . 'Because so many fathers are spending more hours at work and often have longer commutes their time at home may be taken up with household chores such as paying bills, mowing the lawn and doing repairs. Noël Janis-Norton has written the new book using her tried-and-tested Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting strategies . 'You can see that even a loving, conscientious father can end up not being a very good role-model. 'They may be reluctant to insist on good behaviour, to enforce rules and routines and to follow-through when rules are broken or routines drift. 'The less involved a father is, the less confident he will feel and the less confident he feels, the less involved he will want to be,' she warns. Janis-Norton decided to write the book, which adapts her tried and tested Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting strategies to focus on boy behaviour, after parents of boys kept asking the same questions. 'They were often frustrated exasperated and perplexed,' she says. 'Parents often complain that their boys are fidgety and easily distracted and socially immature. Parents worry that their son isn’t fulfilling his academic potential. 'Another issue that concerns parents of boys is the tendency towards disrespect, defiance and aggression. And parents don’t know what to do.' The most important piece of advice Janis-Norton has for parents is to sop telling their children off. It may not sound like a recipe for cooperative offspring, but according to Janis-Norton it is key: 'Telling off doesn’t work and motivate to improve,' she says. 'Thankfully there are strategies that can help parents get back in charge,' she says. ‘The strategies I teach parents will help boys to become more cooperative, more confident, more motivated, more self-reliant and more considerate.' One such strategy is Descriptive Praise, describing what your child is doing right rather than what they're doing wrong. ‘Let’s imagine a family around the dinner table. The little girl is eating with her knife and fork properly and using her napkin properly and sitting with legs in front of her – and waiting to swallow her food before she talks. 'The boy is doing all the opposite - plus he’s singing and talking too loudly and interrupting and maybe doing a deliberate burp. Noël Janis-Norton's new book: Calmer, Easier, Happier Boys . 'So it’s very tempting to keep saying "no", "don’t", "stop".' 'Reprimands may - or may not - get you immediate cooperation, but in the long-term telling off and endless reminders make the behaviour worse – because when children keep hearing about what they’re doing wrong, they start to feel that’s who they are. 'So after a while they don’t even bother trying to improve their behaviour. 'In fact, boys often enjoy being able to wind up their parents by burping or making some kid of a vulgar joke. 'So I advise parents to focus most of their attention on the OK things that the boy is doing. Notice and mention the tiny steps in the right direction. 'I’m not saying it’s easy to stay positive; it takes a lot of self-control. But it’s worth practising this strategy, which is called Descriptive Praise, because the more we notice when our children are doing things right, the more motivated they will be to behave better.' Within a meal a parent might say: ‘You’re sitting up straight’ or ‘You’re using your napkin instead of your sleeve’ or even 'Your chewing with your mouth closed and I cant see any of the food in your mouth’. 'If you take a moment to look carefully, there’s always something your son is doing that’s OK that you can comment on,' Janis-Norton says. 'For example, if your son is talking too loudly, just look at him, with a friendly face, and wait a few seconds until he pauses. Then at that moment you can say, with a big smile, "And now you’re not talking too loudly. You’re using your indoor voice".' Helena Bonham-Carter, who took a course in Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting in 2010 is just one mother who has been helped by Janis-Norton's strategies. 'It absolutely works,' the star said of trying Descriptive Praise with her son Billy, then seven. 'Billy is lapping it up. And as a parent, you become happier because you’re observing all these good things about your child, if you’re being specific about what they’ve done.' ### SUMMARY:

Advice in new book Calmer, Easier, Happier Boys by Noël Janis-Norton . Says fathers have much greater influence than mothers in shaping boys . Boys struggle to express emotions constructively without father-figure . Expert credited by Helena Bonham-Carter for turning family life around .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Turkey has blasted Britain for being too slow to inform it about three London schoolgirls who travelled to Turkey last week possibly en route to join Islamist militants in Syria. Yesterday, David Cameron announced all teenagers boarding flights to Turkey could be challenged by airlines about whether they plan to join ISIS under new plans. The Prime Minister told MPs that talks were being held with airlines to alert the police to ensure that 'at risk children are properly identified and questioned'. Prime Minister David Cameron told MPs that talks were being held with airlines to alert the police to ensure that 'at risk children are properly identified and questioned' It came after three London schoolgirls who are feared to have fled Britain to join ISIS, boarding a flight to Turkey before slipping into neighbouring Syria. Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said he hoped the girls would be found, but that it would be Britain, not Turkey, to blame if they were not. 'It is an condemnable act for Britain to let three girls ... come to Istanbul and then let us know three days later . 'They haven't taken the necessary measures,' he said. The three London schoolgirls arrived at Istanbul airport on February 17 and British authorities, concerned that they were travelling to join Islamic State fighters, informed Ankara on February 20, Arinc said. Turkey was able to do little to track the movements of three people who had entered as tourists, he said. Lured to jihad: Kadiza Sultana, 16, left, Shamima Begum, 15, centre, and Amira Abase, 15, right, at Gatwick . 'The search is ongoing. It would be great if we can find them. But if we can't, it is not us who will be responsible, but the British.' Thousands of foreigners from more than 80 countries have joined the ranks of Islamic State and other radical groups in Syria and Iraq, many crossing through Turkey. Turkey has said it needs more detailed and faster information from Western intelligence agencies to intercept them. Yesterday, it emerged that police spoke to Kadiza Sultana, 16, Amira Abase, 15, and Shamima Begum, 15, just months before they disappeared and found 'no evidence' that they had been radicalised . Officers were deployed to the school as part of counter-terrorism and anti-radicalisation measures after another teenage girl from Bethnal Green Academy in east London fled to join ISIS. Mr Cameron said that measures are in place to stop people with known terror links from travelling, but the latest case of the three girls highlighted problems with unaccompanied teenagers who are not on watch lists. In a Commons statement, Mr Cameron stressed that stopping travel to join ISIS in Iraq and Syria is 'vital'. He told MPs: 'When people are known risks, whatever their age, they go on our Border Warnings Index and we can intervene to prevent travel and seize their passports. 'But what this incident has highlighted is the concerning situation where unaccompanied teenagers like these - who are not a known risk - can board a flight to Turkey without necessarily being asked questions by the airline. 'We need new proportionate arrangements with airlines to ensure that these at risk children are properly identified and questioned. Flight to terror: Clutching their luggage, the three teenage friends prepare to board a flight to Istanbul . 'Whenever there are concerns, police at the border should be alerted so they can use the new temporary passport seizure powers to stop people travelling.' He revealed Home Secretary Theresa May and Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin will be working with the airlines to bring this about. It follows concern about differences between airlines on the rules governing children travelling alone on flights. The latest schoolgirls to go missing are feared to have fled to Syria to become Jihadi brides after being ruthlessly groomed online and 'brainwashed in their bedrooms'. They walked out of their homes last Tuesday before strolling through security checks at Gatwick Airport and flying to Turkey. Police fear their goal is to reach the terror stronghold of Raqqa where they face being married off to foreign fighters. 'Groomed': Shamima Begum (right) is thought to have been contacted directly using Twitter by a female IS fighter. She later flew from Gatwick Airport to Turkey with friends Kadiza Sultana, left, 16, and Amira Abase . Mr Cameron said: 'All of us have been horrified by the way that British teenagers appear to have been radicalised and duped by this poisonous ideology of Islamist extremism while at home on the internet in their bedrooms. 'They appear to have been induced to join a terrorist group that carries out the most hideous violence and believes girls should be married at nine and women should not leave the home.' Bethnal Green Academy headteacher Mark Keary (pictured) said there was no evidence that the girls had been radicalised at the school . Police spoke to the three British 'jihadi brides' just months before they disappeared and found 'no evidence' that they had been radicalised, it emerged today. Mark Keary, the headteacher of Bethnal Green Academy in east London - which Kadiza Sultana, 16, Amira Abase, 15, and Shamima Begum, 15, all attended - revealed that police had spoken to the girls last year. Despite fears that the girls were groomed online, Mr Keary issued a statement today in which he insisted the trio were not radicalised at school. He said access to Twitter and Facebook through school computers was 'strictly regulated'. Mr Keary said: 'With such measures in place, police have advised us that there is no evidence that radicalisation of the students took place at the academy. 'From the increasing number of similar news reports around the world, it's clear that this is an international issue that is increasing in severity and it is affecting schools across the country and beyond. 'We are constantly reviewing our safeguarding procedures.' Shamima, who is thought to be travelling on her sister's passport, was 'following' more than 70 known extremists on Twitter – many of them thought to be ISIS fighters. At least one of the girls is also thought to have been contacted directly using Twitter by a female ISIS fighter. However, despite these accounts being well known, none have been suspended by Twitter bosses. Mr Cameron said it highlighted the need for social media companies to do more to help the police and security agencies. He called for greater co-operation over contacts between extremists and those who could be radicalised. 'Internet companies have a social responsibility. And we expect them to live up to it,' the PM said. The UK government is also stepping up pressure for an EU-wide deal on sharing flight passenger records to track potential jihadists. It would provide the names of passengers, and details of how tickets were bought and the bank accounts used and who people are travelling with. Mr Cameron said it would offer 'vital information to help us identify in advance when people are travelling on high risk routes'. He raised the issue with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in December. However, the European Passenger Name Records directive has stalled in Brussels after a row about human rights. In the wake of the terror attacks in Paris and Copenhagen, a meeting of the European Council last week agreed that MEPs should urgently adopt a 'strong and effective' European Passenger Name Records directive. Mr Cameron stressed that tackling the problem was not just an issue for our police and border controls. 'We do need schools and universities and colleges to put aside concerns about cultural sensitivity or suchlike and really make sure they are doing everything they can to tackle people at risk of radicalisation. 'It is quite similar in some ways to the problem of forced marriage where we have had people disappearing from schools in parts of the country without there being proper ... protection in those schools. 'Indeed it is quite similar to the problem of FGM, but it is on an enormous scale and that is why we need to take such action.' ### SUMMARY:

Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister said he hoped the girls would be found . But he added that it would be Britain, not Turkey, to blame if they were not . David Cameron announces plan for airlines to carry out checks on teens . Warns internet firms they have a 'social responsibility' to report terrorists . Hints at breakthrough in plan to share passenger records across the EU . Three teenage 'jihadi brides' flew to Turkey from Gatwick last week . Twitter accused of allowing them to be 'brainwashed in their bedrooms' PM says they were 'duped by poisonous ideology of Islamist extremism' One of the girls was 'following' more than 70 known extremists on the site . Would have exposed her to graphic content - including brutal beheadings .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Madrid (CNN) -- Loud chants rise up from the street below, the noise bouncing off the wall of the building across the way and pouring in to an apartment on the top floor of a block in Vicalvaro, a working class suburb of Madrid. "The people, united, will never be divided!" yells the crowd, angrily waving banners and placards. "To fight is the only way!" Rocio pokes her head out of the window, watching the commotion below with interest, as dog-walkers, mothers with strollers, and pensioners carrying shopping bags join the throng. The scores of people gathering on the sidewalk are no nosey neighbors -- indeed, many of them are complete strangers to the family living on the fifth floor -- but they are all here to protect Rocio from eviction. The mother-of-one, with brightly-dyed hair, braces on her teeth, and worry etched on her face, hangs her head as she explains how she got here: The move from Ecuador in 2003, when times were good and jobs plentiful in Spain, the decision to invest in a home for Rocio and her son, now 17 and in high school. But then the global financial crisis hit, bringing Spain's economy to its knees; Rocio lost her jobs -- in a shop, and as a cleaner -- and the mortgage payments spiraled out of reach. She is an example of the crisis many Spaniards face as the country deals with the highest unemployment since the Civil War in the 1930s, and a recession entering its second year. For a while, Rocio got by on benefits, but then those stopped too, and now the bailiffs are circling. "They are about to evict me, and I'm fighting to stay because I don't have anywhere else to go," she says. "I haven't paid my mortgage because I can't -- I don't have any work." Inside the cosy two-bedroom apartment, there's little sign that the family may be turned out onto the street at any moment: The TV is on in the lounge, shelves and closets are full, and a piece of meat sits on the kitchen counter top, defrosting in time for tonight's dinner. In the main bedroom, there's just one concession to the very real threat that Rocio might be about to lose her home: a large black suitcase sits, empty, atop a bedspread dotted with pink roses. "I can't stand the thought of living on the streets with my son, but I have no idea where else to go," she says. "Just thinking about it makes me very sad." Rocio's story is echoed by others all over Spain: the global financial crisis knocked the bottom out of the country's housing market and sparked a major recession that left thousands jobless. The country's unemployment rate stands at 26% -- its highest level ever -- and the situation is even worse for young people, with more than 55% of 16 to 24-year-olds out of work. With no income, many are finding themselves unable to afford the mortgage payments on homes that are no longer worth the prices paid for them. Tomas Rodriguez is one of those who lost his home. The 33-year-old used to work in a grocery store, but was made redundant when the company got into trouble. Now he sleeps in Madrid's Plaza Mayor, a tourist hotspot by day, and cardboard city peopled by the homeless at night. "I was able to get unemployment benefits, but time has run out," he says. "I can't afford to pay for things, so now I'm living on the street... It's hard, but that's the way it is." Rodriguez says the financial crisis has left many ordinary Spaniards homeless: "People are losing their jobs. Now they can't pay their mortgages, they can't provide for their families, they struggle. "People have an image of the homeless that is not real -- they see somebody with a box of wine and they think we're all like that, [but] that's not the case... Even people with degrees are living on the street. Nobody is safe." It is this fear that has driven many Spanish people to action -- compelled to act by what they see as the gross unfairness of everyday life in Spain in 2013, where struggling citizens are evicted, even as hundreds of homes lie empty. Dozens of those gathered outside the door of Rocio's apartment block are supporters of "Stop Desahucios" (Stop Evictions), part of the Platform of People Affected by Mortgages (PAH) a group which campaigns to prevent banks and authorities turfing those hit by the country's economic woes out of their homes. "For every eviction, an occupation!" they shout, accusing the banks and authorities of "real estate terrorism." "The next eviction should be at the Palace of Moncloa! [the Spanish prime minister's official residence]" runs another chant; a few short years ago, most Spaniards would have shied away from such overtly political protests. Activist Dante Scherma, 24, says Spain's troubled history had left many wary of becoming involved in political issues: "Forty years of Franco's dictatorship made people disconnect from politics." But when simmering anger and resentment about the government and the economy gave way to the mass marches of the 15-M movement -- also known as the "Indignados" -- the floodgates were opened. In 2011, thousands of Spaniards took to the country's streets, inspiring the global "Occupy" movement with their protest camp in Madrid's Puerta del Sol. Sofia de Roa, 28, was one of the first to take part in the demonstrations, which she says were a political awakening for the Spanish people. "Citizens were not used to speaking out on political issues. My parents never discussed politics with me, but now that is changing. The movement awoke a lot of people who were not interested in politics before." Scherma agrees: "The 15-M movement made people talk about social issues, and about politics in normal conversations -- in cafes, restaurants, bars -- where before they only talked about football or fashion." Nowadays, Madrid is a city of protests -- it is almost impossible to cross the capital without coming across a sit-in or a march, petitions are everywhere, and the activists have returned to the Puerta del Sol. The demonstrations are organized through the internet, particicularly Twitter and Facebook. "We use the social networks to communicate," explains de Roa, brandishing her smartphone. "This is the tool that has permitted us to fight together, and to feel that we are not alone." Their subjects are anything and everything -- from education reform to job losses, government cuts to corruption -- but all reflecting a widespread dissatisfaction with politicians and their handling of the country's economic crisis. "They are destroying our future," says college student Alejandra, as she participates in a march in support of public education. "We know there's a crisis, but it could be less if they managed the money better. "All the political parties do is accuse each other, the government is destroying the country, and the conditions for workers are getting worse and worse." Each protest is color-coded: White for healthcare workers, green for the education sector, orange for social services, red for general trade union members, and black for public service workers. On Saturday, February 23, all these individual groups are expected to unite for rainbow-hued mass demonstrations in towns and cities across Spain, known as the "Marea Cuidadana" (Tide of Citizens). Back in Vicalvaro, the moment of truth has arrived, but the crowd -- now shouting at the police, insisting they should be ashamed of themselves for helping to evict families -- appears to have had an impact. Rocio is summoned downstairs, as lawyers from the PAH explain that she will be able to stay -- for a while at least. For those working to stop Spain's eviction epidemic, today has seen a small and temporary victory: The bailiffs have been put off for now, but Rocio knows they may yet return. For those demonstrating about cuts, corruption and a lack of cash, the protests will go on. CNN's Joe Duran contributed to this report. ### SUMMARY:

Spain has seen hundreds of protests since the "Indignados" movement erupted . In 2011, activists took over Madrid's Puerta del Sol, inspiring the global "Occupy" campaign . Two years on, many are still angry, and marches and sit-ins are common in the capital . A mass demonstration is planned in towns and cities across Spain on February 23 .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- Eight women and four men convened regularly over 13 months. They heard from dozens of witnesses, considered 30,000 pieces of evidence. All of it with one question in mind: Who killed 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey? On October 13, 1999 -- nearly three years after the diminutive Colorado pageant queen's body was found in her home -- the 12 grand jurors went back to their own homes, sworn to silence and with nothing apparently to show for their effort. "We do not have sufficient evidence to warrant the filing of charges," then-Boulder County District Attorney Alex Hunter said. The presumption was that the grand jury hadn't voted to indict anyone. That included failing to take action against JonBenet's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, whom Boulder police had said were under "an umbrella of suspicion" in the girl's death. Yet the Boulder Daily Camera, the newspaper in that Colorado city, now says there was more to the story. Citing several unidentified jurors as well as an assistant district attorney in Hunter's office, the paper reports that the grand jury did, in fact, vote to indict the Ramsey parents on charges of child abuse resulting in death. "We didn't know who did what," one juror told the Camera, "but we felt the adults in the house may have done something that they certainly could have prevented, or they could have helped her, and they didn't." "Or saying that they as a grand jury did not know what happened," retorted Lin Wood, an Atlanta attorney who has represented the Ramseys over the years. His comments came on CNN Tuesday after being asked to respond to what the anonymous juror told the paper. Wood said the grand jury was "likely confused." Hunter, the man who presented the case to them, didn't sign the indictment, however, the Daily Camera reports. Paper: Panel voted in '99 to indict parents of JonBenet Ramsey, DA didn't sign on . It's a decision that Bill Wise, a former prosecutor who wasn't directly involved in the grand jury proceedings, confirmed to the paper and said makes sense. "The state of the evidence in that case was simply inadequate to file a charge, in my opinion, and that obviously was Hunter's opinion, too," Wise said. "Whether it's against one or two people, you just didn't have the evidence." Wood called Alex Hunter a "hero." "Jon and Patsy Ramsey had been told back in '99 by their attorneys they should expect to be indicted," he said. "You have to go back 15, 16 years to remember there was a media frenzy of false accusations against this family. There was an incompetent and prejudiced Boulder Police Department investigation, the investigation that focused on day one on the Ramsey family and refused to follow the evidence that would have led to the killer of this child. "They (the Ramseys) expected that they would be indicted and they expected they would have their names cleared in front of a judge or a jury," Wood said. The attorney pointed to the 2008 findings from then-District Attorney Mary Lacy that DNA tests ruled out any Ramsey family member's involvement in the girl's death. "The DNA tests performed after the time of the Boulder grand jury not only prove the Ramsey family to be innocent and the grand jury wrong, they also make former District Attorney Alex Hunter a hero who wisely avoided a gross miscarriage of justice," Wood told CNN in an interview Monday. Those now in the Boulder County District Attorney's Office aren't commenting on the report in the Daily Camera, spokeswoman Catherine Olguin said Monday. Mom: 'There's a killer on the loose' It was December 26, 1996 -- a day after JonBenet got a bicycle as a Christmas gift -- when Patsy Ramsey said she discovered a three-page ransom note in her Boulder home. Police came and, later that day, found JonBenet's beaten and strangled body in the family's basement. Days after burying the girl in suburban Atlanta, where they had previously lived, the Ramseys appeared on CNN. "There's a killer on the loose," Patsy Ramsey said January 1, 1997, in an interview that brought an intense national spotlight on the case. "I don't know who it is. I don't know if it's a she or a he, but if I were a resident of Boulder, I would tell my friends to keep your babies close to you. There's someone out there." The parents insisted an intruder committed the crime, but no one was caught and no description was given. In time, the focus turned on the parents: Could they have done it? Investigators didn't find any sign of forced entry. A paintbrush from her mother's hobby kit was used to tighten the rope that choked JonBenet. And the alleged ransom note was written from paper inside the house and referenced little-known details about the family's past and its finances. Despite the suspicions, the Ramseys were never named as suspects. But they were a focus of the grand jury, which first convened in September 1998. On Monday, CNN talked with one juror and another's spouse, both of whom indicated that -- at the behest of the district attorney's office -- they would not discuss the case. Messages left by CNN with several other jurors were not immediately answered. But according to Wise and several jurors who talked with the Daily Camera, the decision was eventually made to indict John and Patsy Ramsey. This was even though the jurors weren't sure who, exactly, had killed young JonBenet. 16 years later, still no arrests or charges . According to Wise, who worked as a prosecutor for 28 years before retiring, there was disagreement among the eight or so involved in the prosecution about what to do after the grand jury voted to indict. He told the Daily Camera that he thinks his former boss did the right thing not pressing forward with the case, arguing that the evidence didn't show whether Patsy or John Ramsey may have been more directly responsible. "If I were on a jury, I would not convict either of them," said Wise. As is, while there have been many twists and turns since the grand jury was discharged in 1999, there's been no closure. The Ramseys were busy in March 2000, releasing their book "The Death of Innocence," filing multimillion-dollar lawsuits against media organizations who they say libeled their son (who was 9 at the time of JonBenet's death) and settling a lawsuit with a tabloid newspaper. That May, the Ramseys returned to CNN to face off with Steve Thomas, a former Boulder police detective who'd released a book of his own. Thomas claimed the girl died after "an explosive encounter" over a bed-wetting incident, something the Ramseys fiercely denied. The district attorney's office, then led by Lacy, took over the case from Boulder police in 2002. Four years later, there was an apparent breakthrough with the arrest of 41-year-old teacher John Mark Karr in Bangkok, Thailand. This came after he freely -- and repeatedly -- said he was with JonBenet the night she died, although he insisted her death was an accident and that he "loved" her. But soon after his arrest and return to Colorado, prosecutors announced DNA evidence proved Karr had nothing to do with JonBenet's death. That same year, 2006, Patsy Ramsey died at the age of 49 following a fight with ovarian cancer. Then came Lacy's 2008 letter to John Ramsey, exonerating him and the rest of his family after tests of DNA evidence found in the girl's underwear and beneath her fingernails. "To the extent that we may have contributed in any way to the public perception that you might have been involved in this crime, I am deeply sorry," Lacy wrote. Since then, authorities have said they'd continued to try to find answers. But despite their work, the case remains as cold as it was on that late December day, 16 years ago. ### SUMMARY:

Atlanta lawyer Lin Wood: Comments given to Boulder paper show grand jury didn't know truth . He called DA a "hero" for not indicting John and Patsy Ramsey for the 1996 death of JonBenet . The little girl was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her Colorado home .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Simferopol, Crimea (CNN) -- Money, time zones, flags, water, ships: just a few of the issues to deal with when you divorce one country and prepare to join another. The pro-Russian leadership of Crimea is now issuing declarations on an almost hourly basis about the practical consequences of joining the Russian Federation, even as much of the rest of the world says the whole process is illegal. Their biggest headache is geographical: Crimea has no land border with Russia. The closest link is a windswept ferry crossing in the far north-eastern corner of Crimea that connects Kerch with the Russian mainland. The town's mayor told CNN last week that a bridge will be built across the 4.5-kilometer wide Strait of Kerch to mother Russia, as promised by Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev, but that's a multi-year project. Then there are other challenges. Military . There are still thousands of Ukrainian troops based in Crimea, and for many of them it is home. Their fate is far from clear. The new Crimean authorities say they can stay in uniform if they swear allegiance to Crimea, or leave. Those wishing to "return" to Ukraine would be given safe passage, without their weapons. The Ukrainian government continues to insist the bases will not be evacuated. Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Vitaliy Yarema said Monday that "if the Crimean authorities try to force the Ukrainian military out, the Ukrainian military has the right to use force." For now there is a stand-off, with the Ukrainians saying that -- for several days at least -- an agreement has been reached that allows supplies to reach the troops still holed up in bases and surrounded by Russian troops. There's been no word from Moscow on this. The new Crimean government says it intends to take over Ukrainian naval vessels currently in Crimean waters. Some have been blockaded in a lake after several old Russian ships were scuttled. But most of the Ukrainian navy is in poor shape and would not be much of an asset. In fact, the Ukrainians admitted this month that only four navy ships were battle-ready, and the fleet's commander has already switched allegiance. Money . Currently ATMs in Crimea still dispense hryvnia, the Ukrainian currency. The ruble is little used in Crimea and money-changers would rather have your euros or dollars. Crimea plans to have its own central bank, tied closely to that of Russia, and adopt the ruble as the official currency in April. In practical terms, it's likely that some banks in Crimea will start working in rubles while others -- for the time-being -- will use the hryvnia. The new Crimean leader, Sergei Aksyonov, says he expects Crimea to be a dual-currency state for a while, and the regional parliament voted Monday to allow the hryvnia to remain an official currency until 2016. For its part, Ukraine's central bank has no plans to starve Crimea of currency, because it could wipe out the savings of Ukrainians living in Crimea, according to a bank official who spoke to CNN's Nina dos Santos on Monday. The Russian Deputy Finance Minister, Sergei Shatalov, has floated the idea of a special tax regime for Crimea while the new authorities adapt laws and tax regulations to conform with those of Russia and businesses and properties are re-registered. But Crimea will also need an infusion of Russian cash, especially if Western sanctions extend beyond visa restrictions and asset freezes for a few prominent individuals and start impacting businesses in Crimea. In the past the region has received hefty subsidies from the Ukrainian government as one of the poorer parts of the country. The average wage in Crimea is $240 a month, far lower than that of Russia, according to data from the Ukrainian State Statistics Committee. Analysts say Russia may have to pump from $1 to $3 billion each year into the Crimean government's budget if pensions and other benefits are to be raised to Russian levels - at a time when several other Russian regions are close to insolvent. Water and power . Between 80 and 90% of Crimea's water comes from Ukraine. A canal brings water supplies from the Dnieper River across the Isthmus of Perekop and into the Crimean peninsula. With warm, dry summers and low rainfall (15 inches a year), Crimea needs that water to irrigate its arable land. Ukraine says it has no intention of cutting off water supplies, perhaps because it in turn relies on Russia as a source of natural gas (and owes Russian provider Gazprom $2 billion on that debt). To cut off Crimea's water would look like a vindictive and indiscriminate gesture from a country desperate for western support. Russia could build a water pipeline under the Kerch Strait into Crimea, using water from the Kuban River, but it would be an expensive long-term project. Two-thirds of the peninsula's gas supplies come from the Ukrainian state-owned supplier Chernomorneftegaz. Crimea's coal-fired power plants supply only one-tenth of the electricity it needs. The rest comes from Ukraine. If Russia had to supply Crimea with most of its power needs, pipelines and pylons would have to be built. Which leads us to.... Energy resources . On Monday, the Crimean parliament passed a resolution to seize the assets in Crimea of two Ukrainian energy producers. One is the state-owned Chernomorneftegaz, which has drilling rigs off Crimea's west coast and in the Sea of Azov. The parliament's resolution said the takeover would include ownership of the region's "continental shelf and the exclusive (maritime) economic zone." This could be very problematic. While a land border would look relatively straightforward (even if rejected by Kiev), disputes on maritime boundaries would not, as Crimea's coastline is dotted by islands and spits of land. The Black and Azov Seas are estimated to hold nearly 60 trillion cubic feet of gas. Several offshore fields being developed are close to both Crimea and the Ukrainian mainland and may become a flashpoint as the crisis evolves. On Tuesday, the Ukrainian Justice Minister, Pavlo Petrenko, described the attempted confiscation of Ukrainian assets as "an act of thievery made by those people who are part of the pseudo-Crimean government." While losing a few railway locomotives is bearable when you are virtually bankrupt, losing oil and gas revenues is not. The crisis may also deter western oil companies from investing in exploration. Exxon has already put on hold its pursuit of one block. None will want to be associated with a government the U.S. and European Union has declared illegitimate. Flags . Already lowered and raised. The vivid blue and yellow of Ukraine is gone (though police cars will need repainting). Now the Russian and Crimean flags flutter side-by-side: both red, white and blue, but slightly different. Time zones . The new leadership in Crimea has already announced that on March 30 it will align the republic with Moscow time -- two hours ahead of Ukraine's in winter months. This would mean dark mornings in Simferopol. On New Year's Day, the sun rises at 7:22am in Simferopol. In the new time-zone it would rise at 9:22am. Food . Wander round a supermarket in Simferopol and it's soon apparent that most foodstuffs and household goods are coming from, or through, Ukraine. The profit motive and consumer demand may be enough to ensure this flow continues, but much depends on whether the new border hastily being drawn across northern Crimea becomes a regular European crossing or a grim reminder of the frontier that once divided the continent. The port of Sevastopol provides Crimea with an alternative but likely more expensive import-export hub. Its facilities are badly in need of modernization, but a $10 billion investment plan proposed by a Chinese tycoon may be disrupted by the current turmoil and/or sanctions. The future? There have been orderly separations and divisions in the past, most notably that of the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993, dubbed the Velvet Divorce. But that was painstakingly prepared with guidance from international experts. Crimea's rupture from Ukraine has been more sudden. Integration with all things Russian will take much longer, and cost much more, than the rapid political process playing out in Moscow. CNN's Nina dos Santos and journalist Victoria Butenko contributed to this report. ### SUMMARY:

There are issues when you divorce one country and join another, writes CNN's Tim Lister . The biggest headache is geographical: Crimea has no land border with Russia . There are still thousands of Ukrainian troops based in Crimea -- seen as their home . Currently ATMs in Crimea still dispense hryvnia, the Ukrainian currency .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- A young, beloved teacher found killed in the woods. A 14-year-old student in custody, charged with her murder. That much we know. But hours after both were found -- one dead, one alive -- in suburbs northeast of Boston, much remains unknown as to why Colleen Ritzer was brutally slain. "It's just surreal how quickly someone can go, and how much we take for granted everyday," said Danvers High School student Chris Weimert, describing Ritzer as "the nicest teacher you could ever have. ... I can't believe it." Authorities had been looking for the student, Philip Chism, first, after he was reported missing -- with police sending out messages via Twitter and Facebook on Tuesday evening, noting he'd been last seen around 6:30 p.m. and asking for the public's help in finding him. They got a call around 11:20 p.m. about another missing person, 24-year-old Ritzer, after she, too, hadn't returned home and was not answering her phone, according to Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett. A flurry of activity came next. Police in Topsfield, the town just north of Danvers, around 12:30 a.m. spotted Chism walking alongside a busy road there. Authorities also converged on Danvers High -- where Ritzer taught and which Chism attended -- finding blood in a second-floor bathroom, the district attorney said. The teacher's body was soon discovered behind the school. Chism was tied to Ritzer's death after police interviewed him and reviewed video surveillance from the school, a criminal complaint states. In court, it was alleged the teenager "did assault and beat" Ritzer, leading to her death. "Based on his statements and the corroborating evidence found at multiple scenes at ... Danvers High School and surrounding wooded area, the juvenile was subsequently placed into custody and booked for murder," adds the complaint. Read the complaint . The 14-year-old was arraigned Wednesday afternoon in a Salem, Massachusetts, court for murder, then ordered held without bail. A grand jury could decide if Chism will be charged as an adult. Meanwhile, the tight-knit community of Danvers is at a loss to explain why someone might take the life of Ritzer, a 24-year-old known for posting inspirational messages on her Twitter account and offering students extra help when they needed it. As the greater Bay State community paid its respects with a moment of silence before the Boston Red Sox began Game 1 of the World Series at Fenway Park, many heartbroken former students of hers gathered for a vigil outside the town's high school. All seven schools in the North Shore town closed Wednesday, as investigators did their work and students and residents mourned the loss of Ritzer. Everything will reopen Thursday except the high school, but counselors and grief specialists will be available there for two hours during the day, said Superintendent Lisa Dana. Classes throughout the town are set to resume Friday, she said. "I don't know why she had to die," freshman Spencer Wade said of Ritzer, adding that the mysterious and bloody nature of her death made it even harder to deal with. "She was such a wonderful person." Suspect had lived in 3 states in recent years . Just Monday, the Danvers Police Department was tweeting its support for families and first responders affected by the shooting death of a Sparks, Nevada, teacher -- allegedly at the hands of a 12-year-old boy. While no motive has been spelled out in Ritzer's death, some details have started to emerge about the the young suspect. Chism attended fourth grade at a Clarksville, Tennessee, elementary school, said Clarksville-Montgomery County, Tennessee, school system spokeswoman Elise Shelton. He then spent fifth grade at Hammock Pointe Elementary in Boca Raton, Florida, according to Palm Beach County school spokesman Owen Torres. The next three years, he was back in Tennessee at Rossview Middle School in Clarksville, according to Shelton. Then his family moved about 1,150 miles northeast to Massachusetts. Specifically, he was in Danvers, a town of about 26,000 people, and went to its lone public high school. Students said Chism played soccer there, describing him as somewhat quiet but still an active participant in class who had friends. "He ... seemed quiet and reserved, but he just seemed normal," said Ariana Edwards, who was in Chism's English class. Chism didn't drink, do drugs and came from a good family, one of his closest friends said. He described Chism as a good athlete who was shy at first but eventually warmed up to people, adding he hadn't been acting strangely lately. This friend and others got their first hint something was awry when Chism didn't show up for soccer practice. The team ended up setting out to look for their teammate, after seeing texts that he was missing. As they and police were looking for him -- and after Ritzer was killed -- Chism went to the movies, a source with knowledge of the investigation said. Blodgett declined Wednesday to offer specifics on the relationship between the suspect and the late teacher, though his office said Chism attended one of Ritzer's classes. When authorities first reported Chism missing on Tuesday, people responded on the police department's Facebook page with prayers for his "safe return." One neighbor described him as "a polite and friendly boy." The tenor of the comments changed significantly once he was linked to Ritzer's killing. "I'd say he's less 'polite and friendly' than you thought," wrote one Facebook commenter. "Everybody has to keep their eyes open. It's no longer safe to say that you can take everybody at face value." 'The sweetest, most harmless person ever' Ritzer graduated from Assumption College in 2011, that school said on Twitter. She was pursuing a master's degree in school counseling at Salem State University, that school said. "She believed children have much to offer and often do not realize how special they are as individuals," the university said. "In her application to Salem State she said she was dedicated to 'helping students in times of need.'" Charlotte Dzerkacz in 2011 taught at the same middle school with Ritzer, during which time the two became close friends. At all times, Ritzer wore a wide smile and was approachable to students and colleagues alike. "She was energetic, she was compassionate," Dzerkacz said. "You couldn't ask for anything more from a teacher or a friend." Like Dzerkacz, Ritzer's aunt Shirley Martellucci said her niece never had any trouble with students -- including during the past two years, when she was at Danvers High. "She always wanted to be a teacher, all her life," Martellucci said. "It's just unbelievable that someone would take her life at such a young age." On her Twitter account, Ritzer interspersed homework assignments and exhortations to work through tough math problems with cooking talk and inspirational messages. "No matter what happens in life, be good to people," she wrote in August. "Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind." Her family issued a statement seeking privacy as they mourn their "amazing, beautiful daughter and sister." "Everyone that knew and loved Colleen knew of her passion for teaching and how she mentored each and every one of her students," the family said in the statement. Students at Danvers High echoed that sentiment, as well as that of her school district describing Ritzer as "a dynamic and brilliant ray of light." In the halls, she was guaranteed to offer a warm smile. In class, she could be counted on to give an appreciated pat on the back. Even once the final bell sounded, she could always be counted on to offer teaching, guidance and support. "She was always the teacher (who would) go the extra mile for students, always the teacher to be there for students after school," said Kyle Cahill. "It's just crazy." Debate unfolds after teacher slayings in Nevada, Massachusetts . CNN's Dana Garrett, Laurie Segall, Eden Pontz, Rob Frehse, Rose Arce, Chandler Friedman, Stephanie Gallman, Alexis Weiss and Bob Crowley, as well as journalist Alexandra Field, contributed to this report. ### SUMMARY:

NEW: The suspect went to a movie theater after allegedly killing his teacher, source says . The district attorney says the suspect, Chism, was in one of Colleen Ritzer's classes . Her body is found in woods near Danvers High School in northeastern Massachusetts . Complaint: Suspect's interview with police, video evidence led to murder charge .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- There's a standard Atlantic City itinerary: arrive at one of the many casinos along the Boardwalk, head straight for the card tables and slot machines, drink some complimentary cocktails and proceed to empty your wallet. Sometimes it feels like it would be easier to cut out the middleman and simply hand over your money directly to the dealer because, let's face it, the odds are not in your favor. But don't let this dissuade you from visiting Atlantic City. Even if you're not a gambler, good times can still be had in this iconic Jersey Shore spot, which has largely bounced back from the devastation wrought by Superstorm Sandy. Atlantic City falls somewhere in between Vegas' glitz and Reno's grime, and you can find a bit of either, depending on your taste. There are a myriad of eating, drinking, sightseeing and shopping options, both inside and outside the casinos. So venture past the slot machines and try some of the following activities to see what AC truly has to offer beyond gambling. Belly up to the bar at local watering holes . Sure, Atlantic City's casinos offer a glut of nightclubs and ritzy bars with bottle service and pounding sound systems. But for a cheaper drinking experience with more character, check out the city's local dive bars and pubs. Many are open 24 hours for those who wish to imbibe until the sun rises. You might even chat with some regulars at places such as Culmone's (2437 Atlantic Ave.; 609-348-5170), a pleasantly seedy establishment a few blocks off the Boardwalk. If you're looking for some bar food to wash down your beer, try the Irish Pub (164 St. James Place; 609-344-9064) or Pic-A-Lilli (231 S. Tennessee Ave.; 609-344-1113) -- both offer wings, burgers and more, with a hearty dollop of local flavor on the side. Pretend you're an extra on 'Boardwalk Empire' The Knife and Fork Inn (3600 Atlantic Ave.; 609-344-1133) was a Prohibition-era speakeasy and restaurant. It frequently played host to a gang of colorful characters, including the real-life Nucky Johnson (the inspiration for the HBO show's Nucky Thompson character), before being raided and shut down by the feds. It soon reopened, and the restaurant is still going strong today, having been fully renovated and restored in 2005. It's an elegant place to enjoy a steak, some seafood, a martini or two and soak in the aura of the Roaring '20s. Get curious about history . If you're in the mood to do some historical sightseeing in the greater Atlantic City area, there are several interesting landmarks. Just south of town, in Margate, sits Lucy the Elephant, a six-story high National Historic Landmark. Lucy was originally constructed in 1881. Today, visitors can take guided tours inside the novelty pachyderm. Admission is $8 for adults, $4 for children ages 3 to 12, free for children younger than 3. Margate is also home to Marven Gardens, a neighborhood of beautifully restored houses from the '20s and '30s. The Monopoly property, Marvin Gardens, is actually a misspelling of the name, an error Parker Brothers acknowledged in 1995. Absecon Lighthouse juts up prominently from the north side of Atlantic City. Dating back to 1857, this is New Jersey's tallest lighthouse and visitors can climb to the top for a view of the ocean and surrounding landscape. Admission is $7 for adults, $4 for children ages 4 to 12, free for children younger than 4. The Steel Pier doesn't look much like it did in the early 20th century, but it has entertained visitors for over 100 years and is home to an array of modern rides, games and food vendors. Single tickets can be purchased for $1, or discounted books of 35, 80 or 200 tickets are available. Take a dip . The gently sloping beach along the Atlantic City Boardwalk is surprisingly appealing and clean. When the weather is nice, you can find swimmers enjoying the warm water and calm surf, as well as surfers and kayakers. From July 1 through Labor Day, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., there are lifeguards stationed on the beach from Caspian Avenue to Jackson Avenue. So grab a towel and some sunscreen, and claim your spot early. Look at the fishes, or catch them . The Atlantic City Aquarium is a great place to take kids (it also hosts birthday parties), with exhibits featuring a bevy of fascinating fish and aquatic mammals. It's located right on the waterfront at historic Gardner's Basin, where you can dine at dockside restaurants and check out the Atlantic City artists' colony. Charter sightseeing, dolphin watching and fishing boats leave from the marina. Admission to the Aquarium is $8 for adults, $6 for seniors, $5 for children 4 to 12 and free for children 3 and younger. Get some culture . It turns out Atlantic City is not entirely devoid of high culture. Artlantic is a project curated by Fung Collaboratives that turns vacant green spaces along the Atlantic City Boardwalk into temporary art projects that change from year to year. The project began in 2012 and will last until 2016. There are two art park locations, both an easy walk from the casinos, one between Martin Luther King Boulevard and Indiana Avenue and another on the Boardwalk at California Avenue. Indulge . This year's Atlantic City Food and Wine Festival takes place from July 25 to 27 at Caesars and features copious amounts of food, drink, parties and cocktails as well as talks and demonstrations from celebrity chefs. Packages are available to book now, starting at $250. Learn to gamble . This might seem like a cheat, but technically it's not gambling. Some casinos, such as the Trump Taj Mahal, offer instructional lessons in their poker rooms. According to the casino's FAQ, you can ask the shift manager to set up a free private or group lesson. Who knows, you might learn a thing or two for when you decide to hit the tables for real. Of course, the house doesn't like to lose, so maybe hold off the high-limit tables for just a little while. Explore beyond the tables . There is plenty to do inside Atlantic City's casinos besides gambling. Take in a music or comedy show, pamper yourself at an upscale spa, eat at one of the many posh restaurants or budget buffets or embark on an epic shopping spree. If consumerism is your preferred method of relaxation, you've come to the right place. The Quarter at the Tropicana is an Old Havana-themed cluster of shops, restaurants and nightlife, nostalgically hearkening back to the days of pre-Castro Cuba. The Pier Shops at Caesars is another area where you can spend a few hours away from the casino floor eating, shopping or watching The Water Show, a Vegas-style water, light and sound extravaganza that pops off once every hour (check with the hotel first, it is occasionally out of service). Walk the Boardwalk . Finally, take a leisurely stroll down the entire length of the Atlantic City Boardwalk, a tourist attraction that dates back to the late 1800s. On one side lies the Atlantic Ocean, stretching out behind the dunes and grass, and on the other are countless casinos, stores, novelty shops and fast-food joints. This summer, free events such as a concert by country singer Blake Shelton (July 31) and AVP pro volleyball (September 5-7) will take place along the Boardwalk. Settle in for some serious people watching. A diverse mass of humanity descends every summer, from Indian-American parades to teenage skaters to extended families from Ohio, all enjoying the sea air perfumed by the scent of fried dough and cotton candy. ### SUMMARY:

Atlantic City has some of the glitz of Vegas and the grime of Reno . It also has oceanfront lounging, a historic boardwalk and public art parks . Venture beyond the casinos to discover this Jersey Shore destination .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: (CNN) -- New developments in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 over the weekend revealed more details about what happened before the plane went off the grid on Saturday, March 8. But there are still major questions as investigators look for the missing aircraft. Here's a cheat sheet to help you get up to speed on the latest twists in what's become one of the greatest aviation mysteries in history: . What do we know about the plane's altitude during the flight? During the plane's last contact with air traffic controllers as it was approaching Vietnamese air space, it was reportedly flying at a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. But military radar tracked it changing altitude after making a sharp turn as it headed toward the Strait of Malacca, a source close to the investigation told CNN. The plane flew as low as 12,000 feet at some point before it disappeared from radar, according to the source. The official, who is not authorized to speak to the media, told CNN that the area the plane flew in after the turn is a heavily traveled air corridor and that flying at 12,000 feet would have kept the jet well out of the way of that traffic. Military radar tracked the flight between 1:19 a.m. and 2:40 a.m. the day it went missing, the source told CNN, but it's not clear how long it took the plane to descend to 12,000 feet. Why would a plane drop so drastically in altitude? A mechanical problem could explain it, some analysts said. The new details about altitude are "highly significant," said Mary Schiavo, a CNN aviation analyst and former inspector general for the U.S. Department of Transportation. "It explains so many pieces that didn't fit together before," she said. "Now, if we have a scenario where something happened, the plane made a dramatic turn and dropped from 35,000 feet to 12,000 feet, this scenario would fit what a pilot would do in the event of a catastrophic onboard event, such as a rapid decompression, a fire, an explosion. That's what you would have to do, descend, get down and turn around and try to get back to an airport that could accommodate an ailing plane." But other analysts cautioned that it's too soon to know and unclear whether the new information is reliable. "We've had so much information come out and so much contradictory information come out, that I caution against jumping to any types of conclusions at this point," said Mark Weiss, a former American Airlines pilot and CNN aviation analyst. How they're searching for debris . Was the aircraft's sharp turn programmed? Malaysian authorities said Sunday that the last transmission from the missing aircraft's Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System showed it heading to Beijing. That information seems to be at odds with the supposition, reported heavily in many media outlets last week, that someone reprogrammed the plane's flight path before the co-pilot signed off with air traffic controllers for the last time. "The last ACARS transmission, sent at 1:07 a.m., showed nothing unusual," Malaysian officials said in a written update on the search. "The 1:07 a.m. transmission showed a normal routing all the way to Beijing." This new information about the last transmission reduces, but doesn't rule out, suspicions about foul play in the cockpit. And it is more in line with the theory that some sort of emergency on board forced pilots to change course, analysts said, but it's still unclear what happened. Who's looking for the plane now? Countries from central Asia to Australia are searching for the missing plane along arcs drawn by authorities based on satellite pings hours after it vanished. One arc tracks the southern Indian Ocean zone that's the focus of current attention. The other arc tracks over parts of Cambodia, Laos, China and into Kazakhstan. Australia is heading up the search in the southern zone, in an area about 2,500 kilometers (1550 miles) southwest of Perth. Australian navy ship HMAS Success and 10 aircraft are participating in the search Monday. The crew of a Chinese search plane spotted "suspicious objects" in the area, China's state-run news agency Xinhua reported Monday. The Chinese plane has reported the coordinates of the objects to Australian authorities, as well as to the Chinese icebreaker Xuelong, Xinhua said. If search crews do turn up anything confirmed to be from the plane, they'll soon have more technology to help them. The U.S. Navy is sending a supersensitive hydrophone listening device to Australia to be on standby if debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is found and a search for the plane's voice and data recorders can be done, a U.S. military official said Sunday. The device is pulled behind a ship at slow speeds and is used by the Navy to find downed aircraft to a depth of 20,000 feet. The equipment was moved to JFK International Airport in New York on Sunday and will be shipped to Australia via commercial air Monday, the official said, emphasizing that the move doesn't signal any change in the status of the search. What clues are pointing to the southern Indian Ocean? France's Foreign Ministry said Sunday that radar data from a satellite pointed to floating debris in the Indian Ocean 2,300 kilometers (1,430 miles) from Perth, Australia. The data were immediately passed along to Malaysian authorities, and French satellite resources will home in more on the area, the ministry said. Satellite images previously issued by Australian and Chinese authorities have also captured possible large floating objects in that area, stoking hopes that searchers might find debris from the missing plane. The satellite image from China, captured March 18, shows an object that's 22.5 meters long and 13 meters wide (74 feet by 43 feet), officials said. Australian-led search teams in the southern Indian Ocean found no sign of it Saturday. Have search teams found anything? Not much, but they did find a wooden pallet as well as strapping belts, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority's John Young said. The use of wooden pallets is common in the airline industry. "It's a possible lead ... but pallets are used in the shipping industry as well," he said Sunday. The ocean is full of debris, and experts say that makes spotting possible wreckage more difficult. Is that even the right place to be looking? That depends on who you ask. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, whose country is heading up search efforts in the southern arc, sounded optimistic over the weekend. "We have now had a number of very credible leads, and there is increasing hope -- no more than hope, no more than hope -- that we might be on the road to discovering what did happen to this ill-fated aircraft," he said. Analysts said Sunday that the new details about altitude could mean that investigators are looking in the wrong spot. If the plane had been flying at 12,000 feet, CNN aviation analyst Mark Weiss said, it would have burned more fuel than it would at a higher altitude, which could mean projections about where it ended up are off base. "I don't know that we're necessarily searching in the right place," CNN aviation analyst Miles O'Brien said. "Seeing some wooden pallets floating in the southern sea is not what I would call evidence of an aircraft. So, I think it's quite possible that it could be in another place entirely, and maybe the search needs to be reevaluated." Can NASA help? NASA is repositioning satellites to help look for the plane, but that could take a couple of days, the agency said Sunday. The space agency said that it will check the archives of satellite data and use space-based assets such as the Earth-Observing-1 satellite and the ISERV camera on the International Space Station to scour for possible crash sites. The resolution of these images could be used to identify objects of about 98 feet (30 meters) or larger. Listening for fading pings . CNN's Sara Sidner, Tom Cohen, Steve Almasy, Ben Brumfield, Mitra Mobasherat, Jethro Mullen, Mariano Castillo, Faith Karimi, Barbara Starr, Mary Kay Mallonee, Ram Ramgopal and Nancy Leung contributed to this report. ### SUMMARY:

NEW: A Chinese flight crew spots "suspicious objects" in the Indian Ocean, state media report . Source: The missing plane flew as low as 12,000 feet before it disappeared from radar . Some analysts say that supports the theory that there was a mechanical problem . 10 search planes are scouring the Indian Ocean for signs of the plane .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: At 7:35 a.m. in Southern California, children who've brushed their teeth, combed their hair and stuffed their wheeled backpacks rub their eyes awake and shuffle onto the street. They gather at the intersection of Agnes Road and 35th Street in Manhattan Beach for the school bus. But this school bus doesn't carry the kids. The kids carry it. By its handles, the children hoist a yellow bus-shaped sign that reads, "Walking School Bus." The other students wave triangular orange flags to warn cars to slow down. They walk along the street and stop at another designated spot to pick up more kids at the "bus stop." Adult supervisors follow them for the half-mile walk to the elementary schools. All of them are exercising and they hardly know it. Walking to school is the practice of a bygone era and it's also a small piece of an extensive project to bring simple, healthy changes to a grand scale. Three Southern California cities, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach and Hermosa Beach, are undergoing a three-year health makeover under a program designed by Dan Buettner, an author and explorer. His mission is to "make the active option, the easy option." Buettner's program called Healthways Blue Zones Vitality City aims to make the healthy choice, the convenient choice by changing an entire community's environment. He's devising ways to change that environment by making it harder to find junk food, more convenient to get physical activity and easier to adopt healthy habits. The changes don't ask for "marathon and diets," Buettner said. It's small changes that add up, such as bike lanes, better pedestrian access, encouraging personal interactions and walking to school. Jennifer Agliozzo, a mom who coordinates the walking bus for Grandview Elementary School, said the walks have become more popular in just two weeks. When they walk to school, "people come out and wave like we're a parade," she said. "It's nice to get cars off the street and the traffic," she said. "It's also nice meeting other parents." The simple act of walking to school "engineers three to five miles a week, so you don't have to worry about gym class and you get people moving," said Buettner whose project finds the best practices in healthy communities to apply to U.S. cities. As Americans grow bigger and unhealthier, Buettner, an author of books about longevity and happiness, doesn't chalk it up to people being dumber or lazier. The blame for the obesity crisis cannot fall squarely on the shoulders of personal responsibility -- there's a bigger factor, he posits. It's the environment, he said Thursday at TEDMED, a conference discussing innovations in health. "We are all part of a system. We need to address the system." "You can't rent a movie, fill up on gas without running through the gauntlet of junk food that can pound you all day long," he said. "When you go to a Little League game, you can't go without seeing parents bring the pop and cookies. You can't get away from empty calories." There is a degree of personal responsibility, but "discipline is a muscle that fatigues," he said. The three neighboring California beach cities were chosen among 50 to undergo the health makeover under the project called Vitality City. A major criterion was that the local government and schools had to be on board. Bike paths are planned. The mayor of Manhattan Beach hosts public hours in form of walking meetings with his constituents. A local food chain, Good Stuff, offers calorie counts and nutritional facts including fat, carbohydrates and protein in its menu. The employees of the local Crowne Plaza Hotel organized a walking group with 70 members. At Body Glove, a water sports brand, managers got rid of the candy and chips in the office and replaced them with sliced fruit. The businesses that have signed on to the Vitality City's effort receive free pedometers and free smoking cessation classes. Andrea Soto, an employee at a call center called AAMCOM in Redondo Beach, said health issues at work also should be addressed. At the call center, workers sit in cubicles, staring into the computer screen and answering calls from stranded people using Los Angeles County highway call boxes. On a busy morning, there is hardly any movement, only the hum of conversations and typing. When Soto came to work at the call center six years ago, she gained 50 pounds. "When we get here, we gain weight. We were sitting down the whole eight hours. During breaks, we were sitting down. When we weren't sitting down at the call center, we were sitting down in the break room," she said. The company decided to get involved with the Vitality City. Every week, the office gets free lunch -- but the only rule is that it has to be healthy. The workers usually prefer Subway sandwiches. The owner started filling a bowl in the break room with apples, pears and bananas. The employees also share an office bicycle for those who want to bike rather than drive to lunch. If small efforts like this means that workers "eat fewer calories, have less stress in the workplace, then all of this helps the overall emotional and physical well-being of the business," said the owner, Steve Diels. It's more expensive to lose workers to sick days than to provide healthy snacks, he said. Since the efforts began, one employee has lost 20 pounds, and another has lost 12. About 75 employers, including aerospace company Northrop Grumman, the public school systems and municipalities, have signed up for the beach cities' efforts . The efforts that started in Southern California this year are based on the same principles of the pilot project helmed by Buettner in 2008 in Albert Lea, Minnesota, a city of 18,000. In Albert Lea, they banned junk food snacking in schools, started walking school buses, organized community-walking groups and identified the most socially influential people to spread healthy habits. The three-year project ended with an average weight loss of about three pounds, extended life expectancy of three years and a 40% drop in health care costs for the city. Buettner hopes to translate Albert Lea's results to bigger cities. So they arrived to the three California cities. They found that the local governments and schools supported their efforts. Plus the funding came from Healthways, a well-being company and the Beach Cities Health District, a preventive health agency. A Gallup poll of the three cities of 1,300 people found that 60% of the population was overweight or obese. Forty-six percent reported significant stress and their anger level was at 16%, which was on par with Detroit, Michigan, according to the poll. "What has changed is the environment," said Buettner of the recent rise in obesity issues. "The price of calories, we've engineered physical education out of our lives. We're good people but we need to think of health in a different way." In the early 2000s, Buettner, on assignment for National Geographic, sought to find longevity hotspots. After spending five years, he wrote a book identifying five cities where people enjoyed longer and healthier lives. The five are Sardinia, Italy; Okinawa, Japan; Loma Linda, California; Ikaria, Greece; and Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica. He and his team distilled the reasons why these communities were successful. People there had social and community networks (the in-person type, not Facebook), had daily purposes in their lives. And they did not seek out exercise, because their daily routines were "landmined with opportunity" for physical activity, Buettner said. To incorporate those lessons, the cities' program includes walking moais -- essentially a social group that walks together based on common interests and schedules. There are 150 of them exercising through the three beach cities. Irv Brand, 83, and his wife, Joan Edelmann of Redondo Beach, are the leaders of one of these walking groups. Before joining the walking group, they never exercised. Now they walk 12 miles a week. "Walking alone at a health club is boring," said Brand. "It's more fun to walk with a group. If we don't feel like walking, we go anyway because the group expects us to be there. "It's better than trying to do it on our own." ### SUMMARY:

Three beach cities in California are attempting to change their health outcomes . Schools encourage kids to walk, businesses encourage workers to adopt healthy habits . Founder believes environment is bigger factor in obesity than individual responsibility .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Allan Levene really -- really -- wants to serve in Congress. So much so, that he plans to run in four states: Georgia. Minnesota. Michigan. Hawaii. It's puzzling, but the Republican freely admits his strategy increases his odds of winning a House seat. As he sees it, all roads lead to Rome. "No matter where you win a seat in Congress, you go to the same building. You do the same work," he said. "You can work for your constituents, which all have similar needs, but the key is you go to Washington and help solve the country's problems." Legally, his strategy is possible. But it likely will be a logistical nightmare. Running a congressional campaign as a political newcomer is tough enough. Multiply that by four and add a society that's quick to shun "carpetbaggers" -- people who move to a state to run for office -- and you get what some experts predict to be a waste of time and money. It appears Levene may be the first to try the unusual tactic. But what if he succeeds? Is he blazing a trail for a new campaign model? Jumping through the loophole . The Constitution lists only a few requirements for a House member: Be at least 25, a U.S. citizen for at least seven years and a resident of the state when elected. But the Constitution says nothing about primaries or the nominating process, and that's the heart of Levene's strategy. The top 12 campaign questions of 2014 . Leaving out a rule that would prevent multi-state campaigns was an understandable omission by the Founding Fathers, Levene said. How could they have envisioned such an approach? "Back then they couldn't fly from state to state," he said. In Levene's case, all four races are open, meaning there's no incumbent. Two districts — the ones in Georgia and Minnesota — are considered safe for Republicans, while the other two are considered safe for Democrats. The four states only require candidate residency at the time of the general election, not the primary. They also don't have laws prohibiting candidates from running in the primary if they're attempting to get on primary ballots in other states. The Federal Election Commission tracks the money side of federal campaigns. It told Levene his mission was legal as long he kept his fundraising separate in each state, meaning he couldn't raise money in Georgia and spend it in Minnesota. The FEC told CNN it hasn't issued specific guidance on that kind of campaign strategy. 'All politics is local' Levene, an avid blogger with some unorthodox ideas, has already created websites for each of his campaigns. But his true focus is on Georgia's 11th Congressional District, whose current representative, Republican Phil Gingrey, is running for the Senate. Of the four states, Georgia holds its primary first, on May 20. If Levene doesn't win the GOP nomination, he'll campaign in the other states. Minnesota, Michigan and Hawaii have nominating contests in August, just days apart from each other. Jordan Powell, a Republican political consultant based in Texas, said he's never heard of someone trying to run in multiple states and argued it's not a "viable political strategy." "There's two problems: There's the practical day-to-day issues, like scheduling, fundraising, meetings, etc," Powell said. "If you get past that, you still have a problem, to me, with voters about political opportunism." CNN Poll: GOP has edge in early midterm indicator . A number of people, including Powell, brought up a common saying coined by former House Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill: "All politics is local." "It's very much true in Hawaii," said David Chang, chairman of Hawaii's Republican Party. "People care what high school you went to, what nationality you are, what your last name is, how many generations your family has been in Hawaii, whether you know my auntie and uncle." "Being from the mainland and running for the office Hawaii, you have an uphill battle because of those dynamics," he added. Levene hasn't lived in Hawaii; he has only visited the state. But he says he still has a plan specific to the Aloha State. He wants to bring more IT jobs and companies from California and make the island known for being more than a tourist hub. "It's clear that you need a noisy, loud congressional mouthpiece. I am noisy and I will put Hawaii on the map," he writes on his Hawaii website. Born in London, Levene, 64, first came to the United States when he was 21 and eventually became a naturalized citizen. He pursued a career in the IT industry and is now settled in Georgia, but he has lived in Michigan in the past, which is why he chose the Wolverine State as one of his "four." As for Minnesota, the 6th Congressional District has been a Republican stronghold for the past decade. Its current representative, Michele Bachmann, is retiring. Levene is attracted to races that would essentially guarantee him a general election victory if he wins the primary. "The election process is about winning first and foremost," he said. But three well-known Republicans have already been vying for the seat for months. "The runway for candidates who are serious about it literally started the day Congresswoman Bachmann announced her retirement," said Keith Downey, chairman of the Minnesota Republican Party. Downey had not heard of Levene's plan to run in the state, but found it difficult to see voters gravitating toward an outsider. "I would imagine, like in most places, Minnesota voters are a little more comfortable voting for their own and having some past connection to a candidate," he said. Copycats in the future? Levene is surely hedging his bets. But what if his plan works? A source who worked to get Democrats elected to the House last decade seemed open to the idea. "I wish we had known about that. Maybe we could have gotten even more Democrats elected," the source said, somewhat jokingly. The source, who asked not to be identified, added the tactic could come in handy for candidates running in districts along state borders. 7 keys to the 2014 midterms . Others had a hard time imagining the strategy becoming one for the textbooks. Powell said "some of the practical decisions would be easier" in such a scenario, but the candidate would still have a "messaging problem." "You're still looking like you just desperately want to be in Congress, regardless of the district or the issue," he said. Such an image doesn't pass "the smell test" with voters, he added. Another House campaign strategist, who asked not to be identified in order to speak more freely, had also never heard of the multi-state approach but said "it's something that a credible strategist would never recommend for any candidate." "You're opening yourself up to several attacks," the source said. 'Just ideas' Levene realizes he will run into criticism and said he's prepared to take on his opponents. "I'm not carpet bagging in the sense that I want to take advantage of the district that I'm running for," he said. "I will work very hard for whichever district that I'm elected to." For Levene, he believes he must get elected to carry out his ideas—which include carving out a back-up territory for Israel inside of Texas, and creating a pathway for thousands of Chinese nannies to come to the U.S. and teach children how to speak Mandarin. "Having ideas without going to Washington means they're just ideas," he said in his Americanized British accent. "No one will pay the slightest bit of attention." He also wants to eliminate corporate income taxes. To combat "career politicians," he wants to void pensions for members if they don't leave office after four terms in the House or two terms in the Senate. Part of his rush to get elected stems from his expectation to live for only one more decade, a prediction based on family history. He's also convinced the U.S. currency will collapse by 2020. "My job is to stop that from happening." If he doesn't win any of the races, he and his wife plan to liquidate all their real estate and other assets, buy Swiss francs and simply wait until the economy gets better. "If what I want to do does not resonate with the public, then the public will choose somebody else," he said. "And that's OK." ### SUMMARY:

Allan Levene wants to run for Congress in Georgia, Minnesota, Michigan and Hawaii . Constitution and state laws don't preclude the strategy . Experts mostly say it could be a waste of time, but it could set a new campaign model . It's believed Levene is the first to try the approach .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Associated Press . UPDATED: . 01:51 EST, 18 January 2012 . Accused: Itzcoatl Ocampo, 23, is charged with four counts of murder . The Iraq War veteran would carefully stalk each of his victims from among the thousands of homeless living in Southern California. He would then stab them repeatedly with a knife that could cut through bone, authorities say. For his fourth and latest victim, they say, Itzcoatl Ocampo selected a homeless man featured in a Los Angeles Times story about a killing spree that terrorised those living on the streets for weeks. And Ocampo had plans for more, until he was chased down by bystanders Friday night after the fatal stabbing of a 64-year-old homeless man. He was caught with blood on his hands and face, authorities say. 'He was a monster,' Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas told reporters at a news conference. 'He was a terrible threat, particularly to the homeless people in our community.' Ocampo was charged on Tuesday with four counts of murder and special allegations of multiple murders and lying in wait and use of a deadly weapon. Three victims were stabbed more than 40 times each with a single-edged blade at least seven-inches (17.7-centimeters) long. Authorities declined to say whether they had identified a motive. Rackauckas said he had no indication that Ocampo was mentally ill. Ocampo's family said the 23-year-old was a troubled man after he returned from Iraq in 2008. Ocampo was being held in isolation at an Orange County jail while officers keep an eye on him 24 hours a day, officials said. If convicted, Ocampo faces a minimum sentence of life in prison without parole. Authorities have yet to decide whether to seek the death penalty. Scroll down for video . Service: A relative holds a photograph of Itzcoatl posing proudly in his Marines uniform. He is said to have become paranoid and delusional after his deployment . Normal young man: Itzcoatl Ocampo's family has released these images of the young man, showing him in happier times . Ocampo is due to appear in court . today, but his attorney said his arraignment would likely be postponed . since the attorney was not allowed inside the jail to speak with his . client over the weekend and has met with him only briefly. Defense attorney Randall Longwith declined to comment on the allegations. He said Ocampo is being held in a mental ward. 'I walked in, he was curled up in a blanket,' Mr Longwith said. 'He looked like a wet puppy dog.' The killing spree began in December, . prompting police and advocates to fan out across the county known as the . home to Disneyland and multimillion-dollar beachfront homes to urge the . homeless to sleep in groups or in one of two wintertime shelters. The victims: (L-R) James . McGillivray was stabbed outside a shopping centre on December 20; Lloyd . Middaugh was found stabbed on a riverbed on December 28; and Paulus . Cornelius Smit was found stabbed outside a library on December 30 . Murder weapon: Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas holds up picture of a knife similar to the one he accuses of being used by Itzcoatl Ocampo in the killings . Locations: Police in Orange County, California say Ocampo is responsible for four killings since December . Ocampo's arrest Friday was the latest . violent crime involving a veteran. This month, an Iraq War veteran . fatally shot a ranger at Mount Rainier National Park and died later as . he fled police across the mountain's snow-covered slopes. Veterans Affairs officials say such . high-profile violence can paint an inaccurate picture of returning . veterans. The cases, however, raise the issue of veterans having a . difficult time adjusting back into civilian life. A neighbour who is a Vietnam veteran . and Ocampo's father both tried to push him to get treatment at a . Virginia hospital, but he refused. His father, Refugio Ocampo, said his . son came back from his deployment a changed man. He said his son . expressed disillusionment and became ever darker as he struggled to find . his way. After Ocampo was discharged in 2010 . and returned home, his parents separated. The same month, one of his . friends, a corporal, was killed during combat in Afghanistan. His . brother said Ocampo visited his friend's grave twice a week. Clues: An image from surveillance video at a California strip mall shows James McGillivray before his death . Search: Police in Los Angeles, California arrested Ocampo in connection with the murder of a homeless man on Friday night. Witnesses chased the suspect as he fled a car park and led police to him . In custody: FBI special agent in charge William O'Leary speaks at the podium to announce the arrest of Itzcoatl Ocampo, who was charged with the murders of the four men on Tuesday . Like the men Ocampo is accused of . preying on, his father is homeless. His father lost his job and ended up . living under a bridge before finding shelter in the cab of a . broken-down big-rig he is helping repair. Days before his arrest, Ocampo . visited his father, warning him of the danger of being homeless. He . showed him a picture of one of the slain men, his father said. 'He was very worried about me,' his father said. 'I told him, "Don't worry. I'm a survivor. Nothing will happen to me."' Itzcoatl Ocampo followed a friend . into the Marine Corps right out of high school in 2006. He now lives . with his mother, uncle, younger brother and sister in a rented house on a . horse ranch surrounded by the sprawling suburbs of Yorba Linda. His family described a physical . condition he suffered in which his hands shook and he suffered . headaches. Medical treatments helped until he started drinking heavily, . they said. Worried: Refugio Ocampo, the father of the 23-year-old who is the prime suspect in the killings, is himself homeless and said the Iraq war killed the man his son used to be . As fear spread through the homeless . community, police last week set up road blockades to seek help from . members of the public in tracking down a suspect. Ocampo, who appeared . to relish the media spotlight, passed through the checkpoints twice but . did not draw attention to himself, Mr Rackauckas said. Ocampo was arrested Friday night when . witnesses chased him down after John Berry was stabbed to death outside . a fast-food restaurant in Anaheim, about 26 miles (42 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles, authorities said. A day before he died, Berry had filed . a report with police saying he believed someone was trying to follow . him. It was one of nearly 600 leads and tips that officers received. 'It is unfortunate that we didn't get to him before the suspect did,' Anaheim Police Chief John Welter said. In addition to Berry, James Patrick . McGillivray, 53, was killed near a shopping center in Placentia on . December 20 and Lloyd Middaugh, 42, was found near a riverbed trail in . Anaheim on December 28. The third victim, Paulus Smit, 57, was stabbed . to death outside a library in Yorba Linda on December 30. Mr Smit became homeless last year . after his girlfriend's home was shuttered by code enforcement officers . because of hoarding and clutter. Ever since, the father of three had . moved between the homes of two of his children and spent some time on . the streets, his daughter Julia Smit-Lozano said. Smit-Lozano, who spent the Christmas . holiday with her father days before he was killed, welcomed the news of . Ocampo's arrest. 'I'm glad the streets are a little safer for the rest . of the homeless,' she said. Watch video here . View more videos at: http://nbclosangeles.com. ### SUMMARY:

Murder charges filed on Tuesday against Itzcoati Ocampo . Killing spree began in December . Saw three victims stabbed more than 40 times each; caught after attacking a fourth, police say . Family said deployment in Iraq 'killed the man he used to be' Before arrest, was known to dedicate his life to the homeless .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Mark Duell . PUBLISHED: . 11:56 EST, 5 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 14:52 EST, 5 November 2012 . Barack Obama told voters in a bullish speech as he today stormed into the final day of campaigning before Election Day in the US: 'I may be full of grey hair now, but I’m just as motivated as I was four years ago. We’ve come too far to turn back. I’m not tired. I’m not weary.’ Ahead of tomorrow’s big day, the President and his Republican rival Mitt Romney once again visited the country’s toughest battleground state in Ohio, which has picked the winner of the last 12 elections. It came as Mr Romney pulled ahead of President Obama in the key Rasmussen daily tracking poll. It gave the Republican a one-point lead by 49 to 48 per cent. The same survey had them tied yesterday. Mr Romney was also given a two-point lead in Virginia, Florida and Ohio - but a national poll of more than 36,000 voters in 27 states said the President will win re-election by two percentage points. Scroll down for videos . In profile: The winner is not determined by the nationwide popular vote but in state-by-state contests, making nine 'battleground' states very important in such a tight race . The two contenders are locked . in one of the closest presidential races in recent U.S. history, but a . majority of surveys in the battleground states show President Obama with . a slight advantage. That gives him an easier path to the 270 electoral . votes needed for victory. No Republican has won without Ohio, . and Mr Romney could still make a late visit there on Election Day. The . winner is not determined by the nationwide popular vote but in . state-by-state contests, making nine ‘battleground’ states that don't . consistently vote either way very important in such a tight race. Winning a state gives Mr Romney or . President Obama that state's electoral votes, which are apportioned to . states based on a mix of population and representation in Congress. There is a chance of a replay of . 2000, when Republican George W. Bush won the presidency with an . electoral vote majority while Democrat Al Gore had a narrow lead in the . nationwide popular vote. Battle: President Barack Obama (left) starts to move to the music of performer Stevie Wonder who was off-stage performing at the end of the campaign event yesterday in Cincinnati, Ohio; while Mitt Romney (right) gestures as he greets supporters as he arrives at a Florida campaign rally at Orlando Sanford International Airport, in Florida . Big fans: President Barack Obama greets supporters after speaking at a campaign event at McArthur High School yesterday in Hollywood, Florida . All dressed up: Kathy Furz, of Strongsville, Ohio, stands outside of Lakewood High School after Vice President Joe Biden had a campaign rally in Ohio . Both President Obama and Mr Romney say . this year's winner will be determined by who can get the most . supporters to the polls. ‘This is going to be a turnout election,’ the . President said today. 'I may be full of grey hair now, but I’m just as motivated as I was four years ago. We’ve come too far to turn back. I’m not tired. I’m not weary' President Barack Obama . President Obama’s campaign knows that . the feeling of making history by electing America's first black . president that fired up the 2008 campaign has cooled. Rock legend Bruce . Springsteen and rapper Jay-Z were joining Obama for Ohio events today. ‘We have one job left,’ and that's . getting people out to vote, Mr Romney told a Florida crowd this morning. The crowd chanted, ‘One more day!’ Mr Romney, who described himself as . ‘severely conservative’ during the GOP primary campaign, is now . appealing to the centre and highlighting his ‘bipartisan record’ as . Massachusetts governor. Here we go: Bags filled with voting supplies wait to be doubled checked prior being sent to precincts in Charlotte, North Carolina, today . Explained: Election volunteer Boyd McGee (left) talks to first-time volunteer Shawn Meachem (right) as they prepare to double check voting supplies in Charlotte . Backing: Salmon Jackoyo, 32, puts the finishing touches to a hat painted with the flags of the USA and Kenya and reading 'Obama for President' in Kisumu, Kenya . He continues to insist that his . experience as a businessman would help fix the still-weak U.S. economy - . a top issue with voters. President Obama meanwhile has come back from a . weak performance in his first of three debates with Mr Romney last . month and hammered at his rival’s shifting positions. 'One more day!' Crowd's chant at Mitt Romney event in Florida . The final national NBC/Wall Street . Journal Poll, released yesterday, showed President Obama with the . support of 48 per cent of likely voters, with Mr Romney receiving 47 per . cent. The final national poll from the Pew . Research Center found President Obama with a three-point edge over Mr . Romney of 48 per cent to 45 per cent. This was an improved showing that . indicates the President may have benefited from his handling of the . response to last week's Superstorm Sandy. He suspended three full days . of campaigning to deal with the East Coast disaster. Vote for me: U.S. Republican presidential nominee and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney speaks today at a campaign rally in Sanford, Florida . Child's play: A boy in the audience holds a puppet of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney today at a campaign rally at the airport in Sanford, Florida . Even babies are involved: Supporters of U.S. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney attend a campaign rally today in Sanford, Florida . Supporter: Former President Bill Clinton, right, speaks at a rally for Barack Obama yesterday at Pullen Park in Raleigh, North Carolina . If the election were held now, an AP . analysis found President Obama would be all but assured of 249 electoral . votes by carrying 20 states that are solidly Democratic or leaning his . way and the District of Columbia. Mr Romney would lay claim to 206, from . probable victories in 24 states that are strong Republican ground or . tilt toward the Republicans. Up for grabs are 83 electoral votes spread across Colorado, Florida, Ohio, New Hampshire, Virginia and Wisconsin. Of those, Republicans and Democrats . alike say President Obama seems in slightly better shape than Mr Romney . in Ohio and Wisconsin, while Mr Romney appears to be performing slightly . better than President Obama or has pulled even in Virginia and Florida. With President Obama sustaining his . lead in Ohio, Mr Romney has made a surprise, last-minute move in . neighbouring Pennsylvania. The state has voted Democratic in the last . five presidential elections and has long been counted in the President . Obama column. Mr Romney made his first visit of the . autumn campaign yesterday. The theme from the movie ‘Rocky’ blared from . the loudspeakers as he stepped to the podium in a Philadelphia suburb. ‘The people of America understand . we're taking back the White House because we're going to win . Pennsylvania,’ Mr Romney told a large crowd on a cold night. President Obama's campaign said Mr . Romney's move in Pennsylvania showed the Republican's desperation over . his diminished chances in Ohio. And the Obama campaign announced that . former President Bill Clinton - President Obama's most powerful . surrogate - would make four campaign stops in Pennsylvania today. About 30million people have already . cast ballots in 34 states and the District of Columbia, although none . will be counted until Election Day. Storm-hit New York and New Jersey . hurried to make voting accessible in a region where more than 1million . remain without power. But the states are seen by both campaigns to be . heavily in favour of the President. VIDEO: Obama rallies supporters in Wisconsin a day before election . VIDEO: Do you want real change? Romney on campaign in Colorado . ### SUMMARY:

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are neck and neck in swing states which will decide winner of the White House . Both visit country's toughest battleground state in Ohio // Rasmussen poll gives Romney tight 49% to 48% lead . Winner is determined in state-by-state contests - making nine 'battleground' states very important in tight race .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Martin Beckford . PUBLISHED: . 16:06 EST, 15 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 16:39 EST, 15 June 2013 . A woman who failed to reveal she was  a convicted thief when she applied to become a police constable is suing Scotland Yard for discrimination. Rachida Sobhi’s bid to become a WPC was turned down when background checks revealed she had a criminal record for stealing from a previous employer. But she has launched legal action against the force, claiming that she has amnesia that caused her to forget her crime – but no other aspect of her life. It is believed that Ms Sobhi is the first person with amnesia to have been declared disabled for the purposes of an employment tribunal. Rachida Sobhi (left) in her PCSO uniform at a community event in Notting Hill. She is suing the Met for disability discrimination . Astonishingly, her claim has been backed by a renowned psychiatrist – but the MetropolitanPolice is ‘vigorously’ contesting  her case, arguing that her condition is irrelevant as she would not be allowed to become a constable with her criminal record in any case. The case, which has been described as ‘bizarre’, has raised fresh concerns about the compensation culture in the police. Earlier this year The Mail on Sunday revealed that PC Kelly Jones was suing a petrol station owner because she tripped over his kerb while investigating a possible break-in. Ms Sobhi, who is already employed by the Met as a  Police Community Support Officer, has had her case dismissed by an employment tribunal. But she won the right to a fresh hearing after a senior judge ruled she was indeed disabled when she filled in the application form. As a PCSO – nicknamed ‘plastic police’ because of their lack of arrest powers – she can earn up to £28,539 a year. She previously worked in Notting Hill in West London and continues to be employed by the Met as part of a ‘safer neighbourhoods team’ in Bromley, South East London, patrolling local streets with regular police officers and attending community events. Mr Justice Keith allowed a new hearing. He said that she forgot about her conviction due to traumatic events in her life . In August 2008 she applied to become a . constable but when her fingerprints were taken as part of the process . it emerged that she had a criminal record. ‘She . had been convicted in 1991 of an offence of theft from a previous . employer for which she had been conditionally discharged,’ according to . the judgment of the appeal tribunal published this week. It . is understood she had been a cashier in a department store in Brixton, . South London, and was arrested with other staff for stealing make-up. Friends say she protested her . innocence at the time but she was convicted and received a conditional . discharge, which means the offence went on her criminal record but she . received no further punishment. Ms . Sobhi received a disciplinary reprimand for not mentioning the . conviction in her initial application to become a PCSO or during her . attempt to become a PC. Undeterred, in November 2009 she applied again to become a constable and was knocked back because of her reprimand – but bosses made clear her conviction would have ruled her out anyway. Although around 1,000 police officers and PCSOs in England and Wales are thought to have criminal records, those found guilty of serious offences such as dishonesty are not allowed to serve in the force. A year later Ms Sobhi, who is of Moroccan background and thought to be in her early 40s, filed a claim  in the London Central employment tribunal ‘complaining of discrimination on the ground of her sex, her sexual orientation, her religion or beliefs, her age and her disability’  against the Met and several individuals. It was claimed that the Met treated her ‘less favourably’ because of her condition and failed to take ‘reasonable steps’ to accommodate her. ‘Her case is that when she had originally applied to become a police constable, she had forgotten about her conviction and the facts to which it related as a result of traumatic events in her life,’ said tribunal judge Mr Justice Keith. The Met apparently accepts she was suffering from ‘dissociative amnesia’ – a form of mental illness that involves gaps in memory – when she filled in the questionnaire. But its lawyers say she should have admitted ‘she did not know whether or not she had any convictions’. At a pre-hearing review in May 2011, neuropsychiatrist Michael Kopelman said Ms Sobhi had been suffering from depression. The case has raised new concerns about the compensation culture in the police. PC Kelly Jones sued the force for a prang in her car . The expert said her memory loss was likely to be a genuine effect of ‘traumatic circumstances’ and that it only affected ‘her ability to recall events around the time of her arrest and conviction in 1991’. The Mail on Sunday has attempted to establish what these circumstances were. Although Ms Sobhi, her lawyers and the police declined to explain, sources have suggested she had a baby when young and had a difficult family life. She got married in 1991 but later separated from her husband. Yet the ‘relatively small gap’ in her memory did not affect her current job, Prof Kopelman said. Her discrimination claim was initially dismissed by a judge, who ruled she had not been disabled at the time of the job application. But last month Mr Justice Keith said: ‘Ms Sobhi’s appeal must be allowed, the employment judge’s finding that she was not a disabled person must be set aside, as must his order that her claim of discrimination on the ground of her disability be dismissed. The case must be remitted to the employment tribunal.’ The fresh hearing will consider if Ms . Sobhi actually knew she had amnesia when she filled in the form, and if . it had a substantial effect on her day-to-day activities. A . Met spokesman said: ‘We believe the first hearing outcome was the . correct one and will vigorously defend our position at all future . hearings. We would not wish to  discuss our position further prior  to . proceedings.’ The average . compensation awarded in employment tribunals in cases of disability . discrimination last year was £22,183. The maximum awarded was £390,871, . although there is no upper limit. Dissociative amnesia is a real  condition triggered by traumatic events rather than physical injury, say experts. But they stress it is almost always caused by extreme incidents such as repeated childhood sexual abuse. Sufferers’ brains forget the events to escape the emotional pain of the memory. Dr Christopher Findlay explained the condition was considered ‘dissociative’ because sufferers ‘separated off an emotional part of themselves’  by forgetting a trauma.The condition is included in  the psychiatrists’ ‘bible’, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). But Dr Findlay said the condition was ‘very rare’ and was not usually confined to forgetting a single event. He said he would want to have an extensive psychiatric report to prove a single episode of amnesia was ‘part of a wider disorder’. And clinical psychologist Dr Roderick Orner said: ‘Memory loss of such a one-off event does not really fit the typical profile for dissociative amnesia.’ Brian Paddick, a former deputy assistant commissioner at Scotland Yard, said: ‘It’s a complete and utter farce. I think it’s extraordinary. ‘People with convictions for dishonesty should not be police officers, full stop. We’ve got enough problems with people not trusting the police as it is.’ But he denied the Met had a wider problem with Employment Tribunal claims, saying: ‘The fact that they didn’t give way and are defending it shows that they are trying to stand up for themselves.’ Keith Vaz MP, chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, said: ‘This is a bizarre case and appears to extend the law beyond what Parliament has intended. The Met is absolutely right to resist this claim. It is essential that there is full disclosure at the time of applications to join the police.’ Dissociative amnesia is a type of memory loss not linked to a physical cause, such as a head injury, but traumatic events, such as being in a car crash or childhood abuse, and some doctors doubt it can be triggered by relatively trivial events. ### SUMMARY:

Background checks revealed that Rachida Sobhi had a criminal record . Was a cashier in department store and arrested for stealing make-up . Launched legal action as her amnesia made her forget her crime . She has not forgotten any other aspect of her life .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Sarah Womack . PUBLISHED: . 08:44 EST, 22 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 15:33 EST, 22 January 2014 . His family had already been decimated by the First World War when John Gordon Shallis appealed against being sent to the frontline. He'd lost three brothers to the conflict - which still ranks as among the deadliest in human history, resulting in 16 million deaths and 20 million wounded. Before the appeal was heard, a fourth had been killed. John Gordon Shallis's appeal for exemption from fighting in World War One was granted. He had already lost three brothers and was soon to have lost a fourth. His parents from Harlesden, also lost a son-in-law, and Shallis appealed on the grounds of domestic hardship. The chairman of the panel wrote they were 'of the opinion that the mother is entitled to the comfort she will obtain by the retention of this last son'. And so, given the exceptional personal circumstances, and Shallis's employment within the munitions industry, Shallis -  who died in 1975 - was granted an exemption. Today the details of how 8,000 men tried to avoid conscription in . the First World War, are released by the National Archives. They provide a unique and fascinating insight into the battles fought on the home front to avoid the bloody conflict. Harry George Ward was another one of thousands of men desperate to avoid a war. Describing himself as a foreign correspondent and book-keeping clerk, his argument - that he should not be sent to fight on conscientious grounds, because of his socialist beliefs - was bluntly rejected. The tribunal chairman allegedly stated . that, as a socialist, he couldn't possibly have a conscience so he could . not be regarded as a conscientious objector. The way Ward was dismissed was raised in Parliament by an MP and Ward, 20, from Ponders End, appealed. He lost this hearing too, but later appealed to the central tribunal. John Gordon Shallis lost four older brothers in the war and successfully appealed against conscription. His appeal is published online today by the National Archives. Another man, butcher Aden Stone, appealed on economic grounds . in order to look after his shop. An exemption was granted by the . tribunal - but it was only for one day, the shortest exemption granted by . the tribunal. The tribunal decided that Mr Stone had . deliberately brought out a local competitor in an attempt to increase . his business needs, and thus improve his chances of exemption. Frederick Lunkenheimer whose parents migrated to Britain . from Germany before 1914. He said his parents had fled Germany to escape military service and had been bought up to think that 'all warfare was wrong'. The 20-year-old, from Acton, said that the family's bakery and confectionery shop had been 'wrecked by the public owing to the bitter feeling against us being Germans'. He added: 'We were prevented from carrying on further business and grossly insulted in various ways.' He applied to be exempted as a conscientious objector but had his appeal dismissed. He went on to serve with the Middlesex Regiment, but in a labour battalion which did not leave Britain. The fascinating papers also reveal the attitudes of local people to those seen as trying to escape their patriotic duty. Harry Harris's shop was used in his appeal on economic grounds not to fight in World War One. His appeal was dismissed. An . anonymous letter to the tribunal, about Charles Rubens Busby, questions . why he is allowed to keep his butcher's shop and not serve, while . 'married men have had to shut up their shop and go'. Mr Busby is subsequently described as 'a proper rotter of a man' and a 'rotten shirker'. The writer of the letter had lost two sons in the war and was understandably aggrieved and heart-broken. Busby later served with the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force between 1917 and 1918. Samuel Harridge, a builder's labourer from Acton, tried resisting conscription on the grounds that he had a brother in the army and was looking after his sister and widowed mother. The tribunal accepted evidence from a local military representative that the family would suffer 'no serious hardship', should he serve, because the sister could 'leave school and get employment'. Thousands of papers from the Middlesex Appeal Tribunal, which heard appeals between 1916 and 1918, have been digitised as part of a series of events to mark the war's centenary. The documents - one of only two complete surviving collections of tribunal records - reveal men seeking exemption on medical, family or economic grounds as well as the relatively small proportion wishing not to fight on moral grounds as conscientious objectors. Rachael Corver studies records of the Central Military Service Tribunal and Middlesex Appeal Tribunal for World War One, released by the National Archives . The National Archives said the papers offered an insight into personal circumstances, including letters, medical certificates, statements and even religious pamphlets, as well as business information. Chris Barnes, records specialist at the National Archives, said: 'The conscription appeal records provide a different perspective of the First World War away from the battles, revealing the impact the war had on the home front. 'Digitising this collection opens up the records to allow people across the globe to discover the lesser-known stories of First World War for themselves.' Of the 11,307 separate appeals heard between 1916 and 1918, only 577 were conscientious objection cases, or just over 5%. Harry Harris was reported by a member of the public who had lost two sons in the war. Harry's appeal not to fight in World War One was subsequently dismissed. The majority of appeals were dismissed and many people did go on to see war service. The sensitive nature of the appeals against compulsory military service during and after the First World War has meant that only a small minority of the tribunal papers survive. In the years that followed the end of the war, the Government issued instructions to the local government boards that all tribunal material should be destroyed, except for the Middlesex Appeal records and a similar set for Lothian and Peebles in Scotland, which were to be kept as a benchmark for possible future use. John Gordon Shallis's appeal case has now been digitised in a series which contains 11,000 case papers from the Middlesex Appeal Tribunal which heard appeals between 1916 and 1918. A sample of records from the Central Tribunal was also kept. The Military Service Act of 1916 introduced compulsory conscription to Great Britain for the first time in modern history. Before this act, the armed forces were generally made up of volunteers. While conscientious objection was not specifically defined in the act of 1916, the government recognised those whose 'objection genuinely rests on religious or moral convictions'. Only a small number of conscientious objectors were exempted from service absolutely. Most were obliged to serve in non-combatant roles or faced courts martial. Britain abolished National Service in 1960. A Women's War Work booklet, published to highlight the roles that women were being employed to do, to substitute for men who could be freed to join the army, was published today . In 1921 the Ministry of Health decided that all papers relating to individual cases of exemption from National Service and tribunal minute books (except those of the Central Tribunal), should be destroyed. World War 1 began on July 28, 1914 and lasted until November 11, 1918. Differences in foreign policies were to blame, although the immediate cause was the assassination of Austria’s Archduke Ferdinand. The two main sides were the Allies, which included France, Great Britain and Russia; and Germany and Austria-Hungary. In total, 30 countries were involved in the conflict. Italy, once part of the Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary, fought on the side of the Allies. Soldiers fought largely in trenches during the war, and thousands suffered from stress, known as shell-shock. Over a million soldiers were killed in the infamous Battle of the Somme alone, including about 30,000 in just one day. ### SUMMARY:

Details of how 8,000 men tried to avoid conscription are revealed online . John Gordon Shallis lost four brothers during the war . His parents also lost a son-in-law . Appeal chairman said mother needed the comfort of her 'last son' Harry George Ward, a socialist, appealed as a 'conscientious objector' Tribunal chairman said a socialist could not have a conscience .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Jeff Powell . PUBLISHED: . 16:15 EST, 2 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:32 EST, 3 October 2013 . Amir Khan is to do battle with Floyd Mayweather in the richest fight ever to involve a British boxer. Bolton’s former Olympic hero will meet the greatest pound-for-pound fighter in the world in Las Vegas on May 3. Khan’s share of this $200million blockbuster is expected to be no less than $6m and is likely to climb to at least double that from pay-TV sales on both sides of the Atlantic. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Amir Khan training for previous bout with Julio Diaz . Champion: Floyd Mayweather poses with Justin Bieber after beating Canelo Alvarez in Las Vegas . Down and out: Amir Khan was put on the canvas by Julio Diaz in his last fight . Breathe it in: Amir Khan posted this Instagram picture on Wednesday night showing him taking in 95 per cent oxygen from a mask when recovering from training. The mask produced five times as much oxygen as breathing normal air. Just sitting in the oxygen chamber produces 41 per cent oxygen. The official announcement will be made . in the next few days and Khan has already pulled out of his  challenge . to world welterweight champion Devon Alexander, scheduled for December 7 . in New York, to ensure that his dream fight with Mayweather is not . jeopardised. Khan is being . given this opportunity of a lifetime thanks to a conviction in America . that his exceptional speed will present a unique test to Mayweather, who . has dealt imperiously with all threats from bigger and supposedly . stronger foes. Stephen . Espinosa, head of sports for the giant Showtime cable TV network which . bankrolls both men, says: ‘Floyd has seen off the tough, heavy . punchers. It remains to be seen what he will do against extreme speed . and I like the Khan fight very much.’ Khan . had already begun preparing in California to face Alexander and will . remain almost permanently in camp there with his new trainer Virgil . Hunter for the next seven months. Mayweather . had expressed interest in fighting at Wembley but reliable sources in . America confirm that prospect has been discounted on financial grounds. Not . only would an early-afternoon timing in the US compromise pay-per-view . takings there but even a live gate of 70,000 at the stadium would . generate revenue of no more than £7million. There are also significant . tax benefits from boxing in Nevada. Reaching out: Mayweather lands a punch against Alvarez as he extended his unbeaten record . On the defensive: Khan was unconvincing in his victory over Diaz but has the fight he wanted . Mayweather’s . master-class victory over Canelo Alvarez broke the $20m (£12.5m) barrier for ticket sales at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in . Vegas, while Showtime pay-per-view subscriptions reached $157m… and rising. Khan’s . chance comes even though, as a two-time world light-welterweight . champion, he lost his belts in successive bouts with Lamont Peterson and . Danny Garcia. Even though . he has redeemed himself with comeback victories over Carlos Molina and . another former world champion, Julio Diaz, he will be viewed in some . quarters as jumping the queue to board the Mayweather money train. However, . the ring’s newest mantra is ‘speed kills’ and Golden Boy, the promoters . of both men, will be using that special asset of Khan’s as a . foundation of the massive marketing campaign to come. That . will include a TV documentary series, with the episodes focusing on . Khan providing an exotic and fascinating insight into the life and times . of the world’s pre-eminent, newly-wed Asian boxer. There will also be a multi-city promotional tour in the new year, which will bring Mayweather to Britain. Out of the ring: Mayweather at a basketball game and (below) Khan and his wife Faryal at Wimbledon . Initial . public reaction is likely to be that Khan has little chance against the . the superlative ring craftsman of his generation and he will enter the . betting as a heavy underdog. Those . odds are likely to shorten, however, as boxing weighs up all the . factors surrounding the most extraordinary evening of Khan’s existence. While Mayweather . is nothing short of being a genius in the ring he struggled in the early . rounds against the speed of Zab Judah – who Khan KO’d in six -  before . securing a points victory. Nor is he a one-punch knockout artist like the two men to have stopped Khan, namely Garcia and Breidis Prescott. Mayweather . is more a cumulative puncher and when he stopped Ricky Hatton six years . ago the concussive effect was compounded by Manchester’s Hitman . striking his head against a corner post as he went down. High-profile defeat: Khan lost first to Lamont Peterson (above) and then to Danny Garcia who knocked him out . Then . there is the age factor.  Khan, who will be 27 in December, is 10 . years younger than Mayweather, who has announced that he is in the . final stages of his career. This . will be the third in his series of six fights with Showtime on a . contract expected to net him more than $200m. He has banked $41.5m from his virtuoso performance against Canelo, with more to come . when figures are in for overseas TV and merchandising revenue. It . is unclear whether he will box on beyond the end of that contract in . the autumn of 2015. That decision is likely to depend on whether he . shows signs of slowing down. Older boxers can hit the age barrier at any . moment, virtually without notice. While . that is unlikely to afflict Mayweather as early next May, the interim . does give Khan the time to be in the most potent condition of his life. Challenge: But Khan has been told to up his dedication to 100 per cent to reach Mayweather's level . All smiles: But Mayweather (centre) has warned Khan (left) is has to earn the right to fight him . Khan has promised Hunter that he will eschew his celebrity lifestyle of . late, after his trainer warned that nothing less will do from now on than Mayweather’s exemplary, rigorous commitment to ‘hard work and . dedication.’ He will have to . remain grounded through the star-spangled hype which will precede this . happening of immense sporting magnitude, complete with its chat show . appearances on network television. And . where Alvarez whipped up the support and hard cash of tens of millions . of his Mexican fans, Khan will be expected to excite massive interest in . Asian communities in America, Britain, the Middle East and across the . world. No matter how wary . the British reservations may be about his chances of dethroning the . great Mayweather, there is certain to be a trans-Atlantic invasion of . Las Vegas next spring. Invasion: Las Vegas was taken over when 30,000 Brits travelled to see Ricky Hatton take on Mayweather . While . the number of supporters following Khan may not reach the 30,000 who . made the pilgrimage for Hatton’s tilt at Mayweather in 2007, the British . interest seems certain to push the MGM gate revenue record for boxing . in Nevada even higher. And, . in one crucial sense, the belief that Mayweather is omnipotent works . heavily in favour of our highest profile ambassador for Anglo-Moslem . relations. Khan is totally convinced that his speed and skills can overcome Mayweather. Even if he fails in that ambitious bid for ultimate ring glory, no-one will think any the worse of him. And . if he were to lose heroically in a terrific fight he will enjoy . enormous exposure and acclaim around the world – with his market value . for future world title challenges as significantly enhanced as his . experience of the mega-occasion. This, for Khan, this, is a  no-lose situation. ### SUMMARY:

$200m bout in May will be richest to involve a British boxer . Khan has pulled out of fight against Devon Alexander in December . Newly-married Briton will shun celebrity lifestyle . He will remain in a training camp for the next seven months . Trans-Atlantic invasion expected for the fight .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Daily Mail Reporter . Lockheed Martin has unveiled plans for a hypersonic spy plane that could fly at Mach 6, twice as fast as its famed SR-71 Blackbird, and said a missile demonstrating the new technology could fly as early as 2018. Brad Leland, the Lockheed engineer who has headed the seven-year research effort, said the new aircraft, dubbed the SR-72, was designed using off-the-shelf materials to keep it affordable in the current tough budget environment. He said the new plane offered game-changing capabilities to the military - and a twin-engine demonstrator jet that could reach any target in an hour could be developed for under $1 billion in five to six years. The jet accelerates by way of a two-part system. A conventional jet turbine helps boost the aircraft up to Mach 3, at which point a specialized ramjet takes over and pushes the plane even faster into hypersonic mode. Scroll down for video . Flying high: A successor is being developed to the Blackbird spy plane. The SR-72 will use a new hypersonic engine and will be twice as fast with a cruising speed of Mach 6 . In a hurry? The SR-72 will fly at Mach 6 (around 4,000 mph) 'Hypersonic is the new stealth,' Leland said. 'Your adversaries cannot hide or move their critical assets. They will be found. That becomes a game-changer.'The new aircraft would travel three times as fast as current fighter jets, which can reach speeds of Mach 2, twice the speed of sound, and it could be outfitted with light weapons to strike targets. Replacement: The SR-72 supersedes SR-71 Blackbird. For more than 25 years, the aircraft provided the nation with demonstrated strategic reconnaissance capability . SR-71 Blackbird : When the last SR-71 Blackbird was grounded in 1998 it was a double blow. Not only did aviation lose one of the most advanced aircraft ever built, but also one of the most beautiful . When the last SR-71 Blackbird was grounded in 1998 it was a double blow. Not only did aviation lose one of the most advanced aircraft ever built. The SR-71 Blackbird is one of history’s great aircraft. It was built during the Cold War in the early 1960s by Lockheed at its secret Skunk Works facility and flew from 1966 to 1998. With black paint covering its unprecedented titanium fuselage, it was designed as a reconnaissance platform capable of flying 2,900 nautical miles (5,400 km) at sustained supersonic speeds at an altitude of 80,000 ft (24,000 m). The Blackbird could fly so fast and so high that it could literally outrun enemy missiles, and routinely did.. Using a new hypersonic engine design that combines turbines and ramjets, the company says that the unmanned SR-72 will be twice as fast as its predecessor with a cruising speed of Mach 6. Hypersonic: The SR-72¿s purpose is to provide the United States with not only a hypersonic recon platform, but also a strike aircraft as well . How it works: The upper engine is a turbine, which is used to power the SR-72 as it takes off from a conventional runway and accelerates it to Mach 3. Then the lower dual-mode ramjet takes over and accelerates the plane to Mach 6 . The SR-72’s purpose is to provide the United States with not only a hypersonic recon platform, but also a strike aircraft as well. 'Hypersonic aircraft, coupled with hypersonic missiles, could penetrate denied airspace and strike at nearly any location across a continent in less than an hour,' says Brad Leland, Lockheed Martin program manager, Hypersonics. 'Speed is the next aviation advancement to counter emerging threats in the next several decades. The technology would be a game-changer in theater, similar to how stealth is changing the battle space today.' In an interview with Aviation Week, which broke the story, Leland explained that the retirement of the SR-71 left significant gaps in the satellites, subsonic manned and unmanned platforms meant to replace it, which the SR-72 will fill. The article went on to point out that the SR-72 program is meant to dovetail with the Pentagon’s hypersonic research and weapons programs, which has dictated the timetable and many design parameters. Bye bye Blackbird: By bye Blackbird: The SR-72 is the replacement for the SR-71 blackbird (pictured). The Blackbird was built during the Cold War in the early 1960s by Lockheed at its secret Skunk Works facility and flew from 1966 to 1998 . According to Leland, a Mach 6 platform would not only leave very little time for an enemy to respond, but it also be a very effective way to launch hypersonic missiles. Since these wouldn't need a booster rocket when launched at six times the speed of sound, they can be of much lighter and simpler construction. No new technologies . needed to be invented for the SR-72 so a demonstration aircraft could . fly by 2018, and the plane could be operational by 2030. Details of the new hypersonic spy plane project emerged days after Lockheed, the Pentagon's biggest supplier, teamed up with No. 2 supplier Boeing Co (BA.N) to develop a bid for the Pentagon's new long-range bomber.Lockheed, Boeing and other big weapons makers are pressing the Pentagon to continue funding new aircraft development programs despite big cuts in military spending, arguing that a retreat from such projects could undercut U.S. military superiority in years to come. Greatly missed: The retirement of the SR-71 Blackbird (pictured) left significant gaps in the satellites, subsonic manned and unmanned platforms meant to replace it, which the SR-72 will fill . Leland, who works for Lockheed's Skunk Works advanced development arm, said missiles based on the new technology could be ready for operational use in 2020, at a cost only slightly more than the current Tomahawk or JASSM missiles.Lockheed declined to say how much it had invested in the SR-72 project to date, or what the new airplane might cost if it is ever built. But it said it had tried to keep the current tight budget environment in mind while working on the project.'What we are doing is defining a missile that would have a small incremental cost to go at hypersonic speed,' Leland said. He said about 20 Lockheed employees had worked on the project.One key factor in keeping the new project affordable was a decision to limit speed to Mach 6, rather than reaching for higher speeds that would require more expensive materials such as those used on the space shuttle, Leland said. He said top Pentagon officials had been briefed on the program's progress and they were very interested in the new technology as a possible way to counter work by potential adversaries on technologies that could detect stealth aircraft.He said the company and its partners had developed and tested key components of the proposed new aircraft using their own internal research funding, but the program needed additional funds to move ahead with larger-scale demonstrations of the technologies involved.Rob Stallard, analyst with RBC Capital Markets, said in a note on Friday that the new aircraft could help the U.S. military quickly identify or hit targets that were intentionally hidden or protected by an enemy's air defenses. He said the previous SR-71 was "the coolest airplane ever made, rivaled only by fictional aircraft."Leland said Lockheed had worked closely with Aerojet Rocketdyne, a unit of GenCorp Inc (GY.N), to develop a propulsion system for the new aircraft, which uses an off-the-shelf turbine with a scramjet engine to reach the hypersonic speeds.The project builds on HTV-3X, an earlier hypersonic project funded by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that was canceled in 2008 after its turbojet engines were found not ready for further development. ### SUMMARY:

The SR-71 Blackbird flew faster than any other production plane . Its successor, the SR-72, will go twice as fast . A demo version of the SR-72 could be ready by 2018 . The new aircraft will blaze across the sky at around Mach 6 . Plane would perform high-altitude intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions but also be capable of carrying out strikes on targets .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Lucy Crossley . With its shelves lined with faded medicine bottles, old pop bottles and even pre-war condoms, stepping into Jan and Graham Upton's museum is like stepping back in time. The couple, both 66, have been collecting all sorts of antiques since they were children and for the last 25 years have run the museum and gift shop ‘How We Lived Then. However, Mr and Mrs Upton, who have amassed a 100,000-strong collection of antiques, are now selling the four-storey museum in Eastbourne, East Sussex, which houses their finds. For sale: Having collected antiques since they were children, Jan and Graham Upton are selling their museum, including everything inside for £575,000 . Treasure trove: Mr Upton and his wife, both 66, have been collecting all sorts of antiques since they were children and for the last 25 years have run the museum and gift shop How We Lived Then . Back in time: The museum is converted into different sections including a chemist, a grocer, a cobblers and a sweet shop with each filled with genuine items . The unique museum, and all of the antiques inside, is on the market for £575,000 to a new buyer who will continue to run it. Mr and Mrs Upton have split up their treasure trove into different . sections including a chemist, a grocer, a cobblers and a sweet shop with . each filled with genuine items ranging from Victorian times to the . 1950s. The chemist section even features pre-war condoms marketed as featuring a ‘silver seal’ with others made by a company called Coralline. Memorabilia: A host of souvenir cups, tea caddies, trays and newspapers commemorate royal events dating back to Queen Victoria's day is on display at the museum . Stock: The chemist section even features pre-war condoms marketed as featuring a 'silver seal' with others made by a company called Coralline . Just the tonic: A display of old medicine bottles fill the shelves of the museum's chemist . Friendly face: Jan Upton shares a moment with the museum chemist . Warm welcome: Jan gets behind the counter in the chemist to meet and greet 'customers' For sale: The museum, and all of the antiques inside, is on the market for £575,000 to a new buyer who will continue to run it . The couple who have two children and three grandchildren met at school when they were just five years old and have now been married for 45 years. Both began collecting items after being left ornaments and knick-knacks by their respective grandparents. Mr Upton admits he is lucky his wife is as passionate as he is about collecting ‘otherwise you’d drive each other up the wall’. Got a light? This matchbox collection is among the thousands of items on display in the museum . Cure all: A display of Victorian painkillers in the chemist shop . Minty fresh: This display of mints and throat lozenges dates from the Victorian era . Sorted: The museum's post office collection. Mr Upton admits he is lucky his wife is as passionate as he is about collecting 'otherwise you¿d drive each other up the wall' Venture: The couple filled their home in Eastbourne with the treasures until in 1988, when they decided to buy a building to convert into the museum of shops . Previously the couple had filled their home in Eastbourne with their vast collection, until in 1988 they decided to buy a building to convert into the museum of shops. Due to their age and Mr Upton’s ill-health they have decided to sell the shop, but the couple are ‘determined’ that the buyer will carry on the museum. Mr Upton said: ‘Most of our finds come from jumble sales, car boot sales or antique shops locally. Scary prospect: Mr Upton admitted some people find the mannequins 'creepy' and said children used to practice their piano in the music room complained that it was spooky . Haul: Most of the couple's finds come from jumble sales, car boot sales or antique shops . Popular: The museum attracts thousands of people from all over the world . ‘I’m always on the look-out for something new it is amazing what people will throw out. My favourite items are from the Georgian regency period but I’ll collect anything.’ He added: ‘It will be sad to sell the shop but we are at an age now where we can’t carry it on. ‘Will I miss it? Of course I will but we have made our decision. ‘We are determined to find someone as passionate as us to take it over so it can continue.’ Legacy: Due to their age and Mr Upton's ill-health they have decided to sell the shop, but the couple are 'determined' that the buyer will carry on the museum . Regret: Mr Upton said it will be sad to sell the museum, but the couple are at an age now where they can not carry it on . The museum is decorated with mannequins thrown out by a department store from the 1920s and 1930s. It includes a wartime kitchen with each item carefully thought out to show how people would have lived during the early 1940s. Mr Upton admitted some people find the mannequins ‘creepy’ and said children used to practice their piano in the ‘music room’ of the museum complained it was spooky. The museum attracts thousands of people from all over the world, Mr Upton said for older people it is nostalgia while for the younger generation it is history and seeing some things for the first time. Past times: Mr Upton said older people enjoy the museum's nostalgia while the younger generation enjoy the history and seeing some things for the first time . Trash to treasure: Mr Upton said it was 'amazing what people will throw out' To dye for: A display of dyes in the museum's drapers shop . Inhabitants: The museum is decorated with mannequins thrown out by a department store from the 1920s and 1930s . The museum features a royal cabinet with memorabilia dating from Queen Victoria up until the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Mrs Upton said: ‘I began by collecting Christmas ornaments. ‘Graham has always been interested in the royal memorabilia so they were two cabinets we had to have. ‘A lot of our antiques came from jumble sales, car boot sales have only become popular more recently. Starting young: Jan (left) and Graham Upton (right) when the couple were at school together . History: Some items are hard for the couple to date as sell-by-dates have only been added to food since the 1980s . Thirsty work: A display of old drinks bottles, some which still contain their original liquid . Gifts: Some visitors to the museum donate cans of food that are 60 or 70 years old . Back in time: The museum reminds everything of a time when not everything was available at their local supermarket . ‘Some things are hard to date as sell-by-dates have only been added to food since the 80s so it takes a lot of guesswork. ‘ . She said: ‘I find it fascinating that things could have survived this long especially through war and bombing. ‘We have people donate cans of food to us that are 60 or 70 years old. Got milk: A display of old milk bottles, complete with advertisements, lines the shelves in the grocers . Relics: Mrs Upton said she finds it fascinating that things could have survived this long, especially through war . Bottled up: The full display of milk bottles . ‘Some people might think the museum is full of tat but it is our history. ‘Independent shops on the high streets are closing in every town.People can buy everything they need at a supermarket now so there is no need for newsagents or individual shops anymore. ‘That’s why the museum is so important.’ Tasty treat: An old bar of Fry's Five Boys milk chocolate in the museum's sweet shop . The way we were: The display includes a wartime kitchen with each item carefully thought out to show how people would have lived during the early 1940s . ### SUMMARY:

Jan and Graham Upton, both 66, are selling their museum How We Lived Then, in Eastbourne, Sussex . Couple have been collecting antiques since they were children and have run the museum for 25 years . They are now selling up and want the new owner of the museum to continue their legacy . The unique museum features different sections including a chemist, a grocer, a cobblers and a sweet shop .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Sara Nathan . He is twice-divorced - so it's no surprise that Mick Jagger would admit: 'I don't really think that much of marriage'. But that did not mean the Rolling Stones frontman was not devoted to L'Wren Scott, his statuesque girlfriend of 13 years. Indeed, in 2007, Jagger, now 70, picked out a vintage diamond ring that signified the fact he expected to spend the rest of his life with the 6ft 3ins tall brunette, also twice-divorced, MailOnline can reveal. Today, the New York City medical examiner's confirmed that L'Wren, 49, had committed suicide by hanging herself at her Manhattan apartment on Monday. Scroll down for video . The ring that said it all: L'Wren Scott had been wearing a massive diamond ring on her engagement finger since 2007 . Vintage lover: L'Wren's stunning diamond ring up close. Her lover Mick Jagger was said to indulge her passion for vintage jewelry . And speaking about her romance with Jagger, a friend told MailOnline today: 'Mick gave L'Wren the ring as a sign of his devotion. I know it was a vintage ring that he picked out himself, but they were very quiet about it, they never discussed it in public - it was just private for them.' Worn on her tell-tale ring finger, L'Wren first showed off the huge rock when the couple were seen enjoying a string of performances at a folk festival in Rajasthan in India in October 2007. Neither would comment at the time on an engagement, but a friend confirmed they were never engaged. L'Wren told how Jagger indulged her passion for antique jewelry and once enthused to Vogue: 'Talk about someone who knows about jewelry - and the most fabulous taste!' She was seen wearing the ring at what would be her last public appearance on December 2 at the British Fashion Awards at the London Coliseum in London. The former model turned fashion designer was known to have been previously married to property developer Anthony Brand, a short-lived union that lasted from 1992 until 1996, when their divorce was finalised in California. However, MailOnline has learned she was also married for a second time before meeting Jagger at a photo shoot in 2001. In an emotional interview, L'Wren's adopted sister Jan Shane told how L'Wren admitted 'I envy you' at their father Ivan's funeral in 2002, adding: 'I know deep down she wanted a family . and kids, and I think she deeply wanted it and couldn't get it. I think . it bothered her.' ‘To me she had it all,’ said Jan, . fighting to hold back tears as she spoke in the kitchen of her . comfortable family home in Sandy, Utah. The mother-of-eight, who has been married for most of her life to a garbageman, added: 'She was going out . with a Rolling Stone and travelling to London and all around the world . and I was a stay-at-home mum who hasn’t really been anywhere.’ In love: Mick Jagger supported L'Wren Scott at the launch of her Banana Republic range in November 2013 - as the statuesque fashion designer clearly shows off the dazzling diamond ring . Lady in red: L'Wren Scott arrives at the premiere of Crossfire Hurricane at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City in November 2012 to support her lover . While Lupe Montufar, who worked as . L'Wren's housekeeper in Los Angeles between 1993 and 2009, told the New . York Daily News that the designer tolerated Jagger’s infidelity in the . hope of one day having a family with him: 'She wanted to get married and . have a family, but she didn’t want to get her hopes up or say it out . loud to Mick. She didn’t want to pressure him. 'She . always dreamed about having fame, fortune and money. She had all that . in her hands with him. She sacrificed a lot to be with him. A few years . ago, she thought she’d be with him forever and have a family. She knew . there were other women, but she accepted it.' When asked about her desire for children in 2010, L'Wren dodged the question, saying: 'Let me . see if I can articulate this in a way that makes sense.' 'I . have seven wonderful sort of children in my life, by default. I have . four fabulous grandchildren. I feel that being the product of adoption . is a wonderful thing, and at the moment my life is saturated with . children. My family life is a high priority.” Jagger and L'Wren shared a $10 million home in London and a stunning apartment on the Left Bank in Paris. And asked how her daughter had won the notorious Mick Jagger, L'Wren's adopted mother Lula Bambrough said in 2003: 'L'Wren . is very independent and would not take any nonsense from anyone no . matter how famous they were. 'She usually knows what she wants and she gets it. It . doesn't surprise me at all that she's tamed Mick. She is very much her . own woman and it would be my guess that is why this Mick Jagger likes . her.' Even Jagger's second wife, Texan supermodel Jerry Hall would later admit: 'I think she's better at dealing with him than I am.' The singer first wed Nicaraguan-born Bianca Perez-Mora Macias in 1971 in St Tropez in the South of France, although the day was marred when he made a scene because Bianca refused to sign a pre-nuptial agreement. The marriage was effectively over after a year, though the couple stayed together for the sake of their daughter, Jade. L'Wren Scott married property entrepreneur, Anthony Brand (pictured) in 1993. They divorced after just three years of marriage . Mick Jagger and Bianca Jagger pictured together on their wedding day in 1971 at the Town Hall in St Tropez, France. They divorced in 1979 . When . Bianca finally divorced Jagger in 1979, smart work by his lawyers kept . her settlement at only around $1.6million (£1 million). He then wed Jerry Hall in a Balinese woodcarver’s hut in 1990. The . breaking point with Jerry was his affair with the Brazilian model . Luciana Morad, which resulted in a son, Lucas. When Jerry sued for . divorce, having by then had four children by Jagger, he crassly claimed . their Balinese wedding was legally invalid, and so the marriage was . annulled ‘by mutual agreement’. However, Jerry's rumoured settlement of $7.4 million (£4.5 million) made her the first Jagger ex to describe him as ‘very, very . generous’. So it's no surprise, that speaking in 2010, Jagger told the New York Times: 'I don’t really subscribe to a completely normal view of what relationships should be.' 'I have a bit more of a bohemian view. To be honest, I don’t really think much of marriage. I’m not saying . it’s not a wonderful thing and people shouldn’t do it, but it’s not for . me. And not for quite a few other people too, it would appear.' He laughed: 'I just think it’s perhaps not quite what it’s cracked up to be. I know it’s an elaborate fantasy.' L'Wren's body was found by her assistant at 10am on Monday. Jagger is said to be en route to New from Australia, where he was touring with the Rolling Stones. The tour of Australia and New Zealand has now been postponed and today the band's spokesman was forced to deny that Jagger had left his longtime love at home during the tour because his bandmates felt she was their 'Yoko Ono' - calling reports by PageSix 'ridiculous'. Jerry Hall had four children with Jagger - and managed to walk away from their marriage with a $7.4million settlement . ### SUMMARY:

New York City medical examiner today confirms fashion designer L'Wren Scott committed suicide on Monday by hanging herself . Friend tells MailOnline Mick had bought the statuesque former model a huge diamond ring that she wore on her ring finger as a 'sign of his devotion' - but the pair were never engaged . MailOnline has learned L'Wren was in fact married twice before meeting Rolling Stones star .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: By . Stephen Mcgowan . Ronny Deila had his ‘Welcome to Glasgow’ moment three weeks ago. The instant when he realised his life was no longer a private affair. Like most of what passes for social interaction in Scotland’s largest city, it happened late one night in a pub in the centre of town. ‘I was outside waiting for a taxi to go home and decided to go into the nearest pub to get a beer,’ recalled the Norwegian. ‘I realise now I shouldn’t do that. ‘I was there for 15 minutes and everyone was very friendly. People wanted to talk to me about Celtic and have their picture taken with me and things like that. ‘It was okay, you get used to that. It’s fantastic that it’s so positive. Nothing has been negative. People tell me they want me to succeed and the Celtic supporters have been amazing. ‘Everyone was very polite — but it was too much.’ Reality check: Ronny Deila's reign as Celtic manager has got off to an eventful start . Deila is reluctant to cut himself off, but realises now there may be no other way. Describing himself as a naturally sociable character, he comes across as a man’s man. Personable and likeable, he pitches up for press conferences in jeans, eschewing the formal informality of a club training kit. As yet, he shows no sign of changing. Two months into the job there is no wariness of the media. No evidence of the Old Firm lobotomy so often performed on Glasgow footballing figures indoctrinated into a life at Celtic or Rangers. A father of twin daughters, his grounded normality is unusual in a working environment where men have been known to lose touch with reality. At Stromsgodset, Deila was used to engagement with fans and journalists. It was a relaxed and undemanding affair. In contrast, Celtic are a very different animal. A club where a degree of detachment is usually encouraged to prevent a manager drowning in the goldfish bowl of Glasgow urban life. ‘Before, I was working almost automatically - but now I have to push myself to new limits,’ he admitted. Saved: Celtic were thrashed by Legia Warsaw, but retained their Champions League place on a technicality . ‘That’s why I am here and I know I can cope with it. It has been hard but every day has been fantastic also. Everywhere I go, it’s new. ‘I don’t want to find I’m just spinning around in the washing machine. You have to come out of it sometimes to reflect. If you are a leader, you need to reflect. ‘You need time by yourself to see the next step, and you have to always be a step ahead. It’s been hard in the beginning but, over time, it will become easier.’ He made sacrifices to move to Glasgow. The money is certainly better, which helps. But, at 38, Deila finds himself adapting to a new country, a new city, a new working environment to anything he has experienced before. All without the foundation and stability provided by his daughters. ‘My family haven’t come over,’ he revealed. ‘I am not together with the mother of my children. I am single now and my two kids wanted to stay in Norway. ‘They will visit me when they have a vacation and I’ll go see them whenever there is an international break. It’s been the hardest thing, it’s very hard. ‘But when you do this, you sacrifice everything. They wanted me to do this, though, and I couldn’t say no. ‘They knew I’d regret it for the rest of my life if I didn’t come here. But ask any big manager if they made sacrifices and they’ll all say, “Yes”. This is not a job, it’s a lifestyle. Sacrifice: Deila left his family behind at home to take the Celtic job . ‘It’s 24 hours a day, thinking all the time. You can say you’re going home but you’re always doing the job, thinking about it in your mind. There are so many decisions to make all the time that it has to be that way. ‘But with my kids, I asked them what they thought about me coming here, I asked them if it was okay with them. They saw in my face, though, that they couldn’t say no. I think I manipulated them pretty well… . ‘But they are proud of me, I can see that. They are 14 years old and very active, playing handball and football, too. Their mother is fantastic with them, as well, so I know they will be having a good time.’ A more carefree existence, certainly, than their father. The opening weeks of Deila’s Celtic career have been a challenge. The doomsday scenario of an early Champions League exit was a reality until a registration error in Warsaw changed everything. There were dark, sleepless nights after the loss to Poland’s champions. Deila turns a corner in Glasgow and finds the ubiquitous presence of Sky Sports News everywhere he goes – ‘people here are unbelievably interested in football’. For days, he couldn’t escape the impact of a 6-1 aggregate defeat. He was forced to find his own ways of relaxing. ‘For me, training is important,’ he said. ‘I go out running. I also like being with friends and talking with them. ‘I have people visiting me at the moment and that’s good because I’m a social person. I have also got my golf clubs now and have been trying to use them at the course next to where I am staying. ‘Other than that, I just like to relax and watch television, but that’s something I haven’t done for seven weeks. I also haven’t gone to see a movie.’ Today, he takes a long-awaited trip to the theatre. To the football stadium he wants to fulfil his artistic ambitions for the next few years. In the aftermath of his unveiling as manager, the Scandinavian had precious little access to Celtic Park. The Commonwealth Games had the run of the place, the pitch was torn up and the football team were displaced, forced to fulfil a pre-season tour more suited to the Harlem Globetrotters. On Wednesday, Deila finally wondered on to the newly-laid pitch and stood in the centre circle surveying his surroundings ahead of his first home game against Dundee United this lunchtime. ‘It’s going to be huge,’ he admitted. ‘I walked into Celtic Park for the first time since my press conference on Wednesday - it’s okay to go in there to see what to expect. ‘You come to a new country, a new language, a new city. ‘You come to a new staff and new players and you have to cope with that. ‘Everywhere you go is a new place. Even going to your stadium and playing in front of 60,000 people. Pleasing: Celtic won their opening game of the Premiership campaign 3-0 at St Johnstone . ‘These things are what you have to prepare for in your mind and be ready for. ‘I said many times it’s my dream; to play fantastic football against good teams in a full Celtic Park. Money is nothing compared to that. Trophies are nothing compared to that. ‘It’s the ultimate experience and it’s what I have in my mind. ‘Wednesday was the first time I have walked on the Parkhead pitch. ‘I was in the stands for the Barcelona game last year. I had a press conference on my first day. But I hadn’t been since. ‘Now I’m really looking forward to it.’ He travelled to Aberdeen with Football Development Manager John Park to watch Dundee United demolish the home team at Pittodrie last Sunday. He saw nothing to alter some stubbornly held core beliefs. ‘We have better players than the other teams,’ he continued. ‘So we don’t go to Celtic Park and just stay back. ‘If we do, there is something wrong. Then you are afraid to lose. And I am not afraid to lose. “I would rather lose than play bad football. We are talking about Celtic Park now.’ To call somewhere in Scotland ‘home’ will be a strange, but welcome, sensation. An important step on the road to where he wants to be as Celtic manager. ‘There have been some tough weeks here,’ he admitted. ‘But you feel you are living and learning. ‘You can sit in automatic mode and do everything in remote control. ‘But now I have to push myself to new limits – that’s why I did this. Whatever happens here I know I can cope with this now.’ ### SUMMARY:

38-year-old Norwegian left home to join Scottish champions . Deila had previously managed Stromsdogset in Norway . Celtic reinstated into Champions League qualifying despite being thrashed by Legia Warsaw . Scottish champions won first game of league campaign 3-0 at St Johnstone .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: It is a statistic that haunts Everton fans – the last time their club beat Liverpool at Anfield was 1999. A lot has changed since that fiery Monday night fifteen years ago when Everton escaped from their rival's home with a 1-0 win and only 19 players finished the match. Everton's Francis Jeffers and Liverpool goalkeeper Sander Westerveld were sent off for fighting in the second half. Kevin Campbell scored the winning goal last time Everton beat Liverpoool at Anfield back in September 1999 . Goalkeeper Sander Westerweld and Everton striker Francis Jeffers were sent off after coming to blows . A 19-year-old Steven Gerrard then came from the bench to be shown a red card in stoppage time for a waist-high challenge on goalscorer Kevin Campbell, who netted what turned out to be the winner in only the fourth minute. Michael Owen, also 19, was lucky not to be dismissed for a similarly ugly challenge in a ferocious Merseyside derby. But what became of the players who featured that night? Sportsmail takes a look at where they are now... Campbell stands with physio Steve Hardwick and gives a thumbs up while Nick Barmby also celebrates . LIVERPOOL . Sander Westerveld, 39 . The Dutch stopper, who played for both Liverpool and Everton, is a goalkeeper coach at South African club side Ajax Cape Town. His long playing career, spanning almost two decades, eventually ended at the Cape Town club last year. Steve Staunton, 45 . Currently involved in recording a TV show in which the best young football prospects from Saudi Arabia have the chance to come to England. His most recent job in football was as a scout for Sunderland. Sami Hyypia, 40 . The towering Finn has embarked on a career in management after ending his playing days in 2011. He spent two years in charge at Bayer Leverkusen and after that ended badly joined Championship side Brighton in the summer where he is struggling in 18th. Liverpool defender Steve Staunton was forced to go in goal following Westerveld's dismissal . Vegard Heggem, 39 . Heggem has taken the not-so-common route after football as owner and manager of a salmon fishing business called Aunan Lodge on the river Orkla in Sør-Trøndelag. He also regularly returns to Anfield to watch games. Jamie Carragher, 36 . Developing a reputation as hard-hitting as his defending days working as a columnist for Sportsmail and pundit on Sky Sports. Patrick Berger, 40 . The Czech attacking midfielder has still not given up playing – at 40. After his seven-year stint at Liverpool he stayed in England with Portsmouth, Aston Villa and Stoke before ending his professional career at Sparta Prague in 2010. Four years later he is still playing, turning out for Dolni Chabry in the sixth-tier of Czech football. Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher watches on as Campbell shoots at goal to score in the fourth minute . Vladimir Smicer, 41 . One of the Czech Republic's most successful footballers, he ran for their parliament in May representing an obscure party called Vize 2014 – pledging to sort out obese kids – but was unsuccessful. He is still a coach for Slavia Prague. Dietmar Hamann, 41 . Hamann is a regular on TV screens since he retired three years ago. He has appeared as a pundit on Match of the Day, Sky Sports and is a regular part of the team on Irish TV channel RTE. Jamie Redknapp, 41 . Thrown himself into talking about the game as passionately as he played it, working as a columnist for Sportsmail and on Sky Sports. Michael Owen, 34 . The prolific England striker became a commentator and pundit for BT Sport when his career came to an end and owns a stable of race horses. Liverpool frontman Michael Owen attempts to get the better of Everton midfielder John Collins . Robbie Fowler, 39 . One of the most natural goalscorers to be born in England, Fowler is attempting to pass that on to Liverpool youngsters coaching at their academy. He applied for the vacant Leeds manager job earlier this month but was unsuccessful. Steven Gerrard, 34 (came on for Hamann) Fifteen years later from that game, he is still going strong. The 34-year-old is the heart and soul of the Liverpool team, and was, too, for England before he retired in the summer. Titi Camara, 41 (came on for Smicer) Now in charge of the Guinea national football team, a job he has had since 2009. Camara was captain of the African side and won 38 caps for them. Erik Meijer, 45 (came on for Fowler) The striker is an assistant coach at Dutch second division club MVV Maastricht, the club where he first broke through in the Dutch top flight. Steven Gerrard is shown red for fouling Everton striker Campbell having come on as a substitute . EVERTON . Paul Gerrard, 41 . The stopper had a long career in the lower leagues and has ended up as Doncaster Rovers' goalkeeper coach. Richard Gough, 52 . Became one of the first British exports to America when he played in the MLS for Kansas City Wizards a year after the league was established in 1997. He now lives in San Diego where he is a property developer. Richard Dunne, 35 . Even at 35 he is still attempting to ply his trade in the Premier League. The centre-back helped QPR win promotion back to the top flight last season, although he has slipped down the pecking order with the arrivals of Steven Caulker and Rio Ferdinand. Everton's Richard Dunne (centre) climbs highest to beat Sami Hyypia as Don Hutchison also challenges . David Weir, 44 . The 44-year-old is assistant manager at Championship side Brentford. Alongside Mark Warburton he helped lead the club to promotion last season. Michael Ball, 34 . Ball, one of the most promising defenders to come through Everton's academy, never reached his potential and retired in 2012. He now spends time bringing up his family and tweeting regularly about football. Abel Xavier, 41 . Known more for his remarkable barnet and facial hairstyles and colours, it is remarkable he has not yet released a range of male grooming products. Xavier dabbled with management, taking charge at Portuguese side Olhanense in 2013, but is out of work. John Collins, 46 . The Scot took up the role of assistant manager at Celtic this year, a club he played more than 200 games for in the early stages of his career. Everton's Scottish midfielder Collins takes on Liverpool's Dietmar Hamann in the middle of the park . Don Hutchison, 43 . The well-travelled midfielder, 43, has forged a career as pundit on TalkSPORT and Al Jazeera since he left the game. He also does work from Premier League TV. Nick Barmby, 40 . Most recently manager at Hull until he was sacked in 2012. According to reports he is coaching at his local junior team Westella and WillerbyJuniors and enjoying time with his family. He has two sons, George and Jack. Jack plays for Leicester City. Kevin Campbell, 44 . Once a prolific marksman, his job is now concentrating on defending. Campbell is co-owner of security firm T1 Protection which provides bodyguards for the rich and famous when they are abroad. He also does punditry work. Francis Jeffers, 33 . The 33-year-old, who would move to Arsenal for £8m two years after this match and go on to have one of the most disappointing careers in the game, has still not officially hung his boots up. He last appeared at League Two side Accrington Stanley in 2013, but did not find a club last season. Francis Jeffers, only 18 and a boyhood Blue, celebrates Campbell's strike which turned out to be the winner . ### SUMMARY:

Everton have not beaten Liverpool at Anfield since September 1999 . Kevin Campbell scored the Toffees' winning goal after just four minutes . Sander Westerveld, Francis Jeffers and Steven Gerrard were all sent off . Sportsmail looks at what became of the men who played that evening . The two rivals meet in the Merseyside derby on Saturday lunchtime .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Even without a scrap of make-up, Renee Zellweger looked unrecognizable when she was spotted over the weekend for the first time since last Monday's ELLE Style Awards. The 45-year-old Bridget Jones actress - who has dismissed surgery speculations as 'silly' - appeared somewhat tired and anxious as she ran errands over the weekend in Mississippi, where she is about to start filming her latest movie, Same Kind Of Different As Me. When quizzed by the paparazzi over all the media attention surrounding her face, Renee, as she climbed into her car, replied: 'Oh my God, you're going to ask me that question! Can you excuse me please? I have better things to do and I'm sure you do too.' Is that really you? Even without a scrap of make-up, Renee Zellweger looked unrecognizable when she was spotted over the weekend for the first time since last Monday's ELLE Style Awards . The actress, whose shocking new look has sent commentators into a frenzy of speculation over what sort of cosmetic procedures she may have had done, politely declined to answer any further questions as she prepared to drive off. 'I'd just like to have my day to myself if you don't mind,' she said. Her make-up free face put to bed any speculation that perhaps her unusual new look last week was a result of make-up trickery. Renee has since dismissed web-chatter over her so-called surgery as 'silly.' 'It seems the folks who come digging around for some nefarious truth, which doesn't exist won't get off my porch until I answer the door,' she told People. 'I'm glad folks think I look different! I'm living a different, happy, more fulfilling life, and I'm thrilled that perhaps it shows.' Upper-eye lift? The Oscar winner shocked fans last Monday with her startlingly different face at the ELLE Women in Hollywood Awards. Pictured (left) last week and (right) as Bridget Jones in 2001 . New look: Renee wore her hair scraped back into a scruffy bundle atop her head and seemed to have broken out with a cold sore on her upper lip . Back off: When quizzed by the paparazzi over all the media attention surrounding her face, Renee replied, 'Oh my God you're going to ask me that question! Can you excuse me please?' No jowls here: Renee's jawline is unusually pronounced and tight for a woman of 45 . Running errands: Her make-up free face put to bed any speculation that perhaps her unusual new look last week was a result of make-up trickery . What surgery? Last week, Renee dismissed web-chatter over her so-called surgery as 'silly' Greetings: She said, 'It seems the folks who come digging around for some nefarious truth, which doesn't exist won't get off my porch until I answer the door' MailOnline spoke to Beverly Hills-based plastic surgeon Dr. Randal Haworth to get his theory on the matter. 'In my opinion, Renee underwent a blepharoplasty which entails removing the perceived excess amount of eyelid skin and fat from the area between the eyebrow and the upper eyelash,' he says. 'The resulting scar will be hidden within the normal upper eyelid crease which is a natural curve. However, one could not see this natural curve in Renée prior to surgery since all we saw was a straight sheet of skin starting from her nose to the outside of her eye itself. 'Though the procedure was performed conservatively, it unveiled her eyes which were "hiding" behind this drape of skin.' There she is! Only when she smiles do we catch a glimpse of the spirited old Renee we once knew . Casual: The Case 39 actress - who has been romancing Doyle Bramhall II since 2012 - said she's spent the past few years 'making a home,' 'loving someone,' and 'growing into myself' Flattered: Renee also said last week, 'I'm glad folks think I look different! I'm living a different, happy, more fulfilling life, and I'm thrilled that perhaps it shows' What's so funny? According to celebrity make-up artist Rachel Wood, whose clients include Mariah Carey and Louise Roe, the star 'clearly has had some work done' Dr Haworth elaborated: 'Renee's defining trademark characteristic was her small, squinty eyes, which complemented her quirky personality perfectly. 'Now that it is gone, she is unrecognizable. Additionally, she has lost some subcutaneous facial fat during her absence from the public spotlight which can be attributed to normal aging. To summarize, it's not that she looks bad at all, it's just that she looks different.' New York-based plastic surgeon Dr Robert Guida went as far as to say Renee's presumed surgery is an improvement. 'It seems pretty obvious she had a blepharoplasty. She also seems to have had Botox injections to smooth her forehead and possibly fillers to cheek and midface area,' he tells MailOnline. 'I felt she always needed the upper eyelid lift, even years ago. I think she looks much better and the procedure was a success. 'She does not look overdone, but she does look different because, she had such heavy upper eyelids for so long.' Edward Dutton, a professor of Finnish Culture at Oulu University in Finland points out that Renee's eyes were actually formally an important characteristic of her partly 'eastern' heritage. 'The reason Renee looked distinguished is because she is an unusual genetic mixture, with a Swiss father and a mother who is part Kven and part Sami. 'This, in turns, means that, rather like Icelandic singer Björk - whose ancestry is Inuit - she has an 'eastern' face... and has had plastic surgery which makes her look less Sami, less Kven, and more stereotypically 'North European.' He adds: 'How sad. She was so much more beautiful and interesting when she had the courage to be Sami and Kven.' Different woman: Last week, apart from her ultra line-free forehead and suspiciously puffy face, she also had much lighter and patchier eyebrows than usual . There's no denying it: The star's appearance has changed dramatically over the years . The Case 39 actress - who's been romancing Doyle Bramhall II since 2012 - said she's spent the past few years 'making a home,' 'loving someone,' and 'growing into myself.' 'My friends say that I look peaceful. I am healthy,' Zellweger insisted. 'For a long time I wasn't doing such a good job with that. I took on a schedule that is not realistically sustainable and didn't allow for taking care of myself. 'Rather than stopping to recalibrate, I kept running until I was depleted and made bad choices about how to conceal the exhaustion. I was aware of the chaos and finally chose different things.' The star was at ELLE's 21st annual Women In Hollywood Awards at the Four Seasons Hotel in California when she debuted her new look, prompting fans to voice their concern. Apart from her ultra line-free forehead and suspiciously puffy face, she also had much lighter and patchier eyebrows than usual. According to celebrity make-up artist Rachel Wood, whose clients include Mariah Carey and Louise Roe, the star 'clearly has had some work done'. She told MailOnline: 'The texture of her skin looks like she has gone a little too far with a chemical peel as its texture looks very smooth and plastic-like shiny, yet the color on top looks like the remnants of fake tan.' Ms Wood added: 'She is known for cute but heavy lidded eyes and it appears as though she has had some sort of lift, maybe a bit of Botox by the brow as well to open up her eyes. I am all for a secret nip and tuck but in small doses, so you still look like a fresher, rested version of you… not an unrecognizable one.' The shapelessness of her brows merely serves to further 'distort' the new frame of her face, says Ms Wood. ### SUMMARY:

Plastic surgeon Dr. Randal Haworth suggests Renee has undergone a blepharoplasty . This entails 'removing the perceived excess eyelid skin and fat from the area between the eyebrow and the upper eyelash'

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: Mark Duggan: An unlikely martyr, given his suspected gang links . Semone Wilson has not yet told her children that their father is dead. ‘How do I explain to them that their daddy is gone?’ she says. Such a task would be traumatic enough for any mother, but especially so for Miss Wilson. Her fiance, Mark Duggan, was travelling in a minicab in North London on Thursday evening when it was stopped by officers from Scotland Yard’s Operation Trident, who specialise in fighting black-on-black gun crime. The officers were armed with Heckler & Koch submachine guns and there was an apparent ‘exchange’ of fire. Moments later Duggan was dead. He and Miss Wilson, both 29, had been together since they were 17. They had two sons aged ten and seven, and a baby daughter. ‘Mark was a good dad,’ says Miss Wilson, a student at Middlesex University. ‘He loved his kids dearly. He idolised them.’ Maybe he was. Perhaps he did. His family and friends claim he was unarmed and have demanded ‘Justice for Mark’. But the man whose violent death triggered the Tottenham riots at the weekend makes an unlikely martyr. On the streets of the Broadwater Farm estate, where Mark Duggan grew up, he was also known by another name: ‘Starrish Mark’. It sounds like an innocent nickname; it was anything but. In fact, the word ‘Starrish’ denoted his membership of a notorious ‘crew’ called The Star Gang who strut the streets of London’s N17. The stock-in-trade of such ‘postcode’ gangs is violence, intimidation and, more often than not, drugs. Duggan himself, according to some residents, was a crack cocaine dealer who routinely carried a gun. It was an argument over a woman and drugs, they say, that resulted in the death of his cousin Kelvin Easton, 23, who was stabbed through the heart with a broken champagne bottle at the Boheme nightclub in Bow, east London, in March this year. ‘Duggan was paranoid about what happened to his cousin,’ said one local. ‘He had a gun to protect himself because of what happened to Kelvin.’ So much for Mark Duggan being a ‘well respected member of his community’, as he is described on a memorial website. That respect was underpinned by fear. Inferno: Duggan's death sparked riots throughout Tottenham which proved incredibly destructive . Police: Officers had numerous show-downs with protestors angry at Duggan's death . Violence: These youths are shown using aerosol cans to set fire to shops' shelves . The Star Gang is an offshoot of Tottenham’s ‘Man dem’ gang which has links with Jamaica’s ruthless Yardie gangsters. Back in the late Nineties, ‘Man dem’, whose ‘territory’ included Broadwater Farm (where Duggan grew up, remember), controlled dozens of ‘crack houses’ and its psychopathic members or ‘soldiers’, as they styled themselves, were believed to be behind countless shootings, robberies, kidnappings and gangland killings. The leader was one Mark Lambie, who police suspected was implicated in the murder of PC Keith Blakelock, hacked to death by a mob during the infamous riot on Broadwater Farm in 1985. Lambie was just 14 at the time. He was eventually jailed for 12 years in 2002 for other gang-related crimes (which involved torturing two rivals with a hammer and an electric iron, and pouring boiling water over their genitals). The Star Gang is understood to have been formed after Lambie was locked up. Can there be any doubt that Mark Duggan, the loving father and ‘respected’ member of the community, was involved in this chilling sub-culture? Not really. Burnt: A police car used as a road-block was completely destroyed by a gang of rioters . Aftermath: Shops were destroyed and pavements strewn with rubbish on the morning after the riots . Emergency: Firemen were working all day to bring burning buildings under control . One photo circulating the internet shows Duggan making a ‘gangsta’ gun pose with his  fingers. In others, he is wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the words ‘Star Gang’. How grimly predictable that  there is a . link, through gang membership, between Mark Duggan – focus of the . Tottenham riots of 2011 –  and the murder of PC Blakelock during similar . riots 26 years ago. The eruption of violence in Tottenham is a chilling echo of the infamous Broadwater Farm riots 26 years ago in which PC Keith Blakelock was hacked to death. The disorder on October 6, 1985, was sparked by the death of 49-year-old Cynthia Jarrett after four police officers burst into her home. Mrs Jarrett’s son Floyd was in custody at Tottenham police station after allegedly giving officers a false name over a car tax disc. The ensuing police raid sparked panic in his household on the Broadwater Farm estate and Mrs Jarrett, who had a weak heart, collapsed and died. The next day a small crowd gathered in protest outside the police station –  much like the demonstration over the shooting of Mark Duggan by police. Tensions spilled over into violence when the police station windows were broken and at 3.15pm, two officers were attacked and seriously injured as the gathering mob began to launch bricks and gunfire broke out. By the time riot police arrived to support firemen after a blaze broke out at a newsagent's, the mob had put up barriers and prepared petrol bombs. As police were forced back, PC Blakelock, 40, tripped and fell. He was surrounded and hacked to death by masked rioters wearing balaclavas and wielding sticks, knives and a machete. Winston Silcott, Mark Braithwaite and Engin Raghip were convicted of the Blakelock killing in 1987 but cleared on appeal. Outside the North London semi where Duggan’s parents Vincent and Pamela and younger brother Marlon, 27, live, there is further proof of the world Mark Duggan inhabited. One of the messages left among the floral tributes refers to ‘Gang N17 Farm’ (a rival postcode gang). Indeed, Operation Trident officers had Duggan under surveillance amid fears he was planning to avenge the death of his cousin Kelvin Easton. He was about to be arrested when he was fatally injured. Moments earlier, he had phoned his fiancee Semone Wilson. ‘I spoke to him at about 5pm [on Thursday] and he asked me if I would cook dinner and I said “Yes”, she told the Mail. ‘At about 6pm he sent out a  message on his BlackBerry saying “the Feds are following me”, and that’s it, the last time anyone heard from him. ‘By 6.15, he had been gunned down. ‘I kept phoning and phoning to find out where he was. He wasn’t answering. I didn’t know what had happened.’ Later, she received a phone call from his brother. ‘Marlon phoned me and told me what had happened,’ she said. ‘I didn’t believe it. I kept phoning Mark, then everyone was phoning me. Then I thought it must be true because I still hadn’t heard from him.’ Miss Wilson says she and Duggan, who also had a fourth child from another relationship, were planning to get married. She said she did not recognise the picture of Mark as a ‘gangster’. ‘Mark was known to police but he had never been sent down for anything before. He has been on remand. I can’t remember what for, but it was about nine years ago. ‘I believe that if he had a firearm [on the evening he died] and if he saw police he would run rather  than shoot. When he was remanded last time, he said he hated jail and never wanted to go back there. I can’t see why he would have a gun on him at all.’ ### SUMMARY:

Mark Duggan was part of a gang with links to Jamaica's ruthless 'Yardies' Carried a gun 'for protection' after cousin was stabbed in heart with bottle . Dad-of-four was a 'crack cocaine dealer' who ruled with violence and fear . Gang linked to murder of PC Keith Blakelock in 1985 Broadwater Farm riots . Widow says he 'was not a gangster' and would have 'ran' from police .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: The brothers' father, who was caught with 200 phones, was earlier cleared after prosecutors could find no evidence they were stolen . A family of Romanian pickpockets who stole from commuters to build palaces in their homeland were jailed yesterday by a judge who expressed his shock at the clan’s ‘deep-rooted criminality’. The Rostas family preyed on train passengers as they slept on late night trains going out of London, stealing hundreds of mobile phones and cash. The gipsy gang even used their children as ‘trainee pickpockets’, teaching them that theft is ‘not a serious crime’. Criminals: The thefts were carried out by the (clockwise from above left) Romulus, 18, Marin, 25, Cornell, 22 and Robert, 23, along with 17-year-old Govinder (not pictured) who was named for the first time today . The family, who were living on . benefits in Britain, pocketed hundreds of thousands of pounds by . stealing from at least 185 victims over two years, although police fear . the true number may be at least 1,000. The stolen phones were sold in Romania for huge profits. Earlier this year the Daily Mail . revealed how the gang enjoyed a life of luxury in Romania where they . built five mansions with the proceeds while they swaggered around in . designer clothing, gold jewellery and drove a fleet of luxury cars. Govinder Rostas, pictured here in 2009, was given a 12-month detention and training order . Yesterday five members of the family . were jailed for conspiracy to steal, but after an unusual plea bargain . in the middle of their trial at Blackfriars Crown Court, some could walk . free within weeks. Brothers Romulous Rostas, 18, Marin, . 25, their cousin by marriage Cornell Rostas, 22, and another cousin . Govinder, 17, changed their pleas to guilty midway through the trial . following a rare so-called ‘Goodyear’ hearing in which defence . barristers receive guidance from the judge about the sentence a . defendant would expect if he admitted his guilt. Another member of the family, Robert Rostas, 23, had earlier admitted the charges. Yesterday Cornell Rostas was jailed . for three years and three months, Marin for three years, Robert for 30 . months, Romulous for 18 months and Govinder was given a 12-month . detention and training order. Romulous will be free within five months, while Robert will serve less than a year. Judge Peter Clarke, QC, described . their racket as a ‘highly organised and regimented criminal enterprise’, . saying: ‘It’s depressing to see a family represented by so many members . showing such deep-rooted criminality.’ The court heard that Romulous, Marin, Cornell and Govinder all have previous convictions for theft. They preyed on tourists in London’s . West End, distracting victims by offering them flowers or the Big Issue, . while they swiped their phones. After the hearing, Luminita Rostas, . the mother of Marin, Robert and Romulous, screamed abuse at detectives, . hammering her fists on a police officer’s chest. Marin’s wife, Andrea Ferencz, was arrested outside court for spitting at a photographer. Bad taste: The Rostas family built five gaudy mansions in their homeland financed by their racket here . The gang targeted late-night trains . running from Charing Cross to Gravesend in Kent, where the family live, . between June 2009 and August 2011. They were captured on CCTV boarding . the back of trains just before midnight, knowing that many of the . commuters would be drunk, dozing or distracted listening to music after . a  night out. They were brought to justice after British Transport Police launched an inquiry into a spike in thefts reported on the line. Police found 250 phones and 500 phone parts at the family’s homes. Mail, March 31, 2012 . David Hewitt, prosecuting, said: ‘It was a family affair. ‘They targeted vulnerable people who . were tired for various reasons, travelling home late at night. The . team’s motivation was to steal primarily mobile phones from these . people. ‘Other members of the family have been arrested for money laundering matters. ‘A not insignificant amount of money has been relocated from this country to Romania.’ Detective Constable Tim Weekes from . British Transport Police said: ‘These men are career criminals who have . all previously been arrested, charged or convicted for theft-related . matters. Mail, September 28, 2010 . ‘The items we found during house . searches, along with CCTV and mobile phone analysis, indicated that . these men were agents involved in a highly-organised conspiracy to . steal, aimed at generating as much money as possible to pass back to . other family members in Romania to buy land and property. ‘We know there were more than 180 . crimes – more than £60,000 worth of stolen property – linked to this . group, but these are minimum estimates and the true figure could have . been much higher because many thefts may have been reported as lost . property or not reported at all.’ Detectives are now investigating how huge wads of cash were transferred from Britain to Romania. Police hope to claw back the proceeds . of their crimes and last month they arrested other members of the family . on suspicion of money laundering following the Mail investigation. Mirela Rostas, Andrea Ferencz, . Luminata Rostas and Damian Rostas were held on suspicion of making . transfers of thousands of pounds to Romania to fund the family’s luxury . lifestyle. They are currently on bail. In Britain the gipsy gang lived on benefits, claiming to be homeless and destitute. Six adults and six children lived in squalor in a rundown and cramped three-bedroom terraced house in Northfleet, Kent. But earlier this year a Daily Mail investigation revealed how the Rostas family stole from hundreds of British commuters to fund a lavish lifestyle in Romania, where they built five palaces with the proceeds of their massive pickpocketing racket. The gang boasted of their riches in their homeland where they decorated their gaudy blue-roofed mansions with the Mercedes car emblem to denote their wealth. In the small town of Huedin, near Cluj in Transylvania, relatives of the clan were seen swaggering around dressed in shiny designer tracksuits and decked out in gold jewellery. Parked outside their 16-bedroom villas were Mercedes, Audis and BMWs with English and Irish number plates. The wealthy family also own two farms and recently bought another plot of land for 30,000 euros in nearby Calatele. Lavish display: The Mercedes symbols on the roof of one of their houses in Huedin, Transylvania, symbolise wealth . Dodgy: The family deliberately left windows unfinished on this five-storey building to avoid property taxes . Ostentatious: The distinctive luxury homes built by the the family - who admit to robbing sleeping commuters - tower over the town in north-west Romania . One relative said: ‘Yes, we are very, very rich family. We work in England, Spain and France. We make a lot of money.’ Police believe the family may be part of a wider organised criminal network spread across Europe, operating in Britain, Ireland, Spain and France, stealing valuable iPhone and BlackBerry handsets. Yesterday Blackfriars Crown Court was told that 17-year-old Govinder Rostas had been ‘groomed’ by his family to become a ‘trainee pickpocket’. Asking for him to be spared jail, his lawyer Rebecca Helliwell said: ‘This is how he has been brought into the world. This is his upbringing, his way of life. In his culture theft is not thought of as a serious crime.’ ### SUMMARY:

Brothers and cousin took cash and mobile phones from 'vulnerable' targets . Spent profits on gaudy and expensive mansions for relatives back home . Blue-roofed mansions decorated with Mercedes symbols to represent wealth . Family also preyed on tourists in central London, distracting them with offers of flowers or the Big Issue . The brothers' father, who was caught with 200 phones, was earlier cleared after prosecutors could find no evidence they were stolen .

### SUMMARIZE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: The disturbed gunman who killed six people in California on Saturday has been hailed as a hero by an underground online forum for men unable to date women. Elliot Rodger's massacre has thrown the depraved world of PickUp-Artist's into the spotlight - especially the rage-filled PUAHate.com, an extreme group which describes itself as the 'Anti-Pickup-Artist Movement'. Its members are all men who have spent time and money on books and seminars designed to help them pick-up women - but who have failed and are furious with the 'scams, deception and misleading marketing techniques used by dating gurus and the seduction community.' Scroll Down for Video . Anger: British-born student Elliot Rodger, 22 - son of Hunger Games film director Peter Rodger - who murdered six people in the Isla Vista district of Santa Barbara, California, because he was a virgin and girls would not have sex with him . The bitter and misogynistic tweets are full of tales of woe from men who don't know how to get women to date them and then blame the women themselves for the problem. He posted in 2013, 'If you could release a virus that would kill every single man on Earth, except for yourself because you would have the antidote, would you do it?' 'You will be the only man left, with all the females. You would be able to have your pick of any beautiful woman you want, as well has having dealt vengeance on the men who took then from you. 'Imagine how satisfying that would be.' Pick-up-artist: Elliot Rodger hated the idea that he had to learn to pick-up girls and despised it when these techniques went wrong . Racial: Some of Elliot Roger's posts to the pick-up-artist's web forums were aimed at minorities and their success with women compared to his . In high gear: the 22-year-old boasted about his luxury vehicles, including his black BMW involved in the drive-by shootings . His comments were lauded online by members of PUAHate.com, with some labeling him a hero. Rodger’s posts have disappeared with the website, but on Saturday the Southern Poverty Law Center unearthed some comments, both racist and misogynistic, that he wrote on the forums. One post reads: . 'I was shopping at Trader Joe’s and saw an Indian guy with 2 above average White Girls!!! What rage-inducing sights did you guys see today? Don’t you just hate seeing these things when you go out? It just makes you want to quit life.' Indeed, Rodger, who stabbed three men to death before shooting two UCSB soroity sisters and one male freshman, before taking his own life, was very prominent online in the PUA community. Pick-Up Artists, or PUAs', are men online who talk about their failure to secure girlfriends - and despair about forever being friends and not lovers. Disturbed: Elliot Rodger, 22, took his own life Friday after murdering six people and leaving 13 others wounded in California . Armed to the teeth: Rodger had legally purchased two Sig Sauers like the one pictured right and a Glock 34 . They are determined to date women who score at least seven out of ten on their own scale of attractiveness, and they all trade tips online about how to become the dominant men they all aspire to be. Among their techniques to pick up women is a method called 'negging' - which essentially means, insulting women to break down their confidence. Those on Pick-Up-Artist websites resent women for controlling the sexual market and believe that women only like men who treat them badly. Ultimately, the PUA thinks that women are not deserving of respect and a target to conquer. Indeed, Rodger was also a member of PUAHate.com, a forum that is not designed to attack the methods of pick-up-artist, but in fact, to point out unsuccessful techniques. The site has been taken down in the aftermath of Rodger's killing spree, but according to Slate, the forum is designed to host those interested in 'exposing the scams, deception and misleading marketing techniques used by dating gurus and the seduction community to deceive men and profit from them.' College terror: Police investigate the bloody scene . Chase: Rodger crashed his BMW after he was pursued by police . In YouTube videos and a long written manifesto, Elliot Rodger aired his contempt for everyone from his roommates to the whole human race, reserving special hate for two groups: the women he says kept him a virgin for all of his 22 years, and the men they chose instead. Authorities said he put that bitterness into action in a stabbing and shooting rampage Friday night across the seaside California college town of Isla Vista that killed two young women and four men, at least half of them students at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Thirteen people were injured. Rodger then apparently shot and killed himself inside the black BMW he used in the violence, authorities said Saturday. The rampage played out largely as he laid it out in the public postings, including a YouTube video where he sits in the BMW in sunset light and appears to be acting out scripted lines and planned laughs. 'I'll take great pleasure in slaughtering all of you,' Rodger, the son of a Hollywood director who worked on 'The Hunger Games,' says in the video posted Friday and taken down by YouTube on Saturday with a message saying it violated the site's terms of service. 'I don't know why you girls are so repulsed by me,' he says in the video, describing his loneliness and frustration at never having had sex with or even kissed a girl. 'I am polite. I am the ultimate gentleman. And yet, you girls never give me a chance. I don't know why.' First casualties: Katie Cooper, left, and . Veronika Weiss, right, are believed to be among the seven people slain . not far from the University of California Santa Barbara campus Friday . Deceased: Chris Michael-Martinez, 20, was shot and killed as he entered the IV Deli, in Isla Vista at 9.30pm on Friday night . Of the men he sees as rivals, he said: 'I deserve girls much more than all those slobs,' and that after his rampage 'you will finally see that I am, in truth, the superior one, the true alpha male.' Sheriff Bill Brown, appearing on CNN on Sunday said that investigators are tying up a few ends, but 'for the most part, I think, we have a pretty clear picture of what happened ' The first three killed Friday were male stabbing victims in Rodger's own apartment whose names have not been released, Brown said Saturday. Then, at about 9:30 p.m., the citywide shooting and vehicle-ramming rampage began. His first stop was the Alpha Phi sorority, which he had called 'the hottest sorority of UCSB.' 'I know exactly where their house is and I've sat outside it in my car to stalk them many times,' Rodger wrote in his extensive manifesto titled 'My Twisted World.' No one answered the door after one to two minutes of aggressive pounding, but he soon shot three women who were standing nearby, killing two of them, 19-year-old Veronika Weiss and 22-year-old Katherine Cooper. He then drove to a deli where he walked inside and shot and killed another UC Santa Barbara student, 20-year-old Christopher Michaels-Martinez, the sheriff said. 'Chris was a really great kid,' Michaels-Martinez's father said at a news conference where he choked back tears and eventually collapsed to his knees in agony. 'Ask anyone who knew him. His death has left our family lost and broken.' ### SUMMARY:

Elliot Rodger has been called a hero online for his comments posted to Pick-Up-Artist websites and forums . Pick-Up-Artist's use degrading techniques to pick up women . Self-confessed virgin, Rodger, avidly posted onto their forums and revealed his self-loathing and hatred of women . Won admiration on these forums for a post in which he wished all men on earth dead bar him . He would then have his choice of women across the globe . Rodger, 22, stabbed to death three men inside his home in California . Gunman wrote 140-page manifesto outlining how he wanted to kill people . Rodger had Asperger's syndrome and was in the care of several therapists . He had three semi-automatic handguns and 400 rounds of ammunition .