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Seoul, South Korea (CNN)On March 20, 2013, a cyberattack brought chaos to several banks and media outlets in South Korea. Then more ominously on December 23 last year, computers at the country's nuclear operator were breached. Again cybercrime was suspected. The source of these attacks? North Korea. And South Korean investigators say they have proof -- the actual malicious codes used in the attacks. They shared this data with CNN. The 2013 attack, known as "Dark Seoul," paralyzed an estimated 48,000 computers at a number of major banks and broadcasters, disrupting network systems and wiping their hard disks clean. "It would try to delete essentially all your files... then restart the system. You would come back up and nothing would be there," Joshua James, a digital forensic expert, told CNN. "If it infected more financial systems, it could have deleted all financial data in Korea. I mean, it is dangerous," the visiting professor at Chuncheon's Hallym University added. Live footage of the breaches showed computer screens at the media companies completely down, while bank customers were unable to make withdrawals, or transfer money online. "Dark Seoul" happened shortly after the North Korean government announced it would end the armistice agreement that brought the three-year Korean War to an end in July 1953 amid growing tensions with its neighbor. The latest high-profile digital incursion, in December, attempted to steal data from South Korea's nuclear operator, including plant blueprints and personnel information. Though investigators said no critical data was stolen, the attack raised serious concerns about the safety and security of the 23 nuclear power plants it runs. The attack itself was described by James as a "spear-fishing" exercise where unsuspecting victims -- retired and current employees of the nuclear operator -- were prompted to open up a disguised document in their email. "As soon as you double click on it, it starts running in the background of your computer where you can't see ... it's also trying to open up your computer -- what we call a back door -- to give access to the infected system by the attacker," he told CNN. The attack, which James said was simpler than "Dark Seoul," came just a few days after Sony Pictures said their systems has been "hacked," another attack the South Korean authorities blamed on North Korea. "From a law enforcement or investigation side, we're trying to actually trace back to who did it," said James. Seoul announced in mid-March that some of the IP addresses used in December incursion could be traced back to Shenyang, China, which can be easily accessed from the North Korean border. Codes used in the attack were said to be similar in pattern to those used by the North Koreans, South Korean authorities said. "The malicious codes used in the attack were same in composition and working methods as "Kimsuky" codes known to be used by North Korea," the prosecutor's office that leads 17 other government agencies and Internet companies in the investigation said in the statement in March. Pyongyang has dismissed the claims it launched these attacks, calling them a "plot and fabrication that can never win over the truth." But many experts say North Korea appears to be investing more in cyberwarfare because it is cheaper than spending on conventional weapons and can cause significant economic damage to its southern rival. Indeed South Korea's Defense Ministry estimates that North Korea is operating a "cyberarmy" of 6,000 workers as it focuses on strengthening its asymmetrical warfare capability. "Hacks are going on all the time, constantly -- though how many actually make the news is a very small amount," said James. "How many are detected in general? I think the average person would have no clue they've been hacked. "Organizations need to invest the same amount that hackers are investing to protect themselves and right now they're not," he added. Many in South Korea believe not enough effort is being put into defending against cyberattacks. A report by the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade, a government-funded think tank, estimates that "Dark Seoul" caused about $820 million worth of damage. Its report, published in 2014, predicted that by 2020, South Korea could be exposed to hacking attacks causing up to $25 billion in economic damage.</s>A New Jersey woman convicted of killing her husband and hiding his remains in storage containers wept in court Wednesday as a judge sentenced her to 55 years in prison after comparing the grisly murder to Al Capone’s St Valentine’s Day massacre. Loretta Burroughs, 63, sobbed throughout her sentencing as relatives of her late husband, Danny, talked about the horror of losing him and finding out that she chopped up his body and took his remains with her when she moved. Mrs Burroughs was arrested in May 2013 after Danny Burroughs' body parts were found inside the guest bedroom closet of the Ventnor home she was moving out of. Scroll down for video . Crocodile tears: Loretta Burroughs, 63, pictured in wiping away tears in New Jersey Superior Court in Mays Landing Wednesday, was sentenced to 55 years in prison for the murder and dismemberment of her husband . Victim: Daniel Burroughs was missing for six years before his chopped up remains were found at his wife's home in Ventnor, New Jersey, in 2013 . Grief: Raymond Wantorcik, brother of murder victim Danny Burroughs, refers to a photo of the pair stating 'This is my best friend... I won't smile like that anymore' during the sentencing of Loretta Burroughs . She had told family and friends that he had left her for another woman shortly before the couple was due to move to Florida in August 2007. Investigators testified that the containers were each wrapped in nine trash bags, with air fresheners, dryer sheets and scented beads to mask the smell. They began re-examining the case after a family member provided new information to the new cold-case unit of the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office in February 2013. Loretta Burroughs said in addressing the court that the killing wasn't planned. But friends had said she didn't want to move to Florida, which was her husband's idea, and that was her motive for killing him. In sentencing her, Judge Michael Donlo said, ‘This court has not seen anything so brutal and heinous as this since Al Capone ordered the St. Valentine's Day massacre.’ The notorious Prohibition-era gangster was believed to be behind the slayings of seven people in Chicago on February 14, 1929, by hired killers dressed as policemen. Shaking his head at the defendant, Judge Donlo marveled that she had murdered her husband just so she wouldn't have to relocate to the Sunshine State. 'Wait until you see now where you're going to go,' he told her, according to Press of Atlantic City. Loretta Burroughs was found guilty last month of first-degree murder for stabbing her husband to death, dismembering him with a knife and a saw, packing the body parts into plastic containers, and dragging them with her as she moved three times in six years. Graphic: The jury was shown how the dead man's remains had been systematically taken apart . Loretta was about to move for a fourth time on May 17, 2013, from Ventnor, New Jersey, to Villas, New Jersey, when authorities arrived at the door of her new home with a search warrant. They were investigating her for fraud in relation to the disappearance of her husband, Daniel S. Burroughs, 63, who was reported missing on September 1, 2007. Guilty: Loretta Burroughs, 63, murdered and cut up her husband then hid the body for six years . 'She asked if we were also searching the Ventnor house,' testified Sgt. Lynn Dougherty of the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office. When told that they were, Loretta's physical demeanor 'changed completely. Her whole body sunk. She lost the color in her face, she was wringing her hands, very nervous.' In the guest bedroom closet of Loretta's Ventnor home, Detective Caroline MacDonald of the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office discovered two large boxes wrapped in multiple plastic garbage bags. As she started to open the bags, she smelled the distinct odor of decomposition and called the medical examiner. The boxes were transported to the morgue. Dr Charles F Siebert Jr, a forensic pathologist, began opening the boxes. Both were surrounded by nine layers of plastic bags in alternating directions, Siebert testified. He also found dryer sheets, air fresheners, and scented beads to mask the odor of death. Inside the first container, Siebert testified, he found a woman's handbag. 'I described it as olive but I didn't know the color, because it had been sitting in decomposition fluid,' he said. Inside the handbag were a 'cranium and mandible' — a skull and jawbone. The second, larger plastic container contained more bones, including the left upper arm and lower legs. Gruesome: A woman's handbag, soaked in decomposition fluid, was found in one of the plastic totes. It contained the victim's skull and jawbone. Siebert testified that he saw cut marks on the ribs that were consistent with stab wounds. He determined that the person had died by homicide. Dr Stuart Alexander, a forensic odontologist, or dentist, from Cranbury, testified that he positively identified the remains in the plastic tote as being Daniel Burroughs. Alexander compared Burroughs' dental records to the teeth in the skull. Donna Fontana, a forensic anthropologist with the New Jersey State Police, testified about the condition of the bones in the boxes. 'There was no gnawing from animals and no bleaching of the bones,' she said. 'That means the bones were in a protected environment, with no sun exposure, and not exposed to the environment where they were attacked by animals.' Fontana then used a replica of a human skeleton and photographs to explain to the jury what had happened to the bones. She said the right tibia, which is the large bone of the lower leg, had been cut with a knife and a saw. Because the cut edge was the same color of the bone, she said it had been sawed at the time of death. Several vertebrae were missing, and others showed signs of trauma, including 'linear cuts as if produced by a knife.' Demonstration: Donna Fontana, forensic anthropologist with the New Jersey State Police, uses a replica skeleton to show the jury where the bones of the victim's leg had been sawed. Forensic anthropologist Donna Fontana testified that all the wounds to the victim's ribs were made with a knife. The third rib on the left side was completely fractured. Fontana testified that several of the body's 24 ribs were also missing. Of the ribs that showed trauma, the injuries were consistent with knife wounds. One was completely fractured. 'There is a pattern of dismemberment,' Fontana testified. Dismemberment, she explained, is usually done 'to hinder identification and for ease of transport.' Chief Assistant Prosecutor Seth Levy argued that Loretta Burroughs murdered her husband, Danny Burroughs, for money. Danny disappeared on August 3, 2007. A few days later, Loretta told friends and family that he had left her. She said he drove off with a younger woman in a yellow Hummer with Florida license plates. In reality, the prosecutor said, Loretta had killed him, and her gruesome plot had begun months before the murder. Loretta worked at the Mey House Assisted Living Facility in Egg Harbor Township, now called Somers Place. In early June 2007, she asked attorney Enid Hyberg, whose mother was in Mey House, to draft a power of attorney. Loretta told the attorney that she and her husband were selling their home, but Danny was going out of town. With the power of attorney, Loretta could complete the sale. Hyberg drafted the document. She did not charge Loretta, 'in gratitude for the attention she was paying my mother,' Hyberg testified. A power of attorney needs to be notarized. In June 2007, Loretta asked Edward T. Dwyer, whose mother was also in the Mey House assisted living facility, if he knew anyone who could notarize it. 'She said her husband had left her, the house was sold, but the deal wasn't finished because he left,' Dwyer testified. 'I agreed to help her out,' he said. 'She was overly good and generous with my mother.' In June 2007, Dwyer asked his sister-in-law to notarize the power of attorney. Although Danny Burroughs was supposed to sign the document, he did not. Instead, the prosecutor said, Loretta signed Danny's name to it. Loss: Ray Wantorcik had to sit through the trial but said he believed the graphic images of his brother's remains were what had convinced jurors of his sister-in-law's guilt . Ray Wantorcik, right, was finally able to hold a memorial for Danny Burroughs on May 10, 2014, almost seven years after he reported his brother missing. 'My brother won this case for himself,' Ray said. Nicole DiDomizio, Loretta's daughter by another man, testified that her mother frequently signed Danny Burroughs' name. In fact, she saw her do it between four and six times. After Danny's death, the prosecutor said, Loretta used the forged document to sell their home. The profit was $77,101. But the money was locked up in escrow, and Danny was entitled to at least half of it. 'She can't get the money if she is married,' Levy, the prosecutor, said. 'But she can get it if she is divorced.' Loretta filed for divorce on February 28, 2009, 18 months after she killed her husband. She told her divorce attorney, Daniel Alsofrom of Northfield, NJ, that her husband had moved to Florida and did not give an address. Alsofrom published a notice of her divorce complaint in the Press of Atlantic City. Loretta received half of the money when she filed for divorce, and the other half when the divorce was finalized, Alsofrom testified. As a result, the prosecutor said, between the profit from the house, and selling Danny's possessions, such as his tools and his collection of remote controlled model airplanes, Loretta received close to $100,000. 'The defendant has gotten away with it for over eight years, with nothing left but the bones,' Levy said in his closing statement. 'The story ends with the defendant being $100,000 richer and Danny Burroughs in the defendant's closet.'</s>Police remain hopeful they will find missing 11-year-old Luke Shambrook who went missing from a campsite in Victoria on Friday. An increased number of police and other emergency crews continue to scour the thick bushland areas around Lake Eildon in an effort to find the boy. Search co-ordinator Acting Senior Sergeant Andrew Walker said Luke had a “very high pain tolerance”, a factor that would work in his favour given he has now been missing for days. Scroll down for video . The Shambrook family with children (left to right) Luke, 11, Lauren, 7, and Matthew, 10 . Luke Shambrook was last seen on the national park at 9.30am on Good Friday. It is understood he wandered off and has not been seen since . “Hence the reason why we’re out searching. We’re still hopeful that we can find him,” Sgt Walker said. The 11-year-old, who is autistic, was reportedly seen walking near the Devils River on Sunday, four kilometres south of his campsite where he was last seen. Search crews have rushed to the location and police remain comfortable that the young boy is still alive. Luke has now been missing for four days. A Victorian Police spokeswoman told AAP late on Sunday that a family saw a young boy matching Lukes description while they were driving in the Devils River vicinity. With temperatures dropping to as low as eight degree Celsius, Senior Sergeant Ralph Willingham believes that the fourth day of searching will have a further level of urgency. 'The advice I'm getting from our search and rescue experts having regard to the overnight temperatures and the daytime temperatures is that he could well still be out there,' he said. 'We've got to be realists but we're positive, the family's positive.' However, Luke may not even know he is lost and is known to frequently hide, according to his family. He was last seen leaving Candlebark Campground in Fraser National Park near Lake Eildon at 9.30am on Good Friday. Luke has limited speech and his family says he is probably confused, and he may not even be aware he is lost. Campers are helping rescue teams including the air wing, dog squad, local police and SES volunteers in the search of thick bushland. Police hold hope that Luke has been able to stay reasonably warm as he was last seen wearing a beanie and warm jacket. There was a moment of hope when a beanie was found by the search party, however it was decided it did not belong to Luke. The Candlebark Campground in Fraser National Park, central Victoria, where Luke went missing on Friday . Having met Luke's family during a push to open a special school in Melbourne's southeast, Opposition emergency services spokeman Brad Battin says it's devastating to hear the 11-year-old is missing. He says Luke's parents Tim and Rachel have been updating him on the search and appreciate the efforts of all those out looking for their little boy. 'He's a lovely young kid,' Mr Battin told AAP on Sunday. 'He displays all the characteristics of a child with autism, which means he might not even think he is lost.' Sergeant Greg Paul says the search is focused on an area of several kilometres of bushland. 'We've got a lot of searchers in the bush, we've got a lot searchers searching all the tracks and in between the tracks and the gullies and the spurs,' he told reporters on Saturday. The Shambrook family has thanked emergency service workers, volunteers, family and friends for their help. They say the disappearance is completely out of character for him. A widespread search is being carried by search and rescue teams including the air wing, dog squad, local police and SES members, along with campers around the surrounding areas. A large search is being carried by a medley of search and rescue teams . Sergeant Greg Paul said the search was focused on an area of several kilometres of bushland. 'We've got a lot of searchers in the bush,' he told reporters on Saturday. 'We've also got people walking the banks of the lake.' But he outlined a serious hurdle for the search efforts, according to ABC. 'With the autistic condition, Luke might not respond to searchers, he may not even know that he's lost,' he said. 'He won't necessarily respond to his name being called, but that might change a little bit as he gets hungry maybe. Sgt Paul said there were hundreds of other campers in the area over the busy Easter period, so there was a chance someone else could spot Luke. Luke is described as being of medium build, about 150 cm tall with olive skin, brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a black windcheater, black t-shirt, grey track-pants, grey boots and a scarf. Lake Eildon, near where Luke went missing: Police say conditions are favourable for his survival overnight, with warm temperatures through the day . Sergeant Greg Paul said the search was focused on an area of several kilometres of bushland . Searchers are desperately combing bushland and the banks of a lake for an autistic who went missing there . A widespread search is being carried by search and rescue teams including the dog squad and local police .</s>The Queen has spent a second day enjoying the spring sunshine in Windsor Great Park this week. Her Majesty, who is approaching her 89th birthday, was spotted riding her faithful black Fell pony, Carltonlima Emma, as she was joined by Lord Vestey and her Head Groom Terry Pendry in the beautiful park close to her Windsor Castle home on Monday. She was well prepared for any spring showers in a lightweight waterproof, and, as is her wont, eschewed a helmet in favour of one of her silk scarves. Scroll down for video . Outing: The Queen has spent a second day enjoying the spring sunshine in Windsor Great Park this week . On Thursday the Monarch was seen trotting through the park again with Pendry as the sunshine lit up the blooming flora. Today's second riding partner, Lord Vestry, is a close friend of the Royal Family and also the Queen's Master of the Horse, regularly photographed with the Monarch at equestrian events and important ceremonial occasions. The multi-millionaire, 72, is one of Britain's richest men thanks to the Vestey family's estimated £750million fortune through the family meat business, Vestey Foods Group. Active: Her Majesty, who is approaching her 89th birthday, was spotted riding her faithful black Fell pony, Carltonlima Emma . Park life: The Queen was joined by Lord Vestey and her Head Groom Terry Pendry . Whilst Lord Vestry and Pendry wore hard hats for the ride, the Queen wore only a light, floral headscarf. She finished the look with some pale jodphurs and deep, brown riding boots. Despite being encouraged to use a riding helmet in the past the Queen has reportedly never worn one because of her hair. Speaking in an interview last year, her racing trainer Ian Balding recalled the moment he asked why the monarch never wears a riding hat. The Queen is said to have replied: 'I never have and you don’t have to have your hair done like I do.' Her Majesty is famous for her love of horses and first found herself in the saddle at the age of four after being presented with a Shetland pony, named Peggy, aged four. Since then, the royal stables have been home to a succession of steeds, among them Betsy, a black farm-bred horse who was her mount of choice in the 50's, and Surprise, a grey gelding whom the Queen famously galloped down the course at Ascot in 1961. No helmet: The Queen, pictured here on Friday, never wears a riding helmet preferring instead to ride in a silk headscarf . Cutting back: She has ridden less in recent years as a result of a niggling knee injury . Recent years have seen her cut down on the amount of time she spends in the saddle - the result of a niggling knee injury that also forced her to give up presiding over Trooping the Colour on horseback. Nevertheless, the Queen remains an enthusiastic equestrienne and, according to sources, is a familiar sight at her Windsor stables. She is also said to take a keen interest in all her horses and ponies, some of whom are now ridden by her grandchildren, notably Prince Edward's children, Lady Louise and James, Viscount Severn. Along with her thoroughbred race horses, the Queen also breeds Fell ponies and has a stud specialising in Highland ponies at Balmoral. First love: The Queen's first pony was a tiny Shetland named Peggy who was given to her at the age of four . Familiar sight: The Queen riding her much-loved horse Burmese during Trooping the Colour . Seal of approval: A Fell pony foal similar to those being bred by the Queen at Hampton Court . One of the oldest equine breeds on the planet, Fell ponies like the Queen's mount Carltonlima Emma, have roamed the moors of Cumbria since the Neolithic period. Docile, hardy and thick-set, the majority of Fell ponies are black, grey or bay and measure between 13 and 14hh. Highly prized by the Carvetii, the Iron Age tribe who occupied the region more than two millennia ago, the ponies later caught the eye of the invading Romans and were used as trade goods all over the Empire. The Romans also helped develop the breed into the relatively large animal it is today. Originally thought to have stood around 12hh tall (similar to Dartmoor and Exmoor ponies), by the end of the Roman period, the average Fell was more than a hand higher. Another invader to fall in love with the Fell pony was the Vikings, who used the animals as pack ponies; a use continued by the Normans. By the 13th century, the Fell's usefulness as a pack animal was well-established and the pony played an important role in British trade until the end of the 18th century. Following the Industrial Revolution, Fells were used to transport iron ore and coal from mine to town, as well as underground when the height of the shaft allowed. Although previously used in trotting races, the Fell pony really came into its as a riding horse in the 1950s, when its gentle nature and pretty looks made it the pony of choice for families. Today, the pony remains a popular choice for riders of all ages, among them the Queen who breeds Fell ponies at her Hampton Court stud. Source: The Fell Pony Society .</s>Ed Balls this morning repeatedly refused to match the Tories' election pledge to increase NHS spending by £8billion a year. The shadow chancellor said he would not make 'unfunded and uncosted commitments' after promising to cut the deficit every year. It comes after David Cameron pledged to give the NHS whatever it needed - but refused to say how he will find the money. Scroll down for video . Ed Balls this morning repeatedly refused to match the Tories' election pledge to increase NHS spending by £8billion a year . Speaking on the BBC this morning, ahead of Labour's manifesto launch in Manchester, Mr Balls insisted the party could be trusted to give the health service what it needed. But asked if he would give the NHS the £8billion a year budget boost demanded by its chief executive Simon Stevens, Mr Balls said: 'I won't promise £8billion of spending.' He said: 'We're not going to make unfunded and uncosted commitments. The Tories said at the weekend they'll find the £8billion. 'George Osborne was asked 18 times by Andrew Marr where money is coming from and he couldn't answer the question. That is what corrodes trust in politics.' Mr Balls added: 'I'll save the NHS but I'm not going to make promises until we can show where the money will come from – that's the irresponsible approach. It's actually become the George Osborne approach. 'We'll cut the deficit every year and the only promises we can make are promises where we can show where the money is going to come from. 'And clearly we need to make the economy stronger; we need the revenues to come in. I want, consistent with getting the deficit down, to do more for the NHS. 'But if I roll up and say '£8billion, I'm not going to tell you where the money is going to come from,' that would be irresponsible and that is what the Tories did this weekend.' David Cameron has pledged to increase spending by £8billion a year by 2020 - which Labour has refused to match . Pressed if Labour would deny the NHS the cash it needs, Mr Balls said: 'I said last year that we will do what it takes.' Mr Balls' remarks come as the Labour leader Ed Miiband prepares to unveil the party's manifesto in Manchester this morning. Mr Miliband will say he wants to be Prime Minister to build a 'fairer, more equal, more just country... that works for working people once again'. The manifesto will outline everything which a Labour government would do, from schools and hospitals, to crime, pensions, benefits and the environment. It includes a promise to cap energy prices, cut class sizes, offer more free childcare, increase the minimum wage, ban most zero-hours contracts, build more homes and find an extra £2.5billion for the NHS. It will rule out a rise in VAT, National Insurance or the basic rate of income tax. But it will also promise to cut spending of every government department apart from health and education, scrapping winter fuel payments for wealthy pensioners, capping rises in child benefit, a mansion tax on £2million homes, a levy on tobacco firms and an increase the top rate of tax to 50p. Explaining the party's commitments this morning, Mr Balls said: 'By the end of parliament we want to get the budget back into surplus or earlier if we can.'</s>Paige VanZant proved she is more than just hype with a dominant performance over Felice Herrig. The 21-year-old, one of the few UFC athletes to be awarded an individual contract with Reebok, never looked troubled over the three rounds. VanZant was declared the winner by lop-sided scores of 30-26, 30-26 and 30-27 in just her second fight in the promotion. Paige VanZant was never in trouble as she dominated Felice Herrig for he second UFC victory . VanZant lays into Herrig on her way to a lop-sided points victory in New Jersey . VanZant celebrates her victory over Herrig as she continues her rise in the UFC . 'It's like my birthday every time I walk out to the cage,' the strawweight said. 'I'm here for the fun of it and I'm so thankful. I can't believe I made it through that fight. It only goes up from here. 'I started crying before the fight was over.' VanZant, who has only fought six times as a professional, landed several knees after the opening bell of the first round and never let up. She stayed on top of the more experienced Herrig and landed fist after fist to her opponent's face before pinning her against the cage in the third round and making sure of the result with a serious of brutal elbows to the head. VanZant was 18 when she won her first professional bout in Texas and stepped up to the all-women Invicta promotion in January 2013. And, hot on the heels of Ronda Rousey, the UFC may just have its next female superstar. Herrig and VanZant grapple in their one-sided women's strawweight bout . Herrig struggled to impose herself on the fight despite having much more experience .</s>A woman who won $1million off a scratch-off lottery ticket given to her in a birthday card from a friend plans to share her earnings with her friend's family. Theresa Dybalski, a retired insurance company from Lackawanna, New York, was celebrating at a birthday lunch when she received the ticket. Her friend who gave it to her, however, has died since Dybalski's birthday. So she plans to share her winnings with family members of her friend, who has not been named. Theresa Dybalski, a retired insurance company from Lackawanna, New York, won $1million off of a $5 scratch off lottery ticket . The ticket was given to her by a friend during a lunch celebrating Dybalski's birthday. The friend has since died, so Dybalski plans to share her winnings with the friend's family . 'She was a kind, sweet, loving lady who would bend over backwards to help you out. Hopefully she's present here as I am receiving this great reward,' she said of her friend, according to AOL. It wasn't until she scratched off the last box in the last row that she realized that she saw her number matched and saw the word "Jackpot'. Dybalski received a lump-sum payment of $522,822 after taxes last month. Other than sharing with her friend, she plans to address 'a couple of issues around the house', she told Buffalo News. Dybalski received a lump-sum payment of $522,822 after taxes from her $1million winnings last month. She plans to share her earnings as well as address 'a couple issues around the house'</s>Gemma Redhead was left terrified after her former partner telephoned her after he was released from prison, following a conviction for raping her . Brutally raped at knifepoint and left fearing for her life, Gemma Redhead believed her ordeal was over after her attacker was jailed. But as she attempted to rebuild her life, the young mother had a sickening reminder of the attack – from the man who carried it out. After he was released from prison, having served only half his sentence, he defied a restraining order to phone her. Miss Redhead said the 46-second call ‘reawakened all of the fear and terror of the attack’, leaving her unable to sleep or eat. ‘As soon as I heard his voice I realised who it was, and it disturbed something deep down inside of me,’ she said. Miss Redhead, 33, who has waived her right to anonymity, was left with post-traumatic stress disorder after being repeatedly raped by her former partner, Philip Kirby. She endured eight years of violence at the hands of bullying Kirby and his attacks became so brutal she lived in fear every day, thinking he would kill her. In August 2010 the mother-of-four, who has a child with Kirby, decided to break up with him. After they separated, Kirby, 32, refused to acknowledge the end of their relationship and begged Miss Redhead to take him back. He continued to harass her and eventually forced his way into her home before subjecting her to a harrowing ordeal. After the first horrifying attack, Miss Redhead begged him to leave, but he told her: ‘I’m already going to jail for a long time so what difference does it make?’ before raping her again. Kirby, of Newcastle, initially denied rape. But on the first day of his trial he changed his plea, admitting four counts of rape. In April 2011, he was jailed for eight years with a five-year extended licence period. He was also handed a restraining order which banned any contact with Miss Redhead for the rest of her life. Meanwhile she began counselling, including cognitive therapy, and medication to help her overcome her post-traumatic stress disorder. But she says her hopes of rebuilding her life have now been shattered. She said: ‘It is a daily struggle and an ongoing battle to deal with this. After his initial arrest I was hopeful for the future and felt free and that I could begin to rebuild my life. Philip Kirby had been sentenced to eight years in prison but was released after three years, and phoned his former partner. The rapist had been banned from contacting her for life and will now not be released until 2023 . ‘I now feel it will never be so and he will not leave me alone.’ Referring to the chilling phonecall, Miss Redhead added: ‘But at the same time I was not surprised. I had always felt as though he would come after me once he was released.’ She said Kirby had tried to ‘destroy’ her and she feared he would continue to harass her for the rest of her life. ‘We tried so hard to rebuild our lives after he virtually destroyed it,’ she said. ‘He will never leave us alone. We just can’t escape him. We feel trapped by his behaviour. Why can’t he just leave us alone to get on with our lives? I just want my family to be left in peace.’ Miss Redhead described herself as being in an ‘extreme state of anxiety’ since the phone call from Kirby. She said: ‘I will no longer go outside on my own. I can’t eat or sleep and when I do sleep I have constant nightmares and flashbacks. I am really scared. Ms Redhead was left with post traumatic stress disorder after the attack. She is pictured (above) with Kirby during their relationship . ‘Despite telling probation he wouldn’t contact me, he has. Prison has not been a deterrent for him. I feel very fearful of what he would do next. ‘I am still full of fear. I would like to be free of fear and not constantly worrying about his next release date.’ After the phone call Kirby was hauled back to court and he admitted breaching his restraining order. On Friday, Newcastle Crown Court heard that Kirby was released from prison in November last year and after drinking vodka he decided to contact his victim last month. He was sentenced to a further six months and will not be released until 2023, serving his full jail term. Judge Deborah Sherwin said: ‘What makes this matter particularly bad is the effect she suffered at your hands originally. ‘It is not part of my function to sentence you again in respect of that but it is the legacy of that, that she feels vulnerable and afraid, therefore any phone calls made by you would have a greater effect on her than they might do to any other person.’</s>Britain's biggest banks earmarked billions of pounds for 'remediation costs' and fines over the last three years . Britain's biggest banks have racked up a £39billion bill in just three years to pay for their financial scandals. ‘Remediation costs’ wiped out 61 per cent of their profits between 2011 and 2014, according to accountants KPMG. The bill has been driven by the payment protection insurance scandal, with banks setting aside £4.7billion last year to compensate customers. Another £2.3billion was earmarked by banks including Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC to pay fines for rigging foreign exchange markets. The total charge for wrongdoing last year – £9.9billion – was only 8 per cent less than the previous year. Describing it as a ‘problem that won’t go away’, KPMG said banks also face mounting costs from employing an army of compliance staff to keep them out of trouble. RBS is thought to be facing a multibillion-pound settlement in the US for mis-selling toxic bundles of mortgage debt – known as mortgage-backed securities – in the run up to the financial crisis. Barclays is also braced for a huge fine for rigging foreign exchange rates, having put aside £1.25billion so far to cover the bill. But the UK’s strengthening economy has driven a 72 per cent drop in losses from bad loans, with write-offs falling to £5.2billion last year. RBS was boosted by £1.4billion after not as many loans went sour as it had feared. This compares with an £8.1billion charge in 2013. So-called ‘impairment charges’ at Lloyds fell £2billion to £752million as the improving economy meant fewer retail customers and businesses defaulted on their repayments. Scroll down for video . This translated into a surge in the bottom line, with Lloyds posting a £1.8billion profit, up from £415million in 2013. RBS’s losses narrowed to £3.5billion last year from £8.2billion in 2013. Barclays, HSBC and Standard Chartered all saw profits fall. KPMG said banks must ‘urgently tackle’ their low return on equity – a key measure of shareholder value – and need to invest in technology to increase their profits. Tougher regulations forcing them to hold more capital have made it more expensive for them to do business, especially in higher-risk areas. Banks including RBS and Barclays have responded by shrinking their investment banking arms. KPMG’s Bill Michael said: ‘Banks are undergoing a once in a lifetime change, as they face evolving regulation, technology and society’s expectations … If further regulation creates too many strictures on non-retail banking, the industry risks losing its global relevance.’ KPMG said banks must ‘urgently tackle’ their low return on equity and need to invest in technology to increase their profits.</s>Spring is the ideal time to fill your home with gorgeous flowers. However, your beautiful bouquet might look stunning to begin with, but it will soon fade in just a few days, a week at the most. But that doesn't have to be the case, as there are simple tricks you can use to prolong the life of your blooms. Scroll down for video . With simple and sensible tricks recommended by a professional florist, you can make your flowers last . While there are plenty of DIY 'solutions' - vodka, aspirin and pennies - to keep a bouquet fresh, most of these things can actually damage the delicate flowers. Using some simple and sensible tricks recommended by a professional florist, you can make your blooms last a lot longer. You don't need to be a professional florist to pull these off, just read our guide and try it out. From spraying them in hairspray to keeping them far away from fruit and electricals, we've gathered a handy list of seven unlikely tips from Serenata Flowers. Tip number 1: Keep your flowers well-groomed. Trim a half-inch of the lower stem so that water can be absorbed freely. Use a sharp, unserrated knife and cut on a slant - exposing more surface area. Trim just half an inch off the stems of your flowers with a sharp knife . Warming then cooling the flowers 'hardens' them for longer-lasting freshness . 2. Harden the flowers, which speeds up the water update through the stems. After cutting the stems, place the flowers in 43.5C water. Leave to sit in a cool location for up to two hours. 3. Preserve your flowers with hairspray. Remove them from the vase and lightly spray the petal undersides while holding the can several inches away. Hang the flowers upside down to dry before returning to the vase. 4. Don't mix fruit and flowers as some fruits - particularly kiwis, apples and bananas - produce ethylene, which rots nearby plants and fruits. Delicate petals can be kept in place with a light spritz of hairspray . 5. Keep your flowers well-fed - and 7Up or Sprite could do the job. Mix together one cup of water, one cup of 7Up and half a teaspoon of household bleach. If more liquid is required, increase the amounts proportionally. 6. Clean your vases. Vases in regular use often contain microorganisms that will kill of your flowers. First, fill the vase with hot water and mix in a tablespoon of baking soda and white vinegar. Scrub the insides with a cloth, empty the mixture and dry before housing new flowers. 7. Keep flowers away from appliances. TV and computers give off heat, which can lead to flowers becoming dehydrated. Place flowers in a cool spot where they'll receive plenty of light. Make sure they have plenty of water and mist the petals daily. If you want to ripen an avocado, put it next to your bananas, they say. Do the opposite for fresh flowers . The most popular spring flowers are daffodils - the messengers of spring - and tulips. Tulips are very affordable but they normally don't last very long if kept in a vase. Other popular spring flowers include sweet peas and peonies. Peonies are very popular wedding flowers as they symbolise good fortune and happy marriage. Anemones are also in season in spring, another popular flower in wedding bouquets. Hyacinths are beautiful flowers that add a hint of colour and wonderful smell to any room. Other flowers perfect for a spring arrangement are narcissus, hyacinths, ranunculus, lilacs, delphiniums and boronia. Daffodils, tulips, sweet peas and peonies are all in season for spring . Feeling ripped off by flower feed? Make your own with 7 Up and bleach . A used vase can contain organisms that will kiss your flowers faster - so give it a good scrub first . Once you've picked your favourite blooms, it's all about composition: . 'First, start with the correct vase for your flowers. 'For stiff-stemmed flowers like roses, cube shaped or round vase will make them look great and enable easy arranging. For soft stemmed flowers like tulips, use a tall vase that will support them properly and their natural arch will help with arranging. If you have mixed flowers, you can use different vases, depending on the size of the flowers, their quantity and style of flower arrangement you want. 'Pay attention to the colour of your flowers. Shades of the same colour (for example shades of pink) or contrasting colours, like red and white, will look great. 'Remove the leaves from the stems and leave only few on the top, especially for roses. This will add additional support, help to fill in the arrangement and adds a bit of colour too. 'Start by arranging the flowers in hand. Place the larger flowers near the base of the arrangement. Start adding your flowers around the base, then tie them together. Place them in a vase and add some small flowers around the edges, to fill the gaps if needed.' Who knew you had to keep flowers away from the TV? The heat is dehydrating! So keep them misted .</s>(CNN)The outlines of a nuclear deal with Iran are in place. Unfortunately, it seems like too many in President Barack Obama's administration have forgotten that the only reason this terrorist-supporting state came to the negotiating table in the first place was because of tough sanctions imposed by the U.S. Congress. Indeed, the reality is that President Obama is giving up enormous leverage in his nuclear deal with Iran -- and I worry we will lose it for good. Bleeding money, and faced with falling oil prices, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei gave his government rare permission to bargain with the "Great Satan" -- the United States. But just as U.S. and European sanctions were forcing Iran to the nuclear crossroads, President Obama has given Tehran an easy exit. For Khamenei, the "framework" announced last week looks like a win-win: He gets to keep his nuclear infrastructure, and in return gets billions of dollars in sanctions relief. Congress offered a better strategy when the top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, Eliot Engel, and I introduced a bill to hit Tehran with its toughest sanctions yet. Unfortunately, this bill -- which passed the House in a 400-20 vote -- was blocked in the Senate last year, despite the fact that it would have sharpened the Ayatollah's choice: Dismantle your nuclear weapons program or see your economy collapse. President Obama once had a tougher line, when in 2012 he said: "The deal we'll accept is they end their nuclear program. It's very straightforward." But the framework announced last week does nothing of the sort. Negotiated between Iran and the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany, the framework concedes that Iran can maintain "a mutually defined enrichment program," operate thousands of centrifuges, and continue its research and development of nuclear technologies. The deal currently on the table would hand Tehran billions of previously sanctioned funds, filling the coffers of the world's biggest state sponsor of terrorism, with strongholds in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon. Meanwhile, the strictest restrictions on Iran's enrichment will expire in only 10 years, despite the President receiving a letter from 367 Members of Congress -- both Democrats and Republicans -- in which we insisted that "verifiable constraints on Iran's nuclear program must last for decades." The President admitted as much when he conceded that "in year 13, 14, 15, they have advanced centrifuges that enrich uranium fairly rapidly, and at that point the breakout times would have shrunk almost down to zero." But as bad as these concessions are, the most concerning aspect of the April 2 deal is that it lacks tough safeguards to stop Iran from cheating. The key question is this: Will the inspectors at the International Atomic Energy Agency be allowed to inspect these military sites without warning? Because if the IAEA cannot conduct "anytime, anywhere" inspections, Iran will be able to "sneak out" to a bomb. It has been done before. Remember, in 1994, when President Bill Clinton told us he had struck a deal with North Korea that would "make the United States, the Korean Peninsula, and the world safer"? President Clinton sounded a little too much like the current Secretary of State John Kerry, when he promised that the North Korea agreement "does not rely on trust" and that "compliance will be certified by the International Atomic Energy Agency." Twelve years after these assurances, North Korea detonated its first nuclear bomb. Iran could easily do the same. The best predictor of its future behavior is its past behavior -- between 2004 and 2009, the Iranian government built a huge centrifuge facility named Fordo under a mountain deep in the Iranian desert. Luckily for the world, Western intelligence agencies discovered Tehran's deception. But we cannot rely on such luck in the future, particularly when Iran still hasn't come clean about its history of secret weapons development and is still dodging basic questions from the IAEA. Let's not forget the other things Iran has been doing while its diplomats have been bargaining with the U.S. and its partners. While Iran was showing its friendly new face to the world, it has simultaneously been helping Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad kill his own people, training and funding the terrorist group Hezbollah, which aims to annihilate Israel, and supporting the Houthis, who started a civil war and overthrew the government in Yemen -- one of America's more reliable counterterrorism partners in the region. If President Obama is going to hand over billions of dollars to a regime that behaves like this, run by a man who publicly declares: "Death to America," it has to be a better deal. The framework we have before us keeps Iran's nuclear door well and truly open.</s>The first lady of North Korea has appeared in public for the first time since December as part of celebrations marking the birthday of the country's founding leader Kim Il-Sung. A grinning Ri Sol-Ju, wearing what appeared to be a wedding ring on her left hand, was pictured clapping next to her smiling husband Kim Jong-un during a men's football match at Kim Il Sung Stadium on Monday, the North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said. The images of the couple at a podium flanked by top party officials were published in state media. Scroll down for video . Laughing with her husband, Kim Jong-un, as the pair watch a celebratory football match, Ri Sol-Ju is seen for the first time since December . The match was being held as part of a lavish series of events celebrating the 103rd birthday of Kim Il-Sung, the young leader's grandfather, which falls on Wednesday. North Korea designates the 'Day of the Sun' as a rare two-day national holiday, with art performances, exhibitions and sporting events, and pilgrimages to the late leader's birthplace in Pyongyang. A former member of the North's Unhasu Orchestra, Ri was last seen in public in December 2014, when she and her husband attended a ceremony to commemorate the third anniversary of the death of Kim Jong-un's father, Kim Jong-Il. Their marriage was only revealed in July 2012 when pictures emerged of a young woman accompanying Kim at official events in a break from the past, when the North's first ladies were kept out of the limelight. She was pictured wearing stylish, expensive-looking outfits and on one occasion sported what appeared to be a Christian Dior handbag, in a country plagued by chronic poverty. Their marriage was only revealed in July 2012 when pictures emerged of a young woman accompanying Kim at official events . But Ri has been out of the spotlight since December for unknown reasons. The Kim dynasty has ruled the isolated state for nearly seven decades with an iron fist and pervasive personality cult. Kim Il-Sung led North Korea from its establishment in 1948 until his death on July 8, 1994. He was succeeded by his son, Kim Jong-Il, who also ruled until his death in December 2011 when power was transferred to his son and current leader Kim Jong-un. KCNA said 'an endless stream of people' was visiting, Mangyongdae, the birthplace of Kim Il-Sung, as the 'Day of the Sun' draws near. The images of the couple at a podium flanked by top party officials were published in state media . On Sunday more than 800 runners took place in an international marathon watched by hundreds of fans, including some 600 from abroad, as part of the celebrations. 'Attending the race were more than 600 marathon fans from dozens of countries including Malaysia, Singapore, Sweden, Finland, UK and Italy,' KCNA said. The North announced in February that the April 12 marathon would only be open to domestic runners this year, because of lingering concerns over the Ebola epidemic in west Africa. But it last month reversed a ban on foreigners taking part in the annual run, after lifting strict travel restrictions aimed at keeping out the Ebola virus. Ri Sol-ju here is seen wearing a wedding ring and her husband Kim Jong-un an expensive watch. Last week he appeared to be wearing a bandage on the same wrist after sustaining an injury. It has now been removed .</s>Genetically engineering plants and crops to change their DNA has been a cause of much controversy in recent years. But new research has found that Mother Nature might be making its own GM food, as sweet potatoes have been found to genetically modify themselves. And this seems to have been occurring for thousands of years, meaning humans have been unknowingly eating GM foods for much longer than they thought. Scientists in Belgium say all sweet potatoes (stock image shown) contain 'foreign DNA'. Agrobacterium bacteria in the crop exchanges genes between species. This makes sweet potatoes a 'natural genetically modified organism'. And humans have been eating it for thousands of years . The remarkable finding of ‘foreign DNA’ in the vegetable shows that it contains a type of natural genetically modified organism (GMO). The research was conducted by scientists from Ghent University in Belgium and the International Potato Institute (CIP). Sweet potato is one of the most important food crops for human consumption, especially in Sub-Sahara Africa, parts of Asia and the Pacific islands. It is one of the earliest domesticated crops with archeological findings in caves of the Cholca Canyon in Peru that are 8,000 to 10,000 years old. Despite the name, sweet potato is not related to potato; we eat the tuber from potato, while from sweet potato mainly the storage root is eaten. Other sweet potato parts are edible, such as the leaves. It is not the first instance of natural GMOs to be found, but it is the first in sweet potatoes - a major crop plant. And the researchers say sweet potatoes all over the world contain this genetic modification. The study focused around bacteria called Agrobacterium, sometimes referred to as ‘nature’s genetic engineer.’ It is known to do something called ‘horizontal gene transfer’, which involves exchanging genes between different species - in contrast to normal gene transfer within one species. Agrobacterium is specialised to transfer part of its own DNA, called T-DNA, to plants - and it was this T-DNA that was found in sweet potatoes. In total the researchers studied 291 samples of sweet potato from the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania, and found evidence of Agrobacterium in all of them. Agrobacterium is known to do something called ‘horizontal gene transfer’, which involves exchanging genes between different species - in contrast to normal gene transfer within one species. This so-called transgenic process is similar to the artificial process induced by humans (stock image shown) Sweet potato (shown) is one of the most important food crops for human consumption, especially in Sub-Sahara Africa, parts of Asia and the Pacific islands. It is one of the earliest domesticated crops with archeological findings in caves of the Cholca Canyon in Peru that are 8,000 to 10,000 years old . ‘The natural presence of Agrobacterium T-DNA in sweet potato and its stable inheritance during evolution is a beautiful example of the possibility of DNA exchange across species barriers,’ said Dr Lieve Gheysen, one of the researchers involved. ‘It demonstrates that genetic modification also happens in nature.’ The research suggests that the bacterial DNA may have adapted sweet potato for thousands of years in the natural process. The transgenic process - a gene that has been transferred naturally - is similar to the artificial process induced by humans. However, the difference pointed out by the resarchers is that we can control the man-made process, while the natural process is out of our hands. ‘In comparison to "natural" GMOs, that are beyond our control, human-made GMOs have the advantage that we know exactly which characteristic we add to the plant,’ said Dr Gheysen.</s>Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN)We came on a commercial flight to Kathmandu. Blue tarps were visible from the sky for people to hide under -- signs that there was something wrong. We had to circle the airport for a couple of hours. There were a couple of issues. There was an aftershock this afternoon, so they were checking the runway for damage. Military and aid flights have priority, and a few military planes -- Indian military planes -- were going in, trying to bring in aid. Whether they did is unclear. When we landed at the airport, it was wet and cold. A couple of thousand people were lining the road to the entrance to the airport trying to get out. But there's no way to get out, really. There were torrential rainstorms for a couple of hours, and with the strong aftershock a couple of hours ago, no one wants to go inside. The residents of Kathmandu sure don't. You can see some structural damage to buildings. Most buildings are not up to high construction standards. Fallen: Nepal's historic landmarks . Driving through the city, there's not a huge amount of visible damage. There's some damage to houses and buildings, but it's not as visual as the Haiti earthquake (of 2010). We were able to drive the main road to the hotel we're staying at, but they're not allowing anyone inside because of the aftershocks. The guests are in a big tent used for functions on the lawn. People are squeezed in. There are probably about 100 people in there. The tents are covered, but water is seeping in from streets puddled with water, especially around the edges of the tent. So people are outside in the rain with no shelter. It's visually stark, with people in the streets. It's colder than usual this time of year. I'm cold and damp. When it's almost May, it's usually much hotter. There's very little power in the city -- no power to speak of, no drinking water. For the residents, it's really bad. Very soon, they will need shelter. Temporary shelters have been put up, but very few -- 16 -- by the government. It looks like a city where buildings have been abandoned. People are hanging out in public squares and at intersections to avoid rubble from buildings. Those who survived -- and those who didn't . There are issues with fuel in the city, and driving in, all the stores were shuttered. You occasionally see a cart with food or a few bottles of drinking water, but for the most part, nothing is being sold in the city. I don't think they're very concerned about looting, and there's no military in the streets, but they will have to get water and food in the city soon. Communal kitchens have been set up for cooking. Not by the government -- people set them up on their own. People are beside themselves in shock. Their biggest concern now is the structures, needing a place for shelter, to hide from the elements and sleep. Food will become the biggest concern in the coming days. Kathmandu isn't the epicenter though. No one's sure what it's like at the epicenter. People haven't been able to get to outlying areas. We haven't been able to corroborate this, but the people we're talking to here say there's damage to the villages outside Kathmandu -- thousands of houses damaged to the north, closer to the epicenter. CNN's Ingrid Formanek reported from Kathmandu and Mark Morgenstein wrote in Atlanta.</s>Until now, it has been a hidden world, protected by hundreds of feet of freezing water and 20 metres of ice. Now, researchers have created a special robo-explorer to borrow into the ice and record the first footage of what lies on the seabed below the Ross Ice Shelf. The icefin was deployed (and retrieved) the vehicle through a 12-inch diameter hole through 20 meters of ice and another 500 meters of water to the sea floor. Scroll down for video . One of the unique creatures spotted on the seabed.The icefin was deployed (and retrieved) the vehicle through a 12-inch diameter hole through 20 meters of ice and another 500 meters of water to the sea floor. A first-of-its-kind robotic vehicle recently dove to depths never before visited under Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf and brought back video of life on the seafloor. 'We built a vehicle that's a hybrid between the really small probes and the ocean-going vessels, and we can deploy it through bore holes on Antarctica,' said Britney Schmidt, an assistant professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Tech, and the principle investigator for the Icefin project. The technologies developed for Icefin will also help in the search for life on other planets, namely Europa, a moon of Jupiter. Antarctica's icy oceans are remarkably similar to Europa'sice-capped oceans. 'At the same time, we're advancing hypotheses that we need for Europa and understanding ocean systems here better. 'We're also developing and getting comfortable with technologies that make polar science -- and eventually Europa science - more realistic.' The robotic vehicle carried a scientific payload capable of measuring ocean conditions under the ice. Icefin's readings of the environment under Antarctica's ice shelves, and video of the life that thrives in these harsh conditions, will help understand how Antarctica's ice shelves are changing under warming conditions, and to understand how organisms thrive in cold and light-free environments. The icefin was deployed (and retrieved) the vehicle through a 12-inch diameter hole through 20 meters of ice and another 500 meters of water to the sea floor. A team of scientists and engineers from the Georgia Institute of Technology assembled the unmanned, underwater vehicle on Antarctica. Icefin was deployed as a part of the Sub Ice Marine and Planetary–analog Ecosystem (SIMPLE) program, funded by NASA and supported by NSF, with Schmidt as the principle investigator. The research team returned from Antarctica in December 2014. Icefin is planned to make its Arctic debut in summer 2016, with a return to Antarctica that fall, the team hopes . At McMurdo Station, Schmidt and a team including Georgia Tech scientists and engineers from the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), led by principal research engineer Mick West, deployed Icefin to explore the underside of the ice shelves flowing off the continent. 'What truly separates Icefin from some of the other vehicles is that it's fairly slender, yet still has all of the sensors that the scientists like Britney need,' West said. The icefin was deployed (and retrieved) the vehicle through a 12-inch diameter hole through 20 meters of ice (pictured) and another 500 meters of water to the sea floor. 'Our vehicle has instrumentation aboard both for navigation and ocean science that other vehicles do not.' The Southern Ocean can be as deep as 5,000 meters. Icefin is capable of diving 1,500 meters and can perform three-kilometer-long surveys. Previous vehicles in Icefin's class were rated to a few hundred meters. 'We saw evidence of a complex community on the sea floor that has never been observed before, and unprecedented detail on the ice-ocean interface that hasn't been achieved before,' Schmidt said. Video captured by Icefin shows eerie footage of an active seafloor 500 meters under the Ross Ice Shelf. 'Biologists at McMurdo were just amazed at the amount of biology at that location which included sea stars, sponges and anemones that were at the ocean bottom,' West said. 'To have our very first deep-ocean dive happen through a small hole in the ice and go all the way to the ocean bottom and get the video we did was pretty amazing.' A partnership between research-focused GTRI and academic-focused School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS) enabled the team to design, build and deploy Icefin under the ice in less than a year.Traditional design cycles for these types of vehicles typically are two to three years. The team had to design for a number of challenges associated with deploying Icefin in such an extreme environment. For example, standard electronics systems are not typically rated to the extreme temperatures found under the Ross Ice Shelf. Icefin carries forward and up/down imaging and sonars and several different sensors. Icefin is also modular, similar to vehicles used on space missions. Scientists can swap sensors or point them in different directions as needed. Mick West poses with Icefin, the robotic underwater vehicle built by GTRI and Georgia Tech. Traditional GPS does not work under the ice, so Icefin uses a navigation system called SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) to triangulate its position based on measuring the range and bearing of features on the seafloor or under the ice. Traditional underwater vehicles deployed on Antarctica are either 'roving eyes' because they carry only a camera, or much larger vehicles that are deployed in the water on the edge of the ice shelf. Icefin fills the gap between these two kinds of vehicles: able to be deployed easily by small teams in any environment, yet still able to record oceanographic information traditionally done by much larger vehicles. 'We had probably 100 contingencies for if something went wrong,' West said. 'Through lots of analysis and robust design, we were fortunate not to have to initiate any of them.' Once Icefin was assembled, the vehicle was deployed through a bore hole in the ice that was 12 inches in diameter and 20 meters deep. Bore holes are often drilled on Antarctica for ocean moorings and sediment sampling. Traditional GPS does not work under the ice, so Icefin uses a navigation system called SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) to triangulate its position based on measuring the range and bearing of features on the seafloor or under the ice. 'Using algorithms such as SLAM allows us to construct a map of the unknown under-ice environment. 'When you can do that, you can begin to get a 3D picture of what's going on under the water,' West said. Massive icebergs clog McMurdo Sound after breaking off from the Ross Ice Shelf in Antartica, October 2003. The sensors on Icefin are helping scientists understand how the ocean affects properties of the ice, and how the ice affects properties of the ocean. The exchange between ocean and ice is a process that mediates biology, affects the climate system and controls the stability of glaciers. 'Those are important processes that we can work out here in our backyard at the same time as we're answering how an ice shell would reflect the ocean chemistry on Europa,' Schmidt said. 'The ice shell is built out of the ocean, but how that process works is not well understood.'</s>A mother has released images of her teenage son who suffered serious injuries after he was assaulted at an Adelaide train station on Saturday night. Kat Lee's desperate plea on Facebook has gone viral as she appealed for witnesses to come forward following her son's surgery for his broken jaw in two places and a fractured cheekbone. She told The Advertiser a group of five, including four teenagers and an adult, attacked her son over money owed for a hot dog. A mother has released images of her teenage son who suffered serious injuries after he was assaulted at an Adelaide train station on Saturday night . On Sunday, Ms Lee wrote on her Facebook page that she had spent three hours at the hospital with Jaidyn. Later on she urged for any witnesses into the incident at Alberton train station, north-western Adelaide, to come forward. 'My son has been in surgery today and had plates and screws inserted into his face to hold his jaw together after they broke it in two places,' she wrote on Sunday. 'They also smashed his glasses into his face fracturing his cheek bone. He pulled through surgery but has a long recovery ahead.' Ms Lee's Facebook post has gained more than 7,500 shares. Police told Daily Mail Australia the assault took place at about 5.30pm on Saturday night after a dispute. Kat Lee's desperate plea on Facebook has gone viral as she shared images of her son following surgery for his broken jaw in two places and fractured cheekbone . Ms Lee told The Advertiser that one of the attackers had offered to buy her son and his friends a hot dog before the assault occurred. 'They never even asked for [the hot dog] and he just told them to pay him back when they had the money,' Ms Lee said. But when her son later alighted from the train, his attackers were waiting for him at the platform. 'The guy asked for his money and Jaidyn went to give him $5, but he said he now owed him $15 for interest,' Ms Lee said. 'Jaidyn said, 'No, [$5] is all I owe you'. Ms Lee also says her son's phone was stolen and was left with a black eye. She further believes another young man was also assaulted by the same group of people in the early hours of Sunday morning. Police were unable to provide further information but are still investigating the matter, despite Jaidyn requesting no further action to be taken. No arrests have been made. Anyone with information should contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.</s>Thousands of holidaymakers caught up in last summer’s passport delay fiasco have not received any compensation. At the same time, managers at the passport agency, which made a £42 million profit during the chaos, received up to £3,500 in bonuses. Ministers refused to give a blanket refund to the desperate families who had to pay extra to get their travel documents rushed through, and even to some who missed out on trips. Scroll down for video . The boxes of passport applications piled up at in office in Liverpool at the peak of the backlog last summer . Keith Vaz, who as chairman of the Home Affairs Committee led the calls for compensation, said last night: ‘I am astonished so few people have been given compensation for what was a fiasco presided over by the management of the passport office, especially as they made a profit last year that ran into millions of pounds.’ The problems began a year ago as HM Passport Office struggled to cope with 3.6 million Britons applying for documents. By mid-June there were more than half a million passports stuck in the system. Ministers agreed to give urgent cases a free upgrade to the fast-track service, but thousands had already paid the extra £30 per passport for this. Many still missed trips because their passports did not arrive in time. Details obtained by The Mail on Sunday show scarcely any of the thousands of holidaymakers caught up in the chaos ever got anything back from the Passport Office. In total just 2,191 compensation applications were approved between April last year and January this year, scarcely changed from 2,077 for the previous year. The total paid out was £203,066, giving an average sum of £92.68. The biggest single payout was £5,463; the lowest £1. The Passport Office said it could not say how many claims were rejected, partly because of ‘the system failure of our customer complaint database’. It can be revealed however that Ministers rejected a demand by the Home Affairs Select Committee for all those left out of pocket to be compensated, saying: ‘It would create a precedent.’ Home Affairs Committee chairman Keith Vaz led the calls for compensation and was 'astonished' to learn just 2,191 compensation applications were approved . This newspaper contacted more than a dozen holidaymakers who had either missed trips or had to pay extra to get passports in time. Only one had got money back. Among those refused were Mathew Bean and Hayley Kirkham. They lost close to £1,500 on a trip to Morocco, where he had planned to propose, because their passports did not arrive in time – even though they had applied ten weeks before they were due to travel and paid for upgrades. HM Passport Office made a surplus of £42.3 million between April and October last year. In 2013-14, the most recent figures available, managers were handed a total of £1.8 million in bonuses, with the average reward £499 and the highest £3,500.</s>Seoul (CNN)In the first few days after the Sewol disappeared beneath the Yellow Sea, divers pulled body after body from the watery wreckage, bringing the dead home. And throughout the following days, weeks and months, Park Eun-mi waited to see if one of them was her 16-year-old daughter, Huh Da-yun. The divers stopped searching months ago because of the winter and water conditions, and the South Korean ferry remains on the bottom of the sea floor. The Sewol sank on April 16, killing 304 people, mostly high school students who were on their way to a field trip to Jeju island, off South Korea's southern coast. "We kept waiting with belief in finding our daughter. I thought once, 'Somebody will be the last person and what if it's Da-yun?'" Park said. A year later, Park's life remains at a standstill. Nine have yet to be found. "We, the families of the missing victims, are still living the day -- April 16, 2014," said Park, who is in poor health, but refusing treatment. "I cannot think about anything except to find my daughter and other missing people." Park's case is an unsettling one -- emblematic of what remains unresolved a year after the Sewol ferry sank. Dozens associated with the ferry disaster have been sent to jail on criminal charges. But families say the underlying problems that led to the sinking of the Sewol are far from resolved. On April 16, the Sewol ferry, carrying hundreds of high school students, began sinking after taking a sharp turn. Passengers were told repeatedly by the crew members to stay where they were as rescuers would arrive soon. Many of them listened to the instructions and remained in place. As the ferry tilted sideways, water seeped in and objects in the ship toppled over, injuring people and blocking their way out. Anger over how the crew failed to evacuate the passengers intensified when video surfaced of the ferry's captain in his underwear leaping into the arms of the Korean Coast Guard while hundreds remained trapped in the vessel. Divers had to pluck the bodies from the water one-by-one, bringing the youngsters back to land in black body bags where they were met with the gut-wrenching cries of their families. On Thursday, the one year anniversary of the disaster, South Korea's President Park Geun-hye called for the salvage of the Sewol's wreck "as soon as possible." "Recently, there was an announcement that it is technically possible to salvage Sewol ferry. I believe that it is now time to earnestly prepare to salvage," she said. A government study on raising the ferry released last week identified a crane and floating dock as the safest way to look for the missing. The Sewol ferry is over 20 years old and there are fears it could fall apart during the extraction, according to the South Korean Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries. The agency anticipates a complicated technical operation to remove the ferry, which would weigh about 10,200 tons above water. The process could take over a year and a half, and that it would cost the South Korean government anywhere from $91 million to $182 million. The victims' families have demanded that the ship be recovered in order to thoroughly investigate the accident. Since the days immediately after the disaster, families have criticized the government over its response. Communication over the rescue efforts were jumbled, paving way for rumors and hoaxes. Criticism swirled over the South Korean Coast Guard's effectiveness in carrying out the rescue operation. The captain of the first coast guard ship sent to rescue the Sewol passengers was found guilty of negligence and making false reports. The recovery efforts have also taken a deadly toll with a total of six deaths -- a diver searching the Sewol died in May, and in July, five people died after a helicopter carrying emergency workers involved in the operation crashed. Park, the South Korean president, pledged major reforms, dismantled the coast guard and vowed an investigation into what went wrong. That promised investigation has been hampered by politics and disagreements between the families and the government over who should participate in the investigation. Earlier this month, several dozens of family members marched to Seoul from Ansan, the suburb where most of the students had resided. Some of the families shaved their heads to demand political action. Several laws have been passed to inspect cargo weight and increase oversight in the industry. In the case of Sewol, the ferry was found to be loaded with double its capacity. Its cargo wasn't secured properly, which threw the ship off balance as the containers tumbled and knocked the vessel off balance. An inexperienced crew and redesigns of the ship to handle more passengers and cargo were also cited as factors in the disaster. The sinking spurred a debate about the shortcomings of the government and what preventive measures should have been taken. "The tragedy of Sewol was also virtually caused by accumulation of corruption, irregularity and going blind eyes," Park said on Thursday. "Corruption and deep-rooted evil are issues that can lead to taking away people's lives. We take this very seriously." In the immediate aftermath, South Korean prosecutors arrested the captain, crew members and business associates. Sewol's captain, Lee Joon-seok, who was widely derided for jumping to safety, was sentenced to 36 years in prison for abandonment causing death and injury, and violating sea laws. In July, the body of a billionaire Yoo Byung Eun, who was believed to have connections to the company that owned the ferry, was found decomposing in a plum field. But some families say that wider, systematic problems that allowed the disaster to occur haven't been addressed. Whether the ferry will be raised and an independent investigation will be held remains to be seen. CNN's KJ Kwon and journalist Jungeun Kim contributed to this report in Seoul.</s>(CNN)Ahmed Farouq didn't have the prestige of fellow al Qaeda figure Osama bin Laden, the influence of Anwar al-Awlaki, or the notoriety of Adam Gadahn. Still, he was a big deal. That's the assessment of multiple sources on a man who may not have been well-known in the West, but nonetheless had a special role in the terrorist group. Farouq -- an American -- died in a U.S. counterterrorism airstrike in January, according to the White House. Two al Qaeda hostages, Warren Weinstein of the United States and Giovanni Lo Porto from Italy, were killed in the same strike, while Gadahn died in another U.S. operation that month. Before that, Farouq was the deputy emir of al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, or AQIS, a branch of the Islamist extremist group that formed in recent years. The branch made its presence known in September 2014, when militants infiltrated Pakistan's navy and tried to hijack one of its ships, according to the SITE Institute, which monitors terror groups. The group's spokesman, Usama Mahmoud, on Twitter compared the Pakistani naval officers involved in the attempted hijacking to Nidal Hasan, SITE reported. Hasan is the U.S. Army psychiatrist sentenced to death for killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas. Osama Mehmood, a spokesman for al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, said that Farouq and another top figure, Qari Abdullah Mansur, were killed in a January 15 drone strike in Pakistan's Shawal Valley. They were senior al Qaeda leaders, according to Mehmood. American mouthpiece for al Qaeda killed . CNN's Sophia Saifi contributed to this report.</s>These images capture to work of Japan's 'lonely death' squads, who specialise is clearing out the properties of elderly people who die alone and go unnoticed by their families for weeks or months. Taken in the capital Tokyo, the images show clean-up crews entering rubbish-strewn buildings where the lonely victims spent their final days. Although police officers will have already removed the often badly decomposed bodies, the majority of the houses are still packed with signs of a once active life - including unwashed dinner plates, unopened letters and calenders several years out of date. Scroll down for video . Saddest job: Taken in Tokyo, the images show clean-up crews entering rubbish-strewn buildings where lonely victims spent their final days . Steam-clean: A worker for special cleaning makes uses insecticides smoke to kill flies in a rubbish-filled flat in Tokyo . Grim: Hundreds of flies are seen at a rubbish-filled flat in Tokyo where the body of an 85 year-old man was left for over a month . Treated with respect: Hirotsugu Masuda prays before entering the Tokyo flat where an 85 year-old man lay dead for over a month . Dirty: A filthy bathtub and toilet are seen the Tokyo flat. Specialist clean-up crews are on hand to cleanse these 'lonely death' apartments . Lonely death: Thankfully, police officers will have already removed the often badly decomposed bodies before the cleaning teams arrive . In March, the body of an elderly man was found on the floor of his apartment in downtown Tokyo. He had been dead for a month. Neighbours hadn't noticed the octogenarian's absence. His bank made the rent payments on time, his family didn't visit, and the only reason for the body's discovery was the slight smell that troubled the tenant in the flat below. In rapidly ageing Japan, more people are dying alone and unnoticed in a country of 127 million where one in four people is over 65. Looser family bonds also play a role in their isolation. For these so-called 'lonely deaths', families and landlords in Tokyo are increasingly turning to Hirotsugu Masuda and his clean-up crew to salvage apartments where the occupant's body lay undiscovered for days or weeks. 'This has started becoming a bit more common in the world and it's become more recognized that there's this sort of job,' said Masuda, whose services are required 3-4 times a week in summer when bodies decompose faster. Unwanted: A watch and letters are left discarded at a flat in Tokyo where a body of an 85 year-old man was left for over a month . Filthy: The majority of the houses are still littered with unwashed dinner plates, unopened letters and calenders several years out of date . Packing it up: Workers for special cleaning put rubbish into a plastic bags at a rubbish-filled flat in Tokyo . A packet of condoms are seen discarded among other rubbish in a flat in Tokyo where an elderly man lay dead for over a month . Hirotsugu Masuda, a worker for special cleaning, checks belongings for documents to protect the owners family from identity theft . Cleaning away the past: A worker for a special cleaning team sweeps tatami flooring mats at the flat in Tokyo last month . In March, the body of an elderly man was found on the floor of this apartment in downtown Tokyo. He had been dead for a month . When Masuda's team turns up at the Tokyo apartment, police have taken away the corpse but body fluids have seeped into the floor. Flies buzz around a cooker filled with rice. Old calendars and papers are strewn in rooms untouched for years. Workers wearing protective gear spray the apartment with insect repellent, using gloved hands to pack the trash in boxes. The six-hour exercise is conducted discreetly to avoid upsetting the neighbours. The crew tells onlookers they are moving house. When they are done, incense and flowers are placed where the body was, with the man's photo put where his head had been. Masuda's firm works almost exclusively with 'lonely deaths', charging between £450 and £2,000 depending on apartment size. Abandoned: Neighbours hadn't noticed the octogenarian's absence. His bank made the rent payments on time, his family didn't visit, and the only reason for the body's discovery was the slight smell that troubled the tenant in the flat below . Taking the items away: A special cleaning worker loads a van with rubbish from a flat in Tokyo . Saying a prayer: In rapidly ageing Japan, more people are dying alone and unnoticed in a country of 127 million where one in four people is over 65. Looser family bonds also play a role in their isolation . Special cleaning workers and 77-year-old flat landlord Yoshie Fukuhara (right) check belongings for documents . Flat landlord Yoshie Fukuhara, 77, lays flowers as she prays at the spot where the body of an 85 year-old man was left for over a month . Farewell: For these so-called 'lonely deaths', families and landlords in Tokyo are increasingly turning to Hirotsugu Masuda and his clean-up crew to salvage apartments where the occupant's body lay undiscovered for days or weeks . In a country where around five million elderly people live alone, the number of decaying bodies found in empty homes is expected to soar. Data shows victims are more likely to be male. 'There's likely 40,000 of these cases and we think that in 10 years, it's likely to go over 100,000 cases,' said Hideto Kone, an NGO official working on such cases. Victims forgotten by families are not given a funeral and their remains are interred in unmarked graves. Yoshie Fukukara, landlord of the apartment where the tenant was found dead, still finds it hard to believe. 'I didn't think it would happen here,' the 77-year-old said. | South Korean investigators say they have proof that North Korea is launching cyberattacks .
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Kirby has been returned to prison and will not be released until 2023 . Britain's banks set aside £4.7billion last year in PPI compensation last year .
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New framework keeps Iran's nuclear door well and truly open, he says . Ri Sol-Ju appears in public with her husband for first time since December .
N. Korean leader Kim Jong-un and wife pictured attending a football match .
Former singer, Ri and her husband Kim wore wedding rings at the event .
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A heavily pregnant Jehovah's Witness woman and her baby died after she was diagnosed with leukemia but refused a blood transfusion that would probably have saved both of their lives. The 28-year-old was diagnosed with the cancer seven months into her pregnancy, and doctors told her she could give birth via a caesarean section and undergo chemotherapy but both would require her to have a blood transfusion. The Sydney woman refused both options due to her religious beliefs and her baby died in utero three days later. She had a stillbirth and died 13 days after her diagnosis after suffering a stroke and multi-organ failure. A pregnant Jehovah's Witness woman and her baby have died after she refused a blood transfusion . Her treating haematologist at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick, Dr Giselle Kidson-Gerber, said the mother understood the risks of her refusal to accept blood. 'Her refusal to receive a blood transfusion meant that we were unable to perform a caesarean section and to deliver the foetus,' Dr Kidson-Gerber told Daily Mail Australia. 'Obviously it's a very big ethical issue. Legally in Australia the mother has the right to make decisions on her behalf and her foetus's behalf. 'Most mothers would make decisions in favour of the unborn baby and this was a decision that was not in favour of the unborn baby.' Dr Kidson-Gerber added: 'If we were to give chemotherapy without blood transfusion support she surely would have died.' Hospital staff were 'distressed' over what were perceived to be two avoidable deaths, as 83 percent of pregnant leukemia sufferers go into remission with treatment. Dr Kidson-Gerber said it was a challenge to respect a patient who refuses life-saving treatment. 'It was sad. I think that I did my best to help her. But ultimately I couldn't change the course of events,' she said. The 28-year-old had pregnancy complications due to her leukemia but rejected treatment on religious grounds . In a recent article published in the Internal Medicine Journal about the 2009 case, Dr Kidson-Gerber and her colleague Dr Amber Biscoe wrote: 'Not administering blood products in this case undoubtedly contributed to the death of mother and foetus. 'Refusal of a lifesaving intervention by an informed patient is generally well respected, but the rights of a mother to refuse such interventions on behalf of her foetus is more controversial.' Sascha Callaghan, an expert in ethics and law at the University of Sydney said the current law allows the mother to make decisions that would directly affect her unborn baby, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. She said Jehovah's Witnesses are often condemned for their beliefs, especially in relation to their stance against blood transfusions. 'This woman has a long-held commitment to the Jehovah's Witness faith and that's how she chose to die,' she told the Herald. 'When your foetus is in utero, it is inextricably tied to your life.' The woman was being treated at the Royal Hospital for Women and the Prince of Wale Hospital in Randwick . Jehovah's Witnesses refuse blood transfusions because they believe the Bible commands them to abstain from ingesting blood and that avoiding blood pays respect to God as the giver of life.</s>With Pearl Lowe and Gavin Rossdale for parents, there's no denying that Daisy Lowe is rock and roll royalty. The genetically-blessed model proves she's a chip off the old block in an edgy new beauty shoot for Rodial. Wearing a leather jacket and skinny black jeans, Daisy smoulders in the new shoot to promote the beauty house's contouring range. Daisy Lowe, 26, is the ultimate rock chick as she rocks leather and heavy eye make-up in her new beauty shoot for Rodial . The 26-year-old was chosen by the brand last year thanks to her 'modern, cool and quintessentially British edge.' So how does she achieve that flawless look? FEMAIL caught up with the young star to discover her style and beauty secrets. 'It's a fail safe range,' says Daisy. 'You just have to learn where to place the contouring. My top tip is: suck in your cheeks and make a fish face, which casts a natural shadow on your face. 'Then apply the bronzer over that shadow and then pop the highlighter above that.' Daisy, who has been working as a model for years, shows off her flawless skin and razor-sharp cheekbones in the new shoot to promote the brand's contouring range . Daisy was chosen by the brand last year thanks to her 'modern, cool and quintessentially British edge' After years on the modelling circuit, Daisy says the top tip she's picked up is using concealer around her nose to even the skin tone. 'Oh, and make your forehead and chin a lighter shade than the rest of your face for a more defined look,' she said. As well as starring in beauty campaigns, Daisy has been busy partying at Coachella festival with her famous friends. The IT girl was spotted representing the British talent at the Soho Desert House Coachella party in the company of stars like Zoe Kravitz and Katy Perry. The supermodel, who counts the likes of Alexa Chung and Cara Delevingne as her best friends, even created a lipstick for the beauty giant . Daisy poses on set with the brand's president, Maria Hatzistefanis, who met the model at the Rodial Beautiful Awards, where she was named Woman Of The Year . The English rose had her porcelain skin on show in the floor-sweeping number, catching some of the LA rays at the riviera spot. Gushing about her picturesque weekend in the sunshine, Daisy wrote on Instagram: 'Oh stop it Palm Springs- you are just too much for my eyes to handle' alongside a picture of the palm trees. Palm Springs was a long way from little old England and the beauty later told her 165k Twitter followers: 'Never want to leave' before hitting the field in the same maxi dress. Daisy lead the British talent at the Soho Desert House Coachella party in the company of stars like Zoe Kravitz and Katy Perry over the weekend .</s>A Chinese man recovering in hospital after a car crash had a shock - when all 17 of his girlfriends turned up to see him. Mr Yuan, from Changsha, was involved in the accident on March 24 and has been in hospital ever since. None of the women knew he had been seeing anyone else - some for up to nine years - and one even had a son with him. The women discovered his secret after doctors contacted all of them to let them know he had been injured. A Chinese man recovering in hospital after a car crash had a shock - when all 17 of his girlfriends turned up to see him (above) Xiao Li, who had been seeing Mr Yuan for 18 months, said: 'I was really worried when I heard that he was in hospital. 'But when I started seeing more and more beautiful girls show up, I couldn't cry any more.' Other girls said they had started planning their weddings with Mr Yuan. Wang Fang, the mother of his son, added: 'What can I do now? I don't love him any more, but I do love my son.' The women have now set up an online Facebook group so they can all chat and are quickly discovering just how much he hid from them, South China Morning Post reported. The story has attracted a lot of attention on social media, with some condemning Mr Yuan's actions and others expressing admiration. The story has attracted a lot of attention on social media, with some condemning Mr Yuan's actions and others expressing admiration . One user with the handle @shusshshussh wrote on Twitter: 'What we can learn from Mr Yuan of China with 17 girlfriends is that: players should NOT get into accidents & allow hospital visits.' @J_Rain26 simply asked: 'How does one manage to have 17 girlfriends?' And one user known just as Shan said: 'Salute this man RT: Man's 17 girlfriends respond when he gets in car accident #awkward.' Police have launched an investigation into allegations of fraud. It is too early to say if the girlfriends were victims of a scam, officials added.</s>(CNN)In 1944, 16-year-old Yong Soo Lee of Taegu, Korea, was lured by a friend of hers to meet with an older Japanese man. The man took the two of them, and three other teenage girls, by train, then ship, to Taiwan. There, the girls were forced into sexual slavery, serving four to five Japanese soldiers every day for a year. Lee suffered beatings and torture, was infected with a venereal disease, was fed paltry amounts of food, faced temperatures so cold that ice formed on her body, and was never allowed outside. Only the end of World War II brought her relief. Lee is just one example of the over 200,000 women from Korea, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, and other Asian nations, who were kidnapped and sexually enslaved by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. These so-called "comfort women" suffered unimaginable physical, emotional, and psychological trauma. When Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses a Joint Meeting of Congress on Wednesday, he has an opportunity to do right by these women, and issue an unequivocal and irrefutable apology -- something that carries the weight of his government. In 2007, in the very same chamber the prime minister will be issuing his address, the House of Representatives sent a profound message to the Japanese government by unanimously passing House Resolution 121, which I authored. The resolution called on the Japanese government to formally acknowledge, apologize, and accept historical responsibility in a clear and unequivocal manner for its Imperial Armed Forces' coercion of young women into sexual slavery; publicly refute any claims that the sexual enslavement and trafficking of the "comfort women" never occurred; and educate current and future generations about this horrible crime. We are still waiting for their government to comply. In 2006, during his first term, Prime Minister Abe unleashed an international firestorm of criticism when he stated that there was no evidence of Japanese coercion and complicity in setting up and running the "comfort women" system. And during his second term, Abe and his right-wing allies have continued to question history -- even trying to dilute and rewrite it. Last year, I, along with 17 of my House colleagues, wrote to the Japanese Ambassador to the United States, calling the timing and contents of the Japanese government report on the 1993 Kono statement: regrettable, unfortunate, unacceptable, and destabilizing. Last year, meanwhile, the Abe administration tried (and failed) to get the United Nations to partially retract their authoritative 1996 report, which called on Japan to apologize to the victims and pay reparations to survivors who had been forced into sex slavery. Most notably, earlier this year, the Japanese government tried unsuccessfully to change passages in U.S. history textbooks about the "comfort women." Some say that Japan has already apologized enough and it's time to move on. To those people I say, in light of these continued attempts to rewrite history, for every step forward the Japanese government takes toward peace and reconciliation, it takes two steps back. As someone who was put into an internment camp as an infant, I know firsthand that governments must not be ignorant of their pasts. In 1942, during World War II, my government put aside the constitutional rights of Japanese Americans and systematically incarcerated 120,000 of us. We were U.S. citizens, but merely because of our ancestry, the government treated us like the enemy. Decades later, we, the Japanese American community, fought for an apology from our government. In 1988, Congress passed, and President Ronald Reagan signed into law, the Civil Liberties Act, which was a formal apology to United States citizens of Japanese ancestry who were unjustly put into internment camps during World War II. Our government made a mistake, but they apologized for it, and healed many wounds as a result. Japan must now do the same. It must show the maturity of a democratic country, apologize for its mistake, and thereby gain the trust of her sister Asian nations. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged Prime Minister Abe to face Japan's history. Germany knows something about this. After World War II, Germany engaged in a painful national "coming to terms with the past" that ripped open old wounds so that they could properly heal. Time is of the essence. Today, there are fewer than 100 surviving "comfort women" across the Asia-Pacific. Each year, this number declines. Ms. Lee is one of 53 remaining Korean survivors. The survivors are dying by the day. They deserve the justice and apology that has been due to them for the past 70 years. The opportunity to speak to a joint meeting of Congress is an honor that is reserved for heads of state of our closest allies. I will be in the House chamber when Prime Minister Abe delivers his address. Ms. Lee will attend as my guest. Both of us hope the Prime Minister will take the privilege of this opportunity and finally, and firmly, apologize, and commit to educating the future generation honestly and humbly. Ms. Lee and her sisters deserve no less.</s>Three people have been sent to prison and another two are awaiting sentencing for their roles in a horrific assault on a 53-year-old man, who was beaten, tied to a chair, and covered in offensive tattoos. A Philadelphia court heard Thursday that Corry 'Corey' Campbell, 21, was the ringleader of the gang, who have become known as the 'tattoo terrorists'. Campbell believed the victim, Greg Valecce, had hurt his cat, Pebbles. Valecce, an unemployed drug addict, had been staying in the basement of Campbell's mother's house in Mayfair, in the city's northeast, however that basement would become a torture chamber where he would be strapped to a chair and violated for three days. Torture chamber: Corry 'Corey' Campbell, 21 (left), the ringleader of a gang dubbed the 'tattoo terrorists' was jailed for 20 years Thursday for the abuse in March/April 21. David Harrison (right) is awaiting sentencing . Accomplices: Sandra Ng, 19 (left), Campbell's girlfriend, was sentenced to 23 months in state prison for her role in the shocking assault last year, while another defendant Jennifer Pratt, 40, is awaiting trial . Campbell apparently discovered that Pebbles had suffered a broken leg and had reason to believe Valecce was responsible. The incident occurred in late March 2014, according to Philly.com. Campbell, his girlfriend Sandra Ng, 19, and friend Carl Halin, 18, cornered Valecce in the basement and took turns punching, slapping and spitting on him. On top of hurting Pebbles, Campbell believed Valecce had also stolen money and some weed. The trio, described by the paper as 'wannabe gangsters', filmed the abuse, with the video played in court this week. 'Please stop,' Valecce could be heard saying while crying into his hands. 'Please, please stop.' Ng could be heard in every video screaming at Valecce to stand up, so she could pummel him and call him a 'b----'. After Valecce was beaten he was tied to a chair. While restrained Campbell tattooed 'RIP Pebbles' onto his right arm along with a smiley face that had breasts for eyes and a penis for a nose. Halin then took over the tattoo gun. He inked swastikas, Stars of David, two variations of the N-word and a penis ejaculating on a rainbow with the words 'Gay Pride' beside it, Philly.com reported. Valecce suffered three busted ribs, two broken wrists and fractured bones in his face. He was able to escape on April 1 while the others slept and contact police. The incident lasted about 42 hours, the court was told. Scene: The abuse occurred in the basement of a rowhouse on Brighton Ave, Mayfair in north Philadelphia . During a search of the house, police allegedly found a tattoo gun, needles, ink vials and related paraphernalia, along with 155 grams of marijuana, several bottles of prescription drugs and Valecce's debit card, which he claimed had been stolen from him. Valecce has since had the tattoos removed, with a local parlor giving him free service, but says the incident has left him with irrevocable damage. 'I'm scared to go outside now,' Valecce told Common Pleas Court Judge Charles Ehrlich Thursday. 'I have nightmares. I can't sleep.' All three were charged with aggravated assault, conspiracy and false imprisonment. They all pleaded guilty. Campbell's attorney said his client had a rough childhood, with his father leaving, suicide attempts and dependencies on Xanax and weed. He was sentenced to 20 years in state prison. Halin received the same sentence for what he did to Valecce. Ng, whose attorney who said she had fallen in with the wrong people at school, was sentenced to 23 months in a state prison. Another man involved, David Thomas, 28, is awaiting sentencing, while another defendant Jennifer Pratt, 40, is awaiting trial.</s>Every day Sportsmail takes a look at the European papers to see what are the biggest stories creating talking points on the continent. Let's start in Spain, where Marca and AS report that Real Madrid are set to be without Karim Benzema for their Champions League quarter-final second leg clash against rivals Atletico Madrid. The French striker, who has 15 La Liga goals to his name this season, missed Madrid's 3-1 victory against Malaga with a knee injury which he is struggling to recover from. Spanish newspapers report that Karim Benzema will miss Real Madrid's clash against Atletico on Wednesday . Despite Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti telling reporters, 'Benzema is not available [for Malaga] but we will have him back for the next game,' Marca lead with the headline 'Benzema still doubtful'. The Madrid-based newspaper claim that Ancelotti is 'hesitating' between playing a 4-4-2 or 4-3-3 formation as Gareth Bale and Luka Modric also look likely to miss Wednesday's clash. Marca lead with a similar line as the heap pressure on the Madrid boss by writing, 'Ancelotti searches for a Champions League Madrid without Modric, Bale...and almost surely without Benzema.' Elsewhere is Spain, Mundo Deportivo hail Barcelona coach Luis Enrique for statistically being 'the best coach in history in his first 50 games.' Mundo Deportivo hail 'Mister Lucho' Luis Enrique for his impressive record as Barcelona manager . Gareth Bale went down injured after less than five minutes at the Bernabeu on Saturday evening . The Barcelona outlet report that Enrique tops the list for results in his first 50 games in charge with Helenio Herrera in second and Pep Guardiola and Tata Martino tied for third. Over in Italy, Tuttosport celebrate Juventus's march towards the Serie A title following their 2-0 victory against Lazio on Saturday. 'Fest Juve,' or 'Party Juve' reports the Italian newspaper as they look ahead to Massimiliano Allegri's Olympico clash against Torino where the Old Lady can wrap up a fourth consecutive Scudetto. Luka Modric hobbles off the Bernabeu pitch have sprained a ligament in his right knee on Saturday . Italian newspaper Tuttosport focus on the Serie A as Juventus looks to wrap up the Serie A title .</s>A passenger waiting to board a plane in an airport terminal has been hospitalised with deep cuts on his leg and buttocks after he broke a toilet he was squatting on. Passenger Jin Pai, 35, was standing on the rim of a toilet in Hefei Xinqiao International Airport in the city of Hefei, the capital city of eastern China's Anhui Province, when it smashed to the ground. According to airport officials he had not wanted to let his bottom touch the seat because he was 'worried it might not be clean'. Passenger Jin Pai, 35, was standing on the rim of a toilet when it collapsed, leaving him hospitalised . The smashed up toilet in Hefei Xinqiao International Airport in the city of Hefei . But he was caught out when the porcelain toilet then tipped over and shattered on the floor, cutting the man in several places. The injured man was found bleeding on the toilet floor after he had telephoned his travelling companions for help. He had been too embarrassed to shout for help and had hoped they would assist but he was too badly hurt for anything other than an immediate trip to hospital. Authorities and emergency personnel arrived to check the man into a Hefei hospital, where he received several dozens stitches on his left leg and buttocks. Then man broke the toilet in Hefei Xinqiao International Airport in the city of Hefei . The passenger reportedly confessed to his friends that he was squatting on the toilet, but later changed his story to the police, possibly to avoid paying compensation, and said he was sitting when the poorly built toilet gave way. Authorities said they believed the incident was an accident. Police spokesman Bo Chiang said: 'In any case, we would like to remind people that these toilets are for sitting on, not for standing on.'</s>The Duchess of Cambridge is already up to four days overdue with her second child - and her labour could now be induced this week, it was claimed today. The 33-year-old royal’s baby is expected before the end of April - with the due date initially reported as yesterday, but later claimed to actually be as early as Wednesday last week. Either way Kate - who plans to give birth at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, central London - is now overdue and may have already spoken to doctors about the possibility of being induced. Scroll down for video . Previous royal birth: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge leave the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, central London, in a proud moment with their newborn son Prince George in July 2013 . Due date: Preparations have been made outside the Lindo Wing of the hospital (pictured yesterday) for the huge crowds expected to welcome the royal birth - with the Duchess said to be up to four days overdue . A source, whose children were born at the hospital’s exclusive Lindo Wing, told Daily Telegraph reporter Gordon Rayner: ‘The doctors don’t normally wait for more than a week. ‘They will probably already have been in touch with Kate, and talked about which day which suit her best to go in and be induced if the baby doesn’t arrive in the next couple of days.’ A Kensington Palace source said last week: 'We haven't ever confirmed a due date.' Prince George was reportedly born three days late when he arrived at the hospital in July 2013. The joint favourite dates for the royal baby to be born are tomorrow and Tuesday at 6/1 - with Wednesday priced at 7/1 and Thursday 8/1, according to MailOnline's official betting partner Coral. The bookmaker is also offering evens on a morning birth, 3/1 on the baby arriving in the afternoon and 2/1 on it being in the evening – while Alice (5/4) and Charlotte (5/1) are the favourite names. Royal fan: Terry Hutt (right) waits last week for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's second child to be born . Cute: Prince William and Kate pose with their son Prince George at the National History Museum in London . But some punters might look further ahead for their bets - if they believe those who say labour is influenced by the lunar cycle and the arrival of a full moon. The next full moon is on May 4. The idea is the moon's gravitational pull affects the amniotic fluid in the same way it affects water in the sea and rivers. When Kate gave birth on July 22, 2013, it was the day of a new full moon. Meanwhile Prime Minister David Cameron has defended William and Kate for opting to use private health services rather than the NHS. Asked if he was disappointed the Royal Family did not use the NHS, Mr Cameron told Sky News today: ‘I think it's a total matter of choice for people - what they use and where they have their babies. All I hope and pray for is there'll be happy, healthy news for that wonderful couple and for the whole country.’ Around one in five deliveries in the UK is assisted. A Danish study in February suggested inducing women at 37 weeks can lower the chance of a baby dying or developing a serious health condition.</s>A handwritten note delivered to the pilots by a plane passenger thanking them for 'taking her home safely' has gone viral, just a week after the Germanwings tragedy that claimed 150 lives. A screenshot of the letter was shared on Twitter, and in a matter of minutes amassed more than 2,000 shares. The heartfelt message was posted by airline pilot Jai Dillon, who was shown the A4 by a colleague in the industry. A heartfelt letter left by passenger 'Bethanie' to the pilot who 'got her home safely,' has been shared on Twitter . He wrote on Twitter: 'A letter given to a colleague from a passenger onboard his aircraft.. Providing proof that we're all in this together,' alongside the touching note. In it, a passenger known only as 'Bethanie' writes how, in light of the recent Alps plane crash, she feels the need to 'reach out' and 'extend a compassionate hand.' The woman thanks the pilot and the airline, which is not mentioned, for 'allowing her' to live her life in Spain, while splitting the time with family in England too. There was an outpouring of emotion on Twitter after the letter was posted by pilot Jai Dillon . The terrible scene of the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps, where pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed the plane . She writes that she hopes the letter can create 'a ripple effect and spread some compassion and understanding,' among those who have such responsibilities. She signs off by saying: 'You're making a massive difference and you're the reason I can smile tonight. 'Take care and spread love.' The photo currently has over 3,700 shares and has been favourited almost 3,000 times. Mr Dillon did take to Twitter to say that he was not able to reveal the airline or flight number due to security reasons. The role of the pilot was praised by many on Twitter following the letter being posted . Cheshire-based Mr Dillon said he happy to share the 'positive message,' according to the Evening Standard. Investigations are continuing in the events of that fateful day last week over the French Alps. German prosecutors said Andreas Lubitz, 27, who they believe deliberately caused the crash, had therapy for suicidal tendencies some time before getting his pilot's licence. The sharing of the letter led to thousands of shares and 'favourites' on Twitter . And he was being treated by a psychotherapist, Dusseldorf prosecutor's office spokesman Christoph Kumpa said. Cockpit voice recorder evidence has indicated that Lubitz deliberately put the Airbus A320 into a descent after locking out the captain. All 150 people on board, including three Britons, were killed in the crash last Tuesday.</s>Two adjoining 'his and hers' mansions have gone on the market on the world-renowned Sandbanks peninsula for £13million. Standing just a few feet apart, the beachfront homes are virtually identical in every way, boasting an indoor swimming pool, four storeys and stunning sea views. But the prospective buyers might have to flip a coin to see who gets which one - because one of the homes comes with an extra en-suite bedroom. Scroll down for video . Two adjoining 'his and hers' mansions have gone on the market on the world-renowned Sandbanks peninsula for £13 million . Tom Doyle, of estate agents Lloyds Property Group which is selling both properties, said the homes would be perfect for a couple who like their independence. He said: 'It would be nice to sell them as a pair, to someone who either wants to live in one and rent out the other or even to a couple who want their own his and her homes.' The beachfront properties called la Plage and la Baie - translated as the beach and the bay - are the latest in the so-called Millionaires' Row in Poole, Dorset, to go on the market. The homes have been built on a 3,000sqm plot, which was previously occupied by a four-bedroom house. But after buying the plot for £4.25m, developers eked out every square on the area by building two homes - a move which has trebled the value of the plot. Boasting a prime position on the south east corner of the millionaire's enclave, the mansions can be bought as a pair or separately. Standing just a few feet apart, the beachfront homes are virtually identical in every way, boasting an indoor swimming pool, four storeys and stunning sea views . The beachfront properties called la Plage and la Baie - which mean the beach and the bay - are the latest in the so-called Millionaires' Row to go on the market and boast these incredible sea views (pictured) They occupy a prime position on the south east corner of the millionaire's enclave in Poole, Dorset (pictured) While one of the homes has five en-suite bedrooms, the other has four. But both have indoor swimming pools, balconies, lifts to all floors, direct beach access and magnificent sea views. It is thought the developers have spent more than £3m building the two homes. Mr Doyle said that, if bought separately, the properties would each be sold for £6.5m - the same as the price of a 38-bed castle in the Scottish Highlands . He said: 'Development opportunities are becoming scarcer on Sandbanks and so prices for older houses are going up. 'Developers need to maximise the space available in order to make money. It is becoming harder to financially justify building one home on a plot and so we are now seeing two homes appear. The agent marketing the homes said more developers are building multiple homes on a single plot to get better value for money in the area (pictured), which is the most expensive place to buy in the UK . Over the last two decades Sandbanks has become a millionaire's playground with dozens of luxury beachfront mansions being built and sold for up to £12 million . 'Although a lot of the plots are quite deep you can't spread out or go beyond the existing building line so you have build upwards as much as the planning authorities will allow.' He added: 'Both these properties are built over four levels, with the bedrooms on the upper two floors. They are very much high end in terms of their quality. 'I can also see them appealing to middle-age professionals who want them as a second home.' Last year, two properties called Tom and Jerry went on the market in Sandbanks after being built on one plot, just 10inches apart. It paved the way for more developers to follow the trend. Over the last two decades Sandbanks has become a millionaire's playground with dozens of luxury beachfront mansions being built and sold for up to £12 million. Last year, two properties called Tom and Jerry went on the market in Sandbanks after being built on the same plot, just 10inches apart (pictured) The two homes were built on a one acre site once occupied by a single bungalow (pictured) Sandbanks is said to be the fourth most expensive place in the world - behind London, Manhattan and Tokyo - to buy property. Prices in the area have soared in the past few years, with prospective buyers even able to get more for their money in the exclusive London neighbourhood of Mayfair. In 2013, one property on Sandbanks sold for the equivalent of £1,725 per square foot, which is a record for the area. Sandbanks, though, is not a haunt of A-list actresses or pop stars - but more of football managers, including former Queen's Park Rangers boss Harry Redknapp. The football manager bought his ultra-modern property with his wife Sandra for £3million in 2001 and commuted daily from his waterfront home to QPR's London-based ground Loftus Road. Troubled footballer Paul Gascoigne also reportedly moved to the exclusive resort, where he is said to be renting a flash penthouse apartment. Other notable residents include a number of well-known names in football such as Crystal Palace manager Tony Pulis, former player and manager Graeme Souness, and Mr Redknapp's son Jamie. Computer magnate Sir Peter Ogden also has a home there. There are also a smattering of businessmen, most of whom are newly retired and unsure what to do with all their money. Located on a small peninsula stretching across the mouth of Poole Harbour in Dorset, Sandbanks is known for both its picturesque beach and the high value of property. By area Sandbanks and surrounding Lilliput, Branksome Park and Canford Cliffs, nicknamed 'Britain's Palm Beach', boasts the fourth highest land value in the world and the UK's largest concentration of expensive properties outside London. Sandbanks' popularity is attributed to its seclusion, and every home in the community is within just a few minutes' walk of the beach, with most of them enjoying stunning views over the harbour or out to the English Channel. Houses were first built on Sandbanks in the late 19th century, but it was not until the 1960s when a property boom saw the peninsula - measuring less than half a square mile - become more and more built-up, turning into a Millionaires' Row filled with luxury beachfront mansions. The property market on the peninsula has shot through the roof in the past few years, with many houses being demolished and replaced with cutting-edge new properties to meet demand. In July 2009 a 1,393-square-metre (14,990 sq ft) empty plot of land on the peninsula was put up for sale for £13.5 million – the equivalent of nearly £10,000 per square metre. And last year, a bungalow bought for just £1,000 almost a century ago (around £40,000 in today's money) and now a luxury holiday home was reported to be now worth £5million - a 500,000 per cent increase in value. A a tatty 1950s three-bedroom Sandbanks bungalow which would be worth just £200,000 in most other parts of the country also went on sale last year for an eye-watering £2.25million. In Novembe, an empty plot on the exclusive enclave went on sale for £6.25m - double what it was worth when there was a house on the site. Notable residents include a number of well-known names in football such as Crystal Palace manager Tony Pulis, former player and manager Graeme Souness, Queen's Park Rangers manager Harry Redknapp and his son Jamie. Computer magnate Sir Peter Ogden also has a home there.</s>A simple breath test that could help detect the early stages of stomach cancer has been developed by scientists. The screening system spots chemical signals in exhaled air that are linked to tumour development. By looking for distinctive ‘breath prints’, researchers were also able to distinguish between patients at high and low risk of developing the disease. Scroll down for video . In and out: Thanks to a breath test, researchers claim there were able to detect the early stages of stomach cancer and also to distinguish between patients at high and low risk of developing the disease (stock image) Israeli researchers say the system is accurate, cheap – and allows patients to be monitored without using invasive procedures. The discovery comes as scientists in the US made a breakthrough that could lead a test to flag up the most aggressive forms of prostate cancer. A protein has been identified which seems to play a crucial role in the rapid growth of tumours. The breath test discovery is hoped to save thousands of lives. About 7,000 people develop stomach cancer in the UK each year and most of these cases are in the advanced stages when they are diagnosed. Research leader Professor Hossam Haick of the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute in Haifa, said: ‘The attraction of this test lies in its non-invasiveness, ease of use, rapid predictiveness, insensitivity to confounding factors, and potentially low cost.’ Breathe: The tscreening system spots chemical signals in exhaled air that are linked to tumour development (stock image) Previous research has found that other methods could be used to identify stomach cancer, but none looked at detecting pre-cancerous changes. In the study published online in the journal Gut, breath samples were taken from 484 people, including 99 already diagnosed with stomach cancer. They were analysed by so-called nanomaterial sensors, which are able to read a chemical signal or pattern linked with stomach cancer based on very small particles in a patient’s breath. The test is so accurate it could detect the difference between early and late stage gastric cancers. The researchers hope the breath test could be used as an alternative to endoscopies, an invasive and expensive procedure to diagnose gastric cancers using a long flexible tube. A large trial involving thousands of patients, including those with stomach cancer or pre-cancerous changes, is currently under way in Europe to test the technology’s suitability as a screening method, they add. Meanwhile, US experts say the discovery of a new biomarker protein may one day lead to a test which differentiates men with aggressive prostate cancer from those with a less threatening form of the disease. The findings, published in the scientific journal Oncogene, raises hope of tests that deliver an accurate diagnosis from the outset. The results could lead to more targeted treatment for those with the worst cancers – and less treatment for men whose tumours are not dangerous. Professor Renny Franceschi, of the University of Michigan, said it paves the way for a ‘warning light’ that signals how dangerous the cancer is. It might also one day lead to a treatment which stops tumours growing. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men, with 40,000 diagnosed in Britain every year. Current tests only identify whether a tumour is likely to be present. But they are unreliable, holding a high risk of ‘false positives’ that wrongly identify healthy men as having cancer. Professor Franceschi said that if further research proves positive, eventually it might lead to a test involving a simple biopsy when the patient first complains of symptoms.</s>A second Utah student has filed a lawsuit against the Davis County School District for hiring an English teacher who then allegedly went on to have sex with him and two other boys. Disgraced Davis High School educator Brianne Altice, 35, was ordered last month to stand trial on 14 felony charges, including rape, sodomy, sexual abuse and sex with a minor, in connection to her suspected affairs with three students. In mid-March, one of the alleged victims brought a $647,000 lawsuit against the Utah school district accusing officials of negligence for failing to fire the 'flirtatious' teacher before she started a sexual relationship with him. More legal trouble: Two students have now filed lawsuits against the Davis County School District in Utah accusing officials of failing to fire English teacher Brianne Altice, pictured in court in January, who is accused of having six with three boys . The latest lawsuit, filed last week, describes how Altice began flirting with the student, then 16, and other boys in her class, reported The Salt Lake Tribune. Court documents detail how at times, the students skipped other classes and spent entire days with Altice, sent her text messages and made explicit comments to her. On her part, the 35-year-old Altice confided in her teenage admirers about her martial problems. According to the complaint, the relationship between the woman and the boys in her class eventually turned physical. Court documents state that Altice's dalliances were an open secret at Davis High, where the running joke among students was: 'Who is Ms Altice sleeping with now?' Similarly to the first lawsuit, the new complaint alleges that the school district was aware of Brianne Altice's inappropriate behavior but failed to take action against her. She allegedly had sex with the third student while she was out on bail for charges relating to the first two students. Her bail was then revoked and she remains behind bars. Not happy: Altice is pictured in court in February after her motion to drop one of the charges against her was denied . The student who brought the initial lawsuit in March accused the district of being negligent when it hired Altice and says it is responsible for the damage she inflicted on him. He claimed they started a relationship in early 2013 after they flirted during class and texted and ultimately started kissing and having sex. He stated that the school district had reprimanded Altice after seeing photos of her having inappropriate contact with students but she was not fired, the Tribune reported. School district spokesman Chris Williams said at the time he was unaware of the lawsuit. Despite the claims against her, one of her alleged victims has previously testified that the charges against Altice are 'ridiculous' and 'she doesn't deserve to be here'. In trouble: Altice, pictured at a hearing in February 2014, allegedly had sex with the boys from early 2013 . He told the court he had sex with Altice once prior to October 2013 - when she was initially arrested - and then three more times after that in December, while she was out on bail. In August 2014, a second student came forward to say he had also had a physical relationship with the former Davis High English teacher, whose marriage fell apart in the aftermath of the scandal. Altice's attorney has said his client denies any romantic involvement with the three students. 'It is her defense that they did not happen at all,' he wrote in a motion. 'That she never engaged in any inappropriate contact with either of her students.' But prosecutors said the teacher acknowledged to investigators that she had engaged in sex with a 16-year-old boy on two occasions. The teen was allegedly able to accurately describe the layout of Altice's home to detectives as well as tattoos on her body. One of her victims has accused the school district of failing to fire the English teacher, left, even though it knew she had acted inappropriately with students. She was first taken into custody in 2013 . Brass asked the judge to not allow those statements at her trial, arguing that she was intimidated by the eight to 10 male officers who came to her home in October 2013 to interview her. Brass argued that the officers would not let her care for children, call an attorney or use the restroom for nearly four hours as they questioned her. 'Her statements were coerced and involuntary and were taken in violation of her so-called Miranda rights,' Brass wrote in court papers. 'The evidence she provided was the product of that tainted statement.' In February, she requested to drop one of the charges, claiming she had not been in a position of authority when she was accused of having sex with one of the boys. But a judge denied the motion. Altice would be tried separately in each student's case--meaning she'll get three different trials.</s>Rory McIlroy has plenty of work to do in his pursuit of the legendary green jacket but he will have to remain patient in his bid to complete a career grand slam at Augusta. The world No 1 recovered from a shaky start to card a one-under-par 71 but finished seven shots behind first-round leader Jordan Spieth. McIlroy must hope for the early runners to drop shots as he's scheduled to go out in the penultimate group with Phil Mickelson and Ryan Moore at 6.48pm (BST) on Friday. Rory McIlroy and Phil Mickelson, right, go out in the penultimate group on Friday . Round 2 . Group 1, 12:45pm: Ian Woosnam, Erik Compton . Group 2, 12:56pm: Trevor Immelman, Kevin Stadler, Scott Harvey . Group 3, 1:07pm: Ben Martin, Robert Streb, Cameron Tringale . Group 4, 1:18pm: Sandy Lyle, Seung-yul Noh, Bradley Neil . Group 5, 1:29pm: Bernhard Langer, Bernd Wiesberger, Geoff Ogilvy . Group 6, 1:40pm: Zach Johnson, Jim Furyk, Ernie Els . Group 7, 1:51pm: Angel Cabrera, Louis Oosthuizen, Matias Dominguez . Group 8, 2:02pm: Mark O'Meara, Chris Kirk, Shane Lowry . Group 9, 2:13pm: Padraig Harrington, Ryan Palmer, Thomas Bjorn . Group 10, 2:24pm: James Hahn, Mikko Ilonen, Hunter Mahan . Group 11, 2:35pm: Matt Kuchar, Brooks Koepka, Graeme McDowell . Group 12, 2:57pm: Jordan Spieth, Henrik Stenson, Billy Horschel . Group 13, 3:08pm: Fred Couples, Branden Grace, Thongchai Jaidee . Group 14, 3:19pm: Luke Donald, Victor Dubuisson, John Senden . Group 15, 3:30pm: Tiger Woods, Jamie Donaldson, Jimmy Walker . Group 16, 3:41pm: Jason Day, Sergio Garcia, Rickie Fowler . Group 17, 3:52pm: Charley Hoffman and Brian Harman . Group 18, 4:03pm: Larry Mize, Danny Willett, Byron Meth . Group 19, 4:14pm: Tom Watson, Gary Woodland, Camilo Villegas . Group 20, 4:25pm: Mike Weir, Ben Crane, Corey Conners . Group 21, 4:36pm: Vijay Singh, Russell Henley, Darren Clarke . Group 22, 4:47pm: Jose Maria Olazabal, Brendon Todd, Kevin Na . Group 23, 5:09pm: Jonas Blixt, Kevin Streelman, Stephen Gallacher . Group 24, 5:20pm: Patrick Reed, Keegan Bradley, Ian Poulter . Group 25, 5:31pm: Miguel Angel Jimenez, Lee Westwood, Anirban Lahiri . Group 26, 5:42pm: Bubba Watson, Justin Rose, Gunn Yang . Group 27, 5:53pm: Adam Scott, Dustin Johnson, Antonio Murdaca . Group 28, 6:04pm: Morgan Hoffmann, Steve Stricker, Matt Every . Group 29, 6:15pm: Ben Crenshaw, Bill Haas, Jason Dufner . Group 30, 6:26pm: Webb Simpson, Hideki Matsuyama, Paul Casey . Group 31, 6:37pm: Charl Schwartzel, Joost Luiten, Sangmoon Bae . Group 32, 6:48pm: Phil Mickelson, Rory McIlroy, Ryan Moore . Group 33, 6:59pm: J. B. Holmes, Martin Kaymer, Brandt Snedeker . Leader Jordan Spieth carded a superb 64 in the first round at the Augusta .</s>A size six woman who was determined to keep in shape during pregnancy revealed she exercised twice a day and ate 30 pieces of fruit - including eight mangoes and ten bananas - every day. Yulia Tarbath, 33, who is originally from Surrey but moved to Bali with her husband Paul in 2009, led a raw vegan diet - consisting of massive quantities of fruit, vegetables and juice, as well as hours of running, cycling and lifting weights. The mother-of-one revealed she gained less than a stone in weight during her first pregnancy - and took less than two weeks to get back to her starting weight of 8 stone after giving both to daughter Elaine, who weighed a healthy 7lb 5oz when born. Scroll down for video . Yulia, who stuck to a vegan diet consisting of massive quantities of fruit, vegetables and juice, as well as hours of running, cycling and lifting weights, at 39.5 weeks pregnant with her husband Paul . Every morning, Yulia, pictured with Paul and daughter, Elanie, started the day with eight mangoes. For lunch, she ate her way through ten bananas and entire bunches of spinach . Life coach Yulia said she believes there's 'no excuse to be fat in pregnancy' adding that carrying a child 'is no excuse to pig out'. Every morning, Yulia started the day with eight mangoes. For lunch, she ate her way through ten bananas and entire bunches of spinach. For dinner, she ate huge avocado salads - washed down with the juice of a dozen oranges. She said: 'There's no excuse to be fat in pregnancy. I exercised throughout my entire pregnancy and ate a healthy vegan diet. 'I didn't want to be eating for two - being pregnant is no excuse to pig out.' Yulia added: 'My midwife thought I was crazy and urged me to eat more. People in the gym would come up to me and ask if I was okay - people thought I was crazy but I did what I wanted. Yulia Tarbath, 33, pictured after she had her daughter, retained her size six figure throughout the nine-month term with regular work outs and a raw vegan diet . Yulia, pictured before falling pregnant, decided to research alternative options to battle her chronic tiredness, fertility problems, dry skin, dark circles and deep depression and discovered a raw vegan diet . 'I never exerted myself, did too much exercise or tried lifting weights that were too heavy for me. 'If anything, I took things a bit easy.' Yulia moved to the Indonesian island of Bali in 2009 with husband Paul, 41, to set up a healthy life-coaching business. When Yulia was 27, she decided to research alternative options to battle her chronic tiredness, fertility problems, dry skin, dark circles and deep depression. She said: 'I read up on the benefits of being vegan. I had such a desire to become pregnant, but experienced issues. I was heavily depressed and suffered from chronic tiredness. 'Suddenly my life started to change when Paul and I became completely vegan. We threw ourselves into it and started working out twice a day.' Yulia, at 31.5 weeks pregnant, moved to the Indonesian island of Bali in 2009 with her husband to set up a healthy life-coaching business . While Yulia, pictured at two months pregnant, may have had some funny looks from people in her local gym, she says she wouldn't change a thing about her pregnancy and will do the same if she has another child . Yulia, pictured with Paul after giving birth, says her midwife was concerned, especially with her diet. 'She wanted me to get more protein but I knew what I was doing,' she said . In June 2013, she fell pregnant, and in April the following year, the proud parents welcomed little Elanie into the world. She said: 'I was not about to stop my lifestyle. I continued working out and two weeks after finding out, I completed a triathlon. 'As the pregnancy developed I continued to work out twice a day and eat a vegan diet. Even five months into the pregnancy you couldn't tell. From behind I just looked normal. 'I continued to exercise once in the morning with a job and light weights and then yoga, swim and cycle in the afternoon.' While Yulia may have had some funny looks from people in her local gym, she said she wouldn't change a thing about her pregnancy. She said her life started to change when she and Paul became completely vegan. 'We threw ourselves into it and started working out twice a day,' she said of their new lifestyle . Yulia retained her svelte size six figure throughout the nine-month term by exercising - and eating 30 pieces of fruit every day . She said: 'I felt such a connection to my child. I would be working out and feel her kick - I think she liked it - she was just as active as her mummy. 'My midwife was concerned, especially with my diet. She wanted me to get more protein but I knew what I was doing. 'Two weeks after birth I had already dropped to 8.5st. My weight gain was purely the baby, and now I am back in the gym and breastfeeding my baby. 'When I fall pregnant again I wouldn't change a thing. I'd run a marathon whilst carrying a child if I could.' Speaking to FEMAIL about Yulia's eating and exercise regime, Dr Eva Detko Nutritionist said: 'A vegan diet is potentially dangerous during pregnancy and definitely not recommended. Yulia, pictured with Paul after giving birth, gained less than a stone during her first pregnancy, and took less than two weeks to get back to her starting weight of 8st . Life coach Yulia stuck to a vegan diet consisting of massive quantities of fruit, vegetables and juice . 'I would never advise anyone to stay vegan during pregnancy, it's not only about you - it's about the baby. 'You obviously don’t need to eat twice as much - don’t eat for two! - around 300 extra calories is fine, but you need quality protein, which is hard to get on a vegan diet. 'As a vegan (pregnant or not), you must really know your stuff. 'It's important to combine proteins to get all of the amino acids. You also need vitamins, including B12, which you can only get from animal sources; without good quality B12 you may have a baby with poor immunity. 'There are no vegan sources of B12, so they would need supplementation. 'Then there’s essential fatty acids such as omega 3, which is found in animal sources (or masses of seaweed). 'On the plus side, vegans have a lot of green leafy vegetables, which are packed with iron, folic acid and calcium, which are all great during pregnancy.' On top of her healthy diet, she endured hours of running, cycling and lifting weights . As Dr PhD Marilyn Glenville (www.marilynglenville.com) explains: 'Eating healthily means eating regular meals of freshly prepared whole foods. Buy organically grown produce wherever possible as this reduces the toxic load on the body. Eat a good proportion of raw fruits and vegetables. Do not eat raw meat or raw fish. Steam rather than boil, stir fry rather than deep fry and grill or stew rather than roast or fry. Make sure your diet is balanced with adequate protein, complex carbohydrates and high in essential fats but low in saturated fats and drink plenty of filtered or mineral water.' Foods to include . • Complex Carbohydrates Good sources: fresh fruit and vegetables (raw or lightly cooked), wholegrain breads, brown rice, wild rice, millet, oats, barley, buckwheat, rye and Quinoa. • Protein Good sources: Organic poultry (1 or 2 pieces per week), fish, goat milk, sheep milk, organic eggs, vegetarian cheese, nuts, soya, seeds and pulses. Some grains are better sources than others, for example Quinoa and millet; the rest have a small amount and should be combined with other protein sources. • Fats Good sources: Oily fish such as wild organic salmon, sardines, mackerel and herring. Pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, walnuts, almonds, evening primrose oil, olive oil, hemp oil, starflower / borage oil and flax seed oil. • Water: Many of us do not drink enough water. It is thought to be essential in providing the medium in which many chemical reactions within the body take place. Sadly much of our tap water does not measure up to safety standards required. It is advisable to drink only bottled or filtered water whilst pregnant. • Fibre Good sources: Whole grains, fruit and vegetables, nuts and seeds. You can also soak a tablespoon of whole linseeds in a glass of water overnight and swallow with an extra glass of water to help with the bowel.</s>The most popular cities in the world are often instantly recognisable thanks to their world-famous landmarks. But what would these cities look like if they did not have their prized attractions? That's what one studio asked its designers, and the images it received back were certainly illuminating. Scroll down for video . Without the 324m-high Eiffel Tower in Paris, the skyline looks incredibly bare and dark, which is not surprising considering it has 336 lamps illuminating it at night . The iconic tower, on the Champ de Mars, was opened in 1889 and has come to define the French capital . The Arc De Triomphe was constructed in 1806, and is the centrepiece of Place Charles de Gaulle at the end of the Champs-Élysées . The imposing monument celebrates France's military glories and also its military heroes - tourists can climb up tot the roof for beautiful views of Paris . Virtual studio DesignCrowd invited people to submit before and after graphics of some of the most well known landscapes as we have never seen them before. Nearly 100 submissions have been created, with a number of them focusing on the 300m-high Eiffel Tower in their creations . The startling absence of the giant tower left the landscape feeling bare and flat, although it did allow for views from the Trocadéro Gardens, through to the Champ de Mars. More missing features in Paris included the impressive Arc De Triomphe. Instead of leading to the famous centrepiece, the multiple surrounding roads meet at a bare, round circle. Without the Statue of Liberty to draw boats of tourists, Liberty Island looks forlorn and barren. All that remains of the island is the paved stone where the iconic colossal neoclassical sculpture stood. The Statue of Liberty draws boats of tourists every day, but without the iconic lady, Liberty Island looks nothing special . Siena Cathedral is a medieval church in Siena, Italy that has been around since 1215. Its spires and towers peek over the city . The River Thames looks just like any other river with the elegant Tower Bridge stretching across the waterway . The iconic Tower Bridge is featured in nearly every London tourist shop and often mistakenly referred to by visitors as London Bridge . Designers imaged what London would look like without its most photographed clocktower and Westminster Palace . The Palace of Westminster is more commonly known as the Houses of Parliament, with both the House of Commons and House of Lords based in the Gothic-style waterfront building . London's attractions draw millions of tourists every year, but there would be a lot less photographs taken in the city if Big Ben was not a feature on the skyline. It is said to be the most photographed clock in the world, and would not be easy to remove, sitting at over 13 tons. The sunset skyline looks empty without the impressive architecture of the Palace of Westminster. The banks of River Yamuna, in Agra, look desolate with the majestic presence of the Taj Mahal . The Taj Mahal is a striking white marble mausoleum in Agra, and brings millions of tourists to the surrounding area . A certain Holy presence is missing from the skyline of Rio de Janeiro, making the normally instantly-recognisable city a little more mysterious . Christ the Redeemer overlooks all the goings on in Rio, and makes the city instantly recognisable . The Sydney Harbour stands out due to its uniquely designed opera house, which resembles the sails of a ship, without it the skyline looks like any other cluster of skyscrapers . The beautiful monastery carved out of red rock in Petra, Jordan, was originally part of a Nabataean . The rose-red Petra is Jordan's most prized tourist attraction, and hopefully, being a UNESCO World Heritage Site, will never disappear . Machu Picchu was only rediscovered by western travellers in 1911, leading to the site being excavated and becoming a tourist attraction . The ruins at the Inca settlement of Machu Picchu in Peru have made the area a bucket list favourite . Niagara Falls without the falls is a dry, barren hole, and would not attract the 12 million annual visitors it does today . On the border of the US and Canada, Niagara Falls is actually made up of three separate waterfalls . The designs also featured landmarks outside of typical city backdrops. Without the tumbling 51-metre-high Niagara Falls, the area left behind would not pull the 12 million annual visitors that it sees every year. While the Andes are an incredible sight by themselves, iconic pictures with the ruins at the Incan settlement of Machu Picchu, have made the area a bucket list favourite. Standing at 68m, the Obelisk of Buenos Aires would be missed from the urban landscape behind if it were removed . The Four Face Sculptures of late Presidents on Mount Rushmore have vanished, leaving behind just another normal rockface . Mount Rushmore would be unrecognisable without the presidential presence which has been in place since the carvings were completed between 1934 and 1939 .</s>A man was horrified after finding a five inch piece of TIMBER in his frozen curry. John Foran’s wife Nita was preparing a chicken tikka biryani stir-fry on Tuesday April 7 when he found the splinter-covered shard. The £2 ready meal was bought from an Iceland Foods store in Spytty Retail Park near the couple’s home in Newport, South Wales, within the last two weeks. John Foran was horrified to find a five inch piece of timber in his Iceland chicken tikka biryani curry . John, 59, said: 'When it fell out of the bag I couldn’t believe it. 'As Nita was putting it in the stir fry dish, she thought it was just a big bit of veg. 'It was a piece of wood with splinters coming off it. 'I just don’t understand how it got inside.' Iceland said they are carrying out a thorough investigation into how the timber shard came to be in the curry . Shocked John immediately contacted Iceland who are currently investigating the matter. He said: “It may only have been £2 but that’s beside the point. 'Things like this should not be in your food. 'I contacted Iceland and all they said was take it back to the shop and that they’ll be in touch. 'But I want people to know what could be hiding in their meal.” An Iceland spokeswoman said: ’Please be assured that we take all complaints extremely seriously. We can confirm that Mr Foran has now been in touch with our customer care department regarding the foreign body found in his ready meal. 'Mr Foran is returning the item to the store and the foreign body will be collected by our supplier in order for them to carry out a thorough investigation. As soon as we have the results of this investigation we will get back in touch with Mr Foran.’</s>Theo Walcott will finally open formal talks about his future in the next two weeks. The 26-year-old has got just over 12 months left on his current £90,000-a-week deal which has alerted Liverpool and Manchester City, who are keen on the England winger. And Walcott is scheduled to sit down with Gunners chiefs over the next fortnight as the club look to resolve his future one way or another. Theo Walcott will open talks with Arsenal in the next two weeks as the club look to resolve his future . Walcott, pictured arriving at Turf Moor on Saturday, has struggled for playing time so far this season . The England winger has attracted interest from Premier League duo Manchester City and Liverpool . Gunners boss Arsene Wenger has said negotiations have taken place but Walcott has publicly denied that. Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers views Walcott as a potential replacement for Raheem Sterling, whose future at Anfield is unclear. Walcott will wait to discover how he fits into Wenger's plans before making a decision on his future. He has been a peripheral figure this season and wants to be playing regularly at the age of 26. But with the likes of Danny Welbeck, Alexis Sanchez, Mesut Ozil, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Santi Cazorla all vying for attacking positions, Walcott could struggle for first team opportunities. Walcott, pictured in training last week, is looking for assurances over his role in Arsene Wenger's squad . The 26-year-old has just over 12 months remaining on his current £90,000-a-week contract .</s>The majority of heatwaves and almost a fifth of extreme rain storms can be blamed on human activity, a new study has warned. Researchers say that three quarters of extreme hot weather and 18 per cent of heavy precipitation is being driven by global warming that has occurred due to man-made emissions. They warn that as climate change pushes global temperatures higher over the coming decades, humans will become responsible for 40 per cent of extreme rainfall events. Researchers say 75% of extreme hot weather and 18% of heavy precipitation is being driven by global warming as a result of man-made emissions. They warn that as climate change pushes global temperatures higher, humans will be responsible for 40% of extreme rainfall events (floods in Somerset in 2014 are shown) The scientists claim it is the rarest and most destructive events that seem to be the most responsive to human influence. Dr Erich Fischer, from the institute for atmospheric and climate science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich who led the study, said: 'Climate change includes not only changes in mean climate but also in weather extremes. Global temperatures were the highest since records began in 1880, according to scientists. Temperatures across the world averaged 0.8°C (1.4°F) above 20th century averages - making 2014 the warmest year in records dating back 134 years. The Met Office has already announced that 2014 was the hottest year for the UK in records dating back to 1910. Scientists have also warned that 2015 could be warmer still. Earlier this month they revealed that the Earth experienced its hottest month of March since record-keeping began in 1880. The first three months of 2015 have all set new high temperature marks. Last month's average temperature soared to 56.4°F (13.6°C), which is 1.5°F (0.85°C) above the average for the 20th century. Also of concern was the finding that Arctic sea ice was the lowest on record for March. Much of the most abnormal heat has been in the Pacific Ocean and places near it. Seven western U.S. states set records for their hottest first three months of the year, while New York and Vermont set records for the coldest start of a year. Asia, Europe, Africa and Australia have also all been warmer than normal. Blunden blames the record heat on a combination of El Niño, a blob of record hot water in the Northeast Pacific Ocean and human-caused climate change. 'With every degree of warming it is the rarest and the most extreme events and thereby the ones with typically the highest socio-economic impacts for which the largest fraction is due to human-induced greenhouse gas emissions. 'We show that at the present-day warming of 0.85°C about 18 per cent of the moderate daily precipitation extremes over land are attributable to the observed temperature increase since pre-industrial times, which in turn primarily results from human influence. 'For 2°C of warming the fraction of precipitation extremes attributable to human influence rises to about 40 per cent. 'Likewise, today about 75 per cent of the moderate daily hot extremes over land are attributable to warming.' The researchers, whose work is published in the journal Nature Climate Change, examined the probability that heatwaves and heavy rainfall events could be attributed to humans using 25 climate models. The models examined the weather between 1901 and 2005 using historical simulations. They analysed daily temperatures and daily rainfall totals from climate models and looked for events that would be expected to occur once in 1,000 days in an unperturbed climate - referred to as moderate daily extremes. They then used the models to look at predictions of extreme weather between 2006 and 2100 under an emissions scenario that is expected to lead to 2°C of warming around the world. While attributing individual extreme weather events such as hurricanes, floods and heatwaves to climate change is notoriously difficult, climate scientists have predicted they will become more common as the world warms. Dr Fischer and his colleague Professor Reto Knutti, also based at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, said taking a more global perspective made it easier to examine the role that human activity was having on such events. They say their research demonstrated a strong signal for human influence in the extreme weather that is having impacts around the world today. They found that the longer the period of the event - such as a heatwave, the greater the fraction is attributable to global warming. The graphic above shows where the change in the probability of heavy precipitation and heatwaves compared to the pre-industrial period. If global temperatures increase as predicted, as a result of climate change, this becomes more pronounced, explained the researchers . California is in the grip of its worst drought on record, causing lake beds to dry up (as above). Around three quarters of heatwaves can now be attributed to human activity and it is likely to worsen as the climate warms . Dr Fischer said: 'A warmer and moister atmosphere does clearly favour more frequent hot and wet extremes.' Professor Peter Stott, a scientist at the Met Office's Hadley Centre in the UK, pointed to the extreme weather that has happened in the past year - one of the warmest on record. He said Bangladesh was hit by flooding in 2014, Australia suffered heatwaves and Kenya was battered by downpours. California, for example, is in the grip of one of the most severe droughts on record. He added that human-caused climate change had 'loaded the dice' in favour of heatwaves like the one that hit Europe in 2003 and the flooding that hit the UK in autumn 2000. The models examined weather between 1901 and 2005 using historical simulations. They analysed daily temperatures and daily rainfall totals from climate models and looked for events that would be expected to occur once in 1,000 days in an unperturbed climate. Extreme rainfall is pictured in London . Writing in the journal, Professor Stott said: 'As each year goes by, evidence continues to accumulate that our climate is changing and that human influence plays a dominant role in observed warming. 'The prevalence of extremely hot temperatures is expected to increase with warming and more moisture in the atmosphere leads to a tendency towards more extreme rainfall events, changes that have been detected in the observational record. 'But what has been lacking up to now is a robust calculation of how much more likely extreme temperatures and rainfall have become worldwide. 'The idea that in a two-degree world almost half of heavy rainfall events would not have occurred were it not for climate change is a sobering thought for policymakers seeking to mitigate and adapt to climate change.'</s>Michael Owen surprised television viewers and pundits alike by completely dismissing Charlie Adam's 66-yard strike against Chelsea as a potential Goal of the Season contender. Revealing his controversial standpoint on BT Sport's Fletch and Sav show on Saturday, the former England international striker sparked a debate between his colleagues in the studio. 'I think if you asked a hundred footballers in general to go and try to re-enact them [each of the four superb goals from Adam, Bobby Zamora, Wayne Rooney and Jermain Defoe last weekend] the next day, I think more people would be able to kick the ball far and straight.' Michael Owen sparked a debate whilst speaking alongside former Liverpool team-mate Steve McManaman . The former England striker said he didn't believe Charlie Adam's strike was worthy of Goal of the Season . Owen's comments surprised his colleagues on BT Sport's Fletch and Sav show on Saturday . Owen, who scored 163 career goals in 362 appearances for Liverpool, Real Madrid, Newcastle, Manchester United and Stoke, appreciated a degree of expertise to execute such a shot but was minimally impressed. 'Just one long kick. There's a lot of skill in it, but Goal of the Season? Do me a favour!' Co-anchor and ex-player Robbie Savage waded in following Owen's outburst, and former Liverpool star and fellow pundit Steve McManaman was not far behind. 'You [Owen] scored a thousand goals and you couldn't do it,' former Leicester midfielder Savage added. 'You're talking about 100 footballers,' McManaman highlighted, 'and we couldn't do what Charlie Adam did (pointing to Savage, Owen and himself).' Charlie Adam (centre) lets fly from inside his own half as he scores one of the goals of his career at Chelsea . Adam's audacious effort was clocked at more than 45 miles per hour and came from inside his own half . Refusing to back down 35-year-old Owen remained resolute: 'The only reason you couldn't and potentially couldn't [score a goal like Adam] is because you couldn't reach [the goal]. You could kick the ball hard and far... it's just whether you could do it that far.' 'So we couldn't do it!' McManaman confirmed. Clearly feeling backed into a corner by his cohorts Owen pointed at Savage: 'He couldn't score Rooney's [turn and volley against Aston Villa].' 'I could,' Savage barked. 'I could score Defoe's [long range volley against Newcastle]. I've scored Defoe's for Wales. Twice. Two worldies.' QPR's Bobby Zamora (left) gets in front of Joleon Lescott to score against West Brom last Saturday . Jermain Defoe (centre) smashes home to seal a vital derby win for Sunderland at the Stadium of Light . Wayne Rooney swivels to blast a right-footed shot into the top corner of Aston Villa's net on Saturday . Responding to the comments about his strike at Stamford Bridge, Scotland international Adam hit back at his skeptic. Taking to his personal Twitter account the 29-year-old wrote: '@themichaelowen was a great player in his day but if he even thought about it his hamstring would go..' Upon finding out, Owen's claws were still well and truly out. 'He couldn't run fast enough to pull his hamstring could Charlie'. We await Adam's response with bated breath.</s>Pakistan appear set to host Test-playing opposition in their home country for the first time in more than six years. Zimbabwe have reportedly agreed to travel for a short one-day international series next month, likely to take place in Lahore and Karachi. No tourists have played in Pakistan because of security fears since the terrorist attack on Sri Lanka's team bus in Lahore in March 2009 - when six policemen and two civilians died, and several of the tourists were injured. A policeman weeps over the covered body of one of his colleagues killed when gunmen attacked the Sri Lankan cricket team in March 2009. Their team bus came under fire while travelling through the city of Lahore . Sri Lankan cricketers were rescued by the Pakistani air force from Gadaffi Stadium after the terror attack . Security officials display arms and ammunition seized after the terrorists' attack on the Sri Lanka team . 'Home' Test and ODI series' in the meantime have taken place in the United Arab Emirates, England's destination for the second time this autumn, a tour for which an exact schedule is still to be confirmed. The details of Zimbabwe's proposed trip are also not yet known. But Pakistan Cricket Board president Shaharyar Khan has stated that, after discussions with his Zimbabwean opposite number Wilson Manase, he expects the short tour to go ahead. Pakistan's Misbah-ul-Haq (left) and Wahab Riaz look set to play international cricket in their homeland again . Shaharyar said: 'He (Manase) told me they are coming and they are coming with their full team - but (just) for a week. 'They will send a security team to assess the situation, following which they will confirm the tour. So they will come in the middle of May, and our efforts will be to host matches in Lahore and Karachi.' | Jehovah's Witness and her baby have died after refusing blood transfusion .
The 28-year-old suffered from leukemia but refused treatment due to beliefs .
Over 80 per cent of treated pregnant leukemia sufferers go into remission .
Doctors and staff have described the distressing scene after the baby died and then the woman suffered a fatal stroke and multi-organ failure . Daisy, 26, stars in new Rodial beauty shoot .
Shares the secrets behind her flawless look .
Has been partying in Coachella with famous friends over the weekend . Mr Yuan was in the accident on March 24 and has been in hospital since .
One girl had been dating him for nine years and another had a son with him .
Police have now launched an investigation into allegations of fraud . Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will address Congress on Wednesday .
Mike Honda: Abe must commit to educating future generation honestly, humbly . Greg Valecce, 53, had swastikas, Stars of David, two variations of the N-word, a penis and other offensive symbols tattooed on his arms .
Also suffered three broken ribs, both broke wrists and fractured facial bones .
Incident occurred in Mayfair, Philadelphia, in March/April 2014 .
Corry 'Corey' Campbell, 21, believed Valecce had harmed his cat .
Campbell and four others tortured Valecce for three days .
Campbell was sentenced to 20 years prison, along with friend Carl Halin, 18 .
His girlfriend received Sandra Ng, 18, received 23 months .
Two others are awaiting sentencing . Karim Benzema missed Real Madrid's win against Malaga with knee injury .
Carlo Ancelotti had hoped the French striker wouldn't be out for long .
Welsh forward Gareth Bale could also miss Champions League clash . Jin Pai was standing on rim of a toilet in Hefei Xinqiao International Airport .
The porcelain toilet then tipped over and shattered on the floor .
The 35-year-old is left with deep cuts to his leg and buttocks . Due date believed to have been between last Wednesday and yesterday .
Kate, 33, plans to give birth at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London .
She may have already spoken to doctors about option of being induced .
Bookmaker's 6/1 joint favourite for birth date is tomorrow and Tuesday . 'Bethanie's' heartfelt message to airline and pilots shared on Twitter .
Female writes how she wants to 'extend a compassionate hand'
Thanks the pilots for allowing her to travel between Spain and England .
Says that they are 'the reason I can smile tonight'
Letter shared on Twitter by Jai Dillon, colleague of pilots who received the handwritten note .
Emotional message comes a week after Germanwings disaster that saw Andreas Lubitz deliberately crash plane killing 150 people . Adjoining homes are virtually identical, boasting indoor pool and sea views .
But one of the beachfront homes in Poole has an extra en-suite bedroom .
Properties have replaced a four-storey house which was sold for £4.5m .
Lloyds Property Group said they would suit couple who like independence . Tests spot chemical signals in exhaled air linked to tumour development .
About 7,000 people develop stomach cancer in the UK each year . Former English teacher Brianne Altice, 35, 'had sex with three students'
She 'had sex with the third student while she was out on bail and a judge ordered for her bail to be revoked'
One of the students, who was 16 when they allegedly had sex, has now sued the Davis County School District .
Another alleged victim filed $647,000 lawsuit last month accusing district of negligence . Masters 2015 starts on day two with Ian Woosman and Erik Compton .
Former golf world No 1 Tiger Woods is set to feature at 3.30pm .
Rory McIlroy will start near the end of day two in Group 32 at 6.48pm .
CLICK HERE to follow the Masters 2015 day two action LIVE . Yulia Tarbath, 33, continued regular workouts and raw vegan diet .
Returned to starting weight of 8st just two weeks after birth .
Baby daughter weighed 7lb 5oz and Yulia says she'd do it all again .
Experts say leading vegan lifestyle is unhealthy during pregnancy . DesignCrowd created a project to imagine cities without famous landmarks .
The virtual design studio has over 450,000 designers who contribute .
Designs included Rio without Christ the Redeemer and Hollywood without its famous hill-side sign . Man left horrified after discovering TIMBER in frozen Iceland curry .
Wife discovered splinter-covered shard whilst preparing the biryani .
Iceland are now conducting an investigation into how it happened . Theo Walcott has just over a year left on his current £90,000-a-week deal .
Liverpool and Manchester City are interested in the Arsenal winger .
Walcott has fallen down the pecking order at the Emirates this season .
The 26-year-old wants to be playing regularly under Arsene Wenger .
Walcott will open talks about his future over the next two weeks . Scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich modelled the probability of extreme weather events being caused by human activity .
They found humans are to blame for the worst heatwaves and floods today .
Conclusion was made by comparing levels pre and post industrial times .
Experts warn storms will grow more common as global temperatures rise . Michael Owen says Charlie Adam's goal at Chelsea was not that impressive .
Owen said the fact Adam kicked the ball 'hard and straight' made it easier .
Adam responded by saying Owen would have injured himself if he attempted the shot . Zimbabwe have reportedly agreed to visit Pakistan for ODI series in May .
Pakistan have not played host to major cricket series since 2009 .
There have been security fears since Sri Lanka were victims of terror attack .
Team bus was targeted by gunmen in Lahore, and eight people were killed . |
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