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Senior MPs, lawyers and campaigners yesterday called for an end to the bail system which can leave someone languishing on police bail for months without being charged. They said the use of pre-charge bail was a 'perversion of justice' which has left more than 70,000 on police bail as suspects without knowing if they will ever be charged. Pre-charge bail was introduced in 1984 under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act to allow police to put restrictions on individuals before they have enough evidence to charge. Comedian Jim Davidson (left) spent eight months on bail before being told he would face no charges over separate sex abuse allegations and broadcaster Paul Gambaccini (right) was on bail for nearly a year . Among those who have been left in limbo by the system have been broadcaster Paul Gambaccini, on bail for nearly a year before being told there would be no action against him, and comedian Freddie Starr, 19 months on bail before the case against him was dropped. Both were arrested under the Operation Yewtree sex abuse inquiry. Comedian Jim Davidson spent eight months on bail before being told he would face no charges over separate sex abuse allegations. Last week former Sun journalist Clodagh Hartley was cleared by an Old Bailey jury of making unlawful payments to a tax official after spending two-and-a-half years awaiting trial, 12 months of them on pre-charge bail. A letter signed by 25 figures, including one of the country's most senior judges and a cross-party group of MPs, called for Home Secretary Teresa May to change the law to limit pre-charge bail. Comedian Freddie Starr was bailed for 19 months before the case against him was dropped . They say police should not be able to put someone on bail without charge for more than 28 days without applying to a magistrate for an extension. The signatories included former Appeal Judge and President of the Family Division Lady Elizabeth Butler-Sloss; Tory MPs David Davis, Dominic Raab, Nigel Evans and Sir Edward Garnier; LibDem MP John Hemming and peer Brian Paddick; and Labour peer and civil rights lawyer Baroness Helena Kennedy. Other supporters included campaigner Peter Tatchell; prison reformer Frances Crook; Green MP Caroline Lucas and military author Andy McNab. Mr McNab said: 'The police can hold people on pre-charge bail forever. The mental and physical effects can be huge. I know a lot of people who have suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. This can be even more stressful than the effects of war. 'Soldiers are trained to take action. If you are in operations you are in control. But in this situation you can't take any action. You just have to sit there waiting. It is madness. If the police want more than 28 days they should go to a judge to ask for it. If someone has done something wrong then they should be charged and if they are guilty then they should be punished. But to be left dangling is just wrong.' The letter says it is a scandal that 72,000 people are on pre-charge bail and more than 5,000 of them have been on bail for more than six months. Mrs May opened a question over pre-charge bail in October when she told the College of Policing conference that the Government would consider a statutory time limit. The longest time anyone is thought to have been held on pre-charge bail is three-and-a-half years while the Metropolitan Police delayed a decision to bring charges.

MPs and campaigners have called pre-charge bail a 'perversion of justice' They are calling for a change to the law to limit time on pre-charge bail . 70,000 on police bail as suspects without knowing if they will be charged . Freddie Starr, Jim Davidson and Paul Gambaccini were all left in limbo .

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(CNN) -- At least 19 soldiers were killed over the weekend in separate clashes with rebels in Colombia, the country's president said. President Juan Manuel Santos reported attacks by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, commonly known as the FARC, in Arauca and Caqueta. In the department of Arauca, which borders Venezuela, rebels ambushed a group of soldiers guarding an oil pipeline. Fifteen soldiers were killed and 12 rebels were captured, Santos said. Another four soldiers were killed in Caqueta, which is a department in the south of the country. "The instructions to our forces are as follows: Don't stop shooting, even for an instant until we reach the end of the conflict," the president said, according to his office. Santos vowed operations will continue until those responsible are held to account. The violence comes amid peace talks between the government and the FARC. The two sides have been at war since the 1960s. Santos has said he wants talks, which started last year and are taking place in Cuba, wrapped up by November. There have been sporadic attempts at peace in the past. The last effort fell apart in 2002. Then-President Andres Pastrana ceded an area the size of Switzerland to the guerrilla group, but he ended negotiations after rebels launched a series of attacks across the country in an apparent bid to strengthen their position.

15 soldiers are killed in one attack, four in another . 12 rebels are captured, says the president . The violence comes amid peace talks between the government and the FARC .

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By . Craig Mackenzie . PUBLISHED: . 09:26 EST, 9 September 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 09:31 EST, 10 September 2012 . The five-year-old girl who died after she was hit by a slow-moving vehicle at a vintage steam rally and fair has been named as Tayla Saunders. The youngster from Honiton, Devon, had been 'darting' towards a helter-skelter ride at the Lanlivery Vintage Rally in Cornwall, when she was struck by a heavy truck as it reversed in the field. She was treated less than a minute after the accident at 11.40am on Saturday as paramedics had a display stand just 100 metres away. Tragic scene: The vintage steam rally in Cornwall where a five-year-old died after being run over. They made frantic efforts to resuscitate the girl who had been enjoying the day with her foster parents at the annual event near Lostwithiel. She was taken by air to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth where she died a short time later. A witness working in the catering area at the show was just yards away when she saw the girl running towards fairground attractions. The woman, who did not wish to be named, said: 'We heard a little girl scream. It was a truck that was reversing very, very slowly. 'The little girl came round the . entrance to the field and appeared to be running towards the fairground . attractions - there was a helter skelter just 100 yards away. 'She came around the corner of the adjacent field and the truck collided with her. It was a tragic accident.' Diane Williams, secretary of the . show, said: 'Words can’t explain how we feel. It’s just devastating, all . of it. It was just a freak accident. 'We have everything in place for safety. The driver was doing everything correctly.' Emergency service: Paramedics talk to visitors at the vintage steam rally after the accident . The family from Honiton, Devon, who had been running a stall at the event agreed to the event continuing on Sunday as it was raising funds for the Cornwall Air Ambulance and Fleet, a charity which supplies emergency equipment. A special service in the girl’s memory has been led by local vicar Philip James Conway. He said: 'The family have been most gracious. 'They have been hit by the most dreadful tragedy. 'Their attitude to all those involved in this tragedy is one that is to be utterly commended.' Patricia Barrett, wife of show chairman Ivan Barrett, was at the show ground on Saturday. 'It was an accident. 'Nothing could have been done any differently to stop it,' she said. 'It’s one of those things that you don’t ever expect to happen. It was tragic for everyone concerned. They were all absolutely devastated.' A spokesman for Devon and Cornwall Police said there would a full investigation into the incident. He . added: 'The child was with her foster parents who live in Devon, her . details are not being released at this time until interested parties are . all aware.' A message posted on the rally's Facebook page hours after the horror incident read: 'A tragic accident occurred today. Warning: A sign at the main entrance alerts visitors to the danger of vehicles moving around the showgrounds . 'The family involved have expressed a . wish that the rally should continue today and tomorrow,. particularly as . it is raising money for the Air Ambulance which came to help. 'The . family and the rally organisers request that this incident is not . talked about on Facebook as it is very upsetting for the family at this . sensitive time. 'Great sympathy goes out to the family from the organisers and the people of Lanlivery.' The show is held on the second weekend of September each year and raises money for local charities. For over 25 years the rally has hosted a variety of country events including a large entry of vintage machinery and cars, rollers and traction engines. The attractions include beer tents, . ploughing, archery, clay pigeon shooting and the fairground. Mrs Williams revealed the driver of the vehicle involved had checked no one was behind before he moved backwards. She said: 'He is a very safety conscious driver and he saw there was nothing there behind him. But the little girl darted out and ran into the back of the truck.' The county's Health and Safety Executive has been informed of the girl's death. Police based at Bodmin serious . collisions investigation unit are appealing for witnesses to this . incident to contact them on 101 quoting log number 396 of 08/09/2012.

Girl has been named as Tayla Saunders, from Honiton, Devon. Witness saw child running towards fairground when tragedy happened . Girl's foster parents attend memorial church service in field .

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Hero: Sergeant Johnson Beharry is showing off his newborn son Ayden in an interview with Hello! magazine . Military hero Johnson Beharry, who became the first recipient of the Victoria Cross for more than two decades in 2005, has had tiny replicas of his medals made for his newborn son. Sergeant Beharry, 34, showed off his son Ayden for the first time in an interview with Hello! magazine and said that he never imagined he would become a father. He was the first serviceman honoured with the VC in 23 years after risking his life to save his colleagues in Iraq, suffering horrific injuries in the process. Sergeant Beharry told the magazine: 'Before Iraq I never imagined being a dad. I lived on the edge and thought it was inevitable that I would die. 'I wonder how I survived. Everyone tells me I must be here for a reason. Maybe it is my work with my charity. But it's also for Ayden.' Beharry, who still bears the scars of his ordeal, including a titanium plate in his skull, married second wife Mallissa in March, just five months after they met. He said of his son: 'I love him so much that I don't want to go to bed, I just want to be with him. 'I hold him and watch him as he sleeps, then stay awake until dawn. My job is being on guard in the army, so it comes naturally to me.' Beharry - who has appeared on ITV's Dancing On Ice series - said he had the mini replica medals done for his son as a tribute to him. His wife said he was a hands-on father adding: 'He loves being with him. Whenever he speaks, Ayden opens his eyes and tries to find him. Johnson wants to be involved with everything.' Honour: Beharry became the first person to be awarded the Victoria Cross since the Falklands War . Serviceman: He was awarded the honour after he risked his own life and suffered horrendous injuries saving the lives of some of his colleagues in Iraq . The couple tied the knot at London's Old Marylebone Hotel in March in front of family and friends, before moving on to a later blessing. Delight: Sergeant Beharry spoke of his joy at the birth of his son in an interview with Hello! magazine . They announced soon after that they were expecting their first child. The Grenada-born soldier said at the time: ‘It's a little sooner than planned, but we are over the moon. ‘Mallissa and I felt strongly that it was important to marry before our baby arrives. 'I didn't grow up with a mum and dad who were together and all my life I've said I don't want my child to say the same and that I want them to know they've got that solid foundation.’ Beharry received his VC for two acts of bravery. In the first he led a patrol to safety after being ambushed and under heavy fire, and in the other he saved the lives of several colleagues despite suffering brain and facial injuries from a grenade. He split from first wife Lynthia in 2005 as a result of the traumatic experiences he endured. Beharry became the first recipient in 2005 of the Victoria Cross since the Falklands War of 1982. He is one of only six living recipients of the VC. Johnson Beharry was born one of eight children on the Caribbean island of Grenada in 1979. He moved to Britain in 1999, joining the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment in 2001, serving first in Kosovo then Northern Ireland.

Sergeant Beharry, 34, spoke of his delight at Ayden's birth in Hello! magazine . He was awarded the VC after saving his colleagues' lives in Iraq . Grenada-born Beharry married wife Mallissa in March five months after they met . The full interview is in the latest edition of Hello! magazine which is out now.

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(CNN) -- While "Scandal" fans were recovering from April's Season 3 finale, star Kerry Washington quietly welcomed a baby. According to TMZ, the 37-year-old actress welcomed a girl with husband Nnamdi Asomugha on April 21. The pair, who just as secretly wed last summer, named their new arrival Isabelle Amarachi. While Washington hasn't sent out a public birth announcement, the word has spread through her "Scandal" family. At the White House Correspondents Dinner on May 3, Washington's TV dad Joe Morton said he was happy and excited for his co-star. "I haven't spoken to her; I just found out about last night," Morton said. A number of Washington's "Scandal" castmates were in attendance at Saturday's event, and while the new mom did spy some photos -- "The @ScandalABC family is looking AMAZING," she tweeted -- she was absent from the festivities. Obviously, she has plenty to keep her occupied. A source told People magazine, "Kerry is at home busy with the baby." CNN's Nischelle Turner contributed to this report.

Kerry Washington has welcomed her first child . The 37-year-old hasn't made an official announcement . Her "Scandal" co-star Joe Morton congratulated her at the White House Correspondents Dinner .

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By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 16:20 EST, 4 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 16:25 EST, 4 November 2013 . The 10-year-old girl whose body was found stuffed in a trash can had been starved to death by her parents, it was revealed today. The victim, Emani Moss, was found on Saturday after her guilt-ridden father called 911 and said he was about to commit suicide. At the time, Eman Moss told officers that his daughter swallowed poison and he and his wife dumped the girl's body in the garbage and tried burning it in panic. Horrific: Police found the body inside this trash can and said that there was evidence that it had been burned . Horrific death: Both Eman (left) and Tiffany Moss have been charged with murder, cruelty to children in the first degree and concealing a body . Now police have concluded that the 10-year-old had not been given anything to eat for more than a week before her death. The . Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that the arrest warrant affidavit . says that the girl's father an stepmother Tiffany Moss 'caused the death . of the victim...by denying the victim enough food to live.' Investigators confirmed that the girl had not eaten since October 24. The . girl's father reportedly called police and told them that he was about . to kill himself because of the guilt he felt from his daughter's death. He was not forthcoming with the true reason for his guilt, however, claiming his daughter 'drank some kind of chemical'. Though . he initially said the girl's body was inside the apartment beside him, . officers responding to the scene found the deranged man outside his . apartment, he then pointed to a trash can across the parking lot. Disturbing call: The girl's father, pictured, told police he was suicidal and that his daughter was dead after drinking a chemical . Burned to death: Emani Moss was found burned to death, her father (left) and stepmother (right) are each charged with murder - leaving loved ones shocked . Eman Moss told police 'he panicked and did not know what to do' after his daughter died. The . Atlanta Journal constitution says that he later told police that he put . Emani's body in the trash can in front of their Lawrenceville apartment . building and then tried burning the corpse. Officers . were on the scene Monday morning and WSBTV said that the girl's body . had yet to be removed from the garbage can, but they were waiting for . the medical examiner to arrive. Both Eman and Tiffany Moss face felony charges of murder, first-degree child cruelty and concealing a death.

Eman and Tiffany Moss were both arrested and face several felony charges in the girl's death . First told police that Emani, 10, swallowed chemicals . Investigators concluded she had not been fed since October 24 .

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By . Lee Moran . Last updated at 10:40 AM on 6th February 2012 . Dozens of houses were destroyed and children were crushed to death when their school building collapsed after a devastating earthquake hit the central Philippines this morning. At least 13 people were killed, and 29 remain missing, after the 6.8-magnitude quake struck in a narrow strait just off Negros Island. A tsunami alert was issued after the disaster, but later lifted. Thousands of residents were trapped in their homes as a landslide hit the city of Guihulngan in Negros Oriental province. Chaos: Dozens of houses were destroyed and children were crushed to death when their school building collapsed after a devastating earthquake hit the central Philippines this morning . Escape: Filipinos came out onto open grounds in Cebu City following the quake . City Mayor Ernesto Reyes said: 'Their situation is bad because if you are covered by landslide for one hour, two hours, how can you breathe? But we just hope for the best, that there are still survivors.' He said rescuers were using picks and shovels to dig for survivors. Reyes said at least 10 people were confirmed dead in his city, including students at a college and an elementary school and others in a market that collapsed. About 100 were injured. The quake, which hit at 11.49am (0349 GMT), triggered another landslide in the mountain village of Solongon in La Libertad town, also in Negros Oriental. An unknown number of people were trapped, said La Libertad police chief inspector Eric Arrol Besario, who added: 'We're now getting shovels and chain saws to start a rescue because there were people trapped inside. Some of them were yelling for help earlier.' Three key bridges in the town suffered cracks and were no longer passable, he said. Philippine seismologists briefly issued a tsunami alert for the central islands. Terror: Residents ran for their lives as the earthquake hit in Cebu City . Running scared: At least 13 people were killed, and 29 remain missing, after the 6.8-magnitude quake struck in a narrow strait just off Negros Island . Five bamboo and wooden cottages were washed out from a beach resort in La Libertad by huge waves, but there were no reports of injuries, said police Superintendent Ernesto Tagle. Elsewhere along the coast, people rushed out of schools, malls and offices. The epicenter was closest to Tayasan, a coastal town of about 32,000 people flanked by mountains in Negros Oriental province. Two died there, including a child when a concrete fence of a house collapsed, said Benito Ramos, head of the Office of Civil Defence. Another child was killed in a church when a wall collapsed during a funeral in Negros Oriental's Jimalalud town, Mayor Reynaldo Tuanda said. Tayasan police officer Alfred Vicente Silvosa said aftershocks were preventing people from returning to their homes. Seismologists recorded nearly 45 aftershocks. Panic: Filipinos fled to the streets as the earthquake jolted central Philippines . Look-out: Filipinos surveyed the damage from the upper floors of Cebu City buildings following the quake . Silvosa said: 'We are outside, at the town plaza. We cannot inspect buildings yet because it's dangerous. 'I felt the building shaking, so I rushed out of the building. Our computers, shelves, plates, the cupboards, water dispenser all fell.' A three-story office building also collapsed in La Libertad, but occupants managed to run out. Negros Oriental police chief Edward Carranza said the temblor damaged many houses in Guihulngan and he ordered his men to help displaced residents find shelter. Officials in some areas suspended work and canceled classes. Power and telecommunications were knocked out in several places. Quake point: A Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) staff member points to the epicentre of the quake . Watching: The Philippines is located in the Pacific Ring of Fire where earthquakes and volcanic activity are common. A 7.7-magnitude quake killed nearly 2,000 people in Luzon in 1990 . Carranza said police rushed out of his building when the quake struck and added: 'All my personnel ran out fearing our building would collapse. 'Now it's shaking again,' he said as an aftershock hit, 'My keychain is dancing.' The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centred 44 miles north of Dumaguete city on Negros and hit at a depth of 29 miles. The area is about 400 miles southeast of the capital, Manila. The Philippines is located in the Pacific Ring of Fire where earthquakes and volcanic activity are common. A 7.7-magnitude quake killed nearly 2,000 people in Luzon in 1990.

29 missing after 6.8-magnitude quake in narrow strait off Negros Island . Tsunami alert issued... but was later lifted .

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Tensions in Ferguson, Missouri, have simmered since black teen Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer in August. And with a grand jury expected to soon deliver its decision on whether to indict the officer, a group that represents protesters says it wants 48-hours notice before the decision is announced so it can help prevent the St. Louis suburb from once again boiling over with anger, violence and confusion. A group of community members calling themselves the Don't Shoot Coalition this week released 19 "Rules of Engagement" that touch on major points of contention between protesters and police since Brown's August 9 killing. Witnesses said Brown, who was unarmed, had his hands in the air as if surrendering, when he was shot. Authorities said Brown attacked the officer. Dueling narratives in Michael Brown shooting . 'Prepare for the worst' Ferguson Mayor James Knowles told local media this week that authorities must "prepare for the worst" and he expects demonstrations across the area. He and his administration didn't respond to CNN's inquiries about whether city officials would agree to the coalition's requests. Ferguson police also did not respond to CNN's questions about what that department thinks of the "rules," but St. Louis County police said their department "endorses the statement from the Don't Shoot Coalition regarding the sanctity and preservation of human life. To that end, and in the spirit of building communications, members of the Unified Command have met with the coalition to define common goals." Many protesters were furious because they feel Brown's killing was an example of excessive use of force. They and heavily armed law enforcement clashed in the streets for days after Brown's death. Authorities, who drove armored vehicles and wore military gear, were roundly criticized by members of the media, other law enforcement officials and demonstrators for escalating the violence, rather than tempering it. Law enforcement also was accused of blocking and, in some cases, attacking journalists who were trying to report on the situation. FAA issues no-fly zone over Ferguson . 19 'Rules of Engagement' Some of the coalition's "rules" ask that police provide information that makes clear law enforcement's chain of command, who is making what decisions and why, and assurances that neither police nor the government will interfere with the flow of information. That means, according to the "rules," there will be no unwarranted wiretapping or attempts to interfere with internet and cellular access. The rules ask the police not to use rubber bullets, armored vehicles, rifles and tear gas. The organization also has written stipulations about how it wants police to present themselves, including a request that officers wear attire "minimally required for their safety" and that "specialized riot gear will be avoided except as a last resort." Knowles would not give details on law enforcement's plan following the grand jury's decision, CNN affiliate Fox 2 reported Wednesday. But he spoke in broad terms about the approach law enforcement is going to take. "It's not going to be about lining up a fixed line of law enforcement officers somewhere, it's going to be about being prepared, being reactive, being mobile, being able to respond to wherever an issue breaks out," the mayor said. Knowles also expects there's going to be unrest outside of Ferguson. "It's not going to be about Ferguson," he said. "The threats that are out there are threats across the region. Our expectation is that demonstrations will probably break out in several places." The mayor told Fox 2 that people who are close to organizers and protesters have informed him that demonstrators are planning to focus on areas around St. Louis and the city's downtown. Area school superintendents have written a letter urging that when the grand jury comes to a decision that it be announced on a weekend or at least not on a weekday until after 5 p.m. The superintendents are concerned that if chaos happens, that could affect the ability of nearly 20,000 students who use transportation to get to and from school. If violence breaks out in Ferguson, people who live there won't be behind it, Knowles told Fox 2. "I think you have to prepare for the worst, but I think we all hope the best out of people," Knowles said. "I don't believe that there is even a small fraction of residents in the city of Ferguson who want to do any damage or harm to any other residents or to any businesses... the concern would be who comes (from) outside the area." Opinion: Ferguson: The signal it sends about America . Are the 'rules' legal? Don't Shoot Coalition co-chair Michael McPherson said the purpose of the group's proposed rules is to "de-escalate violence" without tamping down on peaceful protest action. "What we're trying to do is make sure that we move everything into a constructive way to create change," he said. CNN legal analyst Paul Callan and radio personality Mo Ivory, appearing on CNN on Thursday, praised the idea of community members working with law enforcement to avoid a repeat of the chaos that raged in August and September. "It's been done in mass demonstrations in the past -- marches on Washington, D.C., for civil rights, protesting the Vietnam war," he said. Opinion: What does justice mean for Ferguson? Callan was skeptical that the police would -- or should -- agree to some of the rules, including those that govern what police can wear and when they can make arrests. One rule states: "Police will be more tolerant of more minor lawbreaking such as thrown water bottles when deciding whether to escalate the use of force." "When you're out on the street and there's a huge street demonstration which could go violent immediately, you have to be prepared for that," Callan said. "What are they going to do? Go change? If you're a cop you have to protect yourself from things being thrown at you." In the days after Brown's shooting, Ivory noted that the police looked like "they were going to war." "And that's what made the protesters feel that heightened (fear)... because of the way the police were speaking to them," she said. As far as being notified 48 hours ahead of a grand jury verdict, Callan said that was legal and could be done, though it would be an unusual step. "I can't find any cases where the judiciary, which runs the grand jury, gave advance notice to street demonstrators about when an indictment was going to come down," Callan said. "On the other hand, it's not illegal, so theoretically, it could be done." Complete coverage on Ferguson .

Mayor James Knowles: "Demonstrations will probably break out in several places" Grand jury decision expected this month whether to indict officer who killed Michael Brown . Brown's August shooting sparked protests that devolved into riots this summer . Don't Shoot Coalition wants 48-hour notice before grand jury announces decision .

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By . Hannah Ellis-petersen . PUBLISHED: . 17:25 EST, 1 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 05:55 EST, 2 June 2013 . To most people, it will sound like a barking mad idea. But inventors have come up with a new range of premium teabags – for dogs. The brew costs 35p a bag – about ten times the price of PG Tips – and is a mixture of herbs, vitamins and minerals which, it is claimed, will help dogs live a ‘happy and healthy life’. Lapping it up: Highland terrier Waffle samples the Woof & Brew tea for dogs with a little help from his handler Charis . The tea is the brainchild of Steven Bennett, who has run a website listing dog-friendly pubs and beaches, and tea expert Tony Kinch. The pair pooled their expertise to set up Woof & Brew, which will start selling the tea in shops this week. The drink, which contains no real tea, was launched at the Crufts dog show in March and hundreds of orders have already been placed on the firm’s website. ‘People loved the idea of being able to sit down and have a cup of tea while their dogs had one as well,’ explained Mr Bennett, 47. ‘We’ve already sold out of our initial stock so we are making additional bags. ‘We’ve even had a couple of dog-friendly teashops and hotels that are interested in serving it alongside their normal teas.’ A lovely cuppa: Waffle shows his enthusiasm for the brew, a mixture of herbs, vitamins and minerals which, it is claimed, will help dogs live a 'happy and healthy life' Mr Bennett and Mr Kinch worked together with holistic vet Richard Allport, who carried out research into the medical benefits of certain herbs, to create the five blends of canine tea – ‘Adult’, ‘Senior’, ‘Skin & Coat’, ‘Performance’ and ‘Breath’. Ingredients include dill, dandelion, ginseng and seaweed. To brew the tea, owners are told to infuse the bag for four minutes in hot water, before adding cold water to cool the cuppa to suit canine tongues. Costing £9.99 for a pack of 28, the teabags might seem expensive, but each makes a litre of tea which can be stored in the fridge for a week. Mr Bennett said the company was adding two new blends, including ‘Posh Pooch’, which he described as ‘the Earl Grey tea for dogs’. Mr Allport, who tested the tea to ensure it was safe for canines, said: ‘They can really work to enhance their health. They’ve even got the seal of approval from my own dogs.’

Inventors come up with new range of premium teabags for dogs . Brew costs 35p a bag - around ten times the price of PG Tips . Woof & Brew contains herbs, vitamins and minerals - but no real tea .

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Athens (CNN) -- The DNA of a girl authorities think may have been abducted by a Roma couple in Greece doesn't match any profile in Interpol's database, the international law enforcement agency said Tuesday. In a case that has generated huge interest in Greece, authorities have charged the couple with abducting the child they call Maria. Interpol said Greek authorities have asked for its help in solving Maria's identity. "Until now, a comparison of the girl's profile against Interpol's global DNA database has not produced a match," Interpol said in a news release. Interpol said it would make the database available to authorities in countries where someone who claims to be a possible blood relative to the child has submitted a DNA profile. The agency has more than 600 missing people listed on its website, 32 of whom are 5 or 6 years old. A spokesman for a Greek children's charity said about 10 cases of missing children around the world are "being taken very seriously" in connection with Maria's case. "They include children from the United States, Canada, Poland and France," said Panagiotis Pardalis of the Smile of the Child charity. The couple who had Maria until last week appeared Monday in court and were remanded into custody pending trial. A lawyer for the couple says the pair adopted the child from her biological mother. The Smile of the Child said the girl, who was found Thursday in a Roma community near Larissa, central Greece, is being cared for in a group home. Medical tests indicate she is 5 to 6 years of age, slightly older than initially thought, said Pardalis. Police have said they suspect the records the couple provided for the child and for other children in their care may be false. In addition to the abduction charge, the couple is accused of falsifying official documents. Four officials, including the head of the registry office that issued Maria's birth certificate, have been suspended while a police investigation is under way, the media office of the Athens municipality said Tuesday. The girl received the document this year, it said. It is unusual for a birth certificate to be issued years later. 1,000 years of Roma discrimination . Authorities asked questions about Maria because she has fair skin and blond hair, while her parents have darker complexions typical of Roma, a race descended from Indian nomads, who face widespread discrimination in Europe. Haralambos Dimitriou, head of the local Roma community, said the couple took in the girl because her Bulgarian mother couldn't keep her. He said Maria was raised like a "normal" child. Pardalis said Sunday that she was found in "bad living conditions, poor hygiene." Calls about the girl . Thousands of calls poured into Greece after authorities released photos of the girl last week. Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, whose daughter Lisa Irwin was 11 months old when she vanished two years ago from their home in Kansas City, Missouri, asked the FBI to contact the Greek authorities about the case. "There is no such thing as a tip too small," said Bradley, whose hopes were raised despite the apparent disparity in age between their missing daughter and Maria. "I am not sure there are enough similarities between the girls," a federal law enforcement official said. Still, the official added, the FBI is working with Greek authorities to determine whether the girl could be Lisa Irwin. A top official with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in Virginia said the center works with law enforcement groups to collect data, biometrics information and DNA that can be used to compare with samples from Maria. "Frankly, right now ... it does not appear that this may be any of our children. But again we want to confirm one way or the other," Robert Lowery, the senior executive director of the organization's missing children division, said. He added that a definitive comparison could be done "rather quickly." Interest has popped up elsewhere . In Canada, a spokeswoman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said its Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains had been contacted by Interpol to aid in identifying the girl, though there was no information that she is Canadian. "We are going through the files that we have and we are developing a list of possible children that could meet that criteria," said Sgt. Lana Prosper. "We are currently looking at an age range of about 2 to 8 years old, we don't want to exclude anybody. The files we currently have to look through number in the thousands, but they include boys as well." Once that number has been narrowed, police will contact local authorities to assist, "if needed," she said. Police: Couple kept changing story . Authorities released photos of the two adults charged Monday in the case -- Eleftheria Dimopoulou, 40, and Christos Salis, 39 -- in hopes that the publicity would reach someone who can provide more information about them. Interpol said it was issuing what it calls a "blue notice" asking authorities in other nations if they have any additional information about Dimopoulou or Salis. Police said the blond child looked nothing like the man and woman with her, and DNA testing confirmed that they were not her biological parents. A police statement said the couple "changed repeatedly their story about how they got the child." A government news agency said police found suspicious birth and baptism records as well as family registrations that claimed the woman had given birth to 10 children and the man was the father of four more. "I used to see the mother, she would come to the square here to beg with the child," a man in the Larissa region told the Reuters news agency. "At one point, I had asked her how she got such a blond angel. She told me she had conceived it with a blond man." Prejudice against the Roma . Prejudice and discrimination against the Roma are widespread in Greece and elsewhere in Europe, Amnesty International says. Maria's case plays into old prejudices about them stealing children for forced labor. Pardalis mentioned such a possibility, saying, "We don't have any other information if this girl was forced to work or to beg on streets." The government news agency also raised "the possibility of the existence of a ring bringing pregnant women to Greece from Bulgaria and then taking their children for sale." The agency cited past reports that empty coffins had been found for infants who supposedly were stillborn to foreign mothers in Athens. Photo blog: The plight of the Roma . CNN's Elinda Labropoulou reported from Athens and Laura Smith-Spark wrote in London. CNN's Carol Cratty, George Howell and David Simpson contributed to this report.

Parents of a missing child in Missouri are among those to contact Greek authorities . Tests indicate Maria is 5 to 6 years of age -- older than initially thought . About 10 cases of missing children from four countries are being looked at, charity says .

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By . Anna Edwards . PUBLISHED: . 05:25 EST, 12 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 11:22 EST, 12 September 2013 . As they pull at a wonky bike stand in the small hours of the morning outside a kebab shop, many would automatically presume that this group of lads were drunkenly vandalising their town centre. But far from being a bunch of thoughtless thugs, these revellers were actually public-spirited Good Samaritans who were repairing a damaged rack. The high-spirited group were caught on CCTV repairing a broken bike rack after a night out - using a team effort to heave the stand back into place. Scroll down for video . All together! The group of lads abandon their takeaways to try and pull back the severely bent bike rack . Heave-ho! The group can be seen gritting their teeth as they embark on their good deed . The damage had been reported to the council but the young men stepped in before it was repaired - and one ended up completely beneath it as he strained to pull it back to its original shape . The rack, which had been damaged for several weeks, caught their attention as they queued for Kebabs in Boston Market Place in the early hours of the morning. Footage shows the group putting down their take aways and planning a repair strategy, before using their muscles to unbend the thick metal hoop which had been damaged when a car reversed into it. The group can be seen discussing their tactics before spending almost 13 minutes straightening the metal hook at 3am. The group can be seen gesturing to . each other before nodding at each other and three of them grabbing the . rack, as they try to pull it back to move it back into place. At one point one ends up underneath the rack, using his feet to push himself back. When that fails, they rope in two . others, who then sit on the other side and push to help the trio who . pull with all their might. After . repairing it, they can be seen high-fiving each other and been giving . the thumbs-up by a crowd who has watched their efforts. The group discuss their strategy and recruit two other helpers to fix the dented rack, which a car had reversed into . The group can be seen shouting encouragement at each other as they end their night with a charitable act . The group spent the best part of 15 minutes pushing and pulling the dented rack - and have been praised as 'public spirited' That deserves another kebab! Pleased with their hard work, the group are congratulated by an admiring crowd . The damage had been reported to the council but the young men stepped in before it was repaired. Friends Martin Griggs, 24, and Dean Mason, 23 who were joined by pals Simon McMillan and Dan Butler, both 23, have since become internet sensations. Barman Martin, who lives in the town, said: 'We saw the bike rack and thought it was a bit knackered and it's been broken for a while. 'We are both cyclists and had noticed it hadn't been fixed for a few weeks, we were a bit inebriated, so decided to mend it. 'We started pulling it this way and went "this isn't happening", so we tried various ways and put our legs into it. 'The feedback we have had has been ridiculous. Random people have sent us messages saying well done. Its come as a bit of a shock. 'We did it at the end of a night out, we had all probably had too much to drink and thought it would be a good idea and didn't think anymore of it afterwards. 'There was a big cheer at the end. It was great. Dean Mason (left) and Martin Griggs (right) pictured by the bike rack after they bent it back into shape on a night out . The group said it was a spur of the moment decision after they had enjoyed a couple of drinks to fix the busted bike rack . Dean and Martin have already been congratulated by Mayor Cllr Paul Kenny and CCTV and community safety portfolio holder Cllr Stephen Woodliffe . 'We didn't know what the police would think if they saw it. They are more used to people vandalising and breaking stuff. 'Most people don't go out with an intention of breaking something or being a nuisance - but there are a lot of nice people in the town.' Dean, a chef, added: 'We do feel quite proud of ourselves. I think we did a good job. Everybody is very happy about it. 'People have been saying 'good on you' and that it's nice to see lads not just destroying the place and doing good for once. 'People were cheering us on saying go that way or this way and we all high-fived and hugged at the end. 'Its not the first time we've helped out, we sometimes help drunk people get into taxis. 'We like to do our bit here and there. 'People keep sending it to us on Facebook and sending videos, the response has been overwhelming.' Boston Borough Council said it was surprised by their actions and called it 'public spirited'. Councillor Stephen Woodliffe, from Boston . Borough Council, said he had found it 'remarkable' as he watched the . men on the CCTV footage. 'Young people often get a bad press and this shows there are some who want to contribute to their society and do the right thing,' he said. 'It shows young people acting in a very positive and constructive manner and shows they have a good and responsible attitude to what's happening in their town. 'Their actions were very public spirited and impressive.' Peter Hunn, Boston Borough Council's safety officer, said: 'We recorded the whole sequence. At first two lads had a go and then encouraged others to help. 'At one point five were pushing and pulling. To look at the bike rack now you would hardly know it had been damaged. 'The night-time economy is not all about bad lads doing bad things.'

The group put down their takeaways to fix bike rack in Boston . Push and pull to unbend thick metal hoop in early hours of morning . Praised as 'remarkable' and 'public spirited'

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A Utah woman was arrested Tuesday in a bizarre case in which police say she stole the identity of a real attorney, opened her own law office and even represented at least on client in court. Police say Karla Cabo, 29, even hired a bar certified attorney for her fake firm. As recently as December 23, Cabo--who posed as a Ms. Karla Stirling Fierro--showed up to a district court representing an alleged criminal and even signed legal papers as his official counsel. 'There were a couple of things she said that kind of raised my eyebrows,' Summit County attorney Matthew Bates recalled from that day in an interview with Deseret News. 'But it wasn't enough to make me dig any deeper because we get attorneys from other parts of the state or newer defense attorneys all the time.' Karla Cabo, 29, (left) was arrested this week for stealing the identity and bar number of attorney Karla Stirling (right) and then practicing law in her name . Per Utah law, attorneys must give their name and bar number when they appear in court. They do not, however, have to show photo identification. And Cabo, police say, conveniently had a bar number, one that belonged to attorney Karla Stirling. Why she came up with the Fierro is anyone's guess. The California and Utah-based attorney she allegedly impersonated certainly hasn't a clue. 'It's been shocking to hear that there's been somebody else whose doing this with my name and my bar number,' Karla Stirling told Deseret. 'I mean, who would take it that far to full-on impersonate someone and use a legitimate bar number?' Stirling said she worries about the clients whose cases could have been harmed by Cabo's lack of any legal training. For the client she represented in court December 23, the judge will likely give him a chance to--if they so choose--take back his original guilty plea. 'Legally, he has pretty solid grounds to withdraw his plea if he wanted to because the plea was essentially uncounseled. and an uncounseled plea is a violation of the Constitution,' Bates said. As for Cabo, she's charged with identity theft, two counts of forgery and one count of communications fraud, reports KTSU.

Karla Cabo, 29, of South Jordan allegedly posed as a Karla Stirling Fierro using a false bar number . She reportedly opened a fake law office for which she even hired an actual attorney . Cabo allegedly represented at least one client in court in a criminal case in which she signed legal papers on the suspect's behalf .

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ACCRA, Ghana (CNN) -- Jennifer Staple runs the Unite For Sight program which started in the U.S., but has branched out into working overseas. Regarding sight as a fundamental human right that most people take for granted, the program aims to tackle a range of visual impairments that affect people across the world. Jennifer will be traveling to Ghana and then India, taking volunteers to continue the work of Unite For Sight. Keep up with her experiences in her blogs and video diaries. November 8, 2007 I have been developing and coordinating Unite For Sight's programs in Ghana from the U.S. since 2004, so it has been a great privilege to finally arrive in Ghana to meet the patient beneficiaries and the local Unite For Sight team. I have been spending much of my time with our ophthalmic team in Accra. Robert Dolo and Kartee Karloweah are ophthalmic nurses and medical staff at the Crystal Eye Clinic, which is Unite For Sight's partner in Accra. They are extraordinary people, working six days a week to provide eye care for patients living in extreme poverty, waking at dawn and working until sunset, often examining 150 patients per day. Each day that I am with Robert and Kartee in the villages, I marvel at their dedication and efficiency. Having heard stories about them from our partner ophthalmologists and visiting volunteers, I knew that I would see their greatness in action while in Accra, but personally seeing their selfless dedication and commitment to Unite For Sight was even more extraordinary than I had anticipated. Unite For Sight vision screenings are held in very remote locations, where patients have no access to eye care. Their health needs are beyond comprehension, as raw sewage often flows through the streets and running water is nonexistent. A small area is organized for the vision screening, which includes a series of screening stations. Visiting Unite For Sight volunteers and local Ghanaian translators work to register patients, identify their eye care needs and provide visual acuity screenings. Then, the patients move into a very small, dark room where Robert and Kartee are stationed to provide examination and diagnosis. They need to work in the dark so that they can see the back of each patient's eyes. Often more than 100 degrees (Fahrenheit or 37.7 Celsius) in the room, Robert and Kartee rapidly examine each patient and determine whether they need medication, eyeglasses, consultation by ophthalmologist Dr. James Clarke or surgery. If the patient needs medication or eyeglasses, they move to another station that is usually manned by local and visiting volunteers. If the patient needs surgery, Unite For Sight arranges for them to go to Crystal Eye Clinic. Living in extreme poverty, the patients can barely afford food, so they cannot afford the price of surgery, which is usually $100. Unite For Sight sponsors their surgery to insure that no one remains blind because they can't pay. Through September 2007, Unite For Sight has coordinated and funded more than 1,200 sight-restoring cataract surgeries in the Accra, Ghana region. The success of the program can largely be attributed to the remarkable work of Robert and Kartee in the villages. It has been an extraordinary privilege to meet them and to see their work making such an impact. E-mail to a friend .

Jennifer has arrived in Ghana and is spending time with the local UFS team . Robert Dolo and Kartee Karloweah are medical staff for a UFS partner there . UFS holds vision screenings in adverse conditions to bring eye care to Ghana .

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Editor's note: This story is part of an ongoing series of profiles CNN is doing about economic survival in this time of financial crisis. Tony and Lynette Lorenz pose, in more financially secure times, for a picture the night before their 2004 wedding. (CNN) -- Ever since her hometown of Fort Myers, Florida, earned the distinction of having the highest rate of foreclosures in the country, Lynette Lorenz has spent the bulk of a year away -- 1,200 miles away -- from her home and her husband. The 42-year-old automotive service provider, a commission-only position that helps car buyers with maintenance needs, once raked in $95,000 a year. But as the recession rolled into Fort Myers, the jobs, including hers, dried up. Now unemployment in Fort Myers is near double-digits. Lorenz became depressed and the tension between her and her husband, who works in the same industry, soared, sometimes forcing her to retreat to the spare bedroom. "I was miserable," she said. "I'm not the kind of person who can sit around the house all day." iReport.com: Tell us how you're surviving . So in March 2008 she up and left, heading north to Maryland, where a friend said the automotive jobs were plenty. It was an extreme measure, but it was one she felt she had to take during these hard times, both for personal and financial reasons. Within one week, she landed at a Nissan dealership in Timonium, north of Baltimore. Homesickness drove her back to Florida in July, where she found the Fort Myers economy in even worse shape and jobs even tougher to come by. The city's continued struggles even prompted a visit from President Barack Obama earlier this week. Depression, tension with her husband, and a general lack of purpose returned full throttle. In November, with only $50 in her pocket, she returned to Timonium and managed to get her job back. Lorenz says she now works 10 times as hard to make half her former income. She paid $250 in cash for a 1991 Nissan and moved into a utilities-included apartment, where she slept at first on an air-mattress with borrowed sheets. She combed through the free furniture listings on Craigslist, and scoured Goodwill and cheaper outlets for good deals. She found a couch and chair for $25, and artwork for $7. "You have to be at the bottom to find out what your strengths are," she says of her resourcefulness. "Pure determination got me here, and I'm really proud of it, too." iReport.com: 1,200 miles apart and surviving . It hasn't always been this way for Lorenz, who said she used to be a "country club girl." There was a time when she spent money as if her financial well had no bottom. She said she bought new homes when she became bored with the old, and bought Versace and Chanel at fancy department stores such as Nordstrom and Saks Fifth Avenue, often on credit. Her turnaround began in November 2004, when -- with debt amounting to about $50,000, Lorenz said -- she appeared on "Dr. Phil." The episode title was "Where'd the Money Go?" Flanked by two of her three daughters, including her then-15 year old who counted 100 pairs of shoes in her own closet, Lorenz got a televised dose of reality from the mustachioed host. "He made a statement that stuck with me ... 'You define yourself by what you have, not who you are,' " said Lorenz. "I'd never looked at my life that way before." Watching the program later made her think, and says Lorenzo, "The spending stopped." Good thing it did, because the hard times ahead would require it. She says she has learned to appreciate what she has and scoffs at her one-time need for high-end labels. Tossing her once-coveted $500 Chanel sunglasses on the counter, she laughs and says, "These suckers don't even stop the sun from coming in my eyes." Lorenz laughs easily and often, but her situation is fraught with challenges. She is, after all, 1,200 miles away from her husband, Tony, 38, whom she married in 2004. But the couple generally talks daily, and occasional visits help sustain them, even if parting is difficult, says Lorenz. "Every day you wish you had a job [in the same city] with each other, but unfortunately that's just not the way it happened," she said. "He [Tony] never wanted me to leave, but ... I know we will be together again." Tony, reached in Fort Myers, said being separated from his "strong-willed" wife can be difficult. "I want her to come home for selfish reasons -- because I want to spend the rest of my life with her. ... But I don't want her to feel or get depressed because she's not working," he said. "It's probably a lesson for us. We argued. We worked against each other. We weren't sure of our appreciation for one another until we weren't together." Turns out they may be back together sooner than they thought. Nissan announced Monday that it would be slashing 20,000 jobs. Lorenz won't know until February 24 if she'll be laid off, but, she says, she won't let the possibility get her down. "If one door closes, another one will open," she said. "If it comes to an end here, that's God telling me, 'It's time to go home and be with your husband.' " She said she doesn't worry about a return to depression if she does go home. The time away has "made me a stronger person," she said. "I'm in a different place ... I have seen so much since March of last year ... and have met so many people who are so desolate," she said. "I still have my family, still have my husband, and that's enough for me." And if need be, she said she's no longer above working outside her field. "I'll sell minnows at the beach. Everyone needs minnows to fish with," she said with a laugh. "I may have to go outside that comfort zone, but I'm fine with it."

Automotive worker leaves Fort Myers, Florida, depression and husband for a job . A former shop-aholic, she makes do with little and learns to appreciate more . She may face layoff, since Nissan announced job slashings in tough economy . If that happens, it's "God telling me, 'It's time to go home and be with your husband' "

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(OPRAH.com) -- One afternoon a few months ago, my husband walked into the house carrying a cookbook and then stood in the kitchen for a long time, turning the pages, reading it. This was interesting. He looked deeply absorbed. When his cell phone rang, he went out onto the porch for a minute, the cookbook still opened on the counter, and I came over to inspect. He had been interrupted in the midst of "How to Choose a Pork Roast." There was a silhouette of a pig, connected by arrows to detailed line drawings of 13 hefty-looking cuts of raw meat. In retrospect I see that I was completely dim about what was already under way in our household, but I remember nodding to myself and thinking, "Oh, okay. Meat." The whole book was about meat, serious meat, the kind I'd never been any good at cooking: beef chuck, short ribs, leg of lamb, brisket. Bill wanted more meat in our dinner menus, apparently, and had brought me an instruction manual -- 600 pages long, I couldn't help noticing, and with the same sort of heft as the sirloin pork roast in the picture. I was studying the corned beef recipe, which called for boiling up your own brine and then submerging the meat in it for 12 days, when Bill came back in and made a complicated spousal throat-clearing noise. "Uh, that's for me," he said. "My cookbook." I might have been more startled if Bill had said "My mascara," or "My pedicure kit," but I doubt it. Every domestic arrangement that works reasonably well is stretched out over a web of understandings about who does what, and for 24 years -- three houses, that is, and two children and two extended families and a long, noisy, generally good-natured parade of teenagers and exchange students and visiting nephews and whole soccer teams clumping in and out -- I have been the one who cooks. Oprah.com: How chocolate cake can help you win over the men in your life . I don't want to give the wrong impression here: I'm a slovenly housekeeper, blessed with a gratifying inability to see grime at all until the hour before a fussy relative is about to arrive. But I can follow a recipe. I keep a stack of CDs in the corner of the kitchen, because I like singing to Ella Fitzgerald or the Rolling Stones while I'm dropping cut-up things into a hot frying pan. In the days when carbohydrates were fashionable, I used to make risotto with fresh corn and goat cheese; and one of my daughter's friends once told me he craved my chocolate chip cookies so much that if I made some for the school ski bus, he wouldn't smoke any pot for the entire trip. I had a really muscular period a while back that involved twice-risen whole wheat bread and home-canned apricot preserves. Not that I'm invested in this. It was clear, is all I'm saying. Delineated. Mom tears recipes from the food pages and puts a green vegetable on the plates every night; Dad does barbecue on the weekends and on the nights when Mom's away takes a pizza out of the freezer or makes boiled noodles with sliced hot dogs on top. Bill did have a way of broiling chicken that I never quite understood, something with kosher salt and high heat so that even the breasts were juicy and crispy at the same time, but I elected not to think about that. It was much more satisfactory to smile gently at him, making a visible effort not to roll my eyes, when he asked where we kept the spatulas. If Bill were reading over my shoulder right now, he'd try to sell you some story about how every time he offered to help I would wave my large kitchen knife at him and tell him everything was under control, but this would be a tremendous, tremendous exaggeration. Often I didn't have a knife. Or if I did, I wouldn't say I waved it. I was busy slicing things with it in exactly the right way, which was essential to whatever I was cooking and difficult to explain clearly to anybody else, unless, of course, that person happened to be doing it wrong. Why a sensible adult would want to interfere with this simple and fully understandable system of household order I cannot really say, except that it might be like that part in the action thrillers when the cable starts to fray on the mountain gondola with 13 passengers inside and then shot by shot the metal threads snap off in slow-mo and the gondola's tipping and people are shrieking and finally the butcher sets a new meat cookbook out on the counter where a husband can spot it while his wife is next door buying flowers. Oprah.com: How cooking with cardamom spiced up a marriage . I think that's what happened. Anyway, here's what Bill made for dinner one week after bringing home his cookbook, having waited until an afternoon when I was gone so that he could conduct a stealth sortie into the kitchen: Oven-Roasted Tri-Tip. He used the meat thermometer. He served the tri-tip already sliced thin, perfectly rare, in its juices. I poked at it suspiciously, made a polite remark regarding its flavor, and then ate about 18 slices. Two days later: Oven-Roasted Tri-Tip with Southwestern Spice Rub. Three days after that: Sautéed Pork Chops with Wilted Greens, Pine Nuts, and Raisins. By the time he got to Roasted Pork Tenderloin with Dried Cranberry and Apple Stuffing and Cranberry-White Wine Reduction Sauce, Bill had bought a new meat thermometer, digital, with protruding wires and flashing lights that made it look as though he'd lifted the whole apparatus from an intensive care unit. He had driven to the Indo-Pakistani food store one city over, brought home a dozen bags of spices, and rooted around in the cupboards for empty jars to store them in. Six o'clock had become a delicate, perilous time at the kitchen end of our house; a white-wrapped butcher package would show up on the counter, and I would say to myself, "Ah! We should talk about this!" But then we wouldn't. I would stand around the kitchen for a while, looking for some lettuce to wash, and finally Bill would stride in and start pulling out frying pans and turning on three burners at once and flipping through measuring cups. I couldn't figure out how he had found the measuring cups, but he had, and furthermore he appeared to have mastered the trick of opening that cabinet door slowly, so the bud vases and the tea bag boxes don't fall out on your head. Oprah.com: Lunch at Bergdorf's - A promising recipe for a lifelong friendship . And now here he was on Roasted Pork Tenderloin night with his dried cranberries and his apples and his big damn cookbook, and he was holding a measuring cup up to the light, pouring wine precisely to the three-quarters mark, and he glanced over and saw the expression on my face. We regarded each other for a minute. He scooped a wooden spoon into the stuffing, keeping his eyes on me; he had already sliced the meat, I noted stiffly, and fanned the pieces down the length of my grandmother's china serving platter. "You should taste this," he said. It smelled ridiculously good -- sage, I guessed, and butter and garlic and onion, and maybe some thyme, and the faint sweetness of the fruit. I did a rapid calculation of the number of holiday tables at which Bill must have watched me push turkey around my plate while taking thirds on stuffing, and somewhere in the back of my head a tiny cloud of reason began to form. I thought about gratitude, about adaptability, about the splendid and infinite reach of marital give-and-take. I thought about compromise. I thought about grace. I thought about pecans, which it seemed to me the stuffing needed, you know, for the crunch, and not cut too big, and perhaps a bit more pepper. But did I say that? I did not. What I said was, "If you start baking desserts, I will blow up the kitchen." Get the recipe for Cynthia Gorney's Chocolate Chip Cookies . Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price. That's like getting 18 issues FREE. Subscribe now! TM & © 2010 Harpo Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Gorney was always the cook, until her husband came home with a 600-page cookbook . Her husband began making elaborate dinners every night . Both spouses cooking shows a balance of marital give-and-take . However, she says he better stay away from cooking desserts .

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(CNN) -- Sid Caesar was a man of many words. The comic, writer and star of "Your Show of Shows" who died Wednesday knew his way around a punch line. Here are just a few of his pithy quotes and clips of some of his performances: . "Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end." "The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius." "If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song." "When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon." "There's a now, a was, and a gonna be. Now is now, and after now is a was. And what comes after the was is a gonna be. It hasn't happened yet. It's gonna happen as soon as the now is over. But if you have a good now, you're bound to have a good was and a good gonna be."

Sid Caesar was a comic and writer . He was well known for making up languages . He once said he played the "buffoon"

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Valencia want Manchester City midfielder Bruno Zuculini on loan. The 21-year-old signed last month for £3million from Racing Club and marked his debut by scoring against Sporting Kansas City in midweek. He was wanted on loan by Malaga as part of the deal that brought Willy Caballero to City while Deportivo La Coruna enquired this week. Perfect start: Bruno Zuculini scored on his debut for Manchester City . Promise: Bruno Zuculini only signed for Manchester City last month but could return to Spain on loan already . City have already added Porto midfielder Fernando to their ranks this season so may be tempted to allow the youngster to leave. Meanwhile, the club are still waiting to complete the £32m signing of Eliaquim Mangala from the Portuguese side. The French international was caught on camera discussing a move to the Premier League champions, but sources have described it as a ‘complicated’ deal.

The La Liga side are interested in taking Zuculini to Spain on loan . The 21-year-old only signed for Manchester City from Racing Club last month . He scored on his debut for City against Sporting Kansas City just last week .

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(CNN) -- Condolences continued to pour in late Sunday night following the death of heavy metal rocker Ronnie James Dio, who lost his battle with stomach cancer earlier in the day. "Today my heart is broken, Ronnie passed away at 7:45 a.m. 16th May," his wife, Wendy Dio, said in a message on his official website. Dio, 67, followed Ozzy Osbourne as Black Sabbath's lead vocalist in 1979. "Many, many friends and family were able to say their private goodbyes before he peacefully passed away," she wrote. "Ronnie knew how much he was loved by all." The rock community paid tribute to Dio in messages late Sunday. "In addition to his powerhouse vocal ability, Ronnie was a true gentleman who always emanated great warmth and friendship to us and everyone around him," KISS said. "We will miss him." Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian called Dio's death a big loss. "So many memories of Ronnie. Toured together many times. He always had a kind word and a smile, and he loved the Yankees," Ian said. Musician Slash summed up the loss in one sentence: "Ronnie died at 7:45 a.m., but his music will live for eternity." Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx, who became friends with Dio while touring Europe, said the rocker will be missed. "I still have this image of him standing on stage in front of 100,000 belting out 'Man on the Silver Mountain' and remember the shivers it sent up my spine," Sixx said. He called Dio "one of the kindest souls I have ever met and his talent was beyond inspirational to so many of us." "Those of us that had the opportunity to know Ronnie can tell you what a wonderful and passionate man he was," Sixx said. Dio most recently was touring with Heaven and Hell, a version of Black Sabbath renamed for legal reasons. All shows were canceled last March because of his illness. His last public appearance was in April at the Revolver Golden Gods Awards when he accepted a vocalist of the year award for his work on last year's Heaven and Hell album. Dio appeared frail, but he spoke while accepting his award. Born Ronald James Padavona in 1942, Dio's professional music career began as a high school student in the late 1950s. His 1960s rock group The Electric Elves evolved into Elf by the early 1970s, when the group played heavy blues rock. Dio's rock became darker with his band Rainbow, which he left in 1979 to join Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath released three albums with Dio, including "Heaven and Hell" in 1980, "Mob Rules" in 1981 and "Live Evil" in 1982. Dio left that band in 1982, but he had a brief reunion with the group a decade later. He formed the group Dio in 1982 and later Heaven and Hell.

Rock community paid tribute to Dio in messages late Sunday . Dio most recently was touring with the band Heaven and Hell . His last public appearance was in April at the Revolver Golden Gods Awards .

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Manchester United target Marco Reus refused to commit his future to Borussia Dortmund, telling an awards ceremony audience: 'We'll see about that'. The 24-year-old was voted Dortmund's Player of the Year by newspaper Ruhr Nachrichten, after returning from injury to score 10 and assist seven of his side's next 24 goals. The Germany international is reported to be one of Louis van Gaal's primary transfer targets, should the Dutchman replace David Moyes as manager at Old Trafford. Should I stay or should I go now? Marco Reus has refused to be drawn on his future at Borussia Dortmund . Despite being offered a new contract to stay at the Westfalenstadion, Reus confirmed he is yet to agree new terms - amid reports that 35million euro release clause will become active in the summer . Speaking at the awards ceremony, he said: 'It's like that in this business. Every player only has one career and wants to get the best out of it. 'You have to decide what's best for you. We'll see about that.' Dutch of class: Reus is reported to be on Louis van Gaal's radar should Dutchman become next United boss . The attacking midfielder has not won any silverware since joining Dortmund from Borussia Mönchengladbach in 2012 and stressed the importance of winning titles in the future. 'Every footballer has his goals and is dreaming of winning titles. At the end of your career, you want to be able to say that you've won many titles.' Jurgen Klopp's hopes of winning trophies have been seriously dented by the sale of Dortmund's best players in recent years - with star striker Robert Lewandowski set to join Mario Gotze at main rivals Bayern Munich next season. VIDEO: Scroll down to watch Marco Reus score a David Beckham-like free-kick . In it to win it! Germany international has stressed the importance of winning silverware in his career .

Marco Reus has refused to commit his future to Borussia Dortmund . Germany midfielder is a reported target for Louis van Gaal, should he become the next Manchester United manager . Reus has been offered a new deal but has a 35m euro release clause . The 24-year-old has stressed that he wants to finish his career with medals .

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(CNN) -- November 27 may be Turkey Day in America, but in the world of politics, every day is turkey day. Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer earned his Turkey of the Year recognition for his involvement in a prostitution ring. Turkeys are foolish creatures -- overstuffed, noisy and self-important. A lot like the politicians on our list of Turkeys of the Year. Turkey No. 10: Rudy Giuliani puts all his eggs in one basket -- Florida. "We are going to win in Florida, and then we will be talking about exactly who made the right decisions," Giuliani says on CNN's "The Situation Room" a week before the primary. Giuliani ends up third in Florida, with 15 percent of the vote. The former New York City mayor was relying on the many former New Yorkers who have moved or retired to Florida. There's just one problem: most of them are Democrats, and Democrats can't vote in Florida's Republican primaries. Watch what made these turkeys memorable » . Turkey No. 9: In 2006, Tim Mahoney defeated Florida Rep. Mark Foley after it was revealed that Foley had sent sexually suggestive messages to congressional pages. Mahoney's campaign demanded an investigation. This year, Rep. Mahoney again called for an investigation -- this time by the House ethics committee into his own behavior, after it was reported that he had paid off a staffer to avoid a sexual harassment lawsuit. Mahoney later admitted to "multiple affairs," including one with a local government official who had business with his office. Mahoney lost his bid for re-election. But not everything was lost. "The irony is not lost on any of us,'" a senior Democratic operative observed. Turkey No. 8: In June, Barack Obama addresses a meeting of Democratic governors in Chicago. His rostrum bears ... what is this? A presidential seal? Not quite. The eagle looks familiar, but instead of a shield, there's the letter "O.'' The seal says,"Obama for America.'' And that Latin phrase, "Vero Possumus''? It means, "Yes, we can." A little presumptuous, perhaps, four months before the election? "That was a one-time thing for a one-time event,'' Obama's campaign spokesman tells CNN. Turkey No. 7: Sen. Elizabeth Dole runs a TV ad accusing her Democratic opponent of taking "godless money.'' The ad refers to "a secret fundraiser in Kay Hagan's honor'' co-hosted by an adviser to an atheist advocacy group. The ad shows a picture of Hagan while a woman's voice declares, "There is no God.'' The voice is not Hagan's. "I am a Sunday school teacher,'' Hagan tells reporters in a conference call. "I am an elder at First Presbyterian Church in Greensboro. My family has been going to this church for over 100 years.'' Hagan files a lawsuit against Dole for defamation and libel. She subsequently defeats Dole in the North Carolina Senate race. And drops the lawsuit. Turkey No. 6: Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, the king of pork, turns into a turkey. The longest serving Republican senator in history is convicted on seven felony charges of corruption for failing to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gifts and free services. John McCain, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell call on Stevens to step down. Stevens' response: "I am innocent.'' He tells Alaska voters that he "has not been convicted of anything.'' In a close race, Stevens narrowly loses his bid for re-election and becomes a symbol of corruption and arrogance in Washington. Turkey No. 5: Not politicians this time, but arrogant auto executives who come to Washington looking for a bailout. In their private jets. "I'm going to ask the three executives here to raise their hands if they flew here commercial," said Rep. Brad Sherman, D-California, adding "let the record show that no hand went up." The AIG insurance company does get an $85 billion federal bailout. Whereupon 70 of their executives reward themselves with a weeklong spa retreat. The cost? A cool $440,000. Turkey No. 4: After videos surface of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's controversial sermons, Barack Obama delivers a major speech distancing himself from his pastor's sensational comments. Then Wright appears at the National Press Club to give his side of the story. He claims Obama "didn't denounce him'' but "did what politicians do.'' "I said to Barack Obama last year, 'If you get elected, November 5th, I'm coming after you because you'll be representing a government whose policies grind under people," Wright said. Obama does get elected, and Wright keeps his word. "As long as you are presiding over policies that grind God's people into the earth, I'm coming after you," Wright threatens in a radio interview after the election. Turkey No. 3: The financial crisis hits in mid-September, and John McCain declares, "The fundamentals of our economy are strong." The Republican nominee makes a startling announcement a few days before the first debate. McCain says, "Tomorrow morning I'll suspend my campaign and return to Washington." Why? To rescue a federal bailout package for the financial industry. McCain goes to Washington and what happens? His own party kills the rescue package. Men can really be turkeys. Want proof? Turkey No. 2: "I have responded consistently to these tabloid allegations by saying I don't respond to these lies." That was John Edwards in July. But they were not all lies. The next month, the former Democratic presidential candidate responds with a public confession of an extramarital affair. He explains his behavior as "a self-focus, an egotism, a narcissism, that leads you to believe that you can do whatever you want. You're invincible. And there will be no consequences." Want another example of men being turkeys? Turkey No. 1: New York governor -- make that, former governor -- Eliot Spitzer, who had to resign because of his involvement with a high-priced call-girl service. "Over the course of my public life, I have insisted, I believe correctly, that people regardless of their position or power take responsibility for their conduct. I can and will ask no less of myself. For this reason, I am resigning from the office of governor," Spitzer said. "To every New Yorker and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for, I sincerely apologize,'' said the hard-charging, suddenly humbled ex-governor. And with that, the turkey is served. More turkey? We invite you to add turkeys of your own.

CNN's Bill Schneider names the Top 10 Political Turkeys for 2008 . Turkey No. 10: Former New York mayor makes miscalculation in flamingo country . Turkey No. 7: No forgiveness for this North Carolina senator when her ad runs afoul . Turkey No. 5: These Big Three Motor City Turkeys fly -- straight into trouble .

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By . David Kent . South Korea coach Hong Myung-bo has ordered QPR to release defender Yun Suk-young for his country’s pre-World Cup camp. Rangers will play Derby County on May 24 at Wembley for a place in the Premier League and have yet to release him. FIFA rules mean South Korea can stop Yun playing in the Championship play-off clash as May 19-25 has been designated as an ‘official rest period’ for all players selected for the tournament in Brazil, apart from the Champions League final. Blow: Yun Suk-young looks set to miss QPR's play-off final with Derby . Seventeen of Hong’s 23-man squad play abroad and he said: ‘If Yun . reports to the camp late, then it could set a bad precedent. Watchful eye: South Korea coach Hong Myung-bo (top left) observes his players during training on Thursday . 'There’s no . shift to our stance that Yun must be here at the earliest date . possible.’ QPR have been granted permission by Croatia to play Niko Kranjcar and haven't given up hope that Yun could still be given the green light. The 24-year-old has featured 11 times since his arrival at Loftus Road in January 2013, but has played a part in the past three games. Instructions: Hong talks with his World Cup squad and players in training at the National Training Centre in Paju .

Defender set to miss Wembley showdown with Derby County on May 24 . FIFA designate May 19-25 as official rest period ahead of World Cup . Hong Myung-bo says left-back must report to training camp .

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DORCHESTER, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Friends, family and colleagues paid tribute to Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy on Friday evening with a three-hour wake capped by a chorus of "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling." Joseph P. Kennedy II recalls how his "Uncle Teddy" looked after the family. An estimated 45,000 people filed past the Democratic legend's flag-draped casket at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library before the event. Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd, who has tried to shepherd Kennedy's signature cause of universal health care through the Senate this year, summed up his appeal in three words: "People liked him." "Some people born with a famous name live off of it. Others enrich theirs," Dodd said. "Teddy enriched his." Kennedy died Tuesday night at age 77 after being ill with brain cancer for 15 months. He had represented Massachusetts in the Senate since 1962, leaving his stamp on "nearly every important law passed in the last half-century," Dodd said. He became the patriarch of the first family of Democratic politics after the assassinations of his brothers, President John F. Kennedy and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, during the 1960s. One of Robert Kennedy's sons, former Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II, fondly recounted how "Uncle Teddy" looked after the children of his slain siblings. Watch Vice President Biden explain how Kennedy "crept into my heart" » . "The truth of the matter is that for so many of us, we just needed someone to hang on to, and Teddy was always there to hang on to," he said. "He had such a big heart, and he shared that heart with all of us." The wake was held at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in suburban Boston, a building "that Teddy built and brought to life with his dedication to public service," said the slain president's daughter, Caroline. Kennedy's own presidential aspirations were hobbled by the controversy around a 1969 auto accident that left a young woman dead and a 1980 primary challenge to then-President Jimmy Carter that ended in defeat. But while the White House eluded his grasp, he played major roles in passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act and the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act. "He constantly renewed my faith and optimism in the possible," Vice President Joe Biden said at the memorial. "I never once saw your father with a defeatist attitude, I never saw him petty. I never saw him act in a small way, and as a consequence he made us all bigger -- both his friends, his allies and his foes." Kennedy was an outspoken liberal standard-bearer during a conservative-dominated era from the 1980s to the early 2000s. He died as President Obama, whom Kennedy boosted in the 2008 presidential campaign, is pushing for a wide-ranging overhaul of the U.S. health insurance system, a fight the dying senator called "the cause of my life" in a July issue of Newsweek. Kennedy was famous for his close friendships with colleagues across the Senate aisle even as his name was an anathema in Republican campaign materials. Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch said the Kennedy name was "my very best fundraiser," but that he developed "a strong working relationship with and love for the man I came to fight." Watch Hatch tell how he won a big favor from Kennedy » . "If you would have told me that he would become one of my closest friends in the world I probably would have suggested that you need professional help," Hatch said. A visibly emotional Hatch said he last saw Kennedy "a couple of months ago," and the two had their picture taken together. "That means so much to me," Hatch said. "I had to say it was a wonderful occasion, and I miss fighting in public and joking with him in the background. I miss all the things we knew we could do together." Arizona Sen. John McCain, the GOP's 2008 presidential candidate, said Kennedy "taught me to be a better senator." "He was the most reliable, the most prepared and the most persistent member of the Senate," McCain said. "He took the long view, and he never gave up." McCain added, "I think most of my colleagues would agree the place won't be the same without him." The senator's funeral is scheduled for Saturday at Boston's Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in Boston's Mission Hill section, with at least 40 of Kennedy's fellow senators and former presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush slated to attend. Obama, who called Kennedy an "extraordinary leader" on Wednesday, will deliver a eulogy at the funeral, according to several sources. Prime Minister Brian Cowen of Ireland, the famous clan's ancestral homeland, and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown are also expected to attend, a family spokesman said. Kennedy will be buried Saturday evening at Arlington National Cemetery, outside Washington, 95 feet south of the grave of Sen. Robert Kennedy, which is in turn just steps away from John Kennedy's burial site.

Joseph Kennedy: "He had such a big heart, and he shared that heart with all of us" Family celebrates senator's life with "music, laughter and stories" Sen. Chris Dodd sums up Kennedy with, "People liked him" GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch says he grew to love "the man I came to fight"

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By . Sarah Griffiths . PUBLISHED: . 16:05 EST, 3 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 16:05 EST, 3 October 2013 . The HTC One smartphone won the coveted T3 magazine 'gadget of the year' award . The HTC One smartphone has edged out Apple and Samsung to win the coveted T3 magazine gadget of the year award. The Taiwanese-made model also won the T3 design award and the 'phone of the year' accolade at a ceremony in London tonight. It beat the Apple iPhone 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S4 in the phone of the year category, chipping at the dominance held by both technology giants. The Android smartphone is set apart from competitors' handsets by its dual frontal stereo speakers powered by built-in amplifiers and 'BlinkFeed' that streams live content onto one screen. However Apple won computer and tablet of the year and Samsung took the brand of the year title, while Sony won digital camera and television of the year. Michael Acton Smith, who co-founded entertainment company Mind Candy, which created Moshi Monsters toys, was awarded for his outstanding contribution to technology. T3 said of Smith: 'From (gadget retailer) Firebox.com - an early adopter of e-commerce - to Perplex City, the groundbreaking multi-media game, his vision and hunger for bigger and better has helped the UK become one of the most exciting countries in the world of tech.' Mr Smith said: 'I'm honoured to have received this award from T3. It's been an incredible journey so far and I'm excited and looking forward to what the future brings.' TED curator Chris Anderson, who has racked up hundreds of millions of web video views for speeches by academics and technological experts through his TED Talks series, won the Tech Legend award. Michael Acton Smith, who co-founded entertainment company Mind Candy, which created Moshi Monsters toys, was awarded for his outstanding contribution to technology. He is pictured here with his creations . Mr Anderson said: 'I'm surprised, delighted and honoured by this news. "T3 has long been one of my favorite magazines and I'm tickled pink they would do this - even if the truth is that the award should go to the large numbers of people around the world who have collectively taken TED from being a small conference to a broader celebration of transformative technologies and ideas.' T3 editor-in-chief Kieran Alger said: 'This year's awards have been the hardest fought yet. Every single winning product is truly an outstanding example of innovation and design. 'Alongside the killer products of the past 12 months we're also thrilled to have honoured two of Britain's finest tech innovators. It's fantastic to be able to acknowledge the truly staggering success of two visionary entrepreneurs who have influenced the way we work and play on a global scale. TED curator Chris Anderson (pictured), who has racked up hundreds of millions of web video views for speeches by academics and technological experts through his TED Talks series, won the Tech Legend award . 'Chris Anderson's TED initiatives provide inspiration for a generation of enquiring tech minds while Michael Acton Smith's army of Moshi Monsters has brought fun to a mind-boggling 80 million people across the planet. 'They're both hugely deserving recipients of these prestigious T3 Awards and an inspiration to anyone striving in the technology space.' Other winners included Google, who won innovation of the year for Google Glass, and Netflix, which took the digital media service of the year award. The Sky+HD 2TB set top box won entertainment gadget of the year, the Audi A8 won car of the year, and Xbox Smartglass won app of the year.

Michael Acton Smith, who created Moshi Monsters was awarded for his outstanding contribution to technology . Chris Anderson won the tech legend award for his TED Talks series that brings speeches by academics and tech experts to a huge online audience . Apple won computer and tablet of the year and Samsung took the brand of the year title .

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These pictures show the incredible sculptures carved from egg shells by Chinese artist Wen Fuliang . Wen, of Shaanxi province, was laid off from his job as a wood carver and turned to the unusual and skillful form of art to make ends meet. He uses chicken, goose and duck eggshells to carve out places of interest, such as the iconic Dayan Pagoda in Xi'an. Steady hand: Chinese carver Wen Fuliang creates intricate sculptures out of egg shells . Detail: The artist displays his incredible work using a magnifying glass . Wen Fuliang has practiced eggshell carving for more than ten years. Egg carving is done using a fine diamond bit on an electric rotary tool. The artist sketches a design on the shell, which has been carefully emptied of the yolk and egg white with a syringe. They must then gently but securely hold the egg shell in one hand, the rotary tool in the other and slowly carve away the design in an incredibly time-consuming and skillful process. Fragile beauty: Mr Wen's art often contains landmarks, such as the Dayan Pagoda in the city of Xi'an . Artistry: This sculpture contains a brown egg shell within a white egg shell . Gentle: Each design is carefully mapped out using a pencil before carving begins . Sculpture: Mr Wen has been carving egg shells for 10 years. He turned to his hobby to make a living after being made redundant . Nature: These egg shell sculptures show beautifully-recreated animals in their design .

Wen Fuliang uses the unorthodox material for his painstaking artistic creations . The artist was laid off from his a wood carver and turned to his hobby of 10 years to make ends meet .

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By . Luke Augustus . Follow @@Luke_Augustus29 . Manchester United are the most valuable team in the world after signing a world record £750million kit deal with Adidas. Wall Street values the Red Devils at £2.1billion after shares in the club rose to almost five per cent on Monday following their ground-breaking partnership announcement with the German manufacturers. VIDEO Scroll down for Manchester United unveil their new kit . Top dogs: Manchester United are the most valuable team in the world according to Wall Street . Welcome back: United have announced a £750million ten-year-deal with Adidas starting in 2015 . Manchester United - *Adidas - £75million . (*Begins at the start of the 2015/16 season) Arsenal - Puma - £30million . Real Madrid - Adidas - £4million . Liverpool - Warrior - £23million . Barcelona - Nike - £22million . Bayern Munich - Adidas - £22million . Manchester United - **Nike - £21.6million . (**Ends after the 2014/15 season) Adidas' 10-year deal with United begins at the start of the 2015/16 season, ending American sportswear rivals Nike's 13-year association with the club. In April, Forbes magazine valued the Old Trafford outfit as the second most valuable team in the world at £1.77billion. They were second to Real Madrid's £1.92billion value, but that has changed following United's deal with Adidas. Despite missing out on Champions League qualification last season, Louis van Gaal's side commands the highest kit and sponsorship deals in the world - which includes their £53million-a-year deal with American car manufacturer Chevrolet. Pushed down: United's deal with Adidas moves them above Real as the world's most valuable club . Manchester United - Chevrolet - £53million . Barcelona - Qatar Airways - £26million . Bayern Munich - Deutsche Telekom - £23million . Real Madrid - Emirates - £23million . Liverpool - Standard Chartered - £18million . Sunderland - Invest in Africa - £18million . Regardless of the club's debt, Wall . Street predicts that the Manchester outfit will stay at the top of this . chart for years to come with Adidas boldly predicting they will record . £1.5billion worth of replica shirt sales over the term of their . contract. In addition Forbes reports that over in Spain La Liga teams are looking to distribute their next television deal collectively rather than individually, which would dent Real and eternal rivals Barcelona's financially power. At present the Spanish duo generate around £106 million each in television revenue in comparison to current champions Atletico Madrid who earn £36million. Fair share? Atletico Madrid earn £36million in La Liga television rights compared to Real's £106million .

Manchester United are the most valuable club in the world according to Wall Street . United's £750million kit deal with Adidas moves them above Real Madrid . Louis van Gaal's side valued at £2.1billion .

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For 50 years, Harry Redknapp has been one of football’s most colourful and outspoken characters. Now he’s written a book every fan will want to read. In his new book 'A Man Walks On To a Pitch' - serialised exclusively by Sportsmail this week - Redknapp reveals the ways in which Arsene Wenger introduced new coaching techniques into the Premier League. The arrival of Arsene Wenger in 1996 certainly heralded a change in English football. He was very successful very quickly, and suddenly all the talk was about his revolutionary new training methods. He only trains for an hour… does everything on the stopwatch… the players are wearing heart monitors at training… he gives them supplements… Prozone is one of the biggest changes. Last season, when QPR were due to play Blackpool, our most recent scout’s report had them operating with four at the back and two holding midfield players. In the old days, that would have been all that was available. VIDEO Scroll down to watch former players pay tribute to Wenger before his 1,000th game . Arsene Wenger heralded a change in English football when he arrived in 1996, says Harry Redknapp . Redknapp gives instructions during a West Ham United training session at Chadwell Heath . Wenger's methods at Arsenal were revolutionary and he introduced new, innovative ways of training . The Arsenal boss had embraced a modern way of coaching and English managers were forced to catch up . Age: 64 . Born: Strasbourg, France . Clubs managed: Nancy-Lorraine (1984-87), AS Monaco (1987-94), Nagoya Grampus Eight (1995-96), Arsenal (1996-) Games managed at Arsenal: 1,023 (won 583, drawn 243, lost 197) Win percentage at Arsenal: 57 per cent . Managerial Honours: Premier League x 3, FA Cup x 5, Ligue 1 x 1, Coupe de France x 1, Emperor's Cup x 1, J-League Super Cup x 1 . Now we’ve got machines that can call up game after game, personnel, the most detailed statistics, changes in the gameplan. So we knew that for most of the season they had played three centre-halves, and pushed the full-backs on and that would be how they intended to play if everyone was fit. The aids for a manager are incredible now. When I began, we might have one report on the opposition. That aside, you just played - sorted your own team out and went from there. If they had a player you fancied was good you might tell one of the lads to watch him, give him an idea of what to expect - but there was no detail. Don Revie at Leeds United was the only one who went into depth, and his dossiers were the talk of football. Prozone, which uses player and team stats, and modern technologies were introduced into English football . Wenger used stop watches and other methods in order to ensure he got the maximum out of his players . Scholes, Gerrard and Ferdinand make Redknapp's modern era Premier League XI . Giggs would have solved England's problems... he was born to play left wing . Keane, Shearer and Le Tissier make Redknapp's early era Premier League XI . Ravel Morrison has the class of Bale but his attitude is holding back his talent . Vieira and Keane are warriors... they were even prepared to do battle while working on TV! Why Redknapp fears that the English manager is in danger of becoming extinct . Vieira nearly crossed North London to join Spurs... and Suarez was close to signing too . Pies in the canteen and throwing teacups at players... the Premier League killed all that! Sportsmail's Head of Sport Lee Clayton interviews Redknapp about his new book . Other managers were still not convinced they were a good idea. Play your own game, that was the mantra. No managers changed their team to accommodate the opposition. Nobody mirrored formations. These days, if the England manager is caught out tactically he gets slaughtered; but, even a few years before the Premier League, if the same man came in and said the other team were using wing-backs so he would go with a back three too, and flood midfield, he would have been called a coward. Why are we worrying about them? We’re England - let them worry about us! I must admit, I find the point of Prozone baffling at times. Yes, you’ve got it - but so has the team you are playing. So while you’re watching them, they’re watching you, and while you’re changing to deal with them, they’re doing the same. We all go along with it, but where’s the edge? England players, like Owen Hargreaves, now use heart monitors and other technologies in training . Redknapp (right) utilised new techniques at West Ham after seeing Wenger's methods pay dividends . The front cover of Harry's new book, 'A Man Walks On To a Pitch', which goes on sale on Thursday . 'A Man Walks On To A Pitch' by Harry Redknapp is published by Ebury Press, priced £20. Offer price £16 until October 21. Order at mailbookshop.co.uk or call 0808-272-0808 — p&p is free for a limited time only.

Harry Redknapp's latest book, A Man Walks On To a Pitch, is being serialised by Sportsmail this week . A Man Walks On To a Pitch includes more than five decades of memories . Redknapp reveals how Arsene Wenger's techniques changed coaching . The Frenchman meticulously studies every aspect of the game .

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By . Ap Reporter . A Milwaukee man who killed his 13-year-old neighbor last year testified Thursday the shooting was 'justice' because he thought the teen had broken into his home and stolen weapons. John Henry Spooner, 76, said the suspicion that Darius Simmons stole expensive shotguns of deep sentimental value left him 'very, very angry.' Police searched Darius' home after the shooting and didn't find the weapons. A prosecutor alleged that Spooner traded the boy's life for guns in a desire for revenge. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO . Despicable: John Spooner , pictured last week, murdered a 13-year-old African-American boy and says he would have shot his brother too. Spooner was sentenced today to life in prison . 'I wouldn't call it revenge. I would call it justice,' Spooner said defiantly, drawing audible gasps from the courtroom. Darius' mother, Patricia Larry, threw up her hands and muttered, 'Oh my god.' Spooner was testifying against the . advice of his lawyer. Defense attorney Franklyn Gimbel told the judge . during morning proceedings that his client had suddenly lost the mental . competence to continue with the trial. The judge halted proceedings for a . few hours until a court-appointed psychiatrist performed a brief . examination and pronounced Spooner competent to continue. Tragedy: Darius Simmons was gunned down after his elderly neighbor wrongfully accused him of stealing several guns from his home . Spooner was convicted Wednesday of first-degree intentional homicide. That verdict advanced the trial to a second phase to determine whether Spooner was sane at the time of the May 2012 shooting. The second phase wrapped up Friday with testimony from a doctor hired by the prosecution. A doctor retained by the defense testified Wednesday that Spooner had anger issues that caused him to periodically detach from reality. Ultimately, the jury ruled that Spooner is competent and he now faces a sentence of life in prison. Spooner didn't testify in the first . phase. The judge asked him Thursday if he wanted to testify in the . second phase, and Spooner said he'd prefer to give a 15-minute . statement. When told he could only address the jury in the form of sworn . testimony and cross-examination, he agreed to take the stand. Spooner . mostly spoke in a calm voice but sounded anguished as he recounted how . he confronted Darius and shot him in the chest. He recalled that someone . had stolen four shotguns from his home two days earlier, and he was . frustrated by a limited police response. Gimbel asked him what caused him to shoot the boy. 'I . wanted my guns back,' Spooner replied, squeezing his eyes shut and . resting his head against his fingertips. 'I just wanted them back so . bad.' Spooner . never denied shooting Darius, and acknowledged wanting to kill the . teen's older brother as well. Theodore Larry, 18, had rushed into the . street to help his wounded brother. Grieving: Patricia Larry, Darius Simmons' mother, watched as Spooner killer her son . 'If there weren't other people behind him you would have shot him,' prosecutor Mark Williams offered. 'I would have shot him,' Spooner replied. The . strongest piece of evidence against Spooner was footage from his own . surveillance cameras, which showed him confronting Darius on the . sidewalk and pointing a handgun at him. The boy backpedaled a few steps . with his hands up. Spooner then exchanged words with Darius' mother on . her porch off screen, and then turned and fired one shot at Darius' chest. The teen fled, and Spooner fired a second shot that missed. He tried to shoot a third time but the gun jammed. Darius died a few moments later across the street, in his mother's arms. Gimbel . conceded from the outset that Spooner killed the boy, but argued during . the first phase that the homicide may have been reckless but not . intentional, because Spooner didn't mean for the shot to be fatal. The . jury deliberated for about an hour Wednesday before rejecting that . argument. Support: Patricia Larry hugs family friend Keith Bailey at the trial of the man who murdered her son . Life: Spooner faces life in prison now that a jury has found him competent . Spooner had entered two pleas to the homicide charge: not guilty and not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. That set up the trial to be conducted in two phases: the first to determine whether he was guilty of the homicide, and if so, a second to determine whether he was mentally competent at the time. While Spooner didn't deny what he did, he had a hard time explaining to the prosecutor why he did it. When Williams asked if he took the safety off the gun because he wanted to kill the boy, Spooner said he didn't know. Williams asked why Spooner fired a second time and Spooner again said he didn't know. Finally, Williams asked whether Spooner felt bad about taking Darius' life. 'Not that bad,' he replied softly.

John Spooner says he feels 'not that bad' about killing his 13-year-old neighbor . Spooner wrongfully accused 13-year-old Darius Simmons of stealing several guns from his home . Spooner faces a sentence of life in prison after a jury ruled this afternoon that he is sane .

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By . Anthony Bond . UPDATED: . 03:43 EST, 11 January 2012 . The RSPCA has called for a 'sick' dog fighting mobile phone app which allows players to re-enact the brutal bloodsport to be banned. KG Dogfighting is a mini-game available on Android phones which challenges users to train up killer dogs which they can use to fight other players' dogs in bloody online death-matches. Seattle-based developer Kage Games, which is responsible for the game, say the app does not violate Google terms of use, claiming it is no more dangerous than the popular Angry Birds app. Controversial: The RSPCA has called for KG Dog Fighting to be banned. The mini game available for Android phones allows players to . re-enact the brutal bloodsport of dog fighting . Dangerous: Dog fighting is banned in both the UK and U.S . But the RSPCA has condemned the . software as 'irresponsible and inappropriate', before urging Google to . withdraw it from their popular Andriod mobile service. Dog fighting is banned in both the UK and U.S. An RSPCA spokesman said: 'Having looked at the details of this game we believe it is entirely irresponsible and inappropriate. 'We would hope the makers would consider withdrawing this game and urge anyone who objects to it to contact the games company to express their disappointment about its launch. 'At best this could result in animal . abuse being seen as acceptable and at worst result in even more dogs . suffering pain and distress. 'The makers of the game might like to visit one of our rescue centres and see some of the many dogs which have been abused. 'A . lot of those we house have suffered appalling injury and neglect at the . hands of uncaring and thoughtless people involved in dog fighting.' The high profile criticism adds to . comments left on the software company’s website by outraged gamers who . blast the app as 'sick, immature, twisted and foolish.' Despite its availability for download . to kids as young as 13 for a mere £3.10, Kage Games insist the app does . not breach 'high maturity' Android guidelines. In . a preview for the product on their site, KG Games say: 'Just because . something is illegal in real life in certain countries does not mean it . is illegal to make a song, movie, or video game about it.' Brutal: These images show options for people playing the controversial game, such as choosing food, drugs and weapons for the dogs . Referencing Angry Birds in their . defence, a product description points out: 'Just go slingshot some . virtual birds to kill some virtual pigs.' Then poking fun at those outraged by the bloody content of the app KG Games suggest critics can tell 'someone who cares'. Virtual world: KG Games defended KG Dogfighting by referring to the popular game Angry Birds, in which players use a slingshot to fire birds at pigs . On their website, a spokesperson for KG Games said: 'We do not condone violence towards animals or humans, and we are confident in humankind’s ability to distinguish between a rudimentary game and the consequences of real life. 'We are confident this game will be a . net benefit to dogs as it has been in our operating agreement from the . start of this project that a portion of the proceeds go to animal rescue . organisations.' The Dog’s Trust, which looks after abandoned and traumatised dogs, also weighed into the argument demanding Google remove the game from its site. A spokesperson for the Dog’s Trust said: 'We are totally opposed to any form of organised dog fighting and its promotion. 'We are appalled to see this despicable and illegal practice being touted in virtual form as entertainment regardless of any age restrictions applied.' Android has defended its decision to allow the new version of the controversial app to appear on the UK versions of the Android store. A spokesperson for Android in the UK said: 'The Android Market takedown team and the Legal team have both reviewed the app and decided it was not in violation of any Android Market policies. 'Google do not have any further comment on the matter.' THOSE WHO LOVED IT . 'As an animal lover I was initially . horrified by it, but you made your points so compellingly that I almost . bought it just to support you and the causes to which you contribute.' 'I disagree with the content in this . game but as a game fan I say keep the game up! While I disagree with . the content don't let them bully you into taking it down' 'Honestly, I feel dog fighting to . be despicable, an unforgivable crime. That being said, I believe in free . speech and freedom of expression. Gaming is a fantasy, a break from . reality, and should be treated as such no matter the content.' ... AND THOSE WHO HATED IT . 'Anyone that would play this "game" would do the same thing to real dogs. Anyone with a heart would be appalled by this!' 'For everyone that supposedly buys your little game just remember the rest of us and the unbelievable amount of heart we have when it comes to protecting our animals and what we will be saying about your game, your company, and everything that promotes it'. 'Moral aspects of dogfighting aside, the game sucks'

KG Dogfighting is branded as 'irresponsible and inappropriate' and could lead to dogs suffering pain and abuse, charity claims . Brutal game is available for children as young as 13 to download for just £3.10 . Makers of game say it does not breach guidelines and is no more dangerous than popular Angry Birds app .

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Israeli police clashed with hundreds of Palestinian protesters in Jerusalem as an Arab teenager, who Palestinians say was killed by Israeli extremists, was buried in the neighbourhood where he lived. Mohammed Abu Khder, 16, who was kidnapped and found dead on Wednesday, was buried in east Jerusalem after the midday prayers, with tensions running high after two straight days of violence. Thousands of people chanting and waving Palestinian flags greeted the body partially wrapped in a traditional headscarf as it arrived by ambulance at a mosque before burial. Mourners carried the body on a stretcher through the thick crowd. It comes as CCTV footage allegedly . showing the teen being approached by a group of men as he sat outside a . shop near his home before being bundled into a car was released by his family. Scroll down for videos . Grief stricken: Thousands of people chanting and waving Palestinian flags greeted the body partially wrapped in a traditional headscarf as it arrived by ambulance at a mosque before burial. Mourners carried the body on a stretcher through the thick crowd . Slain: Mohammed Abu Khder, 16, was kidnapped and found dead on Wednesday. His mother Suha (right) followed her son's body as it was taken through crowds to a burial site . Outrage: News of his death prompted outrage in his east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Shuafat . Outpouring: The boy's body was transferred to an open casket as it was paraded through the streets . Police had earlier beefed up security . in and around Jerusalem. Extra precautions were taken as the funeral . coincides with the first Friday prayer services of the Muslim fasting . month of Ramadan. Police . clashed with hundreds of Palestinians in Ras al-Amud and Wadi Joz in . the eastern sector of the city. The day had been calm before Friday . prayers, police said, following two days of protests since the boy's . death. The burned body of 16-year-old . Mohammed Abu Khdeir was found on Wednesday in a forest after he was . seized near his home in east Jerusalem. News . of his death prompted outrage in his east Jerusalem neighbourhood of . Shuafat. Protesters clashed with police for two days, throwing rocks and . firebombs while security forces responded with tear gas and stun . grenades. Violent: Clashes broke out between Israeli police and Palestinian youths during the noon Ramadan prayer in Ras Al Amud neighbourhood ahead of the boy's funeral ceremony . Fighting stones with grenades: Meanwhile, violent protests over the killing spread through East Jerusalem that saw rioters throw stones at police (right), who returned fire with stun grenades (left) Defiant: A masked mourner holds the national flag in front of a giant poster of Mohammed Abu Khder during his funeral . Fury: A female Hamas supporter holds up a rifle during a protest against the kidnapping and killing on the Gaza Strip . Anger: Thousands of flag-waving Palestinians, some firing weapons into the air, took part in the emotionally-charged east Jerusalem funeral of a Palestinian teenager, Mohammed Abu Khder, 16, believed murdered by Israelis . Violence: . Angry young Palestinians clash with Israeli police following the murder . of Arab teenager Mohammed Abu Khdair, in what is being investigated as a . revenge attack for the death of three Jewish schoolboys . Abu Khdeir's . family set up a large tent outside the home for those seeking to pay . condolences and distributed posters mourning his death. The . boy's father, Hussein, said doctors had completed an autopsy, and the . family was expecting to receive the body after prayers. Palestinians . have accused Israeli extremists for the killing, saying it was a . revenge attack for three Israeli teens that were recently abducted and . killed in the West Bank. Beefed up security: Police had earlier beefed up security in and around Jerusalem. Extra precautions were taken as the funeral coincides with the first Friday prayer services of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan . High alert: A Palestinian woman makes her way through the Qalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank, to reach the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City for traditional Friday prayers . Tightened security: Security in the West Bank was heightened amid fears of reprisal attacks . Flare up: Israeli commanders meanwhile waited to see if a series of statements by Israeli leaders promising to 'meet quiet with quiet' would bring a halt to the latest flare-up of violence on the Gaza border . Violence: . Angry young Palestinians clash with Israeli police following the murder . of Arab teenager Mohammed Abu Khdair, in what is being investigated as a . revenge attack for the death of three Jewish schoolboys . Grief: . Relatives of Mohammed Abu Khudair mourn in Shuafat - an Arab suburb of . Jerusalem - following the discovery of his beaten and charred body body . in nearby woodland yesterday . Israeli police said an investigation was ongoing and the motives remained unclear. It comes amid media reports of a . possible truce in the making after Hamas allegedly offered to halt its . rocket attacks if Israel stops its air raids on the Gaza Strip, a . cat-and-mouse game that has rumbled on for two weeks. The official Twitter feed of the Israeli Defense Force issued a warning of a . possible nuclear leak yesterday - before it claimed it had been hacked by Syrian activists. The Tweet, which warned of a leak at the country's research reactor near Dimona, Southern Israel, was soon deleted while officials reported a security breach and apologised. The tweet read: 'Possible nuclear leak in the region after 2 rockets hit Dimona nuclear facility.' The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has apparently claimed responsibility for the hack, tweeting 'Long live Palestine!' via the same account. On their own account, the SEA said it had hacked 'the whole "Israeli army" propaganda'. The IDF issued an apology today after deleting the tweets. 'We apologize for the incorrect tweets Our twitter account was compromised,' it said. 'We will combat terror on all fronts including the cyber dimension.' A source with the Palestinian militant group told the BBC that Egyptian intelligence officials had made 'intensive contacts' with its leaders and 'succeeded in reaching a new truce between . Hamas and Israel, and that the ceasefire agreement was to be announced . within hours'. Israel did not comment on the claims, but the killing has been widely condemned by its leaders. Israeli . prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to calm the situation, . condemning Abu Khdeir's killing and vowing to find the attackers. 'We . don't know yet the motives or the identities of the perpetrators, but . we will. We will bring to justice the criminals responsible for this . despicable crime whoever they may be,' Netanyahu said in a speech . celebrating US Independence Day at the American Embassy in Tel Aviv. 'Murder, riots, incitement, vigilantism, they have no place in our . democracy.' Meanwhile, CCTV footage allegedly showing Mohammed Abu Khder's kidnap in broad daylight from outside a cafe has emerged. The . grainy black-and-white video - filmed from a shop's camera across the . street - appears to show the 16-year-old sitting outside a shop when a . light-coloured car drives past. It . then reverses up the street and out of frame before two men approach . the boy. They appear to have a conversation before a struggle ensues, . the car returns and the boy is bundled inside. It then drives off. Protests . broke out in a few areas after Muslim prayers, police said. Hundreds of . Palestinians threw rocks at police who responded with stun grenades, . police said. There were also . disturbances at the most sensitive holy site in Jerusalem when some . Palestinians threw rocks there after prayers. There were no immediate . reports of injuries. The . hilltop compound is revered by Jews as the Temple Mount, where the two . biblical Jewish Temples stood. It is sacred to Muslims as the Haram . as-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, marking the place where they believe the . Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven. On the main road in Shuafat, streets and light rail tracks remained covered in charred debris, rocks and large garbage cans. Already . tense Israeli-Palestinian relations increased after three Israeli . teenagers, one of which had American citizenship, were abducted in the . West Bank on June 12, sparking a massive manhunt that ended with the . discovery of their bodies early this week. Conflict: . Light bombs are seen following an Israel airstrike over Gaza City in . the early hours of this morning. The raids are in response to rockets . fired from the area - one of which struck a house in southern Israel . Many believe he was killed in revenge for the abduction and murder in the occupied West Bank last month of three Israeli teenagers, Naftali Frenkel (left), 16, Gilad Shaar (centre), 16, and Eyal Yifrah (right) , 19, whose bodies were found on Monday . Israel . blamed Hamas for the abductions. Hamas, which has abducted Israelis . before, praised the kidnapping of the teens but did not take . responsibility for it. Israel launched a massive crackdown on the Islamic militant group in the West Bank after the disappearance. Rocket attacks from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Israel intensified and drew Israeli airstrikes. The . military says Palestinian militants have fired some 140 rockets at . southern Israel in recent weeks. The air force responded with airstrikes . on about 70 targets in Gaza, the military said. The . border area was calmer on Friday morning but attacks from Gaza . continued. Palestinian militants fired at least 6 rockets and mortars at . Israel, two of which exploded prematurely inside Gaza, the military . said.

Mohammed Abu Khder, 16, was kidnapped and found dead Wednesday . Tensions running high between Israel and Palestine after 2 days of violence . Thousands of police deployed in east Jerusalem in order to 'keep security' Four rockets fired on Israel this morning with at least 2 hitting open ground . CCTV footage emerges allegedly showing Mohammed being bundled into car .

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(CNN) -- Former New Jersey Nets star Jayson Williams was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday for the fatal shooting of his limo driver in 2002. Williams tearfully apologized to the family of Costas "Gus" Christofi during his sentencing hearing Tuesday morning. "There's not a day I wake up and I don't feel sorry for what I did to Mr. Christofi," Williams said. He pleaded guilty last month to aggravated assault in the 2002 shooting death of Christofi, a limo driver he had hired. Under the plea deal, Williams could have been sentenced to anywhere from 18 months without the possibility of parole to five years in prison. Williams, who turned 42 on Monday, appeared before Somerset County Superior Court Judge Edward Coleman. After sentencing, he will be taken to the Central Reception and Assignment Facility in Trenton, New Jersey, said Corrections Department spokeswoman Deirdre Fedkenheuer. There, over the course of several weeks, he will be photographed, DNA samples will be taken, and he will be given medical, dental, psychological and educational evaluations, she said. Only afterward will a decision be made about where to send him, she said. Williams waived his right to appeal. In return, the state changed the indictment from a charge of reckless manslaughter to a charge of aggravated assault by recklessly causing bodily injury to another with a deadly weapon. Prosecutors said in January they would recommend Williams be sentenced to five years in prison on four charges of attempting to cover up the fatal shooting. A jury convicted him of those charges in 2004. Though he was acquitted of more serious counts -- tampering with a witness, tampering with evidence, fabricating evidence and hindering apprehension or prosecution -- the jury was unable to reach a decision on the second count of reckless manslaughter. Coleman declared a mistrial on that count, and the state had decided to move forward with a retrial on that charge when the plea deal was struck. Williams will serve his sentence concurrently with the 18-month sentence for aggravated assault. Last year, the state attorney general took the case from the Hunterdon County, New Jersey, prosecutor. A spokesman for the attorney general cited a gag order in declining to discuss the case. Williams has been free on $250,000 bail with the condition that he not consume alcohol and that he check in daily with probation officers. The condition that he refrain from alcohol was imposed soon after Williams was charged with drunken driving in early January after crashing his SUV in Manhattan. A New York judge ordered him to wear an electronic bracelet that monitors perspiration to detect whether alcohol has been consumed. The fatal shooting occurred February 14, 2002, in the bedroom of Williams' New Jersey estate. The 55-year-old driver had been hired to drive the former athlete and several of his friends to dinner following a sporting event in Pennsylvania. Afterward, the group, including four members of the Harlem Globetrotters, went back to Williams' home. The prosecution contended that Williams was recklessly handling a 12-gauge shotgun when it discharged and that he and two others tried to make it look as if Christofi had shot himself. In January 2003, Williams paid Christofi's family $2.75 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit. Williams, who retired in 1999 because of a leg injury, played nine seasons with the Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Nets.

Judge gives Williams maximum for aggravated assault in shooting death . Ex-Net accidentally shot limo driver in 2002, was accused of cover-up attempt . Former player offers tearful apology to victim's family . Williams also faces a drunken driving charge from car accident last month .

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(CNN) -- This World Cup is no protector of reputations. Nor is it anything other than steadfast in its refusal to reveal any clear favorite to hoist the 20th incarnation of football's prime feast. Argentina certainly counts as one of a pool of nations capable of capturing glory, but its performances so far have shown a worrying brittleness. Still, it just keeps on winning and can now look forward to a last eight clash with either the United States or Belgium. The latest side to come close to toppling La Albiceleste was Switzerland, but just like Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iran and Nigeria before them, one moment of magic was all that separated the two in Tuesday's penultimate last-16 clash. With the contest a matter of seconds away from penalties, the decisive blow was conjured between two men who operate at opposite ends of Spain's fiercest rivalry. Lionel Messi, of Barcelona, drove deep into Swiss territory and swept the ball wide for Real Madrid's Angel Di Maria, who stroked confidently into the corner. Yet there was still more agony for Switzerland to endure. With even its goalkeeper playing as a striker, a point-blank header from Blerim Dzemaili crashed against the post before squirming wide in the 122nd minute. Argentina's fevered reaction upon the final whistle underscored a palpable sense of relief that its bandwagon continues to edge closer to a first triumph since 1986. "I was nervous towards the end because we couldn't score and any mistake could have knocked us out," Argentina captain Messi told a press conference. "The minutes were passing by and we didn't want the match to go to penalties. We were suffering, but we had a special play, I passed to Angel and now we can celebrate." With Switzerland keen to limit any slice of space for Argentina's array of attacking talent to operate in, the opening stages of the game in Sao Paulo were predictably tight. There was a glimpse of goal for Messi a little under the quarter hour mark but his stabbed cross-shot was pocketed by Swiss goalkeeper Diego Benaglio. Once the contest had settled into a pattern, Argentina's failure to engage an powerful offensive arsenal afforded Switzerland a growing confidence which reflected in its play. The game's first gilt-edged opening arrived on 28 minutes, and it was one carved out by two players who operate in Germany's Bundesliga. Bayern Munich star Xherdan Shaqiri found midfielder Granit Xhaka, who plays for Borussia Mönchengladbach, with a pullback but his low, powerful drive was repelled by Sergio Romero. Paris Saint-Germain star Ezequiel Lavezzi tested Benaglio from striker Gonzalo Higuain's knockdown as Argentina looked to reassert its dominance. Shaqiri was again the provider when a sharp counter attack released Josip Drmic in on goal. With Romero caught in two minds whether to hunt down the through ball, the Bayer Leverkusen striker looked to take advantage with a chip but got the execution horribly wrong. Argentina's stopper continued to look uncertain after the interval as he spilled a Shaqiri free kick from range and had to scramble to prevent the ball from escaping his penalty area. As the hour mark loomed Argentina rediscovered a glimmer of its attacking brio, with Switzerland forced to retreat further and further towards its own goal. As red-shirted legs became heavy La Albiceleste pressed for the breakthrough and Benaglio was prompted into action when Marcos Rojo's attempted cross crept towards the net. Higuain then rose highest to power a header towards goal but Benaglio was alert to acrobatically divert the Napoli striker's effort over the bar. Perhaps inspired by the goal of the tournament so far -- James Rodriguez's explosive volley in Colombia's last-16 win over Uruguay -- Messi attempted his own, firing narrowly over the bar. It looked as though Messi's moment had arrived on 78 minutes as he picked up the ball on the edge of the box and jinked onto his wand of a left foot. But just as the thousands of Argentina fans inside the stadium prepared to hail their saviour once more, Benaglio flung out his right hand to make a superb save and ensure the game remained goalless. As Algeria had done the previous evening, Switzerland burrowed away with the prospect of an extra half an hour the prize at the end of a long, weary tunnel. And despite a few nervous moments, when the right weight of pass or split second decision could have fashioned a late winner, the Swiss saw it through to the end of 90 minutes. The extra half hour continued in the same vain, the Swiss content to soak up pressure in a congested final third and look for counter attacking opportunities. Benaglio was called upon to save from a glancing header from Rodrigo Palacio while Messi was lucky to escape a booking after a tangle with Valon Behrami. Di Maria, who enjoyed such a stellar end of season with European Champions League winners Real Madrid, cut a profligate figure through the game, but tested Benaglio with a stinging drive from range. And his big moment would arrive, as so many of Argentina's have, via the boots of Messi. The three-time FIFA Ballon d'Or winner drove towards a flagging Swiss defense before offloading to Di Maria, whose precise finish back across Benaglio found the far corner. That sparked delirium among the hordes of traveling Argentina fans but its side's leaky rearguard almost offered up another twist in the game's dying stages. With Benaglio installed as center forward, a succession of crosses flowed into Argentina's penalty area. From one, midfielder Blerim Dzemaili found himself unmarked and five yards from goal when the ball arrived at his eye level. But his header cannoned off the post with Romero stranded and struck him once more, only for the ball to trickle wide of the upright. Shaqiri then won a free kick right on the edge of the penalty area as nerves at both ends shredded yet further, but once the wall had repelled his effort the final whistle sounded. Coach Alejandro Sabella stuck to the classic football adage of taking one game at a time. "Our dream is only to work for the next match and try to move onto the semifinals," he said. "We do not look beyond that. To do so would be a mistake as we have already seen good teams like Spain, Uruguay, Italy and England have gone out." Argentina limps on, but winning ugly won't matter a jot to its players or fans should a first World Cup in 24 years result from it.

Angel Di Maria strikes deep in extra time as Argentina defeat Switzerland 1-0 . The Real Madrid star scores from Lionel Messi's cute through ball . Argentina were far from their best but continue to march on in Brazil . They will meet the United States or Brazil in the quarterfinal .

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Editor's note: Hank Sheinkopf, a CNN contributor, is a longtime political consultant who was a member of the media team for President Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign. Sheinkopf was a media consultant for Eliot Spitzer's campaign for New York attorney general in 1998 and has represented candidates around the country and the world. He represented Rep. Steve Israel, a Democrat whose name has been mentioned for the New York senate seat, in 2000, but hasn't had a business relationship with him since. Sheinkopf, who also represents corporate clients, does not represent any of the other politicians whose names have been mentioned for the Senate seat. For a rival view, read here. Hank Sheinkopf says Caroline Kennedy hasn't earned the nod for a Senate seat from New York. NEW YORK (CNN) -- Judging by the screaming newspaper headlines and the steamy ecstasy of the gossip columns, people from other worlds might presume that it has already come to pass: that a woman who happens to be named Caroline Kennedy was pole-vaulted above the crowd and sent with magic wand and golden slippers to the U.S. Senate from New York, in the hope of saving the Empire State and bringing goodness to all its inhabitants. After all, why shouldn't she be sent to the Senate? Her unique experience of writing a book or two, smiling well, appearing from time to time -- but not too often -- at city mayoral news conferences announcing help for those who attend New York City public schools -- and, well, just being a Kennedy -- should suffice. Her social standing alone, some might argue, would give her the advantage of all advantages. A Kennedy. Camelot. Ah! The greatness of it all? Not. The man who has to make the decision whether or not New York is to be so vaunted in representation is Gov. David Paterson, the former lieutenant governor who had the fortune of replacing morally triangulated Gov. Eliot Spitzer after Spitzer's resignation in the face of a publicly humiliating sex scandal. Paterson will have to face the voters in 2010. So will his pick to fill the seat that will be left vacant after Hillary Clinton is confirmed as secretary of state in early 2009. The governor's poll numbers suggest that voters like him. Paterson has taken a tack much unexpected by challenging all to tighten belts, cut spending, pay more fees to the state and get rid of waste after Wall Street's collapse and the subsequent free fall in tax collections from the financial services business. Paterson could have a tough time. Voters don't like losing money, they hate losing services, and all the earnest explanations about fighting the good fight together won't put better food on the table or pay the bills. He needs someone who can help him win, and he needs someone who can win. He and the senator he chooses will both face the voters together. With that in mind, is Caroline Kennedy the correct choice? On the issues of the day, Kennedy has been mighty silent. Financial cretins stealing for fun, profit and because they can? Not a word. The wars? Syllable-less. Millions of humans evaporated in Africa's inner madness? Quiet and silent. The auto bailout? Nada. The printing of a trillion soon-to-be inflated dollars that will further sap our savings? On such matters, Kennedy remains absolutely silent. What about the destruction of the economy of western New York? Does she know that there is a deeply pained world beyond the Westchester County border just a bit north of New York City that benefited little from some fairy-tale place called Camelot and less from well-orchestrated and timed public relations campaigns afforded only by the rich? Why should Caroline Kennedy be named a U.S. senator? Is it because merit no longer matters? Surely, Kennedy offers the dazzle of an unmistakable surname and the kind of celebrity appeal that seems to follow members of the New York social elite. But for the white ethnics who gave their vote to Democrats on the promise of fairness and merit, Kennedy's star quality may not suffice. The simple fact is that if the governor passes on other options -- candidates, many of whom serve in Congress and have earned their right to represent New York -- then he does so at his own risk. In 1964, Robert Kennedy wanted then-Sen. Kenneth Keating's job so badly that he ran for office. President Lyndon Johnson's landslide victory in New York helped Kennedy win the election, but not before the challenger ran a campaign that made its appeal to voters and proved worthy. His niece has done neither. If Kennedy wants to be New York's junior senator, she should stand in line and run for office in 2010. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Hank Sheinkopf.

Hank Sheinkopf: Some treating Caroline Kennedy's Senate bid as a done deal . He says Kennedy hasn't been vocal on many of the key issues we face . Sheinkopf: What qualifies Kennedy to be given priority for the vacant seat? He says Gov. Paterson has to worry about facing voters in 2010 .

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(CNN) -- Boy howdy, does the CNN Living team love a house tour! There's just something captivating about walking through a beautiful house, being inspired by design choices and seeing the personal treasures that make a home. And what better place to start a home tour than the front door? Starting this week, we're selecting user-submitted photos for the CNN iReport Open House Project. For our debut tour, we've chosen "front porches." Each week, we'll feature a different area of the home and learn how homeowners create beautiful spaces. Next week: foyers. Do you have a grand, eclectic or otherwise unique foyer? Submit a photo for the gallery at CNN iReport! See more iReport galleries: travel photos, otherworldly landscapes .

CNN Living is starting a weekly house tour with user-submitted photos . This week, we're featuring lovely front porches . Foyers are up next week, so send in photos!

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By . Craig Hope . Follow @CraigHope_DM . Hatem Ben Arfa will be used by Newcastle United as a makeweight in their attempt to sign Lyon’s Alexandre Lacazette. The Magpies have been pursuing the 23-year-old striker all summer but have so far failed to reach an agreement with his club, while there has also been suggestion the player prefers Champions League football. But sources in France say the two-times capped Lacazette could yet be open to a move to the Premier League and St James’ Park. Waving goodbye? Hatem Ben Arfa is set to be offered to Lyon as part of a loan deal with the Toon keen on signing Alexandre Lacazette from the French club . VIDEO Newcastle have greater attacking threat - Pardew . United have been encouraged by this and will offer Ben Arfa as bait. He started his career at the Ligue 1 club before moving to Marseille and then Tyneside and the forward’s camp have indicated he would jump at the chance of a return. Ben Arfa is training with the reserves at present after manager Alan Pardew criticised his ‘professionalism’ and it is thought there is no possibility of a reprieve. Newcastle would have to pay a portion of the 27-year-old’s £50,000-per-week wages should he join Lyon on loan, while a fee of around £15million has been quoted for pacey frontman Lacazette, who scored 23 times last season. Heading for the Toon? Lacazette is open to a move to St James' Park despite preferring the Champions League .

Hatem Ben Arfa to be offered as bait to Lyon in loan deal . Newcastle want to sign £15million rated Alexandre Lacazette . Striker open to St James' Park move despite favouring Champions League . Ben Arfa training with reserves after boss Alan Pardew slammed lack of professionalism .

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By . Corey Charlton . Doctor Zyad Younan claims he was drugged during his visits to the strip club but the company is refusing to drop its claim for his $135,000 bill . A strip club is continuing its lawsuit against a wealthy doctor to try and settle his massive $135,000 bill, despite police claims he was the victim of a gang of strippers who drugged and scammed at least $200,000 from their victims. Police recently arrested a crew of New York City strippers who they say were spiking wealthy men's drinks before dragging them to strip clubs to rack up enormous charges on their credit cards. Now a strip club at the centre of the offending is refusing to drop its lawsuit against Dr. Zyad Younan for a massive bill he incurred. The New York Post reported the strip club Scores' attorney Alison Blaine as saying Dr. Younan's big spending was voluntary. 'He was at the club three times. He was drugged three times?,' she said. Drug . Enforcement Administration and New York Police Department investigators . recently arrested four women: Samantha Barbash, Roselyn Keo, Karina Pacsucci and . Marsi Rosen, on charges including grand larceny, assault and forgery in . relation to the scam. Dr Younan is just one of four victims, which also includes a banker, a lawyer and a real estate attorney, to be plied with ecstasy, cocaine and prescription drugs and then taken to Scores in Manhattan and the RoadHouse NYC Gentleman’s Club in Queens. Once there the women would whisk the intoxicated men away for private dances and then take away their credit cards while they were too wasted to stop it. Busted: Samantha Barbash, is escorted by law enforcement officers following her arrest in New York. Barbash is allegedly part of a crew of New York City strippers who scammed wealthy men by drugging them and running up extravagant bills at topless clubs while they were in a daze . Charged: Karina Pascucci arrives in court on Tuesday night after being charged in connection with a scam involving exotic dancers in New York City . Carmine Vitolo, a manager at the Roadhouse was also charged with conspiracy, grand larceny and tampering with physical evidence. According to court papers, the strippers would prowl bars in Manhattan and Long Island for their victims over a four month period beginning in September 2013. The roundup followed an undercover investigation that found that the women joined in a scheme to rip off the men by drugging them with Molly, a powerful powder form of ecstasy after arranging to meet them on 'dates'. According to court papers, Samantha Barbash was the ring-leader along with Roselyn Keo. Barbash’s attorney, Stephen Murphy, has said his client denies the charges. Ruthless: Samantha Barbash is allegedly the leader of a gang of strippers who have stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars from wealthy male clients in New York City . Destination: This is Scores gentlemen's club in Manhattan - one of the destination for the women after they allegedly drugged their victims . Once they had given their victims the drugs the women then took the men to the clubs and brought the inebriated men to private rooms for dances and then stole their cards and racked up huge charges. The strippers falsely authorized tens of thousands of dollars to the victims' cards by forging their signatures and making them believe they were being charged for a lower amount. 'These individuals targeted and isolated victims in order to illegally obtain access to their credit cards and thousands of dollars of credit,' said Police Commissioner Bill Bratton. 'Thanks to the hard work of the investigators and prosecutors in this case, these individuals will no longer be in a position to profit from this type of fraudulent activity.' Also charged: Marsi Rosen is also charged with being part of a crime ring of strippers who have allegedly stolen at least $200,000 from wealthy New York City men . Exotic: This is the RoadHouse Gentlemen's Club in Queens - another favorite destination of the strippers . Indeed, in some cases the strippers took photos and videoed the men in compromising sexual positions with women and men and threatened to blackmail them. The three other unidentified victims were all allegedly conned for a total of $55,000. Special . Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan said the scam 'involved not only . the theft of $200,000, but compromised the health, safety and security . of victims by covertly giving them harmful substances.'

Club will not withdraw lawsuit against New Jersey doctor Zyad Younan, who was a victim of credit card scam, racking up a bill of $135,000 . Group of strippers facing charges of grand larceny, assault and forgery for allegedly drugging victims then taking their credit cards at strip clubs . Police said the group would ply their victims with drugs and take them to Scores in Manhattan and RoadHouse NYC Gentlemen's Club in Queens .

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Jessica Ennis-Hill is hoping to compete at next summer's World Championships as she builds up her conditioning to defend her Olympic title in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. The 28-year-old won gold at London 2012 but missed the Moscow World Championships the following year due to injury and sat out the entire 2014 season due to the birth of son Reggie, who arrived in July. But she is now back in full training and is aiming to get back up to speed to compete in Beijing next summer. Jessica Ennis-Hill is targeting the 2015 Beijing World Championships as she bids to regain full fitness . 'It's amazing being a mum,' she told Sky Sports News HQ. 'I'm loving every minute of it and it's great now I can get back on the track. It's definitely a busy time ahead, with lots to juggle. 'At the moment it's just about taking small steps but I'm hoping to compete again next summer. The World Championships in Beijing is a realistic aim and would be great. 'But the main aim is the Rio Olympics, that's where I want to be back at the top of my game.' Kim Clijsters won the Australian Open title just 18 months after giving birth to her first child and Jo Pavey claimed European gold in the 10,000 metres this summer just 10 months after having her second. Ennis-Hill gave birth to her son, Reggie, the year after winning gold at the London Olympics in 2012 . And while Ennis-Hill admits she will have to manage her body carefully, she describes the prospect of returning to win a second gold after having a child as a 'fairytale'. 'I'm hoping to get a really good qualifying score for the Rio Games and take it from there, but I'm not pushing things too soon,' she said. 'There are lots of things to be careful about. My body has been through so much so it's all about taking small steps and listening to my physio Alison Rose. 'Even though I was training during my pregnancy it was nowhere near the level I'm training at now. It's about doing the rehab stuff and building back up as strong as I can. It's a bit like getting back on a bike again. 'But it would be incredible to be able to step away from my sport, have a baby, and then come back to win another Olympic gold medal - it would be a fairytale.' Following the birth of her son, Ennis-Hill missed the 2013 World Championships and entire 2014 season .

Jessica Ennis-Hill won gold at London 2012 Olympics . But 28-year-old missed 2013 World Championships and whole 2014 season . Ennis-Hill missed the season due to the birth of her son Reggie . British athlete is targeting 2015 World Championships in Beijing . Ennis-Hill said her main aim is defending her crown at Rio 2016 .

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By . Stuart Woledge . PUBLISHED: . 05:04 EST, 14 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:19 EST, 14 August 2013 . Soft drinks giant Red Bull has accused a little-known UK microbrewery of infringing its trademark and has demanded it change its name. The energy drinks firm has sent Norwich-based Redwell Brewing - which only started trading in October and employs just eight staff - a threatening letter insisting it could not use the word 'red' because it owned the trademark. The Austrian company also objected to the second part of the name 'well' because it ends with the same two letters as 'bull'. Scroll down for video . Redwell Brewery: The directors of the microbrewery in Norwich, left to right Amy Hancock, Patrick Fisher, Benjamin Thompson and Michael Baxter . The stage has been set for a classic David Vs Goliath battle as Redwell looks to defend its name against a firm that employs 9,000 people, turned over €4.25 billion last year, and whose products are sold in 161 different countries. Finance director Benjamin Thompson . said: 'It's quite worrying. The reason for their response to our . trademark is ridiculous really. 'Their . stance is completely unfair and unreasonable. It's quite concerning . when you've got a massive company trying to get you to do something you . shouldn't have to do. 'Our brands are completely different and we're not trying to infringe their brand in any way.' Newcomer: The brewery only started trading in October . The trouble flared up about two months ago when Redwell applied to trademark its name. Red Bull was alerted to the matter and brand . enforcement manager Hansjorg Jeserznik wrote to the owners of the small . brewery in Bracondale near County Hall ordering them to withdraw the . application. In the letter, Mr Jeserznik, accused Redwell's application . of compromising Red Bull's earlier trademark 'red' which would confuse the public. His letter read: 'Furthermore the term "bull" and the term "well" share the same ending and just differ in two letters. 'The ending "ll" is identical and . therefore the terms Red Bull and Redwell are confusingly similar from a . visual as well from a phonetical point of view.' He added: 'Consumers ... will . easily consider the sign "Redwell" as a line extension under "Red Bull", . in particular that the goods and services offered under "Redwell" and . "Red Bull" are coming from the same undertaking. 'The consumer will thus be confused as to the origin of the services.' Threatening legal action unless Redwell obeyed its demand, Mr Jeserznik argued that the trademark would 'take unfair advantage of, dilute and . tarnish the Red Bull trademarks'. Redwell Brewing was founded by directors Patrick Fisher, Benjamin Thompson, Michael Baxter and Amy Hancock. And they have vowed to fight the global firm, saying they have already ratcheted up 'thousands of pounds' in legal fees. Mr Thompson said: 'We called ourselves Redwell after Redwell Street in Norwich. It was not just some random name we picked out of thin air. Cheers: Mr Thompson and Ms Hancock raise a glass despite legal worries brought on by global giant Red Bull . 'Patrick and Amy are part-owners of the Norwich Tap House in Redwell Street, and our beers are sold there. 'The name of Red Bull never came up . at all when we were discussing what to call the brewery. I cannot see . that there would be any confusion between Red Bull and Redwell. 'For a start, Red Bull is two words and Redwell is one, and then the second words are different. We are different names, brands, designs and products.' Mr Thompson explained after some . initial legal wrangling, Red Bull agreed to let them keep using the . name Redwell on its existing products, but demanded any new lines it . introduces and branding such as T-shirts be given a different name. What's in a name: The firm are refusing to rebrand and say they have already clocked up thousands of pounds in legal fees . He added: 'A lot of hard work has gone into developing our brand. The design on our bottles and other merchandise was created by third year graphic designers at Norwich University of the Arts. 'It would be catastrophic for us now to have to go back to the drawing board to find another name.' Mr Fisher said: 'It seems like an over-the-top reaction. As a small, innovative brewery, it's quite worrying to have this thing hanging over our heads, when we are looking to move the business forward. Redwell supplies craft beer to pubs . in Norwich and London and is expanding to sell across the country to . Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle and Manchester. It produces 3,000 litres of beer every week, has been selling beer for about five months, and employs eight people. Confusion: Redwell say Red Bull never even crossed their minds when they were devising their name, and their name was taken from the street where they also run a pub . It claims to be the first brewery to brew its own lager in Norwich for more than 30 years. Founded in 1984, Red Bull employed 8,966 people in 165 countries by the end of last year as its top product rules and dominates the global energy drinks industry. Mr Thompson said they had now replied to Red Bull's request and were trying hard to find a reasonable solution without giving up their name. A Red Bull spokesman said the company did not comment on pending cases.

Red Bull has demanded a tiny brewery called Redwell change its name . The global giant trademarked the word 'red' and has cried infringement . But the brewery is fighting back and branded Red Bull's claim 'ridiculous' They say they have already spent 'thousands of pounds' in legal fees .

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By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 06:42 EST, 7 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 12:59 EST, 7 November 2012 . A female vicar has been banned from the road - after she was repeatedly caught speeding as she drove 'like a bat out of hell' while rushing to see her parishioners. Rev Lynn Busfield, 51, was caught driving her Peugeot 206 at 42mph in a 30mph zone as she frantically tried to visit worshippers in the 16 parishes she covers in Worcestershire. She was slapped with an automatic six month ban after the four penalty points pushed her over the 12 points maximum. Dedicated: Rev Lynn Busfield has been banned from the road after she was repeatedly caught speeding as she drove 'like a bat out of hell' to see her parishioners . Busy: Busfield is the vicar for the four Worcestershire parishes of Peopleton, Broughton Hackett, White Ladies Aston (pictured) and Upton Snodsbury and is associate priest to a further 12 churches . Dashing: Busfield was caught speeding between Pershore and Peopleton (above). She has been travelling between 16 parishes to meet members of her congregation. The red dots show the location of some of her churches near Worcester. She was also fined £300. But the much loved vicar has the 'full support' of her flock, with her dedicated congregation vowing to 'ferry her around'. Worcester Magistrates Court heard Busfield had a string of speeding convictions and was only spared a ban in September 2011 when a judge heard it would cause 'exceptional hardship' to her church work. Busfield is the vicar for the four Worcestershire parishes of Peopleton, Broughton Hackett, White Ladies Aston and Upton Snodsbury and is associate priest to a further 12 churches. She admitted speeding on the A4104 Station Road in Pershore, Worcestershire, on February 8 this year when she appeared at court on Monday. A Peugeot 206, believed to belong to Reverend Lynn Busfield parked on the drive of her home in Peopleton, Worcestershire today . String of convictions: In her latest offence, Busfield was caught driving her Peugeot 206 at 42mph in a 30mph zone . When magistrates asked her if a driving ban would affect her ability to do her job, Busfield replied: 'I cannot speak for the diocese. 'But I would hope that the knock-on effect would make them consider the sensibleness of appointing a priest to cover 16 parishes.' She added that she would have to fork out on taxis to take her around her patch because there was no public transport available. Speaking after the hearing, Busfield said: 'I am very embarrassed about the whole situation, but the disqualification was a fair outcome for my speeding offences (all between 38-48mph) and my morning in court will certainly ensure that in the future I will be more aware of the speed limit of the road on which I am driving. Exceeding the limit: The A4104 Station Road in Pershore, Worcestershire where Reverend Lynn Busfield was most recently caught speeding . 'I will be making every effort to fulfil all my parish commitments through a mixture of taxis, lifts and bicycle and I am fortunate that my parishes, the hospitals and crematorium are all within a relatively small area of Worcestershire.' One parishioner in Peopleton, Worcestershire, who did not want to be named, said: 'Lynn Busfield is a wonderful vicar and we are truly blessed to have her working so hard for us. 'She is devoted to her flock but in order to fulfil all her duties she is known for driving like a bat out of hell around the narrow country roads to avoid being late for appointments. 'I myself will be only too glad to ferry her around whenever I can.'

Rev Lynn Busfield already had a string of speeding convictions . The 'dedicated vicar' clocked up speeds of between 38-42mph as she dashed between appointments .

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(Parenting.com) -- My mother gave birth to my older brother in a hospital in Malawi in rural East Africa, where she and my dad were in the Peace Corps. Then she ran herself a hot bath and shared a bowl of curry with her neighbor. When she had me, two and a half years later, she chose a freestanding birthing center, 45 minutes from our house in upstate New York, where I popped out after two hours of labor and only a couple of pushes. She went home a few hours later. Both of these birth experiences, she always said, were joyous, easy and free of angst -- there was no medical establishment pressuring her to give birth in a particular way, or in a particular time frame. So when she started hearing about how most people give birth in America today -- the C-section rate is around 34% and medical interventions are practically par for the course -- she thought perhaps America had lost sight of the best ways to have babies. Surely, she thought, other countries and cultures know better how to handle this most basic human experience. "I assumed there would be a better model in the developing world, based on my experience in Malawi," my mother, Helaine Selin, told me, "a more humane and mother-friendly way of giving birth." She set out to find how women give birth in the non-Western world, which culminated in a book she edited called "Childbirth Across Cultures: Ideas and Practices of Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Postpartum." What she discovered deeply surprised her ... and not necessarily in a good way. Parenting: 12-year-old gives birth on field trip . Many cultures and countries had either replicated the American way of birth -- we have exported the C-section model to many remote regions -- or they have clung to traditional methods that are, at best, disrespectful of women; at worst, the methods are downright dangerous. All around the world, she found, childbirth is a battlefield, and women have to fight everyone from surgeons to mothers-in-law for control over their bodies and their births. Traditional childbirth: womanly ways aren't always safe . Some 536,000 maternal deaths occur each year, 99% of them in developing countries. Childbirth in countries that haven't modernized the birth experience is still very much women's work, attended mostly by women who aren't always trained in modern methods of hygiene. While the camaraderie of women in childbirth is commendable, even enviable, childbirth in these places can be oppressive, and many mothers are denied choices, or even harassed, during labor. Nepalese women, for instance, are sometimes pressured to push the baby out before their bodies are ready. Hmong women must give birth alone, without expressing any pain or discomfort, as do women in Nigeria; one in 18 die during the process. Tibetan women often give birth in animal pens. If Bangladeshi women give birth in a hospital, they're often berated by the staff and prevented from reciting religious verses that they traditionally use as a source of comfort and pain management. Women in Uganda and Bangladesh are looked down upon for expressing the pain of childbirth, which usually happens at home. Korean women are discouraged from getting pain medication but often have episiotomies forced on them. Few developing countries have health insurance that covers the cost of childbirth; even if a poor woman wanted a safe birth in a medical facility, she probably couldn't afford it, or even the cost of transportation to get there. The book reveals that in countries without good health insurance and without good medical facilities, hospital birth is not necessarily any safer than home birth; both arenas leave much to be desired. Parenting: 9 things you should never say to your child . The American way of birth: C-sections as status births . While traditional childbirth in many cultures left much to be desired, my mother was just as surprised to find a second trend. Many cultures that had unique and non-medical approaches to birth even five or 10 years ago have replicated American-style births. "The American way of birth is spreading around the world the way blue jeans and Coca-Cola have," she writes. In more developed parts of Asia, especially, the tradition of home birth -- attended by midwives and relatives -- has either disappeared or is only engaged in by the poorest and most rural of women. Almost all women in China, Japan and Korea now give birth in hospitals. In the more urbane parts of China, C-sections are considered highly desirable, a sign of status and wealth; some hospitals have C-section rates as high as 90%. The end of joy in childbirth? Many wouldn't consider this an inherent problem. After all, along with the exportation of American biotechnological birth, and the rise of C-sections, we've seen dramatic decreases in infant and maternal mortality rates. That's probably not because of C-sections -- infant mortality rates from voluntary C-sections are higher than they are for vaginal births -- but because of improved health care and international strides to improve the safety of childbirth around the world. The problem, as my mother sees it, is that making childbirth a medical experience detracts from it as an emotional experience. "We have given up the ecstasy of childbirth for a sterile, safe, vacant experience," she writes. The joy is gone, and replaced with technology. Parenting: Totally ridiculous baby products . War of the births . Women who have had C-sections might argue with her: mothers love their babies no matter how they gave birth to them, and what matters more than an ecstatic childbirth is a healthy child. What might be more serious is the lack of safe conditions in non-Western countries, and the lack of choice. Even with vast improvements in education of traditional birth attendants, and expansion of medical services to rural areas, childbirth is still very much a war all over the world. No matter how you give birth, or where, my mother's book reveals that in almost every culture, people are struggling for dominion over an experience that is almost impossible to control. Wanting that control is understandable, of course, especially when childbirth has been, historically, one of the most dangerous experiences a woman could have. The best births: choices in childbirth . This isn't to say that there aren't exceptions to the rules, or that there aren't countries and cultures where childbirth is both safe and celebrated. The best places to give birth are those where attendants honor the pain and help women through it, giving them the opportunity to have the kind of birth they want. The Navajos have a beautiful, if rare, tradition of home birth, where the mother and father labor together while a traditional healer performs blessings. Western Europe tends to have lower C-section rates and higher breastfeeding rates, and childbirth is usually attended by a midwife -- doctors are called in only if there are true medical complications. Hospitals are mother-friendly, with labor lounges and room for family to aid the mother as she progresses. Where does my mother recommend giving birth? Your best bet, she says, is Sweden, which has homey hospitals, midwife attendants and happy mothers. In Sweden, she says, "they try not to treat childbirth like a disease." Get 2 FREE YEARS of Parenting magazine - Subscribe Now!! Copyright 2011 The Parenting Group. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited.

Countries replicate the American way of birth or continue with traditional methods . 99% of maternal deaths each year occur in developing countries . The focus on medical birthing procedures may distract from its emotional power . Sweden is a standout birthing country .

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(CNN) -- For a while now, crazy situations, hunger pangs and frustrating hours behind the wheel have been making life slightly miserable for Florida commuter Joe Panyanouvong. The attorney who regularly makes the 84-mile journey between Orlando and Tampa on Interstate 4 is ready for a solution. "I have made this trip many times during peak hours for work and leisure. It can feel like a parking lot at times," said Panyanouvong. "During heavy traffic it's taken me as long as 2.5 hours to get from Orlando to Tampa." He recalls one day when -- despite departing Orlando early to get a head start on a business trip -- traffic and farm animals got the best of him near U.S. Route 27 and Interstate 4. A cow had wandered past a fence onto the road, causing tie-ups and headaches. "I ended up missing lunch because of that cow," Panyanouvong said with a laugh. "I don't like missing lunch and I especially don't like getting stuck in traffic due to wandering farm animals or any other reason." For generations, much of the nation has been forced to use cars, buses or pricey aircraft to travel to nearby cities. But this year, Washington opened the door to what may be a historic turning point in regional travel. The Department of Transportation awarded $8 billion among 31 states to begin developing America's first nationwide high-speed intercity passenger rail service. Panyanouvong said he loves the idea of jumping on a train, turning on his computer and getting some work done on his way to Tampa, "without having to worry about traffic or driving." But the idea is much bigger than convenience, say supporters, who believe high-speed intercity rail will cut U.S. dependence on foreign oil, reduce climate-changing pollution and fatten wallets by triggering economic development. Soon, Americans might find themselves rocketing along ribbons of rails at 200 mph in sleek, painted passenger cars -- never stopping until they arrive at destinations awake and refreshed. The federal funding served as a down payment to develop the groundwork for 13 new high-speed rail corridors in the United States, including an Orlando-Tampa route. "High-speed rail in America is long overdue and President Obama understands we can't build the economy of the future on the transportation networks of the past," said Federal Railroad Administrator Joseph Szabo. Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, these new dollars represent a historic investment in the country's transportation infrastructure. It will help create jobs and transform travel in America, according to a U.S. Department of Transportation official. See where the proposed high-speed trains are going . "High-speed rail will also revolutionize the way Americans travel by reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil, lowering harmful carbon emissions, fostering new economic development and giving travelers more choices when it comes to moving around the country," said the official. Despite these promises from the government, high-speed rail comes with its share of opponents, who say it is too expensive and won't save energy. Some even question if it will ever be built. "Even in a strong economy, building high-speed rail makes little sense, offering minimal reductions in travel times at exorbitant costs," said Ronald Utt, who is the Herbert and Joyce Morgan senior research fellow for the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation. "For instance, one has to wonder what exactly motivated the review team to endorse the proposed $1.1 billion investment in the Kansas City-St. Louis-Chicago route, which would allow customers to reach their destinations 10 percent faster than they could by driving between Chicago and St. Louis," said Utt. Utt said the $1.25 billion federal investment in a $3.2 billion project to build a high-speed rail line between Orlando and Tampa would reduce travel time between the two cities to less than one hour, compared to about 90 minutes by car. He said other projects have similar travel time differences. Randal O'Toole, a senior fellow with the CATO Institute, said it is far more cost-effective to save energy by encouraging people to drive more fuel-efficient cars than to build and operate high-speed rail. "Moreover, in places that do generate electricity from renewable sources, it would be more cost-effective to use that electricity to power electric or plug-in hybrid cars than high-speed rail," O'Toole said. "A Department of Energy report adds that boosting train speeds to 110 mph will reduce the energy efficiency of the trains, making them less energy efficient than automobiles." A report from the United States Government Accountability Office also highlights potential issues with high-speed rail plans in the United States. "Passenger rail service, especially services at higher and high speeds, will require new safety rules, constant public capital investment and operating subsidies, and balance with freight rail service and the rest of the national transportation system -- and currently only some of these elements are in place," according to a GAO report. While the recent federal funds may serve as a catalyst for many projects and have generated high public expectations, the planning necessary to meet the many concerns outlined above has not yet occurred, the GAO report said. "Given the funding, I would say that it is fairly likely that at least a few moderate-speed rail projects will eventually be completed," said O'Toole. "But the California high-speed rail project remains fairly unlikely considering that more than three-fourths of its costs are not yet funded. Florida probably has a 50-50 chance of completion since about half its costs are funded." High-speed rail also has many supporters. The United States Conference of Mayors, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and America 2050 -- a coalition of regional planners, scholars and policy-makers -- back high-speed rail plans. The U.S. High Speed Rail Association is also among the supporters. "Experts in the oil industry have been saying for a number of years now that there is not enough oil left in the ground to continue our current level of consumption, not to mention no way to meet growing demand, and we can expect half as much oil available to us in the next 20 years," said Andy Kunz, president and CEO of the rail association. "If we are to continue economic development and prosperity, we will need to greatly reduce our daily oil consumption, and high-speed rail is the only possible solution that can scale up to meet the growing demand of American mobility while greatly reducing our oil consumption," said Kunz. High-speed rail supporters say the industry would stimulate the economy by creating millions of jobs across numerous sectors. "Based on our company's 45 years of experience with high-speed rail in Japan, bringing high-speed rail to the United States will translate into jobs," said Mike Finnegan, an executive with US-Japan High Speed Rail and US-Japan Maglev. "Importantly, these jobs pay well and they cannot be shipped overseas." "The $8 billion investment in high-speed rail for America is just the beginning," said Szabo. "We know that it won't be built overnight, but the federal government is committed to the long-term development of the program. Of course, the Department of Transportation will fund projects that have the best chances to succeed and have instituted rigorous requirements to ensure successful completion of these projects." So if and when high-speed rail does move forward in the United States, how would it be built and what type of technology would be used? The Department of Transportation says funding for the program is "technology neutral" and does not place preference on the type of technologies used to build high-speed trains. Instead, it is allowing states and regions to choose the technology, as well as routes and station locations that meet their needs. Most high-speed rail lines in the United States will be upgraded using existing freight rail rights-of-way, but the project in Florida and portions of California will be built on newly constructed high-speed rail lines, said Nazih Haddad, the chief operating officer for Florida Rail Enterprise. Trains could reach up to 168 mph on Florida's high-speed line. Estimates from the U.S Department of Transportation say speeds could reach up to 220 mph for some portions of California's rail lines, while most other regions would top 110 mph. Maglev train technology, which is popular in many scientific circles around the world for its high speeds, is one mode of high-speed rail that is not catching on in the United States because of its high cost, according to the Department of Transportation and rail industry insiders. Maglev is a train technology in which magnetic forces lift, propel and guide a vehicle over a guideway. It follows guidance tracks with magnets and does not use steel wheels or steel rails usually associated with trains. A well-known high-speed Maglev system operates commercially at Shanghai's Pudong International Airport in China. Its train reaches speeds of 268 mph and is much faster than the high-speed trains proposed in the United States. Japan and Germany also use Maglev train systems. See how the Maglev train works . So what's the time frame? One Department of Transportation report said high-speed rail lines in portions of California may not be completed until 2026. For Joe Panyanouvong and the millions of Americans searching for solutions to "traffic headaches," the answers appear complex and in some cases, highly debatable and costly. Panyanouvong will have to wait until at least 2015 until he has a chance to chuck his car and ride the rails from Orlando to Tampa. Nonetheless, he said he'll be ready. "I would rather keep my 2002 Nissan Maxima at home."

Washington awards $8 billion among 31 states to develop high-speed rail service . Opponents: High-speed rail is expensive, won't save energy . Supporters: Trains would cut pollution, stimulate economy .

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Our most ancient ancestors were battling climate change to survive droughts, freezing and flooding. And now a growing number of scientists believe that shifts in the Earth’s climate are responsible for creating some of our most distinctive characteristics. Their research suggests that large evolutionary leaps, such as the development of our bigger brains and ability to create and use complex tools, coincided with periods of volatile climate change. A growing number of scientists believe that shifts in the Earth’s climate are responsible for creating some of human's most distinctive characteristics such as our big brains and ability to develop tools. This conceptual image shows four stages of human evolution: Australopithecus, Home habilis, Homo erectus and Homo sapien . Peter deMenocal, of Columbia University, admitted to Smithsonian that the scientific theory is currently based on ‘coincidence’ but experts are examining ancient teeth and seafloor sediments to support the idea. The data could help scientists unravel just how climate may have sparked dramatic advances in our evolution and seems to support the idea that big leaps were not driven by our adaptation to one environmental change, but to a series of changes as the environment alternated between wet and dry. Rick Potts, of the Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Programme, said that at least two major evolutionary ‘leaps’ can be linked to climate change. They happened around three million years ago when Australopithecus afarensis  - known as Lucy - became extinct and Homo appeared, with fossils revealing the evolution of a larger brain and the very first tools. The data could help scientists unravel just how climate may have sparked dramatic advances in our evolution and seems to support the idea that big leaps were not driven by our adaptation to one environmental change, but to a series of changes as the environment alternated between wet and dry. A drought is pictured . Dr Maslen of UCL said there are many theories as to why climate change correlates with bursts of human evolution – and any one of them could be correct until more evidence is found. He suggested that humans may have developed larger brains to work out how to feed themselves in times of drought. He also said that conversely, in wet periods when lots of resources were available, females may have been more careful to select the most successful men as partners. John Stewart of Bournemouth University, thinks people moved around the land responding to environmental changes so that populations became isolated and evolved quickly in groups. The other example cited is between two and 1.5 million years ago, when Homo erectus used sophisticated bladed axes, leading to early humans leaving Africa. Dr Potts says that both these events coincide with dramatic shifts in climate when wooded areas turned to grassland as the temperature warmed. He suggests that the change in environment three million years ago led to humans walking upright instead of climbing. Dr deMenocal said samples taken from the sea floor along the coast of Africa show different layers of sediment that are darker in times of drought and light in wet periods. The cores show that every 20,000 years the climate swapped from wet to dry and the effect was very pronounced during the two important periods of early human evolution. Mark Maslin of University College London (UCL) said further evidence can be found in the Great Rift Valley, which runs through Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania. By studying the rock record, he found that lake basins were very sensitive to changes in climate approximately 2.7 million and 1.5 million years ago. Three million years ago Australopithecus afarensis, known as Lucy (a skeleton is pictured left and copy of the skull, right) became extinct and Homo appeared, with fossils revealing the evolution of a larger brain and the very first tools. One expert says the evolutionary leap coincides with 'pulses' in climate change . Dr Maslin said: ‘We found that these particular periods, or “pulses” when the lakes come and go correlate directly with major changes in human evolution. The two records are absolutely compatible.’ Scientists have also looked at our ancestors’ fossilised teeth to understand how their diet changed according with the climate. They found that early humans ate a varied diet, indicating they became flexible to cope with a changing environment. However, the research does not explain why a shifting climate may have triggered evolutionary leaps. Dr Maslin acknowledged any one of many theories could be correct, including the idea that humans had to develop larger brains to work out how to feed themselves in times of drought when nutrients were scarce. He also said that in wet periods when lots of resources were available, females may have been more careful to select the most successful men as partners, leading to smarter and stronger children. John Stewart of Bournemouth University, thinks people moved around the land responding to environmental changes so that populations became isolated and evolved quickly in pockets of the land. Dr Mark Maslin said that rock samples from the Great Rift Valley, which runs through Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania indicate that lake basins were very sensitive to changes in climate approximately 2.7 million and 1.5 million years ago, when a burst of human evolution took place. The lakes still disappear in times of drought and fill up with heavy rainfall today. Here, hippos relax in one of the lakes in Kenya .

Research suggests evolutionary leaps such as the the development of human's big brains, coincided with periods of volatile climate change . Many scientists think the changes shaped our development and are collecting proof from bone and rock records to support their theory . Data could help experts unravel how climate change sparked swift evolutionary development, for example, the use of complex tools by humans . An expert from the Smithsonian Institution claims the change in environment three million years ago led to humans walking upright instead of climbing .

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The father-in-law of the Syrian president urged him to respond to reports of torture made in a shocking Channel 4 documentary, leaked emails revealed yesterday. Dr Fawaz Akhras, a Harley Street cardiologist who lives in London, purportedly sent President Bashar al-Assad an  email warning him about ‘horrible’ images of atrocities which were about to be aired on British television. He suggested that the president should put out a statement saying that the torture footage would be professionally examined and those who are ‘accountable will be prosecuted’. Backing: Dr Fawaz Akhras, left, the father of Syria's First Lady Asma Assad, right, has compared the country's uprising to the London riots and defended the military crackdown . Hacked: Syrian president Bashar Assad and his wife Asma, whose emails were monitored by activists for several months . He is believed to have sent the email to his daughter Asmara and her husband, the president, hours before the Channel 4  documentary, called Syria’s  Torture Machine, was screened on December 19.The programme’s makers had contacted the Syrian embassy in an attempt to get an official response to the claims of mass torture they were about to screen to millions of viewers. Aware of the damage it would do to Syria’s reputation, Dr Akhras wrote in his email: ‘The description of this video is horrible and the embassy were asked to comment but no answer.’ Dr Akhras helped draft a detailed 13-point defence of the military’s actions and suggested launching a state-sponsored English-language news network. The email exchange appears to have been sent on to the Syrian president and his wife, so appearing to confirm the authenticity of a host of messages leaked this week. They showed how Assad’s  British-born-wife went on  shopping sprees while her husband slaughtered thousands in their country. Jokers: Bashar Assad may not have downloaded any Sting or The Police tracks, but it has been revealed he was 'Deeply Dippy' for Right Said Fred . Dr Akhras has been a key  liaison figure between the Syrian and British governments. He is the founder and co-chairman of the British-Syrian Society, set up in 2003. Yesterday Dr Akhras compared the Syrian uprising to London’s riots. When informed that British authorities had not killed any rioters, he replied: ‘We are not as sophisticated as the Metropolitan Police or Scotland Yard.’ An image released allegedly shows a still from footage of two dead men on the floor of a house in the Karm al-Luz neighbourhood in the restive city of Homs . Fighting: Syrian rebels are seen amid smoke after being hit by a tank, unseen, during a day of heavy fighting with Syrian Army forces in Idlib .

Dr Fawaz Akhras said video could be dismissed as 'British propaganda' Emailed Assad article 'which could be some help' in dealing with media . Said Syria should launch English language state news channel . This would help 'address the world in their own language and mentality' Sent risqué jokes, including one about relative penis sizes of world leaders .

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Illuminated in dazzling sea-greens, blues and purples and sculpted into jagged shards, these ice caves certainly do not look of this world. In fact, they are in Russia, and the striking effect is the result of the sun's rays penetrating the glacial ice. Shaped by a hot spring that runs past the volcanoes in the Kamchatka peninsula, the water has created beautiful translucent tunnels. As it melts over the years, the layer of ice has dwindled, producing the otherworldly illuminated effect inside the cave. Planet Earth or Krypton? These ice caves near the Kamchatka volcanoes in far east Russia are illuminated by the sun's rays . Natural art: Water from hot springs sculpt the melting ice and allow outside light to shine through, creating the illuminated effect . Photographer, Sergey Krasnoshchekov, 28, waited until the summer before making the expedition but was worried that parts of the 1km cavern might collapse. Curiosity got the better of the Russian photographer, though, resulting in this extraordinary collection of images. 'The caves are difficult to access as you need special off road vehicles to reach the location,' says Krasnoshchekov. Magical: The caves have been beautifully captured by photographer Sergey Krasnoshchekov . Dedicated: Sergey spent a few days at the remote caves, which require an off-road vehicle to access . 'I spent a couple of days near the caves but not too much time inside. I was afraid the roof might collapse as its so close to an active volcano. 'But it in the end I couldn't resist the opportunity to go and take some pictures and just went for it. 'The colours inside the cave are truly stunning, it feels as if you are in another world when you step inside,' he adds. 'It takes your breath away': Krasnoshchekov reveals that his group were stunned into silence by the jaw-dropping scenes . Fearless: The 28-year-old ignored concerns that the caves may collapse to get the shots . 'There was a stunned silence as we all walked in, the colours are so blue and bold it really takes your breath away. 'The cave looks this way because of the sun rays trying to push through the ice, I have never seen anything like it before. It was very cold inside but I was so caught up in the moment that I barely noticed, in the end I didn't want to leave.' The photographer has also captured volcanic eruptions in the Kamchatka peninsula, which is home to a large cluster of over 100 volcanoes, some of which are included on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Photographer Sergey Krasnoshchekov captured caves in the Kamchatka peninsula, far east Russia . Striking effect is the result of the sun's rays penetrating glacial ice . Melting ice has created translucent tunnels ... but they are now in danger of collapse .

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The killing of a 32-year-old man on the streets of St. Louis with a hammer was savage, random and senseless -- but it was not, that city's mayor said, related to what's been happening in nearby Ferguson, Missouri. The St. Louis metropolitan area remains on edge, a week after a grand jury decided not to indict then-Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of unarmed teen Michael Brown. That decision spurred emotional protests that sometimes devolved into looting and violence, unrest that carried racial overtones given that Wilson is white and Brown was African-American. But any claim that 32-year-old Zemir Begic's brutal killing had anything to do with this Ferguson uproar "is absolutely unfounded," St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay said Monday on Facebook. "There is no evidence that this was a crime occasioned by the race or ethnicity of the victim," Slay wrote in reference to Begic, who was white. The mayor made these comments after meeting with the family of Begic, who was beaten to death a hammer around 1:15 a.m. Sunday on a St. Louis street. "I told them that our city mourned with them," Slay said. "... An innocent life was savagely taken." According to a probable cause statement, Begic, his fiancée and two others heard yelling and then someone jumped on the back of his car. The 32-year-old got out, at which point a teenager -- identified by prosecutors as Robert Mitchell -- taunted Begic and "challenged him to a fight." Then, "all four men began assaulting (Begic), and at least one of them struck (him) with a hammer," the probable cause statement added, noting the attackers continued to beat Begic after he fell to the ground. He was unconscious by the time officers arrived, and pronounced dead after being taken to an area hospital. As to his attackers, police said that, "after the assault, the juveniles fled the scene on foot." Two of them -- juveniles age 15 and 16 -- were arrested later Sunday. A third teen was in custody by Monday, at which point authorities said they were still looking for a fourth suspect. Speaking about the attackers, Mayor Slay wrote on Facebook that "we do not know their past." "Their futures, though, will be as grim as the judicial system can make it," he added. Police will review patrol patterns in the Bevo area, where the attack occurred. Yet Slay scuttled any suggestion that they were somehow to blame. "It is not the police department's fault that no family members had any idea that their young people were on the streets that late," Slay said. "Nor is it the police department's responsibility to educate or even to engage these young people. "That responsibility, a community responsibility, is all of ours."

A 32-year-old man died after being assaulted Sunday by a group, at least 1 with a hammer . Three juveniles have been arrested; police are still looking for a fourth suspect . St. Louis mayor: "No evidence" that victim's race or ethnicity was related to attack . Francis Slay: It isn't the fault of police that suspects' kin didn't know they were out so late .

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It's only been a few weeks since she split from her toyboy pilot lover but Carol Vorderman was all smiles as she became the first woman to be named an honorary ambassador for the Air Cadets. The former Countdown presenter, 53, was welcomed to RAF Syerston near Newark in Nottingham by Air Chief Marshal Sir Andrew Pulford. Ms Vorderman - herself a qualified private pilot - was later unveiled as the only female Group Captain Ambassador in the flying organisation’s 76- year history. Scroll down for video . New appointment: Carol Vorderman has been announced as the new Ambassador for the RAF Air Cadets, RAF Syerston, Nottighamshire . Looking glamorous in her RAF uniform, she laughed and joked as she spoke to several young cadets throughout the morning. Ms Vorderman, who has an MBE for her services to broadcasting, said: 'I am truly honoured to be appointed as an ambassador for the RAF Air Cadets. 'I can’t wait to meet the cadets, and the adult volunteer staff who give so much of their time to support them,' she said. 'The cadets themselves are a shining example of the best of British youngsters, standing with them on a parade square will be a great privilege. 'The Air Cadets is open to all and has squadrons all over the UK. Many are taught to fly gliders even before they get their driving licence. Putting on a brave face: It's only been a few weeks since she split from her toyboy pilot lover but Carol Vorderman was all smiles today as she was honoured . A far cry from Countdown! Carol Vorderman . is the new Ambassador for the RAF Air Cadets and posed in her new uniform to celebrate the occasion . 'They have great fun with many taking part in adventure training, all kinds of sport and the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme. Lots of good engineering and technology practice even allows cadets to learn and achieve BTECs.' She also spoke of her own two children - both of whom are also keen fliers and have been part of the Air Cadets. 'I am the mother of two children who have been either part of Air Cadets or University Air Squadron and they both loved it,' she said. 'This is like coming home. I was studying for an engineering degree at Cambridge in 1978 and desperately wanted to join the RAF as a pilot, but sadly back then they wouldn’t accept women in that position, so after I graduated I went off into another life. 'I finally got my Private Pilot’s Licence last December. Things are very different now and I know a number of incredible female RAF pilots. 'The Air Cadets is an inspiring organisation for young people to join and the RAF is a unique family to be a part of. There will now be two of us at home who are part of the RAF in one way or another.' Happy to be here: Speaking about her accolade, she said: 'I'm looking forward to getting started and working closely with the youths' Brave face: Carol and 'Duffy', as he is known to his friends, met through her charity work with the RAF and were friends for several years before embarking on a relationship in 2012 . One onlooker, whose son was among the cadets, said: 'Carol seemed delighted with the accolade and looked much younger than 53. She’s never looked better and was really enjoying herself. 'You couldn’t wipe the smile off her face and had time for all of the young cadets that wanted to meet her. Considering she’s broken up with her partner recently she seemed in great spirits. 'You think the RAF link would have reopened old wounds, but she was really bubbly. Maybe she was just putting on a brave face.' In September, Ms Vorderman called time on her relationship with with former Red Arrows squadron leader Graham Duff, who is 14 years her junior. The couple were last seen in public as they walked the red carpet at the London Palladium on September 3rd. The pair met through her charity work with the RAF and were friends for several years before embarking on a relationship in 2012. The father-of-one, known to his friends as 'Duffy', is an RAF pal of Prince William who flew fighter jets in Iraq and joined the Red Arrows in 2008. He left three years later and set up a mobile phone app business. Proud team member: Speaking about the latest recruit, Comdt Air Cadets Air Commodore Dawn McCafferty said: 'We are thrilled that Carol has agreed to be our Ambassador. Her legendary mathematics skills and enthusiasm for engineering will inspire our young people' Getting into the role: Carol has long been associated with RAF linked charities including the Royal Air Forces Association . Her agent John Miles said following the split: 'It’s sad for both of them but Carol felt it had naturally run its course as relationships sometimes do. 'She decided that it would be best to bring it to an end as amicably as possible, so they separated a number of weeks ago. 'It’s difficult when any relationship ends but they have had many great times together, and nobody else is involved on either side. They remain good friends.' Ms Vorderman has been married twice before. She first tied the knot at just 24 in 1985 to Royal Navy officer Chris Mather, but the marriage only lasted a year. She then got hitched in 1990 to management consultant Patrick King with whom she had a daughter Katie, 22, and son Cameron, 17, but the pair broke up ten years later. Ms Vorderman gained her Private Pilot Licence (PPL) in December 2013 and her night rating in March 2014, and is continuing with higher level pilot qualifications ahead of a planned solo flight around the world in 2015. She has long been associated with RAF-linked charities including the Royal Air Forces Association, the RAF Benevolent Fund and the Bomber Command Memorial committee. Moving on: Speaking about the relationship, Carol's agent said: 'It's sad for both of them but Carol felt it had naturally run its course as relationships sometimes do' She even led the Salute Area in Green Park in London when the Queen unveiled the RAF Bomber Command memorial in June 2012. Her two children were both members of the Combined Cadet Force at school, and Carol’s daughter Katie holds an Officer Cadet rank within the Cambridge University Air Squadron. Katie will now have to salute her mum when they meet in uniform. Commandant Air Cadets Air Commodore Dawn McCafferty said: 'We are thrilled that Carol has agreed to be our ambassador. 'Her legendary mathematics skills and enthusiasm for engineering, combined with her new-found aviation expertise, will inspire our young people and promote the air cadet experience to new audiences.'

Ms Vorderman, 53, is new Ambassador for the RAF Air Cadets in London . Role involves inspiring young people and promoting air cadet experience . The former Countdown presenter recently split from pilot Graham Duff . He was 14 years her junior and worked with Prince William .

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(CNN) -- Blizzard conditions whipped through Colorado on Friday, closing some 70 miles of interstate highway as heavy snow blanketed the region, according to the state's Department of Transportation. Officials reported a total of 600 flight cancellations at Denver International Airport, while Southwest Airlines canceled all inbound flights to Denver until 1 p.m. local time. Denver's airport -- which was reporting 5 inches of snow as of 10:45 a.m. -- deals with an average of 1,700 flights daily, according to airport spokeswoman Jenny Schiavone. Light snow started falling in Denver Thursday as residents across the state braced for the storm. Winter weather in your area? Share your story with iReport . Parts of the region could be plowing out from under 2 feet of snow and higher drifts by Saturday, when conditions are expected to gradually taper off. The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning starting Thursday evening along the Interstate 25 corridor, including the city of Denver. Most areas east of the city are under a blizzard warning, as snowfall rates of up to 2 inches per hour were expected. The warnings will remain in effect into late Friday evening. The airport has nearly 300 pieces of snow equipment and a team of approximately 500 trained snow removal personnel who plan to work throughout the storm. An avalanche watch that had been posted for the Front Range and Sangre de Cristo mountains was expected to expire on Friday. But rapid heavy snow on top of the currently weak snowpack structure could also quickly raise the avalanche danger, according to The Colorado Avalanche Information Center website. The storm will be slow moving, so a prolonged period of snow will occur through early Saturday, according to the National Weather Service. With winds gusting 40 mph or higher, blowing snow will make visibility at times near zero and travel on roads could be treacherous, if not impossible. A number of school districts in the Denver Metro area announced closures on their websites, including Denver Public Schools, Jefferson County Public Schools and Douglas County Schools. High temperatures are expected to remain in the 30s into early next week. CNN's Adam Shivers contributed to this report .

NEW: 600 flights are canceled at Denver International Airport . Parts of the region could be plowing out of 2 feet of snow by Saturday . Areas east of the city are under a blizzard warning . A powerful winter storm whips through Colorado on Friday .

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By . Paul Bentley . PUBLISHED: . 08:52 EST, 26 August 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 17:27 EST, 26 August 2012 . Role model: Critics say Bear Grylls should not use his position as leader of the scouting movement to push his own products . Bear Grylls has been accused of exploiting his position as Chief Scout to push sales of a range of children's knives. In a promotional video, the TV adventurer endorses a range of Gerber outdoor kit by mentioning his role as head of the Scout movement. While he has not broken the law, critics say he has entered a murky area by attempting to cash in on his association with a voluntary organisation. He is also promoting the range of 'Bear Grylls Scout and Compact Scout Knives' despite the fact that the Scout Association advises that penknives should not be taken on camping trips unless there is a specific need. In the video, which has been watched online by more than 318,900 people, Grylls says: 'One of the jobs I do is to be Chief Scout and figurehead to 28million scouts worldwide, and it's a post I'm really proud of. 'For me, scouting is all about bringing adventure to young people, and we've developed two knives aimed at scouting.' He demonstrates how to open and grip the knife, adding: 'You never know when you might need it. Safe scouting, and remember: a knife's a tool – use it responsibly.' 'Born survivor': Chief scout Grylls has starred in several television programmes documenting his adventures . Labour MP Paul Flynn said: 'We would . expect the figureheads of charitable bodies to be beyond any commercial . interests. 'There should be a line drawn between the charitable and very . honourable aims of the scouting movement and any commercial interest.' Sir Stephen Bubb, chief executive of . the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations, said: 'I . feel certain that Bear Grylls will be wanting to donate any profits he . makes back to the scouts. 'Many charities and voluntary bodies . have come to rely on well-known public figures becoming figureheads, and . that relies on the public believing they are giving up their time . without private profit.' Grylls, who became Chief Scout in . 2009, said that the organisation was aware of the promotional work. 'I . am sure being Chief Scout helps TV ratings and sales, so, yes, it does . benefit me – just as hopefully I benefit them in some small way,' he . said. 'Hopefully, everyone wins.' The Scout Association would not say . whether Grylls had shared any profits from sales of the knives. 'There . is no restriction on businesses using the word “scout”,' a spokesman . said. 'Bear is always incredibly generous with giving freely his time, energy and support.' Last night, Grylls told the Mail: 'I . take being Chief Scout very seriously and never develop licensees with . the intent to profit off my position.' 'Safe scouting': Bear Grylls, pictured facing the elements on an expedition in the Canadian Rockies, urges fellow adventurers to use his knives responsibly .

Promotional videos linking adventurer's range of branded survival kit to role with the scouts criticised . Grylls says he's 'disappointed' by 'misleading' accusations he's using position as chief scout .

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New Delhi, India (CNN) -- India accorded a red-carpet welcome Tuesday to the top leader of Myanmar's military junta, currently on a five-day visit aimed at strengthening diplomatic and economic ties between the neighboring countries. Gen. Than Shwe received a ceremonial reception in the sandstone presidential palace in New Delhi before he drove to the shrine to India's independence leader Mahatma Gandhi to pay homage. Indian president Pratibha Devisingh Patil, prime minister Manmohan Singh, members of his cabinet and several top bureaucrats greeted the junta leader as a state guest. The military ruler's trip underscored the close relationship between the two nations -- one seen as one of the world's most vibrant democracies and another despised by the West as a repressive regime. In 1951, the two countries signed what they called a "treaty of friendship," and over the past few years, bilateral trade has soared to almost $1 billion, according to Indian officials. Several Indian companies have invested in Myanmar's energy sector. And India's main space agency has helped set up a data-processing center in Yangon for remote-sensing applications, authorities in New Delhi say. Than Shwe's visit began on Sunday with a tour of sacred Buddhist sites in eastern India. It came days after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged India and other countries in the region to push Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, to comply with UN human rights resolutions and nuclear nonproliferation agreements. "It is critical that Burma hear from you, its neighbors," she said in a speech at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations meeting. Clinton described life in Myanmar as "dangerous" for the country's inhabitants and called upon other nations to push for democratic reforms there. "We would encourage India and other countries to send a clear message to Burma that it needs to change its course," State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said last week. The Myanmar general's itinerary also includes tours of India's information-technology hub in Hyderabad and the industrial center of Jamshedpur. His visit is the second by a top junta administrator in a year.

Gen. Than Shwe is on a five-day trip to India . The countries have strong diplomatic and economic ties . Bilateral trade between India and Myanmar has soared to almost $1 billion . The junta leader's visit comes after U.S. asks India and other neighbors to push for reform .

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By . Paul Revoir Tv Correspondent . PUBLISHED: . 19:27 EST, 15 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 20:02 EST, 15 May 2013 . Popular: Audience figures show Chris Evans has almost doubled his lead over Radio 1's Nick Grimshaw . He was hired to win over a younger audience, but it seems Nick Grimshaw is having the opposite effect. Hundreds of thousands of listeners have been switching off his Radio 1 breakfast show – and turning over to Radio 2 rival Chris Evans instead. The latest audience figures show Evans has almost doubled his lead over the Radio 1 programme since this time last year. Yesterday Evans, the former wild man who has found happiness in his third marriage and fatherhood, was celebrating trouncing Grimshaw in the latest quarterly results from Rajar, which measures radio audiences. The former Big Breakfast host appears to be attracting most of the disaffected Radio 1 listeners and posted record results of 9.8million in the three months to the end of March. This is a jump of 600,000 from 9.2million in the same period of 2012 and also up on the previous quarter. The figures show that the decision to claw back younger listeners to Radio 1 by replacing 39-year-old Chris Moyles with Grimshaw, 28, in September last year has had a disastrous effect. The DJ, who is known to revel in his celebrity party lifestyle, has lost more than a million listeners who were tuning in to Moyles a year ago. Grimshaw’s ratings have plummeted to 5.8million a week – leaving what is thought to be the biggest ever gap between the two stations’ breakfast audiences. He also scored Radio 1’s fewest listeners for the slot since Sara Cox hosted the show in 2003. Battle for Breakfast: Chris Evans leads the way when it comes to morning radio - with 9.8m listeners . Even the Today programme on Radio 4 is now regularly beating the Radio 1 programme, securing 6.9million listeners in the latest set of results. Yesterday the corporation put on a . brave face on the drop in listeners for Grimshaw and also for the . station generally, which fell by almost 900,000 to 10.3million. It said the ‘new Radio 1 schedule, aimed at a younger audience’ was ‘still bedding in’ Struggling: Nick Grimshaw has lost a million listeners who were tuning into his predecessor Chris Moyles . . The BBC claimed that although the audience was smaller it was ‘more focused on a younger demographic’ with its highest proportion of 15 to 24-year-old listeners since 2010. Helen Boaden, director of BBC Radio, said Radio 1 was ‘in good health’. She added: ‘The brand new schedule continues to bed in at Radio 1 and we remain confident that it will emerge strongly from a period of transition.’ A BBC Radio source said the department had ‘anticipated the drop’ and that changing the make-up of the audience was 'not going to be painless'. They added it had been deliberate plan to try and encourage older Radio 1 listeners over to Radio 2, which appeared to have worked. The station was forced by the BBC Trust to make more efforts to lower the age of its audience amid concerns it had not been attracting enough young listeners, who are meant to be its target audience. Grimshaw, who has also been given his own BBC3 TV series, failed to land a nomination for the breakfast show of the year title at the Sony Awards earlier this week. Evans' unprecedented figures help propel Radio 2 to a record 15.3million listeners a week - a five per cent jump from the same period last year. Radio 3 continued a ratings revival with both its overall and breakfast show figures showing an increase. The figures also showed that listening to digital radio has continued its modest increase, now accounting for 34.3 per cent of listening, up from 33 per cent the previous quarter. At the same time listening to AM and FM went down slightly by about two per cent to 60.5 per cent.

Evans posted record results of 9.8m in the three months to end of March . It is up 600,000 from the 9.2m Radio 2 listeners in same period last year . Grimshaw has lost more than a million of Chris Moyles' listeners .

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He had it all to lose: Jose Mourinho put his reputation and popularity at Chelsea on the line ahead of his second coming, as three words prayed on his mind: never go back. Mourinho could have looked through the history and run a mile when Chelsea made their move again. He would have seen plenty of examples, flashing like warning lights, of managers who fell way short when returning with ambition of recapturing former glories. No matter how much you think it will be as it was before, things never go to plan. I first realised that when I was a 12-year-old staunch Evertonian and Howard Kendall returned to Goodison Park in 1990. Howard Kendall struggled on his return to Everton, pictured in a 4-0 defeat at Arsenal in 1998 during his third stint, and a 4-1 loss to Crystal Palace (right) at Wembley . As far as I was concerned, Kendall had the Midas touch. He and Everton were the perfect match. I was adamant those days out at Wembley and the trophies of his first reign would be on the agenda once more. What could go wrong? Plenty, as it turned out. His second spell fell way short of expectations, while his third, in 1997-98, saw Everton avoid relegation on the final day of the season. He never got near another trophy. I played under Kenny Dalglish when he had his second attempt at managing Liverpool. He was unfortunate to lose his job, particularly after we won the League Cup and reached the FA Cup final in 2012, but the difficulties we experienced in the Barclays Premier League put things in context. Sportsmail columnist Jamie Carragher pictured with Kenny Dalglish after Liverpool's FA Cup final loss . Dalglish was eventually replaced by former Swansea boss Brendan Rodgers at the end of the 2012 season . Many supporters looked at Kenny standing in the dugout and expected to see his team play breath-taking football as Liverpool did in 1987-88. Time moves on and it could never have been as good as it had been before. We finished eighth. Kenny’s situation, though, was not unique. Take Fabio Capello. An architect of the great AC Milan side that ruled in the early 1990s, where his successes included an astonishing 4-0 win over Barcelona in the 1994 Champions League final, he returned to the San Siro in 1997. His impact was minimal. Milan lost the Italian Cup final, finished 10th in Serie A and Capello called it the 'worst mistake he had ever made'. Similarly, Louis van Gaal’s return to Barcelona in 2002-03 was awful. He was sacked within five months with the club languishing in 12th place. Fabio Capello and Marcel Desailly celebrate after AC Milan won their fifth European Cup in some style . Newcastle supporters championed for the return of Kevin Keegan in 2008 after his successful first stint . But Keegan resigned in September 2008 after just eight months back in charge of the club . Louis van Gaal's return to Barcelona in 2002 was a disaster and he was sacked after only five months . The romance, the adulation and memories are a powerful mix. Kevin Keegan hoped he would rekindle it with Newcastle in 2008, Rafa Benitez has wanted to go back to Liverpool ever since he left in 2010. Emotion makes you think there will be no difference second time around. Reality, however, tells you something different. So while Chelsea appointed the biggest managerial name in the world, there was no guarantee that there would be a sudden transformation in their fortunes. So what Mourinho has done over the last 18 months is shining example of why he is a serial winner, a demonstration of his talent. Chelsea, it needs pointing out, hadn’t been in a title race since they won it under Carlo Ancelotti in 2010, finishing second, nine points adrift (10-11), sixth (11-12) and third (12-13). The championship had become the city of Manchester’s property, with Liverpool getting closer than anybody to wrestling it away. The main action at the end of the campaign had been going on without Chelsea. Jose Mourinho appeared in high spirits during his pre-match Chelsea press conference on Friday . Chelsea are unbeaten in all competitions this season and their last defeat came back in April . We won’t be saying that next May. Manchester City are the only ones who can halt Mourinho’s juggernaut. He went into the season knowing his job would be on the line if he failed to win anything but no other manager can deliver so impressively under such pressure. Mourinho, of course, has a luxury that some managers don’t. Chelsea are a wealthy club and have the capacity to pay big fees and wages. That was also the case in 2004. But English football has changed in the last decade and Chelsea no longer have the transfer market all their own way. Their position at the top of the table, however, is not based purely on a chequebook, as the net spends since Mourinho returned of United (£179.9million), City (£113.8m), Arsenal (£86.3m) and Liverpool (£64.4m) show. Chelsea’s net spend in the last three windows, for contrast, is £65.4m. True, he won’t baulk at paying a big transfer fee but, whenever he does, Mourinho gets it right. Look at Cesc Fabregas, who has fitted in with ease. Nemanja Matic, who Mourinho calls 'a giant', is another, as is Diego Costa. With Costa last season, Chelsea would have been champions. Cesc Fabregas, in action against Spurs in Chelsea's 3-0 win on Wednesday, has been a revelation this term . Nemanja Matic was brought back in January and Diego Costa a summer arrival from Atletico Madrid . Part of Mourinho’s magic is the ability to get more out of players who are already at the club when he arrives. John Terry, Frank Lampard and Eidur Gudjohnson were the first examples, Cesar Azpilicueta and Eden Hazard providing the evidence this time. He also has them playing a completely different brand. Who would have expected Mourinho to include players like Hazard, Fabregas and Oscar in the same team? Chelsea are still physically strong but now they move the ball with style and at speed. What makes this transition even more impressive is that he has been able phase out key figures such as Petr Cech, Lampard and Ashley Cole, with minimal fuss and no disruption to results. It has been so seamless, it is like he has never been away. Mourinho has constructed a complete team, one that could go through the season unbeaten, and his influence means they are the only English club with a chance of winning the Champions League this year. Given his record in the heavyweight games, it would be a brave man to bet against him. Top players find fast track to dugout . It was interesting to see Arsene Wenger make the statement that Thierry Henry will certainly return to Arsenal to work in the future. Brendan Rodgers also said something similar about Steven Gerrard having a role on the coaching staff at Liverpool one day and it left me thinking: is this the only way to keep top players in the game once their playing careers are over? It looks like that is now the reality. In the past, there would have been an apprenticeship to serve when you started out as a coach. You would work your way up through the lower leagues, as Alex Ferguson did. Now what Wenger and Rodgers are suggesting seems a great way to learn, rather than dropping down. Thierry Henry has been touted for another return to Arsenal on the coaching staff . After spending his entire playing career with Liverpool, will Steven Gerrard continue as a coach? I am not being elitist saying that. I used to wonder how I would cope if I started out managing at a lower-league club that I knew nothing about. Who would you buy? Would you have an assistant who knew that level of the game? How long would you get in the job? That is why this assistant role will be attractive to Henry and Gerrard, as it has been for Ryan Giggs. They would have chance to learn away from the firing line, dealing with good players at a club they know and have instant respect. But once in the role — or when thinking about the offer — there is a big question, as Wenger highlighted: Are you prepared to sacrifice your life for the job? The truth is that the wealth in the game means players are not being forced into roles after playing. They can pick and choose. This week I'm looking forward to: Watching Jagielka and Distin try to stop super Sergio . There is no harder task for a defender in the Barclays Premier League at present than trying to shackle Sergio Aguero. He is in a run of form like the one Luis Suarez enjoyed last season and he looks like scoring every time he steps on the pitch, so Everton’s defenders will have their work cut out trying to contain the striker of the moment. Sylvain Distin (centre) looks bemused after Everton concede a costly goal against Hull at Goodison . Sergio Aguero (right) wheels away after scoring against Sunderland during his virtuoso outing on Wearside . Phil Jagielka and Sylvain Distin have been stalwarts at Goodison Park and shared an excellent partnership for more than five years but, this season, Everton have been conceding more goals than normal and their performances have come under scrutiny. The best Everton performances in recent times have come on the back of them being difficult to break down and if Roberto Martinez’s side are going to leave the Etihad Stadium with a positive result, then Jagielka and Distin will have to be back to their old selves.

It needs pointing out that Chelsea have not been in a title race since 2010 . As in 2004, Chelsea have the luxury of wealth, but English football has changed and they no longer have the transfer market all their own way . And whenever Mourinho gets the chequebook out he gets it right... just look at the signings of Cesc Fabregas, Nemanja Matic and Diego Costa . He has constructed a complete team, one that could go unbeaten this term .

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(CNN) -- With his push for health care reform on the line, the president delivered a message of urgency to the public: . President Bill Clinton, pictured in 1994, greets members of a crowd following a speech on his health care reform plan. "Don't let the fearmongers, don't let the dividers, don't let the people who disseminate false information frighten the United States Congress into walking away from the opportunity of a lifetime. Tell the members of Congress you will support them. This is not partisan politics," the president said. The date was August 1, 1994, and the voice behind the 11th-hour battle cry was then-President Clinton. Within weeks, that battle cry was reduced to a whimper of defeat as Congress tabled plans to vote on his legislation. As President Obama ratchets up the pressure on Congress to pass health care reform this year, he's following in the footsteps of the 42nd president. From his prime time push to his town hall meetings, Obama is taking the same path as Clinton, but hoping for a different ending. Clinton and Obama faced similar climates. Both made health care their signature issue, even though most people were happy with their coverage and were more concerned with fixing the economy. Clinton presented Congress with a plan, whereas Obama instead presented broad guidelines and asked the lawmakers to come up with a bill. "Much of the complaint about the Clinton-era attempt at this was how complicated it was," said Candy Crowley, CNN's senior political correspondent. "That has not been a complaint this time. But in the overview, there was no doubt that the steady drumbeat of criticism started out at a fairly low level and just has come to this deafening roar, and that's very much like it was in the resistance to the Clinton plan." Like Clinton, Obama's been accused of waffling on his proposals and failing to reach across the aisle. Following weeks of contentious town hall meetings, Obama this weekend appeared more flexible than ever on the idea of a government-sponsored, public health insurance option. Liberal Democrats have demanded a public option, but some conservatives call such a proposal a deal breaker. Obama has voiced his support for the public option but stopped short of calling it a necessity. At a town hall in Colorado this weekend, however, he called it "just one sliver" of reform. "The public option, whether we have it or we don't have it, is not the entirety of health care reform," he said. The White House was quick to insist that the administration's stance has not changed, and sent talking points to congressional Democrats trying to ease concern about the public option. The administration has been "boringly consistent" on the issue, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday. Watch: Is the White House changing its message? » . Clinton was accused of backtracking after he seemed to back down from his stated goal of universal coverage at a 1994 National Governors' Association conference. Democrats protested and the White House insisted that the president's words were misinterpreted. But those reading the tea leaves knew the effort was losing steam. Some Democrats distanced themselves from the president as the 1994 midterm elections neared. Clinton and other key Democrats tried to compromise with a scaled-down version of the president's original plan, but the effort unraveled and eventually faded from the agenda. "It's the art of dealmaking, and it's not surprising that they would both face this. In the face of huge outcry, presidents or politicians look for a compromise," Crowley said. "When you see the possibility that it could go down in flames, you look for ways to appease the critics of it, and both Clinton, and now it appears Obama, are trying to do that -- to find some way to pass something." When Congress reconvenes after the August recess, lawmakers will return to a different climate on Capitol Hill, kindled by the protests of those who have been questioning Obama's proposals. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-South Carolina, said last month that if Republicans can stop Obama on health care, "it will be his Waterloo." Clinton's agenda was bruised following his health care defeat, but it was his party that was dealt the hardest hits. The Democrats lost control of Congress in 1994 for the first time in 40 years. It took another 12 years to get it back. Mary Matalin, a Republican strategist and CNN contributor, predicted a repeat of history for Obama, should health care fail. "What is right about conventional wisdom is, he'll be fine, but the Democrats in Congress won't," she said on CNN's "State of the Union." "And you are already hearing Democrats in Congress saying, 'This is deja vu. This is what happened with Bill Clinton. He makes us walk the plank, then we lose,' as they did," she said. Clinton acknowledged the political importance of a health care win in his speech before the Netroots Nation convention last week. Passing comprehensive health care legislation, he said, "is not only the morally right thing to do. It is politically imperative for the Democrats to pass a health care bill now, because one thing we know and that I have lived through is that if you get out there and then you don't prevail, the victors get to rewrite history." Democratic strategist and CNN contributor James Carville said that since it's clear that Senate Democrats don't have the 60 votes needed to get a full Senate vote, they should instead force Republicans to filibuster the bill. "Then, you say, 'They're the people that stopped it. We had a majority of Democrats. We had a good bill. They stopped it,' " said Carville, a former adviser to Clinton. Republicans under the Clinton administration threatened to filibuster, but the warnings proved inconsequential, as the bill never got that far. As health care reaches a turning point for Obama, "timing is everything," Crowley said. "It's not an election year -- yet. To me, that works on Obama's side, where it didn't with Clinton because the minute it becomes an election year, it's just different, because congressmen, senators are looking at what their constituents are saying back home, and their jobs are on the line," Crowley said. But that safety net won't hold for long, and Obama has only a few more months to show whether history will repeat itself or be rewritten. "I think the time is critical for President Obama because at the end of the year, Congress goes off and takes a recess ... and so you end up having a pretty narrow time frame, and then when they come back in January -- guess what, it's an election year," Crowley said.

Bill Clinton, Obama both made health care their signature issue . Both accused of backtracking from their original goals . Obama at an advantage because lawmakers aren't facing re-election -- yet . Clinton says it's "politically imperative" for Dems to pass a bill now .

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Ron-Robert Zieler enhanced his reputation as one of Europe's top young goalkeepers with a clean sheet on Tuesday night as Germany defeated Spain. Zieler, standing in for the injured Manuel Neuer, joined the likes of Toni Kroos and Thomas Muller in a star-studded line-up for the world champions. But his professional career had a far more humble beginning. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Ron-Robert Zieler's best saves for Hannover . Zieler celebrates Germany's victory over Spain alongside Real Madrid superstar Toni Kroos (No 18) In February 2009, Zieler made his senior debut at Northampton Town's Sixfields, of all places, in a team in which now-AFC Wimbledon striker Adebayo Akinfenwa was the star man. Zieler, now 25, could not keep out Walsall that day as he did the European champions in Vigo. Northampton lost 2-0 in front of a crowd of 4,528, with former Arsenal midfielder Stephen Hughes and now-Oldham striker Jabo Ibehre getting the better of the man on loan from Manchester United. Spain started with Juventus striker Alvaro Morata up front on Tuesday night, but five and a half years ago it was a strikeforce of an ageing Michael Ricketts and now-Watford captain Troy Deeney that proved too much for Northampton and Zieler. Zieler challenges Walsall's Manny Smith - now at Wrexham - on his debut for Northampton in February 2009 . The Germany goalkeeper prepares to clear the ball at Sixfields as the Cobblers slipped to a 2-0 defeat . That was one of only two senior appearances Zieler would make in a frustrating five-year spell in England, with the second coming just three days later in a 1-1 draw at Brighton and Hove Albion as now-Bournemouth captain Tommy Elphick headed past him for the home side's equaliser. Zieler moved to United as a 16-year-old from Cologne in July 2005 with a burgeoning reputation following some star performances for Germany's youth teams. He left five years later with that reputation seemingly in tatters, having spent most of his last season at Old Trafford warming the bench for United's reserve side. Zieler signs for Man United alongside Sir Alex Ferguson in 2005. He did not make an appearance for the club . Zieler was tipped for big things when he joined United as a 16-year-old from Cologne . Four years on though and Zieler now has a World Cup winners' medal - although he did not play in Brazil he was in Joachim Low's squad, as he was for Euro 2012 - and four caps for his country. Zieler joined Hannover on a free transfer in the summer of 2010, made his first-team debut in January 2011 and has not missed a Bundesliga game since, racking up 128 consecutive appearances and establishing himself as one of the best goalkeepers in Germany, if not Europe. The 6ft 1in stopper has been heavily linked with a move to Borussia Dortmund to replace their ageing No 1 Roman Weidenfeller, who Zieler has now usurped as Neuer's deputy. The goalkeeper celebrates Germany's World Cup triumph in Berlin back in July . Zieler barks orders at his defence as he keeps a clean sheet against Spain in Vigo on Tuesday night . At 28, Neuer - undisputedly world's best goalkeeper - has plenty of years left in him but Zieler too looks set to be a part of the German set-up for a long time to come. It is remarkable to think not only that he could not get a look-in at United, but that he played just twice for Stuart Gray's Northampton in a three-month loan spell with the League One club. Northampton would be relegated at the end of the 2008-09 season and the man who kept Zieler out of the side, Chris Dunn, is now plying his trade with Cambridge United in League Two. Cambridge are 10th in the bottom tier while Northampton are 17th. It looks like Zieler has had the last laugh. Zieler in action against Dortmund as Chris Dunn (right) takes on former club Northampton for Cambridge .

Ron-Robert Zieler kept a clean sheet as Germany beat Spain in Vigo . Zieler made his professional debut for Northampton against Walsall in 2009 . He played just twice in three months on loan from Manchester United . Joined Hannover for free in 2010 after being released by United . Has made 128 consecutive Bundesliga appearances since his debut .

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Srinagar, India (CNN) -- More than a thousand stranded people, cold and fearful, escaped blankets of snow and slippery roads Saturday after the Indian air force ferried them to warmer climates. In all,1,100 people on the sole highway linking the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir's winter and summer capitals -- Srinagar and Jammu -- were airlifted out of misery. People had been waiting for days for the treacherous highway to reopen after unusually heavy snowfall caused avalanches in the northern, mountainous Kashmir region. The road re-opened briefly three days ago but authorities allowed only big trucks carrying essential goods. Uncertainty set in as the highway remained unnavigable by most of vehicles. State authorities finally were forced to seek Indian military help. The highway has been closed 11 days in January. In some places, the snow has piled up several feet. More of the white stuff is forecast for Sunday. CNN's Mukhtar Ahmad contributed to this report.

NEW: 1,100 people were airlifted out . Heavy snow blocks the main highway in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir . Some people were stranded for days .

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By . Associated Press . A Washington state sheriff has sent a memo to deputies telling them that sex on duty will not be tolerated. Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich says he had to spell out the policy because a deputy he fired for the behavior won his job back last month in arbitration. Scott Kenoyer got his job back in May after an arbitrator found that the consequence was too severe after he admitted to having sex while on duty. Scroll down for video... Rules are rules: Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich sent out a memorandum to his deputies stating that sex on duty was not tolerated . Sheriff Knezovich said Kenoyer’s case gave him no choice but forced him to send out a memo making it clear that having sex on duty would not be tolerated. The memo says that sex on duty is a . breach of the public trust and a breach of the sheriff's office code of . ethics, core values and officer safety. 'I never dreamt I'd ever even see such a memo,' Knezovich said to KREM. 'I'm shocked I had to make this statement. Sex on duty is not tolerated, nor is lying.' Sheriff Knezovich said he didn't want Deputy Kenoyer to get the message that it was okay to have sex whilst on the job. Mixed work with pleasure: Sheriff¿s Office employees conducted an internal investigation into Deputy Scott Kenoyer's conduct when a woman claimed that she had sex with Kenoyer while he was on duty. He only lasted nine minutes . The memo states that sex on duty is a breach of the public trust and a breach of the Sheriff’s Office code of ethics; core values and officer safety. 'My legal adviser advised that in order to keep this from being a precedent, it had to be very clear,' said Sheriff Knezovich. 'This agency has established a very firm policy that if you have sex on duty or falsify an official document intentionally, you will be terminated.' Sheriff’s Office employees conducted an internal investigation into Deputy Kenoyer's conduct when a woman claimed that she had sex with Kenoyer while he was on duty. The Sheriff's Office said Kenoyer was only out of service for approximately nine minutes when the sex occurred. Here in black and white: The Spokane County Sheriff figured there was no alternative than to set out a menu telling staff explicitly that they cannot have sex whilst at work .

Spokane County Sheriff composed a memo to other officers after a deputy had sex at work . Deputy Scott Kenoyer was fired but ended up getting his job back after arbitration . Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich believed he had no other choice other than to send a memo outlawing sex on duty .

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By . Larisa Brown . PUBLISHED: . 13:00 EST, 18 February 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 20:06 EST, 18 February 2014 . Clive Mantle (pictured with Casualty co-star Jane Gurnett) broke down today as he recalled the moment his ear was bitten off . A former Casualty star had part of his ear bitten off after asking two fellow hotel guests to keep the noise down, a court heard. Clive Mantle, 56, had been woken in the early hours of the morning and had left his room twice to ‘request politely’ that two drunks quieten down so he could sleep. In the violence that followed, Mr Mantle, who was still wearing his pyjamas, lost a ‘substantial part’ of his ear, which ended up on the floor, leaving him permanently disfigured. He claimed he was worried about defending himself for fear of being prosecuted like Tony Martin – the farmer convicted of manslaughter after shooting a burglar dead. Mr Mantle, who played surgeon Mike Barrett in Casualty and currently plays Lord Umber in Game of Thrones, had been staying at the Travelodge while performing in a play at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle, the court heard. He was woken at about 4.30am on March 24 last year by Philip McGilvray, 33, and Alan French, 32, who were shouting in the corridor outside his ground-floor room. Jolyon Perks, prosecuting, told Newcastle Crown Court: ‘They had come down from Scotland with friends and they were out drinking and socialising. At 4.30am in the morning they had reached the stage where they were excessively drunk and had also reached the stage where drink converted them to being raucous and, ultimately, violent.’ The actor, 6ft 5in tall and sporting a large moustache, told the court how the pair were making ‘banshee-like’ noises which woke him up and resulted in him opening his room door. He said: ‘I cast a fairly strange figure. I had a huge moustache for the part I was playing in the play, with a T-shirt and pyjama bottoms.’ He asked the men to keep the noise down as he was trying to sleep – but the noise soon started up again. He said: ‘Male one was encouraging male two to “come and look at the old man in his pyjamas”.’ Mr Mantle, who has since grown his hair to cover the injury, said it was a ‘sport’ to them and he could hear ‘wailing and laughter’ from the men. Hearing more noise, he went to his door and warned he was going to call security but there was not a phone in his room. He was on his way to the Quayside hotel reception, walking barefoot, when the pair laid into him, the jury heard. Clive Mantle was woken in the early hours of the morning and had left his room twice to ¿request politely¿ that two drunks quieten down . Alan French, 32, (left) and Philip McGilvray, 33, (right) were visiting Newcastle and had been out drinking . Mr Perks said: ‘As he approached, the two defendants deliberately blocked his path. ‘He told them he needed to get past and placed his hands between them, and tried to force his way through, perhaps not unreasonably considering the situation he was in. ‘At this point they both decided to grab his arms and set about him. Both men threw a flurry of drunken punches, some landed, some didn’t. Ultimately, it ended with him being dragged on the ground face down.’ Mr Mantle told the court: ‘I think in total there were about 15 blows, of which only four hurt.’ Philip McGilvray, 32, from Hamilton, Scotland, pictured arriving at Newcastle Crown Court this morning where he is accused of being involved in an attack which left Casualty star Clive Mantle with part of his ear bitten off . At one point, French was on top of the actor and McGilvray was by his left side. Fighting back tears, Mr Mantle described how the ‘melee’ turned into his ear being bitten off by McGilvray. He said: ‘The next thing I was aware of was a pain in my left ear which triggered a massive response within me. The adrenaline it gave me enabled me to rip my right hand away. ‘The only thing I could do is put my thumb in his eye socket to make him release. ‘An image of Tony Martin, the guy who shot the intruders in his house, went through my mind. I have got to do enough damage to hurt him but not so much I get prosecuted for poking someone’s eye out – it’s bizarre the thing you think about at times like this.’ It was at this point, he said that his ‘guardian angel’ Alice Klenk, a nurse staying at the hotel with her partner, heard the fighting and came out of her room. She grabbed one of the defendants by his collar and held the other back with her arm to stop them having another go at Mr Mantle, the jury heard. The actor said: ‘She saved me from a lot further damage.’ Clive Mantel says he was woken up by Philip McGilvray, 33, and Alan French, 32, who were shouting in his hotel corridor last March . After staggering to his feet, he saw there was blood all over him. He said: ‘I looked down and there was my ear lying on the carpet.’ He picked up his ear and grabbed one of the men, but the pair managed to flee and Mr Mantle returned to his room with Miss Klenk, where they put his ear in  a glass of water to preserve it. The court heard how the two defendants did not return to the hotel for several hours – by which point they had tried to check in to a nearby Premier Inn but were turned away. McGilvray and French, both from Hamilton, Scotland, deny a charge of causing grievous bodily harm with intent, and will claim they were acting in self-defence. The case continues. Sorry we are unable to accept comments for legal reasons.

The 56-year-old says he was woken up by Philip McGilvray, 33, and Alan French, 32, shouting in the corridor . Mr Mantle twice asked the pair to keep quiet before he was attacked . The actor was staying in the Quayside Travelodge in Newcastle . McGilvray told detectives he bit the actor because he had been attacked . McGilvray and French both deny wounding with intent .

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Manchester City showed their eagle-eyed ambition on Wednesday night by progressing to the last 16 of the Champions League and Manuel Pellegrini's side were all smiles as they trained in Rome on Thursday ahead of their flight back to England. Goals from Samir Nasri and Pablo Zabaleta saw the Premier League champions seal a 2-0 win away at Roma - a result that saw them qualify as Group E runners-up at the expense of their opponents. The importance of the Stadio Olimpico scoreline means City will now enter the knockout stages of the Europe's elite competition for only the second time in their history; a feat that they were clearly proud of as they trained at Lazio's Formello facilities - the base of Roma's arch-rivals. Manchester City assistant manager Brian Kidd (left) held Olimpia - Lazio's matchday mascot - on Thursday . Kidd got to hold the American golden eagle during City's training session at Lazio's Formello facilities . Midfield maestro David Silva (centre right) was one of many stars to take part in the club's training session . City players were put through their paces in Rome after staying overnight following their 2-0 win at Roma . Wednesday's Champions League win saw City qualify for the last 16 for only the second time in their history . City boss Manuel Pellegrini (left) was in a relaxed mood as he oversaw training proceedings . Thursday's training session would have been doubly refreshing for City left back Aleksandar Kolarov as he returned to the home of his former club. The 29-year-old, who enjoyed three seasons at Lazio before joining the Etihad outfit in 2010, took a trip down memory lane as he basked in a team photo - including the Serb - of the Italian side celebrating their 2009 Supercoppa Italiana triumph against Inter. Assistant manager Brian Kidd also appeared in a relaxed manner during the session as he even got to hold Lazio's match-day mascot Olimpia - the American golden eagle. And while City are flying high at present, the players were back to business as stars including Joe Hart, David Silva and James Milner were put through their paces ahead of Saturday's Premier League trip to Leicester. Fernandinho (left) messes about in training with fellow midfielder Fernando during Thursday's session . The Premier League champions enjoy a 'keep-ball' exercise as they prepare for Saturday's clash at Leicester . City left back Aleksander Kolorov (centre) was all smiles as he enjoyed his brief return to former club Lazio . Speaking after their victory over Roma; Hart, who was captain for the evening in Vincent Kompany's absence, is adamant that the team are going from strength-to-strength. 'We never wrote ourselves off, we're a strong unit,' he told Sky Sports. 'We believed in ourselves, we had a bit of a slow start but you don’t win the Premier League easily and we've done it twice in three years. 'We've got resolve, we've got character and we've got fantastic players - add that all together and we've got a chance. 'It's been a great performance, we are moving in the right direction. That's five or six games on the spin now that we've really stepped it up. 'We've been together for a long time and there's no international breaks about to disrupt what we're trying to do. We are going into December - Vinny's (Kompany) is going to be fit, the Wizard (Silva) is back - we are starting to get our players back and the squad is strong.' Goalkeeper Joe Hart is adamant Wednesday's result shows the club are going in the right direction . James Milner (left) echoed Hart's views adding that he feels City can go a long way in the Champions League . Pablo Zabaleta (left) scored City's second in their 2-0 win against Roma at the Stadio Olimpico . Milner, who also played the duration of the game on Wednesday, echoed Hart's sentiments believing City can enjoy a long run in the Champions League. 'We will take it step by step but I definitely think the quality is there to go far in this competition,' he added. 'We don't want to get ahead of ourselves, but the more seasons we play in the Champions League, and the more games we play in it, the experience helps and we get better as a team.'

Manchester City won 2-0 at Roma in the Champions League on Wednesday . The win saw them qualify for the last 16 at the expense of the Italian side . City travel to Leicester in the Premier League on Saturday afternoon .

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The immaculate uniform, trench maps and belongings of a First World War officer have been discovered in his 'time capsule' trunk nearly 100 years after they were last folded away. The set of items includes the neatly folded uniform of Lieutenant Howard Hands, his officer's cap, belts, cigarette case, photographs, newspapers and even his bedpan. His own trench maps showing a network of secret tunnels and mine galleries that ran under enemy positions on the Western Front were also found in the stash. Scroll down for video . Lieutenant Howard Hands (second from left, seated) was a signals officer in the Royal Engineers . The time capsule of Lt Hands (pictured) was discovered in storage at a school's history department . Included in the stash was Lt Hands' (left) perfectly preserved and folded First World War uniform (right) Lt Hands was a signals officer in the Royal Engineers and spent much of the war operating underground, helping with the laying of communication cables and mines. The 2.5ft wide metal trunk has recently been found in storage in the history department at the Highfield School in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, the town where Lt Hands was from. Although it's a mystery as to how it got there, it is believed it was donated to the school by a member of Lt Hands' family, probably a grandchild, over 30 years ago. The trunk is now the focus of a history project at the school and will go on display at the Herts at War exhibition - a Lottery-funded project to tell untold stories relating to the First World War. Lt Hands fought throughout the First World War and served in every major theatre including Egypt, Palestine, Iraq and the Western Front. He collected copies of newspapers from each country he served in, including a rare edition of the Balkan News, a satirical paper for British troops similar to the Wipers Times but not as well known. As a commanding officer he oversaw the laying of communication cables, mine galleries and maintaining vital communications links with the Front line trenches. He was awarded the coveted Military Cross in the New Year's honours list in 1919 for his gallant conduct over a sustained period of time during the war. Other items found in the trunk included pocket manuals, newspapers and a satchel . Lt Hands also collected newspapers (pictured) from every theatre of war he fought in, including Egypt, Palestine, Iraq and the Western Front . Maps found in the container showed trench lines and tunnels that ran under enemy territory . A rare copy of the Balkan News (pictured) was found in the trunk. The publication was a satirical newspaper for British troops . Dan Hill, of Herts at War, said: 'The items in the collection relating to the Lieutenant Hands offer a fascinating glimpse into the life of a man who rose from the ranks to become an officer and whose entire military career and personal artefacts are contained within the trunk. 'To find something of this nature is now very rare and to see these items in such good condition almost a century on really brings the history to life. 'Howard's war was incredibly varied; he saw service in every major theatre and the newspapers, hand-marked trench maps and personal effects that he chose to preserve form a poignant time-capsule of one man's life in The Great War. ' 'Howard's wartime experiences and his movements are a great reminder of the fact that the First World War was not only fought in the muddy fields of Flanders but also in the deserts and mountains in locations across the globe'. John Grant, head of history at the secondary school, uncovered the trunk. He said: 'We do not know how Lieutenant Hands' artefacts came to us and for what purpose, but we are very pleased to think that this collection can now form part of a display helping to educate the public about the impact of the Great War at home. Lt Hands' Field Service Pocket Book (pictured) details everyday military conduct for officers in the field . The rare stash of items is now the focus of a history project at The Highfield School in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, and will go on display at the Herts at War exhibition . 'Recently we have been able to share this incredible time-capsule with students when teaching about The Great War and for them to be able to interact with artefacts from a man who experienced the war first-hand, yet called the same town home, has been a hugely beneficial experience. 'We hope that Howard himself would have been pleased that his possessions would go on to teach others.' After leaving the army, Lt Hands worked as a designer for the aircraft industry and then set up the oilfield engineering company Hands-England. He died while on holiday in Zimbabwe in the 1950s at the age of 69.

First World War officer's time capsule found stored at Letchworth school . Lieutenant Howard Hands' uniform, cigarette case and photographs found . He also left trench maps, cap, newspapers and field service pocket book . It's believed the items were given to the school by a relative decades ago . All the possessions were left perfectly folded and in immaculate condition .

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(CNN) -- WhatsApp, the globally popular texting app that Facebook just acquired for a whopping $19 billion, is adding phone calls to its list of services. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum said the voice service will be free and begin rolling out to users within the next few months. Currently, WhatsApp offers unlimited text and voice-mail messages between users. Its service is free for the first year, then costs 99 cents annually. "We want to make sure people always have the ability to stay in touch with their friends and loved ones really affordably," Koum said in a speech at Mobile World Congress. As reported by multiple news outlets, Koum also announced that WhatsApp now has 465 million monthly users and 330 million daily users. The latter is 15 million more than what was made public last week when Facebook announced the purchase. Voice service will come first to Apple devices and Google's Android operating system, with Windows phones and Blackberry to follow. The move puts WhatsApp in competition not only with other messaging apps that offer voice but chat tools such as Skype and even mobile carriers. WhatsApp's unlimited texting has already helped establish it in places where smartphones and fancy data plans are less common. It has 40 million users in India and another 38 million in Brazil, two countries highly coveted by tech companies such as Facebook for their large populations and emerging mobile customer base. WhatsApp hasn't released figures for the United States, where it is less popular. Last week, Facebook shocked the business world when it announced it was buying WhatsApp for up to $19 billion in cash and stock -- by far the social network's largest acquisition to date.

Facebook bought popular texting service WhatsApp last week . WhatsApp adding voice calls to its messaging service . CEO announces the plan at Mobile World Congress in Spain .

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(CNN) -- Colombian Vice President Angelino Garzon was undergoing surgery for a heart attack Monday, two days after taking office, a hospital director said at a news conference. Garzon underwent a cardiac catheterization procedure early Monday that showed he had several blocked arteries and needed heart surgery, said Carlos Alberto Cardona, scientific director at the Clinica Shaio cardiac center. The new vice president arrived at the clinic between 6 and 6:30 a.m. (7 to 7:30 a.m. ET), said hospital spokesman Diego Cruz. Clinica Shaio is located in Bogota, the nation's capital. Garzon, 63, was sworn into office Saturday as vice president for new President Juan Manuel Santos. He is a former governor, member of the Colombian congress, ambassador and Cabinet secretary. He is also a former member of the Colombian Communist Party Executive Committee, his official biography says. The vice president's heart attack and surgery was not expected to disrupt a meeting between Santos and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez scheduled for Tuesday. The two heads of state will meet in Santa Marta, Colombia, to discuss how to repair ruptured relations between the two countries. Chavez broke off diplomatic relations with Colombia last month over accusations that Venezuela is harboring Marxist guerrillas who want to overthrow the Colombian government.

Heart surgery was being performed Monday morning . An exam revealed several blocked arteries, a hospital director said . The surgery was not expected to disrupt a high-level Colombia-Venezuela meeting Tuesday . Angelino Garzon was sworn into office on Saturday .

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(CNN) -- President Barack Obama invoked Donald Trump's name during Wednesday's presidential debate, claiming that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney would consider the mogul's empire a small business. "Under Governor Romney's definition, there are a whole bunch of millionaires and billionaires who are small businesses," President Obama said. "Donald Trump is a small business. Now, I know Donald Trump doesn't like to think of himself as small anything -- but that's how you define small businesses if you're getting business income." The facts: . While there is no universally accepted definition of a small business, the federal government defines it as any business that employs fewer than 500 people. The Trump Organization employs 22,000 people. But Trump also runs a number of other companies that employ fewer than 500, meaning that -- under the federal government's definition -- he qualifies as a small business. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, which uses the 500-worker maximum in its definition, such firms employ half of all private-sector workers and pay 44% of the total U.S. private payroll. In 2009, there were 27.5 million businesses in the nation, 99.7% of which were small firms. Complete coverage of CNN's Fact Checks . IRS data on the highest-income people in the country underscores that small business does not necessarily mean small profits. Of the top 400 people — who got $19.8 billion in S corporation and partnership net income in 2009 — 237 count as small businesses. An analysis by the Urban Institute-Brookings Tax Policy Center finds that extending tax cuts for people who make more than $250,000 per year ($200,000 for single filers) would disproportionately help the richest taxpayers: 82% of the cut would go to people with more than $1 million in adjusted gross income, who would get an average tax cut of $164,000 apiece. Romney's plan does not single out small businesses for special treatment. His plan attempts to lower taxes on all businesses -- big or small. Conclusion: While Romney's plan does not define who is or is not a small business, some of Donald Trump's companies would qualify as a small business because they have fewer than 500 employees. Fact Check: Green energy . Fact Check: Job creation versus unemployment . Fact Check: Oil and gas production . CNNMoney's Small Business Reporter Jose Pagliery and CNN's Diane Laposta contributed to this report .

Obama says Trump is a small business under Romney plan . The government defines small business as having under 500 workers .

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Thousands of revellers partied the night away oblivious to the fact that there were guardian angels watching over them to ensure their new year celebrations ran smoothly. About 60 dedicated volunteers patrolled Sydney streets offering water, lollipops and even pairs of thongs for those with tired feet from dancing the night away in high heels. What seems like a simple gesture is all part of a much bigger plan so that no parent has to endure the eternal heartache that Ralph and Kathy Kelly have for the past two and half years after tragically losing their son to a senseless act. Scroll down for video . About 60 dedicated volunteers patrolled Sydney streets offering water, lollipops and even pairs of thongs for those with tired feet from dancing the night away in high heels . Thomas Kelly was king hit on his first night out in Kings Cross in July 2012 . His parents Kathy and Ralph Kelly started a foundation in his honour to curb anti-social behaviour . At just 18-years-old, Thomas went out with his girlfriend and mates for his first night out in Sydney's Kings Cross when he was king hit in an unprovoked attack and killed by a complete stranger. His parents started a foundation in his honour, and in conjunction with the Salvation Army, volunteers hit the streets every Friday and Saturday night wearing Thomas' initials which stand for Take Kare - the last words Ralph and Kathy ever said to their son. A dedicated safe space is also provided for those who may have overindulged and are in need of a much-needed rest. Salvation Army lead organiser Nathan Brown said party-goers can charge their phones, drink water, use the angel's phones to contact family or friends to pick them up. 'They are feeling smashed, got sore feet and probably feeling a bit groggy in the head, so if we can help them feel a bit more comfortable or help get them home in the right direction I think it's the small stuff but hopefully that's intervening before things go to a really bad place,' he told A Current Affair. 'This is a brilliant project and I applaud Ralph for his determination in seeing it set up,' Mr Brown said. 'I think that Thomas would be blown away by the support this program is receiving and the volunteers who turn up to help serve and wear Thomas's name on their chest which is an honour for us - and I really hope we are doing him proud.' The safe space, which is also rolling out in Melbourne and Brisbane aswell, is funded by the NSW Governement and Sydney Council but there is only enough funding for a three-month trial. 'If it saves one persons' life it's definitely a service worth doing,'Ralph said. 'Most parents probably will have no idea that their parents were saves last night or the night before - it's really about making sure our kids get home safely. 'We are looking for an organisation to partner with us to fund this program to help our youth in the city and other areas around Sydney.' Sydney's designated safe space needs more funding to keep going after the three month trial . Thomas (pictured left in surveillance footage) with his friends on his first and last night out in Kings Cross . There has been no serious brain injury as a result of alcohol at St Vincent's hospital in 2014 since the part of the new licensing restrictions which were introduced in February . His wife, Kathy, said her job is done if no other families have to suffer the way hers has from a single cowardly punch. 'Life will never be the same - we miss Thomas deeply and it never really gets better i think people think you could you get over it but you never do,' she said. Cass, 18, who is only just of legal age and doesn't drink much, volunteered to help patrol the streets on Wednesday night. 'It is a big task but I find because I'm so young I'm able to relate to people who are my age and kind of be like that mother hen,' she said. The foundation successfully lobbied the NSW government to increase licensing restrictions across the heart of Sydney now they are turning to the federal government to curb alcohol advertising. 'We have seen no serious brain injury as a result of alcohol at St Vincent's hospital for 2014 and that has to be a good thing and that's a part of the new laws that were introduced in February this year,' Ralph told ACA. 'Life will never be the same - we miss Thomas deeply and it never really gets better i think people think you could you get over it but you never do,' says his mother Kathy . Salvation Army lead organiser Nathan Brown said party-goers can charge their phones, drink water, use the angel's phones to contact family or friends to pick them up from the safe space . But this doesn't mean that alcohol-fuelled violence is not still prevalent among young people. 'It's very sad we see it keep happening over and over again and I think that often makes you feel like throwing your arms up in the air and saying "we've tried what more can we do?" but we have to keep trying,' Kathy insists. The foundation is also working on changing the justice system to put the victim's rights ahead of the offenders. Thomas' killer was initially sentenced to just five years jail for manslaughter which was doubled to ten years following an appeal. 'There's this terrible injustice going on in this state as we have seen on multiple occasions and that really has to stop,' Ralph said. 'We can not let these offenders roam our streets and be let off time and time again.' If you are interested in helping to fund the program contact the Thomas Kelly Youth Foundation . Cass, 18, (right) who is only just of legal age and doesn't drink much, volunteered to help patrol the streets in Sydney on Wednesday night .

Guardian angels took care of young partiers in Sydney on New Years Eve . 60 volunteers offered water, lollipops and even comfy pairs of thongs . Service is run by Thomas Kelly Youth Foundation and Salvation Army . Thomas was killed by king hit on first night out in Kings Cross in 2012 . Funds are needed to continue the services which includes safe spaces .

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Kill the badgers: 'Any future Conservative government' would push ahead with 'a wider roll-out of the culls',  said Environment Secretary Liz Truss . Environment Secretary Liz Truss has promised to roll out controversial badger culls across Britain if the Tories win the election, calling bovine TB the 'greatest threat' to our food security. Addressing the National Farmers Union conference yesterday, she said 'any future Conservative government' would push ahead with 'a wider roll-out of the culls', which have been fiercely criticised by wildlife groups. Her comments came as NFU president Meurig Raymond said the incidence of TB had decreased on farms in two pilot areas in Somerset and Gloucestershire where culling of badgers has taken place over the last two years. He urged politicians not to make the controversial cull 'a party political issue' in the run-up to the general election, and criticised Labour for pledging to give up on culling. Ms Truss pledged that any future Conservative government would 'take the difficult decisions to deal with this disease'. She told the conference: 'It is shameful that under the previous government bovine TB increased nine-fold and we ended up with the highest levels of the disease in Europe. It is incredible that they would like to make the same mistake again.' She said the Government's strategy included cattle movement controls, vaccination in 'edge' areas around disease hotspots, and culling where the disease is rife. 'We will not let up, whatever complaints we get from protest groups. We're in it for the long haul. We will not walk away,' she said to the conference, to applause from farmers. Speaking to journalists after her speech, she said: 'I've been very clear we will continue with the 25-year strategy, and that does envisage a wider roll-out of the culls.' While she would not say when the roll-out could take place, Mr Raymond said there was 'no reason' why - if the Conservatives get back into power and the strategy was still on the table - other areas would not be ready to start culling this year. Mr Raymond told delegates at the NFU conference that in the two pilot areas TB incidence had already declined, adding that the reductions were 'not just by a small amount either - in the Somerset pilot area TB incidence on farms has decreased from 34 per cent to 11 per cent compared to two years ago'. And he said: 'In Gloucestershire, vets are also reporting a reduction in TB in cattle too. And just two days ago, one of our Gloucestershire members was given the fantastic news that his farm is now clear of TB, for the first time in 11 years. 'He is very clear that the only thing that's changed on his farm is that we are now doing something to control the disease in wildlife.' Backing: Her comments came as NFU president Meurig Raymond, right, said TB had decreased on farms in parts of Somerset and Gloucestershire where badger culls have taken place over the past two years . Mr Raymond also called for the next government to make food and farming a priority, in the face of a report which showed declining self-sufficiency of UK food production. Research from the NFU released ahead of the conference suggested the UK's self-sufficiency is in a 30-year downward spiral, with 60 per cent of food needs met with produce from farms here. At current rates, and with the UK population expected to grow to 70 million in 20 years, the figure could fall to 53 per ent by the 2040s, the NFU claimed, warning it would have serious implications for the British economy, food security and employment. In his speech to the conference, Mr Raymond said that in 1984 the UK produced more than 80 per cent of what the country consumed. 'If you like to look at it this way, our national cupboard lasted us well into autumn. By 2013, the cupboard was bare by August 7. If we go on like this we will run out by mid-summer. 'Who would want to lead the country down a path where we produce less than half the food we eat? This will be totally unacceptable to the British public and in no way in the national interest.' Mr Raymond said polling for the NFU showed that 85 per cent of British people wanted to see supermarkets sell more British food, and nearly eight out of ten believed the Government should do more to ensure a secure and affordable supply of British food. He called for measures to protect farmers from market volatility, including by making sure the food chain worked fairly, better regulation on labelling, preventing 'Nimbys' using the planning system to stop poultry sheds being built or alternative energy projects going ahead, and to 'sort out the mess' of reform to the European Union subsidy system that attempted to make it 'greener'. On the run: The Tories say they would continue with their 25-year TB eradication strategy, which includes a roll-out of the badger cull . Anti-cull campaigners reacted angrily to Ms Truss's comments. Claire Bass, Humane Society International/UK's executive director, said: 'The badger cull has been a very expensive, cruel and ineffective farce and Liz Truss cuts an increasingly lonely figure in continuing to defend it.' She claimed that 'almost unanimous scientific opinion' described the cull as a failure. And she said: 'This cull fails our wildlife by subjecting badgers to inhumane shooting; it fails farmers by promising a solution to TB that simply doesn't work; and it fails the public by wasting millions of pounds of taxpayers' money. 'The rational, scientific and apolitical solution to bovine TB is happening right now in Wales: a combination of badger vaccination, improved farm biosecurity and stricter cattle movement measures. 'With the election just weeks away the Government has a short window of opportunity to reverse this disastrous strategy and win back some public trust in its countryside policies.' In Gloucestershire just 274 badgers were culled in the second year of the pilot, falling far short of the minimum 615 estimated to be needed to deliver reductions in TB in livestock, leading the chief vet to admit the benefits of the cull might not be realised there. The Government claimed the low numbers in Gloucestershire reflected the 'challenges of extensive unlawful protest and intimidation' by anti-cull campaigners. In Somerset, where the other pilot cull has been carried out, a sufficient number of badgers were killed this year to lead to expected reductions in TB in cattle, with 341 culled, in a required range of 316 to 785. In both of the pilot areas, a significant proportion were killed by the more expensive cage trapping and shooting method, rather than 'controlled shooting' of free-running badgers. Ministers and farmers insist culling is necessary to tackle TB, which can be spread from badgers to livestock, with more than 26,000 cattle slaughtered in England last year and multimillion-pound losses. But opponents say badger-culling is inhumane and ineffective, and alternatives such as vaccination should be pursued. An independent expert panel concluded that controlled shooting of badgers in the first year of the cull was not effective or humane.

Liz Truss vowed to extend the scheme in speech to farmers' union . NFU President Meurig Raymond says it must not be 'party political' issue . He also warns over Britain's declining food production self-sufficiency .

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(CNN) -- Nothing is funnier than sex. In all the fretting over teens having babies and ranting against abortion, we forget about the night the bed broke, or the trouble we had pushing the dog off the couch, or even the laugh we had at age 11 when we stole our big sister's list of words for vagina. ("The Duchess"? Really?) For reasons religious and political, certain Americans have turned what is one of the most natural and silliest of experiences into a sermon. As in, don't do it until you're married. Young people, ages 18 to 29, are simply ignoring this. According to a national survey by the Guttmacher Institute, almost 90% of unmarried young adults have had sex, and most are sexually active. This horse is not only out of the barn, it's down the road and having a long drink of water. And the cowboys and cowgirls trying to rope the horse back in would do better to turn their attention to an issue they might be able to do something about: promoting contraception. Single U.S. women in their 20s have one of the highest unplanned pregnancy rates in the world: seven out of 10, to be exact. Five out of 10 such pregnancies result in births. Consequences for the young parents and their children can be severe: stalled educational opportunities and serious health and school problems, among others. The latest major player to focus attention on pregnancy prevention is the Ad Council, the organization that, 67 years ago, brought us Smokey Bear and fire prevention and later, produced such notables as car crash dummies Vince and Larry and the phrase "Friends don't let friends drive drunk." The Ad Council recently began offering 33,000 media outlets -- digital, TV, radio, outdoor and print -- the opportunity to run for free a series of short ads encouraging 20-somethings to use birth control. Humor is key. Of course, unplanned pregnancy is a serious problem in this country, council President Peggy Conlon said in an interview, similar to others the council has tackled, such as such as childhood obesity, gay and lesbian bullying, and dating abuse. "Frankly, we don't take on many new campaigns," Conlon said. "We get hundreds of requests and take on maybe three to five a year. We felt very strongly that educating young women about birth control is a straightforward proposition. The campaign is exclusively about what options you have if you decide you're going to have sex and don't want to get pregnant. It's really education in prevention, as simple as that." The public service announcements aren't on a par with comedian Whitney Cummings' risqué material, but they do make any sex jokes we parents make look incredibly lame. In one of them, two partners struggle to remove jeans that are fashionably skinny. In another, the slippery shower stall poses a problem. In yet another, a passionate couple is interrupted by a voyeur: a black and white Great Dane-boxer mix with a disapproving stare. (No worries: I'm not spoiling anything here. The ads, created by the New York agency Euro RSCG, are way funnier than I am.) At the end of each spot, viewers are directed to the website www.bedsider.org, which also uses humor to help visitors compare 15 kinds of contraception, locate the closest place to acquire various methods, set up regular birth control reminders, and watch videos of real women sharing birth control experiences, including women who are not having sex. Animated shorts on the site debunk sex myths. As in, is it possible for a guy to be too big for a condom? One click on a drawing of a dachshund, entitled "2 big 2 fit," brings up the answer. Want advice for better sex? The site has that, too, for example, "Warming the feet can increase your chance of orgasm by 30%." Who knew? Bedsider is a project of The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, a nonprofit organization that bid last year for the coveted Ad Council support. The project is being funded -- to the tune of several million dollars -- by a private foundation that the campaign says has no connection to the pharmaceutical industry. The teen pregnancy rate has declined nearly 40% over the past two decades, but rates of unplanned pregnancy among young adults have remained stubbornly high. This stagnation compelled Sarah Brown, the National Campaign's CEO, to seek fresh thinking, including help from IDEO, a San Francisco-based design firm whose clients include Converse shoes and the smartphone alternative Peek. "We need to rebrand contraception as something that promotes self-determination, education and achievement," Brown said. Not everyone will agree with Brown, of course. Recently, several conservative Republican lawmakers attempted to rebuke the concept of contraception as an endorsement of "consequence-free sex" that will bring about a "pagan society," and said it uses public funding to prevent a generation from being born. (I am not making this up. See NPR correspondent Julie Rovner's broadcast.) The problem is not contraception, dear U.S. Rep. Steve King and others; it's not taking advantage of contraception. Fewer than half of the young adults surveyed by Guttmacher said they used birth control carefully and consistently. I confess I have some difficulty understanding why so many young couples today don't use birth control faithfully. When women of my generation moved into adulthood, we had very few people to talk to about sex and only a couple of choices of birth control. Illegal and dangerous abortions were common. So it's easy for us to mutter something like, "Don't these young women know how lucky they are?" Well no, many of them don't. Nor should we expect them to. What we can do is recall what it was like to do a little mattress dancing at their age, and how concerns about school or friends or the possibility of getting pregnant could keep us from really enjoying ourselves. Few things in life feel as good as good sex, especially with a loving partner. And today, just as in the past, young people often have to brush away a bunch of pesky thought-gnats to enjoy it. The fear of pregnancy no longer need be one of those pests, and bravo to the Ad Council for reminding us all of that. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Laura Sessions Stepp.

Laura Stepp: Sermons against having sex ineffective; almost all young adults have sex . U.S. has one of the highest unplanned pregnancy rates for single young women, she says . Stepp: The smartest way to prevent unwanted pregnancies is to promote contraception . Stepp: Ad Council campaign uses fresh approach of humor and website to help .

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A policewoman who used the force database 'like Google' to leak information about the manhunt for police killer Dale Cregan to her sister has been jailed. PC Katie Murray wept as she was jailed for almost three years after accessing confidential information about the pursuit to trade as 'gossip.' The 29-year-old even sent her sister, Lindsey, the name and picture of one of the two women police officers shot dead by the one-eyed killer, three hours before they were formally identified at a news conference. In a WhatsApp message between the pair, Lindsey said: 'Oh my God, I can't believe this s***, you better come here after work and fill me in' only for Murray to reply: 'I don't really know anything. He he'. Police constable Katie Murray, 29, (pictured left) was jailed for nearly three years for leaking confidential information about the manhunt for police killer Dale Cregan to her gossip loving sister, Lindsey (pictured right). Lindsey Murray, 33, was jailed for six months . Dale Cregan is serving a whole life sentence for the gun and grenade ­killings of PCs Fiona Bone, 32, and Nicola Hughes, 23, in 2012, and a gangland double murder . The officer, who had been with Greater Manchester Police since 2004, later filmed Cregan as he arrived at Newton Heath Police Station for interview. In the clip she could be heard repeating 'Oh my God, oh my god,' as the killer was being transferred after handing himself in. Cregan is currently serving a whole life sentence for the gun and grenade ­killings of PCs Fiona Bone, 32, and Nicola Hughes, 23, in 2012, and a gangland double murder . Hospital worker Lindsey, said to be a habitual gossiper, was said to have passed on the sensitive material given to her by her sister. Eight days after the serial killer carried out his second of four murders, she told a friend: ''Talking to Kate last night, I know the full story about Cregan x' She was said to have provided details of the case and future police tactics concluding: 'keep it to yourself though. They are all targets our Kate said.' At Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester, the sisters, both of Droylsden, were both convicted misconduct in a public office after a trial. Katie was jailed for two years nine months and Lindsay was jailed for six months. Passing sentence Judge Jonathan Foster QC told the women: 'Katie and Lindsay Murray, until this event you had both done well with your lives, both had responsible jobs and many people spoke well of you. But as sisters you have one thing in common. You both failed to recognise or respect the boundaries between right and wrong. 'Katie Murray you have fallen from grace and you have compromised the confidence of the public in the integrity of the police force. You have affected the reputation of the vast majority of serving police offices and made it less likely members of the public with cooperate with them. 'You knew your sister was a habitual gossiper and was likely to pass on information to others outside confidence. You used the police computer as if you were accessing Google.' The court heard the WPC had once been in a relationship with cannabis dealer Jason Lloyd, 44, and also used the force database to get confidential information to him about police investigations into his criminality over a 20 month period. But Nick Clarke QC prosecuting said: 'She also misused police systems to gain and provide information to friends and family members without any lawful policing purposes. 'Lindsey has requested Katie to check police systems and provide information to her regarding other individuals and incidents known to her. 'There was no proper policing purpose for such inquiries and no legitimate basis for the dissemination of the information.' Leaks by Katie included details of the investigations into the murders by Cregan of Mark Short, 28, who was shot dead at The Cotton Tree Pub in Ashton-under-Lyne on May 25 2012 and father David Short, 46, who was killed in a gun and grenade attack at his home on August 10 2012. When Cregan and another suspect were initially arrested and questioned and bailed on their return from Thailand on June 12 2012, Katie reviewed the arrests and looked at their custody records. PC Katie Murray also shared information with her ex-boyfriend Jason Lloyd . The QC added: 'Lindsey is also very interested in the information that can be obtained from Katie. 'Examination of call data, text and 'What App' messages between Katie, Lindsey and associates has established that Katie divulged to her sister information regarding the murder investigations including the hunt for Dale Cregan and his associates, their arrest and custody process. 'Lindsey was aware that Jason Lloyd was in contact with the Cregan family..' Mr Clarke said when the two policewomen were killed on September 18 2012, Katie was not assigned to the investigation team - yet sent a picture of WPC Nicola at 12.53pm three hours ahead of the Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy naming the dead office during a news conference. The prosecutor said: 'Not only did she constantly monitor the incident logs and activity as shown on the police computers, she was also contacting her sister, then almost immediately afterwards Lloyd. 'Katie Murray calls Mr Lloyd at the time the news is breaking so she can talk to him about developments. Lindsey Murray is clearly very interested in what's going on. 'In a WhatsApp message she said 'Oh my God, I can't believe this s***, you better come here after work and fill me in'. Clearly, Lindsey knows Katie has inside information and Lindsey is not interested in news bulletins but a greater degree of interest in private information. 'Katie replied: 'I don't really know anything. He he'. We suggest the impression of that is that she did, because she has been monitoring the police systems all day. 'She even released a picture of one of the murdered officers before that unfortunate officer had been publicly named by police. 'We are sure that you will be aware how sensitively and carefully controlled the release of such information has to be, to ensure that families are first told through appropriate official channels, other than reading about it on Twitter or through some other gossip based system of information leak - which is what was instigated by Katie that day.' 'Katie went on to video the arrival of Cregan at her police station and to immediately publish that to her sister ad the continued to relay the progress of the investigation and whereabouts of members of the Cregan family..' Police constable Fiona Bone,32, (pictured left) and police constable Nicola Hughes, 23, (pictured right) were both killed by Dale Cregan on a routine call . Murray was found out when police seized Lloyd's mobile phone following the Cregan murders and texts on his mobile phone was examined. 'When police raided Katie's home, they found an envelope of letters written to her from Lloyd which she kept in the drawer of her bedside cabinet. In mitigation Murray's defence counsel Rick Holland said: 'Despite the fact she was a police officer for ten years, nothing can prepare her for the rigours of the custodial regime that awaits her. 'She was profoundly upset when those two officers died as were all the officers. She didn't take the images from the internal computers, the information was obtained and she shared their details from Facebook. 'There was a language used that was contemptuous of Cregan and others. She described the day she was arrested as the worst in her life. She is utterly ruined now.' James Harrison, representing Lindsay Murray said: 'She was receiving information from police computers out of curiosity. It was a sustained course of misguided curiosity. She says she was like a member of neighbourhood watch.' Lloyd, from Droyslden was jailed for 15 years after being convicted of misconduct, drugs and firearms offences.

PC Katie Murray was found guilty of misconduct in a public office by jury . Her sister Lindsey, 33, was also convicted at Minshull Street Crown Court . The WPC leaked information about the manhunt of Dale Cregan to sibling . Katie was jailed for nearly three years and her sister for six months .

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(CNN) -- Leaping from rooftops and doing backflips off walls is when Prince Haydar feels the most free. The 25-year-old from Baghdad is one of the city's small band of freerunners, who take every opportunity to practice parkour in a city striving for normality and currently facing a resurgence of deadly violence. "When I do parkour, I get rid of all the scattered thoughts in my head and empty all the anger from inside me," said Haydar. From the streets of Paris in the 1990s, where parkour was first popularized, to Zawra park in Iraq's capital, freerunning has become a global phenomenon. The sport evolved from French military training and involves running through urban environments using only the body to overcome obstacles and objects. In Baghdad, the challenges are even greater than in other cities. Haydar says his fellow freerunners have to contend with a public unsure of what to make of a group running and leaping through the city's largest public park. There is also the threat of bomb attacks and indiscriminate violence in the city. "It is dangerous and it is difficult to practice parkour anywhere," he says. "Sometimes we are exposed to arrested or misunderstanding from some people and there is the deteriorating security situation." But despite these challenges, Haydar is committed to improving in his sport, and teaching its benefits to others. He was first turned on to freerunning in 2007 when he watched the film "District B13" that featured parkour in many of its stunt sequences. Inspired, he sought out internet clips of the sport in order to learn parkour techniques. "We are a small group of young people and there are no parkour classes," he says, noting that the group -- aged between 18 and 25 -- support and teach each other, going as far as pooling their money to rent a gym. "It's small and does not meet the purpose," he says. "It's very far from our homes, but despite of all these difficult circumstances we go." "I love parkour because this sport is the art of movement and freedom and this art has made me know true freedom in this difficult life."

Prince Haydar is one of Baghdad's exponents of parkour . Freerunning in Iraq's capital is dangerous, he says, and freerunners often misunderstood . Baghdad Pk group often trains in Zawra park, near city's fomer Green Zone . Members are self-taught and rely on internet videos to learn new techniques .

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By . Helen Pow . An Iowa couple are in shock after a four-month-old boy they adopted died, allegedly in the care of his 'neglectful' teen father, just a month after they were forced to give him back to his biological parents. Rachel and Heidi McFarland of Ankeny cared for little Gabriel from birth until the middle of March, when his mother, Markeya Atkins, 16, took him back. But on Wednesday the couple learned, while watching the evening news, that the infant they considered their own had tragically died. Scroll down for video . Tragic: Rachel and Heidi McFarland, pictured, of Ankeny cared for little Gabriel from birth until the middle of March, and are traumatized by his death . 'It's like he's been taken away from you again,' Rachel McFarland told the Des Moines Register. Police have charged Drew James Weehler-Smith of Des Moines with neglect of a dependent person after he left his son alone in an apartment on Tuesday. The baby was found unresponsive by his mother, who had been out running errands, at around 8:20p.m., with a bottle by his side and a white substance around his mouth. Atkins is heartbroken over the death of her son, a picture of whom she's put as her Facebook cover photo. But the McFarlands, who have been married five years and together 18, are also devastated. They had supported the mother financially through her pregnancy and had been with her at every doctor's appointment. The couple said they repeatedly asked Atkins if she wanted to go ahead with the adoption and she said 'yes.' 'We brought him home from the hospital,' Rachel McFarland told the Register. 'I cut his umbilical cord.' She . said from that moment on she spent every waking moment with the baby . until his birth mother reneged on the adoption that was agreed last . September. Heidi even took maternity leave from work. Teen mom: Gabriel's mother, Markeya Atkins, 16, pictured left took him back on March 13. She is no doubt also devastated by his death . Scene: According to police, the young mom left the baby with Weehler-Smith in an apartment, pictured, in the 6500 block of Chaffee Road at about 7:25p.m. while she went to the library and to run errands . 'It just felt natural. When he was with us it just felt right. Like we were always meant to be moms,' Rachel told WHOTV.com. But, in Iowa, the birth mother has three months and then one additional 31-day probationary period to change her mind about giving up her baby. 'We had to go through our worst possible day with our attorney,' Rachel said, referring to when Gabriel was taken from them. 'And then we found out on the news today. ...Nobody called or told me.' According to police, the young mom left the baby with Weehler-Smith in an apartment in the 6500 block of Chaffee Road at about 7:25p.m. while she went to the library and to run errands. About 25 . minutes later, a friend dropped into the apartment to collect a phone . charger and saw the father holding the child. She left and called the . mother asking whether she trusted Weehler-Smith with the infant. The . Register reported that the mother asked the friend to return to the . apartment but when she pulled in she saw the father driving away without . the baby. She notified the mom who rushed home, and found Gabriel limp and not breathing in a glider chair. Loving moms: Gabriel was born deaf in one ear, Rachel told WHOTV.com. The McFarlands, pictured, had fitted him for a hearing aid and had planned to learn sign language so they could communicate with the child in case he lost the hearing in his other ear . Poor baby: Police have charged Drew James Weehler-Smith of Des Moines with neglect of a dependent person after he left his son, pictured, alone in an apartment on Tuesday . Second thoughts: Atkins, 16, pictured left, changed her mind about the adoption of little Gabriel, left and right, on March 13 . He as pronounced dead at hospital. Gabriel was born deaf in one ear, Rachel told the TV station. The McFarlands had fitted him for a hearing aid and had planned to learn sign language so they could communicate with the child in case he lost the hearing in his other ear. The couple are frustrated that their lives were scrutinized before they were approved to adopt the baby, yet Atkins' home was never checked for safety. 'The thing is we have been scrutinized. Our lifestyle has been scrutinized; the people that are in our lives have been scrutinized,' Rachel told WHOTV.com. 'We had to have letters of reference for this home study to make sure that we were adequate as parents, and they never had to have anything when they took him back.' While devastated, the McFarlands are determined not to let the failed adoption and Gabriel's death ruin their lives. 'We're just left to put the pieces back together,' Rachel said. Weehler-Smith could face additional charges pending the results of an autopsy.

Rachel and Heidi McFarland of Ankeny, Iowa, cared for little Gabriel from birth until the middle of March, when his mother, Markeya Atkins, 16, took him back . Police have charged Drew James Weehler-Smith of Des Moines with neglect of a dependent person after he left his son alone in an apartment on Tuesday . The baby was found unresponsive by its mother, who had been out running errands, at around 8:20p.m. The McFarlands had supported the mother financially through her pregnancy and had been with her at every doctor's appointment . They cut his umbilical cord and cared for him for his first three months . But last month, Atkins changed her mind and took the baby back, as is her right under Iowa law .

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PUBLISHED: . 06:53 EST, 24 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 09:03 EST, 24 May 2013 . If you are a female with a tattoo you are a more likely to sleep with men on the first date, claims a French professor. You are also seen as more attractive and more approachable. A team from France's Université de Bretagne-Sud showed. Guéguen carried out a study on the beaches of Brittany during the summers of 2008 and 2009. Painted ladies: singer Cher Lloyd (left) and actress Kym Marsh (right) are both fans of body art . 11 university-aged women who had been rated as the most attractive out of a group of 58 visited the  beach 20 times during the summer, wearing a temporary tattoo on their lower back 50% of the time and with clean skin the rest of the time. When women were displaying the tattoos researchers found that the men were more likely to approach and then chat with them, as well as being quicker in making their approach. For the second part of the experiment a group of over 400 20something men who were on the beaches at the same time as the sunbathing women were quizzed. Model Cara Delevingne has had two tattoos on her hand in two weeks, but do they make her more attractive . They were asked to answer two questions about the women, once they had been identified as somebody to analyse with reference to a study in romantic relationships: what they thought the likelihood was of the girl agreeing to go out on a . date with them, and of the likelihood of having sex on the first date? They were also asked to rate the girl's attractiveness. The results showed that women with tattoos were considered both more likely to go on a date and also more likely to have sex on the first date. Critics of the findings claim that they are incomplete because no reasons were given as to why the men reacted this way, whether it is based on stereotypes or personal experiences, and also the survey only took in to account one particular type and placement of tattoo. Female celebrity tattoo fans include Rihanna, Victoria Beckham, Cher Lloyd, Kym Marsh and Cara Delevingne who had two tattoos within two weeks this month.

French University team surveyed men on the beaches of Brittany . Attractive women wore temporary tattoos while sunbathing 50% of the time . When wearing the tattoos they were seen as more available . Young men rated the tattooed women as more attractive and more dateable .

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By . Sally Lee . Johnny Lin is living the high life. The Brisbane real estate agent is earning about $800,000 a year and he's only 27. And he rewards himself by fine-dining with friends every night, indulgent holidays every few months and plans to retire in the next three years. But life hasn't always been easy for the managing director of Harcourts Aspley - north of Brisbane - who worked 70 to 80 hours a week for the first three years of his career. Johnny Lin, at just 27, makes $800,000 gross commission a year . 'I remember I was still living at home and had to borrow money from my parents at the start,' he told Daily Mail Australia. 'It wasn't easy. I went crazy over work and dropped everything for it. I pretty much gave up three years of my life.' Johnny says he grew up knowing he'll be working in the business industry but he never even considered real estate until he stepped into a noodle shop in Aspley back in 2007. 'I had just about finished by engineering degree at the time but I knew I didn't to spend the rest of my life sitting behind a computer,' he said. 'One day I walked into a noodle shop and got talking to a real estate agent. Then he told me that I'd make a good agent, gave me his card and told me to give him a call. 'Two months later, I was working for him and I haven't looked back.' Mr Lin works at Brisbane real estate agency Harcourts Aspley - in the city's northside . But it's a choice he'll understandably never regret. 'My mum thought it was insane that I was giving up engineering because I had already graduated from it but I knew it was a risk I had to take when I was young,' Johnny said. Within the first six months of starting at Harcourts Aspley, Johnny and a friend took over half the business. 'I was addicted to work,' he said. 'I'd be working 70 to 80 hours a week, going to work by 8am and coming home at about 9pm. Then I'd jump back on the computer at home and keep at it.' And it appears the hard work has paid off. 'The last few years I made an average of about $800,000 in gross commission,' he said. 'Most recently I sold 83 properties and earned $810,000 in gross commission.' Seven years later, Johnny has won over 150 awards - including the No.1 Sales Consultant in Brisbane, No. 2 Sales Consultant in Queensland and No. 7 Sales Consultant in Australia 2012/2013. 'I've got more trophies than I can keep in my office,' he said. 'But at the end of the day, money isn't everything. My ultimate goal is to be happy and I'm the happiest when I'm working.'

Johnny Lin has been in the real estate industry for seven years . He was originally studying to be a mechanical engineer but decided to leave it behind . The self-confessed work addict says he's won more than 150 awards .

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(CNN) -- An Australian pilot landed a company plane in the ocean off Darwin on Friday, in a water landing that prompted comparisons to last month's landing of a US Airways jet in New York's Hudson River. The Australian pilot has been compared to U.S. hero Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger, pictured above. The Australian pilot also encountered problems shortly after takeoff. The twin-propeller plane was carrying the pilot and five passengers when it went down shortly after leaving Darwin International Airport, said Neville Blyth, a senior transport safety investigator with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau. All those aboard were unhurt and managed to walk to shore, he said. Pictures showed the men from the plane soaked and carrying bags and equipment as they walked through the water. "It's essentially a good story," Blyth said. The ATSB is deciding whether to investigate, he said, and the cause of the incident is still unknown. The Piper Chieftain plane was on its way to the town of Maningrida, about 500 kilometers (310 miles) east of Darwin, according to its owner, Australian information technology company CSG. Watch the plane ditch in Darwin Harbor » . "We would like to congratulate the pilot following all emergency landing and evacuation procedures and his very professional handling of the situation," a CSG statement said. Darwin is in Australia's Northern Territory, on the coast of the Timor Sea. The city's airport is near the water. The plane's trajectory took it over the water, giving the pilot limited opportunities to ditch the plane on land, Blyth said. He said the ocean was a safer option for landing than the beach, where the firmness of the sand was unknown. "Personally, I think the decision was appropriate," Blyth said. Australian media dubbed the captain of the Darwin plane "Sully Lite," comparing him to the captain of the US Airways Airbus jet that landed safely in the Hudson. Pilot Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger was hailed as a hero for landing the plane safely and ensuring that all 155 people on board survived. Asked about the comparisons, Blyth said the connection was tenuous. "The correlation for a water landing is as close as it gets," he said.

Australian pilot lands a company plane in the ocean off Darwin . He and five passengers escape injury after emergency landing . Australian media dubbed pilot "Sully Lite," comparing him to U.S. hero .

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By . Sara Malm . PUBLISHED: . 06:49 EST, 10 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:03 EST, 10 October 2013 . Teenage activist Malala Yousafzai has been honoured with one of the European Union's most prestigious awards for human rights. The 16-year-old schoolgirl who shot by the Pakistani Taliban for championing girls' rights to an education, has been awarded the 2013 Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought, . The £42,000 prize, awarded annually by the European Parliament, was bestowed on the 16-year-old for her 'incredible strength' in fighting for girls right to education. Scroll down for video . Honoured: The 16-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl has been awarded the 2013 Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought by the European Parliament . The 16-year-old is one of the favourites to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, whose winner is due to be announced by the Nobel Committee tomorrow. Malala now lives in Birmingham with her family after recovering from the attempt on her life by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in October last year. A Taliban assassin entered her school bus and shot her in the head to halt her campaign for the right to education for girls in Pakistan. Her life was saved thanks to swift action by doctors in her home country and subsequent treatment in Britain and her way back has earned her plaudits from across the world. Awarded: Malala Yousafzai is presented with the Mirror Pride of Britain Teenager of Courage Award by David Beckham this week . Only after prompt medical treatment in Pakistan and later, following an emergency airlift to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, did she survive. Since the age of 11, Malala has been the voice of  girls' rights in Pakistan and once her medical treatment was completed she addressed the United Nations in July and was feted by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for her tireless work in the face of adversity. Her words: Malala has told her story in a newly published biography . Today, announcing the award of the Sakharov Prize, the President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz also praised Malala's advocacy on behalf of the millions of girls around the world who are denied their basic right to an education. He said: ‘By awarding the Sakharov Prize to Malala Yousafzai, the European Parliament acknowledges the incredible strength of this young woman. ‘Malala bravely stands for the right of all children to be granted a fair education. ‘This right for girls is far too commonly neglected. ‘Malala has courageously recovered from a Taliban attack and now eloquently advocates through the world for this fundamental and just cause. ‘Let us not forget that Malala is still threatened in Pakistan.’ He added: ‘As tomorrow is the International Day of the Girl Child, I would like to recall that some 250 million young girls around the world cannot freely go to school. ‘Malala's example reminds us of our duty and responsibility to the right to education for children. ‘This is the best investment for the future.’ Noted past recipients of the Sakharov award include two former Nobel Peace Prize winners; former South African president Nelson Mandela and Burmese politician and former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi.

Malala Yousafzai awarded 2013 Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought . Schoolgirl, 16, honoured by European Parliament for 'incredible strength' Malala now lives in Birmingham after recovering from assassination attempt .

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Queens Park Rangers will appoint former Tottenham coach Chris Ramsey to their coaching staff next week. Having been appointed head of football operations earlier this month, one of Les Ferdinand’s first tasks has been to secure Ramsey’s services. Ramsey will be joining the club’s academy set-up, working alongside Ferdinand. Chris Ramsey orders instructions to the England Under 17's earlier this week . Along with Ramsey, Les Ferdinand has also linked up with Harry Redknapp at QPR . QPR boss Redknapp has been keen on bolster his coaching ranks for many months . His appointment will enhance the ex-Spurs contingent now plying their trade on the QPR coaching staff. Manager Harry Redknapp, coaches Glenn Hoddle, Joe Jordan, Kevin Bond, Ferdinand and now Ramsey have all worked at White Hart Lane. Ramsey’s appointment follows Nick Daws leaving QPR for Scunthorpe while academy boss Richard Allen is also leaving for a role at the FA.

Harry Redknapp has been keen on bolstering his coaching ranks . Chris Ramsey joins Les Ferdinand in linking up with the former Tottenham boss at Loftus Road . Ramsey will work alongside Ferdinand in the club's academy .

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By . Peter Allen . Last updated at 12:43 AM on 30th August 2011 . 'Furious argument': Tilly Lamb was allegedly rowing with her husband before she fell to her death . Witnesses heard a ‘furious argument’ before a British mother of four plunged from a third-floor holiday apartment in a Moroccan resort, it emerged yesterday. Tilly Lamb, 43, was seen lying fatally injured and semi-clothed on the ground before her husband Roger, 47, appeared briefly to check her pulse. He then went back into the two-bedroom flat in Essaouira, on the west coast of the North African country, where their four sons aged nine to 16 were sleeping. They were to be orphaned four days later when Mr Lamb fell to his own death from the second-floor balcony of a nearby luxury hotel. The startling revelations emerged as police in Morocco were accused of trying to cover up the circumstances surrounding the deaths. Despite a criminal inquiry being launched, the £30-a-night flat where the family were staying is still being rented to holidaymakers. A Daily Mail reporter and photographer were yesterday shown around the spacious apartment in the town’s ancient Medina area, popular with bohemian tourists looking to taste North African culture. An examination of the 3ft by 4ft window from which Mrs Lamb fell seemed to contradict police claims that she ‘stumbled and lost her footing’ in the early hours of August 17. Not only would the bottom of the window have been at waist level when Mrs Lamb was standing on the floor, but a high wooden balustrade would have prevented her from falling. There was no damage to any part of the window. The flat’s owner, Majid Naimi, said: ‘The only way out of the window is if someone climbs out or is pushed. There is no way it was just an accident.’ Mr Naimi, 24, rented the flat to Mrs Lamb for 900 dirhams, or around £70, for three days. Recalling his first meeting with the family, he said: ‘Mrs Lamb appeared very relaxed and happy. 'She said she wanted to stay for three nights with her husband and sons. On the second night of their stay I got a phone call in the middle of the night saying there had been a terrible incident, with Mrs Lamb falling head first on to the street below. An examination of the flat by a Daily Mail . reporter makes a mockery of police claims that Mrs Lamb stumbled from . the third floor window (left) as there is a waist high balustrade to . prevent people from falling . Death fall: Roger Lamb died four days after his wife when he fell from a second-floor balcony at a luxury hotel . ‘There had been a furious argument . heard by neighbours a few minutes beforehand. I spoke to Mr Lamb the . next day and he was very calm and relaxed. The boys were in agony, . however – they were crying and were very distressed. Fatally injured: Tilly Lamb reportedly had a furious row at the flat she was holidaying in before she fell to her death . ‘Mr Lamb went to the beach to swim. He and the boys completed their three-night stay, and then checked in at . the nearby Sofitel Hotel.’ Mrs Lamb died in hospital three days after her fall, and her husband plunged to his death the following day. Jamal Dabi, 23, was near the flat at 12.30am on the night of the first tragedy when he heard ‘terrible screams’. He told the Mail: ‘The English woman . had been involved in an argument and dropped on to a ledge above a shop . and rolled on to the ground. She had no clothes on except underwear. ‘A few minutes later the husband appeared to check her pulse. He quickly made his way back up to the flat.’ But last night Mrs Lamb’s . brother-in-law said the couple’s sons denied there was any argument and . insisted the holiday was ‘entirely amicable’. Mark Rogerson said: ‘It was Ramadan . so there was a great deal of noise around the building. Someone was . banging on the door downstairs. ‘Tilly leaned over and told them to . go away. There was an awning halfway down, so she had to lean quite a . long way out to see over it. ‘As the police said, some wooden bar on the window broke and she fell.’ About the suggestion there had been . an argument prior to her death, Mr Rogerson added: ‘These reports are . utterly and totally untrue. They are also extremely hurtful to the . family, particularly to the boys. ‘My source for information is one of the boys and they were there.’ Yesterday the couple’s four sons – . Angus, 16, Monty, 15, Henry, 11, and Felix, nine – were staying at the . Wiltshire home of their mother’s sister, Charlotte, and her husband . Rupert Sebag Montefiore. He is chairman of estate agent Savills and is related by marriage to socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson. Spacious: The £30-per-night flat is still being let out to holidaymakers despite the criminal inquiry . Following his wife's death a 'calm and relaxed' Mr Lamb checked into the Sofitel Hotel, pictured, with his sons . Mr Lamb, a geo-technical engineer, . had been living in New Zealand, where he was helping to rebuild the . earthquake-hit city of Christchurch. His family stayed at their £850,000 . home in the Worcestershire village of Pensham but they were understood . to be preparing to join him. An Essaouira police spokesman said the accident was still under investigation. Orphaned: Roger Lamb with his four sons. They are are now being looked after by their aunt and uncle at their Wiltshire home .

Husband checked pulse after plunge before returning to the flat . Flat where she fell still being let out to holidaymakers . 3ft by 4ft window with protective bars means tragedy was no accident, claims flat owner . Roger Lamb appeared 'calm and relaxed' on day after his wife's death . Orphaned sons return to the UK to stay with aunt .

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Drugs paraphernalia will be given to heroin addicts for free by the government in a bid to deter them from injecting the substance. Users will be given free foil to help them heat up the class-A drug in an attempt to encourage them to inhale it and thereby avoid the risks of contracting diseases such as HIV. Aluminium foil is used to warm heroin and breathe in its fumes to get high. Heroin addicts are to be given foil for free in a bid to encourage them to inhale the drug and reduce the risk of diseases such as HIV . Under current laws health professionals are banned from giving out foil to addicts, but the new rules, thought up by the Home Office, would end this practice. The scheme is likely to draw criticism from anti-drugs campaigners for fear it could encourage people to take drugs. Crime Prevention Minister Norman Baker said: ‘By allowing foil to be legally provided by healthcare professionals we are taking another positive step in reducing the number of individuals, families and communities whose lives are destroyed by drugs. ‘The decision was made on the condition that it is part of structured efforts to get individuals off drugs and will minimise the risk of spreading viruses like HIV, while encouraging more addicts to engage with support services. ‘It is also part of a range of work the coalition government is doing to reduce and prevent illegal drug use - helping dependent individuals through treatment, educating young people about the risks and supporting law enforcement in tackling the illicit trade.’ Crime Prevention Minister Norman Baker, pictured, said allowing foil to be legally provided will reduce the number of people whose lives are destroyed by drugs . Professor Les Iversen, former chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, first made calls in 2010 for foil to be given to addicts to deter them from injecting. Schemes which give drug users safe places to inject and dispose of needles cleanly are already run in areas with high heroin usage. The scheme would cost £72 per addict per year, as opposed to the £84 per addict per year currently spent on providing clean needles. It comes as recent figures suggest nearly 300,000 people in the UK still use heroin and crack cocaine.

Scheme is to encourage addicts to inhale the drug and reduce risk of HIV . Foil will be given for free so heroin can be heated up to smoke . New rules by the Home Office are to 'engage addicts in support services' Anti-drugs campaigners fear it will encourage more people to take heroin . Currently, health professionals are banned from giving out foil to users .

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Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- One day after Syrian rebels accused government forces of a deadly bombing near a hospital in the besieged city of Aleppo, opposition groups said another 151 people had been killed in the fighting Thursday. The majority of those deaths occurred in the Syrian capital of Damascus and its suburbs, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based opposition group. Another 34 were killed in Aleppo, where some of the heaviest fighting has occurred. The 20-month civil war has claimed more than 42,000 lives, according to the latest tally from the opposition Center for Documentation of Violations in Syria. The group counts 3,133 government soldiers among the dead. And the bloodletting has since carried on unabated while also threatening regional stability. On Wednesday, 15 people died in the strike on a building next to the Dar al-Shifa Hospital, including two children and a doctor. Ralib al-Omar, a leader of the Yusif al-Asma rebel group, said the strike had targeted the hospital and that the dead included two nurses. A doctor was among the dead -- one of 40 people killed in Aleppo on Wednesday and 113 across the country. Dar al-Shifa is one of the main sources of medical help for people in Syria's commercial hub. In video posted by opposition activists, the blast appeared to have affected the hospital's often-crowded front lobby. Amanpour blog: U.S. has no plan for Syria . Protests first broke out against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in March 2011. Al-Assad responded by turning the army and police on the demonstrations. The government-owned Syrian Arab News Agency reported a series of clashes between security forces and "armed terrorist groups," while intense fighting near the Syrian-Turkish border in recent weeks has pitted loyalist Syrian forces against the rebel Free Syrian Army. CNN cannot confirm claims by the government or the opposition because of government restrictions that prevent journalists from reporting freely within Syria. In a sign of a potential escalation of the conflict, Turkey asked its NATO allies for Patriot missiles Wednesday to bolster its air defenses against its southern neighbor. A letter to NATO included the "formal request" that the alliance send "air defense elements," according to a Turkish government statement that cited "the threats and risks posed by the continuing crisis in Syria to our national security." The statement added that the NATO Council would convene "shortly" to consider the matter. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in a Twitter post that the request would be considered without delay. Israel puts trust in Iron Dome . Rasmussen said the letter from Turkey requested Patriot missiles that would "contribute to the de-escalation of the crisis along NATO's south-eastern border" and serve as "a concrete demonstration of alliance solidarity and resolve." His statement said three NATO countries have available Patriot missiles -- Germany, the Netherlands and the United States -- and it would be up to them to decide if they can deploy them and for how long. A NATO team will visit Turkey next week to survey possible deployment sites for the missiles, Rasmussen's statement said. Sources told CNN that Germany would be the likely source for a deployment. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday that any decision involving her country would need the approval of Parliament. Syrian conflict a factor in Israeli election . In Turkey, Foreign Ministry spokesman Selcuk Unal said NATO forces under the command of the alliance would come to Turkey as part of the missile deployment. He noted that NATO-supplied Patriot missiles previously were deployed in Turkey in 1991 and 2003. "It's not as if they are going to come tomorrow to be deployed," Unal said, calling the move a precautionary measure that will deter escalation along the Syrian border. International and Turkish media reported earlier this month that Turkey planned to ask NATO to station Patriot missiles along the border with Syria, but Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan denied it at the time. Turkey has been careful to make clear it plans no offensive action and does not want a war with Syria, which shares a more than 500-mile border. Turkish President Abdullah Gul told reporters November 8 that while going to war with Syria was "out of the question," precautions were needed against "ballistic missiles as well as mid-range and near-range missiles." The U.S.-made Patriot missile system -- which became well known during the first Gulf War in the early 1990s when it protected American allies against Iraqi Scud missiles -- works well against short- and medium-range missiles. Last month, Syrian artillery shells hit the Turkish border town of Akcakale, killing five Turkish citizens. Soon after, the Turkish Parliament approved a resolution that would allow the military to carry out cross-border incursions. Since then, Turkish forces have retaliated swiftly with artillery after more than a dozen cross-border artillery strikes believed to have been carried out by the Syrian military. Once-cozy relations between Syria and Turkey have all but collapsed since the Syrian uprising began last year. Turkey is officially hosting more than 111,000 Syrian refugees, but the Turkish government says tens of thousands of unofficial refugees also live in Turkish cities and towns near the Syrian border. Meanwhile, Damascus has repeatedly accused its former ally of meddling in internal Syrian affairs by funding and arming the Syrian opposition, as well as providing sanctuary and medical care to Syrian rebels. CNN's Susannah Palk, Gul Tuysuz, Tom Cohen, Richard Greene and Barbara Starr contributed to this report.

NEW: By Thursday, another 76 people had been killed in the fighting, opposition groups say . Rebels say a Syrian airstrike hits near Aleppo hospital . Turkey requests Patriot missiles amid concern over "threats and risks" from Syrian crisis . NATO says the missiles would demonstrate solidarity in the alliance .

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Leading publishers Simon & Schuster are bringing out a book next month by former England rugby union international Brian Moore which many will regard as totally unsuitable for mainstream distribution. The book, titled What Goes on Tour Stays on Tour, is former hooker Moore’s memories of rugby trips around the world with England, the British and Irish Lions and club sides. It is promoted as ‘good clean fun’. Brian Moore's memories of rugby trips around the world feature in his new book . However, the juvenile, obscene contents are anything but — with Moore describing in graphic, sordid detail his own and others’ sexual exploits on tour while he says the first rule of selecting a tour party is: ‘No c****, however talented.’ Worst of all, the appendix includes the words of a number of rugby songs — hugely demeaning of women and the disabled — that will certainly offend more than a few readers. How Simon & Schuster could print the lyrics of Four and Twenty Virgins, The Sexual Life of the Camel and the Good Ship Venus is beyond belief. Both Helen Mockridge, publicist for the Moore book, and Ian Marshall, the sports editor responsible for commissioning it, refused to comment. FA chairman Greg Dyke and UEFA president Michel Platini both received a £16,400 watch . FA chairman Greg Dyke intends to snub a FIFA edict and not return one of the controversial £16,400 watches gifted by the Brazil football federation to Congress delegates before the World Cup. FIFA’s ethics committee have demanded that the 65 watches, whose value far exceeds the allowed limits, are handed back to Zurich by October 24. But Dyke announced at the official FA function at Wembley before the San Marino game that having paid the £3,000 import duty himself, he intended to put the watch up for auction with all the proceeds going to the FA-supported Breast Cancer Care charity. UEFA president Michel Platini also said he would be keeping his watch to donate to whom he wished. But it is now understood he has given it back to FIFA, leaving Dyke making a lone protest. Meanwhile, Giorgio Crescentini, president of the San Marino football federation, is not the hardest name to pronounce. So it caused plenty of head-shaking at the pre-match function when Dyke failed to do so twice. The FA’s attempts to make up for the late, great World Cup-winning captain Bobby Moore (right) never receiving a knighthood now extends to a two-page promotion in the Wembley programme for England women’s game against Germany next month, saying the players are following in the footsteps of ‘Sir Bobby Moore’. England Cricket Board chief executive Tom Harrison is just one of many senior personnel leaving sports management giants IMG since the company was bought by Hollywood’s Ari Emanuel.  They include Jeff Slack, head of football — a sport less central to Emanuel’s plans than golf and tennis — and Andrew Wildblood, who manages relationships with the R&A and the All England Club. Both Slack and Wildblood cashed in seven-figure stakes in IMG when the takeover took place. KP’s let off the hook . Kevin Pietersen has had a relatively easy ride from his hand-picked interviewers this week. But it is understood BBC’s Garry Richardson, who asks hard questions, albeit repetitively, on his Sportsweek radio programme managed to really rile KP. Kevin Pietersen hand-picked his interviewers for launch of his autobiography . Meanwhile, the unseemly PR battle between Pietersen and the ECB this week is probably a high-scoring draw. But the ECB could have won easily if they had put up their employees Paul Downton and Andy Flower for questioning. The draw for the first round of the FA Cup will be filmed live by the BBC in front of an audience at St George’s Park on October 27, with the event also covered by Radio 5 Live. However, such focus makes it all the more embarrassing that the FA have yet to secure a £9million-a-year sponsor for their flagship competition. The FA keep saying they have interested parties. But if no deal is clinched soon the heat really will be on the commercial department. There is still remarkable interest in the England team as the 6.6m ITV peak viewing figure shows for the San Marino game, despite it being a waste of everybody’s time.

Brian Moore’s memories of rugby trips around the world with England . Appendix includes the words of a number of vulgar rugby songs . FA chairman Greg Dyke intends to snub a FIFA edict over £16,400 watch .

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By . Andy Dolan . and Amanda Williams . Two former lovers who each murdered children in separate slayings are back in contact and writing love letters to each other from behind bars, it has been revealed. Wesley Williams strangled his former partner and her seven-month-old baby after the graduate broke up with him – then wrote about his crimes on Facebook. At the time of his sickening attack, in June, his ex partner Rebecca Shuttleworth was also facing trial for the murder of her two-year-old son Keanu. Wesley Williams, 28, (left) has been jailed for life for the double murder of his girlfriend Yvonne. He and his ex partner Rebecca Shuttleworth (right), who killed her two-year-old son Keanu, now write love letters from prison . Double murder: Yvonne Walsh, pictured with seven-month-old Harrison, had split up with Williams just two days before he killed her and her son . It has today been revealed that the couple are still 'obsessed' with each other and are penning love notes from their prison cells. The Sun reports that friends of Williams said he knew Shuttleworth had 'always been the one for him' since they met as youngsters in children's homes. Williams was ordered to serve a minimum of 29 years of a life sentence for the ‘chilling, casual and calculated’ killings of Yvonne Walsh and her son Harrison. Described by a judge yesterday as ‘clearly evil’, Williams posted a message on the social networking site after he carried out the double murder saying: ‘Sometimes we just have to do things we shouldn’t.’ He also wrote ‘I am sorry it had to come to this’ on his victim’s Facebook page, and changed his relationship status  to ‘single’. Mr Justice MacDuff branded the 29-year-old as a man ‘dangerous beyond measure’ who had ‘executed’ a defenceless infant and his mother. He then ordered guards to ‘take this evil man down’. Prosecutors said the pair’s relationship crumbled after 25-year- old Miss Walsh spurned Williams’s proposal of marriage. Williams used a ligature to carry out the 'chilling, casual and calculated' killings of Yvonne and Harrison Walsh . He had been released from prison on licence four months before the murders after serving a five-year term for attacking his sister’s ex-partner with a hammer. But the licence had expired by the time he killed the mother and son. Williams pleaded guilty last week at Birmingham Crown Court to murdering the pair. After his sentencing yesterday, reporting restrictions barring any mention of his link with his former girlfriend who murdered her two-year-old son were lifted. Rebecca Shuttleworth, 25, was jailed for life in June at the same court after battering to death her son Keanu Williams, under the noses of Birmingham social workers. Keanu Williams, whose body showed 37 external marks of injury, was found dead in January 2011 . She had given the child her then boyfriend’s surname even though he was not the biological father. Yesterday the court heard how Miss Walsh, a care home manager, was found dead in her bed at Billesley, two days after she was last seen alive. Her son’s body was found in his cot beside her. Pathologists were unable to determine who was killed first. The social care graduate’s relationship with Williams began two months before she died on May 31. She was last known to be alive at 8.10pm that evening – but by 8.54pm Williams was posting on Facebook. By then, police believe the mother and son were dead. Friends told police unemployed Williams was ‘joking, laughing  and smiling’ later that evening  as he played computer games. He was also caught on CCTV doing ‘high-fives’ with a friend in a fast-food outlet and boasted on Facebook of smoking cannabis later that night. Williams was arrested two days later at a flat in Oldbury, West Midlands after he sent police a text message confessing to the murders. It read: ‘I have killed my girlfriend. Her name is Yvonne Walsh and she’s upstairs in the bedroom.‘I’m not there, what should I do? You can’t phone me only text me.’ Rajiv Menon QC, defending, admitted there could be ‘no mitigation for these horrific and senseless murders’. Tragedy: Floral tributes placed outside the home of Yvonne Walsh in Chells Grove, Billesley, Birmingham, after she was found dead with her baby son . The judge told Williams: ‘The casual way in which you committed these killings was chilling. Your subsequent behaviour demonstrates how unconcerned you were at what you had done.’ Miss Walsh also had a three-year-old daughter from another relationship who was staying with her father when Williams struck. Williams’s mother, Christine Logan, 56, from Swansea, said she ‘felt sick’ when she found her son had been arrested. The mother-of-five said she had spoken to him that night after he left ‘worrying’ messages on Facebook. ‘I said to him, “What have you done now?” He replied, “Nothing, just smoking weed”. I said, “OK, have a good night.” He said, “I will”.’

Wesley Williams, 29, jailed for life with a minimum of 29 years . Used a ligature to carry out 'chilling, casual and calculated' killings . Former girlfriend Rebecca Shuttleworth is now writing to him from prison . She was convicted of the murder of two-year-old son Keanu .

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(CNN) -- Hundreds of South Koreas were left in limbo after North Korea shut its borders Monday at the start of joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea. U.S. troops have started joint military exercises with their South Korean counterparts. When Pyongyang took the action, 573 South Koreans were staying at the Kaesong industrial complex, north of the demilitarized zone, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported. Many of the stranded South Koreans work at the complex, which is a joint project between the Koreas. "The South Korean government is closely monitoring the situation and preparing for all contingencies," said Kim Ho-nyun, a South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman. "We emphasize that currently the first priority is the safety of our citizens." Eighty South Koreans had applied to cross the border into South Korea on Monday, Kim said, but had not been cleared to do so. "We are also not certain what will happen to the South Koreans that want to cross tomorrow as well," he said. The cross-border developments came as North Korea said it would retaliate if a "satellite" launch from its northeastern coast were intercepted, with the communist nation saying interference would "mean a war." "Shooting our satellite for peaceful purposes will precisely mean a war," a spokesman for the North Korean army said in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). U.S. and South Korean officials have said that North Korea appears to be preparing to test-fire its long-range missile, the Taepodong-2, under the guise of launching a satellite into space. The missile is thought to have an intended range of about 6,700 kilometers (4,200 miles), which -- if true -- could give it the capability of striking Alaska or Hawaii. North Korea's bellicose announcement came on the first day of annual joint military drills between South Korea and the United States. "We have said several times that the U.S.-South Korean military exercises are annual defensive exercises," Kim said. "We again urge North Korea to maintain the agreed stance of mutual respect and to stop its verbal attacks and actions that are raising tensions on the Korean peninsula," he said. The North said it has shut its borders to "any enemies" and has cut off "the North-South military communications in order to guarantee the security." North Korea said the military phone lines with the South, the last remaining communications channel, will remain closed until the 12-day military exercises end on March 20, according to Yonhap. Kim said his government is urging North Korea "to immediately retract this measure and to allow the smooth flow of personnel and communication." On Saturday, U.S. envoy Stephen Bosworth said he wants dialogue with North Korea, but he also spoke against North Korea's move to go forward with a launch, saying it would be "ill-advised."

573 people staying at Kaesong industrial complex, north of demilitarized zone . 80 South Koreans not cleared to cross the border into South Korea Monday . Follows vow to retaliate from N. Korea if its satellite launch is intercepted . S. Korea, U.S. have started their annual joint military drills .

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At first glance, it looks uncannily like an image of the human brain. But in fact, this is the death of one of the first stars in our Universe. Researchers say the death throes of these early stars were unique as they exploded as supernovae and burned completely, leaving no black hole behind, but instead spewing out chemical elements into space that eventually formed our Universe. This image is a slice through the interior of a supermassive star of 55,500 solar masses. It shows the inner helium core in which nuclear burning is converting helium to oxygen, powering various fluid instabilities, which form the swirling lines. This 'snapshot' from a simulation shows one moment a day after the onset of the explosion, when the radius of the outer circle would be slightly larger than that of the orbit of the Earth around the sun. To model the life of a primordial supermassive star, Chen and his colleagues used a one-dimensional stellar evolution code called KEPLER. This code takes into account key processes like nuclear burning and stellar convection. They found that primordial stars between 55,000 to 56,000 solar masses live about 1.69 million years before becoming unstable due to general relativistic effects and then start to collapse. The images look similar to scans of a human brain . As the star collapses, it begins to rapidly synthesize heavy elements like oxygen, neon, magnesium and silicon starting with helium in its core. This process releases more energy than the binding energy of the star, halting the collapse and causing a massive explosion: a supernova. To model the death mechanisms of these stars, Chen and his colleagues used CASTRO—a multidimensional compressible astrophysics code developed at Berkeley Lab by scientists Ann Almgren and John Bell. Certain primordial stars—those between 55,000 and 56,000 times the mass of our Sun, or solar masses—may have died unusually, the team concluded. Astrophysicists at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and the University of Minnesota came to this conclusion after running a number of supercomputer simulations at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and Minnesota Supercomputing Institute at the University of Minnesota. They relied extensively on CASTRO, a compressible astrophysics code developed at DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's (Berkeley Lab's) Computational Research Division (CRD). Their findings were recently published in Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). First-generation stars are especially interesting because they produced the first heavy elements, or chemical elements other than hydrogen and helium. In death, they sent their chemical creations into outer space, paving the way for subsequent generations of stars, solar systems and galaxies. With a greater understanding of how these first stars died, scientists hope to glean some insights about how the Universe, as we know it today, came to be. 'We found that there is a narrow window where supermassive stars could explode completely instead of becoming a supermassive black hole—no one has ever found this mechanism before,' says Ke-Jung Chen, a postdoctoral researcher at UCSC and lead author of the ApJ paper. 'Without NERSC resources, it would have taken us a lot longer to reach this result. 'From a user perspective, the facility is run very efficiently and it is an extremely convenient place to do science.' To model the life of a primordial supermassive star, Chen and his colleagues used a one-dimensional stellar evolution code called KEPLER. This code takes into account key processes like nuclear burning and stellar convection. And relevant for massive stars, photo-disintegration of elements, electron-positron pair productionand special relativistic effects. The team also included general relativistic effects, which are important for stars above 1,000 solar masses. They found that primordial stars between 55,000 to 56,000 solar masses live about 1.69 million years before becoming unstable due to general relativistic effects and then start to collapse. As the star collapses, it begins to rapidly synthesize heavy elements like oxygen, neon, magnesium and silicon starting with helium in its core. This process releases more energy than the binding energy of the star, halting the collapse and causing a massive explosion: a supernova. To model the death mechanisms of these stars, Chen and his colleagues used CASTRO—a multidimensional compressible astrophysics code developed at Berkeley Lab by scientists Ann Almgren and John Bell. These simulations show that once collapse is reversed, Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities mix heavy elements produced in the star's final moments throughout the star itself. To model the life of a primordial supermassive star, Chen and his colleagues used a one-dimensional stellar evolution code called KEPLER. This code takes into account key processes like nuclear burning and stellar convection. These images show the simulation in action, tracking the spread of chemical compounds. The researchers say that this mixing should create a distinct observational signature that could be detected by upcoming near-infrared experiments such as the European Space Agency's Euclid and NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope. Depending on the intensity of the supernovae, some supermassive stars could, when they explode, enrich their entire host galaxy and even some nearby galaxies with elements ranging from carbon to silicon. In some cases, supernova may even trigger a burst of star formation in its host galaxy, which would make it visually distinct from other young galaxies. 'My work involves studying the supernovae of very massive stars with new physical processes beyond hydrodynamics, so I've collaborated with Ann Almgren to adapt CASTRO for many different projects over the years,' says Chen. 'Before I run my simulations, I typically think about the physics I need to solve a particular problem. I then work with Ann to develop some code and incorporate it into CASTRO. It is a very efficient system.' To visualize his data, Chen used an open source tool called VisIt, which was architected by Hank Childs, formerly a staff scientist at Berkeley Lab. 'Most of the time I did my own visualizations, but when there were things that I needed to modify or customize I would shoot Hank an email and that was very helpful.' Chen completed much of this work while he was a graduate student at the University of Minnesota. He completed his Ph.D. in physics in 2013.

Primordial stars between 55,000 and 56,000 times the mass of our Sun died unusually . Exploded as supernovae and burned completely, leaving no remnant black hole behind . Stars spewed out chemical elements into space that eventually formed our Universe .

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By . Jennifer Smith . PUBLISHED: . 05:33 EST, 14 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 07:15 EST, 14 December 2013 . A woman whose body was discovered alongside that of her husband after a fire was started in her home was stabbed to death, it has emerged. Mahnaz Rafie died from multiple stab wounds before the gas supply in the house's kitchen was tampered with to start a blaze, detectives found. The 48-year-old's mother, Dolleh Joseph, and husband, Hassan Rafie, died in the fire that police have been treating as a possible case of murder-suicide. Investigation: Detectives were investigating whether the incident had been a case of murder suicide . Scene: Firefighters arrived at the house at about 2am on December 10 and found two bodies, believed to be Hassan Rafie and his wife Mahnaz, in the kitchen . Emergency services were called to the . house in Heaton, Bolton at about 2am on December 9 after neighbours reported . hearing an explosion before seeing the property fill with smoke. The . bodies of Mrs Rafie and her husband,who would have celebrated their . 25th wedding anniversary next week, were found in the kitchen. Mrs Rafie's 74-year-old mother was rescued from an upstairs bedroom but died later in hospital from smoke inhalation and burns. Police are not looking for anyone in connection with the case which has been referred to the Bolton Coroner. Inquiries: Fire officials have said the investigation at the scene would last for several days . Suspicious: Police have described the fire, which was thought to have started in the kitchen, as suspicious . A statement on behalf of their two sons said: 'We are deeply saddened and heartbroken by the tragic loss of our family. 'Our . parents would next week have been celebrating 25 years of marriage . through which they worked together through the greatest difficulties to . build a successful life from scratch. 'They were loved by all that knew them. 'Our . father, a successful architect and businessman, was extremely respected . in the community, he took many people under his wings and took the . world's problems on his shoulders. 'Our mother, our best friend, our angel, was an extremely strong lady who was deeply and sincerely loved by all.' Police are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident. The couple's home had been on the market for some time before the fire, it has been revealed. Reports suggest their relationship had recently become strained and Mrs Rafie, 48, had threatened to leave. Neighbours said the Rafie family, thought to be of Iranian origin, have lived in the house for about ten years. It is thought Mrs Rafie’s mother, from London, was staying with the couple after being diagnosed with cancer. The couple have two sons Ommid, a newly qualified doctor, and Arash who is currently a medical student. For confidential support call the Samaritans on 08457 90 90 90, visit a local Samaritans branch or click here.

Mahnaz Rafie died from multiple stab wounds it has emerged . Her mother and husband died of smoke inhalation and burns . Mrs Rafie reportedly threatened to leave her husband before blaze . Police are now treating the case as possible murder-suicide .

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Nyakagyezi, Uganda (CNN) -- Visiting his former village in rural Uganda, Jackson Kaguri was the epitome of a success story. He had escaped poverty, earned a college degree and moved to America, where he studied at an Ivy League school and planned to put a down payment on a house in Indiana. He'd often come back to Uganda, passing out school supplies to children. But on one particular trip home in 2001, he realized he had to do more. "We woke up in the morning, and grandmothers had lined up all around the house, stretching way back. ... The whole village had gathered," Kaguri said. "All these women walked miles and miles. It was huge." UNICEF estimates that 1.2 million children in Uganda have lost one or both parents to AIDS-related illnesses, and Kaguri said it's often grandmothers who have to pick up the slack. "You see the grandmothers over and over whose own children have died and left them," he said. "Some of them have up to 14 (grandchildren) to raise in their homes. Sometimes the child has HIV/AIDS, they need medication. The grandmother needs food. They need a house. And nothing is there." The grandmothers who gathered in Kaguri's childhood village begged Kaguri to help them. And he felt an obligation to give more than just pens, pencils and paper. "These are women who had seen me grow up in the village," he said. "They carried me when I was hurt, they prayed for me when I was away studying. What was I supposed to do?" Knowing that education had been so key to his success, Kaguri and his wife decided to use their life savings to start a free school in the village. They purchased two acres of land and built the Nyaka School, brick by brick, with the help of local volunteers. When the school officially launched on January 2, 2003, 56 AIDS orphans were the first students. "We provide them uniforms. We provide them pencils. We give them shoes," said Kaguri, 41. "Everything we give ... is to try and eliminate as many obstacles as possible, so children can be successful and focus on education." Early on, it was noticed that many children in the school were falling asleep because of hunger and malnutrition. So the school began providing students two meals a day. There is also a medical clinic on site. Meanwhile, Kaguri continued to raise money for the project while he worked full time in the United States. When he learned that a child had walked more than 30 miles to attend the school, he started a second school, the Kutamba School, in the village of Nyakishenyi. Today, between the two schools, there are 587 students -- kindergarten through 12th grade -- receiving a free education and health care. Nearly all of them have lost either one or both parents to AIDS-related illnesses. The issue hits especially close to home for Kaguri, who has lost his brother, one of his sisters and a 3-year-old nephew to the disease. Kaguri says he felt fortunate to have the financial means to help his brother's children financially, but in many similar cases, children end up homeless. "Many of them are on the streets in Kampala eating from the dust bins," Kaguri said. "You see all these street children because they have no one to help them." It's these children Kaguri says he thinks about as he raises funds and awareness for his schools. "(We) take care of nearly 600 children in school," he said. "That leaves all these children who are walking around without an opportunity to get an education, to get health care, to get a meal to eat or even to get somebody to say, 'I love you.' " Do you know a hero? Nominations are open for 2012 CNN Heroes . Of the students at his schools, Kaguri estimates that 65% of them are being raised by their grandmothers, many of whom are often without adequate health care, finances or basic housing. So in 2008, he started a program that offers support and education to the nearly 7,000 area grandmothers who are raising their grandchildren. The program teaches the women practical life skills, offering advice on parenting, grief management, basic medical care, gardening and business development. Kaguri says that by giving grandmothers access to microfunds, allowing them to start small businesses and make money, more children have access to an education. And by giving seeds to the grandmothers to grow, more children have access to food. Grandmothers "are the pillars in the society, holding the society together," he said. "They are unsung heroes that people don't recognize." Every grandmother in the program, Kaguri said, has received some form of training or household equipment to improve their life. And his organization has also opened a library, started a gardening program and installed a clean-water system to benefit the entire village. Kaguri, whose organization is based in Michigan and is funded by individual donations and private foundations, spends much of his time fundraising, speaking and raising awareness. He travels to Uganda about three times a year. He hopes this younger generation will lift the country out of poverty and create a better future for their families and communities. He says he dreams about building a school in every district in Uganda. "I want to be an uncle for many so we can create other children who would be successful and do great things," he said. "It's giving them a hand up, just holding somebody's hand, trying to get (them) out of the pigeonhole they are in. ... "I feel humbled looking in the faces of the children smiling, focused on what their dreams are going to be." Want to get involved? Check out the Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project website at www.nyakaschool.org and see how to help.

It's estimated that 1.2 million children in Uganda have lost a parent to AIDS-related illnesses . Jackson Kaguri opened a school in his former village to help many of these children . Kaguri is also supporting area grandmothers who have been raising them . Do you know a hero? Nominations are open for 2012 CNN Heroes .

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A stunning collection of photographs of World War One battlefields as they are today are to go on show in Britain for the first time. A hundred years on, with no one alive to remember the 'war to end all wars', only the landscape bears witness to the events that killed 21 million men women and children. The Somme, Passchendaele, Ypres and Verdun and so many other battlefields may be just names in history books today, but the sites along the western front have recovered their former tranquility and peace. Memory of war: The Champagne Battlefield burial site memorial left intact on the Western Front with the soldier's equipment left on the grave, along with a plaque placed there by his father in 1919 . Craters: An aerial view of the Newfoundland Memorial Park in Beaumont Hamel, Northern France, with its shell craters and trenches . Battlefield: A major allied offensive took place in 1916 at Messines Ridge on the southern end of the Ypres Salient with over 8,000 metres of tunnels dug and 21 mines containing almost 600 tonnes of explosives laid under the German lines . A father's tribute to his dead son is illustrated by the young man's helmet and equipment adorning his graveside with a plaque at the Champagne battle site. Fifteen haunting images taken by World Press Photo award-winning photographer Mike St Maur Shiel go on show next month between November 5 and 14th in a street gallery exhibition - Fields of Battle Lands of Peace 14 – 18 - at Westminster Hall after being given permission by the Black Rod. The freestanding photographs, each measuring 1.2 metres (4ft) by 1.8 metres (5ft 10in), are the result of a six-year project and reveal the transformation of the battlefields of the 1914-18 war into the landscape of modern Europe. In August 2014, the exhibition opens in London with 60 images in central London before touring across . the UK and Ireland's major cities during the centenary until 2018 based on . a timeline of World War One events. St Maur Sheil said: 'This collection represents a legacy which I hope will create . a gateway to the battlefields themselves, encouraging people to . visit these historic landscapes during the centennial period and so . create awareness and understanding of the events.' Peaceful: A view today from Cavernes des Dragons southwards over La Vallee Foulon towards French positions . Traquil Masurian lakes on the Eastern Front: The German 8th Army tried to encircle the Russian 1st Army there in 1914 . St Maur Sheil who won his award in 2002 for his work on child trafficking in West Africa, began taking the battle field pictures after visiting Dunkirk with his father who served there in 1940 with the London Irish Rifles. 'Oddly enough he featured in what has . become one of the iconic images of that battle but what came as a . complete surprise to me was the extraordinary memory he had for . what appeared to me to be feature-less fields, ' he said. 'We visited Ypres and I watched him as he . stood erect at the Menin Gate, fighting back his tears: it was an . emotion I had never been exposed to before. 'The men of 1914-18 largely saw the land . torn apart and stripped of its covering mantle of grass and trees, it's . bones literally laid bare as they sought shelter within its protective . skin.' Conflict: The landing at Cape Helles was part of the amphibious invasion of the Gallipoli peninsular by British and French forces in April 1915 . Street exhibition: An artist's impression imagines visitors gazing at the images taken by photographer Mike St Maur Shiel of the battlefields and the relics left by the Great War . History lesson: Another artist's impression shows schoolchildren visiting the exhibition and learn about the 'war to end all wars' between 1914-18 . His images of the former battle fields extend over 600 kilometres from the coast of the English Channel, across Belgium and northern . and eastern France as far as the Swiss border. The exhibition, conceived jointly with historian, the late Sir Richard Holmes and Chris Bridge of street gallery pioneers, WeCommunic8, includes fascinating archive imagery, historical information and educational content . Chris Bridge of street gallery pioneers Wecommunic8 said:  'Fields of Battle' will engage with all social groups, whilst creating a high level intellectual and emotional connection with audiences.' Carnage: British infantrymen occupying a shallow trench in a ruined landscape before an advance during the Battle of the Somme .

Exhibition at Westminster Hall in memory of the Great War almost 100 years ago . 'This collection represents a legacy which I hope will create a gateway to the battlefields' says photographer .

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By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 09:59 EST, 27 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 10:44 EST, 27 November 2013 . A group tasked with protecting the welfare of animals in the film industry blasted as 'misleading' a report suggesting it turns a blind eye to abuse because it is too cosy with Hollywood. The Hollywood Reporter listed alleged incidents on films including the Oscar-winning 'Life Of Pi', where it said the Bengal tiger which is central to the movie nearly drowned. Twenty-seven animals involved in making the first movie of the Hobbit trilogy died, it said, also listing incidents where a chipmunk was squashed, a husky dog was punched, and fish died in making 'Pirates Of The Caribbean'. Scroll down for video . 'Damn near drowned': King, the tiger star of 'Life of Pi,' is said to have almost drowned during filming according to an AHA monitor's report . But the American Humane Association . (AHA) said the story 'distorts the work and record of a respected . nonprofit organization that has kept millions of beloved animal actors . safe on film and television sets around the world.' 'The . article is misleading and unfortunate,' AHA senior advisor Karen Rosa . told AFP. 'I really think that the article does not paint a very . accurate picture of the program and the hard work that we do out there . in the field.' 'The . article paints a picture that is completely unrecognizable to us or . anyone who knows (our) work,' added the group, which confers the 'No animals were harmed' stamp listed at the end of films it has monitored. Incredible: Four horses died during the filming of HBO's Luck . Four deaths: The four horses passed during the filming of only nine episodes . In . its latest issue the Hollywood Reporter quotes an AHA monitor about an . incident in which Richard Parker, the tiger which shares a shipwrecked . lifeboat in Taiwanese director Ang Lee's 'Life Of Pi', allegedly nearly . drowned. In an email, the . monitor recounted how the tiger 'got lost trying to swim to the side,' adding: 'Damn near drowned... I think this goes without saying but DON'T . MENTION IT TO ANYONE, ESPECIALLY THE OFFICE!' 'That . was unfortunate,' conceded AHA advisor Rosa, referring to the email. 'We believe that she exaggerated. But the bottom line was ... the animal . did not suffer any harm. 'Cats are good swimmers!' she added. Several dozen dead marine animals washed ashore during the filming of Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl . The . industry journal also cited the case of a horse dying in the making of . Steven Spielberg's Oscar-nominated 2011 film 'War Horse', and dozens of . fish washed after special effects explosions on the 'Pirates of the . Caribbean' set. A Spielberg . spokesman said the Hollywood Reporter story was exaggerated, but . essentially accurate in terms of its description of what happened on . 'War Horse'. 'What they . wrote was essentially what happened,' spokesman Marvin Levy told AFP. 'But there was no cover up ... the whole story is rather exaggerated in . many places. 'Safety was the prime consideration throughout the entire film,' he said. Lucky to be alive: A monkey perches on Bradley Cooper's shoulder during the filming of Failure To Launch . How did this happen: A squirrel similar to this one was crushed to death by the production crew of Failure To Launch . The . industry journal's lengthy investigation claimed the AHA has a . fundamental conflict of interest, because its funding came from two . industry bodies. Rosa said . the group got about two thirds of its funding from industry, but . insisted: 'Those funds are neutral. Nobody tells us what sets we can . monitor, how we're to monitor them.' 'Far . from allowing abuse or neglect to occur, we have a remarkably high . safety record of 99.98 percent on set,' added the AHA statement. It . acknowledged that accidents did occur. 'Over a span of many years, . despite our best efforts, there have occasionally been rare accidents, . most of them minor and not intentional.' But . Bob Ferber, a veteran LA prosecutor who ran a city Animal Protection . Unit, told the Hollywood Reporter: 'It's fascinating and ironic: from . being the protectors of animals they've become complicit to animal . cruelty.'

Alleged incidents on Life Of Pi include a Bengal tiger nearly drowning . Also claimed 27 animals died during filming of first film in the Hobbit trilogy . 'Chipmunk squashed, fish killed and husky dog punched' during filming for various other movies . American Humane Association blasted report as 'misleading'

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A 130-year-old homestead has been destroyed by a blaze, just two days before its new buyers were to settle their $4.5 million sale. The 1,336ha historic home named Glen Alpine in Werris Creek, near Tamworth which is northwest of NSW, has been burnt to the ground with nothing left but its five chimney stacks and an underground cellar. It's a devastating loss for the new buyers who had plans make the big move from the city to enjoy a country lifestyle as part of their retirement. The mansion named Glen Alpine, in Werris Creek near Tamworth which is northwest of NSW, was burnt down on October 8 . The 130-year-old homestead was built in 1886 and designed by famous architect John Horbury Hunt . All that's left of the residence is its five chimney pots and an underground cellar . Fire crews were called out the home at 12.45am on October 8 but said it was 'pretty well gone' by the time they arrived . Peter Davis, captain of Fire and Rescue NSW's Werris Creek unit, says the home was 'pretty well gone' by the time emergency crew attended the scene at about 12.45am on October 8. 'There was nothing to save by the time we got there so we tried to stop the fire getting to surrounding bushland,' he told Daily Mail Australia. Buyers Antony Tisch and wife Wendy were devastated when they heard the news. 'We've been trying to buy the property for eight years,' Mr Tisch told Daily Mail Australia. 'It was such a magnificently beautiful home with a grand old staircase, ballroom and so much character. 'Not only is it sad for us but it's also sad for Australia.' The mansion, built in 1886, was designed by famous architect John Horbury Hunt. Mr Tisch, a Sydney landscaper and builder, says the property would be irreplaceable. 'The property survived 130 years of drought and fires but now it's just gone for nothing,' he said. 'To rebuild that signature house it'll probably cost $10 million and it'll be so hard to replace some of it.' The historic property was destroyed by a blaze just two days before its new buyers were to settle their $4.5 million sale . New buyers from Sydney say they are devastated by the news as the property was part of their retirement plan . Buyers Antony Tisch and wife Wendy said they've been trying to buy the home for eight years . The residence had undergone extensive renovations and was originally listed for $4.95 million . Mr Tisch, a Sydney landscaper and builder, says the property would probably be irreplaceable . Mr Tisch, a Sydney landscaper and builder, says the property would be irreplaceable . The new buyers were excited to move into this home with a 'grand old staircase' Mr Tisch was hoping to settle into his new home last weekend and was planning to live there for three weeks a month and a week in Sydney . The new buyers haven't been able to go back to see what's left of their dream home . Mr Tisch plans on continuing the settlement for Glen Alpine as he has already bought neighbouring properties . While the residence had undergone extensive renovations, it also featured fenced paddocks with capacity to stock up to 400 cows and 200 steers. The couple had already bought the champagne and even some ducks to keep on their homestead - ready for their move to the farm last weekend. 'Wendy and I are in our early 50s now so we wanted to settle there and have a change of lifestyle,' Mr Tisch said. 'We were going to spend three weeks there and a week in Sydney.' Since the house burnt down, Mr Tisch couldn't bare to return back to what used to be his dream home. 'I just couldn't go up to see it yet. It was supposed to be the happiest day for us and now it's turned into the saddest.' Mr Tisch plans on continuing the settlement for Glen Alpine - which was originally listed for $4.95 million - as he has already bought neighbouring properties. However he is due to undergo court proceedings about the insurance of the property with current owner Jeffrey Hawkins. The fire which burnt the property to the ground is currently under investigation by police. The property also featured fenced paddocks with capacity to stock up to 400 cows and 200 steers . The fire which destroyed the property is currently under investigation by police .

The mansion named Glen Alpine, in Werris Creek - northwest of NSW, was burnt down on October 8 . It was built in 1886 and designed by famous architect John Horbury Hunt . All that's left of the 1,336ha property is five chimney pots and an underground cellar . New buyers from Sydney say they are devastated as the property was part of their retirement plan .

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By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 11:47 EST, 11 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 16:04 EST, 11 September 2013 . A body has been found that matches the description of a missing 39-year-old woman who was reported missing last week. Renee L. Sheppard was found in Woods in Washington Township according to the town's police. Police were still on the scene yesterday afternoon and are working to remove and identify the body. Body found: Renee L. Sheppard, 39, from Washington Township had been missing since Thursday . Intensive search: Dogs and a thermal-imaging helicopter were used in the search . Search party: The search began soon after Ms Shepperd had been reported missing on Thursday. It resumed on Tuesday morning . According to NJ.com Ms Sheppard was reported missing by her family on Thursday morning after she entered the woods in the area of Miller Drive with a book and her cellphone. A search that included a thermal imaging helicopter and search dogs began later that day, before being called off. The police search resumed yesterday when her body was finally found. Police departments as well as the Gloucester County Emergency Response Team and a special search and rescue K-9 from Pennsylvania were called in to help with the search. Found: Ms Shepperd's body was found at the bottom of a 40 foot ravine . Disappeared: Ms Sheppers was last seen walking along a creek on September 5th at 9:45 a.m. She was seen carrying a book with her and a cell phone . Police Chief Rafael Muniz said there were no indications of foul play, but that a full cause of death would be determined later on. Ms Sheppard's body was found at the bottom of a creek at the bottom of a ravine with a 40-ft drop. Chief Muniz said it did not appear that Ms. Sheppard, who has a history of hiking and mountaineering, fell accidentally. All quiet: No movement seen at Ms. Shepperd's home since her disappearance .

Renee L. Sheppard disappeared last week and was found in woods yesterday afternoon . A thermal-imaging helicopter was used along with K-9 dogs . Body found at bottom of ravine however there are no obvious indications of foul play .

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A plane full of illegal migrants were flown from Israel back to Africa on Sunday night, the first of what potentially could be thousands of such deportations of people who have illicitly entered the Middle Eastern country in recent years. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a Cabinet meeting Sunday "the first plane of illegal infiltrators (would) leave for South Sudan" that night, with another aircraft set to depart next week for Africa. "Today, the government will begin the operation to repatriate illegal work infiltrators to their countries of origin," Netanyahu said, according to a cabinet communique released by Israel's foreign ministry. "We will do this is an orderly and dignified manner. The issue of illegal African migrants has been of growing concern in the country in recent months. According to government records, more than 59,000 illegal African immigrants have entered the country in recent years through its southern border with Egypt. Most of the migrants come from Eritrea, Sudan and South Sudan. Some of them have refugee status and hold temporary permits to remain in the country, but Israel does not recognize the status of most of them and says it is looking for ways to send them back to their home countries. More than 2,000 new migrants have been reported over the past month. Some residents of southern Tel Aviv neighborhoods, where there is a large concentration of Africans, have blamed their new neighbors for increasing crime and suffocating the infrastructure and public services. Some also complain the illegal immigration is changing the fabric of Israel. Earlier this month, an Israeli court approved a government plan to deport 1,500 migrants from Africa. Many Israeli refugee agencies and officials pushed against those plans and called on the government to allow the migrants to stay. And Israeli authorities announced last Tuesday that they'd detained 240 illegal migrants -- all of them Sudanese -- as part of the controversial plan, with another 300 people volunteering to return to their country of origin. "We are sending the infiltrators, migrants, back to their homes like all countries in the West, in Europe, in the USA act when dealing with migrants," Interior Minister Eli Yishai said then. In his remarks Sunday to Cabinet, Netanyahu said that construction of a fence along Israel's southern border will be finished "in the coming months." Until then, any migrant who is caught crossing the border illegally will be detained "immediately," with Netanyahu noting that "holding facilities" are being built to "to house tens of thousands of infiltrators until they can be sent out of the country." The prime minister vowed to block such illegal migrants' entry into Israel and, if they do get in, to "hasten their deportation." He also pointed to a law, recently passed by the Knesset, the boosts fines on those who employ illegal migrants. Still, while making clear they weren't welcome in Israel, Netanyahu stressed that they would be treated well. "We have a Jewish tradition of treating strangers humanely," he said, "And even when we need to deport them from our midst due to the state's desire to control its borders, we must do so humanely and in a manner that finds expression in a restrained and humane manner."

Israel's prime minister says a plane of illegal migrants will depart for South Sudan . It is part of a controversial plan to deport a wave of migrants who are in Israel . Netanyahu calls them "illegal infiltrators" who should be repatriated .

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Wolfe pictured here at the internment camp where he was held . When American pilot Roland Wolfe crashed his British Spitfire into a peat bog in Ireland during World War Two, few thought it would ever be seen again. The pilot who bailed out immediately wanted to climb into the cockpit of another military aircraft and continue fighting for the allies. Knowing that his fighter was doomed, the young RAF Officer had radioed: 'I'm going over the side' before parachuting to safety moments before impact. But instead of fighting again the serviceman was interned in a camp - where captured UK and U.S. troops mixed freely with the German enemy. Despite managing to escape Ireland, neutral during the war, and make his way back to Britain, the 23-year-old was sent back to the camp. Fearing a diplomatic row, the British Government returned Wolfe to the most relaxed of 'prison' camps in Ireland where he was kept for a further two years. The pilot from Nebraska had been stripped of his U.S. citizenship after agreeing to fight for the British because the Americans had not yet joined the war. Now almost 70 years after the pilot from the 133 'Eagle' Squadron crash-landed in the north of Ireland in November 1941, his crashed plane has been recovered. The Spitfire was the first of 20 made with a donation from a Canadian millionaire called Willard Garfield Weston who wanted to support the Allies in the Battle of Britain with a £100,000 donation. Remarkably large parts of the plane have been recovered from the bog. Six . machine guns and about 1,000 rounds of ammunition were also discovered . by archaeologists searching the Inishowen Peninsula in Co Donegal. American Spitfire pilot Roland 'Bud' Wolfe lost his U.S. citizenship in 1941 when he signed up to fight for the RAF . The excavation was carried out as part of a BBC Northern Ireland programme. Historian Dan Snow said: 'The plane itself is obviously kind of wreckage and the big pieces survived. We're expecting to find things like the engine and there still may be personal effects in the cockpit. 'It's just incredible because it's just so wet here that the ground just sucked it up and the plane was able to burrow into it and it's been preserved. 'It's in amazing condition,' he told RTE radio. A team of Irish recruits at the Curragh Camp, just outside Dublin, where Wolfe was held for two years during World War Two . Historian Dan Snow led the project to dig the Spitfire out of the peat bog almost 70 years after the pilot bailed out of the doomed plane . Mr Snow said Mr Wolf was forced to . abandon his Spitfire over the Republic when its engine overheated about . 13 miles from his base at RAF Eglinton, now Derry International Airport, . in Northern Ireland. Aviation archeologist Simon Parry . told the Irish Independent that it was highly significant that the . doomed plane had been recovered. 'The . pilot was lucky to survive that day because if his engine had failed a . few minutes earlier he would have ended up in the sea,' he said. Landing on neutral soil, the 23-year-old pilot was interned at Curragh detention camp in Co Kildare for two years. With fishing trips, fox hunts and football matches it sounded almost like a holiday camp - and seemingly the ideal place to be holed up as war raged across the rest of Europe. The guards were only issued with blank rounds, visitors were permitted and there were frequent excursions to nearby pubs. Around 40 RAF pilots who crashed in Ireland were held in the corrugated iron huts alongside the German enemy. The crew of destroyed U-boats and Luftwaffe planes also ended up at the camp. The warring nations even played football matches against each other - with the Germans defeating the largely English team 8-3, in a precursor to their repeated post-war footballing triumphs over their North Atlantic enemy. Spitfires fly over Britain - the recovered fighter had been remarkably well preserved by the bog . But although servicemen were free to come and go from the camp Wolfe, who died in 1994, was determined to fight on. In December 1941, just two weeks . after his crash, the serviceman made his way into Dublin before hopping . onto a train to Belfast which was British territory. As his doomed plane came down he parachuted out before watching it plunge into the ground half a mile away. Although . he made his way back to RAF Eglinton, he was returned to the Irish camp . where he spent a further two years before it was closed. Belatedly . he got his wish, and in 1943 he was allowed to return to frontline . action as the tide of the war turned in the Allies direction. It is only because of the unusually soft ground that the crashed Spitfire could be recovered in the 70th year after the crash. The . Irish Defence Forces said the six Browning .303 machine guns and . approximately 1,000 rounds of ammunition were discovered by a team of . archaeologists from Queens University buried up to 30 feet in the bog. 'The . six machine guns and ammunition have been removed by the bomb disposal . team to a secure military location where they will be decommissioned and . cleaned before being handed over to the Derry Museum,' a spokesman . added. The plane will now be preserved and go on display at the Tower Museum in Derry.

Recovered Spitfire 'one of the first ever made' U.S. pilot lost American citizenship to fight for Britain . Roland Wolfe later fought for U.S. in Vietnam war . Allied troops and German opponents mixed together at 'relaxed' World War Two prison camp .

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By . Daily Mail Reporter . If you’re short of money, this might be the cashpoint for you – for it  is barely a couple of feet off  the ground. The ATM has been installed outside a Sainsbury’s Local in Nottingham and, since it is the only one available outside the store, customers have been left with little choice but to use it. It means they have to squat or kneel to get down to the level of the keypad.’ Low on funds? You have to squat to use this cashpoint outside a Sainsbury's Local in Nottingham . Mystery: The cashpoint in Nottingham is at knee-level, far too low for wheelchair users . Musician Steve Drury, 27, was one of . several who spotted the ATM and posted a picture on social media. ‘I . couldn’t believe it,’ he said. ‘It was  just so low to the ground and a . man using it was squatting to try to get  his money out. ‘The poor guy must have done his back in. It looked incredibly uncomfortable.’ Molly Kate Hancock commented on his post: 'This makes no sense!' Sainsbury's were unable to shed any more light on the situation, saying merely that the cashpoint 'is located on a hill, which caused it to be built so low to the ground'. When asked to clarify, a spokesman refused to explain further, saying merely: 'Our statement says it all'. A spokesman for the nearby World of Mobility wheelchair and scooter shop said the ATM was far too low to have been installed with wheelchair users in mind. No-one seems quite sure why the ATM is built so close to the ground, not even Sainsbury's themselves . People wanting to use the cashpoint have to bend double or squat to reach the buttons on the ATM . He said: 'Our wheelchairs are 30 inches up from the ground to the seat, which means the cashpoint would need to be at least 30 inches up, plus another 10 inches for someone to be able to reach the keys.' The . Sainsbury’s Finance ATM appears to be too low even for wheelchair . users. A spokesman for World of Mobility, a local shop, said the . cashpoint would need to be more than 3ft off the ground to be used . comfortably. A Sainsbury’s . spokesman only added to the mystery yesterday by saying it was installed . so low down because it is located on a hill. Unable to clarify why the . slope would affect its position, he said: ‘We have never had any . customer complaints about this but we are looking at solutions to . relocate it.

ATM outside Sainsbury's Local in Nottingham is back-breakingly low . Spokesman for supermarket chain says that's because it is 'on a hill' Local wheelchair firm World of Mobility says it's far too low for wheelchairs .

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With one hand, Zahra Hassan clutches a purse that matches her red blouse and skirt trimmed in blue. In the other, she holds an AK-47. Peering through her blue veiled hijab, the traditional Muslim head cover, the petite 25-year-old watches as the man in a military uniform with no insignia shows her how to switch off the rifle's safety, take aim and fire. Then it's her turn. In red ballerina flats, she positions herself, levels the AK-47 toward a thick patch of date palms and pulls the trigger. Bang! The feel of the weapon discharging a round startles her a bit. "Then you turn the safety on and lower the weapon," the man tells her. She follows his instruction. This is day one of a five-day course being offered by the Badr Brigade, a powerful Shiite militia with an estimated 10,000 members, to the wives, mothers, sisters and daughters of the group. MAPS: Iraqi towns, oil fields taken over by ISIS . Hassan is not training to go to the front line to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and its allied Sunni militants, but rather to defend her home if the terror group makes its way into Baghdad and ignites sectarian fighting in the streets. With most of the men in her family leaving home to volunteer to fight ISIS and its allies, Hassan says she has no choice now but to learn how to fight. "I must do this," she says. More than 450 women have been through the training since the group started it this year, a step that was taken after ISIS began its battle for the flashpoint city of Falluja in Anbar province -- a battle that was a bellwether of things to come in Iraq. And thousands more are waiting, says Maj. Kareem Abdullah of the Badr Brigade, sitting in his office in a fortified compound in Yarmouk, a mixed Shiite-Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad. The number of women volunteers swelled in June after ISIS seized Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul, and then began a march on the Iraqi capital, vowing to hit the city of more than 7 million people and overthrow the Shiite-dominated government. "We are training these ladies to make them ready if (ISIS) makes it into their neighborhood," Abdullah said. "They will be the ones who have to defend their home." Who is the ISIS? Memories of past violence . Hassan remembers the sectarian fighting -- Shiite vs. Sunni, sometimes neighbor vs. neighbor -- at the height of the Iraq War that nearly tore the country apart. Her older brother, 36-year-old Ali Hassan, was among the thousands who reportedly disappeared during the fighting. The last time she ever saw him was the morning of May 28, 2007, when he left their home in Mahmoudiya, a Sunni-dominated city of about 500,000 people dubbed the "Gateway to Baghdad" because of its proximity to the Iraqi capital. She doesn't know what happened to him. But she and her family believe he was a victim of the sectarian fighting. "Maybe somebody kidnapped him?" she says, looking down at the gun in her hand. "Maybe he was killed in an explosion?" Ask any of the women, who range between the ages of 14 and 60, at the Badr Brigade training center if their family has a "martyr" -- somebody who has been killed in the fighting -- and nearly three-quarters of the hands go up. Ask if any of them know of anybody who's one, and everybody's hands go up. Jaffar Hassan is the man in the military uniform instructing the women. He is not related to Zahra Hassan, but she could be his daughter. By the time the week is done, he says, the women will be proficient enough to protect themselves and, if necessary, kill. Teen learning to protect her family . Fourteen-year-old Ageel Fadhil sits against the trunk of a towering date palm, listening to Hassan. An AK-47 lays across her lap. Her tender age is evident by the white hijab she wears. The other women, all older, wear hijabs in dark colors. Her mother, Shama, already knows how to use the weapon. She is an Iraqi police officer, one of the thousands of women who were trained in such roles when the U.S. military was standing up Iraq's military. She also was among the first to complete the Badr Brigade training, and today she is helping to instruct the women at the training center to handle the weapons. Ageel must learn how to protect the family, specifically her 7-year-old brother Ali, she says. "When her father and I are at work, what is she going to do if someone comes in the house to kill them?" With school out for the summer, most of Ageel's friends, she says, are watching television and reading magazines. She asked them to volunteer with her, but only a few did, she said. When its Ageel's turn to fire, she moves to the front of the group. "So I take aim like this, and I get ready to fire," Hassan says, lifting the AK-47 and leveling it toward the trees. "Then I fire." He hands it to Ageel, who follows his instruction. She squeezes the trigger. Bang! Nice shot, he tells her. Her mother, wearing a green camouflage headscarf that matches her uniform, smiles at her and gently pats her on her back. It's not what a mother wishes for her daughter, Shama Fadhil said. "But in Iraq, this is the reality." By the end of the lesson, Ageel appears more at ease with the AK-47, cradling the weapon in her arm -- just like she has seen soldiers on the streets do. But could she kill somebody? Could she point the gun at somebody and pull the trigger? She thinks about the questions for a moment and then looks to her mother before she answers. "If God wills it, yes," she says. READ MORE: Iraq's orphans struggle to survive . READ MORE: 'No reason to doubt' Baghdadi in Mosul . READ MORE: Why not just split Iraq into three states?

In Baghdad, the Badr Brigade, a Shiite militia, offers women a 5-day weapons training course . The training aims to make them "ready if (ISIS) makes it into their neighborhood," major says . More than 450 women have been through the training since the group started it this year . The members of one class range between the ages of 14 and 60 .

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(CNN) -- Two Israeli bands, one Jewish and one Arab, are joining together in "metal brotherhood" to spread a message of peace through rock 'n roll. Arab group Khalas (Arabic for "Enough") and Jewish band Orphaned Land are heading out on an 18-day European tour that they hope will foster tolerance between the two sides in the Arab-Israeli conflict. "We want to share the stage together, we want to show co-existence," said Kobi Farhi, Orphaned Land's vocalist. The bands will also share a tour bus for three weeks. What more perfect example of co-existence, asks Farhi. "We will snore at each other, we will do laundry together, we will make coffee for each other," he said. Among those on the tour bus will be Abed Hathout, Khalas' guitarist and band manager. "If we can do this co-existence on a bus, why can't we do it all over this country," he said. One in five Israelis is of Arab descent, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics. Sometimes called Israeli-Arabs, many consider themselves Palestinians. Apart from handful of cities that the government designates "mixed," where a minority of Arabs lives alongside a majority of Jews, the two groups live in separate communities. Read more: The mystery of the Egyptian sphinx in Israel . Farhi admits that music might not be able to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict, but he argues that "you can always show a way for people to take inspiration." The bands have already played two gigs together in Tel Aviv. Hathout says that Khalas' favorite place to perform is Ramallah in the West Bank but that the "good energy" at these two gigs was "amazing." This is not the first time music has been used to cross the divide between Israelis and Arabs. In 1999, conductor Daniel Barenboim and the late Palestinian intellectual Edward Said founded The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Based in the Spanish city of Seville, the orchestra is composed of an equal number of Israeli and Arab musicians, together with a group of Spanish musicians. The orchestra has performed all over the world, working on the philosophy that music can break down barriers and encourage people to listen to each other. Some Palestinians have criticized the orchestra for promoting "normalization," which masks the realities of their situation. Last year an East Jerusalem concert was cancelled after complaints from Palestinians. Read more: New city offers vision of better life in West Bank . Farhi recounts a similar incident when Orphaned Land played with a Tunisian band on their last tour. The Tunisian band's manager received emails asking them to boycott the tour. "If you want to interpret (touring with an Israeli band) as legitimizing, that's your interpretation ... we simply have a message that we love each other and we want to live together." Khalas and Orphaned Land's tour was sparked by Farhi and Hathout's friendship. "You might say (going on tour together) is a PR cliche or a gimmick... but it's simply a translation of me and Abed's brotherhood," said Farhi. The pair met almost a decade ago at a radio station and bonded over their mutual love of heavy metal with a Middle Eastern twist. Both bands blend classic heavy metal elements with Arabic rhythms and instruments like violins and flutes. They call it Oriental Metal. "We take the rock 'n roll of the West, put it through our Middle Eastern filters, and throw it back," said Hathout. Orphaned Land's lyrics are often political, observing the Middle East's governments and religion. Khalas' latest album features metal covers of '80s Arab wedding songs. "Khalas doesn't deal with politics ... it's not because we are not connected to our people or we don't care, but there are so many people talking about the occupation. "I have the right to write about having fun and love and drinking beer." In spite of the complexities, Ben Brinner author of "Playing across a Divide: Israeli-Palestinian Musical Encounters" and a professor of music at University of California, Berkeley, says something very interesting can happen when musicians from both sides come together. "They create different kinds of musical styles; it's giving a vision of a rich kind of working together (that in) the best cases creates something new, something that they couldn't create on their own, that can speak to the hearts of diverse audiences." For Farhi, it's straightforward enough: "The only conflict we have is who is going to pay the bill."

Two Israeli bands -- one Jewish the other Arab -- touring Europe together . Bands hope their tour will show how music can unite people across political and religious divides . Other Arab-Israeli musical projects have highlighted power of music to foster peaceful relations . 'The only conflict we have is who is going to pay the bill,' says singer Kobi Farhi .

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(CNN) -- Nerves for Adam Scott as the defending champion at the Masters? Not so. In fact, the Australian said it had the opposite effect. Scott, bidding to become just the second man in more than two decades to defend his title at Augusta, shot a 3-under-par 69 in Thursday's opening round to leave him joint second alongside 2012 champion Bubba Watson and the man he beat that year, South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen. They trail surprise leader Bill Haas of the U.S. by one shot. "I think winning very much calms you down here," Scott told Sky Sports. "It's the calmest start I ever had here and it was a pleasure to be out there today. "It was a fantastic response from the patrons coming to every tee. I loved every minute." Scott hit five birdies, his lone blemish coming at the 12th with a double bogey. But Rory McIlroy, who entered the tournament as joint favorite with Scott according to some British bookmakers, suspected the 12th would pose problems for quite a few of those in the field. "I played really well today from tee to green," said Scott, the highest ranked golfer at the Masters with Tiger Woods injured. "I just hit one poor shot on 12. "I'm very pleased with my start and it's something to build on for sure." Scott's success a year ago at Augusta marked his first major to end years of disappointment, and although McIlroy owns two major titles, when it comes to the Masters the Northern Irishman is most associated with his agonizing collapse in 2011. He led by four shots entering the final round but then came unstuck. On Thursday he proclaimed himself pleased with his round of 71, to leave him one shot under par. "I feel good," McIlroy, 24, told Sky. "I feel like I'm better prepared than I ever have been and I think I'll feel like that every year I come back because experience counts for so much on this golf course. "The golf course set up today was very difficult for a Thursday. Some of the pin placements were pins you'd expect to see on the weekends so to shoot under par today I felt was a good effort." Early leader . Haas, who has never finished in the top 10 at a major, bogeyed his first hole and the 17th but in between struck five birdies. He birdied the last hole, too. "I was leading last week after the first round and finished 37th, so I know there's tons of golf left," Haas, the son of a U.S. Ryder Cup player, told reporters, referring to the Houston Open. The last Masters rookie to win the title was Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979 but three were in contention Thursday: Americans Kevin Stadler and Jimmy Walker, and Swede Jonas Blixt. They all finished at 2-under. Stadler and dad Craig -- the 1982 winner -- became the first father-son combo to compete at the same Masters. Kevin Stadler easily bettered his 60-year-old dad, who shot a 10-over 82 and said it was likely his farewell Masters. "I played like a moron," Craig Stadler told reporters. Meanwhile, three-time Masters champion Phil Mickelson was among the big names to struggle at Augusta, after carding a 76. England's Luke Donald finished the day with a disastrous 78, while compatriot, and defending U.S. Open champion, Justin Rose limped home only two shots better off.

Defending Masters champion Adam Scott shoots a 3-under-par 69 in the first round . Only one player has won back-to-back Masters titles in the past two decades . Joint pre-tournament favorite Rory McIlroy not far behind Scott at 1-under 71 . Debutants Jonas Blixt, Jimmy Walker and Kevin Stadler also impress at Augusta .

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Newcastle midfielder Siem de Jong has said his rehabilitation from injury will take at least another eight weeks. De Jong was a £6million arrival from Ajax in the summer but he suffered a major setback almost immediately when he suffered a serious thigh injury just three games into his Magpies career. The initial prognosis was that he would not be fit to return until after Christmas and that does not appear to have altered significantly during his time on crutches. Siem de Jong started well at Newcastle but picked up a thigh injury after just three games for the Magpies . Newcastle's attacking midfielder de Jong posted on Facebook he has been ruled out for a further two months . The 25-year-old Holland international posted an upbeat message on his Facebook page but admitted he was still a long way from returning. It read: 'On my way back to Newcastle. Just saw the surgeon in London and all looks good. 'I can slowly start building up strength again and start walking without crutches. Still a couple of months to go but I'm going to work hard and I'm sure I will get back stronger!' De Jong posted this photo on Instagram showing himself on crutches at the beginning of the month .

Siem de Jong suffered a thigh injury after three games for Newcastle . £6million arrival this summer confirms he's out for two further months . The Holland international had hoped to be back by the end of October .

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By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 02:09 EST, 18 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:30 EST, 18 December 2013 . The family of a 13-year-old California girl who was declared brain dead last week, three days after undergoing a routine tonsillectomy to cure her sleep apnea, are determined to keep her on life support indefinitely against the hospital's wishes. Speaking to CNN's Piers Morgan Tuesday night, Nailah Winkfield, the mother of Jahi McMath, said she believed her daughter could still wake up. 'I don't want to take my daughter off life support because I love my child,' an emotional Miss Winkfield said. 'When I walked her into that hospital, she was perfectly fine, there was nothing wrong with her. She had no health problems.' Loss: Jahi McMath, 13, suffered cardiac arrest after having her tonsils out and has been declared brain dead. The hospital will now switch off her life support, even though her family does not want to . The . mother recounted how when Jahi emerged from surgery to remove her . tonsils at Children's Hospital & Research Center in Oakland lastTuesday, the 13-year-old said her throat was hurting and she wanted a . Popsicle. 'I don't want . her off life support because I really feel like she can wake up,' Nailah . Winkfield told Morgan. 'I feel like it's just been a rough week for her . and, if they just give her some more time, then she'll be able to wake . up.' Jahi's family have . since presented the hospital with a cease and desist letter through . their attorney, Christopher Dolan, to prevent the teen from being taken . off the ventilator. 'Our . faith is so strong that we don't even think about the possibility of . death,' said Jahi's uncle, Omari Sealey. 'We believe with all the . prayers from everyone around the world and the prayers with our family . that she will wake up, that she will heal completely.' This afternoon, the 13-year-old girl's family and their attorney declared that the hospital informed them that Jahi would be kept on life support indefinitely, KTVU reported. 'The hospital has now backed off from the efforts to remove live support,' said Dolan. The family said if the hospital moves to switch off Jahi's life support again, they will take legal action to try to get a court injunction. 'We're not on doctor's time anymore we're on god's time, providing us more time to get together and pray,' said Sealey. However, experts told the station that no one has ever recovered from being brain dead, and that hospital officials are merely acting out of compassion by keeping the legally dead girl on life support. The . girl's family have created a Facebook page called 'Keep Jahi Mcmath on . life support,' which so far has drawn over 2,900 'likes.' Oakland . coroner's office told CNN that Jahi's death was reported to the agency . Thursday. Under California state law, pathologists are required to . examine the body as soon as possible and determine the cause and manner . of death. United front: Nailah Winkfield (center), Jahi's uncle, Omari Sealey (far left) and their attorney said they wanted to hospital to keep the girl on the ventilator indefinitely . In Jahi's case, . the fear is that the longer her body remains on life support, healing, . the more difficult it would be to uncover what went wrong during the . surgery, according to the official. However, . Mr Dolan, the family's attorney said that Jahi is a person, not . evidence, adding that it is a 'ruse' on the part of the hospital to try . and get the girl off the ventilator under the guise of an investigation . into her death. California law states that two doctors must declare a patient brain dead at least three hours apart. Before the doctors gave their decision to the family, Jahi's heartbroken mother said she had felt that the hospital was pressuring her into switching off her daughter's life support so that they could re-use the bed. 'They . just have a social worker follow me around all day long asking me "Do . you have any other family that needs to see her?" like trying to put a . rush on it,' Winkfield told ABC 7, breaking down. Chatman had added to the Oakland Tribune that . as long as her daughter's heart was beating, they wanted to keep her in the hospital, . even if it means spending Christmas in there. 'As long as she has a pulse, we want her on life support,' Sealey said. 'We want her to come home for Christmas. We want to give her presents. We want a chance for a Christmas miracle.' Apprehensive: Jahi was nervous about undergoing surgery but her mother assured her she'd be fine. As she was recovering, she was bleeding from the mouth and nose and suffered cardiac arrest . Beloved: Jahi's mother Nailah Winkfield said they had wanted to keep her on life support for Christmas . The tragedy unfolded after Jahi went to the hospital for the routine surgery meant to help with her weight gain, incontinence, short attention span and sleep apnea - even though she did not want to. Her uncle said she had told her mother 'something bad is going to happen to me'. The child's mother and . grandmother Sandra Chatman say hospital staff failed to provide adequate . care and attention to the clearly ailing patient. She underwent the surgery but as she was recovering she started to bleed profusely from her nose and mouth. 'My daughter had actual clots sliding out of her mouth and they gave me a cup and said, "Here, catch them with the cup so we can measure them,"' Winkfield told ABC 7. Chatman, herself a surgical nurse, said nursing staff did not react until she began screaming for help. 'I was the last one to see Jahi,' said . Chatman. 'I said, "Somebody help my baby, please!" And they came in and . starting working on her. The next thing I know, the doctor said, "Oh no, . she doesn't have a heart rate anymore."' Investigation: Oakland Children's Hospital said it will investigate what happened after the surgery. As Jahi has been declared legally dead, she will be taken off life support . 'There was a lack of urgency,' Jahi McMath's uncle Omari Sealey said. 'It's shock, it's disbelief. You never think something like this will happen to you.' Jahi went into cardiac arrest and was resuscitated. She was given clotting medication to stop the hemorrhaging, but to no avail. She spent the following day, Tuesday, on a ventilator, but by 2am on Wednesday doctors said a CT scan has revealed that two-thirds of her brain was swollen. On Thursday, she was declared legally brain-dead, according to the Oakland Tribune. Spokesperson for Oakland Children's . Hospital said in a statement: 'We're very sad about this outcome, about . what's happened to her, but at this point I have no information on the . details of the surgery. 'We . will certainly investigate what happened. In any surgery there are . risks and there can be unexpected, unanticipated complications.'

Jahi McMath, 13, went to have her tonsils and adenoids out at Oakland Children's Hospital, California last week . Afterwards she was bleeding from the nose and mouth, suffered cardiac arrest and was declared brain dead . Hospital told her heartbroken family that they will switch off her life support as she has been declared legally dead . Girl's mother and uncle served hospital with cease and desist letter, leading to announcement Tuesday that Jahi will remain on ventilator . Relatives are convinced that prayers will help McMath wake up . Experts say no one has ever recovered from being brain dead .

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By . Charlie Scott . Follow @@charliefscott . Santi Cazorla is confident Alexis Sanchez can fire Arsenal to the Premier League title. The Chile forward completed his £30million move from Barcelona on Thursday, signing a four-year deal with the Gunners. And Cazorla, who helped Arsenal win the FA Cup last season, believes his new team-mate will prove the difference this season. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Santi Cazorla's classy dummy and chip to beat Reina for Spain . Star: Santi Cazorla believes the signing of Alexis Sanchez will boost Arsenal's Premier League chances . ‘It is a very important signing,’ said Cazorla, at the launch of Arsenal’s new PUMA kit. ‘He's a world-class player - I've said it before. Having him at Arsenal night make a big difference just because of the player he is. ‘If you bring in players of an outstanding level, it will lift the team to an outstanding level. ‘The more quality players you have in your squad the more you can fight and we were unlucky with injuries last year. ‘Having another fast player in the squad like Alexis will also give us extra opportunities going forward next year.’ When asked if Arsenal could win the league, the 29-year-old said: ‘Absolutely. Absolutely. If we have an even better squad than last year then why can’t we be champions this year?’ Mikel Arteta joined Cazorla for the kit launch at Puma’s flagship store in Carnaby Street, London, and both praised the World Cup performances of Arsenal striker Joel Campbell. The 22-year-old forward played in all five of Costa Rica’s World Cup matches, and is set to return to north London for pre-season training with the Gunners having spent the last three seasons on loan at Lorient, Real Betis and Olympiacos. New boy: Alexis Sanchez signed for Arsenal in a £30m move on Thursday . ‘I think he has reached a level where he is ready to play for Arsenal,’ said Cazorla, who played against the Costa Rican in La Liga before his move to the Emirates. ‘I’ve known Campbell for many years now because of his time in Spain. I know him a lot and I think every day he is developing and becoming a better player.’ Cazorla said he was happy that Arsenal had signed a kit deal with Puma, having represented the label for the last year. He was wearing PUMAs when he scored Arsenal’s first goal in the 3-2 FA Cup final win in May. Fresh: Cazorla, Mikel Arteta (centre) and Mathieu Flamini model the new Puma Arsenal kits . ‘Absolutely, I'm really proud of my goal in that match so I’m happy Arsenal are with Puma now. ‘I've been a Puma player for one year now and the boots have really helped me and my game. They have really made a difference. ‘We are happy to have such a beautiful match between Puma and the club.’ VIDEO Suarez in, Sanchez out at Barca . Happy: Cazorla has represented Arsenal's new kit manufactures for the last year .

Santi Cazorla is hoping new Arsenal signing Alexis Sanchez can fire Gunners to Premier League title . Chile star signed for Arsenal in £30million move from Barcelona . Cazorla believes Sanchez will prove the difference .

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A London hospital was totally unprepared when a suspected Ebola patient walked into A&E, it was claimed today. Health authorities have carried out high-profile drills in a bid to show that Britain is ready for the feared arrival of the disease. But an insider at Lewisham hospital said the response when a potential case walked into casualty on Saturday night shows the reality of the situation is much worse. Scroll down for video . A man walked into Lewisham hospital with suspected Ebola on Saturday night and was put into isolation - but an insider says he was allowed to use a communal toilet and even received visitors . The incident came on the same day as the NHS carried out a training drill on how to deal with the outbreak (pictured at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary) It was reported today that a man arrived at the hospital fearing he had the deadly virus after travelling to Britain from Sierra Leone two weeks ago. But a source told The Sun some staff refused to go near the man, who was reportedly allowed visitors and used a communal toilet. The insider said: 'The hospital is unprepared. Staff are panicking and scared for their safety.' The man - who was later found not to have the virus - was not transferred to the specialist Royal Free Hospital, which is the only hospital in Britain equipped with a fully 'ebola-proof' isolation unit. The source claimed hospital staff only have 'aprons, masks and flimsy surgical gloves' rather than the bio-protection suits used in the drill. Reports of the incident contrast with the well-organised response shown in a training exercise carried out on the same day. In the NHS drill, an actor feigned collapse at a shopping centre in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, after telling passers-by he was not feeling well. He was taken to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle by an ambulance crew equipped to deal with an Ebola case, where he was put into an isolation unit. An actor used as a patient in the drill in Newcastle (pictured) was transferred to the specialist Royal Free Hospital in London - but a source in Lewisham said this did not happen in a suspected case on Saturday . Staff in Hillingdon hospital in Uxbridge, west London taking part in the national Ebola exercise. Staff in Lewisham have reportedly been left with only masks, aprons and gloves to deal with the disease . Lewisham hospital - which has found the man does not have Ebola - say worried staff are being supported . The 'victim' was then transferred 300 miles to the Royal Free Hospital in north London, as planned. The exercises were announced days in advance – but the Department of Health has said 'key people' at the hospitals involved had been given only a few hours' notice that they would take part. A spokesman for Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust said: 'It's important to stress that we did follow robust and established systems that are in place to manage and care for people with suspected infectious diseases. 'Following a clinical assessment and advice from the Imported Fever Service Unit, the patient was identified as "low risk" for Ebola. They were always treated in isolation and all staff wore appropriate protective clothing. 'As a low risk patient, they were allowed to see a visitor under controlled conditions, meaning the visitor was given protective clothing for the duration of the visit. Tests have confirmed that the patient does not have the Ebola virus. 'We understand that cases like this can be alarming for staff, and it's unfortunate someone has raised concerns publicly when the Trust did follow best practice guidelines. 'We will be speaking to staff to remind them of our protocols and procedures for infection control and to encourage them to let us know if they need any additional support.' British nurse Will Pooley was the first Briton to contract the disease but was successfully treated in the UK . He was flown back to the High Secure Infectious Disease Unit at The Royal Free Hospital (pictured) in August . The Ebola outbreak is thought to have started in Guinea in December last year and deaths from the virus rose rapidly in West Africa this summer and now top 4,000. The World Health Organization today called the Ebola outbreak 'the most severe, acute health emergency seen in modern times'. It added that economic disruption can be curbed if people are educated so they don't make any irrational moves to dodge infection. WHO Director-General Margaret Chan, citing World Bank figures, said 90 per cent of economic costs of any outbreak 'come from irrational and disorganised efforts of the public to avoid infection.' World Health Organisation director-general Margaret Chan said the Ebola outbreak has proved 'the world is ill-prepared to respond to any severe, sustained, and threatening public health emergency'. In a statement to a regional health conference in the Philippines, she said: 'I have never seen a health event threaten the very survival of societies and governments in already very poor countries. 'I have never seen an infectious disease contribute so strongly to potential state failure.' 'We are seeing, right now, how this virus can disrupt economies and societies around the world,' she said, but added that adequately educating the public was a 'good defense strategy' and would allow governments to prevent economic disruptions. British nurse Will Pooley became the first Briton to contract the virus after working as a volunteer in Sierra Leone, one of the worst-hit countries. Mr Pooley was flown back to Britain on August 24 and recovered after being treated in an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital. London mayor Boris Johnson has admitted that he expects Ebola to come to Britain soon and says he fears the disease will probably hit the capital first. 'I have little doubt that eventually there will be a case of Ebola in this country and probably in this city,' he said, adding that it was impossible to blood test everybody coming into the country. Thomas Eric Duncan became the first person to die of Ebola in the United States last week. The 42-year-old Liberian's body was incinerated alongside items that were feared contaminated by the virus in Texas on Friday. Since Mr Duncan's death, it has emerged that a female nurse who treated him has become the second person in the country to test positive for the virus. British man Colin Jaffray was suspected of being the first UK citizen to be killed by Ebola after he died on a business trip to Macedonia last week. But health officials in the eastern European country have since said the 58-year-old, from Royston, Hertfordshire, did not have the disease. Ebola has killed 4,000 people in western Africa this year, with burial teams in Liberia struggling to cope . Teams of volunteers have been picking up the bodies of victims in Liberian capital, Freetown, and officials expect the disease will move to Britain in the future .

Source claims Lewisham hospital response to case was 'farcical' Man was admitted despite plans to send Ebola patients to specialist centre . One ward reportedly refused to have him and medics 'reluctant' to treat him . Came on same day as high-profile NHS drill in how to respond to outbreak . Insider says staff only have aprons, masks and gloves - not bio suits . Feverish patient later found not to have deadly Ebola virus .

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An English bulldog in Upstate New York is pawsitively living up to his rock star name. Ozzy Pawsbourne the Prince of Barkness quickly became the viral of the week after footage of him swinging in a playground hit YouTube on Tuesday. Owner Jesse Citron - a die-hard Black Sabbath fan who hails from Woodstock - admitted to having reservations in making the clip public, fearing a possible animal cruelty backlash. But friends convinced him otherwise and said the video had to be shared. Rock star ride: Ozzy Pawsbourne the Prince of Barkness has become an internet star after a video of him swinging in a playground hit YouTube this week . Weeeee: Sophie Citron, 5, pushes her pet bulldog Ozzy on a swing in Kingston, New York . Happy days: In the funny footage, Ozzy appears to love his foray on the swing set . Playtime: Ozzy is still just a pup and turned one-year-old in October, so its fitting he went in the child's swing . Citron told Yahoo News that he was playing with his five-year-old daughter, Sophie, at a park in Kingston when Ozzy took a liking to the swing set. They decided to put him, and Sophie happily, albeit gently, pushed Ozzy along. While the video has garnered almost 50,000 views, its biggest fan is Sophie. 'She asks to see the video all the time because she thinks it’s hilarious,' Citron told Yahoo. 'I thought maybe some animal rights activist might have a problem with it. 'But I had too many friends tell me, ''That’s hilarious, you've got to put it up''.' Ozzy is still a pup, and turned one in October. Citron plans on shooting more videos.

Video was shot at a playground in Kingston, New York . Owner Jesse Citron is a major Black Sabbath fan . Admitted to having reservations in sharing the footage .

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Kellie Maloney has praised the world of sport for the reaction to her shock sex change revelation. Maloney, formerly known as the boxing promoter Frank, announced at the weekend that she was now a woman. And the 62-year-old said she was worried about the reaction, adding that she'd known from a very young age she was in the wrong body but suppressed it due to her working-class upbringing, during which she was taken to Millwall at three. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Kellie Maloney admit she would have killed herself . Happy in her own skin: Kellie Maloney speaking on Good Morning Britain about the reaction to her news . Watch the full interview on Good Morning Britain . Now and then: Maloney as Kellie on ITV and (right) last year as Frank, bowing out of boxing . Maloney told ITV's Good Morning Britain: 'The reaction has been extraordinary. Stan Collymore, Lennox Lewis, they were great. 'I knew (she wanted to be a woman) when I was very young. But I come from a working-class background, I was taken to Millwall when I was three. 'When I was against my brothers I had to excel at everything. I had to the best at any sport. 'It was very hard and I felt I don't want to be different. I thought it'd just go but it didn't.' Asked how she felt about any negative comments, she said: 'I received so many of them in my boxing business they'd just be like water off a duck's back now to me. Really, that life has prepared me for this transition.' The catalyst, Maloney revealed, was when her father died of cancer, adding: 'The day my father died four years ago the lid came off it.' Walking the dogs: Maloney with her pets and some bags after her interview on ITV . Sofa, so good: Maloney talking on ITV about her revelation and new life . Support: Maloney was grateful for the words of former boxing charge and heavyweight champion of the world Lennox Lewis, with whom he is pictured here in his previous guise as Frank . The ex-boxing promoter and manager also revealed about trying to seek assurances from professionals: 'I would phone the counsellor because I didn't want him to know who I was. I'd say, "Tell me I'm not a transsexual" but he'd say, "I don't know you, if you're asking me there must be something in it".' Maloney re-iterated that she would have killed herself had she not revealed her true self but said the hardest thing was telling her former wife, insisting: 'I would have killed myself. I was angry with everyone and that's what made me do it. My wife was also my best friend we had a great relationship . 'We're divorced now, though. But when I was telling her, when it was coming out I wanted to catch it and put it back in.'

Maloney used to be known as boxing promoter Frank but announced at weekend that she was having a sex change . She revealed that support of Lewis, Collymore etc really helped . Says she knew she was different when she was very young . Was brought up in working-class family, watching Millwall at age three .

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L'Wren Scott's sister has lashed out at Sir Mick Jagger after the singer was photographed on the balcony of his hotel room in Zurich last weekend with a mystery brunette decades his junior. The Rolling Stones front man was seen spending time with the woman just 11 weeks since the fashion designer committed suicide. Jan Shane, 53, said: 'And people wonder why L'Wren was so depressed?' Moving on: Sir Mick Jagger is seen being embraced by a mystery brunette on the balcony of his hotel in Zurich . While the rock star is said to have been left ‘devastated and distraught’ after his 49-year-old lover of 13 years was found hanged in her New York apartment on March 17, Shane says Mick 'will never change' his ways. 'These pictures make me really wonder what Mick is thinking and feeling. His daughter says that he is still heartbroken and so devastated about losing my sister,' she told The Mirror. 'And then you see these photos he will never change.' Close: The young woman was seen leaning over the rock star as they took in the view . Jagger was seen spending time with the woman just 11 weeks after L'Wren Scott committed suicide . Solace:  According to reports, Sir Mick spent two days with the woman after meeting her in a Zurich nightclub . Quick change: The woman stayed in the same outfit while the rocker was seen wearing two outfits . Meanwhile, friends say the rock star has been ‘drowning his sorrows’ with women since the suicide of his Scott. A friend said over the weekend: ‘Some men drown their sorrow in drink. Mick doesn’t drink much but he drowns his sorrows in women.’ They said that the mystery brunette in Zurich was not the first woman Mick has spent time with since the death of his girlfriend. Together: The singer pictured with his lover of 13 years designer L'Wren Scott. Scott tragically passed away on March 17 . Alone: The Rolling Stones singer appears on the balcony on his own shirtless and with a towel wrapped around his waist . Another added: ‘He has reverted back to his old ways. This is how he deals with things, even in his 70s. Lashing out: L'Wren's sister Jan Shane is pictured at her Utah home on March 19 . ‘Through good times and bad, the thing that never changes is Mick’s love for women. Sex is like a coping mechanism for him.’ And a close friend admitted: ‘He grieved hard but Mick is someone who has always loved life and loves women. This is just Mick being Mick and moving on the only way he knows how.’ According to reports, Sir Mick spent two days with the woman after meeting her in a Zurich nightclub following a Rolling Stones gig. As well as being pictured shirtless on the balcony of his hotel penthouse, he was also seen being embraced by the woman, who appeared to be wearing one of his shirts. A source said Sir Mick had deliberately posed on the balcony ‘to show he’s back in business’. ‘He doesn’t do anything by accident,’ the source added. ‘He will have known photographers were watching. It was just nice to see Mick smiling again.’ Last night, L’Wren’s sister Jan Shane – who was estranged from the fashion designer at the time of her death – said: ‘These pictures make me wonder what Mick is really thinking and feeling. ‘His daughter says that he is heartbroken and devastated about losing my sister, and then you see these photos. He’ll never change.’ L’Wren is said to have killed herself after falling heavily into debt. In a statement in March, Sir Mick said  he ‘failed to understand how my lover and best friend could end her life in this tragic way’.

Rolling Stones singer seen with brunette on balcony in Zurich, Switzerland . Star was left 'devastated' after 49-year-old L'Wren Scott died in March . L'Wren's sister Jan said Mick 'will never change' A friend said: 'Mick doesn’t drink much. He drowns his sorrows in women.’

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(CNN) -- A Somali Islamist militant movement on Monday issued a statement claiming responsibility for a devastating trio of bombings that killed 74 people in Uganda's capital. "We wage war against the 6,000 collaborators; they have received their response," the statement from Al-Shabaab read in apparent reference to the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia that Uganda contributes troops to. Analyst Alex Vines, from London-based think tank Chatham House, told CNN that if Al-Shabaab did carry out the attacks there could be global implications as countries and businesses vie for opportunities across Africa. Why is Uganda important? Vines: Historically it's been important for the export of coffee and fish out of Lake Victoria, but now oil has been found, Uganda could become a significant, if not major, oil exporter. So there's much international interest, and not just western. The deal that's been struck with Tullow Oil looks as if it'll be farmed out to the French company Total and the Chinese state oil company CNOOC. So these attacks in Uganda could have global implications for business, be they Chinese or Western. Will they deter investors? Vines: I think investors will do a stricter risk assessment and practice due diligence. They will look at where they think it's safe for their workers to go and advise them to be careful when socializing at night, but I don't think it will stop investment at all. Does Uganda have a history of violence? Vines: Uganda has had a low-intensity conflict linked to the Lords Resistance Army (LRA), of Joseph Kony, but this has been much subdued in recent years. There have been recent acts of random terrorism in Kampala but nothing like that seen last night. (United Nations humanitarian chief Jan Egeland has described the 20-year conflict in northern Uganda between government forces and the LRA as the most neglected humanitarian crisis in the world. Kony has said he wants to rule Uganda according to the Ten Commandments but the LRA campaign has been marked by brutality, including the abduction of many school children with girls forced to be sex slaves and boys pressed into the guerrilla army.) Uganda is on the U.N. Security Council and is going to play a more global role as U.S. and other countries want to impose sanctions on countries like Iran and North Korea. Is Uganda's international role the reason it's been targeted? Vines: Al-Shabaab are the leading point of inquiry because of its previous threats against Uganda and because of its contributions to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and the presence of the EU training mission in Mogadishu. Bomb belt found in Uganda attacks probe . I think Uganda has been targeted for these bombings because of its activities in Somalia. Uganda is on the Security Council but it is going to step down at the end of this year. So that's a transitory issue. Uganda certainly sees itself as playing a regional role: President Museveni was instrumental in pushing for U.N. sanctions on Eritrea that came into force earlier this year so clearly he has many enemies as well as friends. What are the implications of the attacks? Vines: If radical Islamist group Al-Shabaab is involved, this will be its first attack outside Somalia. If this is true the bombings will show it has the capability against soft targets outside Somalia. Also it's important to understand Somalia isn't a monolithic, single state. There's extreme violence in the south of the country but north of Mogadishu and in an area called Somaliland it's been pretty stable. In fact in Somaliland recently there's been an election with what looks like the peaceful transition of the head of state of that area. So this is a complicated region for sure. Is there any possibility of peace in Somalia? Vines: The West's policy is to support the transitional government in Mogadishu but it only controls a few streets. The part of Somalia around Mogadishu and to the south is controlled by Al-Shabaab, who do not recognize the transitional government and want to impose a strict Islamist code. My own personal view is that rather than ignoring al-Shabaab we should be discussing with them what they want. And in that way it's similar to the situation in Afghanistan with the Taliban ... the debate going there about whether one must engage with them rather than just fight them. The country remains very vulnerable and reliant on AU peacekeeping forces and AMISOM, which is what Uganda is part of, and I think that's why Uganda was attacked.

Somali militants claim reponsibility for bomb attacks that killed dozens in Uganda . Uganda possibly targeted because of its activities in Somalia . Al-Shabaab group has issued previous threats against Uganda . Analysts say there could be global implications for businesses across Africa .

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PHOENIX, Arizona (CNN) -- Basketball great Charles Barkley began serving a three-day sentence in Arizona's infamous Tent City on Saturday, jailed by the same sheriff whose autobiography he endorsed 12 years ago. Charles Barkley bristled at the implication he should be wearing stripes instead of a red-and-bue sweatsuit. "You come here when you screw up," Barkley said at a news conference hours after he reported at the Maricopa County jail. "I don't blame anybody for this situation but myself." Barkley, 45, pleaded guilty last month to misdemeanor drunken-driving charges stemming from a New Year's Eve arrest after he left a Scottsdale, Arizona, nightclub. A judge sentenced him to 10 days in jail, but his sentence was reduced in exchange for Barkley's attending an alcohol-awareness course. At the news conference, Barkley sat next to Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed "Toughest Sheriff in America." Arpaio is known for giving inmates old-fashioned, black-and-white-striped uniforms, making some of them live in tents and reinstituting chain gangs, even for women. "I'm an equal incarcerator," Arpaio said of Barkley, who will be sleeping in one of the tents. "We don't discriminate." He said Barkley has been "a gentleman, cordial." "He's taking his medicine," Arpaio said. "I hope that something comes out of this." In a free-wheeling news conference, Barkley spoke out against drunken driving, made some observations about President Obama ("Rush Limbaugh and a lot of jackasses are giving him a hard time right now") and commented on felony charges singer Chris Brown faces for allegedly beating his girlfriend, singer Rhianna. Watch Barkley speak at news conference » . "I wish both of them the best, but it's never acceptable to hit a woman. Period," Barkley said. Barkley wore a red-and-blue sweatsuit, not the black-and-white stripes that other inmates -- who watched the news conference through a chain-link fence --were wearing. Barkley said it's because he's on the jail's work-release program, and bristled at questions about it. "None of the work-release people do that," he said. "But if y'all really, really want to put me as low as I can go, I can do that and make you feel better. "I know when [someone is] famous, you like to see people humiliated." Arpaio, who joked with Barkley over the pink underwear he routinely issues inmates, held up a copy of his 1996 book, "America's Toughest Sheriff." On its back cover, alongside endorsements by Limbaugh, Arizona Sen. John McCain and others, is one from Barkley. "This man, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, is a role model for all Americans," Barkley wrote in the blurb. Barkley is a basketball commentator for TNT, which like CNN is a Time Warner company. A star for the Philadelphia 76ers and Phoenix Suns, Barkley was named the NBA's Most Valuable Player in 1993 and inducted into its Hall of Fame in 2006.

Charles Barkley begins serving 3-day jail sentence in Maricopa County, Arizona . The jailer is the sheriff whose autobiography Barkley endorsed 12 years ago . Barkley speaks out against drunken driving during topically diverse news conference . "He's taking his medicine," Sheriff Joe Arpaio says of his famous inmate .

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Thousands of nude videos and images sent using Snapchat could be leaked over the weekend, hackers have warned. Earlier this week, an anonymous 4chan user claimed to have obtained images on Snapchat - the ephemeral messaging service that allows users to send pictures that should disappear after a few seconds. Now, messages posted on the 4chan website suggest that up to 200,000 images will be released soon in an event dubbed ‘The Snappening’. Scroll down for video . Messages posted on the 4chan website suggest that up to 200,000 images will be released soon, in an event dubbed ‘The Snappening’. A third-party Snapchat client app is said to have been collecting every photo and video file sent through the message site for years, giving hackers access to a 13GB private library . A third-party Snapchat client app has been collecting every photo and video file sent through the message site for years, giving hackers access to a 13GB private library. But Snapchat has denied that its service was ever compromised. 'We can confirm that Snapchat’s servers were never breached and were not the source of these leaks,' Snapchat told MailOnline. 'Snapchatters were victimised by their use of third-party apps to send and receive Snaps, a practice that we expressly prohibit in our Terms of Use precisely because they compromise our users’ security. Earlier this week an anonymous 4chan user claimed to have obtained images on Snapchat, a messaging service that allows users to send pictured that should disappear after a few seconds . To prove that he or she had hacked a third-party app, the poster provided pictures allegedly from Snapchat. But some users have said they can find the images elsewhere. While Snapsave has been named as the third-party app that was hacked into, an anonymous photo trader told Business Insider it was in fact SnapSaved.com . 'We vigilantly monitor the App Store and Google Play for illegal third-party apps and have succeeded in getting many of these removed.' One poster has claimed that the full leak will take place on 12 October, and will be uploaded to a searchable database, which suggests the images will be linked to Snapchat user IDs. The warning was first spotted by blogger Kenny Withers, who described it as ‘one of the largest data breaches of online profiles.’ ‘To put this into perspective, just imagine the celebrity nude scandal,’ he wrote. ‘Now replace iCloud with Snapsave and blow this up by hundreds of thousands of accounts. Now you have the Snappening.’ Co-founder Evan Spiegel  has revealed plans to show adverts on Snapchat . Despite not having a regular source of revenue, Snapchat was recently valued in the region of $10 billion (£6 billion). But its lack of revenue is about to change after co-founder Evan Spiegel revealed plans to show adverts on the app. The 24-year-old developer told Vanity Fair's New Establishment Summit that sponsored posts will appear on Snapchat 'soon', but they'll only show up on the app's Stories feature. Snapchat Stories add Snaps together to create a narrative. When a user adds a Snap to a Story it lives for 24 hours before it disappears, making room for the new. Mr Spiegel said: 'People are going to see the first ads on Snapchat soon. We think they're pretty cool.' He added that the adverts will be opt-in, and users can choose to look at them, or skip. And unlike adverts on Instagram and Facebook, Snapchat's ads would not be targeted at unique users, they will just be added to a story for whoever is looking at the app, at that time. The exact date that the ads will appear was not revealed. To prove that he or she had hacked a third-party app, the poster provided pictures allegedly from Snapchat. But some users have highlighted that they can find the images elsewhere. While Snapsave has been named by some as the third-party app that was hacked into, an anonymous photo trader told Business Insider it was in fact SnapSaved.com. The news comes just weeks after hundreds of celebrity nude images were leaked online through 4chan, following a hack of Apple's iCloud in an event dubbed 'The Fappening.' This isn’t the first time Los Angeles-based firm has faced security concerns. Last year, developers launched a SnapHack app that let users save and re-open Snapchat messages, without the sender ever knowing. Last year, developers launched a SnapHack app that lets users save and re-open Snapchat messages, without the sender ever knowing. The app followed an announcement by a forensics firm in Utah that discovered a way to find the so-called deleted pics, and created a way to download them from the 'hidden' location . The app followed an announcement by a forensics firm in Utah that discovered a way to find the so-called deleted pics, and created a way to download them from the 'hidden' location. In May, Orem-based firm Decipher Forensics discovered that Snapchat was saving the images. And the group said the app's code suggests that it isn't a bug; the developers appeared to have coded the app to do this, despite claiming that all images are automatically destroyed. Richard Hickman, a digital forensics examiner from Decipher Forensics said: 'The actual app is saving the picture.' '[Snapchat] claim that it's deleted, and it's not even deleted. It's actually saved on the phone.'

A third-party client app has collected photos and videos from Snapchat . Messages on 4chan suggest that up to 200,000 images will be released . One poster has claimed that the full leak will take place on 12 October . They could be uploaded to a searchable database, which suggests the images will be linked to Snapchat user IDs .

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