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England lock Joe Launchbury is hopeful of making his comeback in Wasps' Aviva Premiership clash with Leicester on May 9 as the final stage of his rehabilitation enters 'crunch time'. Launchbury has been sidelined since October because of a nerve problem caused by a bulging disc in his neck, but is close to regaining full fitness with the showdown against the Tigers pencilled in for his return. If the 24-year-old is given the all-clear to face the Tigers in a match that could be crucial to Wasps' play-off prospects, it will be his debut at the club's new home at the Ricoh Arena. Wasps lock Joe Launchbury is hopeful of making his comeback against Leicester Tigers on May 9 . 'I'm approaching six months out of the game, so it's been a long time. Now I'm approaching sort of the crunch time of the rehab.' Launchbury said. 'I'm building towards full contact training. A long injury, especially to the neck, is a gradual process to go through and you need to jump through a few hoops in terms of contact. 'Each stage I've taken on so far I've passed, so I'm really happy with where I am and hopefully over the next few weeks we can really ramp things up. 'I'm starting to feel really good and hopefully I'll hit my straps when I come back. 'It's always been hard to nail down a time to come back but given where I am now, I'm really setting my sights on Leicester at home in a few weeks' time. 'We're targeting that game, but it will only happen if everyone around me is 100 per cent sure that that's the right decision and my neck is in the best place it can be.' Launchbury (left) has been out since October due to a nerve problem caused by a bulging disc in his neck . Launchbury's absence has spanned nine missed Tests for England, comprising of the entire autumn schedule and the recent RBS 6 Nations. The Red Rose have missed his athleticism, work over the ball and tackle-count and if fit he is a certainty to make their World Cup squad with the global showpiece on home soil fuelling his determination to make a full recovery. 'There is an element of pressure - I really want to turn up to the training camps with a green ticket to my name as a fit player,' he said. 'I think that will be important heading into what's going to be a long and tough pre-season camp. 'I want to remind people what I can do on a pitch. Six months is a long time so hopefully I can get back out there and play well. The 24-year-old's potential return vs Leicester would be his debut at the club's new home at the Ricoh Arena . 'The World Cup has been the biggest carrot throughout this injury. It's been a long time, but I've had that every day in the back of my mind that I'm desperate to be there. 'Not many players get a chance to play in a home World Cup and hopefully I can get back fit and find the same form I had before my injury.' The lengthy lay-off has not come without its benefits, however, with Launchbury able to spend more time at home following the birth of his daughter Blythe. 'Within two weeks of having my operation it was the birth of my first child, so in that sense it's been brilliant to spend some time at home and really help my partner,' he said. 'It's been a great stage in my life for that and it's been great to be there for it.' The second row (right) still has aspirations of playing for England at the World Cup later this year .

Joe Launchbury has been out of action for Wasps since October . 24-year-old suffered a nerve problem caused by a bulging disc in his neck . Wasps face Leicester Tigers at the Ricoh Arena on May 9 .

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For Stuart McCall, the memories of May 11, 1985 will never fade. As Bradford City celebrated promotion from the old English Third Division, a day of joy quickly became one of devastation as a fire ripped through the timber main stand at Valley Parade towards the end of the first half, claiming 56 helpless victims. Just 21 years of age, McCall returned to his car, only to find the door handle was burning hot because it had been parked so near to the blaze. Upon learning his father, Andy — one of a large group of McCall’s relatives at the game — had been badly burned and was missing, the young midfielder set off frantically through the streets of Bradford. The fire at Bradford City's Valley Parade claimed 56 victims and injured 265 on May 11, 1985 . The 30th anniversary is approaching since the tragic fire that killed 56 people at Bradford's ground in 1985 . Still wearing his boots and kit, he was finally reunited with his father in Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield. Those hours represented the worst of his life but given that other families lost loved ones that day, McCall has always declared himself and his father the fortunate ones. So how would the Rangers manager — who donated money from his 2002 testimonial to the Bradford burns unit that cared for his father and so many others — react to bombshell claims this week that mere bad luck had perhaps played no role in the disaster? A book written by Martin Fletcher, a Bradford fan who lost three generations of his family in the blaze, says the incident was just one of at least nine fires at businesses owned or associated with the club’s then chairman Stafford Heginbotham, in the previous 18 years, resulting in huge insurance claims. In his book Fifty-Six, published on Thursday, Fletcher believes the fire was not an accident and says he and his family are no longer willing to ‘live the myth’. Fire engulfs Valley Parade on a day nobody can ever forget as 56 were killed at the football stadium . A police officer uses his helmet to shield the heat from his face as he runs in front of the stand on fire . From McCall’s annual visits to the club’s memorial services, he knows Fletcher, who lost brother, Andrew (11) — the youngest victim of the tragedy — as well as his father John (34), uncle Peter (32) and grandfather Eddie (63). He also knows Heginbotham and attended the funeral of the ‘great chairman’ in 1995. To McCall, the verdict of inquiry judge Sir Oliver Popplewell, who declared the fire had probably been started by a stray match, cigarette or pipe tobacco slipping through gaps on the floor on to a build-up of litter, remains the most likely cause of the tragedy. ‘I get so caught up in this job managing Rangers that I don’t always see the news but someone told me the other day that the Bradford story had been on Sky,’ said McCall on Friday. ‘And then my missus mentioned it to me later that night when I got home. ‘I know the (Fletcher) family. I go to every memorial that I can and you meet the same people at these things. So I know the lad, who was very young at the time (of the disaster), has brought out this book. Then-Bradford chairman Stafford Heginbotham (left) with Mr Justice Popplewell in front of the burned stand . A 12-year-old Martin Fletcher is comforted by his mother Susan in 1985 after the Bradford Fire disaster . ‘But I also knew Stafford. He was a great chairman and, not for one second, do I believe it was deliberate. He has passed away now and I was at his funeral. ‘But I saw (Sir Oliver) Popplewell said the actual stand wasn’t even insured, so they didn’t get any money for it anyway. For me, that just blows the theory out of the water.’ McCall, who spent six years from 1982 to 1988 at Valley Parade, recalls one of his jobs in his early years was to clean the main stand. And he finds it hard to accept any foul play was behind the inferno. ‘I used to sweep that stand,’ he said. ‘There were little holes and as you swept up (bits of rubbish would fall down) but you never gave a thought to what was underneath. But, over the years, all this rubbish has built up and it needed one cigarette. It has gone down a gap and then tragedy has struck.’ Former Bradford player Stuart McCall does not believe the fire was anything other than an accident . On Saturday, McCall takes Rangers to Dumbarton where victory would leave the Ibrox side four points ahead with two games remaining. Should they win, Hibs, who play Falkirk in the Scottish Cup semi-final at lunchtime, would travel under pressure on Wednesday to face a Livingston side who are bottom of the table but enjoying a recent resurgence. And the Ibrox boss insists he is not overly concerned by statistics which show that Rangers have just one win in five on the road. ‘It’s all about the result at Dumbarton. It is a game we have to win, simple as that. It doesn’t matter how we do it. It is about the three points. McCall prepares his players for Saturday's Championship clash with Dunbarton . ‘I saw a stat that we have won only five games out of 15, which is true. But we have lost one in 12 and won four out of the last six. And one of those wins, at Hibs, was our best performance of the season away from home. So you can use stats in different ways.’ McCall also backed his captain Lee McCulloch, who has been the subject of criticism from Rangers fans in recent weeks. He was red-carded for elbowing Hearts striker Osman Sow and, on his return to the team after a two-match ban, Rangers dropped two points at Livvy. But McCall said: ‘Since I’ve been here, I would say the criticism has been unfair because he has not done a lot wrong. He is good in the dressing room and he is an important player for us.’

In 1985 the main stand of Bradford's Valley Parade caught fire, killing 56 . Inquiry found the fire had probably started via stray match or cigarette . McCall was playing that day and his father was badly burned in the blaze . Bradford fan Martin Fletcher claims the fire may not have been an accident . Fletcher's father, uncle, brother and grandfather lost their lives in the fire . Fletcher claims chairman Stafford Heginbotham may have been to blame . But McCall refutes those claims insisting it was just an accident .

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The majority of heatwaves and almost a fifth of extreme rain storms can be blamed on human activity, a new study has warned. Researchers say that three quarters of extreme hot weather and 18 per cent of heavy precipitation is being driven by global warming that has occurred due to man-made emissions. They warn that as climate change pushes global temperatures higher over the coming decades, humans will become responsible for 40 per cent of extreme rainfall events. Researchers say 75% of extreme hot weather and 18% of heavy precipitation is being driven by global warming as a result of man-made emissions. They warn that as climate change pushes global temperatures higher, humans will be responsible for 40% of extreme rainfall events (floods in Somerset in 2014 are shown) The scientists claim it is the rarest and most destructive events that seem to be the most responsive to human influence. Dr Erich Fischer, from the institute for atmospheric and climate science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich who led the study, said: 'Climate change includes not only changes in mean climate but also in weather extremes. Global temperatures were the highest since records began in 1880, according to scientists. Temperatures across the world averaged 0.8°C (1.4°F) above 20th century averages - making 2014 the warmest year in records dating back 134 years. The Met Office has already announced that 2014 was the hottest year for the UK in records dating back to 1910. Scientists have also warned that 2015 could be warmer still. Earlier this month they revealed that the Earth experienced its hottest month of March since record-keeping began in 1880. The first three months of 2015 have all set new high temperature marks. Last month's average temperature soared to 56.4°F (13.6°C), which is 1.5°F (0.85°C) above the average for the 20th century. Also of concern was the finding that Arctic sea ice was the lowest on record for March. Much of the most abnormal heat has been in the Pacific Ocean and places near it. Seven western U.S. states set records for their hottest first three months of the year, while New York and Vermont set records for the coldest start of a year. Asia, Europe, Africa and Australia have also all been warmer than normal. Blunden blames the record heat on a combination of El Niño, a blob of record hot water in the Northeast Pacific Ocean and human-caused climate change. 'With every degree of warming it is the rarest and the most extreme events and thereby the ones with typically the highest socio-economic impacts for which the largest fraction is due to human-induced greenhouse gas emissions. 'We show that at the present-day warming of 0.85°C about 18 per cent of the moderate daily precipitation extremes over land are attributable to the observed temperature increase since pre-industrial times, which in turn primarily results from human influence. 'For 2°C of warming the fraction of precipitation extremes attributable to human influence rises to about 40 per cent. 'Likewise, today about 75 per cent of the moderate daily hot extremes over land are attributable to warming.' The researchers, whose work is published in the journal Nature Climate Change, examined the probability that heatwaves and heavy rainfall events could be attributed to humans using 25 climate models. The models examined the weather between 1901 and 2005 using historical simulations. They analysed daily temperatures and daily rainfall totals from climate models and looked for events that would be expected to occur once in 1,000 days in an unperturbed climate - referred to as moderate daily extremes. They then used the models to look at predictions of extreme weather between 2006 and 2100 under an emissions scenario that is expected to lead to 2°C of warming around the world. While attributing individual extreme weather events such as hurricanes, floods and heatwaves to climate change is notoriously difficult, climate scientists have predicted they will become more common as the world warms. Dr Fischer and his colleague Professor Reto Knutti, also based at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, said taking a more global perspective made it easier to examine the role that human activity was having on such events. They say their research demonstrated a strong signal for human influence in the extreme weather that is having impacts around the world today. They found that the longer the period of the event - such as a heatwave, the greater the fraction is attributable to global warming. The graphic above shows where the change in the probability of heavy precipitation and heatwaves compared to the pre-industrial period. If global temperatures increase as predicted, as a result of climate change, this becomes more pronounced, explained the researchers . California is in the grip of its worst drought on record, causing lake beds to dry up (as above). Around three quarters of heatwaves can now be attributed to human activity and it is likely to worsen as the climate warms . Dr Fischer said: 'A warmer and moister atmosphere does clearly favour more frequent hot and wet extremes.' Professor Peter Stott, a scientist at the Met Office's Hadley Centre in the UK, pointed to the extreme weather that has happened in the past year - one of the warmest on record. He said Bangladesh was hit by flooding in 2014, Australia suffered heatwaves and Kenya was battered by downpours. California, for example, is in the grip of one of the most severe droughts on record. He added that human-caused climate change had 'loaded the dice' in favour of heatwaves like the one that hit Europe in 2003 and the flooding that hit the UK in autumn 2000. The models examined weather between 1901 and 2005 using historical simulations. They analysed daily temperatures and daily rainfall totals from climate models and looked for events that would be expected to occur once in 1,000 days in an unperturbed climate. Extreme rainfall is pictured in London . Writing in the journal, Professor Stott said: 'As each year goes by, evidence continues to accumulate that our climate is changing and that human influence plays a dominant role in observed warming. 'The prevalence of extremely hot temperatures is expected to increase with warming and more moisture in the atmosphere leads to a tendency towards more extreme rainfall events, changes that have been detected in the observational record. 'But what has been lacking up to now is a robust calculation of how much more likely extreme temperatures and rainfall have become worldwide. 'The idea that in a two-degree world almost half of heavy rainfall events would not have occurred were it not for climate change is a sobering thought for policymakers seeking to mitigate and adapt to climate change.'

Scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich modelled the probability of extreme weather events being caused by human activity . They found humans are to blame for the worst heatwaves and floods today . Conclusion was made by comparing levels pre and post industrial times . Experts warn storms will grow more common as global temperatures rise .

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Two college campus police officers in Dallas have been placed on administrative leave after shocking video footage surfaced of them harassing a group of four students and arresting one after first hitting him. The incident occurred at El Centro College and was captured on cell phone by student Charles Adams, who was smoking a cigarette when he witnessed the abuse at first hand last Wednesday. The officers approached the high school students while they were waiting for a bus outside the downtown Dallas campus. Scroll down for video . Two college campus police officers in Dallas have been placed on administrative leave after shocking video footage surfaced of them harassing a group of four students and arresting one after first hitting him . The footage shows the young men being ordered to face a brick wall, while one of the two campus cops searched, questioned, and even hit one of the teens. The school reportedly won't say why the teens were stopped and frisked, but Adams said he believes the officers totally overreacted. 'Instead of asking them to move along like she should have, she told them to put their hands against the wall, and that's where the video picks up,' Adams told WFAA. 'I was horrified the way she was treating these kids as criminals for nothing.' His cell phone video, which surfaced on You Tube, shows one of the students being slapped by an officer before she handcuffs him. 'I've got a lot of stuff on my belt I could use on you this afternoon. I guarantee you I will be glad to use it,' she is heard saying to another of the group. The school reportedly won't say why the teens were stopped and frisked, but the student will filmed the incident has said he believes the officers totally overreacted . She also asked them if they had any dope on them and then proceeds to search their pockets and grab at their clothes. El Centro College President Jose Adames has said a full investigation is underway. 'In this case we decided to do a thorough investigation, and place two officers on leave because of the interactions we saw in the video,' he told CBS DFW. The college has said it is seeking an opinion from the Texas attorney general and isn't releasing the police report because the subjects in the incident are minors. The school has 10,000 students and is part of the Dallas County Community College District. The incident occurred at El Centro College and was captured on cell phone by student Charles Adams, who was smoking a cigarette when he witnessed the abuse at first hand last Wednesday .

The officers have been placed on administrative leave after shocking video footage surfaced of them harassing a group of four students . The incident occurred at El Centro College in Dallas and was captured on cell phone by student Charles Adams . Footage shows the young men being ordered to face a brick wall, while one cop searched, questioned, and even hit one of the teens . El Centro College President Jose Adames has said a full investigation is underway .

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Authorities forced alleged gang members to reveal their tattoos after they were arrested during a nationwide operation that saw more than 1,200 people detained. Teams from Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) stormed properties associated with 239 crime syndicates following a six-week operation known as Project Wildfire. Officials from 215 local, state and federal law-enforcement agencies seized hoards of weapons, drugs and cash at the addresses and at least 913 have already been charged with a range of crimes including rape, murder and sexual assault. As they were booked into jail, some of the suspects were forced to take off their shirts and reveal their ink - many of which are believed to be tied to gangs. Detained: A gang member arrested during raids by Homeland Security and Customs officials across the country shows off his head tattoo in Dallas, Texas (left). The letters could mean he was a member of a Sureno (Mexican Mafia) gang and was originally based in El Paso. Another suspect covered in tattoos poses in Lubbock, Texas (right) Images released following the raids show tables covered in confiscated guns and defendants showing off their gang tattoos. The greatest activity took place in the San Juan, Dallas, El Paso, Los Angeles and Detroit. Most were U.S. citizens but 199 foreign nationals were also arrested from 18 countries in South and Central America, Asia, Africa, Europe and the Caribbean. Of the individuals arrested, 976 were gang members and associates. Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) agents also arrested – or assisted in the arrest – of 231 other individuals on federal and/or state criminal violations and administrative immigration violations, for a total of 1,207 arrests. Of the total 1,207 arrested, 1,057 were males and 150 were females. From those in crime syndicates 913 were charged with criminal offenses and 63 were arrested administratively for immigration violations; 650 had violent criminal histories, including 19 individuals wanted on active warrants for murder and 15 for rape or sexual assault; and 199 were foreign nationals, of which 151 were gang members and gang associates. Suspect: A man shows off his ink before being booked into jail in Lubbock, Texas, following the nationwide raid where more than 1,200 people were arrested. One of the markings on his back is of the Virgin Mary . Identity: Two more suspects reveal their tattoos to the authorities in Dallas (left) and Denver, Colorado (right). One of the men has a five-point crown, meaning he could be a member of a the Latins King gang while the other has a large cannabis leaf emblazoned on his chest . Designs: A pair of alleged gang members pull up their shirts to show their artwork in San Antonio, Texas (left), and Denver, Colorado (right). The one on the left has an Aztec design, meaning the suspect could be part of a gang with Mexican or Latin American origins while the clown has a variety of meanings, depending on the facial expression . Animated: One man detained in Dallas, Texas, appears to have a character from the film Monsters Inc inked into his back in between a woman and an angel . Meaning: The man on the left has a spiderweb tattoo, which is said to suggest the wearer is doing time or has served time in prison. The other man has: 'Don't cry for God' emblazoned on his neck . Sarah R. Saldaña, the director of the ICE, said in a statement: 'Criminal gangs inflict violence and fear upon our communities, and without the attention of law enforcement, these groups can spread like a cancer. 'That’s why ICE works with law enforcement partners around the country to stamp out gang activity wherever it takes place.' Homeland Security's Greg Mandoli told Fox News: 'This is where grassroots law enforcement starts. This is how we get a baseline read of what’s happening… it all builds on itself…this is what federal agencies, investigative agencies like HSI, are doing to target transnational criminality. 'We’re looking to prevent, deter and protect communities. The public doesn't realize what’s happening in a federal investigative agency like HSI and the breath of the investigations that we’re doing. 'So, with Project Wildfire, we’re looking to take ground information and feed them back into the collective pool... working with our local partners to identify community threats as we look to prevent, deter and protect the homeland.' Areas: Two more suspects show off their inking with the letters 'V' and 'I' on one man's neck in San Diego, California and the letters 'TT' on another in Dallas, Texas . Covered: This suspect apprehended in Dallas, Texas, has markings all over his body. The American head dress design below is said to symbolize spirituality . One man in Denver, Colorado, sports an upside down clown on his forearm, which depicts a gang member's 'play now, pay later' attitude. Another shows off his artwork in Los Angeles, California . Source: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement . Contraband: Weapons, drugs and money are laid out on a table in San Francisco following a raid on properties linked to gangs across the country that led to more than 1,200 arrests . Raids: Teams from Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) stormed properties in cities including Los Angeles (pictured) associated with 239 crime syndicates following a six-week operation known as Project Wildfire . Questioning: Members of a Homeland Security gang unit speak to an alleged gang member during a traffic stop in San Francisco, California . Observing: Officers inspect an alleged gang member's tattoos in Dallas, Texas. The operation began on February 23 and ended on March 31 . Bodycam: Agents capture footage of an unidentified suspect during one of the raids . Taken away: A member of the ICE task force arrests an alleged gang member in Los Angeles, California . Preparation: Agents gather outside a house in Detroit, Michigan, just moments before a raid .

Properties associated with 239 crime syndicates were stormed nationwide . 913 of those caught have been charged with crimes including murder . Hoards of weapons, drugs and money were all seized by authorities . Operation known as Project Wildfire ran from February 23 to March 31 . Nearly 200 foreign nationals were arrested during the operation .

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Four years after signing for Arsenal, Wellington Silva has finally received clearance to make his Gunners bow after being granted a Spanish passport. He signed for Arsenal in January 2011 from Fluminese for a fee of £3.5million but has not been able to play for the club without a work permit. But all that changed late on Tuesday, as the Brazilian jubilantly revealed on Twitter that he has been awarded Spanish nationality, complete with a picture of his passport. Wellington Silva has finally received clearance to make his Arsenal bow, four years after signing for the club . Wellington Silva put a picture on  Twitter of his Spanish passport, which means he can finally play for Arsenal . Wellington (left) competes with Isco of Real Madrid for possession while playing for Almeria . Wellington can play as a winger or second striker, boosting Arsenal's attacking options with his versatility . Wellington has had to wait four years for his work permit issues to be resolved but can now play for Arsenal . 'The good thing is slow in coming, but arrives with the greatest satisfaction in the world. Spanish nationality!!' Wellington tweeted. His passport means he can now freely play for any team in the European Union. The 22-year-old initially impressed Arsenal on trial in 2008, scoring four times. He has gone on to play for Brazil Under 21s and scored a stunning winner in the 2-1 victory against China in November last year. He will provide another versatile attacking option to Wenger's team, as he can operate as a winger or second striker. Wellington can now link-up with Arsene Wenger and Arsenal for pre-season and the 2015-16 campaign . Wellington celebrates scoring against Cordoba during his loan spell at Murcia . Wellington will see out the season at Almeria, where he has already made 16 appearances for the club who are embroiled in a survival battle in La Liga. The Spanish league side are the fifth team he has been on loan to while his work permit issues have needed resolving. Wellington has also played at Spanish sides Levante, Alcoyano, Ponferradina and Murcia. He will look to use the experience gained from those loan tenures to break into Arsene Wenger's thinking upon his eventual arrival for the 2015-16 campaign.

Wellington Silva signed for Arsenal in 2011 for £3.5million from Fluminese . He was ineligible for a work permit and has had five loan spells in Spain . He has been granted Spanish nationality, allowing him to play for Arsenal . READ: Theo Walcott will open Arsenal talks in next fortnight . CLICK HERE for all the latest Arsenal news .

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Just a quarter of voters think David Cameron is hungriest to win the election, a poll reveals today as the Prime Minister tries to step up his campaign passion. After criticism of a dull campaign from the chillaxing PM, Mr Cameron used an interview to insist he was working 'bloody hard' to secure a majority. But only 25 per cent of people think he wants to win most, compared to 43 per cent who believe Ed Miliband is most up for the fight. Scroll down for video . Some 43 per cent of voters think Ed Miliband 'comes across as wanting to win the most' when compared to David Cameron . Opinion polls continue to suggest the result is too close to call, although two surveys yesterday put the Tories ahead, including one which gave them a six-point lead. But while Mr Cameron is frequently seen as the strongest leader when compared to Mr Miliband, voters appear to think he wants to win less. In a YouGov survey for The Times, 43 per cent of voters think Mr Miliband 'comes across as wanting to win the most' when compared to Mr Cameron. Only 25 per cent thought Mr Cameron was hungriest for the job, and 13 per cent said neither of them. Mr Cameron appeared without a tie or jacket again today at Kelvin Hughes in north London as part of a 'sleeves rolled up' strategy designed to show he is fighting hard for a Tory victory. Meanwhile, Mr Miliband is giving a speech on how a Labour government would tackle immigration. SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, riding high after strong TV debate performances and a surge in the polls, was judged to be enjoying the fight more than anyone by 34 per cent of voters . Just 7 per cent also thought Mr Cameron was enjoying the campaign the most out of all the main party leaders. SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, riding high after strong TV debate performances and a surge in the polls, was judged to be enjoying the fight more than anyone by 34 per cent of voters. Ukip's Nigel Farage was the second happiest leader on 16 per cent, followed by Mr Miliband on 13 per cent. In recent days senior Tories and business backers had begun to criticise the campaign, warning it was dull and suffering from a 'curious lack of energy and belief'. Former Prime Minister Sir John Major warned against relying on dry economic data, when people want to know how their lives will be better. David Cameron appeared without a tie or jacket again today at Kelvin Hughes in north London as part of a 'sleeves rolled up' strategy designed to show he is fighting hard for a Tory victory . More people think Ed Miliband is hungriest for a win and appears to be enjoying the campaign more than his Tory rival . Mr Cameron appears to have taken the criticism to heart, making a series of passionate stump speeches in the last 72 hours. After weeks of criticism that the Conservatives were running a boring campaign, the Prime Minister found the fire in his belly as he declared in London yesterday: 'If I'm getting lively about it it's because I feel bloody lively about it.' In an interview with The Times today he adds: 'The real David Cameron has been standing up and working bloody hard for the last five years. 'I'm feeling pumped up. There's ten days to go, it's a bloody important election and I'm determined to get across the line. The line is victory — and victory is a Conservative majority. I know the polls are tight but victory is doable.'

Poll shows 43% think Labour leader Ed Miliband wants to win the most . Just 7% think David Cameron is enjoying the campaign more than rivals . Tories step up efforts to show their leader is passionate about campaign . Cameron says he is 'feeling pumped' ahead of 'bloody important election'

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Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign will center on boosting economic security for the middle class and expanding opportunities for working families, while casting the former senator and secretary of state as a 'tenacious fighter' able to get results, two senior advisers said on Saturday. President Barack Obama all but endorsed her saying 'I think she would be an excellent president.' The senior advisers provided the first preview of the message Clinton planned to convey when she launches her long-anticipated campaign on Sunday with an online video. Scroll down for video . Two senior advisers said on Saturday that Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign will center on boosting economic security for the middle class and expanding opportunities for working families . Until now, the former first lady has offered only hints of what would drive her if she were to run a second time for the White House. The strategy described by Clinton's advisers has echoes of Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. He framed the choice for voters as between Democrats focused on the middle class and Republicans wanting to protect the wealthy and return to policies that led to the 2008 economic collapse. The advisers said Clinton will argue that voters have a similar choice in 2016. Clinton also intends to sell herself as being able to work with Congress, businesses and world leaders. That approach could be perceived as a critique of Obama, Clinton's rival for the nomination in 2008. He has largely been unable to fulfill his pledge to end Washington's intense partisanship and found much of his presidency stymied by gridlock with Congress. The Clinton advisers spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss her plans ahead of Sunday's announcement. People familiar with the plans say Clinton will travel to Iowa and other early-voting states to hold small events with residents in the days after the video's release. On Saturday, President Barack Obama (pictured right with Clinton in 2012) said: 'I think she would be an excellent president' In New York on Saturday, at the final event put on by 'Ready for Hillary,' a group not connected with her campaign that's worked for the past few years to stoke excitement for it, enthusiastic supporters joined elected officials and local party leaders to celebrate the launch to come. 'After she left the State Department she could have slipped into grandmother-hood, but people want to call her back into public service,' said Jarret Berg, 29, a Democratic staffer in the New York legislature. 'It's time for her.' As her official announcement loomed, the Republican National Committee linked Clinton to Obama, a regular focus of criticism from the GOP. 'All Hillary Clinton is offering is a continuation of the same big government ideas that have grown Washington instead of the middle class,' RNC spokesman Michael Short said in a statement. 'That's why voters want fresh leadership and a new direction, not four more years of Obama's failed policies.' Clinton is not expected to roll out detailed policy positions in the first weeks of her campaign. Clinton plans to sell herself as being able to work with Congress, businesses and world leaders . Advisers said she planned to talk about ways families can increase take-home pay, the importance of expanding early childhood education and making higher education more affordable. It's not yet clear whether that will include a noticeable break with Obama on economic policy. The GOP has hammered Obama's approach as anti-business and insufficient in the wake of the recession. The White House says the economy has improved significantly in recent years. The unemployment rate fell to 5.5 percent in March, but manufacturing and new home construction slowed, cheaper gas has yet to ignite consumer spending and participation in the labor force remains sluggish. Clinton will enter the race as the overwhelming favorite for her party's nomination. Still, her team has said her early strategy is designed to avoid appearing to take that nomination for granted. Clinton received an early boost Saturday from Obama, who was asked if he would be involved in her expected campaign. 'She was a formidable candidate in 2008. She was a great supporter of mine in the general election. She was an outstanding secretary of state. She is my friend. I think she would be an excellent president, and I'm not on the ballot so I'm not going to step on her lines,' Obama said from Panama City as he wrapped up participation in a summit of Western Hemisphere leaders. Clinton's early events will include discussions at colleges, day care centers and private homes, and stops at coffee shops and diners. After about a month of such events, Clinton will give a broader speech outlining more specifics about her rationale for running. Clinton's husband, Bill, and daughter, Chelsea, are unlikely to appear at her early events. Bill Clinton, the former two-term president, said recently that he wanted to play a role as a 'backstage adviser' in his wife's campaign. Advisers said Bill Clinton has been engaged with his wife in some of the policy discussions leading up to this weekend's rollout. To prepare for the campaign, Clinton has spent months meeting with economic policy experts, including Heather Boushey, whose research focuses on inequality, and Teresa Ghilarducci, a labor economist and retirement policy expert. Clinton will announce her second run for the presidency on Sunday (above supporters listen to a speech during the Last Hillary Clinton Rally in New York on Saturday) The policy development process has been overseen by aides Jake Sullivan and Dan Schwerin. In the days before her announcement, Clinton has been holding lengthy meetings with her staff, sometimes joining them at her crowded personal offices in midtown Manhattan and other times participating by phone. She is expected to reach out to donors in the coming weeks, but does not plan to headline many fundraising events over the next month. Clinton's growing team of staffers began working Friday out of a new campaign headquarters in Brooklyn. They gathered Saturday to hear from campaign manager-in-waiting Robby Mook, who told them the campaign would value teamwork, diversity, discipline and humility. Mook distributed a memo titled 'We are Hillary for America' that included several guiding principles, including a vow to work together and respect each other. The campaign, the memo said, 'is not about Hillary Clinton and not about us - it's about the everyday Americans who are trying to build a better life for themselves and their families.' The meeting was described by a Democratic official in attendance who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe a private strategy session. The memo was first reported by Politico.

Ahead of launching her anticipated campaign on Sunday, two senior advisers said strategy has echoes of Obama's 2012 re-election campaign . She is expected to reach out to donors in coming weeks, but does not plan to headline many fundraising events over the next month . Advisers said she planned to talk about ways families can increase take-home pay and making higher education more affordable . She intends to sell herself as being able to work with Congress, businesses and world leaders . President Barack Obama said on Saturday 'I think she would be an excellent president' Clinton's growing team of staffers began working Friday out of a new campaign headquarters in Brooklyn .

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Jenson Button was left to reflect on 'not a great day' and fears he will again be at the back of the grid for Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix. Just three minutes into the first practice session, Button's McLaren suffered an electrical fault that cut the engine and forced him into a spin at turn one of the Bahrain International Circuit. Although the car was recovered, his mechanics failed to fix the fault until just before the start of FP2, in which three laps in he had to stop out on track as a safety precaution for the engine. Jenson Button makes his way back to the pits after his McLaren broke down on Friday . Again the car returned to the garage, and although he made it out on track later in the session, further issues arose that compromised his running. The 35-year-old ultimately finished down in 19th place, sandwiched between Manor duo Will Stevens and Roberto Merhi, with the best of his 19 laps almost 4.5 seconds off the pace of Nico Rosberg in his Mercedes. Clearly frustrated Button said: 'The guys worked really hard, from P1 to P2 they did a great job but we still had our problems in P2. 'I went out on the soft tyre but had to quickly come back in, and then I went out on low fuel when everyone else was on high fuel, so it was difficult to get in any running. Overall not a great day. 'There was a lot of useful data from the other car (Fernando Alonso), but the frustrating thing is our cars were set up quite differently to get a lot of useful information about parts, and we weren't able to do that on our car. 'It doesn't help either of us for Saturday but hopefully we've resolved the issues I've had.' Team members recover Button's McLaren in the pit-lane during the first free practice . Button, though, knows the teams ahead of a struggling McLaren will all turn up the gas in qualifying, which is likely to leave only the Manor boys behind the Briton and Alonso, as was the case in China on Sunday. 'I think some teams were on high fuel all day as well, so it's not going to be an easy weekend,' added Button. 'But we're not kidding ourselves, we know it's going to be a tricky qualifying session and I suppose for us at the moment we're going to qualify near the back. 'In reality it's not such a problem. The race pace is something that is more important.'

Jenson Button's McLaren suffered electrical fault in first practice session . The Brit managed just three laps in second session before break down . He fears he will again be at the back of the grid at Bahrain Grand Prix .

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A woman has described the terrifying moment she plunged 10ft underground after a pavement opened up beneath her on a busy southwest London street. Chip shop worker Jeannie Flynn, 53, lay stricken in the basement of a Fulham cafe as bricks fell down on top of her - but miraculously she was not seriously injured. Ms Flynn was in a state of sheer panic as she heard concerned passers-by screaming 'get her out because it's all going to collapse'. Scroll down for videos . 'Disappeared': Chip shop worker Jeannie Flynn, 53, has described the terrifying moment she plunged 10ft underground after a pavement opened up beneath her on a busy southwest London street . Busy street: Ms Flynn was in a state of sheer panic as she concerned heard passers-by screaming 'get her out because it's all going to collapse' She had been walking to her GPs on Thursday morning to pick up a prescription when a man told her to walk around a one-foot hole in the pavement. As she did so the ground gave way and she plummeted downwards. Speaking to The Sun, she added: 'I fell and I think I screamed. Bricks were falling but didn't hit me. I'm grateful I'm not badly injured.' A worker from the Marrakech Express cafe then came to the rescue opening up their basement and leading her upstairs for a coffee. 'I felt like something stronger! I was really shaky,' she joked. Ms Flynn was taken to a hospital in Fulham and was found to have suffered whiplash and bruising. Her partner Chris Jeffries, 48, claims she could have been killed in the accident. Immediately after the incident, onlookers hearing a loud scream before Ms Flynn 'disappeared' down the gap in the road and landed on the rubble below. Ambulance crews were called to the cafe at about 8.50am to provide medical care. A man takes a picture of the five foot wide by two and a half foot long hole that suddenly appeared on Thursday, exposing the cafe's basement below . At the time there was confusion over whether Ms Flynn had been pushing a pram - but this was not the case. Kate Sissons, who witnessed the fall, posted a picture on Instagram, saying: 'OMG! Poor woman and pram just disappeared down this hole on North End Rd. Shes stuck down there. She added: 'Loud scream and all I could see was the pram. Ambulance and fire on way to get her out. Scary. V v scary [sic].' A nearby flower stall owner, who asked not to be named, said she saw a man come running out of the cafe, shortly before the drama unfolded. 'The hole had been blocked off with tables and chairs but she had squeezed through and went straight down,' she said. 'She didn't have a pram or a buggy, it was a shopping trolley. 'The shop owner was shouting out to her "Don't come through there". 'We looked over and she was down, all the way down the hole. She had walked onto it and it had collapsed beneath her.' Scotland Yard confirmed that officers attended the scene at 8.42am and that a child had not been involved. Paul Smith, 28, a builder who was walking to work when he saw what he described as a 'shocking' scene. He said: 'Someone had fallen through - just like a trapdoor. It's crazy. There is a huge hole in the floor and someone has fallen through the pavement. 'It is about a metre wide and about eight foot deep. I couldn't see inside to see if it was a man or a woman but it was a person and the police were all around.' Atila Mohammed, who runs the Marrakech Express where the hole opened up in front of in North End Road, said he first became aware of the hole shortly before the incident. He said: 'A young man was passing, he came to me and said "I was walking along and the pavement has broken".' Mr Mohammed said that it was while he was checking the man was okay that woman, who was walking quite fast, approached the hole, which at this point was only quite small. This is the first image that emerged of the incident on Thursday morning, taken by witness Kate Sissons . 'People were outside looking around and everyone said "Stop, stop, stop" as she put her foot on the pavement. 'I said "stop, stop", but I couldn't stop her. There was only a small hole from the man before, but when the lady stepped there she broke everything and it fell. 'I tried to hold her and she fell all the way down. But she's ok now I held her til the end.' He said he lowered her down the five foot wide by two and a half foot long hole and she walked back up to the cafe via the basement and stairs and gave her a coffee while she waited for paramedics to arrive. The cafe manager claims he warned the council about the hole two years ago as he had noticed it was 'sagging'. Mr Mohammed said: 'We were shocked. We told the council nearly two years ago it looks like its sagging and they've done nothing.' Passers-by stop to take a look at the eight foot deep hole, which has been cordoned off since the incident . A cafe regular, who asked not to be named said: 'When we arrived about 9.10 all the police were here. 'We sit here every day and we were told that there was a large hole in the road and that the lady was running along the road, rushing.' The 76-year-old added: 'The cafe manager came out and grabbed her. She had a green coat and blue/black trousers, I heard. 'I thought the woman who told me was joking, but having said that there has been a big droop in that area of pavement for a long long time. I noticed it away back in February. 'I see elderly people pushing shopping trolleys along here - it could have been them we were all shocked it was an accident waiting to happen.' Laura Hill, 30, who lives in Wimbledon but works as a nanny in the area, walks up and down the road 'at least 10 times a day' and says it could have happened to anyone. 'It's an uneven pavement and a very busy area, with a bus stop really nearby. Lots of elderly people sit outside that cafe in the morning too. 'I walk up and down the street at least 10 times a day with the child I look after in a pushchair. When I heard I thought "that could've been me". 'It's all been boarded up now and you have to walk on the road to get past the hole now. People have been stopping to take pictures of it all day.' A London Ambulance spokesman confirmed paramedics were called to the scene at 8.53am after found the patient was 'shaken but not seriously injured' and took her to Charing Cross Hospital. Hammersmith & Fulham Council said that it is investigating claims that Mr Mohammed raised the issue with the council two months ago and the causes of the collapse. A council spokeswoman added: 'The council’s structural engineer has carried out an initial investigation of the basement collapse in North End Road and secured the site. 'The freeholder of the property is legally responsible for the structural integrity of their basement but we are carrying out a full review of what’s happened and will ensure the site is made safe and all necessary actions are taken once we have a full understanding of how this occurred.' She also said that the incident had not been captured on CCTV. Exposed: The basement door of the century old cellar at the Marrakech Express can be seen below . The cafe owner said he was made aware of the hole by another passer-by just minutes before Ms Flynn fell .

Jeannie Flynn has spoken of terror as people screamed about saving her . Chip shop worker, 53, said bricks were falling all around her after she fell . Onlookers describe her 'disappearing' down a hole on busy road in Fulham . She ended up in cafe basement but miraculously was not seriously injured .

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Sunderland are under pressure to suspend England star Adam Johnson after he was charged with grooming and three counts of sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl. Johnson, 27, has been bailed to appear before Peterlee magistrates on May 20 — the same day Sunderland travel to Arsenal — where it is expected the case will be sent to the Crown Court. If found guilty, Johnson faces a lengthy prison term. Sunderland chiefs held talks on Thursday to decide Johnson’s future, knowing that if they suspend their top scorer he would miss the club’s remaining six games. They are just a point above the Barclays Premier League drop zone and travel to Stoke tomorrow. Adam Johnson leaves Peterlee police station after being charged with three offences of sexual activity . Johnson leaves the Peterlee police station after learning of the charges against him . The 27-year-old looks on during Sunderland's 1-0 Premier League win against Newcastle earlier this month . Johnson was suspended by the club after his arrest on March 2 but that was lifted when his bail was extended by five weeks a fortnight later. He returned to training under new boss Dick Advocaat and has featured as a substitute in Sunderland’s last three matches, including the 1-0 derby win over Newcastle. The suspension could now be reimposed. Johnson is accused of three offences of sexual activity with a child, contrary to Section 9 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003. The offences are alleged to have taken place between December 30 last year and February 26. Johnson has also been charged with meeting a child following sexual grooming under Section 15 of the same Act. Gerry Wareham, CPS chief Crown prosecutor for the North East, said: ‘Following an investigation by Durham Police, I have today authorised police to charge Adam Johnson, aged 27, with four offences under the Sexual Offences Act 2003. Johnson will now appear at Peterlee Magistrates Court on May 20 . The England international (right) was wearing a black tracksuit as he attended the hearing in County Durham . Johnson was accompanied by his lawyer as the Sunderland winger arrived at the police station on Thursday . ‘The offences are alleged to have been committed on one girl aged 15 at the time. We have reviewed the available evidence in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors and concluded that there is a realistic prospect of conviction and it is in the public interest to charge Adam Johnson. ‘Durham Police have charged the defendant accordingly and he is due to appear before Peterlee Magistrates on May 20. It is important that there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could prejudice these proceedings. The complainant in this case is entitled to lifelong anonymity under the law.’ Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.

Adam Johnson charged with three offences of sexual activity with girl, 15 . Winger also facing charge of grooming and had been bailed until May 20 . Sunderland chiefs held talks Thursday night to discuss Johnson's future . READ: Johnson charged with three offences of sexual activity with a child . READ: Johnson's Sunderland future in doubt .

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A schoolgirl killed herself by walking in front of a train just weeks after her mother was found murdered, it emerged last night. Friends of 16-year-old Rachelle Owen said the teenager ‘just wanted to be with her mum’ Kay Diamond, who was discovered dead in February. Miss Owen died after being struck by a train close to Hoylake Station, Wirral, on Friday night. Police said the death was not being treated as suspicious. Schoolgirl Rachelle Owen, 16, has died after being struck by a train - just two months after her mother Kay Diamond, 44, was allegedly murdered . In a statement, her family said they were suffering a double tragedy following the murder of 44-year-old Miss Diamond whose body was found in a flat in Toxteth, Liverpool, on February 28. A post-mortem examination revealed that she had suffered a severe head injury. A 52-year-old man has been charged with her murder and is awaiting trial. In their statement the family of Miss Owen said: ‘Rachelle was a beautiful, vibrant, loved daughter, granddaughter, sister and niece, who attended Hilbre High School Humanities College. She will be greatly missed forever by all of her family and friends. ‘This is a double tragedy to our family following the recent death and funeral of her mum, Kay Diamond.’ Last night Hilary Diamond, the mother of Miss Diamond, was too upset to comment on the loss of her granddaughter. A vigil was held in Miss Owen’s memory yesterday, with friends lighting a candle at 8pm. Floral bouquets and messages have also been laid close to the station where she died at around 9.40pm on Friday. Tributes have been paid to the schoolgirl after she died at a crossing near Hoylake station on Friday . A tribute site on Facebook described how Miss Owen, of West Kirby, Wirral, has left behind ‘many broken hearts’. It added: ‘We will all miss her beautiful smile.’ Her aunt, Stacey Owen, wrote: ‘Heaven gained the most beautiful angel. Rachelle Owen. Words can’t describe how much we will miss you! Sleep tight.’ Victoria Owen added: ‘Keep thinking it won’t be true and this is a crazy nightmare! ‘So beautiful inside and out, we have all lost a very special person, my gorgeous cousin. ‘Sweet dreams Rachelle Owen, you will be missed by so, so many.’ Molly Connor, a friend, wrote: ‘RIP my gorgeous girl, God only takes the best. Always and forever in my heart Rach, I love you so much sleep tight my angel.’ Heather Price added: ‘So very, very sad. Heartbreaking that she had so much pain.’ Another comment read: ‘She just wanted to be with her mum.’ Anthony Blye, of Toxteth, has been charged with Miss Diamond’s murder and is due to enter a plea at Liverpool Crown Court in June.

Rachelle Owen, 16, has died after being hit by a train at a crossing in Wirral . Her mother Kay Diamond, 44, was allegedly murdered two months ago . Friends said the schoolgirl 'just wanted to be with her mum' after her death . Transport police said schoolgirl's death is not being treated as suspicious . Transport police said schoolgirl's death is not being treated as suspiciou . For confidential support on suicide matters in the UK, call the Samaritans on 08457 90 90 90, visit a local Samaritans branch or click here.

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Inter Milan will propose a loan with view to a permanent £15million deal for Manchester City misfit Stevan Jovetic. The 25-year-old striker is keen to return to Italy after making just 39 appearances since his £22million move from Fiorentina in 2013. City would prefer the money up front and are reluctant to agree to a loan deal for the Montenegro international. Former Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini is keen on bringing Stevan Jovetic and Yaya Toure to Inter . Jovetic, pictured with referee Neil Swarbrick, has started just 11 Premier League games so far this season . Negotiations took place on Thursday and will continue again over the coming weeks as they try to strike a solution. Inter remain keen on Jovetic's Manchester City team-mate Yaya Toure. Toure recently hinted he could be keen on a move away from the Etihad Stadium as he is open to 'new challenges'. Ivorian ace Toure has hinted he could leave the Etihad Stadium by revealing he is open to 'new challenges'

Inter Milan are keen on signing Man City's Stevan Jovetic on loan deal . The Italian outfit want to have option of signing Jovetic for £15m . Roberto Mancini is also keen on sealing reunion with Yaya Toure . READ: Manchester City will miss Toure when he decides to leave .

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Scotland will discover on May 21 if September's Euro 2016 qualifier with Georgia will be played behind closed doors. UEFA has announced it has opened disciplinary proceedings against the Georgian Football Federation (GFF) after fans twice invaded the field of play during Sunday's 2-0 defeat by Germany in Tbilisi. European football's governing body is also set to look at charges that allege home fans were guilty of setting off fireworks while a string of safety breaches, including blocked stairs, locked gates and a lack of body searches by staff at the Boris Paichadze Stadium, will also be investigated. A fan invades the pitch during Georgia's 2-0 defeat by Germany on Sunday in Tbilisi . Play was halted twice at the Boris Paichadze Stadium due to Georgia fans arriving onto the field . UEFA's Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body will decide the case on May 21. The GFF has already vowed to tighten up security in the wake of those crowd disturbances. But GFF president Zviad Sichinava admits he fears UEFA will force him to shut the stadium for the September 4 meeting with Gordon Strachan's side, throwing Scottish supporters' travel plans into chaos. UEFA has opened disciplinary proceedings against the Georgian Football Federation over the incidents . He said: 'Delegates from UEFA are already sending reports and unfortunately there will be monetary sanctions. 'Also the next Georgia home game - against Scotland - could be held without spectators.' Scotland currently sit third in Group D, a point behind leaders Poland. Georgia are fifth, with just one win from five games.

UEFA will make a decision on September's match on May 21 . Scotland are set to face Georgia in Tbilisi on September 4 . UEFA has opened disciplinary proceedings against the Georgian Football Federation following recent crowd trouble . Georgia fans twice invaded the field of play during Sunday's 2-0 defeat to Germany in Tbilisi . Scotland currently sit third in Group D, a point behind leaders Poland .

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Gareth Bale pulled up with a calf strain after just two minutes of Real Madrid’s league game on Saturday and will almost certainly miss the second leg of the Champions League against Atletico Madrid on Wednesday. One year and two days, after one of his greatest moments at Real Madrid when he ran half the length of the pitch to score the winner in the Copa del Rey final, Bale broke down with a muscle pull against Malaga. He will have further tests on the left calf muscle in the next 24 hours but the concern shown when he went down at the start of Real’s crucial league game suggested his chances of recovering inside three days are non-existent and that he could also face a race to be fit for the Champions League semi-final on May 5-6. Gareth Bale went down injured after less than five minutes at the Bernabeu on Saturday evening . The Welsh forward was forced off and faces a race to be fit for Real's Champions League quarter-final . Cristiano Ronaldo was the first player to go across to Bale as he sat waiting for treatment and the Welshman’s expression spoke volumes – he knew he would not be able to carry on and could now miss out on Real’s most important game of the season. Bale has not been injured since October of last year when a hip problem kept him out for three weeks. The team won all their games without him with a four-man midfield of Luka Modric, James Rodriguez, Toni Kroos and Isco with Ronaldo and Karim Benzema up front. That will be Carlo Ancelotti’s selection for the game on Wednesday if Benzema recovers from the knee knock that kept him out of Saturday’s meeting with Malaga. Bale’s absence will be a massive blow for Ancelotti however. He said in midweek: ‘Bale was fantastic last season and has been very good this year. He scored goals in the finals last season and he will be important for us as this season reaches its climax.’ Cristiano Ronaldo was the first Madrid player to go over to Bale, and they eventually beat Malaga 3-1 .

Gareth Bale suffered a calf strain on Saturday evening at the Bernabeu . The Welshman was forced off in the early moments against Malaga . Bale will almost certainly miss the clash with Atletico on Wednesday .

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Kentucky judge Olu Stevens is facing calls to be sacked after he criticized a couple's victim impact statements . A Kentucky judge is facing calls to be sacked after he criticized a couple's victim impact statements and accused them of fostering racist stereotypes in their 3-year-old daughter. Judge Olu Stevens was sentencing Gregory Wallace to five years' probation after he and his accomplice, Marquis McAfee, robbed Tommy and Jordan Gray's Louisville home in April 2013. Police report that the thieves pointed a gun in the face of the couple's three-year-old before making off with $1,100 in cash, a cell phone, wallet and small amount of marijuana belong to the couple. In victim impact statement's prepared for the sentencing of Wallace, the couple called for him to be sent to prison and Jordan wrote that her daughter was still 'in constant fear of black men.' 'Whenever we are running errands, if we come across a black male, she holds me tight and begs me to leave,' the mother said. Tommy Gray also wrote that since the crime, his daughter had been terrified of black males and that probation was not sufficient punishment for Wallace, 27, who had pleaded guilty to robbery. 'If holding a little girl at gunpoint gets you probation, then our system is flawed,' Gray said. But when the case appeared before Stevens on February 4 in Jefferson Circuit Court, it was the parents, not Wallace, who suffered Judge Stevens' wrath, reports the Courier Journal. At the sentencing for Gregory Wallace, Stevens accused the Grays of fostering racist stereotypes in their 3-year-old daughter's mind . 'I am offended. … I am deeply offended that they would be victimized by an individual and express some kind of fear of all black men,' he said. 'This little girl certainly has been victimized, and she can't help the way she feels,' he said. 'My exception is more with her parents and their accepting that kind of mentality and fostering those type of stereotypes.' Despite the family's protests, Stevens granted probation to Wallace, who had no prior convictions for violent crimes and had received strong support from his family and friends. Judge Stevens said Wallace deserved the opportunity to redeem himself and said his thoughts about the Gray's victim impact statements had no bearing on his judgement. He later expanded his opinion writing on Facebook: 'Do three year olds form such generalized, stereotyped and racist opinions of others? Judge Stevens granted Wallace, left, probation because he had no prior convictions for violent crimes and said his thoughts about the Gray's victim impact statements had no bearing on his judgement . 'Had the perpetrator been white, I doubt it would have resulted in such gross generalizations,' wrote Stevens afterwards on Facebook . Marquis McAfee was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in the crime . 'I think not. Perhaps the mother had attributed her own views to her child as a manner of sanitizing them.' Stevens also posted a photo showing young black and white children playing together. Friends and family of the Grays say they are outraged by his comments and are calling for him to be removed. 'Judge Stevens blamed and shamed the victims,' said the girl's paternal grandmother, Dawn Renee Bryant. 'It is very disturbing to be called something you are not.' Attorney Tom Wine said the statements made by the victims in this case 'were not intended to be and were not' racist. Facebook pages has been launched both supporting and calling for Judge Stevens to be sacked. He remains adamant that he has done nothing wrong either in court or on social media. 'I was cautioning the parents against allowing racial stereotypes to impact their behavior and that of their child,' he said. The other robber, McAfee, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was on probation for a prior crime at the time of the crime. Court brought it front and center this week. The case involved a burglary and the victims were a young couple and their three year-old child. The written victim impact statement on behalf of the child read that as a result of the offense committed against her parents in her presence, the child is in 'constant fear of black men.' The statement, written by her mother, continues that the child clings to her parent when in the presence of any black man. The incident, the mother concluded, 'has even affected our relationship with our African-American friends.' I read this statement aloud in open court. For a reason. It was of little surprise to me that neither parent nor the child was present in court for the sentencing. After all, the defendant and the judge are amongst the individuals the three year old has fear of as a result of the crime. Do three year olds form such generalized, stereotyped and racist opinions of others? I think not. Perhaps the mother had attributed her own views to her child as a manner of sanitizing them. Let me be clear. The statement played absolutely no role in the sentencing decision and the commonwealth disavowed the statement. Needless to say, I was deeply offended, however, that this statement was put forth for the purpose of persuading me to impose a lengthy prison sentence. Had the perpetrator been white, I doubt it would have resulted in such gross generalizations. The race of a perpetrator of a crime is not a reason or an excuse to fear an entire race of people. We must stand against it in whatever form. As a judge I do my work without regard to race. It is incumbent on me to confront and dispose of language based on racism and stereotypes. We should all do our part to eradicate such nonsense. And let me be clear, silence does nothing to contribute. It simply sends a message that such views are acceptable and fear somehow excuses wrong. Jordan Gray, mother . Q: Has the crime had a psychological impact on you? My husband works nights and there are many nights I still can't sleep. Even with a security system I don't feel safe in my own home. I'm nervous about when random people walk down the street and constantly have our doors locked. Q: Has this crime effected the lifestyle of you or your family? Due to the impact it has had on my 5-year-old daughter we have to consider the area in which we go. While my daughter and I used to play outside, we are hesitant to do so now by ourselves. Q: If you have any additional information, please feel free to attach it to this form. (i.e, recommended sentence). This incident has had the most impact on my daughter. She is in constant fear of black men. When we are running errands, if we come across a black male, she holds me tight and begs me to leave. If (she) is playing in a room and I walk into another, she freaks out. It has affected her friendships at school and our relationship with African American friends. Tommy Gray, father . Q: Has the crime had a psychological impact on you? For months after this crime I couldn't sleep. I would relive this incident every night before bed. I would constantly see their faces every time I closed my eyes. Q: Has this crime effected the lifestyle of you or your family? Since the crime occurred my daughter is terrified of black males. Where ever we go, we are constantly reminded of her fears. She brings up the crime and can't be left alone in our own home because she is afraid someone will bust in the door.' Q: Has this crime resulted in any damages or loss of property? My wife's cell phone and vacation fund of about $1000. Q: If you have any additional information, please feel free to attach it to this form. (i.e, recommended sentence). I don't have a recommended sentence but I feel like probation is not enough. This crime will effect my daughter for the rest of her life and Mr. Wallace deserves to serve time. If holding a little girl at gunpoint gets you probation, then our system is flawed.

Kentucky judge Olu Stevens is facing calls to be sacked after he criticized a couple's victim impact statements . Tommy and Jordan Gray and their three-year-old daughter were robbed at gunpoint at their Louisville home in 2013 by two African American males . Jordan wrote in her statement that her daughter is still 'in constant fear of black men' At the sentencing for one of the men, Stevens accused the Grays of fostering racist stereotypes in their 3-year-old daughter's mind . 'Had the perpetrator been white, I doubt it would have resulted in such gross generalizations,' wrote Stevens afterwards on Facebook . Friends and family of the Grays have accused Stevens of being racist and are calling for him to be fired .

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Outspoken MP Bob Katter has risked being drawn into a race row after accusing the Queensland Government of believing embattled MP Billy Gordon was 'a little black puppet on a string'. In a bizarre statement on his party's website, Mr Katter said the Government believes Mr Gordon would quit after he was recently accused of domestic violence - and later admitted to his criminal past. Mr Katter, federal MP for Kennedy, is of Lebanese descent. He said he's been personally subjected to racist attitudes from both major parties in the past, and that he sympathised with Mr Gordon's position. Federal MP Bob Katter, who released a statement today accusing the Queensland Government of assuming Billy Gordon would quit after he was recently accused of domestic violence . Mr Gordon was forced to quit the Queensland Labor Party last week in the wake of being accused of domestic violence and withholding his criminal history from Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk . He announced on Wednesday he will remain in the Queensland parliament as an independent, throwing the Government, which holds a razor-thin majority, into chaos. 'In the last two cases where this occurred in the federal parliament, there was never any question raised about the member resigning. So why was it assumed here that Billy Gordon would resign?' Mr Katter's statement reads. 'I can't help but think that the Queensland Government thought they had a little black puppet on a string. Mr Gordon, who  was forced to quit the Queensland Labor Party last week in the wake of being accused of domestic violence and withholding his criminal history . The statement has sparked criticism on social media, with users questioning his terminology. 'Irrespective of his weird use of the term 'black puppet' it's kinda odd how Bob Katter is speaking on Billy Gordon's behalf' wrote Benjamin James. Not that John wrote: 'Wow, Bob Katter calls Billy Gordon, 'black puppet on a string' and the lefty loons stay silent. What if Abbott had said it?' The statement has sparked criticism on social media, with some users questioning his terminology . Mr Katter has since defended the statement, saying he used the term black puppet in light of his personal experiences . Mr Katter has since defended the statement, saying he used the term black puppet 'because I'm dark and I come from Cloncurry.' 'I can understand and I can identify with the attitudes that these people have and I'm going to call it for what it is,' he said. 'I deliberately put that comment in with a forethought, because I think they deserve a belting for the racial overtones.' Mr Katter used federal MPs Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott as examples of independents becoming puppets for the government and sacrificing their independence, but he vowed Mr Gordon would not make that mistake.

Mr Gordon was forced to quit Labor after being accused of domestic violence . Mr Katter accused the Queensland Government of assuming Mr Gordon would quit from the allegations . Mr Katter said he had been personally subjected to racist attitudes from both major parties in the past .

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A sex offender has been jailed for fatally stabbing a forensic science student who dreamed of becoming a policewoman after befriending her on a canal towpath. David Marshall must serve a minimum of 20 years behind bars for the murder of Eni Mevish, a 20-year-old student at Staffordshire University. The 68-year-old stabbed her in the heart, lungs and liver six months after they met because he was 'jealous' of her other friendships, Stafford Crown Court heard. The pensioner had already served a jail sentence for assaulting a 14-year-old girl when he stormed her house Stoke-on-Trent in November last year to butcher her with a kitchen knife. Eni Mevish was killed by a sex offender who stabbed her in the lungs, liver and heart six months after she befriended him while out jogging . The pair are thought to have met around six months earlier when Miss Mevish, originally from Manchester, was out jogging. Prosecutors told the court Miss Mevish had received financial support from the pensioner, though the nature of their friendship is not clear. On November 9 the 20-year-old received a number of text messages thought to have been from Marshall. While she was watching a film with fellow student Rizwan Bukhari, Marshall is understood to have arrived at her house drunk. He asked Mr Bukhari to leave them alone before being heard 'swearing, shouting' and asking 'why didn't you text me?' The 22-year-old student then heard a 'slow scream' and tried to intervene but was struck by the sex offender's knife. David Marshall was on licence for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl when he killed Eni, a 20-year-old student . After Marshall had fled the scene he discovered Miss Mevish's body in a pool of blood and phoned an ambulance. She had been stabbed in her heart, liver and lungs and died in hospital. Appearing via video link in Stafford Crown Court Marshall was told he must serve a minimum term of 20 years and six months for her killing. Sentencing, Judge John Wait said it was clear the sex offender had intended to hurt her. 'You came to be jealous of her friendships with fellow students and sought to distance her from them. 'It is clear you had in mind violence when you went to her home.' The court heard how at the time of the attack Marshall was on licence for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl. 'At the time of this terrible offence you were on licence following a sentence for an offence of indecent assault,' added Judge Wait. 'It was a condition of your licence that you notify your supervising (probation) officer of any developing friendship with a woman. 'It is noteworthy that you failed to tell your supervising officer of the relationship (with Eni) though you were asked on many occasions.' In a statement released by police Miss Mevish was described as 'beautiful, clever and with her whole life ahead of her.' 'Eni was a loving sister and daughter who was taken from us suddenly and violently. 'We are so proud of her achievements. We are devastated by her death. 'Nothing can make up for that but we are glad Marshall is now paying for his actions.' The 20-year-old was studying to become a police woman at the time of her death. 'She would train really hard as she was so determined to join the police. 'Eni would run through the park and when she saw an officer she would say "that’s what I want to be’"- she just wanted to help,' said close friend Melanie-Vanessa Enyong. The 20-year-old aspiring policewoman was in her second year of a degree in Policing and Criminal Investigation when she was murdered . 'She only ever wanted the best for people because she loved exercising so much she used to encourage us to get out there with her - that was the type of person she was.' She is thought to have met Marshall while out running though details of their friendship are not known. One of her former lecturers said she was a 'warm-hearted and conscientious' student. Speaking on behalf of Staffordshire University, Professor Andrew Jackson said: 'She is greatly missed by all who knew her. 'Today’s events bring that loss into sharp focus and our thoughts are particularly with her family at this very difficult time.' She is thought to have met Marshall while out running though details of their friendship are not known. In the days after her death Thomas Barnes described how her housemate, Rizwan Bucari, had come into a shop to ask for help after seeing Marshall flee her body. 'She had blood pouring from a stab wound in her stomach, and cuts all up her arm. 'By the time the ambulance arrived, her breathing was very weak. I told them what had happened and moved so I didn't get in their way. 'It was surreal, after being in direct contact with that kind of situation it’s hard to concentrate on anything else.' Marshall stormed the student's shared house in Shelton, Stoke on Trent, (street pictured above) and killed her with a kitchen knife .

Eni Mevish, 20, was stabbed to death by David Marshall, 68, last November . The pair had become friends six months earlier while Eni was out jogging . He stabbed her at her home in the lungs, liver and heart with kitchen knife . Marshall, who previously abused a 14-year-old girl, admitted murder . He must spend at least 20 years behind bars before applying for parole .

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Stefan Johansen gratefully picked up two individual prizes at the annual Celtic player of the year awards dinner on Sunday night then looked forward to the team clinching the Scottish Premiership title. The Norway midfielder, 24, shared the players' player of the year award with captain Scott Brown but stood alone as the choice of the supporters. And by this weekend the former Stromsgodset player, who joined the Parkhead club in January last year, could have another championship medal to boot. Stefan Johansen has been in terrific form for Celtic this season and has impressed during his first campaign . Ronny Deila's side went eight points clear of Aberdeen at the top of the table with a 3-0 away win at Dundee United on Sunday, courtesy of a Leigh Griffiths hat-trick. The Hoops will win the league for the fourth successive season if they beat Dundee at home on Friday night and the Dons fail to win against the Tannadice side on Saturday, which would cap a 'special' campaign for Johansen. 'It's an amazing feeling,' he told Celtic's official website. 'I didn't expect it at all. This is my first full season here so it's special, especially at a big club like Celtic. The Norwegian picked up two awards and is delighted with the Bhoys 'special' season . 'With all the great players in the team and how the team has developed this season, it's an honour to get this prize. 'I'm proud because when you see all the other players nominated - any one of them could win it. 'We have had a great season and hopefully we can seal the league title now. We just need to continue what we've been doing.'

Stefan Johansen picked up two prizes at Celtic's award dinner . The midfielder has enjoyed a stunning first season at Parkhead . Celtic moved eight points clear of the SPL with a 3-0 win over Dundee . CLICK HERE for all the latest Celtic news .

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It was meant to be the ultimate symbol of menace: carving '666' into his forehead. But in a phenomenal case of idiocy, convicted murderer Nikko Jenkins used a mirror - so the numbers came out backwards. The symbol is described in the biblical book of Revelation as 'the sign of the beast', and has since been popularized by the horror movie The Omen. However, with a series of upside-down 9s, Jenkins has fashioned himself an entirely unique - and irreversible - engraving. Botched: Nikko Jenkins (pictured in 2014) recently tried to carve '666' into his forehead but did it backwards . According to Omaha.com, Jenkins told his attorney about the incident in a phone call from his cell in Omaha, Nebraska. It comes amid the 28-year-old's ongoing appeal that he is mentally unstable and therefore ineligible to face the death penalty. Jenkins was jailed exactly one year ago for shooting dead four people in 10 days after being released from prison. During his murder trial in Douglas County, Jenkins was assessed by a doctor who concluded that he was 'a psychopath' and 'one of the most dangerous people' he had ever encountered. 'Psychopath': The 28-year-old, who a doctor described as 'one of the most dangerous people' he had ever encountered, may use the botched case of self-mutilation as evidence he is mentally unstable . Jenkins pleaded not guilty, then guilty, then ineligible for trial on the grounds of insanity. However, a judge dismissed the appeals and he was sentenced to life. The decision of whether he would be sentenced to death was delayed after Jenkins revealed he had carved a swastika into his skin. Following months of delays, he will face a panel in July to decide his fate. It is believed Jenkins may use his latest botched case of self-mutilation as further evidence that he is mentally unstable.

Nikko Jenkins, 28, was trying to etch the Revelation sign of the beast . But he now has a series of upside-down 9s across his face . It is believed he may use the botched case as evidence he is mentally unstable and therefore ineligible to face the death penalty . Jenkins was convicted of shooting dead four people in 10 days after he was released from prison in Omaha, Nebraska, in 2013 .

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The world's biggest bunny is preparing to see his heavyweight title challenged - by his giant son. Darius, who measures over four feet long and weighs in at a whopping three and a half stone, is officially the world's biggest rabbit. But his title is now being contended by his son Jeff, who already measures 3ft 8in - with six months left of growing to do. Scroll down for video . New contender: Jeff the rabbit, pictured with his owner Annette Edwards, measures 3ft 8in long and is set to challenge for the title of the world's biggest bunny . The rabbits' owner, Annette Edwards, 63, from Bromsgrove, says she looks forward to the day when Jeff dwarfs his father. It costs her £5,000 a year to feed her giant bunnies as they munch their way through 2,000 carrots and 700 apples. The pair both also eat a huge dog bowl full of specialist rabbit food every day, and a bale of hay a week. Ms Edwards said: 'Although the pair of them are huge, they're the best animal friends I could ask for. Giant genes: Jeff, left, is pictured with his giant father Darius, who currently holds the record for being the world's largest rabbit . Rabbit fan: Ava Johnson, seven, struggles to pick up the monstrous Jeff as he is almost as large as her . 'They are both very laid back and chilled out - Jeff really takes after his Dad. Most rabbits like lots of attention and get on well with children and these two are no exception. 'They're even friendly to other animals! Jeff's best friend is my other pet, a boxer dog called Kay.' Continental Giants are the largest breed of rabbit and can grow to around 4ft when fully grown but Darius - who is officially four foot four inches long - and Jeff come from a bumper crop. Jeff was born after Ms Edwards introduced Darius to one of her other rabbits Sally - another Continental Giant who measures 3ft 5 inches. The family all live in her back garden but they are so big that they each require a dog crate that would normally house a pet as large as German shepherd. Annette added: 'Darius was always big but Jeff is huge considering he's still a baby. I'm expecting him to grow much bigger than his dad. Competition: Darius the rabbit measures 4ft 4in long while 3ft 8in Jeff still has six months of growing to do . Big breed: Continental Giants are the largest breed of rabbit and usually grow  to around 4ft at their biggest . 'As soon as I think he's made it, he'll be measured by his vet and then Guinness will certify that he is the biggest rabbit in the world. 'Even though they're so big, they are very low upkeep. They really do look after themselves most of the time. 'They run free in the garden during the day and at night go to sleep in their cosy crates. They never make a mess and actually would be great house rabbits. 'Although when they start to moult at the end of the summer, they need a good daily brush. 'And being the world's biggest rabbit, and his son, they've got a giant appetite to match. 'But it's actually good for them to be eating hay all day long - to keep their teeth and digestive system healthy.'

Darius is world's largest rabbit at 4ft 4in, weighing three and a half stone . But his son Jeff is 3ft 8in and still has six months left of growing to do . The monstrous pair are owned by Annette Edwards, of Worcestershire . Both munch through 2,000 carrots and 700 apples per year, costing £5,000 .

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Memphis moved into a tie for the second seed in the NBA's Southwest Division with a 100-92 win over Oklahoma City on Friday, with the Grizzlies defence shutting down Thunder star Russell Westbrook. The Grizzlies moved level with Houston atop the Southwest Division, both trailing Golden State, which has already sealed the conference title. San Antonio stayed within two games of that fight over the No 2 playoff seed by routing Denver, while the key postseason-shaping games in the East saw Brooklyn extend its winning streak with a narrow victory over Toronto, Chicago win a tight struggle against Detroit and Milwaukee overpower Boston in the second half. Memphis moved into a tie for the second seed in the NBA's Southwest Division with a 100-92 win on Friday . The Grizzlies defence were key, shutting down Oklahoma City Thunder star Russell Westbrook repeatedly . Memphis' Jeff Green scored 22 points and Marc Gasol added 19 to lead six Grizzlies players in double figures. Enes Kanter led the Thunder with 24 points and 17 rebounds. Westbrook scored 18, but only six after the first quarter while connecting on only five of his 20 shots. San Antonio's Danny Green scored 21 points, including 6-for-6 shooting on 3-pointers, as the Spurs cruised past Denver 123-93 after losing Tiago Splitter to a calf injury during a strong start. Kawhi Leonard had 20 points for San Antonio, which has won six straight and extended its league record of consecutive 50-win seasons to 16 straight. Danilo Gallinari scored 20 points to lead Denver, which trailed by as many as 37 points despite shooting 47 percent from the field. Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol (33) blocks a shot by Oklahoma City Thunder center Enes Kanter . Grizzlies forward Jeff Green (32) controls the ball against Thunder guard Anthony Morrow on Friday . Brooklyn's Deron Williams scored a season-high 31 points to lead the Nets to a 114-109 win against Toronto; their sixth-straight victory. Thaddeus Young made the tiebreaking basket with 22 seconds left and tied his season high with 29 points while Brook Lopez added 30 points and 17 rebounds for the Nets, who have surged into seventh place in the East. DeMar DeRozan finished with 27 points, eight rebounds and eight assists for the Raptors, who dropped behind Chicago in the contest for third place in the East. Kawhi Leonard (2) had 20 points for San Antonio as the Spurs cruised past Denver 123-93 . Deron Williams was in top form for Brooklyn Nets, scoring a season high of 31 points in their win . Chicago's Pau Gasol had 26 points and 10 rebounds for his 50th double-double of the season, helping the Bulls beat Detroit 88-82. Jimmy Butler scored 18 points for Chicago while Reggie Jackson had 22 points and nine assists for Detroit. Milwaukee's Ersan Ilyasova led a third-quarter surge from a halftime deficit with 11 points as the Bucks beat Boston 110-101 to put a dent in the Celtics' playoff hopes. Chicago Bulls beat Detroit Pistons 88-82 as they fought their way ahead of the Toronto Raptors . Boston dropped half a game behind idle Miami in the fight for the final playoff spot in the East with six games left. O.J. Mayo led Milwaukee with 24 points. Boston was led by Isaiah Thomas with 23. Portland celebrated its Northwest Division title with a 107-77 win over the Los Angeles Lakers, with C.J. McCollum scored a career-high 27 points to inflict a record-equaling 55th loss on the Lakers. New Orleans gained ground in the playoff race by outlasting an undermanned Sacramento 101-95, led by 21 points from Eric Gordon. New Orleans gained ground in the playoff race by outlasting an undermanned Sacramento 101-95 . Indiana's Rodney Stuckey scored 15 points off the bench to propel the Pacers to a 93-74 victory against Charlotte. Washington beat lowly New York 101-87, with Marcin Gortat scoring 19 points and Bradley Beal 18. Orlando's Nikola Vucevic scored a career-high 37 points and grabbed 17 rebounds to power the Magic over Minnesota 97-84.

Memphis Grizzles' defence helped them to a 100-92 win over Oklahoma City . They moved level with Houston Rockets at top of the Southwest Division . Thunder star Russell Westbrook was largely shut down in their defeat . San Antonio stayed within two games of fight over No 2 playoff seed . Spurs cruised past Denver 123-93 after losing Tiago Splitter to a calf injury . Brooklyn's Deron Williams scored 31 to lead the Nets to a 114-109 win .

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A South Florida man who weighs 385 pounds and stands 6-foot-8 is facing an animal cruelty charge after authorities say he bit his mom's lapdog on the face, seriously hurting its eye. Palm Beach County deputies responded to a Lake Worth animal hospital around 4:30am Friday morning and found a Shih Tzu named Cujo with his eye hanging out of the socket. The dog's owner Michele Etzel told deputies that her son, 36-year-old David Etzel, had been drinking and teasing the dog, prompting the dog to bite Etzel. Sick: 36-year-old David Etzel (left) of Palm Beach County, Florida--who weighs 385 pounds and stands 6-foot-8--is accused of biting his mother's 10-pound Shih Tzu named Cujo then beating it so badly its eye came out of its socket (stock photo at right) She said Etzel then bit the dog back. A veterinarian told deputies the injuries were comparable to being hit by a vehicle or attacked by another dog. Mrs. Etzel said she never intends to speak to her son again. 'I'm feeling sick,' Michele Etzel told the New York Daily News. 'I can't go to sleep. I'm holding my dog 24/7.' The 2-year-old dog weighed about 10 pounds, according to the Orlando Sun-Sentinel. Deputies later found Etzel asleep at his home. He told them he would never hurt the dog. Etzel was being held on $10,000 bail. Jail records didn't list an attorney.

South Florida man David Etzel, 36, allegedly lashed out after the 10-pound lapdog bit him after he'd been drinking . Veterinarians who called police said the injuries were comparable to those they seen in pets hit by cars . Pet owner Michele Etzel says she never intends to speak to her 6-foot-8 son again .

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The former sister-in-law of a man who has been charged with the murder of his second wife and is being investigated over the mysterious death of his first wife has said that she feared she might have been next. Henthorn was charged with the murder of second wife, Toni Bertolet, 51, last November and police have reopened their investigation into the suspicious death of his first wife, Lynn Rishell, some 20 years earlier. In both cases Henthorn was named as the sole beneficiary in a string of lucrative life insurance policies totaling $500,000 on the death of his first wife and $4.5million on the death of his second. And Lynn Rishell's brother's wife, Grace Rishell, has opened up to say that the FBI told her about a secret $400,000 life insurance policy Henthorn had taken out on her, too. Scroll down for video . Grace Rishell was Herald Henthorn's first wife Lynn Rishell's sister-in-law. She said that the FBI told her about a secret $400,000 life insurance policy Henthorn had taken out on her . Henthorn (left), pictured with Grace (center) and Lynn (right) Rishell, was named as the sole beneficiary in a string of lucrative life insurance policies totaling $500,000 on the death of his first wife and $4.5million on the death of his second after they both died in what appeared to be freak accident . He had forged her signature and made himself the sole beneficiary on the policy, Rishell told CBS's 48 Hours. 'That was his doing. I did not authorize that policy,' she said. 'He profits, not my girls. I feel he came in and just preyed on my vulnerability.' Both of Henthron's wives died in 'freak' accidents to which Henthorn, 59, was the sole witness. Dr Toni Jill Bertolet plunged 140ft to her death shortly before her 12th wedding anniversary while hiking with Henthorn in a remote stretch of Rocky Mountain National Park. Lynn Rishell - his first wife - was crushed to death under the front of Henthorn's Jeep when, he told first responders, the jack gave way as she reached under the vehicle for a lug night while changing a flat tire in the dark. 'I think it's logical to conclude that he was planning on taking my life at some point,' Grace Rishell said. 'He's a dangerous man... He needs to be behind bars.' Grace Rishell was going through a divorce and ‘concerned for her financial stability,’ when she initially agreed to Henthorn taking out a policy that would pay $50,000 to Grace’s brother and each of her four daughters for a total of $250,000. Lynn Rishell - Henthorn's first wife - was crushed to death under the front of Henthorn's Jeep when, he told first responders, the jack gave way as she reached under the vehicle for a lug night while changing a flat tire in the dark . Henthorn's second wife, Toni Jill Bertolet, plunged 140ft to her death shortly before her 12th wedding anniversary while hiking with Henthorn in a remote stretch of Rocky Mountain National Park . According to prosecutors in Bertolet’s murder case, ‘the evidence will show that Henthorn had a romantic interest in Rishell’. But Rishell had a change of heart in spring 2010 and told the insurance agent to stop the policy from going through. Instead she took out a policy of her own with another insurer. Unbeknownst to her ‘her signature was forged to procure the original policy as well,’ with Henthorn making payments on the policy until December 2012 and listing himself as sole beneficiary. The policy was cancelled in 2013 when the insurer concluded that Henthorn had no insurable interest in Rishell. But the very fact of its existence raises the specter that Henthorn had Rishell in his sights as a third potential victim. Henthorn was arrested on November 6 when FBI apprehended him as he returned home after dropping his nine-year-old daughter, Hayley, at school. His indictment was the result of a prolonged investigation during which the FBI eavesdropped on his telephone conversations, combed through his finances, scrutinized his employment history and concluded that the ‘freak’ hiking accident that claimed the mother-of-one’s life was murder. Henthorn was charged with the murder of Bertolet, 51, last November and police have reopened their investigation into the suspicious death of his first wife, Lynn Rishell, some 20 years earlier . Henthorn and Lynn Rishell when he was a new geology graduate from Virginia. The couple moved to Colorado, where after 12 years of marriage, she died in a 'freak accident', now said to be murder . He was denied bail by US District Judge Kathleen Latoyfa who described him as a ‘danger’ and said, ‘there are rather glaring similarities between the loss of his first wife and the loss of his second’ and pointed to large sums of money recently transferred by Henthorn to his brother as suggestive that he was ‘hiding funds.’ Though Henthorn claimed to work as a fundraiser for a charity the economic crime auditor for the US Attorney found no evidence that the geology graduate from Virginia had any earnings other than some in 1993, 1999 and 2000. The only job he appears to have had was one briefly held in the petroleum industry – the job that saw him and his then new bride, Lynn Rishell, move from their hometown of Harrington, Virginia, across the country to Colorado. The prosecution’s case against Henthorn highlights the similarities between both his wives’ passing – not least the substantial windfall both saw him set to receive. Both ‘freak accidents’ occurred at remote locations with Henthorn the lone witness. Both occurred after about 12 years of marriage and Henthorn told wildly varying stories about both deaths. Both ‘freak accidents’ occurred at remote locations with Henthorn the lone witness. Both occurred after about 12 years of marriage and Henthorn, pictured here with his first wife, Rishell, told wildly varying stories about both deaths. An autopsy carried out on Bertolet concluded that she ‘died as a result of multiple blunt force injuries when she fell or was pushed down a cliff’ According to prosecution documents Henthorn even told a Sunday school class that his first wife died of cancer and that she lost a baby she was carrying to chemotherapy. In the case of his second wife, two years before her death Bertolet almost died when she was struck by a wooden beam Henthorn had thrown off the deck of their cottage. After that incident Henthorn joked to friends, ‘I was trying to kill my wife.’ Investigators have also established that Henthorn ‘extensively scouted’ the fatal hike trail. Contrary to what he told law enforcement he made nine different trips to the area around Rocky Mountain Park that summer. The fortnight before their anniversary – the date of her death – Henthorn had hiked six trails to ‘find the perfect one for the trip.’ And damningly a map found in his car showed the spot where Bertolet fell to her death, marked with a pink X. In both Rishell and Bertolet’s deaths Henthorn was eager to have his wives’ bodies cremated quickly despite family requests against it and, disturbingly, he spread both women’s ashes on the same mountain near Ouray, Colorado. A hearing for the civil case is scheduled for later this month while a trial date of May 4 -15 has been set for the murder case of Bertolet to which Henthorn has entered a not guilty plea.

In November Harold Henthorn was charged with murdering his second wife in criminal trial which will also hear that he killed his first wife . Both died in freak 'accidents' to which he was sole witness and FBI spent months investigating second death before he was charged . In both cases, Henthorn was the sole beneficiary in a string of lucrative life insurance policies . His first wife's sister-in-law, Grace Rishell, said that Henthorn took out a $400,000 life insurance on her . Henthorn reportedly forged her signature and made himself sole beneficiary . Rishell believes she could have been the next to die in 'freak accident'

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Selfie sticks and extreme sports are not designed to go together, as a snowboarder in Japan proved. While enjoying the slopes in the country’s Chiisagata District, the man can be seen decked out in purple holding a matching selfie stick at arm’s length. Recording himself from behind, the man begins his descent of the mountain and a skier can be seen just in front of him. Weaving down the slope, the snowboarder initially appears to make a success of the video and he even causes the snow to spray in the air while turning. Picking up the speed, the man heads in the direction of the chairlifts before moving away again – adjusting his selfie stick to capture himself from the front in the process. But as the confident snowboarder adjusts the camera, he is oblivious to the chairlift swinging into view behind. The snowboarder, in a bright purple jacket, is using a selfie stick to film himself in action . The show-off stops to clear some snow off the screen of the camera, not realising what is about to happen . It is later explained online that there was too much snow and that the chairlift was therefore lower to the ground than it would normally be. As the snowboarder in the purple jacket turns to his companion and appears to talk, the empty chairlift deals him a heavy blow to the head. And the final indignity sees the boarder fall to the ground while still filming himself. The snowboarder can be heard making a scream as he holds the back of his head and falls to the floor. Realising his mistake, the snowboarder concludes the video by shuffling himself out of the way and sitting beside the chairlift as another passes safely by. The empty chairlift appears out of nowhere and clatters the snowboarder over the head . And the final indignity sees the snowboarder fall to the ground while still filming himself .

The man records himself descending mountain with fellow skier . He negotiates a number of trees and video is initially a success . Pair stop but the snowboarder fails to move from path of chairlift . While posing for the camera the chairlift hits him hard in the head . The footage was recorded in the Chiisagata District of Japan .

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Marcelo insists Real Madrid's this season's meetings with local rivals Atletico Madrid will have no bearing on the outcome of their Champions League quarter-final tie. The reigning champions face Diego Simeone's side at Vicente Calderon on Tuesday night in the first leg of the last eight clash having failed to beat their neighbours in six attempts this season. Carlo Ancelotti's side lost both La Liga matches against Atletico this season - 2-1 at the Bernabeu before a humiliating 4-0 away defeat - and have also been beaten twice and held to two draws in the Spanish Supper Cup and the Copa del Rey. Marcelo says Real Madrid's failure to beat Atletico in six attempts this season will have no affect on their Champions League quarter-final tie . Marcelo and Cristiano Ronaldo looked relaxed in training on Monday ahead of Tuesday's first leg . Brazil international Marcelo faces the media on Monday ahead of Tuesday's match at Vicente Calderon . But Brazil international Marcelo says he and his team-mates are not thinking about their recent form against Tuesday's opponents. 'We have played against Atletico a lot and something always changes,' Marcelo told reporters at a press conference on Monday. There are no favourites in a match like this. We will give everything on the pitch without thinking about previous games.' 'They are a great team. They never stop fighting and they are very intense. But we are not thinking about the last games against them. Now is completely different. We have two games to show that we can beat them.' Ronaldo and Bale leave the field dejected after Real Madrid were beaten 4-0 by Atletico in February . The last time Real Madrid beat their local rivals was in the Champions League final last season . Carlo Ancelotti and Marcelo task questions at the pre-match press conference . 'We have to go out and give everything on the pitch this time. We will have to be very intense. We will have to fight. These derbies are very difficult.' The last time Real beat Atletico was in last season's Champions League final when Sergio Ramos scored in the 93rd minute to take the game to extra-time, before Gareth Bale, Marcelo and Cristiano Ronaldo made it 4-1. 'I don't know how many times we have spoken about Ramos' Decima goal this week,' Marcelo added. 'I was available for the final and I never lost faith in helping the team. That's what happened and I was able to help the team win the Champions League. I consider myself very important in this team.'

Real Madrid haven't beaten local rivals Atletico in six attempts this season . They clash in the first leg of the Champions League last eight on Tuesday . Marcelo says the players are not thinking about their recent record .

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A remote Iron Age fort built by the Picts as a look out post on top of a 20-foot-high sea stack has been uncovered on the coast of Scotland. Archaeologists believe the stronghold, which would have been cut off from the land at high tide, may have been one of a number that lined the east coast of Scotland. The fort, which was found on top of the Dunnicaer sea stack close to Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, appears to have been built with stone imported from elsewhere in the country. The small fort was discovered on top of Dunnicaer sea stack (shown above) and would have given the inhabitants a strong defensive position, although resupplying the fort up the cliff faces would have been hard . Stones used to construct the walls were also engraved with Pictish designs of fish and disks with broken spears through them. Dr Gordon Noble, an archaeologist at Aberdeen University who led the excavation, said the site was so remote it could only be accessed by climbing up the cliff face with ropes. The Picts were a group of tribes who lived north of the Forth and Clyde during the Late Iron Age and Early Medieval period. By the late 200s AD the Picts had overrun the northern frontier of the Roman empire more than once. Mel Gibson's blue face . paint in Braveheart is a nod to the Pictish tradition of body-paint - . but the real Picts fought stark naked, and there are records of them . doing so up until the 5th Century. The Roman name for the people - Picti - means 'painted people'. It's not known what they called themselves. The habit of fighting naked, especially in the cold Scottish climate, didn't harm the tribe's reputation for ferocity.  Picts were . one of the reasons even heavily armoured Roman legions could not conquer . the area. He said it appeared that despite its position, the fort had been lived in for extended periods and so must have been an important building. Dr Noble said it was possible the fort had been built there to help the Pictish tribes living there dominate the sea in the area. He said it was possible the fort, which is thought to date from the 5th to 6th century, could also have been a precursor to Dunnottar Castle, a medieval fortress built on the rocks of a headland less than quarter of a mile away. Dr Noble said: ‘It is possible that there was a series of forts along the coast. 'The Picts were known as sea raiders and forts like this may have helped cement that naval power. ‘It is quite an impressive site. It was pretty hairy climb to get up there and at high tide it is completely cut off. Resupplying the fort when it was inhabited would have been a challenge.’ The Picts were a group of tribes that lived in eastern and northern Scotland. Although best known for the carved stones and jewellery they left behind, it is thought that they were farmers but also engaged in sea raids. The archaeologists discovered the fort on Dunnicaer after following up reports that Pictish stones had been found there when some local youths climbed up the sea stack. Dr Noble said: ‘Being youths, they did what youths do and threw them down into the sea. ‘One of them returned later to collect one of the stones and since then a few others have been found. They had rough designs carved into them.’ When Dr Noble and his team from the Northern Picts project conducted a five day excavation on the top of the site, they uncovered the remains of what appears to be a rampart wall. They also found post holes and the remains of a hearth that appears to have been within a house built inside the fort. They even found charcoal still in the stone fire place. Mr Noble said there may have been a settlement built on the land behind the fort, although as the Picts largely built their homes from wood, it would be hard to find many remains. In order to reach the site, the team had to employ the services of professional rock climber Duncan Patterson, who climbed up the sea stack and put ropes in place. The archaeologists found the remains of a stone wall that would have formed part of the Iron Age fort . Some of the stones used to build the walls of the fort (like the one above) had rough Pictish carvings on them . The sea stack is only accessible at low tide and still requires a rock climb up the cliff face to reach the summit . This stone hearth, with the black charcoal dust still evident at the bottom of the picture, was uncovered by the team. It suggests the fort had been inhabited for relatively long periods, according to Dr Gordon Noble . Mr Noble said that at the time when the fort had been inhabited it may have had a wooden bridge across to the stack from the land otherwise it would have been very hard to access. He said: ‘The stone is not local, so it was quarried elsewhere and taken to build the fort and carved. ‘As for access, it is possible an easier route was present on the landward side and has now eroded, but certainly a timber access of some kind is well within their capabilities.’ The team now hope to examine some of the charcoal and other artifacts they found at the site in the hope of getting a better understanding of who lived there. The Dunnicaer sea stack sits just off the east coast of Scotland close to Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire . The researchers also found evidence for post holes (above) that were used in the fort ramparts during the dig . Archaeologists had to set up ropes to reach the sea stack after a professional climber scaled the rock face . Dunnicaer sea stack ( on the far left of the picture above) is just quarter of a mile from Dunnottar Castle (right)

Ancient fort was built on 20-foot sea stack near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire . Archaeologists needed to use ropes to reach the summit for the excavation . They found remains of stone walls, ramparts and a charcoal filled fireplace . Experts believe it may have been one of a line of forts along Scottish coast .

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Venezuela captain Juan Arango has apologised to a rival player after biting him on the shoulder at the end of a tempestuous Mexican league match. Arango's Tijuana side were losing 4-3 to Monterrey with just seconds left when he went up to midfielder Jesus Zavala and bit him. 'I did something I shouldn't have done with Zavala,' the 34-year old midfielder said. Juan Arango (left) bites the shoulder of opponent Jesus Zavela in a moment of madness . Zavala holds his shoulder after being bitten by Arango, in the game Zavala's side won 4-3 . Zavala shows the referee the mark on his shoulder after being bittern by Arango . Arango (right) earlier scored a magnificent free kick to bring his club Tijuana team level against Monterrey . 'I spoke to him after the game and apologised, it was a very hot-blooded game, I got heated up, I took that negative attitude, that isn't me but unfortunately it happened. We exchanged shirts after the game, we spoke and that's it over.' Zavala fell to the ground and later posted a photo of the bit mark on social media. The incident was reminiscent of Uryguayan Luis Suarez's bite on Italian Giorgio Cheillini's shoulder during last year's World Cup. Suarez was given a nine-game suspension from international matches and a four-month ban from league action. The referee in Sunday's Mexican league game ended the game seconds after the bite and did not take action against Arango. The league's disciplinary commission could still punish him. Tijuana are top of the table with 23 points from 12 games. Monterrey are in 10th on 16 points.

Juan Arango has apologised for his bite on Monterrey's Jesus Zavala . Arango had earlier scored a free kick in his team's 4-3 defeat . The 34-year-old Venezuela captain has admitted he was in the wrong . He was not punished in the game but could face retrospective disciplinary action from the Mexican league authorities .

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A Facebook post and a Craigslist ad worked together to solve the 34-year-old cold case murder of a teenage girl from Michigan who was found stabbed nine times in the woods in rural Louisiana. Carol Cole was 17 years old when she disappeared without a trace after running away from a juvenile detention center in Texas in October 1980. In January 1981, police in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, found a teenage girl stabbed nine times in the back and chest stashed under a pile of leaves in the woods out of a dirt road outside Shreveport. For 34 years, Carol's family searched in vain for the troubled teen. At the same time, detectives from Bossier Parish never stopped trying to identity the body they found mutilated in the woods. Coming together: The picture at left is the image used by Carol Cole's family on Craigslist posts across Texas and Louisiana. The image at right is a rendering of 'Bossier Doe' created for a Facebook page posted by detectives in an attempt to identify a body found in January 1981 . Carol Cole escaped from a Texas juvenile jail in October 1980 after moving from Michigan with her mother. Her remains have been found and identified after 34 years . Relieved: Carol Cole's sister, Jeanie Phelps of Kalamazoo, Michigan, (center) with Bossier Sheriff's Lt. Shannon Mack and Sgt. Dave Faulk . Now, social media has brought Carol's family and Louisiana detectives together. In February, DNA confirmed that the body in Louisiana matched missing Carol's DNA, the Detroit News reports. New attention to the case has brought forward a potential suspect, as well. John Chesson, who is already in prison for an unrelated murder, is named as a person of interest in Carol's brutal death . Carol's sister Jeanie Phelps and her friend posted Craigslist ads across Texas and Louisiana with pictures of the teen, hoping someone might recognize her. At the same time, Bossier Parish Lieutenant Shannon Mack crated a Facebook post for 'Bossier Doe' (Facebook doesn't allow Jane Doe page names). It included a digitally-rendered drawing of the victim based on her skeletal remains. Carol's family aznd Bossier detectives made a connection six days later when Bossier Parish 911 dispatcher Linda Erickson was trolling through Craigslist. Long road: Cole, from Michigan, was eventually found dead in Louisiana. She was last heard from in December 1980 and found dad a month later . These are the shoes that Carol was wearing when she was found dead. Police posted pictures of them in the hopes of jogging the memory of anyone who may have known her . Person of interest: John Chesson has been identified as a possible suspect by his own daughter. He's currently in prison for an unrelated murder . She had seen the Facebook page posted by detectives in her department. When she stumbled across Ms Phelps' Craigslist page, she realized that the rendering of Bossier Doe and picture of Carol looked remarkably similar. 'I can't explain it other than this child was meant to have an identity,' Ms Erikson tells the News. Perhaps even more remarkable, authorities in Bossier and Carol's family had crossed each other's paths some 30 years ago in a failed attempt to find the teen and identify the body. A coroner in the early 1980s examined the remains to see whether they matched Carol's description - but he said they weren't close enough for further investigation. Ms Phelps, Carol's sister, also considered the Bossier remains in the search for her missing sister - but says she must have glossed over them, WOOD-TV reports. All the new attention has also brought forward a potential suspect in Carol's murder.  Convicted murderer John Chesson's own daughter told the News that media coverage of Carol's case jogged her memories that the teen had been staying at their house in 1980 before she disappeared. Frances LeBlanc says that her father was a violent, abusive man. And he was also the one who claimed to have found Carol's body in the woods and alerted police. Detectives have not filed charges, but say they are investigating whether Chesson murdered the teenager nearly 35 years ago. Carol's remains have been cremated and brought back to Michigan, where her family lives. The family is currently raising money to pay for a full funeral and burial.

Carole Cole, 17, disappeared in October 1970 after running away from a juvenile jail in Texas . Her body was found in January 1981 outside Shreveport, Louisiana - but remained unidentified until this past February . Carol's sister made Craigslist posts across Louisiana and Texas . At the same time, the Bossier Parish Sheriff's Department created a Facebook page for their 'Jane Doe' body . A 911 dispatcher saw the Craigslist post and made the connection . Convicted murderer John Chesson has been fingered as a suspect by his own daughter .

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A new species of monkey has been discovered after scientists learned to distinguish it by the appearance of its penis. The white-cheeked macaque was discovered in the remote highland forests of south-east Tibet after researchers set up camera traps. The monkey has a distinctive rounded penis rather than the arrow shaped genitalia found on other species in the area. Scroll down for video . The white-cheeked macaque, from Tibet, China, has a distinctive rounded penis compared to other macaques . Officially named Macaca leucogenys, it earned its common name due to the pale whiskers on its chin and the side of its face. Videos have also revealed that the animal has a distinctive alarm calls compared to other macaques in Tibet. Human males may be preoccupied by the size of their penis, but it is one of the largest in the primate kingdom. An evolutionary biologist has compared the sizes of genitals of humans to gorillas and apes to look at why there is such a discrepancy between the species. He concluded the human penis may have grown so long to make it more conspicuous to potential partners, or even as a way of cooling the body down. The relative size of the male reproductive organs across these species was discussed by evolutionary biologist Darren Curnoe in his latest 'How Did We Get Here?' video series for the University of New South Wales, Australia. Gorillas have small penises and small testicles, while chimps have medium-sized penises and large testicles. By comparison, human males have the longest penis and medium-sized testicles. 'Amazingly the size of the reproductive organs, especially the testicles, are a reflection of how the apes are organised socially,' explained Professor Curnoe. 'Why the difference? Well for the testicles it's pretty straight forward. 'It all comes down to the amount of competition the chimps, and their sperm, have when they mate with females.' But he said there wasn't a discernible reason why there is so much variation in penis size between humans and great apes. Dr Pengfei Fan, one of the researchers who discovered the new species and a biologist at Dali University, Yunnan, in China, said the new macaque had long been misidentified as another species. He said that due to the remoteness of the location in Medog County of Tibet, few biologists had been there. He said: 'Medog County is surrounded by snow mountains and so far away from the centre of science. 'Furthermore, it locates in southeastern Tibet and close to McMahon line which is a political sensitive area. Very few have people studied primates there. 'This species has long been identified as Assamese macaque (Macaca assamensis) because no clear photos or good specimens are available.' In an attempt to better study the animals living in the region, Cheng Li, a photographer with the Imaging Biodiversity Expedition in Beijing, set up camera traps in the area's remote tropical and evergreen mountain forests. They captured 685 photos of macaques and Mr Li was also able to follow a group of macaques allowing him to obtain close up images. When the researchers, whose work is published in the American Journal of Primatology, examined the images they started to notice some monkeys that had different features. They the animals hd relatively short hairless tails and almost white hairs around their face. They also had long thick hairs on their neck. But the most distinctive feature was the creatures genitalia. Most macaques from that area have arrow shaped penises. However, Macaca leucogenys had far more rounded penis and a dark hairy scrotum. Scientists noticed some of the macaques captured on by the cameras looked different with shorter tails (like those above) and light coloured markings around their face, leading them to identify a new species of primate . The images above show the more usual 'arrow-shaped' genitalia that macaques in the area have . Videos also revealed that Macaca leucogenys produced a far higher frequency squeal when threatened compared to the low pitched bark used by Macaca assamensis as an alarm call. Dr Fan said the species seemed to inhabit a diverse range of habitats and was found living in tropical forests at 1,395 metres, evergreen broad-leaved forests at 2,400 metres and a mixed broad leaf and conifer forest at 2,700 metres. However, the researchers, who also included Choa Zhao from the Southwest Forestry University in Kunming, China, warned that the new species may be under threat. They said: 'The white-cheeked macaque is threatened by illegal hunting and the construction of hydropower stations. The white cheeked macaque was discovered in the mountain forests of Medog in south east Tibet, China . The researchers say the whiskers on the side of the face of Macaca leucogenys become paler and more prominent with age. Infants can be seen in the images A and B while a juvenile is labelled C. Adult females are in the image D and adult males are seen on the far right of image E. Adults have few dark hairs on their faces . 'Discovery of this new primate species further highlights the high value for biodiversity conservation of southeastern Tibet and calls for more intensive surveys, studies, and environmental protection in this area.' Dr Fan added that it was possible there could be other species of primate still to be discovered in the area. He said: 'This area has been little studied. 'Although primates have been intensively studied for decades, two new macaque species (Macaca munzala and M. leucogenys) were discovered and described in this area in the past 10 years. 'As for other species groups that received less attention, We believe there are still some species remain undiscovered. 'It is highly possible that some primate species still remain undiscovered.' Adult Macaca leucogenys (above) have long hair on their muzzles simiarl to another species Macaca thibetana .

Macaca leucogenys long mistaken for Macaca assamensis say scientists . New macaque has a distinctive rounded rather than arrow shaped penis . Researchers say the remote highland forests of Medog, in south east Tibet, could be hiding many other new species that are waiting to be discovered . They warn new macaque is threatened by hunting and habitat destruction .

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A 14-year-old Pennsylvania girl allegedly conspired with her 20-year-old soldier boyfriend to have her mother killed, texting him hours before the woman was stabbed to death, 'I want her gone,' it emerged today. Jamie Silvonek was charged as an adult with homicide and criminal conspiracy, Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin announced Thursday. Cheryl Silvonek, 54, was fatally stabbed in the driveway of her Upper Macungie Township home early March 15, hours after taking Jamie Silvonek and the eighth-grader's boyfriend, Army Spc. Caleb Barnes, to a concert, according to court documents. Scroll down for video . Star-crossed lovers: Jamie Silvonek (left), 14, and her boyfriend, 20-year-old Army Spc Caleb Barnes (right), have been charged with killing the girl's mother for trying to break them up . Barnes, who was on leave from Fort Meade in Maryland at the time of the slaying, was previously charged with homicide. He confessed to stabbing Cheryl Silvonek in the neck multiple times while they were in Silvonek's car, and Jamie Silvonek admitted she was there when he did it and helped dispose of the body, according to an affidavit of probable cause. Slain in cold blood: Cheryl Silvonek, 54, was stabbed several times in the neck inside her car after driving her daughter and Barnes from a concert . The teen's attorney, John Waldron, said Thursday he believes his client was under Barnes' control, given the age disparity. 'There has to be some type of duress or coercion,' he said. Waldron said he intends to have Jamie Silvonek examined by a forensic psychologist and will petition to have the case moved to juvenile court. 'She cried incessantly and told me how much she missed her mom, and told me she was coerced, she was afraid she was going to be killed, she was afraid her dad was going to be killed,' Waldron told The Associated Press. 'So there's a lot of things we have to decipher here.' Authorities said Barnes and Jamie Silvonek met in October — when she was 13 — but that she told him she was 17. He joined the military in February of 2012. Barnes graduated advanced training from the Presidio of Monterey, California, and his awards include the Good Conduct Medal and National Defense Service Medal, Army Times reported. Cheryl Silvonek found out about their relationship in early March and ordered the couple to break up, according to court documents. A day later, the teenager told Barnes she wanted her parents dead, the documents said. On March 14, Cheryl Silvonek learned that Barnes intended to take her daughter to a concert in Scranton. 'He is not coming to this house,' Cheryl Silvonek texted to her daughter, who had taken the SAT college entrance exam that morning, according to a police affidavit. Police found the victim's blood-soaked car submerged in a pond and traced it to the Silvonek family's home in Upper Macungie Township (pictured) Silvonek's attorney said the girl tearfully told him she missed her mother, and claimed she was coerced by her soldier boyfriend and afraid for her life . The eighth-grader sent her mother a text in response begging her to let them go. 'Mom, if I can't go I'm going to have a mental breakdown,' she said, according to the affidavit. 'I need to go and I need to be with my friends. I feel so desolate mother.' The teenager then texted Barnes: 'She threatened to throw me out of the house. I want her gone,' the affidavit said. Later, she allegedly wrote to him: 'Just do it.' Records show the 14-year-old was upset that her mother had shown her boyfriend her passport as proof that Silvonek was not 17. 'I can't stand her lying to you like this,' Jamie wrote to Barnes. 'SHE IS LYING ABOUT MY AGE,' reported Lehigh Valley Live. Cheryl Silvonek agreed to drive her daughter and Barnes to the show. On their way, the teenager and her boyfriend continued exchanging messages. 'I love you. We can do this. We'll just drive her car then, right?' Jamie wrote, the affidavit said. Barnes replied in a text, 'No. That leaves us as the suspects.' The three drove back to the Silvonek home after the show, and Barnes allegedly stabbed Cheryl Silvonek. The couple then ate at a restaurant and went to Walmart to buy gloves, bleach and other cleaning supplies, authorities said. Lies: Barnes and Jamie Silvonek met in October — when she was 13 — but that she told him she was 17 . Police found the body in a shallow grave a few miles from the Silvonek home. The victim's blood-soaked car was found submerged in a pond nearby. Investigators were able to trace the car back to the Silvonek home. When they arrived, they found Barnes, the girl and Silvonek's husband, David. The girl and Barnes were in an upstairs bedroom and the father was still asleep, CBS 13 reported. Barnes was previously charged with criminal homicide, abuse of a corpse and statutory sexual assault. There is evidence he had sex with the girl shortly before the killing, according to police. the 14-year-old was charged earlier with abuse of a corpse, tampering with evidence and hindering apprehension.

Jamie Silvonek, 14, was charged as adult with homicide and criminal conspiracy in her mother's stabbing death . Silvonek's 20-year-old boyfriend, Army Spc. Caleb Barnes, is accused of stabbing teen's mother in the neck March 15 . 'She threatened to throw me out of the house. I want her gone. ... 'Just do it,' Silvonek allegedly texted Barnes . Cheryl Silvonek's body was buried in shallow grave near her home in Pennsylvania . Affidavit states Silvonek and Barnes when to a restaurant after the stabbing and then drove to Walmart to buy gloves and bleach . Police found victim's blood-soaked car submerged in a pond and traced it to Silvonek family . Silvonek's attorney said the girl tearfully told him she missed her mother and claimed she was coerced .

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MLS side Orlando City are the latest club to have expressed interest in Manchester United misfit Javier Hernandez. The Mexico international would be a huge commercial draw for the Florida-based franchise who are coached by former Everton and Manchester City striker Adrian Heath. Orlando have a huge Latin-American fanbase and made enquiries last week about the prospect of a deal. Javier Hernandez is linked with a move to Orlando City after enduring a tough time on loan at Real Madrid . Orlando have a big Latin-American fanbase and Kaka is the captain of the MLS side . Hernandez would be a popular arrival with Orlando supporters but eight European sides are also interested . Hernandez has cut a frustrated figure during his loan spell at Real Madrid this season but still has plenty of interest from other Premier League and European sides. Southampton, Stoke, West Ham and Everton are all interested with United willing to sell for around £8million. Wolfsburg, AC Milan, Lazio and Inter Milan are also keen on the 26-year-old who has one year left on contract. United, meanwhile, have made a revised contract offer to teenage prospect Andreas Pereira. Manchester United have made a revised contract offer to 19-year-old Andreas Pereira (right) Periera (left) has a host of clubs across Europe interested in signing him if he does not agree terms at United . Paris St Germain, Juventus, PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord have all made contact with the midfielder's father Marcos after the 19-year-old rejected United's opening offer. Pereira was on the bench against Aston Villa on Saturday.

MLS team Orlando City the latest team to be linked with Javier Hernandez . The Manchester United striker has not impressed on loan at Real Madrid . United have made Andreas Pereira an improved contract offer .

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Shay Given will keep his place in Aston Villa's side for the FA Cup final at Wembley against Arsenal - and is putting Brad Guzan under pressure for the No 1 jersey in the Premier League. Guzan was said to be hurting after missing out on the semi-final victory over Liverpool, but understood Tim Sherwood's decision to keep faith in the competition with the Republic of Ireland goalkeeper. Given's performances in the FA Cup have given Sherwood plenty to consider as the Villa manager looks to pick up the points required to stay in the top-flight, beginning with a trip to Manchester City on Saturday evening. Shay Given celebrates Aston Villa's 2-1 victory against Liverpool in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley . Villa goalkeeper Brad Guzen lost out to Given for the Liverpool clash and is set to lose out again for the final . 'Shay comes in every day and trains hard,' said goalkeeping coach Tony Parks. 'He's fully behind Guz when he plays in the league team and he puts pressure on him. If Guz isn't playing well then Shay will be back in the team. 'The reverse comes in the cup. Brad hurts, Brad wants to play at Wembley in the semi-final but like he said to me, it's all about the bigger picture. 'He understands that Shay has earned the right to play in these games and that Shay has earned the right to stay in the team for the Cup final. I don't see that really being a question.' Given's recent performances have given Villa boss Tim Sherwood plenty to ponder overt the coming weeks .

Aston will face Arsenal in the FA Cup final at Wembley on May 30 . Shay Given started for Villa in their 2-1 semi-final victory against Liverpool . Villa travel to the Etihad to play Manchester City on Saturday .

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The Duchess of Cambridge has the power to send sales of high-street designs sky-rocketing, so it's little surprise that her offspring have the same effect. As Kate and William prepare to welcome their second child, there's no doubt that the royal couple's favoured childrenswear brands are hoping to cash in on the arrival. Indeed, one children's clothing company that became known around the world when Prince George was photographed wearing their garments has released a very regal new range - fit for a Prince... or a Princess. Anything Prince George has been seen wearing has gone on to sell out, such as this £32 Cath Kidston tank top... and one clothing company that the tot is reported to have been wearing has released a new range in time for the second royal baby's arrival . London-based Trotters, who describe their clothing as 'exclusive, yet affordable: stylish yet traditional', has unveiled the 'New Born Baby Collection' just in time for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's imminent arrival. The range includes boy's T-shirts and romper suits, complete with Bearskin hat-wearing soldiers, and pretty smocked dresses and pink cardigans for girls. There are even pink or blue rabbit booties. Sophie Mirman, founder and CEO of Trotters, said: 'As a small family business, it is not only a great honour but also a great morale booster for my staff and the manufacturers for Trotters. 'Clearly the commercial impact is considerable and it is wonderful that Her Royal Highness supports British businesses.' It was reported that Prince George wore a bodysuit from Trotters at a Plunket play group event at Government House in Wellington, New Zealand in 2014 . According to Hello! magazine, the Duchess of Cambridge purchased this £14.99 top, left, and this £34.99 navy sweater, which is described as being the perfect choice for 'afternoon tea with the Queen', right, for her first-born son . The children's clothing company that became known around the world when Prince George was photographed wearing their garments have released a very regal new range fit for a Prince . As well as boy's T-shirts and romper suits, there's pretty smocked dresses and pink cardigans for girls . Sophie Mirman, founder and CEO of Trotters, said: 'As a small family business, it is not only a great honour but also a great morale booster for my staff and the manufacturers for Trotters' Trotters, based on the King's Road, has unveiled the 'New Born Baby Collection' just in time for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's imminent arrival . The store's CEO said: 'Clearly the commercial impact is considerable and it is wonderful that Her Royal Highness supports British businesses' The term 'The Prince George effect' was coined just three days after his birth in July 2013 when the £20 printed white aden + anais cloth in which the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge wrapped their baby son before leaving the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital sold out almost instantly. Within 48 hours of being seen for the first time, the £44.95 wrap had sold out, while traffic to the brand's website shot up by 1,960 per cent. And it didn't stop there. Following the family's portrait for Mother's Day in 2013, when the prince sported a baby blue number with 'George' emblazoned on his chest, personalised baby clothes retailer My1stYears.com sold 1,200 jumpers in just four hours. Then, the family's tour of Australia and New Zealand in April last year, on which Prince George played a prominent role, sent brand's into a frenzy. The term 'The Prince George effect' was coined just three days after his birth when the £20 printed white aden + anais cloth in which the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge wrapped their baby son before leaving the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital sold out almost instantly . Following the family's portrait for Mother's Day in 2013, when the prince sported a 'George' emblazoned jumper, personalised baby clothes retailer My1stYears.com sold 1,200 jumpers in just four hours . Designers of the clothes the nine-month-old wore over the fortnight reported a huge surge in sales and the royal tot became something of a fashion icon. One . such example is the Les Petites Abeilles romper suit he wore on his arrival in . Sydney - a similar design totally sold out immediately and then had a shipping time of two months. The young prince looked . dapper in the nautical-style romper suit as he disembarked an . Australian Airforce jet. He . was blissfully unaware of the furore he caused, but within seconds of . the royal trio arriving in Australia, Twitter was awash with commentary . about his ensemble. On a playdate in New Zealand, the tiny tot wore a stylish smocked romper from Rachel Riley, a British luxury brand for children, which retails at £77 (AUD$125). The family's tour of Australia and New Zealand in April last year, on which Prince George played a prominent role, sent brand's into a frenzy. A similar version of the Les Petites Abeilles romper suit he wore on his arrival in Sydney, left, sold out immediately and the Rachel Riley smock, right, sold out in minutes online . The classic tailored dungarees with a sailboat smocked design on the front panel sold out immediately in the six month and 12 month sizes on the company's website. Ahead of the new royal baby's birth, brands are already stocking memorabilia. Birchbox launched Royally Good - two boxes (one in blue and one in pink) that the monthly beauty subscription service think any Royal would love. Indeed, Blue Almonds, one of Kate's favourite shop's, has launched The Royal Collection 2015. Due to the success of the first collection, and inspired by the Duchess of Cambridge's latest expectancy, the new collection features a moses basket based on the designs store owner Iza Minkiewicz had while pregnant with her own son, Filip. Izabela Minkiewicz, said: 'Kate has already had a major impact on the fashion market with the dresses that she’s pictured in flying off the shelves as soon as they hit stores so she’s destined to have the same effect on the baby wear market, too. 'When Kate was photographed in Blue Almonds whilst pregnant, interest in Moses baskets definitely increased and sales of similar infant beds also boomed.' Blue Almonds, one of Kate's favourite shop's, has launched The Royal Collection 2015 inspired by Prince George . Birchbox launched Royally Good - two boxes (one in blue and one in pink) that the monthly beauty subscription service think any Royal would love . Style and brand expert Nick Ede added: 'It’s refreshing to see that he’s not too trendy he’s just the perfect English gent. The George effect is due to him wearing clothes that are not designer labels but are wearable, affordable, on-trend colours and perfect for the royal spotlight. 'A style icon is someone who creates a trend and with his nautical stripes, dungarees and baby grows with royal blue piping he certainly doing that.' And dressing baby sons around the world is clearly popular - the young royal even has his own style blog, What Prince George Wore, dedicated to all things baby style. But while the Duchess of Cambridge might still be a dab hand at selling out whatever she wears, even she cannot compete with her son when it comes to sheer selling power. From £44.95 swaddling wraps to knitted tank tops, the royal baby effect shows no sign of petering out - much to the excitement of childrenswear designers and eBay entrepreneurs contemplating another year of buoyant sales to come. Here's to a fashionable future for baby number two!

London-based Trotters has unveiled the 'New Born Baby Collection' Range includes boy's T-shirts and romper suits and smocked dresses . Kate apparently shopped at King's Road store for George . George effect has boosted high street copy-cat sales . Royal baby number two, who is due next week, is likely to do the same .

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An eight-year-old boy penned a letter to health conscious Michelle Obama to tell her one ketchup packet at lunch simply is not enough. According to Peter's father, the letter submitted to The Weekly Standard took six-months to write because troubled Peter was  'too angry' to write it all down in one sitting. In addition to telling Michelle Obama that public school children can't live on one packet of ketchup alone, Peter criticizes the First Lady for America's lack of troops in the Middle East and in the Ukraine. He also suggests that the United States bomb Syria. Dear Michelle Obama: An eight-year-old boy named Peter penned a letter to health conscious Michelle Obama to tell her one ketchup packet at lunch simply is not enough and that the United States should bomb Syria . Dear Michelle Obama, . My name is Peter. I am eight years old. I love studying history of the U.S.A. I have enjoyed learning about the great choices the USA has made… . And then their was your husbands election. I think you should rethink your idea that takes us to one ketchup packet per meal. I feel it is taking away from our patriotism toward America. I also think you should stop doing nothing and go send some troops to the Middle East. I also think your husband needs to work on his speeches. He also disappointed millions of Americans by not bombing Syria. If you do not know thousands of peoples homes are destroyed by ISIS in the Middle East. You should also get the UN to send troops to Ukraine. Also may I ask you, is the White House comfortable? Thank you for your time and consideration . Signed, . A concerned 8 year old citizen, . Peter . 'My name is Peter. I am eight years old,' reads the letter. 'I love studying the history of the USA. I have enjoyed learning about the great choices the USA has made… And then there was your husband’s election. I think you should rethink your idea that takes us to one ketchup packet per meal. I feel that it is taking away our patriotism toward America,' he writes. Peter then writes Michelle Obama that her husband president Obama needs to 'work on his speeches.' Not only does Peter criticize Obama's speeches, he offers his bull dog view on American foreign policy. 'I also think you should stop doing nothing and go send some troops to the Middle East,' says the letter. Health crusader: Michelle Obama has set health guidelines in place at schools to fight the nation's obesity problem but has been criticized for not offering enough funding . 'I also think your husband needs to work on his speeches. He also disappointed millions of Americans by not bombing Syria. If you do not know every day thousands of people’s homes are destroyed by the ISIS in the Middle East. You should also get the U.N. to send troops to Ukraine[e],' the letter continues. Peter's father told The Weekly Standard that he found the letter on his son's desk and that it took his boy months to angrily write it. Peter's mother said that her son does not need to worry about having just one ketchup packet at lunch because he goes to a private school. That's when Peter apparently precociously told his parents he wanted to 'give a voice to the voiceless,' reports The Weekly Standard. The end of Peter's letter alluded to the First Family's cushy accommodations. 'Is the White House comfortable?' concludes the letter from 'a concerned citizen.' Not so filling: Public school students around the country have posted their paltry lunches to criticize Michelle Obama for her health guidelines they say are making them hungry .

Peter, 8, wrote a letter to Michelle Obama criticizing her health guidelines for school lunches at public schools . Peter's father said the letter submitted to The Weekly Standard took six-months to write because Peter was 'too angry' to write it in one sitting . Peter thinks President Obama needs to work on his speeches and that the United States should bomb Syria .

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An autopsy has been completed on a missing Florida woman who was found dead in her sunken car in a Tampa-area lake, showing she was intoxicated  when she drove into into the water and ultimately drowned. Apryl Foster was last seen on February 12 leaving a bar alone in Ybor City after a night of partying, having finished work at 11pm at Ulele Restaurant, where she was a waitress. After a widespread search, the 33-year-old was found by divers in her submerged car in Brandon, just a few blocks from her house. According to the autopsy, the medical examiner measured Foster's blood alcohol level at 0.18, which is over twice the legal limit for driving, as well as THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, My Fox Tampa Bay reported. Accidental death: An autopsy has show Apryl Foster's blood alcohol level was 0.18, which is over twice the legal limit for driving, and detected the presence of THC, a component of marijuana . Recovered: Foster's Chevy Aveo was pulled from the lake on Sunday, February 22. The autopsy results suggest she accidentally drove into the water while under the influence of alcohol and marijuana . Her death has been ruled an accidental drowning. Foster's family believe she drove into the wrong Brandon subdivision, then through a gated area to a boat ramp and down into the lake. Foster's grieving parents, who held out hope for her safe return until the bitter end, thanked Tampa police for helping them throughout the search. 'God has blessed us w/closure, looking into the eyes of Jesus. The hours, the days @TampaPD spent w/us, thank you,' the family said Sunday. They gave a tearful statement at an evening press conference. Peggy Beman, Foster's mother, said at a press conference that she was thankful for the closure Tampa PD helped her family get after the body was found . Last seen: Foster, an aspiring singer, was last seen on CCTV footage leaving an Ybor City bar on February 12 . Foster, an aspiring singer, was last seen talking to a man at the Double Decker bar in Ybor City, but she left alone. Before they headed over to the Double Decker, Foster and the man were seen leaving the Bad Monkey bar next door, WFLA reported. After searching through footage from more than 50 surveillance cameras, police released images of Foster from the night she disappeared during a press conference last week. Foster was last seen on video in a car turning east from 18th Street onto 7th Avenue in Ybor City, the Tampa Tribune reported. She was wearing a hooded black and gray, zip-up sweatshirt and black work pants. Foster was an aspiring singer. She was reported missing after failing to show up for work and leaving her cats home alone . Peggy Beman, Foster's mother, said recently the family was still hopeful her daughter will be found alive and well . Peggy Beman, center, is consoled during her husband's Craig Beman's, front left, testimonial about their daughter during a candlelight vigil in Tampa on Wednesday . Sad: Craig Beman consoles his wife Peggy during a candlelight vigil held for their daughter. Thirty-three-year-old Foster went missing Feb. 12 . Her hair was in a double bun. Investigators could not tell from the video if Foster was driving the car, a Chevy Aveo with the license plate K125YC. Foster was reported missing after she failed to show up for work at the Ulele restaurant. Peggy Beman, her mother, said at the press conference, 'I know you're probably getting tired of it but would you give up if it was your own relative. 'She just has a smile that just doesn't end.' Her family, employers and another local business had polled their resources to offer a $15,000 reward for information leading to her safe return. Her family, employers and another local business had polled their resources to offer a $15,000 reward for information leading to her safe return .

Apryl Foster, 33, was last seen on February 12 in Ybor City, Florida . CCTV footage speaking with a man before leaving a Tampa-area bar alone . Her body was found 10 days later inside her drowned car . It was just a few blocks from her house in Brandon . Autopsy found a high blood alcohol level and marijuana in her system . Death has been ruled an accidental drowning .

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Two thieves murdered a pensioner and dumped his body in an abandoned mine then made it look like a cycling accident, a court heard today. Kevin Cooper and Trewen Kevern allegedly beat David Alderson and left him to drown, before using his keys to steal £40,000 from a safe where he also kept a haul of guns. Police originally thought that the 72-year-old victim - a keen cyclist - had died as a result of falling from his bike, because he was dressed in lycra at the time. Killed: David Alderson was found dead in an abandoned copper mine in January last year . But Truro Crown Court heard that Kevern, 22 and Cooper, 34 - two cousins whose relatives were close to Mr Alderson - lured him to a disused mine at Wheal Maid near Carharrack in Devon and killed him in January last year. Prosecutor Martin Meeke QC told the jury: 'David Alderson was beaten about the head, possibly until he was unconscious. His body was dragged to a pond into which he was dumped face down. 'In the pond he drowned. “Whether his head was forced down into the water we cannot be sure. The only survivors were these defendants.”' Trial: Kevin Cooper is accused of murdering Mr Alderson alongside his cousin Trewen Kevern . Cooper and Kevern then went to the victim's flat in Falmouth and used his stolen keys to steal £40,000 in cash which he kept in a safe. Mr Meeke said of Mr Alderson: '”He was a keen cyclist and frequently to be seen around Falmouth on a racing bike. He often wore cycling shoes and leggings even when he was not on his bike. '“He was wearing such an outfit when his body was found in the pond. It was at first thought that he had a cycling accident. '“Cycling was not his only interest. Another interest was guns. He had a collection of guns. All the guns were licensed and were legally held by David Alderson. There were ten of them there.” 'He was a member of the Land’s End Shooting Club and he had a substantial amount of ammunition at his flat –- the guns and ammo were held in two different safes in his flat.' The jury heard that Mr Alderson, who kept the keys to his flat, car and safe on a cord round his neck, was 'not short of cash' and had once withdrawn more than £43,000 in £50 notes from his local bank. He was planning to buy a third safe for 'something highly illegal', believed to be two unlicensed guns, the court was told. Kevern's sister Tammy lived in a flat below Mr Alderson, and grew close to the pensioner before his death, calling him 'granddad', jurors heard. Discovery: Mr Alderson's body was found at the Wheal Maid mine in Cornwall . Mr Alderson gave Tammy a £1,000 gift and changed the terms of his will to leave his estate to her instead of his own estranged children. Mr Meeke said that on the night of his death, Cooper had lured Mr Alderson to the disused copper mine by making him think he was collecting the illegal guns he wanted. After they killed him, Cooper and Kevern made up a cover story about robbing a travellers' site in order to hide the truth from their family, the court heard. Both defendants deny murder. The trial continues. Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.

David Alderson, 72, was found dead in a Cornish copper mine last January . Police thought he had died in a cycling accident but Kevin Cooper and Trewen Kevern and now accused of murdering him . Court hears they lured victim to mine by offering to sell him illegal guns . Defendants 'beat pensioner around head and left him face down in pond'

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Thousands of chickens and other poultry have been culled following the outbreak of a highly contagious strain of bird flu in India. Officials ordered 250,000 birds to be slaughtered in Telangana after cases of the H5N1 virus were identified, which can be deadly in humans. The virus caused the deaths of nearly 400 people and hundreds of millions of poultry after it spread from Asia into Europe and Africa in 2005-2006. Culled: About 250,000 birds infected with the H5N1 virus are slaughtered in Telangana, India . Since then, India has regularly reported cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza in wild and domestic birds. Veterinary staff from the local government's animal husbandry department carried out the cull - which included destroying hundreds of thousands of infected eggs - at Thorrur village in the Ranga Reddy district. Birds present in poultry farms were slaughtered while the eggs, including those stored in warehouses, were dumped in a pit. Destroyed: Thousands of infected eggs were dumped in a pit and buried following an outbreak of bird flu . Clean up: Authorities ordered the destruction of birds and eggs at farms across Telangana in India following the latest bird flu outbreak . Bird feed stock was burned and the sites were all thoroughly disinfected in a bid to stop the virus from spreading. India has culled 6.4 million birds due to bird flu since 2006. Experts point out that cross-infection to humans is still relatively rare and usually occurs where people have been in close contact with infected birds. But fears remain the aviation flu could combine with a human strain to produce a mutation that is more dangerous and difficult to control. In February, three people were tested for bird flu and 10,000 chickens slaughtered in Britain's first outbreak of the H7N7 strain in seven years. There have been several outbreaks of the H7N7 flu in China and 18 months ago it was found in Italy. During the Italian outbreak in August 2013, three poultry workers became infected with the virus, developing conjunctivitis. More than 1 million chickens and other poultry were culled during the Italian crisis.

Follows outbreak of H5N1 virus which can be deadly in humans . Chickens culled and eggs buried in pits in bid to contain virus . Virus has caused deaths of nearly 400 people worldwide since 2006 .

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(CNN)Over the last year more than 25,000 people, a population about the size of Key West, Florida, have fought Ebola infections. More than 10,000 have not survived. But for those who have survived, life will never be the same. And even for those who did not experience Ebola personally, the "most severe public health emergency seen in modern times" showed the world its vulnerability to disease. It revealed real flaws in government systems that are supposed to protect us. While the intensity of the largest Ebola epidemic in history has died down, and the initial dire predictions that there would be over a million infections by January never came true, dozens are still newly infected each week. The latest World Health Organization Report confirmed a total of 30 new confirmed cases of Ebola were reported in the week of April 5. This is the lowest weekly total since May 2014. But reports are mixed on stopping the virus completely: In Liberia and Sierra Leone, the number of cases has fallen so much, there are more treatment facilities than demand. WHO in Liberia is in the process of decommissioning surplus facilities. But in Guinea, of the 19 confirmed deaths from April 5, seven were only identified as Ebola post-mortem and there were reports of 21 unsafe burials. "Taken together these data indicate that though surveillance is improving, unknown chains of transmission could be a source of new infections in the coming weeks," the latest WHO report said. Click on the photos above to learn how a grave digger, a first responder, and many others have changed in the wake of Ebola.

April 8, 2014, the WHO finally started reporting the Ebola epidemic was a "concern" Front line health care workers and Ebola survivors say the world has to act quicker .

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Paris Saint-Germain star David Luiz's 'joker' status in the dressing room at Chelsea was well documented, and he teamed up with Ezequiel Lavezzi to play a prank on birthday boy Zoumana Camara. The £50million centre back was part of a duo who conspired to dunk the 36-year-old's face into his cake on his special day as PSG prepare for their Ligue 1 trip to face Marseille on Sunday. Camara, a fringe member of the squad this season, had an unexpected dip into his cake that left him with a faceful of it. Paris Saint-Germain birthday boy Zoumana Camara poses with a cake at their training ground on Friday . Camara gets dunked into his birthday cake in a prank set up by his team-mates on Friday afternoon . But the French defender soon had the cake all over his face thanks to jokers David Luiz and Ezequiel Lavezzi . The Frenchman posted on Instagram saying: 'Thank you all for your messages very happy to share my birthday with you.' But Luiz posted an 'after' shot following the dunking, with the message: 'Happy Bday to my happy friend @z.camara ! What a person! Love u my man! All the best! #Felizaniversariomano' The French champions are still in with a shout of an unprecedented treble, sitting top of Ligue 1 with eight games to go, in the semi-finals of the French Cup and having reached the last eight of the Champions League. Luiz was known for his wind-up merchant status at Chelsea and seems to have carried it on in Paris . Lavezzi was also involved in the prank ahead of PSG's trip to face Marseille in Ligue 1 on Sunday . Camara is a fringe player at PSG and is unlikely to feature in what will be the biggest game of the season . But their abilities are certain to be tested on Sunday night in a first vs third clash against Marseille at a packed 67,394-capacity Stade Velodrome. A difficult April schedule makes it important that PSG stay top of the table in Marseille, having struggled to maintain a title challenge for much of the season. And while Camara is unlikely to feature, both Luiz and Lavezzi could have key roles in the biggest game of the French season so far.

PSG defender Zoumana Camara was celebrating his birthday on Friday . He posed for a photo with a cake after training ahead of facing Marseille . David Luiz and Ezequiel Lavezzi dipped Camara's face into the cake . PSG face Marseille in an important clash at the top of Ligue 1 on Sunday .

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An American college student who abandoned the west to wage holy war in Syria and call for homegrown attacks in the United States has told how she lied to her family and cashed in her tuition money to flee the West. Hoda Muthana, 20, spoke out about her decision to ditch her life as a college student in Hoover, Alabama, after being persuaded by terrorists that it was her duty as a Muslim. Now the radicalized former student has called for drive-by shootings in America on Memorial Day and for blood to be spilled. Mu Muthana, who lived with her moderate Muslim family until she fled to Raqqa, Syria, revealed her path to terror in an interview with BuzzFeed News. Scroll down for video . Hoover to Raqqa: Hoda Muthana, 20, told how she abandoned her home in Alabama to be a jihadist in Syria. She is pictured left in her 2013 high school graduation photo. Pictured right are female jihadis waving the ISIS flag from a deactivated Twitter account believed to be connected to her . Fled: Muthana, pictured right in a 2011 taken at her school, said she feels all true Muslims must join ISIS . Suhan Rahman, Muthana's ISIS husband, was an Australian jihadi who was killed last month fighting for the terror group . She told reporter Ellie Hall that she conspired for months with other jihadists to hatch a plan to flee her parents, who kept a strict watch over her and her sister. Muthana was not named in full by Buzzfeed, but her identity was revealed on Monday by the Birmingham News. After a year of planning, she fled in November, spending money meant for college tuition on a flight to Turkey. From there she fled to Syria and, after a month, married an Australian jihadist, Suhan Abdul Rahman who was reportedly since been killed in an airstrike by the Jordanian military. Despite pleas from her family to come home, Muthana is resolute and claims it is the duty of all true Muslims to join her and wage war on the West. Her father told BuzzFeed: 'I believe she been brainwashed. She’s not that kind of girl. They brainwashed her.' During the interview, Muthana revealed how she escaped her strict family, who normally keep a close eye on both their daughters. Unexpected: Muthana is pictured with her classmates to the right in this yearbook photo from 2012 . Student: Muthana studied business at the University of Alabama's campus in Birmingham. She dropped courses at the school and spent the refund money traveling to ISIS-controlled territory . She said she enrolled on extra courses at the University of Alabama, where she studied business, then promptly dropped them to cash in the refund checks. Eventually she persuaded her family to let her go to Atlanta, Georgia, for the day for a field trip - which they would usually be reluctant to do. On the day of the trip she said she had caught the wrong bus home and was stuck in the city - which is when she caught her flight to the Middle East. Her panicked family went to look for her, but soon got a follow-up call from Muthana, then in Turkey, revealing her scheme to leave. According to a high school friend who spoke to the Birmingham News, Muthana was a 'quiet' girl 'who kept to herself'. Jordan LaPorta, who went to Hoover High School with her until they graduated in 2013, added: 'I don't think anybody saw this in her.' Muthana herself confessed that she had given up on all her American friends by the time she decided to leave . Sweet home? Raqqa, Muthana's new home city, is pictured above. It is the target of regular airstrikes, one of which killed Muthana's husband . 'Quiet': Shocked contemporaries of Muthana, who studied with her at Hoover High School, spoke out when her voyage to Syria was revealed . Instead, she conferred with jihadists online, and posted messages inciting fellow American Muslims to murder their countrymen. In one Tweet from a now-deactivated account with the title Umm Jihadi, she wrote: 'You have much to do while you live under our greatest enemy, enough of your sleeping! 'Go on drive-bys and spill all of their blood, or rent a big truck and drive all over them. Veterans, Patriot, Memorial etc Day parades..go on drive by's + spill all of their blood or rent a big truck n drive all over them. Kill them.' [sic] . Her family noticed her increased devotion to her religion, but assumed she was simply becoming a more ardent follower of the peaceful strain of the religion which they observe. As Muthana observed: 'They liked the change until they saw me getting "jihadi".' According to Muthana's father, the FBI is investigating his daughter - but the agency said its policy is not to confirm or deny any activity.

Hoda Muthana, 20, left Hoover, Alabama, to join extremists in Raqqa, Syria . Business student tricked her family to escape them and fly to Middle East . Told how she was helped to plan escape by jihadists she met online . Cashed in money meant for college courses to pay for her flight .

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Schoolgirl killer Zbigniew Huminski (pictured) did not offer a word of remorse as he was indicted for kidnapping, raping and murdering a nine-year-old . Calais schoolgirl killer Zbigniew Huminski did not offer a word of remorse as he was formally charged with a range of crimes which are likely to see him jailed for life, prosecutors said today. The 38-year-old appeared before a judge on Friday night and was indicted for kidnapping, raping and murdering the nine-year-old identified solely by her first name of Chloe. Despite being banned from France for earlier offences, Zbigniew was on his way to England on Wednesday from Calais when he struck. A statement released by Boulogne prosecutors said: 'The investigating judge conducted his indictment for the following reasons: rape of a minor, kidnapping and murder. 'During his interrogation, the person in custody had admitted his involvement in the alleged crimes, but failed to state the reasons for his action.' Confirming that Huminski had been 'placed in custody in a regional prison', his lawyer Antoine Deguines said: 'He did not speak to the judge, as his right. 'I have not been able to speak much with him, he does not talk much and, it seems, is in shock over what happened. It's hard for him to address the facts'. Asked if Zbigniew had offered any remorse, Mr Deguines said: 'No, he is saying very little about anything.' It came as thousands prepared to take to the streets of Calais on Saturday to take part in a second 'White March' to pay tribute to Chloe, whose funeral will take place in the port city's St Peter's Church on Wednesday. Mr Deguines confirmed Huminski had been on his way to see his sister in Southampton when he 'stopped for a beer' in Calais, and then attacked Chloe while drunk. Huminski was supposed to be in prison in Poland - but he exploited his home country's lax justice system to travel to France instead. This picture was the last taken of nine-year-old Chloe at 2.31pm - she is seated in front of her family home. Relatives have put this photograph at the scene where she was kidnapped . The career criminal was sentenced to a year behind bars in March, but under the rules in Poland, he was supposed to take himself to jail. But he hit the road for France and, under the EU's free movement rules, there was nothing to stop him driving across Europe. Nine-year-old Chloe, seen in a last haunting photo posing with a carefree grin in the playground outside her home, was snatched as her terror-stricken mother tried helplessly to reach her. Huminski has confessed to strangling his nine-year-old victim, identified by her first name of Chloe (pictured) Before Isabelle Hyart could do anything, Huminski bundled Chloe into his car and drove her to woodland where he sexually assaulted and strangled her. Huminski has a long criminal record in France and Poland, including once attacking a frail woman of 78 with a knife in her home. He was convicted in France in April 2010, when has jailed for six years for aggravated assault, before being released early in March 2014, when he was deported to Warsaw. Ms Hyart, a mother of two other young children, said: 'I'm appalled, disgusted. I don't understand why he was in France. And why did he come to Calais? I don't understand how anyone could do that to a child of nine.' Ms Hyart said the brazen abduction happened in broad daylight on Wednesday when she left her daughter in the playground to pop back inside the flat to change her four-year-old son's clothing. Huminski, who is single, originally moved to France in the early 2000s, and worked as an odd-job man before attempting to join the Foreign Legion as a soldier. He was rejected because of his long criminal record in France and Poland. Natacha Bouchart, the Calais mayor, said: 'How could a foreigner with many previous convictions be allowed to move freely around Calais? There is a clear dysfunction in the way we keep track of repeat offenders.' Last summer, Alice Gross, 14, was murdered by a Latvian builder who moved to the UK after serving a prison sentence for killing his wife. Arnis Zalkalns, 41, spent seven years in jail in Latvia but was still allowed in to Britain without having his record checked. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls called for a full investigation in to Huminski's past, saying Chloe's family deserved the 'whole truth'. Christine Taubira, the justice minister, also demanded a 'complete, precise and rapid' investigation.' The little girl's naked body was found in the woods near Calais 90 minutes after she was taken . Walking together: The Mayor of Calais Natacha Bouchart (right) and the mother (centre) of Chloe, identified only as Isabelle, leave Calais city hill with relatives yesterday .

Zbigniew Huminski charged with raping and murdering schoolgirl Chloe . He did not offer remorse for crimes which could seen him jailed for life . Prosecutors say there is evidence of 'strangulation and sexual violence' Polish immigrant, who was heading to England, has admitted to killing .

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Gifted: Schoolgirl Elspeth McKendrick was depressed after being diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome . A gifted schoolgirl hanged herself just weeks after scoring a string of GCSE A stars because she was depressed at being diagnosed with a mild form of autism, an inquest heard. School prefect Elspeth McKendrick, 16, was left shattered in 2012 when doctors diagnosed her with Asperger's syndrome. The Doctor Who and Sherlock fan, who was described by her mother as 'geeky', had desperately wanted to fit in at school and had built up a small circle of friends. Her parents said she was 'happy to be odd and eccentric' but was 'very much in denial' about her condition and felt unable to discuss it with anybody. Last August, just a week after going on a school trip as part of the National Citizen Service, the teenager was found hanged in her bedroom after leaving a note apologising to her family and telling how she wished she could open up to friends. The inquest in Heywood, Greater Manchester, heard how Elspeth, from Bury, had been an artistic and creative pupil at Tottington High School. She was an avid reader who always had a novel in her school bag and had already won a place at Manchester College of Art to study A levels. But her mother Rebecca Jackson, 47, told the hearing. 'She had told of problems socialising and making close friends. 'Although she had a lot of friends she also wanted to have a close best friend and she did not have that. 'There were behavioural issues and tantrums that were beyond my experience of normal teenage tantrums because, for Elspeth, things were black and white. Elspeth was very tech savvy and she enjoyed using the computer. 'It caused an awful lot of problems. We got woken up in the middle of the night at 2am when she was on the computer or at 4am when she was not sleeping. She was existing on four hours a night then. It was Elspeth's way or the high way.' In 2011 Elspeth went to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in Bury and was upset to be diagnosed with Asperger's the following year. Mrs Jackson said: 'She was very geeky and enjoyed a lot of things like Albert Einstein and she loved films and cinematography. 'There are a lot of film directors with Asperger's so it doesn't mean there is anything mentally wrong with you, just a difference in the way you think. 'I tried to present it in a positive light to her and was recommended a book about Asperger's and teenagers and it was really positive. 'I bought it for Elspeth and she tore it into shreds and then was very sorry and tried to sellotape it back together. She was very much in denial.' Elspeth poses with a cardboard cut-out of Tom Jones. She was described as an artistic and creative pupil and had already won a place at Manchester College of Art to study A levels . Elspeth's father Euan, 43, told the inquest: 'She was not happy about her diagnosis and she wanted to be Elspeth and felt the diagnosis was a waste of time. CAMHS she saw as toxic and not about her and more about her mother's needs and not her needs. 'When she was good she was fantastic, when she lost it she really did. Most of it was stropping and slamming the door. There were a few bad ones that were horrific - shouting, swearing and calling names, saying the most terrible things.' 'She did feel an awful lot of pressure. She felt she was being observed. I am afraid she did not like being watched or observed. Part of the CAMHS problem was that she was convinced they were taking notes about her and sharing it with her mother. 'Alone': The inquest heard how Elspeth struggled to discuss her condition with friends . 'She kept her choice of college secret. She didn't want people to know what she was doing or where she was going. She felt she was in a fish bowl all of the time. 'She did not want the diagnosis - she just wanted to be a bit odd. She was happy being odd, a bit eccentric.' Det Insp Denise Pye of Great Manchester Police said a note had been found on top of Elspeth's laptop apologising for what she had done as well as a notebook containing school work and comments about her feelings. DI Pye said: 'She felt she was alone and wanted to tell friends how she felt but felt she couldn't do so. 'Some of the positive stuff seems to refer to the challenge she went on and the negative stuff was that she felt she did not have contact with people she should after the challenge because she made such good friends and felt so good about that.' Elspeth's clinical psychologist at Bury CAMHS, Neil Wilson, told the inquest: 'Elspeth was at the subtle end of the autism spectrum. Someone who might meet her for the first time would not probably regard her as having a developmental disorder but as shy and cautious.' Headmaster at Tottington High School, Paul Greenhalgh, said: 'Elspeth was an A star student and had a lovely small group of friends. Elspeth was amazingly creative and artistic. 'But she struggled with the diagnosis of Asperger's and wanted more than anything to fit in. She loved reading and always had a novel in her school bag. 'She was asked to be a prefect in year 11 and did a fine job upholding school rules and requirements. She was a talented student with a depth of intelligence and capability beyond her years.' Assistant Coroner Catherine McKenna recorded a conclusion of suicide and said: 'I am conscious that Elspeth was a very private young woman and would probably not be happy that we've had this Inquest. She was a bright witty talented young woman and she had much to look forward to in her life.' For confidential support call the Samaritans in the UK on 08457 90 90 90, visit a local Samaritans branch or click here for details.

Elspeth McKendrick was left shattered by Asperger's syndrome diagnosis . Her parents said she was 'very much in denial' about her condition . She had a small circle of friends at school but wanted a 'close best friend' Gifted teen had scored a string of GCSE A*s and won a place at Art college .

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This Easter weekend, Australian families will indulge in tonnes of chocolate, millions of hot cross buns, and mountains of fresh seafood and meat. According to Woolworths, their customers will purchase enough prawns that if laid out would stretch from Sydney to Cairns, a staggering 54 million hot cross buns, and a whopping 2,900 tonnes of Easter chocolate. All that food needs something to wash it down, so FEMAIL have asked the experts to advise what tipple to pair with our favourite seasonal foods, from seafood and lamb, to traditional Easter treats. Drink this with that: With 54 million hot cross buns, 2,900 tonnes of chocolate and enough prawns to stretch from Sydney to Cairns consumed over Easter, FEMAIL reveals which tipple is best suited to washing it down . With the Easter weekend forecast for the balmy mid-twenties Celsius, Australians can still enjoy their favoured seafood lunches. Sales of lobster, oysters, prawns and fish will increase by 80 per cent over the Easter holiday. Peter Nixon, resident drinks expert at Dan Murphy's, has shared his top wine pairings, from budget options to mid-range and high-end, to drink with them. Sweet and spicy: 'The spice component of cinnamon and nutmeg is harmonious with a classic Muscat', says Peter Nixon, drinks expert at Dan Murphy's . PRAWNS . 'Thrillingly juicy, lime-juice and lemongrass-scented dry Riesling with freshly peeled local prawns. Heaven!' says Peter Nixon. The grape can suit every budget, with excellent options ranging from $11.50 for Hardys Siegersdorf through to $31.99 for Taylors St Andrews. Budget: Hardys Siegersdorf Riesling (Australia) RRP$11.50 . Mid-range: Pikes Traditionale Riesling (Australia) RRP$20.90 . Luxury: Taylors St Andrews Riesling (Australia) RRP$31.99 . Pair with prawns: Hardys Siegersdorf Riesling (Australia), Pikes Traditionale Riesling (Australia), Taylors St Andrews Riesling (Australia) OYSTERS . 'The crisp, minerally, citrussy zest of Margaret River Semillon Sauvignon Blanc is the perfect partner for freshly-shucked oysters,' says Nixon. For those on a budget, he suggests the MadFish Gold Turtle Semillon Sauvignon Blanc, which retails at $15, or for something a little more exuberant go for the Cullen Mangan Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc Semillon for $32. Budget: MadFish Gold Turtle Semillon Sauvignon Blanc (Australia) RRP$15.00 . Mid-range: Wills Domain Semillon Sauvignon Blanc (Australia) RRP$17.80 . Luxury: Cullen Mangan Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc Semillon (Australia) RRP$30.00 . Pair with oysters: (L-R) MadFish Gold Turtle Semillon Sauvignon Blanc (Australia), Wills Domain Semillon Sauvignon Blanc (Australia), Cullen Mangan Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc Semillon (Australia) HOT CROSS BUNS . Easter isn't Easter without a a fresh, warm hot cross bun smeared with butter. 'The spice component of cinnamon and nutmeg is harmonious with a classic Australian Rutherglen Liquer Muscat,' says Nixon, pointing to Buller Fine Old Muscat as a wallet-friendly choice. Stanton & Killeen Grand Rutherglen Muscat, at the luxury end, will set you back $86.99. Budget: Buller Fine Old Muscat (Australia) RRP$20.99 . Mid-range: Campbells Classic Rutherglen Muscat (Australia) RRP$39.99 . Luxury: Stanton & Killeen Grand Rutherglen Muscat (Australia) RRP$86.99 . Pair with hot cross buns: (L-R) Buller Fine Old Muscat (Australia),  Campbells Classic Rutherglen Muscat (Australia), Stanton & Killeen Grand Rutherglen Muscat (Australia) CHOCOLATE . In the days before the holiday, before Sunday lunch, afterwards, and (for some) weeks after the Easter weekend, it is a veritable chocolate-fest in most households. 'Chocolate and richly-fruited spirity fortitied wines are just pure decadence' says Dan Murphy's Peter Nixon. Budget: M. Chapoutier Banyuls (France) RRP$24.99 . Mid-range: Grahams Late Bottled Vintage Port (Portugal) RRP$29.99 . Luxury: Seppeltsfield Para 21 Year Old Tawny (Australia) RRP$69.99 [online only] . Pair with chocolate: (L-R) M. Chapoutier Banyuls (France), Grahams Late Bottled Vintage Port (Portugal), Seppeltsfield Para 21 Year Old Tawny (Australia) BLUE EYE COD AND TREVALLEY . If you are steering clear of meat on Good Friday, white fish is a popular choice. Nixon advises pairing it with Chardonnay. 'A richer, peach and cashew-nut style Chardonnay works a treat with white fleshed fish dishes' he says. Budget: Cockfighter's Ghost Hunter Valley (Australia) RRP$15.70 . Mid-range: Domaine Astruc Chardonnay (France) RRP$15.99 . Luxury: Tyrrell's Vat 47 Chardonnay 2010 (Australia) RRP$54.99 . Pair with cod: (L-R) Cockfighter's Ghost Hunter Valley (Australia), Domaine Astruc Chardonnay (France), Tyrrell's Vat 47 Chardonnay 2010 (Australia) No meat on Good Friday: Seafood sales increase by 80 per cent over the Easter weekend . SALMON . 'As is the case most years, Salmon will be the number one selling seafood product over Easter,' says Adam Mourad of Woolworths. 'An intense, crunchy Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc is the perfect palate cleanser for richly flavoured salmon' adds Peter Nixon. Budget: Mato Bay Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc (NZ) RRP$10.90 . Mid-range: Peter Yealands Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc (NZ) RRP$12.50 . Luxury: Giesen The Brothers Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc (NZ) RRP$22.99 . Pair with salmon: (L-R): Mato Bay Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc (NZ), Peter Yealands Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc (NZ), Giesen The Brothers Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc (NZ) LOBSTER . For those splurging on luxurious lobster at their Easter lunch, the drinks will need to stand up to the decadent meaty seafood. 'The most luxurious of seafood dishes cries out for a world-class, bottle-fermented sparkling' says Nixon. He recommends the 2004 Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs, which costs an eye-watering $299. For those looking for a budget option, France's Sieur d'Arques Grande Cuvée 1531 de Aimery is a steal at $15.70. Budget: Sieur d'Arques Grande Cuvée 1531 de Aimery (France) RRP$15.70 . Mid-range: A by Arras Premium Cuvée (Australia) RRP$21.00 . Luxury: Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs 2004 (France) RRP$299.00 . Pair with lobster: (L-R) Sieur d'Arques Grande Cuvée 1531 de Aimery (France), A by Arras Premium Cuvée (Australia), Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs 2004 (France) LAMB . 'Full-flavoured lamb is the perfect match for the delicious spicy, gamey Grenache based wines of the world,' Nixon advises. Budget: Borsao Selección Grenache Blend (Spain) RRP$11.99 . Mid-range: Cirillo The Vincent Grenache (Australia) RRP$21.99 . Luxury: S.C. Pannell The Vale Shiraz Grenache (Australia) RRP$38.99 . BBQ: Lamb goes perfectly with a spicy, games Grenache, says Nixon . Pair with lamb: (L-R) Borsao Selección Grenache Blend (Spain), Cirillo The Vincent Grenache (Australia), S.C. Pannell The Vale Shiraz Grenache (Australia)

Australians buy 54mil hot cross buns & 2,900 tonnes of chocolate at Easter . Seafood sales rise by 80 per cent over the Easter weekend . Drinks expert advises on the best wines to match your favourite seasonal foods, from chocolate to seafood .

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A vigilante group has taken to the streets of Brisbane, spray-painting over offensive slogans on the side of campervans which they claim promotes violence against women. Close to 150 protesters gathered on Saturday afternoon to rally against van hire company Wicked Campers, after the brand failed remove 'sexist' paintings from their vans including the slogan, 'In every princess, there's a little sl*t who wants to try it just once'. The Brisbane-based company came under fire last year after over 120,000 Australians petitioned to have slogans eliminated from the fleet, prompting the company's CEO John Webb to promise in July last year to remove the slogans within six months. Over 120,000 people signed the petition to remove the offensive slogans in 2014 . Members of the Wicked Pickets protest group have started painting over slogans which they say are offensive . Wicked Pickets, a community action group, decided to take justice into their own hands after the company failed to live up to its promise, painting over slogans they have slammed as misogynistic and violent. 'We just want to make the point that sexist slogans like the ones on Wicked Campers might seem funny but actually contribute to sexual and physical violence against women,' Wicked Picket's spokesperson, Liz Upham, told Daily Mail Australia. Slogans found on the vans include, 'A wife: An attachment you screw on the bed to get the housework done',  'I wouldn't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die', and 'Your thighs won't touch if my head's between them'. The vans also feature cartoon paintings of novelty penises, breasts with the slogan 'Random Breast Testing', and sexualised images of men and women. Wicked Camper's CEO John Webb apologised for the offense the vans had caused many members of the community, and invited 'anybody who feels strongly offended by a slogan to either paint or tape over it'. Up to 150 women attended the rally in Brisbane on Saturday afternoon to protest the company's slogans . The women have started arming themselves with spray paint and removing the slogans . The members of Wicked Pickets have taken this literally, arming themselves with spray cans and painting over Wicked Camper slogans as they find them. 'I guess it’s illegal but we continually quote the fact that Webb invited us to paint the vans, which is our reasoning, along with trying to make a statement that these are not acceptable slogans,' said Ms Upham. '30 women have died at the hands of male partners this year so far. It might seem like long bow to draw but when there are vans driving around saying that a wife is attachment to screw in the bedroom and suggesting it’s all right to kidnap a women, it is really making a subtle suggestion that women are only good for sex and getting housework done,' she said. 'The fact that Wicked Campers are still driving around with slogans that encourage rape and violence doesn't seem possible. I'm appalled that there is no law to control this.' Ms Upham, who attended the rally on Saturday with her daughter, said that the slogans were extremely harmful for young people and female backpackers who were driving the vans. She said that the slogans were so offensive that emails she and the other organisers had been exchanging which contained the phrases had been continually blocked. 'It's is outrageous that these slogans are so offensive that they cannot be sent and cannot be expressed without starring in word form in the media, and yet they are out in public for anyone to see,' she said. Some of the slogans include 'I can already imagine the gaffa tape on your mouth', and 'Flash your t**s at the driver'. This Wicked Campers van said 'Random Breast Testing' on the side . A vigilante spray painted over the offensive slogan after CEO John Webb invited those angered to take action . Wicked Camper's CEO John Webb invited 'anybody who feels strongly offended by a slogan to either paint or tape over it'- . She said that she had been forced to explain to her daughter some of the concepts of the slogans, which were very adult and inappropriate for her daughter's age. 'Female backpackers are really at risk as they pre-book the vans and then drive around with these slogans for men to read about them. I think it’s putting all women at risk both locally and those from overseas,' she said. She said that she was afraid members of the community would see the activism as 'women being wowsers', but that if people looked closely at the slogans they were shocked. 'I want to make the point that we are completely supportive of fun slogans on vans that aren’t sexist, demeaning, offensive or violent,' Ms Upham said. 'When people read the slogans on the vans they are horrified.' Mr Webb said in his statement that the brand was a 'strong proponent of free speech and pushing the limits of humour – we are a ‘cash for chaos’ kind of company.' 'We are a small company, with eclectic, creative and multi-cultural staff. It is impossible for us to conceive that a throw-away message written on a van could have such far-reaching implications for the community at large,' he said. The Australian Advertising Standards Board have upheld complaints but have not been able to demand the ads be removed . Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie said that a parliamentary inquiry had been set up 'to look into current regulation of outdoor advertising in Queensland' 'Bear in mind however, many of the images presented in the media of our vehicles are from up to 8 years ago, and the vehicles simply do not exist anymore.' Ms Upham said that despite the claims that many of the offending vans were not circulating, members of Wicked Pickets had painted over vans, only to see them restored and on the roads at a later stage. 'One of our supporters painted over an offensive slogan and it was put back again,' she said. Ms Upham said that the group's next move would be to seek a meeting with Queensland Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath to begin the process of introducing a law to ban the slogans. While Mr Webb voluntarily announced his decision to remove the slogans, there is no law to enforce the removal, as the Australian Advertising Standards Board have upheld complaints but have not been able to demand the ads be removed. Last year Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie said that a parliamentary inquiry had been set up 'to look into current regulation of outdoor advertising in Queensland'. It would look 'whether reform is needed to protect children from being exposed to sexually explicit and inappropriate outdoor advertising', Mr Bleijie told The Sunshine Coast Daily.

Women in Brisbane are protesting offensive slogans on Wicked Campers . The group claims the slogans promote violence against women . In 2014 the company agreed to remove the slogans but hasn't happened . The group is spraying over slogans and posting pictures on social media . Over 150 protesters from Wicked Pickets gathered to rally against the vans .

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Humans may have been lighting fires since we lived in caves and dined on woolly mammoth, but now there’s 21st century way to create a flame. A new lighter uses electricity to ignite, and it’s claimed to be the first flameless gadget of its kind. The device, called the Illume ArcLighter, creates a ‘super high-intensity’ electrical arc and contains a rechargeable lithium-ion battery so users will never run out of fuel at a tricky moment again. A bright idea: A new lighter (pictured) uses electricity to ignite candles and paper for example, and it’s claimed to be the first flameless gadget of its kind . Its inventors, based in Edmonton, Canada, are raising money to put the lighter into production on Kickstarter and have almost doubled their goal. Instead of using a spark and fuel mechanism like traditional lighters, the Illume ArcLighter creates a ‘super high-intensity’ electrical arc between two ceramic electrodes. Flameless: Instead of using a spark and fuel mechanism like traditional lighters, the Illume ArcLighter creates a ‘super high-intensity’ electrical arc between two ceramic electrodes. Its inventors say it lights in any direction and is rechargeable, among other qualities shown above . Safer? Instead of using a spark and fuel mechanism like traditional lighters, the Illume ArcLighter creates a ‘super high-intensity’ electrical arc between two ceramic electrodes. This means there is no flare ups (pictured) like with matches or conventional lighters that can easily burn fingers . Illume ArcLighter replaces a traditional flame with a high intensity electric arc that focuses its energy at the tip. It doesn’t need to be refilled with fuel but is instead powered by a rechargeable lithium ion battery. 'Simply place the Illume ArcLighter on its dedicated USB powered charging dock and it will be ready for the next moment you need it,’ the company says. ‘When electricity jumps between the two conducting electrodes at the tip of the lighter, it produces what is known as an electric arc. ‘The air between these electrodes becomes ionised, creating the brilliant visual arc which produces the high heat.' ‘When electricity jumps between the two conducting electrodes at the tip of the lighter, it produces what is known as an electric arc,' the company explains. ‘The air between these electrodes becomes ionised, creating the brilliant visual arc which produces the high heat.’ While the arc may be smaller than an open flame, it is much hotter, so it lights wicks more quickly and can be used from any angle. The company says: ‘Unlike a regular lighter, there is no flame that can flare-up when positioned upside down. ‘You can freely use the Illume ArcLighter in any direction. Even completely vertically.' The lighter has flame-proof ceramic tips with a zinc alloy cover and a plastic body. It focuses its heat at the tip so it won’t leave sooty marks behind. Convenient: The device (pictured) has a built-in lithium ion battery and comes with a USB-powered dock (also shown) so it can be easily recharged. The lighter has flame-proof ceramic tips with a zinc alloy cover and a plastic body . The device has a built-in lithium ion battery and comes with a USB-powered dock so it can be easily recharged. The start-up shows the lighter being used to ignite candles, incense, gas stove tops and paper as long as the material fits between the electrodes. The device costs CAD$40 (£21 or US$32) via Kickstarter including the charger and cable. It's expected to ship in November. Durable: The device (pictured), called the Illume ArcLighter, contains a lithium-ion battery and can be recharged, meaning that users will never run out of fuel at a tricky moment again .

Illume ArcLighter creates a ‘super high-intensity’ electrical arc . It uses electricity stored in a lithium ion battery instead of standard fuel . Arc is smaller than an open flame, but is much hotter and doesn't flare up . Device is available to pre-order via Kickstarter for CAD$40 (£21 or US$32)

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George and Amal submitted plans to their council for a 12-seater home cinema . They're newlyweds settling down in their dream home, and this weekend it was reported that George and Amal Clooney have submitted plans to improve their £10million Berkshire mansion - which include the addition of a 12-seater cinema. While this may seem extravagant, according to industry experts, a cinema room is now an 'expected' luxury in properties worth over £10million. Robert Osborn, co-founding director of top luxury property developer Consero London explained: 'Home cinemas are a growing requirement, particularly for brand new or newly refurbished properties.' 'At the high level, media rooms are a valuable use of space and are expected, particularly in homes priced above £10 million. We also often include pantries or bars as an addition to support the media room.' As extravagant as it may seem, home cinemas are often a clever investment as they make use of low value space in the dark basement. Property insider, Ben Hubbard, an asset manager at OracleAMG explains: 'Cinemas are often situated in the basement of a dwelling because there is no need for natural light.' Ben estimates that cinemas can cost anything from a few thousand to £100,000 to kit out and says: 'Home cinemas can vary from a converted surplus bedroom within an average sized dwelling to a 30-seater theatre in the basement of a much larger home. 'There's a vast difference in the set-up costs depending on how far you want to go,' he said. Ben believes that the home cinema trend is growing, and having a dedicated cinema room is becoming 'important' in high-end properties. But does it ever reap financial rewards when it comes to selling? 'If one was to spend fortunes investing in a cinema equipment for an average sized family home - the chances are it will not add any value to the house as a majority of the purchasers will have different uses for that room,' Ben said. Scroll down for video . The couple's £10m Grade-II listed Berkshire abode, which will undergo renovations including the addition of a home cinema and swimming pool . This Surrey screening room has velvet seats and inset lighting - perfect inspiration for the Clooney in-house cinema complex . 'At the other end of the scale the more space the dwelling has the more likely you’re going to expect to see a cinema room and therefore the more value it will add. Generally though it adds saleability factor rather than actual value. 'Set-ups can range from large plasma TVs with off-the-shelf surround sound systems in a darkened rooms to tiered theatres with cinema quality digital projectors. 'High-end cinemas will have been constructed to consider the rest of the house and can be soundproofed to prevent noise problems occurring elsewhere, which also increases the cost.' All apartments in the super-prime development in One Hyde Park have access to this amazing home cinema. A three-bedroom apartment is currently on the letting market with Tunstall Property at...£17,000 per week . Knowing how hard renovations can be we thought we'd give the Clooneys some inspiration on how to kit out their new entertainment room. As these images show the home cinema is generally of a neutral hue with warm wood finishes to give it that authentic feel. But it's not only interior decisions George and Amal will have to grapple with, questions involving audiophile speakers, sub woofers, heat management systems and aerospace grade mirrors (for the projector, not Amal) will also have to be discussed at length. The Clooneys renovation plans also include upgrades to the library, gym, spa, steam room, wine cellar, boat house as well as a new swimming pool, pool house and grand terrace. This bright home cinema is located in the basement of an eight-bedroom mansion on Tregunter Road, Kensington, is currently on the rental market with estate agents Russell Simpson . Individual armchairs is the seating arrangement of choice for home cinemas and mood lighting adds to the authentic feel . Interior designers Hill House turned this small spare room into a cosy home cinema . Metallic wall coverings, fur cushions and Hollywood portraits add a little razzle dazzle to the interior . A cinema room in Octagon’s latest  £16m mansion in Totteridge, North London. The 14-seater cinema has a 10-foot wide screen, plush leather reclining seats and a dramatic cocktail bar with backlit onyx paneling . This cinema room in Spain has padded suede, dark wood and Hollywood greats on the wall . This comparatively modest cinema room in a house on Elsworthy Road in London's St John's Wood has a 108in screen and a JVC projector .

George and Amal submitted plans for a 12-seater cinema, as part of upgrades to their Berkshire mansion . Property expert says media rooms 'expected' in homes over £10million and can cost anything up to £100,000 . Clooneys will need to choose lighting, interior, seating and an AV system for their cosy space .

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(CNN)Sleek chassis, alluring paintwork and a need for speed, but these are no ordinary motors. When pedal hits metal, an eco-friendly process gets set in motion. Powered by electricity and engineered for efficiency, car enthusiasts from across Africa are sparking home-grown concepts that have gotten experts revving. In Zaria, a city in northern Nigeria, a team of students from the Ahmadu Bello University are currently applying the final touches to the "ABUCAR 2." The students used locally available materials to build the vehicle, and even included recycled electrical components in the engine. While it runs on gasoline, the engine maximizes fuel efficiency and produces fewer emissions than normal cars. "We are sure we have a great car," says the project's supervisor Muhammad Dauda. "Now we are focusing on making some final enhancements to hone the driving strategy -- this is just like Formula One." Their compact creation, which was built over five months, will travel to The Netherlands in May to compete in the European leg of this year's Shell Eco-marathon -- the motoring competition rewards those who travel the longest distance using the least amount of fuel. But the team is also working towards a hybrid petro-electric motor, which they hope to unveil in 2016. At low speeds the vehicle will be powered by electricity alone, but at higher speeds both electric and petrol components will work together. Between extremes, excess power generated by the engine recharges the batteries that power the electric motor. It's the model that Toyota uses in the Prius. Green-focused designs like these are increasingly needed on the continent, as some studies say 50% of global emissions of organic carbon could come from Africa in 2030. At May's Shell Eco-marathon, ABUCAR's team will be hoping to race past the sleek "Autonov III" creation from the University of Lagos. Painted the colors of the Nigerian flag and powered by a solar battery, the car's aerodynamic teardrop shape helps minimize drag. Constructing earlier iterations of this vehicle was put under stress in 2013 when university teachers went on a six month strike, but the industrial action didn't stop the team from tinkering with the electric engine. "We've used small tires to reduce the overall weight of the vehicle," explains team manager Chukwuemeka Isiogu. "We've trained ourselves to just think about fuel efficiency and create the most efficient vehicle." Other eco-friendly engineers are less about sleek and more focused on comfort. Uganda's Makerere University has produced a two-seater electric car called "Kiira EV". With a super-light fibreglass body and lithium ion battery, the car can go 50 miles on a single charge. The design project cost $35,000, but the engineers made sure to include leather seats and a CD player. Whilst working on the Kiira, the team is also developing an 28-seater electric bus which will run on a mixture of electric and solar power. Innovative creations have also come from the University of Benin in Nigeria. Their "Tuke-Tuke" car -- named after local mini-buses -- is made from locally available materials. The brake pads, for example, are made from palm kernels. Tuke-Tuke also has some key features that will come in handy when slipping through the city's streets. Windscreen wipers start automatically when rain hits the sensors, gears can be changed with the touch of a button and owners use their finger rather than a key to unlock the doors. And when it gets dark, the driver just needs to clap their hands to turn on the interior lights. Elsewhere, engineers are working on green vehicles for the whole family. One Ghanaian inventor is building SUVs with electric motors powered by rechargeable batteries. Apostle Safo, who also founded a church, dreams big in his five-seater creations which are hand built in Gomoa Mpota, except for the headlights and tires. While he says the product will be affordable, it remains to be seen just how much a handmade SUV would cost. These innovations certainly are impressive concepts, but it's unlikely electric vehicles will be filling roads on the continent any time soon -- it is unclear how economically viable it would be for governments and companies to build the right number of charging points, but the issue of power itself is even more pressing. "Reliability when it comes to electricity supply is key," says South African sustainability consultant Anthony Dane. "Convincing consumers across Africa to invest in an electric vehicle whilst electricity shortages are such a major issue in so many communities is a challenge." Read this: Africa's 10 most prosperous countries . More from Marketplace Africa . Editor's Note: CNN Marketplace Africa covers the macro trends impacting the region and also focuses on the continent's key industries and corporations .

African students and car enthusiasts are creating eco-friendly cars . Nigerian students will compete in an "Eco-Marathon" in May .

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Microsoft hopes to lure more people to use its new Windows 10 software by making it easy to use many of the same apps they're already using on Apple or Android phones. The move marks a radical shift in strategy for the world's biggest software company, which still dominates the personal computer market but has failed to get any real traction on tablets and phones, partly because of a lack of apps. The company said at its annual Build conference on Wednesday that it will release new programming tools for software developers to rapidly adapt their Apple and Android apps to run on devices that use the new Windows 10 operating system coming late this year. Scroll down for video . Microsoft hopes to lure more people to use its new Windows 10 software by making it easy to use many of the same apps they're already using on Apple or Android phones. Pictured:  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivers his keynote address at Microsoft Build in San Francisco, . New operating system will run on the 'broadest types of devices ever'. Various app stores merged into one platform, called the One Store. Return of the Start Menu, which had been removed from Windows 8. Users can create multiple desktops to keep things organised. Microsoft also announced a new name for the web browser that it plans to offer with Windows 10. The company promises its new 'Edge' browser is faster and more useful than the Internet Explorer that Microsoft has offered for the last 20 years. The tech giant is making its case for Windows 10 before an army of software developers who may be crucial allies in its campaign to build enthusiasm among consumers for the next version of Microsoft's flagship operating system, coming later this year. 'Our goal is to make Windows 10 the most attractive development platform ever,' Microsoft executive Terry Myerson told an audience of several thousand programmers and app developers. While Microsoft has already previewed some aspects of the new Windows, a parade of top executives is using the Build conference to demonstrate more software features and app-building tools, with an emphasis on mobile devices as well as PCs. Ultimately, they're hoping to win over people who have turned to smartphones and tablets that run on rival operating systems from Google and Apple. During the three-day conference, Microsoft is also expected to show off new Windows smartphones or other devices and reveal more details about such tech initiatives as the company's new Spartan web browser; its Siri-like digital assistant known as Cortana; and the HoloLens, a futuristic 'augmented reality' headset that projects three-dimensional images in a wearer's field of vision. But perhaps most importantly, this year's conference is an opportunity for Microsoft to persuade an audience of more than 5,000 techies and independent programmers that it's worth their time to create new apps and programs for Windows 10. Experts say Microsoft needs a rich variety of apps if it wants to appeal to people who are increasingly using mobile gadgets instead of personal computers. A woman wearing a HoloLens demonstrates how the technology can be used to test and develop robotics at the Microsoft Build conference in San Francisco. Internet Explorer, which was first called Windows Internet Explorer, was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 in 1995. Internet Explorer was one of the most widely used web browsers, attaining a peak of about 95 per cent during 2002 and 2003. However, it struggled in the face of competition, and in May 2012 it was announced that Google's Chrome overtook Internet Explorer as the most used browser worldwide. The brand has struggled to shake off the bad reputation of Internet Explorer 6, which was notoriously insecure. 'Getting developer buy-in is absolutely the crucial thing,' said J.P. Gownder, a tech industry analyst at Forrester Research. He said Microsoft has struggled with a 'chicken-and-egg' problem, in which developers have been reluctant to build mobile apps for Windows because relatively few people use Windows phones and tablets. Microsoft hopes it has solved that problem by designing Windows 10 so it's easier for developers to build 'universal' apps that work on a variety of Windows devices, from phones to PCs and other gadgets, Gownder said. Currently, there are more than 1.4 million apps for Android phones and about the same for Apple devices, while there are only a few hundred thousand apps that work on Windows phones and tablets. The company also has a big carrot to wave in front of those developers: Microsoft has already said it will release Windows 10 as a free upgrade to people who now have PCs or other gadgets running the previous two versions of Windows, provided they upgrade in the coming year. The offer could create a huge new audience of Windows 10 users in a relatively short time, Gownder said. Myerson predicted there will be a billion devices using Windows 10 - from PCs to phones, tablets, gaming consoles and even holographic computers - within the next two to three years. Microsoft has not said exactly when Windows 10 is coming, and some analysts are hoping the company will announce a release date at the conference, along with details about how it will distribute future upgrades. CEO Satya Nadella and other executives have hinted they'd like to move away from the old notion of selling each new version of Windows as a separate product. Microsoft's had early success in selling its Office productivity software on a subscription basis, in which customers pay an annual fee to use programs like Word, PowerPoint and Excel. A man demonstrates a device using Windows holographic technology during the Microsoft Build conference . Nadella is presiding over a major overhaul of a company that once dominated the tech industry, in the days when PCs were king. He has redesigned some of Microsoft's most popular programs for mobile devices and invested in new 'cloud-computing' services, in which businesses pay to use software that's housed in Microsoft's data centers. Microsoft still relies heavily on selling traditional software for PCs and corporate computer systems. But its latest quarterly earnings report, issued last week, offered some signs that the decline in that business is slowing, while Microsoft's cloud-computing business is growing rapidly. The news drove Microsoft's share price up 10 percent in one day. The stock has continued to rose, trading as high as $49.13 on Wednesday - within a dollar of its 52-week high.

New programming tools can rapidly adapt Apple and Android apps . Firm also revealed new browser to replace IE will be called Edge .

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Stan Collymore, talkSPORT lead football pundit who revels in laying down the law on the radio, astonished reporters with his behaviour during Aston Villa’s 3-3 Premier League draw with QPR on Tuesday night. Collymore, despite sitting in the Villa Park press box where media impartiality is taken for granted, was jumping up and down during the game like the most fanatical Villa fan, celebrating the goals with the home supporters. He even greeted QPR’s Joey Barton falling down to win a free-kick by clearly shouting at him: ‘You f****** rat.’ talkSport pundit Stan Collymore was in full fan mode as he celebrated Villa's 3-3 draw with QPR . The former Villa striker let loose with his wild, and sometimes expletive laden, comments from the press box . Villa fan Collymore believed such actions in the supposed neutral sanctuary of the press box were permissible as he wasn’t working for talkSPORT during the match. He tweeted: ‘With respect, on nights I go as a fan . . . I’m not being paid to do anything other than be a fan.’ And talkSPORT would not comment as they said Collymore wasn’t on duty, with reporter Nigel Pearson giving his rather more impartial verdict for the station. However Collymore did an interview with Adrian Durham and Darren Gough on talkSPORT before the match. Collymore called Joey Barton a 'f*****g rat' after he fell down to win a free-kick for QPR during the game . Jason Gillespie, Yorkshire’s highly-rated championship-winning coach also in charge of Big Bash team Adelaide Strikers, is hardly your archetypal red-meat-eating Aussie fast bowler. Gillespie, who would be first choice for England as well if Peter Moores fails in the West Indies, is preparing for new season by becoming a vegan. Meanwhile Lancashire’s supporters’ action group are questioning the value of having Sky Sports commentator Paul Allott on the club board after Peter Siddle, Lancashire’s overseas signing, was selected for Australia’s tours of the West Indies and England, ruling him out of any county involvement. Yorkshire's championship winning coach Jason Gillespie is preparing for the season with a new diet . Bookmakers Paddy Power, rabid publicists guaranteed to offend, have a new stunt showing Ruby Walsh supposedly preparing for the Grand National by jumping his horse over a speeding car. The YouTube video is plainly mocked up but, with sensitivities around animal welfare, it was crass of Walsh, jump racing’s pre-eminent jockey after AP McCoy’s forthcoming retirement, to involve himself in such a provocative spoof — even if he is a Paddy Power ambassador. Ruby Walsh and horse clear a car, claimed to be travelling at 40mph, as part of the Grand National countdown . The split between FA chairman Greg Dyke and vice-chairman David Gill over homegrown players became very apparent during Wednesday's FA council meeting. After Dyke gave his well-received presentation, Manchester United director Gill, with his Premier League hat on, told council that Dyke should have said ‘I’ rather than ‘we’ as the issue had yet to be debated by the FA board. Gill wants the consultation period to be a proper process starting at board level — during which no doubt the Premier League will try to hijack it. So the big question is whether Dyke is willing to use the rulebook to force it through. FA chairman Greg Dyke still faces a challenge to convince everyone over plans to change homegrown quota . Gordon faces scrutiny . Michael Gordon, American representative on daily Liverpool business for the club’s Fenway Sports Group owners, likes to operate well away from the media spotlight. However Boston Red Sox baseball shareholder Gordon might soon have to explain his major involvement in a number of signings that haven’t worked out as well as current contract stand-offs if Liverpool’s season were to further unravel. It’s understood Gordon’s high opinion of Liverpool’s pulling power and ability to keep players might have been swayed rather too much by their brief presence in the Champions League. Michael Gordon may have to explain why several signings, such as Mario Balotelli, have not worked out . Channel 4 racing missing the start of an all-weather championship race at Lingfield last Friday because of an ad break could come back to haunt them. Arena Racing Company, the largest UK racing group are understood to have paid for the TV production costs as part of the Lingfield promotion that attracted a 9,000 crowd. Meanwhile ARC are looking to invite people supportive of their all-weather racing track at Newcastle for a celebratory launch when they receive the go-ahead for the plans discussed by the British Horseracing Authority board yesterday. However those in favour of the flat turf being dug up on the Newcastle mile are very hard to find.

Stan Collymore celebrated Aston Villa's draw wildly from the press box . Yorkshire championship winning coach Jason Gillespie is going vegan . Jockey Ruby Walsh stars in new viral ad ahead of the Grand National . Greg Dyke and David Gill are still at odds over homegrown players .

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Employing cheap labour from Asia and having the length of working visas doubled are two ways of combating the childcare shortage in Australia authorities have said. Instead of employing European students on working holidays to act as au pairs industry experts want to attract more workers from Asia where wages are low. Extending au pairs on working holiday visas - who earn $250 a week as live-in nannies - to stay with one family for a year instead of the current six months is another option. The introduction of Asian nannies to Australia would go some way to help address the childcare shortage it's been argued . Compared with childcare rates of $100 a day or more, overseas nannies and au pairs can provide a cheaper and more flexible option for families with more than one child. The Daily Telegraph reports that Ross Taylor of the Indonesia Institute said provided protections were in place, opening up the au pair system to more workers from Indonesia could help deal with the crisis. ‘Indonesia has almost a million people working as au pairs around the world. Many are in countries that are not as safe and secure as Australia,’ he says. Labor Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says foreign nannies are not the solution for increasing problems with the childcare system . ‘Why not provide a ­serious opportunity for women for a safe environment where they can learn English and send money home?’ Around 10,000 au pairs travel to Australia each year. Parents and au pair agencies complain the six-month rule currently be used is unsettling for families and tough on children particularly those with autism and special needs. By working in Australia nannies from Indonesia and the Philippines can learn English and send money home . However, foreign nannies paid as little as $250 a week are not the answer to limited childcare and rising costs, federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says. The Productivity Commission has suggested that extending the length of working visas for live-in nannies from overseas could help tackle the childcare shortage. Mr Shorten says that's not the way to solve the big challenges in childcare. Foreign nannies paid as little as $250 a week are not the answer to limited childcare, says Mr Shorten . 'I think what we need to do is make sure it's properly funded, that people can afford to pay it, that the fees aren't getting out of control and of course its good quality for our kids,' he told the Nine Network on Sunday. Social Services Minister Scott Morrison says the government will examine the Productivity Commission's recommendations.

Employing Asia nannies would help save money in the long run . Extension of au pairs visa from six months to a year another option . Opening up system to workers from Indonesia could help solve crisis . However, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten does not agree with this . Mr Shorten says it's not the way to solve the big challenges in childcare .

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Diego Costa has identified Chelsea's crunch clash against Arsenal for his latest hamstring injury comeback. The Spain international limped off just 11 minutes after coming on as a substitute in Chelsea's 2-1 win over Stoke on Saturday. Costa has been told he will miss just over two weeks following his latest hamstring setback, a problem that has dogged him all season. Diego Costa is unlikely to miss the entirety of Chelsea's title run-in and could return within two weeks . Costa limped off just 11 minutes into his return from injury in Chelsea's 2-1 win over Stoke City on Saturday . Costa is likely to be fit to face Arsenal in what could prove a key game in Chelsea's title run-in . The striker will not do any ball work at the club's Cobham HQ this week, instead focusing on strength sessions and intensive massages on the injured muscle. Costa is also expected to see a specialist before he is given the green light to step up his rehabilitation regime. The striker will definitely miss the games against Queens Park Rangers and Manchester United. But the league leaders face second placed Arsenal, in a clash that could prove pivotal in the title race on April 26 and Costa is said to be determined to play. Chelsea's trip to the Emirates Stadium is the most likely date for Costa to return to Jose Mourinho's side . Costa has pulled out of a planned in-store appearance at Chelsea's club shop on Wednesday . But Jose Mourinho will not take any unnecessary risks with his star striker and could decide against fielding Costa against the Gunners if the title is virtually sewn up by then. Depending on how the title race develops, the the club are considering giving Costa an extended break between now and the end of the season to help him overcome his hamstring problems. Mourinho is determined to avoid the need for surgery and may decide to use the striker sparingly for the run-in depending on how close the title race pans out. The Chelsea striker had been subbed off against Hull City before the international break with a similar injury . Mourinho will be delighted by the news that his top scorer could be back soon, although he will miss him . In the meantime, Loic Remy is likely to lead the line in the Blues' short trip to face QPR on Sunday afternoon .

Injured Chelsea striker Diego Costa is expected to be out for two weeks . He could return in time to face Arsenal in the Premier League run-in . Spain striker limped off just 11 minutes into appearance against Stoke City .

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Killed: Police are investigating the alleged murder of Syrian-born imam Abdul Hadi Arwani . A fourth person has been arrested over the alleged murder of a Syrian imam who was shot dead in his car on a London street. Police announced today that they had arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion of conspiracy to murder Abdul Hadi Arwani, who was killed in Wembley two weeks ago. A Jamaican businessman has already appeared in court charged with Mr Arwani's murder, while a man and a woman were arrested this week on suspicion of terror offences. The father of six, who was an imam at a controversial mosque in west London, was found dead in his black Volkswagen Passat on April 7. Leslie Cooper, 36, appeared at the Old Bailey on Thursday, where the court was told that Mr Arwani, 48, was lured to a meeting with a potential customer for his construction business before being killed. Burnell Mitchell, 61, the brother of Boney M's lead singer, was arrested this week on suspicion of conspiracy to murder and the commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism. A 53-year-old woman was also arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism. They are both in Metropolitan Police custody while counter-terror officers continue to investigate Mr Arwani's killing. Police said in a statement today that they had arrested the fourth suspect, a 35-year-old man, on Friday, before releasing him on bail today. Suspects: Leslie Cooper, left, appeared in court charged with murder while Burnell Mitchell, right, has been arrested on suspicion of terror offences . Mr Arwani was previously a preacher at the An-Noor mosque in Acton but resigned after he apparently fell out with other community leaders. The mosque was founded by Mr Mitchell 20 years ago after he converted to Islam, and he remains a trustee of the centre as well as a director of the company which owns its premises. Mr Mitchell, whose sister Liz Mitchell was the lead singer of Boney M, was brought up a strict Christian before changing faith and becoming known as 'Khalid Rashad'. Both his home and the mosque were searched by police last week as part of the investigation into Mr Arwani's death. Mosque: Police standing outside the An-Noor cultural centre in Acton earlier this week . The Syrian-born imam fled his home country in the 1980s and became an outspoken opponent of president Bashar al-Assad's regime before his killing. Mr Arwani's son Murhaf said last week: 'He just loved to help people. He did not care what your background, race or status was. 'He did not care if you were rich or poor. He just wanted to help people in need. 'He spoke up and out against the crime of terror and oppression wherever he found it. He was an advocate of peace for all and he showed us this in the way he lived his life from day to day.' Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.

Man, 36, arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder Abdul Hadi Arwani . Syrian imam was found shot dead in his car on a street in Wembley . Leslie Cooper, 36, has already appeared in court accused of murder . Burnell Mitchell, 61, and a 53-year-old woman were also arrested on suspicion of terror offences .

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Australia's most notorious serial killer could have been caught before he murdered seven backpackers, had the 'wrong man' not been sent to prison, a new investigation has claimed. Channel Seven's Sunday Night will tell the story of Ivan Milat's first violent crime and how he escaped police prosecution, before going on to butcher seven backpackers. The revelation includes first-hand evidence from Milat's older brother, Boris, into the killer's 'secret victim'. Scroll down for video . A new report claims Ivan Milat, Australia's most notorious serial killer, could have been caught before he murdered seven backpackers . Boris Milat shares a secret he has kept for 52 years, which details how Australia's bloodiest butcher was responsible for the shooting more than two decades before the first backpacker murder in 1989, according to the report. The program also puts Mr Milat face-to-face with the 'wrong man', who was jailed for the first crime his brother committed. 'Don't hold yourself responsible,' the man, who Channel Seven has not yet named, tells Mr Milat, as they shake hands. According to the timeline presented by the program and Mr Milat, his murderous brother would have been a 19-year-old when he claimed his first victim. Former Detective Paul Gordon tells the program the evidence uncovered is 'unbelievable' and 'incredible'. Boris Milat tells the program a secret about his brother he had kept for more than 52 years . Milat was later sentenced to life in prison, but if the 'wrong man' (right) had not been jailed for his first crime, Milat's victims could have been saved, the program claims . 'Don't hold yourself responsible,' the man imprisoned for Milat's first violent crime told the killer's brother, Boris . Milat, 70, was convicted of butchering seven young people between 1989 and 1992 and burying their bodies in the Belanglo State Forest in southern NSW. He has been locked up in Goulburn's Supermax jail for almost 20 years. The first two bodies of Milat’s victims were discovered on September 19 and 20 1992, when two runners found a decaying corpse in the Belanglo State Forest. According to claims made by the program, Milat would have been about 19 when he claimed his first victim . The daughter of Milat's first victim (left) is told her father was shot by the serial killer. Former Detective Paul Gordon (right) tells the program the evidence uncovered is 'unbelievable' and 'incredible' The report claims Milat's seven victims could have been saved if he had been been held accountable for this first chilling crime . Police later confirmed the bodies were of missing British backpackers Caroline Clarke and Joanne Walters. Walters had been stabbed 35 times and Clarke had been shot 10 times in the head. The grim finds were just the beginning of a long and extensive search which resulted in the bodies of Australians Deborah Everist and James Gibson being found in October 1993, followed by Simone Schmidl’s stabbed body in November of the same year. The decapitated body of German backpacker Anja Habschied was then found along with her boyfriend Gabor Neugebauer on 3 November 1993 in shallow graves 50 metres apart. British backpacker Caroline Clarke had been shot 10 times in the head when police found her body . First victims: Australians James Gibson and Deborah Everist, both aged 19, were Ivan Milat's first known victims after they disappeared in December 1989 and their bodies were found in the Belanglo State forest almost four years later . Simone Schmidl's body was found in November 1993. She had been stabbed to death . Milat was convicted of the seven backpacker murders on July 27, 1996 and for the attempted murder, false imprisonment and robbery of Paul Onions. He kept the shirts, sleeping bags, a water bottle, portable stove and backpacks of his victims hidden in roof and wall cavities, in what was described as an 'Aladdin's Cave', in the house he was arrested in 20 years ago. Boyfriend and girlfriend German backpackers Gabor Neugebauer and Anja Habschied were found dead on 3 November 1993 in shallow graves 50 metres apart . British backpacker Joanne Walters, is another one of the victims of backpacker murderer Ivan Milat . Sinister souvenir: In this photograph police seized from the house of Ivan Milat's brother William, the serial killer is seen carrying the sleeping bag which belonged to Deborah Everist who with boyfriend Jame Gibson was the first of Milat's victims killed in the Belanglo State Forest . The evil killer has penned a series of rambling letters while behind bars, according to a book released by his eldest nephew, Alistair Shipsey. The Milat Letters, is a compilation of 94 notes from Milat to his eldest nephew Alistair Shipsey. Milat is serving seven consecutive life sentences for the murders of seven backpackers in NSW between 1989 and 1992. In the letters, he tells Shipsey about his 'fair share' of 'sheilas', who write 'some frightening things' - and one woman who has even proposed. Australia's worst serial killer Ivan Milat kept trophies to remind him of each murder . Milat butchered and buried the bodies of seven young people between 1989 and 1992 in the Belanglo State Forest in southern NSW . 'Every month someone new writes; the latest one was from Texas. She tells me she’s 25, white. I ought to ask her “why” as she only knows me from a website, and there’s nothing nice about me on it,' one of the letters reads. 'As you know there are a lot of wackos out there as well. A lot of them write to me at times. I tell you Al, there are some real crazy people out and about.' Milat has been a troublesome inmate during his time in prison, and it is believed he planned at least one escape and swallowed metal objects in an attempt to get out of jail. An extract from one of the letters from Milat, written before he chopped his own finger off with a plastic knife in January 2009, affectionately refers to Shipsey as 'Al . In prison, Milat, has been a troublesome inmate, having planned at least one escape, swallowing metal objects and cutting off his own finger to send to the High Court in an envelope . One of his letters revealed plans to cut off his own finger and mail it law enforcement. ‘I will send them parts of my hand first, I have been considering this for a while and only need half a reason to show them how I feel with their sh**head ideas, there is not much they can do to me any more and at my age I don't give a f**k,' an excerpt from his letters reads. Milat tried to send his finger it in a padded envelope to the High Court. The full story,The Ivan Milat Secret, will air on Channel 7 at 8:30pm on Sunday.

Report claims Ivan Milat shot first victim years before backpacker murders . The 'wrong man' jailed for attack, which left Milat free to kill, report says . Milat's brother, Boris, says he has kept the shocking secret for 52 years . Milat brutally murdered seven backpackers between 1989 and 1992 . He is serving seven consecutive life sentences at Goulburn Supermax jail .

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Alex Rodriguez returned to the New York Yankees line-up for the baseball season's opening day following a 162-game suspension, batting seventh and serving as designated hitter. Rodriguez returned from a suspension that spanned all of the 2014 season for admitted to receiving and using performance-enhancing drugs from a Florida clinic. Yet A-Rod received a warm welcome on his comeback, with fans even holding up signs that read 'Forgive' in the crowd. Team-mates applaud as New York Yankees designated hitter Alex Rodriguez takes to the field . New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi (from left to right), Jacoby Ellsbury, and Brett Gardner greet designated hitter Rodriguez after he was introduced before the start of the opening day game . New York Yankees designated hitter Rodriguez (centre) stands in the dugout at the start of opening day . Signs in the stands encourages fans to forgive Rodriguez after his heavy suspension . As always, the baseball season got off with a bang. There were giant American flags, national anthems sang loud and proud, and grand entrances via parachutes. On the field, however, Atlanta Braves right-handed reliever Jason Grilli will take over as the closer following the trade of Craig Kimbrel. In a blockbuster trade on the eve of opening day, the San Diego Padres acquired Kimbrel and outfielder Melvin Upton Jr from the Braves on Sunday. Elsewhere, Tampa Bay Rays designated hitter John Jaso suffered a left wrist contusion sliding into second base in the first inning of Monday's season opener against the Baltimore Orioles. X-rays were negative, but Jaso left the game and was replaced by David DeJesus, who batted in the third inning. Chicago White Sox players and Kansas City Royals players line the field for the national anthem . A US Navy Leap Frog member parachutes into the stadium before Boston Red Sox vs Philadelphia Phillies . The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Cincinnati Reds line up for the national anthem before their opening day tie . The Philadelphia Phillies march into the stadium before the game against the Boston Red Sox . Jay Bruce of the Cincinnati Reds tries to make a catch on the opening day of baseball season . Robinson Cano and Justin Ruggiano of the Seattle Mariners celebrate after beating the Los Angeles Angels . Two fans have matching shirts on opening day that read: 'Together since 1987' Cancer survivor Julie Kramer throws out an opening pitch before an opening day game .

A-Rod returned to the New York Yankees line-up for the opening day . Alex Rodriguez came back from a 162-game suspension for the Yankees . He received a warm welcome on his comeback, with fans even holding up signs that read 'Forgive' in the crowd .

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The man in the mask is back. But it might take more than a slice of carbon fibre to protect Cesc Fabregas from what could be a quite hateful reception when he takes his first steps at the Emirates Stadium since he left to join Barcelona. That 2011 move was seen and widely accepted - externally - as the prodigal son going home. This next fixture is seen by some as the return of a player who rejected a second coming at Arsenal in favour of Chelsea. He will surely win the league, having already won the Capital One Cup, but what has he lost at the club that made him? What of the line of communication he once had with Arsene Wenger? Cesc Fabregas will be making his first return to the Emirates since leaving Arsenal in 2011 . The 27-year-old is expected to wear a protective mask when he travels to north London this weekend . Fabregas joined Arsenal as a teenager (left) before returning to the Premier League with Chelsea (right) Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger speaks to a young Fabregas after snatching him away from Barcelona in 2004 . It has been suggested they have not spoken since Fabregas made the summer move that got so many backs up. There is nothing terribly unusual in that except they used to be so close, to the extent that Wenger continued to text Fabregas on birthdays and career milestones while he was at Barcelona. ‘He hasn’t spoken to me since I came back,’ Fabregas was quoted as saying in September. ‘It was the kind of relationship I always would have liked to keep. ‘But I'm sure once everything dies down a bit in the future we will talk. There is no problem. I'll always be grateful to him whatever happens.’ Except there is still believed to be only silence from the man he once called his ‘second father’. And for the first time, the Fabregas narrative is something less than delightfully romantic. Until now he had followed a largely clean script. He was the boy who attended his first Barca match as a nine-month-old baby with his grandfather. The tale of how he came to be their player 10 years later is wonderful. The story goes that he was playing for Mataro, 35km north of Barcelona. Rodolfo Borrell used to search the surrounding areas for young players for Barca’s Under 11s side and one day watched Fabregas’s team. Nothing to report. When he came back, two months later in September 1997, he saw a midfielder he simply needed to sign. Gunners legend Dennis Bergkamp watches on as Fabregas plays a pass during training early in his career . Fabregas' only piece of major silverware with Arsenal was winning the 2005 FA Cup against Man United . Former captain Thierry Henry (right) helped Fabregas come through the ranks at Arsenal . Fabregas impressed by scoring against Juventus as Arsenal reached the 2006 Champions League final . The Spaniard is involved in a scuffle with his future club during the 2007 Carling Cup final . ‘I went to see them play again and suddenly I saw this one player who was simply wonderful,’ he told the BBC. ‘They told me he was called Cesc Fabregas and he was one year younger than the rest. He was good at running with the ball, had a fantastic pass over short, medium and long distances. He was very mature for his age and had all the attributes we were looking for at Barcelona at that time. ‘At half-time, I asked the coach why I had not seen this kid before. He admitted that, when he saw me coming, he had decided not to play him because he knew that if I saw him I would take him.’ He ultimately became part of a group that included Lionel Messi, coming through the ranks. His idol was Pep Guardiola and when Fabregas’s parents divorced in 2001, Guardiola handed him a signed shirt with the message: ‘One day, you will be the number four of Barcelona.’ Wenger bestows his wisdom on a young Fabregas during a training session at London Colney in 2008 . Fabregas celebrates a a goal with former Arsenal team-mates Emmanuel Adebayor (left) and Tomas Rosicky . Fabregas holds aloft the trophy after winning the the 2008 European Championships with Spain . Fabregas lifts the Emirates Cup after winning the pre-season tournament with Arsenal in 2009 . Fabregas trains with another Arsenal star to leave the Emirates, Robin van Persie, in 2010 . The Arsenal playmaker scores a penalty against Braga in the Champions League in 2010 . Alas, he left for Arsenal in 2003 having not been picked for a single first-team game. By the time he returned in 2011, he had become Arsenal’s youngest first-team player, their captain and a European Championship and World Cup winner with Spain. In 2005, aged 18 and with 60 first-team games already played, he told The Independent: ‘I will always be a fan of Barcelona. But Arsenal gave me an opportunity. It's like you are standing at a station and there's a train that you must take. It's the opportunity of your life. ‘At Barcelona, I was playing for the Under 16s. Here, they gave me the opportunity to play for the reserves straight away, soon the Carling Cup. It gave me the motivation that I needed. Now I want to improve, get more mature, get more experience.’ Fabregas celebrates with Spain team-mate David Villa en route to wining the 2010 World Cup in South Africa . Spain team-mates attempt to engineer a move to Barcelona by pulling a club shirt over Fabregas in 2010 . Fabregas walks off dejected after Arsenal crash out to his boyhood club Barca in the 2011 Champions League . The midfielder's relationship with mentor Wenger became strained after he left Arsenal in 2011 . Six years on from that interview, he detailed his relationship with the club and Wenger as he explained why he was joining Guardiola’s Barcelona. ‘I only won one FA Cup really, and this is the biggest regret I will have in my career, probably, not to be able to lift a trophy as Arsenal captain,’ he said. ‘I will always be an Arsenal fan because what they have done for me is unbelievable and I will never forget it. ‘Wenger is a special person to me. He'll always be a second father to me. I think if Arsenal want to keep being the club they are then they have to always be under his control, because he's the best, everyone respects him, and for me, he will always be the best person that I've met in football. ‘I'll never be able to find the words to express my thanks for what he did for me.’ Fabregas is given a hero's welcome on his return home to the Nou Camp with Barcelona . Lionel Messi (right) celebrates with Fabregas after scoring his first goal for Barcelona in 2011 . Fabregas scored against Italy in the group stages as Spain went on to win the 2012 European Championship . Fabregas gets involved in a row with Chelsea stars as Barcelona are sent out of the 2012 Champions League . Spain stars Andres Iniesta (left), Fernando Torres (centre) and Fabregas crash out of the 2014 World Cup . By that point, it would be hard to blame the rationale in wanting a move to Barcelona, but staff at Arsenal were disappointed in how the switch was pushed through. What followed was a three-season spell that has, perhaps, been unfairly characterised. The suggestion is that he under-performed at Barca, which in part is the fault of the club itself. Upon leaving last summer, the club, oddly, flagged up in an official statement that he tends to flag in the second half of seasons. They were right, as this campaign has proved, but it was unusual for a club to say so much. In any case, he won La Liga, Copa del Rey and Club World Cup winners’ medals and in his second season, only Victor Valdes had more La Liga starts. It was not exceptional, though, and last summer came the chance to leave, bringing with it much of the confusion that still surrounds the midfielder. Wenger himself gave the impression that there is more to know about the circumstances behind the move to Chelsea, saying on Thursday: ‘We will have to discuss that one day. With all the terms.’ The 27-year-old celebrates scoring against Stoke in his debut season at Stamford Bridge . Fabregas played against his former club with Chelsea for the first time in October 2014 . Fabregas still keeps in touch with Arsenal legend Henry, with the pair attending a NBA game in London . Fabregas celebrates scoring the only goal against local rivals QPR at Loftus Road earlier this month . Fabregas wears a protective mask as Chelsea defeat Manchester United to close in on the 2015 title . Sport analysts BSports are predicting a tight match, with Arsenal slight favourites to beat Chelsea . Fabregas said in a statement last summer that Arsenal ‘decided’ not to trigger an option they held to re-sign him. Wenger has previously claimed that by the time he knew Fabregas was available a deal with Chelsea was almost done. It is interesting to wonder how much from either side is PR and how much is genuine. Did either side really want the other? At the very least Fabregas will likely endure a tough afternoon under his mask on Sunday. He might soon have that league title he craved, but it will not have come without some significant losses.

Chelsea travel to Arsenal for their Premier League clash on Sunday . This will be Cesc Fabregas' first return to the Emirates since leaving . His relationship with Arsene Wenger has deteriorated since he left in 2011 . Wenger: Arsenal fans should give Fabregas a good welcome . READ: Jose Mourinho deep down admires what Wenger has established . READ: Arsenal fans call for removal of Emirates Stadium Fabregas flag .

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Franck Ribery says his relationship with Louis van Gaal was 'poisoned' at Bayern Munich and claims the current Manchester United coach is a 'bad man' who loses players' trust. Van Gaal took charge of the Bavarians in 2009 but only lasted two years, with Ribery admitting he considered a move while the Dutchman was at the club. The French winger says that while Van Gaal, who claimed a league and cup double in his first season, can do great things on the pitch, he did not take to him off it. Franck Ribery worked under Louis van Gaal at Bayern Munich and claims the Dutchman is a 'bad man' Van gaal won the league and cup double in his first season in charge at Bayern in 2009/10 . Ribery claims Van Gaal lost the players' trust while he considered a move away from the Bundesliga club . 'We had problems on a human basis,' Ribery told Goal. 'When he started, nobody knew what was going to happen. 'His idea was that he did not care about names at all, you don't need stars, everybody had to prove themselves again. 'The first contact with him was already poisoned. As a professional you lose your trust. He does great things on the pitch but the coach Van Gaal was a bad man. Our relationship was crushed.' Ribery also claimed that Real Madrid tried to sign him in 2009, only to be persuaded to stay in Germany after being told he was as important to Bayern as Lionel Messi was to Barcelona. As well as the La Liga giants, he admitted Chelsea and Manchester City as well a host of top European clubs were interested in acquiring his services . He added: 'It was a burden. Many clubs tried to persuade me to change: Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus, Chelsea, Manchester City. You start to think. I made up my mind about where my future should lie. I think that this is human.' Ribery celebrates after scoring against Shakhtar Donetsk in this year's Champions League . Van Gaal is currently the Manchester United manager with his side sitting in third place in the Premier League .

Current Man Utd boss Louis van Gaal was in charge of Bayern Munich from 2009 to 2011 . Franck Ribery considered leaving after Van Gaal lost his trust . 'He does great things on the pitch but the coach Van Gaal was a bad man.' Van Gaal is currently impressing as Manchester United manager . CLICK HERE for all the latest Manchester United news .

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(CNN)For years, when I'd tell new friends I was half-Armenian, a puzzled look would cross their faces, before they'd ask something like, "Do you have a country?" Or, when there was a spark of recognition, they'd chortle, "Ah, you're the people with the last names all ending in 'ian'!" In fact, one of our most famous Armenians, Cher, was better known for her Oscar-winning portrayals of Italians, and had dropped her own identifying surname. The decimation of our people, too, was reduced to a footnote -- if we were lucky -- in tomes about World War I, when more than one million Armenians were killed during the last days of the Ottoman Empire. Most of the time, though, the coverage was about how Armenians and Turks hate each other like cats and dogs, that the Turks continue to deny that ethnic cleansing occurred, saying the Armenians had hatched a rebellion, and that the leaders had no choice but to deport them from their homes and put them on the road that led to their deaths. Even Adolf Hitler had brushed us aside, uttering, just before invading Poland in September 1939: "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" according to the former bureau chief of The Associated Press in Berlin, Louis Lochner. Apparently he hadn't the anticipated the Kardashian juggernaut. As Kim Kardashian, sister Khloe and their two cousins recently toured Armenia -- on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the mass killings, which is marked on April 24 -- they spotlighted a humanitarian crime that Pope Francis recently called "the first genocide of the 20th century." Suddenly, the poor landlocked country of Armenia was trending. Standing in front of the statute of "Mother Armenia," Kim seemed to seize the label herself, and the adoring crowds appeared to agree. On another stop of her tour, she dressed in a red jumpsuit, and placed tulips at the slate gray Armenian Genocide memorial complex, bringing new color to an issue and to a people who usually pay tribute to their dead relatives every year in their best funereal black. After the Kardashian trip to Armenia, my elderly mother Anahid called me nearly breathless with pride: "Have you seen? The genocide is all over the news! That famous lady, Kim Kardashian, has done it!" My mother's own father, Stepan Miskjian, with his own "ian" surname, had narrowly survived the killings. He told of how an entire caravan of thousands was killed in what's now eastern Syria, and that he only escaped by waiting until night and crawling out on his hands and knees past the ring of guards, and then crossing the desert for six days with only enough water to fill two cups. When the Kardashians first rose to fame, many Armenians cringed over their potboiler storyline, their million-dollar weddings to basketball players and rappers, multiple divorces, and a clothing line at Sears. Through their fame, though, people began to learn about Armenians -- even people outside Los Angeles, where the Armenian population is as thick as the Kardashian hair. That Americans may also have been equating the ancient culture with the latest "Keeping Up with the Kardashian" plotline was a source of discomfort for the community. But every once in a while, Kim Kardashian would tweet something about the issue -- and slowly the community began to warm to her. Meanwhile, many Armenians continued to brainstorm about how to convince Turkey to acknowledge the truth about what happened, and how to persuade the President Barack Obama to label the killings "genocide," as he promised when first campaigning for the highest office. We cheered and forwarded emails every time a rumor surfaced that Steven Spielberg was going to take one of our family stories to the big screen, give us our own "Schindler's List," and hoped maybe now the world would be forced to listen. And we would deflate when it wouldn't come to fruition. And every April 24, the day in 1915 when Ottoman Turks began rounding up the community's intellectual leaders, we mobilized. And we will do so again this year, holding candlelight vigils, concerts, and protest marches, while waving the Armenian flag, even though many of us have never been to the country ourselves. We also press forward on the academic front, holding conferences on the latest research around the world, exulting in the discovery of yet another bit of information that would surely make the world reckon, that would counter Turkey's steadfast pressure on the United States to not acknowledge the atrocities. And still, disappointingly, early reports surfaced yet once more, as in years before, that Obama has decided again on this year's anniversary not to use the g-word. Despite all the setbacks, the Armenians will continue to speak out, and hopefully find some hallowed ground, too, to stand with Turks to heal. After all, we've learned an increased dialogue can come from the most surprising places. This year, it took a reality star, famous for balancing a cocktail on her rump, to catapult it to the top of the news once again, like it was on December 15, 1915, when headlines like "Million Armenians Killed or in Exile," splashed across the New York Times and other international media. After a century of trying to raise awareness, what we needed all along was a television and Internet persona to join us -- especially one who shares everything on every platform -- to shed light on a crime that occurred back when telegrams were the speedy form of communication, and photographic plates of the killings had to be smuggled out in a belt, rather than blasted instantaneously with a tweet. The queen of the selfies has finally used her attention for good, and hopefully it won't be as short-lived as some of her other memes. That's a crusade I can follow in any medium.

Dawn MacKeen: 2015 marks 100th anniversary of slaughter of Armenians by Ottoman Empire. Kim Kardashian has used fame to spotlight this . She says Armenian community has long sought global recognition of the atrocity, but it took a Kardashian to catapult it into the news .

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Hong Kong (CNN)When she was growing up, Mui Thomas, wanted to be a fashion model -- not an unusual aspiration for a young girl. But Mui suffers from a rare genetic condition that leaves the skin on her face and body red raw and open to infection. "I really don't think I knew that I didn't look like everybody else," she says. She was born with Harlequin ichthyosis, which means her skin is extremely thick, dry and flaky -- resembling fish scales. She can't sweat but she can shed tears. On the day we speak, her appearance raises few eyebrows at her local Starbucks in Sai Kung -- she's a familiar and well-known presence in the waterfront Hong Kong town where she grew up. Mui's struggle to come to terms with her condition and other people's reactions to it has, at times, left her on the brink of suicide. But, now 22, she refuses to let it get in the way of her life -- she has a full-time job, plays sport and is embarking on a career as public speaker -- educating and inspiring others about the challenges of looking "visibly different." After she was abandoned at birth, long-time Hong Kong expats Tina and Rog Thomas began fostering Mui, when she was just one and a half years old. They were told she didn't have long to live. "We wanted to give her a family life in the time she had," says Tina. However, Mui began to thrive in a loving family environment and Tina and Rog formally adopted Mui when she was three years old. Together they gradually learned how to manage her skin condition. Each day she bathes twice, ideally for two hours each time, and everywhere she goes she carries a backpack with three or four tubs of cream that she must apply throughout the day to stop her skin from drying out. She's thought to be the fourth oldest person alive with harlequin ichthyosis. The oldest is 31. But while Mui's unusual appearance made little difference during her early years, that changed when she started secondary school. The school she attended required that she be accompanied by a educational assistant, which put up a barrier between her and the other children and made it difficult for her to make friends. Things got worse when she became a victim of cyberbullying. She began to deny her appearance, stopped bathing, taking her medication and applying the cream. At times, she considered jumping from the balcony of her home. "They'd say things like 'You shouldn't have been born' -- and very personal things that only people who knew me would know," she says. "It made me very wary of everybody. Even when people tried to be nice, I didn't repay it. I didn't trust them." The worst episode lasted for 10 months and only stopped after police became involved and found the bully -- someone whom Mui thought was her friend. Mui left school with no qualifications. She says the school didn't push her to study and made too many allowances for her skin disorder. "I still wish I had got a very hard kick up the backside from the teachers when I wasn't doing work," says Mui. Since leaving school, Mui has found a full-time job working with people with special needs and at weekends can be found running around a rugby pitch with a whistle -- she's a referee for kids' matches. Along with her parents, she's also begun speaking about her experiences of living with a "visible difference" and cyberbullying at schools around Hong Kong. Her father has also written a family memoir called "The Girl Behind the Face." Many have found her story inspirational -- a real life version of the young adult novel "Wonder" by R.J. Palacio about a young boy with a deformed face who enters middle school. On Saturday, she will graduate from school assemblies and speak in front of a paying audience at a TEDx talk in the city. Her father is both protective and proud. He thinks public speaking will help Mui come to terms with her condition but he's also wary that she could be portrayed as a "modern freak show." "It's difficult for her because she spent so long denying it. The more she confronts it, the more she is aware of it -- it will build confidence," he says. There's even talk she might take part in a fashion show for people with visible difference, realizing a childhood dream. In person, Mui comes across as articulate, poised and confident -- something her mom says comes out of spending so much time with adults while growing up -- and it's easy to see how she could command an audience of hundreds. But after two hours of chatting in a coffee shop, she's a little bored and keen to get back to her job. She flings her backpack over her shoulder and dashes off into Hong Kong's crowded streets.

Mui Thomas has a rare genetic condition that leaves her skin raw and open to infection . Abandoned at birth, Tina and Rog Thomas adopted Mui . She's now 22, a rugby referee and an inspirational speaker .

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The Real Madrid squad looked in high spirits as they prepared for Wednesday's Champions League quarter-final second leg clash against rivals Atletico Madrid. Cristiano Ronaldo and Co looked in a relaxed mood as Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti put his side through some small-sided games with some seemingly comical results. Dani Carvajal was on the end of some tough love from team-mates Sergio Ramos, Isco and Nacho as the Madrid stars play-fought much to the amusement those watching on. Dani Carvajal is mobbed by Real Madrid team-mates Isco, Sergio Ramos and Nacho during training . The Madrid defender looked exhausted after play-fighting with his Los Blancos team-mates . Cristiano Ronaldo (centre) takes part in a small-sided game during the session on Tuesday morning . The Madrid star was all smiles as he took part in training ahead of his side's Champions League clash . The European champions can expect a different kind of battle on Wednesday night as they look to make the most of home advantage against Atletico. The Madrid rivals players out a 0-0 draw in the first leg last week, leaving the quarter-final tie finely balanced. Ancelotti's side will be without striker Karim Benzema for Wednesday's match after revealing the French striker has has 'a sprain to the medial collateral ligament of his right knee.' Benzema missed Madrid's 3-1 La Liga victory against Malaga on Saturday, but Carlo Ancelotti had hoped the striker would recover in time. Madrid was already preparing for the second leg of the quarterfinals at home against Atletico without Gareth Bale (left calf), Luka Modric (right knee) and Marcelo (suspension). Marcelo (right), who will miss the clash through suspension, laughs along with Ronaldo . Atletico have beaten their neighbours four times and drawn against them three times in their bid for revenge for last season's Champions League final, which Real won 4-1 after extra time and Madrid forward James Rodriguez expects a tough match . 'We have to show intensity, be completely focused, play well, (we must) all stick together. I think that if we do that we'll come away with an excellent result,' Rodriguez told the club's official website. 'We're all dreaming of getting through this round, and if I can score too that'd be great. What's important is winning and getting through this tough match, which is going to be difficult, but we're here at our home stadium and in front of our fans. I think it could be a great match.' Sami Khedira (left) shares a joke with Portuguese defender Pepe as the players are put through their paces . German star Toni Kroos attempts to win the ball as Madrid prepare for the visit of Athletico on Wednesday . Los Blancos goalkeeper Iker Casillas trains alone during the session at Madrid's Valdebebas base .

Karim Benzema will miss Champions League clash against Athletico . Madrid squad all smiles during Tuesday morning training session . Quarter-final tie finely poised after 0-0 first leg scoreline .

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Boxer David Haye was arrested at Dubai airport and held in a police cell over a £341,000 bounced cheque, it has been reported. Former two-weight world champion Haye, 34, was stopped by officials on his arrival at Dubai International Airport and accused of fraud by writing a cheque as payment for a new property which bounced. The boxer also handed over his passport to authorities, and has been unable to leave the United Arab Emirates - forcing him to miss a mixed martial arts event in Birmingham at the weekend. Former heavyweight boxing champion David Haye was stopped at Dubai International Airport and questioned over allegations that he wrote a £341,000 cheque which bounced. He is pictured during his trip to Dubai . The cheque, worth 1.8million Emirati Dirham, was intended as a final payment on a newly-built property, as part of a deal with developers Emaar, which is part-owned by the Dubai government. Haye has said the 'bounced' cheque was down to an administrative error. He told The Sun's Michael Hamilton: 'The cheque was presented to the bank four days before I landed. It was not due to be presented until final completion of my property, which is due in a few weeks. 'This was an administrative error which is being rectified. I explained to the police and presented documents as proof. But I can totally understand these mistakes can happen.' Writing a cheque that later bounces is a crime in Dubai, and can be punishable with jail, a fine, and being ordered to pay the amount. Haye, 34, was stopped by officials after his arrival at Dubai International Airport for a holiday . Haye was reportedly taken to Bur Dubai police station, which has a department for bounced cheque suspects, and was released the same day . Police give suspects one month to pay the value of the cheque, before taking the case to court. Figures released last June showed that Dubai police dealt with almost 80,000 bounced cheques in 2013/14, worth 9.4 billion Dirham, or £1.7 billion. According to The Sun, Haye was held at the airport as he arrived for a holiday earlier this month after he was flagged up on a wanted list. He was reportedly taken to Bur Dubai police station, which has a department for bounced cheque suspects, and was released the same day. Haye had been due to attend a mixed martial arts event in Birmingham on Saturday, but was unable to leave Dubai. Instead he went to a Robbie Williams concert in Abu Dhabi . He surrendered his passport, as did two of his associates. The Foreign Office is understood to have had no involvement in the case. During his stay in Dubai, Haye has reportedly been staying at the luxurious Palm Jumeirah development, and has been tweeting photographs of himself enjoying the sunshine, as well as meeting fans. He posted a video to his Instagram account today thanking fans for their concern over an 'administrative issue' as he walked along a beach in the sunshine. In the video, which he captioned 'Don't worry about me too much!!!', he said: 'Thanks for all your worry and concern but don't get too stressed about me, things aren't that bad. 'A little administrative issue has left me in Dubai for a few days longer than anticipated but it's getting smoothed out as we speak and I'll be back - probably in London or Las Vegas soon.' Haye has not been seen in the boxing ring since he defeated Dereck Chisora in July 2012. He is pictured after the fight at Upton Park with the WBA and WBO International Heavyweight Championship belts . Haye had been due to attend a BAMMA mixed martial arts event in Birmingham on Saturday, where he was to present a live broadcast for channel Spike TV, but was forced to cancel due to his extended stay in Dubai. Instead, his place on the commentary team was taken by former WBA super-middleweight champion Carl Froch. In an Instagram message which was also posted to the event's Facebook page, Haye said: 'Sorry I can't be there tonight for BAMMA 20, I'm gutted, I'm stuck here in Dubai but I'll be there on June 13 in Birmingham for BAMMA 21.' 'Enjoy the action tonight, it's going to be great.' While he should have been in Birmingham, Haye instead told his 1.05 million Twitter followers that he had been to a Robbie Williams concert in Abu Dhabi, writing: 'Rluctantly came to @robbiewilliams concert Abu Dhabi, as not my style of music. But I'm a fan now, pure old school!' [sic]. Haye has not been seen in the boxing ring since he defeated Dereck Chisora in July 2012, while two planned fights against British rival Tyson Fury have fallen through, the second as a result of shoulder surgery. Despite being advised by doctors to give up boxing, he is said to be planning a comeback and hopes to fight again within the next 18 months. Since his last fight he has also appeared in the twelfth series I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here, finishing third in the television contest in November 2012. MailOnline has contacted Emaar for comment.

Haye, 34, stopped as he arrived at Dubai International Airport for a holiday . He was taken to a police station and handed over his passport . Cheque had been the final payment on a new property in the UAE . He says the 'bounced' cheque was down to an administrative error .

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The Duchess of Cambridge is expected to go into labour any day now, but has a software designer predicted what the fourth in line to the throne will look like? Programmer Charanjeet Kondal has used an application to create images of the new prince or princess. If he is right, the heir will have wispy blonde hair, dark brown eyes and a small nose when aged between two and four years old. Scroll down for video . Royal baby? A software programmer has predicted the heir will have wispy blonde hair, dark brown eyes and a small nose when aged between two and four years old . The Duchess is expected to go into labour any day now, but has someone predicted how the baby will look . The pictures of the new prince or princess were created using Mr Kondal's Morph Thing application. He ran the same software when it was announced Kate was pregnant for the first time with Prince George, and claims his predictions were relatively accurate. Charanjeet Kondal has used an application to create images of the new prince or princess . The software programmer said: 'I focus on all of the facial features of both of the parents and Morph Thing comes up with an average. 'Everything is taken to consideration - eyes, nose, jawline, and hairline - to come up with a clear picture. 'The software can be used by anyone by just putting two faces together.' The betting public believe the latest addition to the royal family will arrive on Wednesday - the couple's fourth wedding anniversary - or Thursday next week with odds of 4/1. It remains odds-on at 8/15 for a girl, however the eleventh hour support for a boy is in full swing at 11/8. Jessica Bridge of Ladbrokes said: 'As every day passes we're forced to slash the odds, and it would be fitting if the new Prince or Princess was born on Kate and William's anniversary.'

Software designer Charanjeet Kondal created images of new royal with app . If he's right, heir will have blonde hair, dark brown eyes and a small nose . Betting public believe the royal baby will arrive into world on Wednesday .

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Prince William, dutiful fellow that he is, has announced that he will be taking six weeks of paternity leave. God willing, his wife the Duchess of Cambridge will give birth to their next child in a few days’ time, at which point the Prince, having been excused from training with East Anglia Air Ambulance, will roll up the sleeves of his Viyella shirt and tell his beloved as she lies, exhausted, on her maternity hospital bed: ‘O duchess of my dreams, I am at your beck and call, coiled like a watchspring to hold milk bottles and change nappies until the first week of June’. Six weeks! Some of you may find this sweet. You will look at the earnest young Duke of C, with his well-meaning smile and that receding hairline (join the club, sir), and you may think: ‘There goes a properly modern man; what a fine example he sets to the rising generation.’ Scroll down for video . 'He may be a prince of the realm, but under it all he is a new man, bowing to convention like a willow branch in the flood,' says Quentin Letts of Prince William's six weeks' paternity leave . You will toast him in whatever it is that you spongy egalitarians use for toasts — some form of low-calorie herbal infusion, perhaps — and you may even allow yourselves a small ‘ahhh’ of sentimentalism. How lovely, you will say, that the next-but-heir to the throne is in tune with metropolitan sensibilities, alive to the rip-tides of 21st-century cultural politics. He may be a prince of the realm, surrounded by hot-and-cold-running flunkeys, cocooned by the coroneted appurtenances of royal life, but under it all he is a new man, bowing to convention like a willow branch in the flood. How unlike his father, the fogeyish Prince Charles — who at the time of his engagement to Diana, when asked if he was in love, gave a sighing, unromantic answer which included the throwaway phrase ‘whatever “in love” means’. Unlike his mouldering Pop, Wills accepts — embraces! — the mundane and sometimes stinky burdens of early parenthood. And so, for the next six weeks, and possibly beyond, the Prince will be on domestic parade, quivering to attention at the nursery door somewhere deep inside their stately home, Anmer Hall, in Norfolk, like a guardsman doing sentry duty outside St James’s Palace. HRH New Dad, in his nursemaid’s pinny, will be there to ‘do his bit’. And yet, at the risk of committing lese-majeste, I must confess that when I heard of the Prince’s undertaking I thought (and continue to think): ‘For God’s sake, man, are you MAD?’ I say this, furthermore, as a committed royalist and father of three. 'For the next six weeks, and possibly beyond, the Prince will be on domestic parade,' says Quentin Letts. 'Quivering to attention at the nursery door somewhere deep inside their stately home, Anmer Hall, in Norfolk' For your Royal Highness, I have been there and have glimpsed your immediate future. I have tried paternity leave, albeit briefly. So far as I could see it was an almost complete waste of time. Our first-born, Claud, arrived in July 1997, in the early days of the Blairite terrors. New Labour had been in office but a few weeks and the country was in the grip of a mini social revolution that saw the old Tory ways washed aside by political correctness. Even so, I absented myself from the birthing suite at Cheltenham maternity hospital (I had nearly fainted when the anaesthetist produced his epidural needle, long as a medieval jousting stick). I retired to a nearby pub for a pint or two of goodish cider. As I made my excuses and left the hospital, the midwives looked thoroughly relieved. They knew what no nurse ever seems prepared in public to admit: men in a maternity ward are a flat-footed menace. 'They knew what no nurse ever seems prepared in public to admit: men in a maternity ward are a flat-footed menace,' says Quentin Letts, who says he made it through just a week of his own paternity leave . I can claim to have changed Claud’s first nappy — I remember the moment vividly, as my wife looked on cluelessly — and I also made myself uncharacteristically useful when, the following morning, the three of us went home. You see, I was the one who worked out how to fasten the darn babyseat into the front seat of our elderly Mini estate car. OK, it took me ten minutes to work it out but at least, like Wills with Prince George, I did it! We lived at that point in a small cottage on a wooded hillside near Stroud, Gloucestershire, reached only by a steep footpath. For William and Kate, home is the rather better-appointed Anmer, an elegant, Georgian spread on the Sandringham estate. Will William need to carry the new-born bundle and its baby clobber (nappy bags, push chair, cot, toys, etc) down the garden path, as I did? One suspects there may be staff to do that. Once the newborn has been brought home, what is there for the father to do? Feeding the bairn? My wife opted for breast-feeding. My man boobs may be corkers in their own right but they were never up to that task, so I had little to do. Some women go in for breast pumps and decanting their milk into bottles, which the dads can then administer, but that all sounded a bit complicated to us — to be honest, it made me feel a bit faint. At Anmer Hall, there will surely be cohorts of nurses and Norland-trained nannies on hand to take over from Kate when she tires of feeding the little one. My mother-in-law, who had been my wife’s birthing partner, was busy and helpful in the first days after the babies arrived. Ah, the mother-in-law. We touch here, perhaps, on terrain that will be familiar to William, whose own ma-in-law, the indomitable Carole Middleton, is said to be in the Jimmy Anderson league of fast bowlers. 'Once the newborn has been brought home, what is there for the father to do?' asks Quentin Letts . Mrs Middleton, one is told, will be on hand at Anmer, once the young royals return to the family pile. When one hears of the proximity of mothers-in-law and gormless, bumbling sons-in-law, one fears a conflagration may break out as easily as if Russian and RAF jets are in close proximity in the skies over north-eastern Scotland. A man may love his wife’s mother, and that affection may even sometimes be reciprocated, but that is not to say it is a good idea for him to try to disagree with her when it comes to theories about how to hold a baby, lay it in its cot or bring up wind. Burping procedures: is this what search-and-rescue helicopter pilot William was put on earth to do? Mrs Middleton may not be a member of the blood royal but I suspect that if it came to a shoot-out between her and William over babysitting niceties, she would take the bout with ease. For this is what a man learns while on paternity leave: he is there on sufferance. The early weeks of motherhood lean heavily to the distaff side. In July 1997, your correspondent stood there, like any man, feeling a spare part as the aunts and grandmothers and godmothers and female neighbours fell to their cooing and gurgling at the purple-faced infant. Worse, these women were keen to discuss the complete biological aspects of the delivery. The expression ‘give us all the gory details’ rings still in my ear as my wife’s girlfriends descended on her with presents of Babygros and ‘moisturiser for your stretch marks’. 'Those first weeks after a birth, a mother and babe spend much of their time resting and sleeping. If a man can go and earn a few bob to help pay the flurry of bills, is he not better thus employed?' Descriptions of shrieking agony in the delivery room unfolded, complete with Dante-esque accounts of pushing and dilation and heads appearing. Worst of all, they wanted to know about ‘tearing’. A paternity-leave dad such as Prince William has two options: he can stand in the margins of such covens, and possibly disgrace himself by fainting, floored by the nausea of envisaging post-natal undercarriage surgery; or he can step into the garden (better still a beer garden) for some fresh air. I lasted less than a week first time round. For the second and third children, I made admiring noises, told my wife how wonderful she was, took a vague squint at the infant, then returned to my work. Those first weeks after a birth, a mother and babe spend much of their time resting and sleeping. If a man can go and earn a few bob to help pay the flurry of bills, is he not better thus employed? You can do a lot in six weeks. If you are a sailor you can cross the Atlantic and have time for a few days on some West Indies beach. If you are a cyclist you can go from Land’s End to John O’Groats and quite a long way back, depending on the gravity of your jock rot. By mid-June, early spuds will be ready for digging in our kitchen gardens. The new Parliament will be up and running. Buckingham Palace will be in summer garden-party season. England’s cricketers may already be two down in the series against New Zealand. Prince William, sir, ignore your press officers and image advisers. Don’t fall for this notion that a new dad’s place is at the (stately) home. You will have a whole life ahead for bonding with your lovely new child. Stay just long enough to show affectionate interest. Then make your escape!

Prince William has announced he'll be taking six weeks of paternity leave . He'll be staying with Kate and the new baby at Anmer Hall in Norfolk . But Quentin Letts, father of three, says the Prince must be mad!

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With just 26 days until the election, the Prime Minister is already showing the strain of a punishing campaign trail. At a visit to the Age UK in Plymouth yesterday, David Cameron appeared weary with bags under his eyes and disheveled hair. In one day this week the Tory leader travelled to all all four home nations in his bid to secure votes ahead of the May 7 election. Scroll down for video . Showing the strain: At a visit to the Age UK in Plymouth yesterday, David Cameron appeared weary with bags under his eyes and disheveled hair . He has also had to wade into a number of arguments, defending outspoken ministers, and even got into a muddle over cream teas. On Thursday Mr Cameron was been forced to defend Michael Fallon after the defence secretary claimed Ed Miliband would stab Britain’s national interest in the back in the same way he did his brother to gain the Labour leadership. The Prime Minister was also dealt a blow as Ed Miliband overtook him as the most popular political leader for the first time. In a shock result that sent shockwaves through Downing Street, the Labour leader jumped ahead of the Prime Minister in personal approval ratings. Not impressed: Six-year-old Lucy Howarth looked positively uninterested as the Prime Minister read a story at Sacred Heart Primary School near Bolton earlier this week . The Labour Party also took a commanding four point lead over the Tories, according to the pollsters Survation. On Wednesday, Mr Cameron failed to get the desired response from a six-year-old schoolgirl who looked positively uninterested as he read a story to her classmates at Sacred Heart Primary School near Bolton. Yesterday, another campaign gaffe saw Mr Cameron wade into the Cornwall Devon debate about how to eat a scone - getting the two counties contrasting traditions mixed up. The Tory leader has spent the day campaigning in Devon, where he must win several seats if he is to stand any chance of winning a majority. But his hopes of courting support in the county were given a knock with his food faux pas as he chatted with staff and customers of Tea by the Taw on The Strand in Barnstaple, the North Devon Gazette reported. David Cameron, on a visit to Devon this morning, made the blunder of confusing the two methods for eating a cream tea . All good politicians know how to make small talk with voters, but the jam and cream debate is no trifling matter. In an attempt to woo the locals, Mr Cameron ventured: 'When you are in Devon you do the jam and the cream in a different order to Cornwall, is that right?' Sensing a gaffe was imminent, he went on: 'I'm going to get this wrong, aren't I?' His prediction was correct, as he added: 'In Devon it's... jam first and cream on top?' His comments were greeted with silence and stony faces, as the staff realised someone was going to have to put the Prime Minister right.

PM appeared weary with bags under eyes at event in Plymouth yesterday . In one day PM visited all four home nations in bid to secure votes . Turbulent week also saw Ed Miliband overtake him as most popular leader .

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Thousands of people, including hundreds of school children, lined the streets of Norfolk today to wave farewell to the Light Dragoons. Around 250 men and women from the reconnaissance unit, which has most recently served in Iraq and Afghanistan, marched through the town of Dereham for the final time. They were supported by more than 4,000 well-wishers, many waving flags, who lined the streets to mark the conclusion of the regiments 15 year tenure in the county. They are set to leave Robertson Barracks in Swanton Morley this summer and move some 200 miles to their new home in Catterick, North Yorkshire. Scroll down for video . Final farewell: The Light Dragoons marched through the streets of Dereham, Norfolk, as they prepare to wave goodbye to the county . The reconnaissance unit is moving from Robertson Barracks in Swanton Morley to Catterick, North Yorkshire, after 15 years . Thank you: More than 4,000 people, including hundreds of school children, lined the route to cheer on the departing troops . Patriotic: Little Poppy-Louise Brook waves her Union flag as she sits on her grandfather's shoulders to watch her father, Lance Corporal Liam Brook, march past in the parade . Many of the school children who lined the streets are from military families and will be leaving their classmates to head to Yorkshire . The 250 men and women of the regiment were inspected by a number of officials, including the county's deputy lieutenant brigadier Richard Heywood . 'We've found ourselves putting some quite deep roots out here, whether it be in the local community or taking the dog for a walk on beautiful Norfolk beaches,' said Commanding Officer Lieutenant Colonel James Senior, according to ITV News. 'We've found a new home here so it will be a strain to leave here. But alas all good things must end and we must move onto what's next for us.' The Light Dragoons were originally mounted on fast horses and as a result were able to move quickly across the battlefield. Today, they sit on Jackal Fighting Vehicles and they are able to deploy anywhere in the world at very short notice. In 2009 the Light Dragoons were first given permission to march through Dereham with their bayonets fixed. The farewell parade through the town included military vehicles, a jet flypast and the Band of the Royal Armoured Corps. The deputy lieutenant of Norfolk, brigadier Richard Heywood, took the salute and inspected the troops. Many of the children lining the route were from military families and are also preparing to move to North Yorkshire. Showing support: Thousands of appreciative local people watched the parade, which featured more than 250 soldiers . Commanding Officer Lieutenant Colonel James Senior said: 'We've found a new home here so it will be a strain to leave here' The Light Dragoons will hand over their barracks to another unit in the summer after more than a decade in the town . The last parade came six years after the regiment were first given permission to march through the town with their bayonets fixed . The Light Dragoons have a proud 300 year history that has seen them take part in the Jacobite Rebellions, in the Waterloo Campaign, charge down the Valley of Death at the Battle of Balaclava, and be one of the first ashore at D Day. More recently,  the regiment was deployed to Iraq in 2003 to assist with the stabilisation of the country after Saddam Hussein's regime was toppled. They returned again in 2005 to battle counter insurgency and assist with the training of the Iraqi police force. In Afghanistan the regiment were involved in numerous operations to rid the country of the Taliban, as well as assisting with the creation and training of the Afghan Army. The regiment will hand over the barracks in Swanton Morley to1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards, in July.

The Light Dragoons have been based at Robertson Barracks, Swanton Morley, for the past 15 years . More than 4,000 people, including school children, lined the streets to say farewell to the reconnaissance unit . The regiment are packing up and moving some 200 miles to their new home in Catterick, North Yorkshire . Their commanding officer said it would be 'a strain to leave' after putting down 'deep roots' in Norfolk .

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In the ancient Inca kingdom, the wheel was yet to be invented, iron was foreign and steel was unheard of. So when the Incas needed to travel across the Andes, they did so on handwoven rope bridges, stretched over gorges and rivers. Five hundred years later, just one of the Inca rope bridges remains: the Keshwa Chaca, which spans the Apurimac River near Huinchiri, Peru, in the Province of Canas. Dangerous work: Local villagers work on renewing the Keshwa Chaca - the last Inca rope bridge - in the Andes near Huinchiri, Peru . Incredible skill: The 90ft long Keshwa Chaca remains thanks to local villagers who rebuild the bridge each year using the same techniques as their Inca ancestors . As they expanded their empire, the Incas built an entire network of bridges to move armies, people and goods quickly and efficiently over the mountains. Even though it would take another 300 years before suspension bridges came to Europe, it is estimated that the Inca kingdom was connected by some 200, all made by hand. The bridges were an integral part of the incredible Inca road system that stretches for 25,000 miles, from modern-day Ecuador to Argentina. The last Incas disappeared in the early 17th century, and over the years their bridges followed. The Keshwa Chaca remains thanks to local villagers who rebuild the bridge each year using the same techniques as their Inca ancestors. Craft: The ropes for the bridge are made from the 'ichu' grass, which is braided by the local villagers . Safe walk: Although the Keshwa Chaca bridge may look frail, it has been proven to support the weight of 56 people standing across the walkway . Ready to go: As the last Inca bridge, Keshwa Chaca has become a tourist attraction, with visitors paying a small fee to walk across the gorge . Ancient tradition: It takes three days to rebuild the Keshwa Chaca, which is done in June every year . It spans 90ft over the Apurimac River some 100ft below, and villagers claim it has been there for 500 years. In the Inca days, local villagers would rebuild the Keshwa Chaca each year as a way of paying tax, but in modern times residents of the region keep the ancient tradition and skills alive by renewing the bridge every June. After the bridge has been built, it is left to disintegrate before being constructed again the next year. The raw material is 'ichu', a type of grass common on the sparse mountainsides of the Andes, which is braided into rope for the bridge. Each household in the four nearby villages is responsible for bringing 90 feet of braided grass rope, Slate reports. The bridge consists of five parallel 'ichu' ropes, which are braided to be about four inches thick, fastened at stone platforms on each side of the gorge. The floor or walkway is of small sticks and canes, fastened transversely with raw-hide strings, and two thick ropes are tied between the platforms as armrails. It takes three days to renew the Keshwa Chaca, and although it may look brittle, it has been proven to support the weight of 56 people standing across the walkway.

Inca kingdom in the Andes was connected via handwoven rope bridges . Today, only one bridge remains - the Keshwa Chaca near Huinchiri, Peru . The 90ft-long bridge is rebuilt by villagers over three days every June, before gradually disintegrating each time . Locals use the same techniques to make the rope as their Inca ancestors .

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From alien coffins to fossilised lizards, conspiracy theorists believe they have found all manner of strange items in Nasa's images of Mars. Now, one alien hunter claims to have spotted what he believes to be a bunker on the red planet, with armed people peering out of its windows. Andre Gignac says he made the 'stunning discovery' in a photograph released by Nasa and taken by the Mars rover Opportunity. Scroll down for video . A conspiracy theorist claims to have spotted what he believes to be a bunker on the red planet, with armed people peering out of its windows (shown by the dotted red line) He says he became suspicious about a 'dark spot' on the rim of the Endeavour crater he had found in the original image, and so took a closer look. 'I was stunned. It was a massive panoramic window built in the inside wall of the crater,' Gignac told Cryptozoology News. 'You can see a person behind the bunker's window,' the 58-year-old added. He claims that the 'bunker' 'could also be a corridor leading to a bigger bunker'. 'Also, not far from this bunker are missiles, rockets and structures deployed in a circle,' he says. 'Bunkers have been spotted in previous Nasa pictures, some might be caused by shadows or lack of resolution that doesn't give enough detail to clearly see if the structure is a bunker or not,' Nigel Watson, author of the UFO investigations Manual, told Dailymail.com . Andre Gignac says he made the 'stunning discovery' in a photograph released by Nasa and taken by the Mars rover Opportunity . Pictured From left to right, are structures, missiles and rockets Cignac claims he found in Nasa's image . Cignac claims he became curious about a 'dark spot' on the rim of the Endeavour crater he had found in the original image, and so took a closer look . 'Others have claimed that bunker pictures were taken by the European Space Agency, Mars Express orbital vehicle. 'These were explained as being of erosional features or caused by the way the pictures were stitched together. 'Whatever the "mundane" explanation I think we are more fascinated by the idea that there are people secretly living beneath the surface of Mars and they are part of some secret space program. 'Such a project would need vast resources and would be very hard to keep covered up, yet many think this is what is happening and that these activities are being carried out in conjunction with one or more alien species.' The latest discovery follows a spate of supposed 'sightings' of Martian civilisation. Last year, a Maryland-based UFO hunter spotted what he believed to be a 'decorative' box on the red planet. Other objects found in images of Mars include what some UFO hunters claim to be a fossilised iguana (left). Stock image of an iguana is pictured right . The so-called 'coffin' was found by Will Farrar from WhatsUpintheSky37 as he trawled through a library of pictures sent back by the Mars rover Curiosity. The image pictured inset has been edited . The 'coffin' was discovered by Will Farrar from WhatsUpintheSky37 as he trawled through a library of pictures sent back by the Mars rover Curiosity. Many scientists believe that seeing strange objects, such as a 'coffin' on Mars, is simple a case of pareidolia. This is a psychological response to seeing faces and other significant and everyday items in random places. It is a form of apophenia, which is when people see patterns or connections in unconnected data. There have been multiple occasions when people have claimed to see religious images and themes in unexpected places, especially the faces of religious figures. Many involve images of Jesus, the Virgin Mary and the word Allah. For example, in September 2007 a callus on a tree resembled a monkey, leading believers in Singapore to pay homage to the Monkey god. Another famous instance was when Mary's face was a grilled cheese sandwich. Images of Jesus have even been spotted inside the lid of a jar of Marmite and in a potato. 'This little box sure does look like a modern coffin concrete liner,' he wrote on his YouTube channel. 'As well as the stonework on the back part of the hill that looks like stairs or some left over stonework from some old civilisations constructions.' Alien researcher Scott Waring of the UFO Sightings Daily said he believes the coffin was made from a stone-like substance. 'What would it take to get Nasa to turn the rover around and examine the contents of this box?,' he said. But while its strong lines have captured the imagination of UFO bloggers, scientists believe sightings such as this are down to a psychological phenomenon called Pareidolia. This describes the brain's response to seeing faces and other significant objects in random places. It has evolved so that human eyes can spot faces within their environment, and to help them recognise friends in a crowd. Scientists claim we also tend to use this ability to 'enrich our imagination' and recognise meaningful shapes, even when they're not there. 'I stand ready to be convinced that I have possibly hallucinated. I won't mind being told that I'm wrong,' Cignac says. Last year, UFO enthusiasts claimed to have spotted Barack Obama's head on the Martian surface. They say a panoramic image from 2005 taken by the Spirit rover shows a rock shaped uncannily like his head .

Radical claim was made by 58-year-old Canadian, Andre Gignac . Spotted 'bunker' in an image taken by the Nasa rover Opportunity . 'You can see a person behind the bunker's window,' Gignac claims . Nasa expert says the 'bunker' is simply effect of shadows in the image .

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The BBC has axed Richard Hammond and James May from the Top Gear website after co-presenter Jeremy Clarkson was sacked from the show. The motoring programme's website previously featured the broadcasting trio alongside The Stig at the top of the page but now the racing driver appears solo in his white helmet. It comes just over a week after the 54-year-old host was sacked from the BBC for an 'unprovoked' attack on a Top Gear producer. Scroll down for video . Change: The Top Gear website now features an image of The Stig on his own at the top of the page . Before: The website used to feature an image of all three presenters - Richard Hammond (left), Jeremy Clarkson (centre) and James May (right) as well as racing driver The Stig (far right) The BBC say the masthead change is to 'simply reflect the fact that all three presenters are currently out of contract on the show'. However the Corporation is yet to confirm whether Hammond, known as 'The Hamster', and May, who is dubbed 'Captain Slow', will return to the popular show. Both have recently changed their Twitter bios too, with Hammond saying: 'Can't explain it really ... er, I do this car show and stuff.' While May's profile reads: 'Former TV presenter only remembered for saying "Oh c***". Or was that the other bloke?' The pair also revealed today that they are selling off a dozen bikes from the classic motor cycle collections - raising more questions about the future of their employment. May is putting eight of his two-wheeled treasures under the hammer, while Hammond, is doing the same with four of his. The BBC say the website change is to reflect the fact that none of the presenters are currently in contract . Together the 12 bikes are estimated to be worth a guide price of £66,000 and are being sold off by auctioneers Bonhams later this month. The Top Gear duo’s bikes are being sold off by auctioneers Bonhams at their Spring Stafford Sale later this month. May insisted the decision to sell the bikes came before the latest BBC Top Gear turmoil, saying: ’Just because I’m unemployed now doesn’t mean I have to get rid of everything. ‘I was going to sell these bikes anyway. And those paintings, and my collection of Scalextric cars. Honest’. Hammond added: ‘As a serious collector of motorcycles, it’s important to review one’s stable regularly, and the Bonhams Stafford sale is the ideal opportunity to move bikes on and possibly acquire new ones. Hammond and May also revealed they are selling off a dozen bikes from the classic motor cycle collections . The BBC confirmed they will fulfil the Top  Gear live gigs, but they will be stripped of the Corporation's branding . 'I also have a canoe, and some Wharfedale hi-fi speakers, if anyone’s interested’. However the BBC has confirmed that Top Gear's live world tour will go ahead next month, with the three original presenters at the helm. They will do a series of gigs, which have already sold 200,000 tickets worldwide and made £10million, but the show will be stripped entirely of all BBC branding. Clarkson was sacked from Top Gear on March 25 after it was found that he had punched producer Oisin Tymon in a 30-second assault, leaving him with a split lip and needing hospital treatment. The BBC announced 'a line has been crossed' and 'there cannot be one rule for one and one rule for another' following the suspension. Jeremy Clarkson was sacked by the BBC after he punched Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon (pictured)

Top Gear's website previously featured all three presenters at top of page . It now shows a single image of racing driver The Stig in his white helmet . BBC say change is to 'reflect that all three presenters are out of contract' But it's yet to confirm whether Richard Hammond or James May will return . Jeremy Clarkson was sensationally sacked from the show over a week ago .

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Three years ago, Pakistan had almost completely eradicated polio, a devastating disease which paralyses its victims' legs but is preventable with a simple injection. Today, it's on the rise again after the Taliban declared the vaccine to be a 'Western conspiracy' and a 'bio-weapon' that would actually make children sick, and waged violent attacks against those found to be supplying it. But mother-of-three Farhina Touseef - the subject of Channel 4's Unreported World - is risking her life by leading a team of medics as they travel door-to-door through dangerous Taliban strongholds offering the free vaccines to parents. Mother-of-three Farhina Touseef (pictured) is risking her life by leading a team of medics as they travel door-to-door through dangerous Taliban strongholds offering the free vaccines to parents . Flanked by reporter Nelufar Hedayat, Farhina takes her life into her hands on every mission she goes, unsafe in the knowledge that more than 80 health workers before her have been slaughtered by the Taliban. The Taliban, a Islamic fundamentalist political movement which was toppled from power after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, is famed for its hard-line policies and brutality against women. In Pakistan, polio has been on the rise since the Taliban declared the vaccine to be a 'bio-weapon' that would actually make children sick. Pictured, reporter Nelufar Hedayat with two polio victims . Two young sisters, Maheen and Mariam, pictured with their brother, contracted the disease after their father, a conservative cleric, refused to give them polio drops . It is opposed to music, television and education for girls over the age of ten, among other things - the polio vaccine included. Farhina, along with several other of the government-spearheaded teams, is desperate to stop the spread of the highly contagious disease, which the World Health Organisation has called an international public health emergency. '[My family] wanted me to give up work because it’s so risky,' Farhina admits. 'It’s life threatening. My husband said 100 per cent I should resign. But I couldn’t do it.' There have been 322 cases of polio across the country in the last two years, the majority of them children under three. Pictured, Maheen and Mariam's mother, who wanted them to have the vaccine . Farhina, pictured hiding beneath her veil, takes her life into her hands on every mission she goes, unsafe in the knowledge that more than 80 health workers before her have been slaughtered by the Taliban . Vaccination - administered in drop-form into the mouth - is the only way to stop the spread of polio, and there is no cure. There have been 322 cases of polio across the country in the last two years, the majority of them children under three. Farhina tells Nelufar that many of the people they try to help refuse the medicine and are hostile – dangerous even, having been indoctrinated by the Taliban. Two of her colleagues were gunned down on the job in 2012 by the terror group for issuing the vaccine. Farhina and the Channel 4 team travelled to Orangi Town, a particularly hazardous region, to meet a family devastated by polio. Two young sisters, Maheen and Mariam, contracted the disease after their father, a conservative cleric, refused to give them polio drops against their mother’s wishes. She hopes that with the help of leg braces, Mariam may be able to walk again within three years, but for Maheen, it’s too late. Another cleric, Aisha Usmaini, teaches 400 women and preaches against the vaccine, incorrectly claiming that it contains 'human foetal tissue' and is part of the 'war against Muslims'. Many of the families they try to help refuse the medicine and are hostile – dangerous even, so Farhina must travel with armed guards everywhere she goes (pictured) Vaccination - administered in drop-form into the mouth - is the only way to stop the spread of polio, and there is no cure. Pictured, Nelufar with two members of the team who provide the vaccine . Sadly, these claims didn't appear from nowhere. The American CIA has admitted to using a vaccination campaign as cover back in 2011 to allow them to go house to house in their hunt for Osama Bin Laden. Back home, preparing to go out for another day vaccinating children, Farhina is concerned about her own children. 'God forbid, I worry that if something happens to me, what will happen to my family?' she tells Nelufar. 'One day when Pakistan is free from polio, I will have time for my family. But right now my other children need me.' Unreported World airs tonight on Channel 4 at 7.30pm .

Farhina Touseef travels the country administering the free vaccine to kids . The Taliban has labelled it a 'bio-weapon' and attacks those who supply it . Polio, which was once almost eradicated in Pakistan, is on the rise again .

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A federal judge on Thursday ordered California's corrections department to provide a transsexual convicted murderer with sex change surgery, the first time such an operation has been ordered in the state. According to the spokeswoman for the federal receiver, who controls California prison medical care, the surgery could cost taxpayers as much as $100,000. U.S. District Court Judge Jon Tigar in San Francisco ruled that denying sex reassignment surgery to 51-year-old Michelle-Lael Norsworthy violates her constitutional rights. Right to be a woman:  U.S. District Court Judge Jon Tigar in San Francisco ruled that denying sex reassignment surgery to Michelle-Lael Norsworthy, 51,  pictured last year, violates her constitutional rights . Her birth name is Jeffrey Bryan Norsworthy. Norsworthy has been in prison since 1987, serving a life sentence for second-degree murder. She has twice delayed her scheduled parole hearings in recent months. The ruling says it would be the second time nationwide that such a surgery has been performed on an inmate, an apparent reference to an inmate who castrated himself in Texas then was given the surgery out of necessity. Norsworthy has lived as a woman since the 1990s and has what Tigar termed severe gender dysphoria. 'The weight of the evidence demonstrates that for Norsworthy, the only adequate medical treatment for her gender dysphoria is SRS,' Tigar wrote, referring to sex reassignment surgery. He found that the decision by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to deny the procedure was medically unacceptable under the circumstances. Corrections officials said they are considering whether to appeal the ruling. Attorneys for Norsworthy did immediately comment. Paid surgery: Michelle-Lael Norsworthy has been living as a woman since the 1990s and her birth name is Jeffrey Bryan Norsworthy. 'This would be a first for California, said Joyce Hayhoe, a spokeswoman for the federal receiver who controls California prison medical care. The cost to taxpayers for such surgery is uncertain, she said. 'It's several tens of thousands of dollars, possibly close to $100,000, depending on the circumstances. But It's hard to estimate,' Hayhoe said. Corrections officials, in previous court filings, argued that Norsworthy has received proper medical and mental health care for more than 15 years and is in no immediate medical danger if the surgery is not performed. Her care has included counseling, mental health treatment and hormone therapy that the department said 'has changed her physical appearance and voice to that of a woman' while helping her find her gender identity. That care is consistent with what other judges nationwide have found to be appropriate for transgender inmates, the department said. She currently is housed at Mule Creek State Prison, an all-male prison in Ione, 40 miles southeast of Sacramento. The sex change surgery will prompt practical problems, the department said. The department also said keeping Norsworthy in a men's prison could invite violence, including possible assault and rape. But she could also face danger at a women's prison — or pose a threat herself — because she had a history of domestic violence before her murder conviction, the department said. Possible danger of rape: She currently is housed at Mule Creek State Prison, an all-male prison in Ione, 40 miles southeast of Sacramento and there are fears she may be raped when becoming a woman .

Judge ruled that denying sex reassignment surgery to Michelle-Lael Norsworthy violates her constitutional rights . The inmate's birth name is Jeffrey Bryan Norsworthy . Surgery could cost taxpayers up to $100,000 and is the first time such an operation has been ordered in California . Norsworthy has been in prison since 1987, serving a life sentence for second-degree murder .

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Lancashire's Liam Livingstone scored a reported world-record 350 for Nantwich Town in a National Club Championship match against Caldy on Sunday. The 21-year-old all-rounder, who has yet to make his first-team debut for the Red Rose, plundered 34 fours and 27 sixes in his remarkable 138-ball innings. Lancashire believes the innings is the highest-ever individual score in a one-day match. Achievement: Livingstone came in at number 3 and smashed a triple-century as the scoreboard shows . Lancashire's Liam Livingstone hit 350 for Mantwich Town against Caldy in what could be a world record . He told BBC Sport: 'From 100 onwards, I was just trying to whack every ball for six. 'When I got into the high 200s and into the 300s, I realised that something quite special could happen.' 'Well done to @liaml4893 who, we think, has smashed a new World Record for limited overs cricket, hitting 350 today,' Lancashire posted on their official Twitter feed. Livingstone's efforts helped Nantwich to compile 579 for seven from their 45 overs. And their efforts appeared to be wasted when they skittled Caldy for just 79 to secure a staggering 500-run victory. Livingstone, who hit 204 in a second XI game against Yorkshire in September, surpasses the previous record of 334 not out scored by Nikhilesh Surendran in Hyderabad in 2008.

Liam Livingstone hit 34 fours and 27 sixes 138-ball innings of 350 . The 21-year-old all-rounder is yet to debut for Lancashire's first team . His Nantwich Town made 579 for seven from their 45 overs against Caldy . They won National Club Championship match by 500 runs .

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(CNN)After years of making the case that the education of athletes is paramount, the NCAA now says it has no legal responsibility to make sure education is actually delivered. On its website, the NCAA prominently states, "It's our commitment -- and our responsibility -- to give young people opportunities to learn, play and succeed." And later, it says that "in the collegiate model of sports, the young men and women competing on the field or court are students first, athletes second." But the NCAA is taking a very different position in response to a lawsuit filed by former University of North Carolina athletes. The lawsuit claimed the students didn't get an education because they were caught up in the largest known academic fraud scandal in NCAA history. In its response, the NCAA says it has no legal responsibility "to ensure the academic integrity of the courses offered to student-athletes at its member institutions." Even with pages of online information about academic standards, and even though the NCAA has established a system of academic eligibility and accountability that it boasts of regularly, NCAA attorneys wrote in this court filing that "the NCAA did not assume a duty to ensure the quality of the education of student-athletes," and "the NCAA does not have 'direct, day-to-day, operational control' " over member institutions like UNC. "It's nonsense. It's double talk," said Gerald Gurney, a former athletic-academic director who is now president of The Drake Group for academic integrity in collegiate sport. "If you look at their basic core principles, it's all about academics, the experience, the integration of academics, and the education of the student is paramount," Gurney said. "They seem to talk out of both sides of their mouths." The NCAA referred calls for comment to an online statement, which read in part: . The NCAA believes that the lawsuit misunderstands the NCAA's role with respect to its member schools and ignores the myriad steps the NCAA has taken to assist student-athletes in being equipped to excel both in the classroom and on the playing field. "This case is troubling for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that the law does not and has never required the NCAA to ensure that every student-athlete is actually taking full advantage of the academic and athletic opportunities provided to them," said Donald Remy, NCAA chief legal officer. In its response to the lawsuit, it also likened its role to that of the American Bar Association or American Medical Association, and said that those entities are not sued every time a lawyer or doctor acts inappropriately. The scandal at UNC involved thousands of athletes who, over 18 years, were funneled into classes that never met, where advisers fudged grades and accepted plagiarism so that athletes who were falling behind in class could remain eligible to play sports. Mary Willingham, the UNC whistleblower turned NCAA critic, has for years said that athletes across the country are accepted to colleges even though they're academically underprepared and then pushed into classes where little work is required. The system of eligibility that the NCAA brags about, she says, is a sham. "Why do we go through the trouble of compliance if we can't legitimize that the courses are real and the education is real anyway? It makes no sense," said Willingham, who recently wrote a book about the UNC scandal called "Cheated." "If they can't legitimize that the academics are real and take no responsibility for that, then why certify students semester after semester to play? It's lost its meaning for me." The NCAA's claim that it's hands-off when it comes to athletics seems to be a direct contradiction of what the organization has been repeating for years, not just in the rhetoric on its website, but in speeches by its president, Mark Emmert, and in court defending itself from numerous lawsuits over paying athletes. For example, before it lost a case filed by former UCLA player Ed O'Bannon, suing for the right of athletes to make money off their images and likenesses, the NCAA stood on the pillar of amateurism, insisting that college athletes are paid with an education. That's the defense the NCAA is now using in another class action filed by big-time sports attorney Jeffrey Kessler, seeking to make college sports a free market where athletes are paid salaries based on their value. In response, the NCAA said that what sets college sports apart from pros is education: Consistent with "its commitment to amateurism, member institutions conduct their athletics programs for students who choose to participate in intercollegiate athletics as a part of their educational experience and in accordance with NCAA bylaws." Attorney Michael Hausfeld, who represented both O'Bannon and now the UNC athletes, said this: . "This startling inconsistency is unfortunately all too symptomatic of the NCAA's shifting rhetoric and faltering commitment to its college athletes. NCAA President Mark Emmert has repeatedly proposed that 'What we live for is the education of our athletes,' but the NCAA's record tells a far different story." But Rick Burton, professor of sport management at Syracuse University, said it's not realistic to think that the NCAA would regulate every professor and every course an athlete might take at each university across the country. "I understand, I think, where the NCAA is coming from. We would not let the NCAA come in and tell us how to run our chemistry department at Syracuse University," he said. "It sounds like someone is trying to say the NCAA should have been supervising that department at the University of North Carolina, and there's no logic to that," he said. "The people who are saying the NCAA should be held accountable for academics at every school are just looking for an opportunity to throw rocks at the NCAA." UNC, which was also sued, has admitted to the fraud, but also asked for a judge to throw out the case, saying the athletes waited too long -- seven years -- to sue and the "educational malpractice" theory doesn't apply. UNC claims it is protected by state law. This is reminiscent of another NCAA reversal. The NCAA, which was founded a century ago to protect athletes from "dangerous and exploitive athletic practices," now says it does not enforce health and safety rules. In fact, in response to a lawsuit filed by the family of a player who died in 2011, the NCAA wrote: "The NCAA denies that it has a legal duty to protect student-athletes." A CNN investigation found that the NCAA has failed to open investigations in several cases where safety rules allegedly were broken. It has also fallen behind in imposing rules for concussions -- far behind even the NFL. Ramogi Huma, president of the National College Players Association, and a leading thorn in the NCAA's side for decades, said this latest backpedaling from the NCAA leaves him wondering why the organization exists at all. "There's nothing left the NCAA can claim it does that is beneficial to college athletes or society. One has to wonder what does the NCAA do if it doesn't protect players? If it doesn't play a role in the education of college athletics? It begs the question of why does the NCAA exist -- and why does it have a tax exemption."

In response to lawsuit, NCAA says it doesn't control quality of education for student-athletes . But its website emphasizes importance of education, "opportunities to learn" Lawsuit claims students didn't get an education because of academic fraud at UNC .

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A stern defensive line has twice helped Jose Mourinho and Chelsea to Premier League glory, with a third likely to follow upon the resolution of the 2014-15 campaign. Statistics show the Chelsea manager is the best in Premier League history at shutting out opponents, edging out the man he replaced upon returning to London for his second stint at Chelsea, Rafa Benitez. Of the 189 Premier League matches the Portuguese has overseen, he has an astounding 101 clean sheets, nullifying his rivals in 53.4 per cent of games. Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has the best clean sheets percentage record in Premier League history . A stubborn defence has twice helped Mourinho win the league, with a third likely at the end of the season . Mourinho (left) beats Rafa Benitez in the clean sheets record and average of goals conceded . Benitez has 13 more, 114 from 254 matches with Liverpool and Chelsea, keeping out his opponents in 44.9 per cent of his games. From his 133 games at Manchester City, Roberto Mancini edged out Sir Alex Ferguson by 0.1 per cent. Ferguson retired at Old Trafford with 359 shut-outs and clean sheet percentage of 44.3, but Mancini had 44.4 per cent with 59 from 133. Mourinho also heads the list of managers with the lowest average of goals conceded per game, with 0.63. His Chelsea teams have collectively only conceded a stubborn 120 times under his guidance. Again, Benitez is second but with a much bigger difference, as the Spaniard averages 0.82 goals every Premier League encounter. Mancini is third, on 0.83 and Bruce Rioch fourth on 0.84, but the former Arsenal manager has taken charge of the lowest number of games (38) in the top 10. Carlo Ancelotti is fifth, averaging 0.86 goals a game from the two seasons he oversaw at Chelsea, where he also won the Premier League. Sir Alex Ferguson (right) celebrates winning the league with one of his best defenders, Rio Ferdinand . Arsene Wenger has also established an imposing defensive record from 708 games at Arsenal . Roberto Mancini (left) and Carlo Ancelotti have impressive defensive records from shorts spells in England . Ferguson, a 13-time league champion from his time at United, conceded 703 times and averaged 0.87 goals per game. Arsene Wenger, the second-longest serving manager in Premier League history with 708 games to date, has kept 277 clean sheets and conceded 672 goals. He ranks ninth in the list of clean-sheet percentages and eighth in the number of goals conceded per game, averaging 0.95.

Jose Mourinho has a stunning defensive record from his time at Chelsea . He has 101 clean sheets from 189 games, conceding only 120 goals . His record surpasses those of Rafa Benitez and Sir Alex Ferguson . Mourinho: I have a problem, I am getting better and better . CLICK HERE for all the latest Chelsea news .

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Armed men killed eight people in a raid on a Sao Paulo football fan club on Saturday night that has close links to a notorious, now-closed prison. Police said witnesses told them that around midnight on Saturday three gunmen stormed the dark and gritty site where Corinthians' fan group Pavilhao 9 meets underneath a highway overpass. They ordered the victims to lie face down on the ground and shot seven in the head. An eighth man was shot but tried to escape, reached a gas station and was later taken to a nearby hospital where he died. Armed police stand guard outside the headquarters of Corinthians fan club Pavilhao 9 on Sunday morning . A distraught woman talks on her mobile phone outside the building where seven men were executed . A policeman shows the bullet shells that were collected at the scene of the shooting west of Sao Paulo . Detective Arlindo Jose Negrao ruled out a fight between rival fan groups. He would not reveal the motive behind the attack, however, saying that could interfere with the probe. 'Through witnesses, we are already exploring a line of investigation, which is not leading us to believe it was caused by fan rivalry,' Negrao said at a press conference. 'We even have possible suspects.' The victims were having a barbecue at the club at the time and making flags with their team's colours for Sunday's anticipated match between Corinthians and Palmeiras. The fan group did not answer several phone calls. Pavilhao 9 was founded by a group of Corinthians fans who played football with inmates at Brazil's Carandiru prison, known widely for a massacre that left 111 inmates dead, which was turned into a movie. The prison is now closed. Police say that the killings, that took place late on Saturday night, are not related to any football rivalry . A woman is comforted by a policeman as she talks on a mobile phone outside the fan club . The Corinthians team did not respond to a request for information but posted the word 'mourning' against a black backdrop on its official Facebook page. Former president of the team and current federal congressman, Andres Sanchez, said on the social network he was 'deeply saddened to learn of what had happened at Pavilhao 9, with which I had a strong bond since I was a kid.' Much of the football violence that breaks out in or near Brazilian stadiums is traced to fan clubs. Police often investigate fan groups for ties with drug traffickers. The victims were having a barbecue as they prepared for Corinthians match against Palmeiras on Sunday when gunmen raided the premises . Brazilian police guard entrance to the building where the fan group were making flags ahead of Sunday's game . 'It is widely known that criminal organisations are inside of all fan clubs. Organised crime uses these fan groups as a front for their misdeeds,' Juca Kfouri, one of Brazil's best-known sports commentators, told radio station CBN. Last year, dozens of members of another Corinthians' fan club, Gavioes da Fiel, invaded the team's training centre. Angered by the team's performance, they attacked employees and grabbed Peruvian striker Paolo Guerrero by his neck, forcing other players to flee into a locker room and barricade themselves in until police arrived. Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.

Eight members of Corinthians' Pavilhao 9 fan group killed on Saturday . Armed men raided the group as they had a barbecue at the club . Seven were shot in the head while one was wounded but died in hospital . Police say the killings are not linked to any football rivalry . The supporters group has links to a notorious prison that is now closed .

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A baby elephant showed off its playful side by trampling all over its mother while she tried to enjoy a midday snooze. Captured on camera by a visitor to the ABQ BioPark Zoo in Albuquerque, the footage shows the youngster named Jazmine approaching its mother Rozie. With its front left leg already placed on its mother’s neck, the young elephant clambers onto her with its right leg. The footage was captured on camera by a visitor to the ABQ BioPark Zoo in Albuquerque . Before steadying itself and lunging forward with both its back legs – trampling all over Rozie as it tries to get its balance. All the while the 22-year-old Asian elephant remains incredibly docile. Later in the video the elephant appears to be stuck as it attempts to propel itself forward with its back legs dangling from the floor. Before it stops on its mother’s back and appears to consider whether or not it is content with its current position. The young baby elephant named Jazmine approaches its mother Rozie and starts clambering over her . The young elephant steadys itself, lunges forward with both its back legs and tramples all over Rozie as it tries to get its balance . People watching, who were earlier giggling, can be heard commenting on the elephants interacting in front of them. One says: ‘She’s just sitting on her,’ while another replies: ‘She’s just tired.’ The video concludes with the baby elephant – who appears unable to get comfortable – leaning forward and clambering off its mother. ABQ BioPark Zoo in Albuquerque is an environmental museum containing four separate facilities. Included in these are the Albuquerque Aquarium, Rio Grande Botanic Garden, Tingley Beach and Rio Grande Zoo, where the elephants are kept. The young elephant stops on its mother’s back and appears to consider whether or not it is content with its current position . Throughout the whole ordeal the 22-year-old Asian elephant remains incredibly docile .

The young elephant tramples its mother while attempt to climb her . It then considers sitting on her before clambering off the other end . Throughout the entire ordeal the 22-year-old mother remains docile . video was captured by a visitor to Albuquerque's ABQ BioPark Zoo .

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(CNN)Emergency operators get lots of crazy calls, but few start like this. Caller: "Hello, I'm trapped in this plane and I called my job, but I'm in this plane." Operator: "You're where?" Caller: "I'm inside a plane and I feel like it's up moving in the air. Flight 448 can you please tell somebody (to) stop it." The frantic 911 call came just as the Alaska Airlines flight had taken off from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Monday afternoon. The caller was a ramp agent who fell asleep in the plane's cargo hold. The cell phone call soon broke up, but the man was making himself known in other ways as the crew and passengers reported unusual banging from the belly of the Boeing 737. The pilot radioed air traffic control and said he would make an emergency landing. "There could be a person in there so we're going to come back around," he told air traffic control. The ramp agent who took the untimely nap and caused all the fuss is an employee of Menzies Aviation, a contractor for Alaska Airlines that handles loading the luggage. He'll no longer have the option of dozing aboard one of the airline's planes. "The Menzies employee has been permanently banned from working on Alaska Airlines planes," said Bobbie Egan, a spokeswoman for the airline. Flight 448, which was on its way to Los Angeles, only spent 14 minutes in the air. Other than being scared, the agent never was in any real danger. The cargo hold is pressurized and temperature controlled, the airline said. The passengers knew something wasn't right, almost as soon as the plane took off. "All of a sudden we heard all this pounding underneath the plane and we thought there was something wrong with the landing gear," Robert Higgins told CNN affiliate KABC. Not everyone heard the banging, but it was soon clear this wasn't a normal flight. "We just took off for L.A. regular and then ... about five minutes into the flight the captain came on and said we were going back and we'd land within five to seven minutes, and we did," passenger Marty Collins told affiliate KOMO. "When we landed was when all the trucks and the police and the fire trucks surrounded the plane." "I think it's scary and really unsafe, too," Chelsie Nieto told affiliate KCPQ. "Because what if it's someone who could have been a terrorist?" The employee started work at 5 a.m. and his shift was scheduled to end at 2:30 p.m., just before the flight departed. The agent was off the two days prior to the incident and had taken a lunch break and a break in the afternoon before making his way into the cargo hold, according to a source familiar with the investigation. The man had been on a four-person team loading baggage onto the flight. "During a pre-departure huddle, the team lead noticed the employee was missing. The team lead called into the cargo hold for the employee and called and texted the employee's cell phone, but did not receive an answer. His co-workers believed he finished his shift and went home," the airline's blog said. It's believed he was hidden by luggage, making it difficult for the rest of his team to see him, the source said. All ramp employees have security badges, and undergo full criminal background checks before being hired, according to the airline. After the delay, the flight with 170 passengers and six crew members on board made it to Los Angeles a couple of hours late. CNN's Dave Alsup, Joshua Gaynor and Greg Morrison contributed to this report.

The ramp agent fell asleep in the plane's cargo hold . He can no longer work on Alaska Airlines flights .

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It has been 40 years since the historic evacuation of the of Saigon as the North Vietnamese army descended upon the city, and among the many stories of heroism and bravery is that of a father who piloted a military helicopter to fly his family to safety. Ba Van Nguyen was able to fly a CH-47 Chinook, the largest helicopter in the South Vietnamese army, with his three young children and wife out of the city and into the South China Sea where they were all ultimately saved by the USS Kirk. This after Nguyen somehow managed to pilot the helicopter while getting out of his flight suit and jumping into the ocean just seconds before it crashed - all on his own. Scroll down for videos . Histo4ric: Ba Van Nguyen piloted a military helicopter (above) on his own to save his family during the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975 . Saved: He flew towards the USS Kirk which was too small to allow the helicopter to land, and so he hoovered over as his family (daughter circled in red) safely jumped out . Helping hand: Sailors on the ship caught the family (above) as they jumped out . In an interview with CNN, some members of the family are revealing what happened on that historic day, and their lives in the years after. They were also part of the PBS special, The Last Days of Vietnam. On April 29, 1975, Nguyen moved his family to his mother-in-law's house, telling them he would be back the next day in the Chinook, and that they would hear him coming when he was close. 'If you hear a Chinook coming, get ready,' Nguyen told his wife. When he arrived later that morning, his family and a few friends got on - as gunfire from the communist forces grew louder and louder as they came closer to the city - and flew out towards the water. Shortly after however, they realized they were running low on fuel, and that is when Nguyen reached out to the Kirk asking for permission to land. 'I must land or crash into the sea,' Nguyen said. 'Please help us.' Bravery: Nguyen then flew back out to sea (above) and jumped from the helicopter . Safe: He managed to avoid the large amounts of shrapnel (above) when the plan crashed . Heading back: A motorboat soon grabbed him from the sea (above) as he wore just a shirt and his boxers . The Kirk however was not large enough to withstand the force of such a large helicopter, which would likely sink the ship and cause the death of everyone onboard. And so it was decided that Nguyen would at least try and save his family. He hoovered over the ship as every passenger jumped onto the deck and were caught by sailors, including his wife and three young children. That is when he went back out to sea and managed to do the impossible and somehow pilot alone, get out of his suit and jump into the water seconds before the helicopter crashed and sent shrapnel flying everywhere. Seconds later, he appeared in the water, wearing nothing but his boxer shorts and a shirt. Hos one possession, some gold he had in his pocket, had fell out and sunk in the South China Sea. 'We couldn't figure out how he did it; he was a Houdini,' said Hugh Doyle, the chief engineering officer. A motorboat was sent out to retrieve him, and moments later he was reunited with his family. The Nguyen family would be part of the 30,000 South Vietnamese refugees ultimately rescued by the Kirk. 'It was a happy ending to a shi**y war,' said Kent Chipman, one of the sailors on the Kirk. Unbelievable: Nguyen somehow managed to operate the plane and it's intricate system (above) alone after everyone jumped . Over: 'It was a happy ending to a shi**y war,' said Kent Chipman, one of the sailors on the Kirk of Nguyen's (above) feat . That was just the beginning for Nguyen though, who now had to start over in America and try to support his family. He did not know the language and he had no money, but he was able to eventually land a job as a technician at Boeing in Seattle. According to his children he was strict, but also self-sufficient and proud, getting the family off government assistance after just a few months and encouraging hard work above all else. 'Your mother and I came to the United States with nothing but my drawers,' he would tell his children. 'Look at where we are today. We are not wealthy. But we are not poor.' He was reunited with the crew from the USS Kirk in 2009, finally revealing his identity after keeping it secret for years, and awarded an air medal for bravery. 'He was staring at me and I was staring at him. He knew and I just knew,' said Chipman of the emotional reunion, this despite the fact that Nguyen was already in the throes of Alzheimer's. It was then that his children were able to see just what their father had accomplished as footage of the day was shared by some of the men who had filmed the incident. Then, three years later, following a remarkable life, Nguyen passed away. He was 73-years-old.

Ba Van Nguyen piloted a military helicopter on his own to save his family during the fall of Saigon on April 29, 1975 . Nguyen flew the helicopter to the South China Sea, but had to evacuate everyone when fuel ran low . He flew towards the USS Kirk which was too small to allow the helicopter to land, and so he hoovered over as his family safely jumped out . He then flew back out to sea and jumped from the helicopter seconds before it crashed into the sea . He survived the crash and was reunited with his family onboard . He kept his identity a secret until a 2009 ceremony commemorating the event .

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It is a well-known fact that the technology industry is mostly dominated by men, but now, thanks to a new blog by a young female computing student, women in tech have finally been given a platform through which their amazing achievements are being recognized. Stanford computer science student Lea Coligado, 21, created Women of Silicon Valley, a blog based on the people-profiling website Humans of New York,in order to showcase the talents and stories of tech's best and brightest women working within the industry. 'Over the past couple years, I've come into contact with some awesome women in tech through Stanford or work, and I kept thinking to myself, why have I never heard of them before?' Lea told BuzzFeed. Girls on top: Stanford computer science student Lea Coligado features talented women in the tech industry, such as Postmates exec Sara Mauskopf, on her blog Women of Silicon Valley . Relatable: Many of the subjects featured on the blog talk on subjects that many women in the industry will have had to deal with . Looking up: The blog has attracted attention from the best in the business, including women-in-tech advocate Tracy Chou, a software engineer at Pinterest . The blog, like the one that inspired it, features photos and stories of subjects in the industry, often accompanying them with inspirational quotes. In the description for the blog, Lea says that the goal of the project is 'to celebrate these living - and thriving - examples of female success, these rebels against the numbers and the gender norms.' In her 'Letter from the Editor', Lea also describes how an internship she completed at Facebook was viewed as a 'give away' by one of her classmates – who suggested that anyone would be able to secure one of the highly sought-after positions if a woman had been offered one, despite applauding a male friend for being given the very same job. She recounts other moments of horrific sexism she has experienced while working in various offices - from shameless come-ons from married colleagues to blanket, patronizing statements of 'women don't code' told directly to her by colleagues. The brains behind it all: Lea Coligado, 21, created the blog after experiencing the bias against women in the industry first-hand . Underrepresented: The Women in Silicon Valley blog aims 'to celebrate these living - and thriving - examples of female success, these rebels against the numbers and the gender norms' Quotables: The women featured on the blog open up about their own experiences of subtle - and less subtle - sexism in the office . It was after such experiences that, Lea says, she realized the importance of having idols in the industry. Speaking in more detail to Buzzfeed, she added: 'As a woman who's worked in almost entirely male environments, I know being able to look up to someone is crucial for getting through rough patches, for feeling a sense of belonging to your work.' The idea has already attracted some big names, including some of the most vocal advocates for women in tech like Tracy Chou, who joined social media giant Pinterest, where she still works as a software engineer, back when it was still a start-up. Tracy herself has also made strides in bringing awareness to the gender disparity in tech. Inspired: The blog's goal is to is to inspire women to continue on in computer sciences, because it is more possible to succeed than some may think . All together: The blog encourages women to be proud of their own achievements and encourage others in similar circumstances . In a blog post last year on Medium the engineer wrote: 'The actual numbers I’ve seen and experienced in industry are far lower than anybody is willing to admit. This means nobody is having honest conversations about the issue.' With that in mind, Tracy created a GitHub spreadsheet in which tech companies could reveal their demographics to world, and over 200 companies have self-reported on their diversity since. But the numbers don't look good when it comes to some of the world’s most well-known tech companies. Dropbox records that only 26 of its 275 software engineering employees are female, while Etsy records 19 of 149 and GitHub shows only 10 out of 160. In her quest to raise awareness, and with names like Tracy's in her corner, Lea is hoping to one day feature the likes of Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, Marissa Mayer, and Laura Weidman Powers, the CEO and co-founder of  non-profit tech-focused organisation CODE2040. 'I want women who are sitting on the fence about Computer Science to get as inspired as I was by these role models,' Lea told Buzzfeed. 'And hopefully, to see that at its heart tech is exciting, immensely powerful and so, so worth it.'

Lea Coligado, 21, a Stanford computer science student, is the creator of the blog showcasing talented women in tech . The profiling blog has already attracted women from big hitting tech companies like Pinterest and Postmates . The blog's inspiration, Humans of New York, was started by New York photographer Brandon Stanton and features street portraits accompanied by quotes from the subjects .

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The Pittsburgh Steelers ended last season without Le'Veon Bell and it seems they'll start the new one without their stud running back too. Bell will miss the first three games for abusing the league's substance abuse policy and he will also be fined a game cheque. Bell was stopped in his Chevrolet Camaro last August after a police officer noticed a strong smell of marijuana. Le'Veon Bell will appeal the NFL's decision to ban him for the first three games of the season . LeGarrette Blount will miss the first game of the new season after being charged with marijuana possession . Former Steeler LeGarrette Blount and a female passenger were also in the car and the pair were charged with marijuana possession. Bell was also charged with a DUI. Blount - who was waived by Pittsburgh, joined the Patriots in November and went on to win the Super Bowl - was banned for the first game of the season earlier this week. Bell plans to appeal the decision, says ESPN's Adam Schefter who broke the story. Bell had 2,215 all-purpose yards, 11 touchdowns and made the All-Pro team last season. The Steelers signed veteran running back DeAngelo Williams in free agency and he looks likely to cover for 23-year-old Bell.

Bell has been banned after being found in possession of a 20 gram bag of marijuana and was hit with a DUI charge last August . A key piece of the Steelers offense, his absence during the play-off game with the Ravens was a key factor in the Steelers defeat . And they will have to start the season without the 23-year-old running back . LeGarrette Blount was in the vehicle with Bell and he was banned for the first game of the season earlier this week .

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Jonas Gutierrez was the surprise inclusion in the Newcastle side, coming in for his first start in 20 months. The Argentine has twice beaten testicular cancer and only returned as a substitute last month. But, in fairness to the 31-year-old, he was Newcastle’s best player - not that he had much competition. Jonas Gutierrez was not expected to start after twice surviving cancer, but was the visitors' best player . Gutierrez gets up to challenge Steven Fletcher during a good performance, but one that ended in defeat . History was on Dick Advocaat’s side. The last two Sunderland managers – Paolo Di Canio and Gus Poyet – both enjoyed Tyne-Wear victories in their second match in charge and the Dutchamn kept alive that quirk of footballing fate. So whoever is the new boss at the Stadium of Light next season can only hope the Magpies are game No 2. Sunderland's new manager won a derby in his second game in charge, just like his two predecssors . Newcastle suffered an injury scare during the warm-up when emergency centre-back Daryl Janmaat limped off towards the dressing-room, although he did start the game. United, though, had no recognised defenders on the bench. However, rumours that coach Dave Watson was set to start in the middle of the backline were probably wide of the mark. Daryl Janmaat's warm-up injury led to rumours of Dave Watson filling in, but the Dutchman recovered . John Carver hardly helped in sparing Jack Colback the gauntlet of hate from the home fans. The head coach started the former Sunderland midfielder at left-back, ensuring every time he took a throw-in supporters in the front row would vacate their seat and hiss insults in his ear. At left-back on the opposite flank was Patrick van Aanholt, formerly of Newcastle. However, a barely-memorable seven appearances in the Championship meant he avoided such scorn from the Toon Army. Jack Colback was not protected from the Sunderland fans' ire, positioned by John Carver at left back . Colback was returning to face his former club after departing to join rivals Newcastle last summer . Both sets of supporters were united in the 17th minute as they applauded as one in tribute of Newcastle fans John Alder and Liam Sweeney who were killed when flight MH17 was shot down above Ukraine last summer. Sunderland fans subsequently helped to raise nearly £33,000 in their memory and rivalries were forgotten during the minute-long tribute.

Jonas Gutierrez was an unexpected inclusion, but performed well . Dick Advocaat continued Sunderland's new managers' winning tradition . John Carver left Jack Colback exposed to Sunderland hate at left back .

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Yaya Toure's agent has called Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini a 'weak manager' and criticised the club's chief executive Ferran Soriano and director of football Txiki Begiristain. Toure's performances have come under the microscope amid a dismal run for City which has seen them go from title contenders to being in a battle simply to finish in the top four. But agent Dimitri Seluk has claimed the club are trying to make Toure a scapegoat for bigger problems behind the scenes. The agent of Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure (left) has called Manuel Pellegrini, his manager, 'weak' Pellegrini has struggled this with the champions this season, and Dimitri Seluk has placed blame on him . 'Some people at City are trying to blame Yaya for what has happened this season,' he said. 'But those people aren't taking responsibility for their own mistakes. 'I am talking about executives who have bought players for a lot of money - and then put those players on the bench. Executives who spend a lot of money on Stevan Jovetic and then drop him from the Champions League squad. I feel sorry for Pellegrini. He's a good coach, but a weak manager. 'He won the title with the team left behind by (predecessor) Roberto Mancini.' Toure, whose relationship with the club came under strain last summer, has been linked with a move away this summer, with Mancini making clear his interest in signing the 31-year-old for Inter Milan. Seluk said that it was wrong to criticise Toure over City's struggles and blamed the manager and executives . Pellegrini was described as a good coach but a weak manager by Toure's agent in a scathing attack . 'If City want Yaya to leave, they should come out and say so,' Seluk told the Sunday Mirror. 'Two of the biggest clubs have already asked me if he is available, and I know that if City would sell, another 10 would call me inside 24 hours.' City go into Sunday afternoon's match against West Ham four points above fifth-placed Liverpool and with the pressure firmly on Pellegrini. Txiki Begiristain (left) Manchester City's director of football, Ferran Soriano (centre) the CEO were criticised . Seluk picked out the decision to buy Stevan Jovetic and then leave him out of the Champions League squad . The Chilean has maintained he is not worried about his job, but admitted that could change if they dropped out of the Champions League places. 'You are wrong if you think that, at this club, if you don't win the title then you are out,' he said in a number of national newspapers. 'If we miss the top four then maybe it will be different because that would not be the same thing, the analysis of the season will be different.'

Manchester City are willing to listen to offers for Yaya Toure this summer . His agent Dimitri Seluk has hit out and called Manuel Pellegrini 'weak' He also criticised the City's chief executive and director of football . Ivorian midfielder has had a difficult season at the Premier League champions .

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The traditional cookie cutter wedding no longer exists - new reports suggest Brits are ditching tradition in favour of alternative practices when it comes to getting hitched. Two of the biggest changes are the fact that religious services have fallen out of favour and that brides are opting for bold colour schemes for their big day. A new study, which has tracked the decisions of brides and grooms over the past five years interviewed 1,893 newlyweds and compared them to answers they have collated since 2010. Scroll down for video . A new study has revealed the changing habits of British weddings. When it comes to honeymooning 18 per cent of us are now choosing to holiday in the UK compared to 8 per cent five years ago . The study showed that couples are shunning religious ceremonies when it comes to their big day with services falling from 40 per cent to 35 in the past five years. Registry offices have seen an increase in bookings by two thirds, going from three per cent to nine per cent since 2010, and 50 per cent of bride and grooms have opted for some form of civil ceremony when getting hitched. Tradition seems to be out of the window when it comes to paying the bill. In 2014, just seven per cent of UK couples allowed the bride's parents to pay the entire bill, down from nine per cent in 2010, while over a third of married couples in the UK (31.4 per cent) covered their entire wedding bill themselves. The trend for cupcakes is falling out of favour sinking from appearing at 15 per cent of weddings to just 10 per cent, however cheese towers are on the up by three per cent since 2011 . The study by hitched.co.uk also showed that spending on weddings as a whole is increasing, up by 3.4 per cent year on year, outpacing the economic growth of 2.8 per cent. The average cost of a wedding is now £16,020 (compared to £15,494.54 in 2013). Forking out for our own weddings seems to be having a knock on effect as lavish honeymoons are less popular than they once were. Newlyweds are now choosing to honeymoon closer to home, with 18 per cent opting for a vacation in the UK, compared to eight per cent just five years ago. 32 per cent choose Europe, an increase of 11 per cent in five years, while honeymoon visits to the rest of the world has plummeted from 71 per cent to 50. It seems that many are also less keen to jet off immediately, with just 39 per cent of us going on our honeymoon within two days of the wedding, compared to 47 per cent in 2010. Peach bridesmaid dresses are out as the favoured colour scheme for a wedding is now purple . It's good news for bridesmaids though - peach is no longer the colour scheme of choice for dresses. Purple is now the most popular colour in the UK (19 per cent), followed by blue (18 per cent). Another favourite that has fallen out of favour is cupcakes - in 2011, 15 per cent of weddings opted for them as an alternative to a traditional wedding cake, but they are now chosen by just 10 per cent of couples for their reception. This doesn't mean you will necessarily have to choke back some heavily iced fruit cake though, as five per cent of couples now have a cake made of cheese, up from two per cent in 2010. Caroline Hendry, Editor of hitched.co.uk says that our changing attitudes towards weddings are seeing new traditions created. She said: 'As well as a snapshot of trends that might come and go we can see some longer term patterns emerging, with the decline of the religious ceremony and the expectation that parents would foot the bill. 'Couples seem more keen to foot the bill for drinks, but at the same time they are still under financial pressure, so other things need to give like the lavish honeymoon with more couples honeymooning in the UK or Europe or taking longer to save.'

A new survey of newlyweds reveals Britain's changing wedding habits . Religious ceremonies have fallen by five per cent in the past five years . 18 per cent of couples are now choosing to honeymoon in the UK .

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Surveys find that men in U.S. special operations forces do not believe women can meet the physical and mental demands of their commando jobs, and they fear the Pentagon will lower standards to integrate women into their elite units, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press. Studies that surveyed personnel found 'major misconceptions' within special operations about whether women should be brought into the male-only jobs. They also revealed concerns that department leaders would 'capitulate to political pressure, allowing erosion of training standards,' according to one document. Up to the mark? Surveys find that men in U.S. special operations forces do not think women can meet the physical and mental demands of their commando jobs . Second best: Male special op combat troops fear the Pentagon will lower standards to integrate women into their elite units . Some of those concerns were not limited to men, researchers found, but also were found among women in special operations jobs. Dan Bland, force management director for U.S. Special Operations Command, told the AP that the survey results have 'already driven us to do some different things in terms of educating the force.' About 68,800 people serve in the command, including 3,000 civilians. The main survey went to about 18,000 people who are in positions closed to women, and the response was about 50 percent. The high response rate, officials said, reflects the wide interest in the subject. The studies are part of the Pentagon's effort to open all military combat positions to women or provide reasons why any jobs should remain closed. One survey, by RAND Corp., reflected doubts that women could meet the overall job demands, found concerns that sexual harassment or assault could increase, and cited worries about 'unequal treatment' of special operations candidates and personnel. Some worried that if women were let in to some jobs, they might be treated more harshly. Survey details have not been released. This was the first time that officials from Special Operations Command publicly discussed the results. Changing times: In the past the military acknowledged that women will not be able to fill every combat role . Andy Hamilton, who works with Bland and has expertise on this issue, noted that women in special operations jobs had concerns, too, about the broader integration. 'They're concerned that this might result in the lowering of the standards in what are currently our male-only occupations, and that would then reflect on either them or on the women who come into those occupations,' said Hamilton. Pentagon leaders lifted the ban on women in combat jobs in 2012, but gave the military services time to integrate women gradually and systematically into the male-only front-line positions. By January 2016, the military must open all combat jobs to women or explain why any exceptions must be made. Positions within the special operations forces, including the clandestine Navy SEAL and Army Delta units, are considered the most grueling and difficult jobs in the military, with training and qualifying courses that push troops to their physical, mental and emotional limits. The commandos often work in small teams in harsh, remote locations. As a result, those jobs are some of the last to be addressed as commanders review the qualifications needed and assess the impact of bringing in women. As integration unfolds, the surveys have brought home the reality that there are 'some reservations or misperceptions in the force in terms of why we're doing this,' Bland said. Defense officials have stressed that they will not reduce standards in order to let in women. Women have so far had mixed results as they try to move into the more demanding combat positions — jobs for which men also have difficulty qualifying. New opportunities: In 2013 the Defense Department rescinded its 1994 policy restricting women from serving in combat-focused positions such as infantry units, opening up 230,000 positions to female service members . So far, about 7,200 positions within the special operations forces have been opened to women, including combat jobs in the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, a specialized unit used to fly forces fast, low and deep behind enemy lines at night. For the first time, a woman last year made it through training and began serving as a pilot in the unit. Three female pilots, 25 women in other jobs, and 16 other women are now going through initial training for these helicopter crews, known as Night Stalkers. Most female soldiers do not want combat jobs, an earlier survey found. But among those who do, the Night Stalkers were a popular choice. Women have moved into Army artillery jobs and serve on Navy submarines and in the naval Riverine units. But none has made it through the Marine Corps' officer infantry course. Special operations command leaders have made it clear that genuine concerns exist about incorporating women into some jobs. Examinations: The studies are part of the Pentagon's effort to open all military combat positions to women or provide reasons why any jobs should remain closed . In 2013, when the planning was in its infancy, then-Maj. Gen. Bennet Sacolick spoke of demanding nature of missions requiring forces 'to operate in small, self-contained teams, many of which are in austere, geographically isolated, politically sensitive environments for extended periods of time.' In an email last month to members of the special operations forces across the services, Gen. Joseph Votel, head of U.S. Special Operations Command, said leaders had done initial analysis on training, facilities, education and other policies. Now, officials are examining 'the social and cultural challenges of integrating females' into male-only jobs. Next, Votel said, officials will analyze requirements for the jobs to make sure standards are accurate and gender neutral. 'We will continue in our commitment to provide the best manned, trained, and equipped special operations personnel to execute our nation's most difficult and sensitive missions,' Votel said. 'With that in mind, we can assure you that our high standards will not be lowered.' Bland said that in addition to Votel's email to service members, leaders have discussed the issue with commanders at frequent meetings so they can better educate their troops.

Men in U.S. special operations forces fear the Pentagon will lower standards to integrate women into their elite units . Survey results show the need to do more to educate special forces members as integration of women into more military positions . Male troops are worried that leaders would 'capitulate to political pressure' Special operations forces,include the Navy SEAL and Army Delta units and are considered the most grueling and difficult jobs in the military .

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An 18-year-old man has been charged with conspiring to commit terrorist acts following Saturday morning's counter-terror police raids, in which police seized a number of knives and swords. Sevdet Besim, from Hallam in Melbourne's south-east, was charged with 'conspiracy to commit acts done in preparation for, or planning, terrorist acts' at the Melbourne Magistrates Court. He did not apply for bail and was remanded in custody for a filing hearing on April 24. Mr Besim is one of two 18-year-old men police arrested for allegedly planning an 'ISIS inspired' attack on an Anzac Day ceremony following the raids. Scroll down for video . Sevdet Besim, from Hallam in Melbourne's south-east, was charged with 'conspiracy to commit acts done in preparation for, or planning, terrorist acts' at the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Saturday afternoon . Multiple photos of Mr Besim on his social media pages show him posing with one raised index finger, a symbol that other ISIS supporters have also frequently used . Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Shane Patton said the 18-year-old men, from Hallam and Hampton Park, were 'associates' of Abdul Numan Haider, the 18-year-old who was shot dead after stabbing two officers outside a Melbourne police station on September 23. He is one of two 18-year-old men police arrested for allegedly planning an 'ISIS inspired' attack on an Anzac Day ceremony. The duo were 'associates' of Abdul Numan Haider (pictured) The second teenager is still being interviewed by police who plan to charge him with a number of offences related to preparing for and planning terrorist acts and possessing prohibited items. A number of 'edged weapons' - including knives and swords - were seized at some of the properties searched. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews dubbed the plans 'simply evil' on Saturday morning, while insisting the individuals 'do not represent any faith, culture or religion'. 'It is alleged both men were undertaking preparations for a terrorist attack at an Anzac Day activity in Melbourne which included targeting police officers,' Australian Federal Police Acting Deputy Commissioner Neil Gaughan said on Saturday morning. Commissioner Patton later added that: 'some evidence that was collected at a couple of the scenes and some other information we have, leads us to believe that this particular matter was ISIS-inspired.' A total of five teenagers were arrested as part of the Melbourne Joint Counter Terrorism Team operation named Operation Rising, which saw 200 officers' raid seven properties on Saturday morning. Three of the men were released by Victoria Police on Saturday evening. However, according to Australian Federal Police Acting Commissioner Michael Phelan, all five had been on the radar of counter-terrorism investigators. 'Particularly since late last month the investigation ramped up and it became very obvious to us that their plans were specific,' he told reporters in Sydney. 'We received information earlier this week that led us to undertake the resolution today,' Mr Patton said, adding that investigations had begun last month. A smashed window can be seen at the charged teen's Hallam home in Melbourne's south-east where he was arrested during the counter-terror raids . The teen was interviewed by police all morning before travelling to the Magistrates Court where he was charged . Mr Besim did not apply for bail and was remanded in custody for a filing hearing on April 24 . Australian Federal Police Acting Deputy Commissioner Neil Gaughan (left) confirmed that two 18-year-old men had planned to target Anzac Day activities . Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Shane Patton (pictured) later added that evidence 'collected at a couple of the scenes and some other information we have leads us to believe that this particular matter was ISIS-inspired' Three other men, also aged 18 and 19, were arrested separately in Narre Warren. Pictured: one of the homes in the suburb where police made one of several arrest during terror raids . One 18-year-old man from Narre Warren was charged with weapon offences, while the two others men from the same suburb, aged 18 and 19, are currently in custody assisting police with enquiries (stock image) It is understood police chose to execute the search warrants immediately as they 'couldn't be sure that they [the arrested men] wouldn't act earlier'. An 18-year-old man from Narre Warren was also arrested and charged with weapon offences, while two other men from the same suburb, aged 18 and 19, are currently in custody assisting police with enquiries. 'I think the entire Australian community should be concerned about the young age of these men, this issue is not just for law enforcements agencies, but the broader community,' Mr Patton added. 'We need intervention strategies to make sure they [young adults] don't go down this path.' Mr Patton confirmed that the arrested teens were not related, but were 'associates' and that some had attended the Al Furqan Islamic study centre in South Springvale. Mr Patton confirmed that the arrested teens were not related, but were 'associates' and that some had attended the Al Furqan Islamic study centre in South Springvale . Mr Patton said police would charge the two teens with a number of offences including the possession of prohibited items, adding that 'edged weapons' were found at one property (stock images) Mr Haider, whose body is pictured being taken to the coroner for examination, died when he was shot by officers after stabbing two policemen outside a Melbourne police station on September 23 . However he insisted the 'the individuals were acting by themselves and are not representative of any religious, cultural or national group'. Three of the teenagers are believed to have suffered minor injuries during the arrests and were taken for medical examination, with one man reported to have suffered a head injury. Searches will continue at several addresses throughout Saturday. Police said the investigations are ongoing. Residents living next door to the homes that were raided in the early hours of the morning have described waking to glass smashing, screams and 'fire-cracker like' noises before seeing lights. 'It woke me up, I heard a whole heap of screaming outside. It kept going for at least 20 minutes. It scared the crap out of me,' one neighbour told the Herald Sun. 'I was woken up through hearing the car doors everywhere and the police telling them to get down,' another said. Most of the residents said they were shocked by the news of the arrests, describing the teenagers as 'lovely guys', 'nice people' and 'the perfect neighbours'. Residents living next door to the homes that were raided in the early hours of the morning have described waking to glass smashing, screams and 'fire-cracker like' noises before seeing lights . Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott (right) and Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan (left) address a media conference in Sydney. Mr Abbott urged all Australians to continue with their Anzac Day celebration plans as normal . Prime Minister Tony Abbott urged all Australians to continue with their Anzac Day celebration plans as normal during a conference in Sydney. 'We've had this serious threat for quite a few months now but we have responded effectively to it at all stages,' he said. 'The best thing you can do in the face of those who would do us harm is to live your life normally, the best sign of defiance that we can give to those who would do us harm is to go about a normal peaceful, free and fair Australian life.' Increased security measures including a strong police presence will be enforced at all public events across Victoria and the rest of the country on Anzac Day. 'I think the entire Australian community should be concerned about the young age of these men, this issue is not just for law enforcements agencies, but the broader community,' Mr Patton said during a police press conference. Pictured: Mr Haider's funeral . Mr Patton confirmed that the arrested teens were not related but were 'associates', and that some had attended the Al Furqan Islamic study centre in South Springvale. Pictured: Mr Haider . It comes just two months after Sydney house-mates Omar Al-Kutobi, 24, and Mohammad Kiad, 25, were arrested at their Fairfield home just hours before they allegedly planned to carry out a terrorist plot . It comes just two months after Sydney housemates Omar Al-Kutobi, 24, and Mohammad Kiad, 25, were arrested at their Fairfield home just hours before they allegedly planned to carry out a terrorist plot. Police uncovered a machete, a hunting knife and an Islamic State flag during a raid of their squalid granny flat in western-Sydney. A video featuring one of the men standing in front of the flag while making threats of carrying out a terrorist attack was also uncovered. In September of 2014, Australia saw 15 men arrested across Sydney's west and north-west in the country's largest ever terrorism-raids. More than 800 police officers searched 25 properties in the early hours of the morning with the aim of dismantling a terror-plot to behead a random member of the public. Omarjan Azari, 22, who was arrested in his Guildford home during the raids, faced court in late February after officers alleged he was involved in the plot. He was refused bail and will reappear on April 29. Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.

Sevdet Besim, 18, was charged with 'conspiracy to commit acts done in preparation for, or planning, terrorist acts' on Saturday afternoon . He was one of two teenagers who officers arrested for planning terror acts . Police allege they planned to target an 'Anzac Day ceremony' and police . They are expected to be charged with a number of offences including the possession of prohibited items, with 'edged weapons' found at a property . Another 18-year-old was also arrested and remains in custody . Three men released by police late on Saturday night . Over 200 police officers raided seven properties in Melbourne on Saturday .

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A New York taxi driver has been ordered to pay a lesbian couple $10,000 in damages after he told them to stop kissing in the back of his cab. Mohammed Dahbi discriminated against actress Kassie Thornton and her TV executive partner Christy Spitzer after ordering them to 'keep that behavior for the bedroom'. He warned that if they ignored his request during the trip on September 18, 2011, he would throw them out. Outraged: Mohammed Dahbi was accused of discrimination after ordering actress Kassie Thornton and her TV executive partner Christy Spitzer to stop kissing and 'keep that behavior for the bedroom'. He was ordered to pay the couple $10,000 in fines . When they got out, Dahbi also called the pair 'b*****', 'c****' and 'whores' after they refused to pay the fare and walked away. He claimed during the city's Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings they were 'touching each other all over' and 'kissing heavily' . But according to DNAinfo New York, Judge John Spooner disagreed and ordered him to pay the fine. He also made him attend anti-discrimination training and pay a $5,000 civil penalty to the city. Ms Spitzer told the news website: 'We felt that what happened to us was wrong and he needed to take responsibility for his actions. The trip began at Columbus Circle when Ms Spizter climbed into the yellow cab with her dog and headed to pick Ms Thronton up in Chelsea, before heading to Sunset Park in Brooklyn. However, when they hit the Meatpacking District, Dahbi turned around and barked the orders at them. Verbal abuse: When the pair (pictured) got out, Dahbi also called them 'b*****', 'c****' and 'whores' after they refused to pay the fare and walked away . They said he was discriminating against them because they were gay, to which he replied: 'Don't make me out to be an a**hole.' They insist it was just a peck on the lips. Spizter told DNAinfo she knew this because she had just been to the dentist. She said: 'That’s why I’m so aware of what my behavior was in the taxi.' Dahbi's lawyer, Ali Najmi said he had never mentioned anything about the pair's sexuality and has a 'standard of decency'. They are now planning to appeal the decision. In a statement on his firm's website, he said: 'We will be pursuing an appeal of this decision. The Administrative Judge acted unreasonably and made conclusions of fact that cannot be substantiated based on the record. The fine amount is completely unfair given that there was no real injury here.'

Mohammaed Dahbi barked orders at Kassie Thornton and Christy Spitzer . Told pair he would throw them out of New York cab if they continued . They accused him of discriminating against them because they were gay . Yellowcab driver told them not to 'make me out to be an a**hole'

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Philippe Coutinho is becoming Liverpool's go-to guy and is picking up where Luis Suarez left off last season, believes Sportsmail's Jamie Carragher. Coutinho starred for Liverpool in their 2-0 win against Newcastle United on Monday night and managed five shots against goalkeeper Tim Krul, though he could not nab himself a goal. Liverpool sold Suarez to Barcelona for £75million during the summer, but Carragher feels Coutinho can fill the sizable gap left by the controversial Uruguay striker. Philippe Coutinho is becoming Liverpool's go-to guy, according to Sportsmail's Jamie Carragher . Coutinho starred for Liverpool in their 2-0 win against Newcastle United on Monday night . Liverpool sold star striker Luis Suarez to Barcelona for £75million during the summer . 'The role he played tonight was the false nine we speak about a lot,' Carragher told Sky Sports after the Barclays Premier League match. 'We expect him in a wide area, but we saw some of his touches tonight and his ability in small spaces against players, some of the pieces of play he produced tonight. 'Last season Luis Suarez was Liverpool's main man, the go-to man. But as this season has progressed, and for the future, Coutinho is Liverpool's.' It was Coutinho who scored Liverpool's only goal against Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park in the FA Cup last week to book their place in the semi-final. The Brazil international signed a new five-year contract with Liverpool in February after completing a £8.5m move from Inter Milan in January 2013. Both Jamie Carragher (left) and Gary Neville (right) were starring on Sky Sports Monday Night Football .

Liverpool 2-0 Newcastle United: Click here to read the match report . Philippe Coutinho starred in Liverpool's Premier League win on Monday . Sportsmail's Jamie Carragher feels Coutinho is becoming their key man . Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers: We can still finish in the top four . CLICK HERE for all the latest Liverpool news .

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(CNN)A gunman walked into a building on the campus of Wayne Community College in Goldsboro, North Carolina, on Monday and shot the school's print shop operator, killing him, authorities said. The school was placed on lockdown, and the gunman remains at large. All buildings have been cleared, Maj. Tom Effler of the Wayne County Sheriff's Office said. "This is not a random situation. It is an isolated situation," he said. The victim, Ron Lane, was a longtime employee. The suspected gunman, identified by law enforcement as 20-year-old Kenneth Morgan Stancil III, worked at one time for the victim and is a former student at the school. The Goldsboro Police Department described Stancil as "armed and dangerous." "This is indeed a sad day for Wayne Community College and this close family and community," school President Kay Albertson said. "Our hearts are heavy at the loss of an employee -- a valued employee -- and we will soon be reaching out to the family." She praised the "rapid response from the city, the county, the state and the federal first responders," who are "working diligently to apprehend the suspect." The shooting took place on the third floor of a campus building. Despite earlier reports, the victim was not killed inside the library, Albertson said. While authorities were clearing out rooms, they deployed tear gas into a restroom someone was in, Effler said. The person inside turned out not to be the suspect. Figures from fall 2013 show the two-year school with a student population of 3,837, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, with slightly more than half the students part-time. Crime statistics from the center's website show no killings, assaults, robberies or motor vehicle thefts between 2011 and 2013. There were three arrests for illegal weapons possession in 2012 and three in 2013.

School print shop operator Ron Lane was killed, college president says . The man believed to be the gunman is identified as former student Kenneth Stancil . The two knew each other, authorities say .

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World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn has rubbished rumours the Betfred World Championship will leave its spiritual home of Sheffield. This year marks the 40th anniversary of snooker’s most prestigious tournament at the Crucible Theatre, and there is interest from China in hosting the event. But Hearn has revealed he is close to extending deals with Sheffield City Council, and broadcast partner the BBC, both of which expire in 2017. Barry Hearn has dismissed rumours the Betfred World Championship will leave Sheffield . ‘We ain’t going to China, period!’ said Hearn. ‘On my tombstone I’m not having “This is the man who took snooker out of Sheffield”. ‘I’m quite close to extending the BBC agreement and I would sign a 20-year deal with Sheffield City Council if they wanted to sit down with me.’ Meanwhile, tournament favourite Ronnie O’Sullivan has said he would love to equal Steve Davis’s haul of six Crucible crowns. But the Rocket, a five-time champion, is worried whether his game is up to scratch for this year’s event. Snooker fans arrive at the Crucible before the opening day of the Betfred World Championships . ‘I am very competitive and I want a sixth and even a seventh world title,’ said O’Sullivan. ‘But it is such a long tournament to stay focused and keep form.’ John Higgins took a 6-3 lead in his first-round match with Robert Milkins on Saturday, while Anthony McGill went 6-3 up against Stephen Maguire. Ronnie O'Sullivan plays a shot in his semi-final against Judd Trump during the Betfair World Championships .

This year marks the 40th anniversary of snooker’s most prestigious tournament at the Crucible Theatre . Barry Hearn is close to extending deals with Sheffield City Council . Hearn is also close to securing a new deal with the BBC . Both deals are due to expire in 2017 .

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With her sophisticated sense of style and age-defying good looks, Dame Helen Mirren has never looked better. But the Oscar-winning actress, who has won countless accolades for her talents, believes she was in her prime age-wise in the 'unfortunate' 1970s, which, she says, was a 'horrible' time for women. In an interview with Times2, the 69-year-old actress explained: 'I happened to hit the culture at a time that was worse than the f****** 1940s or 1950s. It was horrible.' Scroll down for video . Dame Helen Mirren, pictured last week at the premiere of her new film said she was in her prime age-wise in the 'unfortunate' 1970s, which, she says, was a 'horrible' time for women . Badgley Mischka dress . Click to shop the brand at Farfetch! Visit site . Helen Mirren proves time and again that youth has got nothing to do with style, elegance and beauty. The actress looked stunning at the premiere of The Woman in Gold and showed us just why she's an inspiration to us all. Her dress is by Badgley Mischka and was a great choice for the red carpet. Navy is softer than black and more flattering to all skin tones and ages. And of course a spot of embellishment adds glamour and a sense of festiveness. But Helen didn't shy away from a sexy edge either with that sheer panel across the shoulders. Styled with navy suede pumps by Jimmy Choo, Helen has once again nailed cocktail dressing for the more mature woman. Her exact dress is sadly not available online but click (right) to shop the brand at Farfetch. Or recreate the look with our edit below. Alice + Olivia, ASOS and Reiss have all got great options that will do the trick. Bless'ed are the Meek Perspective Dress at Shopbop (Now $299) Visit site . Alice + Olivia Dress in Caprise Silk at Bloomingdales (Now $198.75) Visit site . ASOS Daisy Embellished Shift Dress (Now $42) Visit site . REISS Dress in Rosalin Sheer Sleeve Lace at Bloomingdales . Visit site . The actress, who starred in O Lucky Man! in 1973 - when she was in her thirties - and The Long Good Friday in 1980, went on to explain that the ten years after the sexual revolution but before feminism was 'perilous' for women. 'Men saw that as a sort of, "Oh, fantastic! We can f*** anything, however we like, whenever we like! They're up for grabs, boys!" It was that kind of attitude', she said. Mirren also said revelations about celebrities from that era, such as Jimmy Savile, did not come as a surprise. 'I’m sure that if that f****** bastard was alive today he would be utterly confused. He would think, "They liked it, they loved me, I was a big star, so they wanted it",' she said. The actress, pictured in the 1970s, said that the ten years after the sexual revolution but before feminism was 'perilous' for women . Mirren, pictured, left, this year and, right, in 1976 said that men had a 'Oh, fantastic! We can f*** anything, however we like, whenever we like' kind of attitude in that era . Mirren was speaking ahead of the release of her new film, Woman In Gold, and last week posed on the red carpet with co-star Ryan Reynolds. Indeed, the 38-year-old's eyes were fixed on the 69-year-old's decolletage as they posed for photos at their film's Berlin premiere. And the actor's wife, Blake Lively, shared a snap of the flirty moment with her Instagram fans - joking that she had reason to feel jealous. 'Should I be concerned that my husband's never looked at me this way?...' the 27-year-old quipped in the photo's caption on Saturday. Mirren, pictured in the mid 1970s, was speaking ahead of the release of her new film, Woman In Gold . In her Instagram post she called the Oscar-winning actress 'sexy' and noted that her husband of two years took a gander at her cleavage, writing: '#WhereAreThoseEyesWanderingReynolds #HelenMirrenIStheSexiestWomanAlive #WomanInGold.' Speaking to People, Mirren confessed that she was taken by Reynold's charming manner while filming their forthcoming drama. 'You know, he makes a girl feel good,' she explained. 'Some guys don't. They're macho and attractive, but they make you feel awkward. 'Ryan just makes you feel so great. He's just so generous in his masculinity. He happens to be hunky and gorgeous and everything as well, but when you get a beautiful combination of the two? He is wonderful.' Mirren confessed that she was taken by Reynold's charming manner while filming their forthcoming drama. In Woman In Gold, their on-screen chemistry is apparent as well. It is a real-life story about a Jewish refugee’s battle against the Austrian government to reclaim a family painting stolen by Nazis. The biopic chronicles the heir's 60-year pursuit of Gustav Klimt's painting The Lady in Gold - which now ranks as the fifth most expensive painting ever sold at $135 million . Helen plays Maria Altmann, a woman who was forced to flee her home and life as a socialite in Vienna amid World War II. She enlists young lawyer Randol Schoenberg, played by Ryan, to help her restore her family's past. Considered the Mona Lisa of Austria, Klimt's 1907 The Lady In Gold painting is a portrait of Altmann's aunt Adele Bloch-Bauer, a friend of the famed artist. Katie Holmes and Daniel Brühl also co-star in the movie, directed by My Week With Marilyn's Simon Curtis.

Actress said she hit the culture at a time that was worse than the 40s or 50s . Said revelations about celebrities from that era did not come as a surprise . Stars in new film, Woman In Gold, alongside Ryan Reynolds .

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Daniel Sturridge's status as Liverpool’s No 1 striker is under threat after Brendan Rodgers revealed his intention to sign a top forward who can “play every week”. The England international will be absent once again on Saturday at The Hawthorns, as he continues to be plagued by a hip problem and Rodgers admitted he is “unsure” as to whether Sturridge will play for Liverpool again this season. It has been a nightmare year for Liverpool in terms of goals. They had 88 after 32 matches last season but now, at the same stage, their total is 47 and not one of their players feature in the top 25 leading scorers in the Barclays Premier League. Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge is in danger of falling down the pecking order due to his poor injury record . Sturridge (left, pictured with Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard) has played just 12 league games this season . England international Sturridge has been hampered by injuries during the course of the campaign . Sturridge has also endured a nightmare campaign. He missed five months due to calf and thigh issues and has struggled for consistency in the games he has managed to play. His length of time out has been extreme but history shows absences are not uncommon in his career. If Liverpool are to get back to where Rodgers wants them to be, they need goals. Divock Origi will arrive this summer, while they are trying to sign Danny Ings from Burnley and have registered a firm interest in PSV Eindhoven’s Memphis Depay. But they are not going to be the peak of Liverpool’s ambitions and Rodgers is searching for a proven attacker who will be able to call on consistently. When asked how many strikers he wanted to sign, Rodgers said: ‘I’m not sure but I need one that is going to be playing at a top level every week. It can make a huge difference. If you look at teams who are successful they have that – a consistent striker. ‘What that gives the rest of team is crucial. You saw it here with Suarez, the impact that kind of striker can have. But it is something that is not easy to find. We have to find a way to attract them here. We will fight hard to do in the summer. We are on course to be 60 goals down on last year.’ Sturridge picked up this latest injury on March 22 against Manchester United. England manager Roy Hodgson described it as “a small tear” after he was ruled out of games against Lithuania and Italy and it was a source of frustration to Liverpool that he missed last Sunday’s FA Cup semi-final. Liverpool boss Rodgers is keen on signing Burnley striker Danny Ings (left) and PSV's Memphis Depay (right) Belgium striker Divock Origi, pictured during his loan spell at Lille, will return to Liverpool in the summer . Rodgers was asked if he felt the stage had been reached where he no longer considers Sturridge to be his first choice striker and he said: ‘Listen, that’s entirely for you to write. He’s not fit and once he can show that consistency and fitness, you can see in his performance level that it’s a high one. ‘But he has missed lot of the season, so we need to assess it. Either way if he’ s not available, we need to have that support. There always is that risk with those type of players, with their speed and body type, but we have to hope with Daniel this year was just an unlucky season. ‘We hope he can come back super-fit and super-strong because he has an immense talent. You can’t argue with that – he can be as good as any striker in the world with his talent.’

Brendan Rodgers has stated his intent on purchasing a forward . The Liverpool boss wants a top forward who can 'play every week' Daniel Sturridge has made just 12 Premier League appearances . Rodgers is keen on signing Danny Ings and Memphis Depay .

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The man whose father married Tippi Hedren and who spent years living with Melanie Griffith as her stepbrother is opening up about the infamous lion film the two made with their parents, Roar. They worked, and lived, with lions for the 11 years they made the film, and now, John Marshall, son of director Noel Marshall who was married to Hedren, is saying of his father's decision; 'Dad was a f**king **hole to do that to his family.' He then added; 'It seemed like a really cool idea at the beginning, but it was dangerous.' Scroll down for video . Tippi Hedren, muse to the famed director Alfred Hitchcock, has fun with her lion Neil . Griffith, aged just 14, leaps into the swimming pool in her Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, home as she playfights with her enormous pet lion, Neil . The film Roar became infamous for the injuries received by 70 members of the cast and crew during production . 'Dad was a f**king **hole to do that to his family,' says James Marshall (left with Hedren) about making him and Griffith (right) star in Roar . The film billed, as the most dangerous ever made is making a return to the big screen nearly 35 years after its original release. Noel Marshall’s action-adventure film was originally released in 1981 and its 11-year production is infamous for the injuries received by 70 members of the cast and crew. 'You’re fine with lions and tigers as long as you don’t show any fear,” Marshall told the New York Post. 'The problem is that the plot required us to show fear. These animals who had learned to respect us were totally confused when we started acting terrified.' The film revolves around a wildlife preservationist who lives with his wife and children alongside a number of wild lions, tigers, cheetahs and elephants. Its re-release is due to be shown at a handful of cinemas in the US in April, and will be made available to the wider public on a number of platforms as well. While the plot line for the film itself – two lions putting a family at serious risk by battling for domination – is action-packed, it is in fact the back story that is the most chilling aspect of the tale. The idea for the film came about when Noel Marshall and Hedren discovered an abandoned plantation house overrun by a large pride of lions while touring wildlife preserves in Africa. Hoping to raise awareness for the inhumane treatment experienced by big cats in captivity, they approached a number of animal trainers for help make the concept for the film a reality. Hedren takes on Neil in a dangerous-looking wrestling match on the floor of their California home . A maid steps over Neil VERY carefully in the family's kitchen while the big cat rests . Noel Marshall is featured riding on a motorbike at the start of the trailer as one of the lions strikes out at him . The idea of the film arrived when Noel Marshall and Hedren discovered a plantation house overrun by lions . Neil Marshall and Hedren wanted to raise awareness for the inhumane treatment experienced by cats in captivity . The couple then began adopting and breeding lions in their home in Los Angeles and for six years the family of six lived alongside the pack. They eventually moved to a range north of Los Angeles and began filming. The trailer for the film documents some of the dangers the family put themselves through during production. James Marshall recalls what he went through first hand one day on set and he fell while running, which resulted in a lion pouncing on him. 'I looked up and there was blood on his teeth. It took six guys to pull him off me and I got 56 stitches,' he said. 'I had to work with that lion on and off for five years because we kept running out of money.' Noel Marshall is featured on a motorbike at the start of a film trailer, riding through a pack of lions as one of them strikes out at him as he passes by. Later he is tackled to the ground by another lion as a humorous review from HitFix appears on the screen: ‘It’s like Walt Disney went insane and shot a snuff version of Swiss Family Robinson’. Genuine fear can be seen etched onto the faces of the various crew members as they are confronted on numerous occasions by the pack. The video concludes with the credits and the various injuries sustained by the cast members. Hedren suffered a broken leg, Griffith needed facial reconstruction surgery and Noel Marshall was gored so many times he was eventually hospitalised with gangrene. The film’s cinematographer, Jan de Bont – who later went on to direct Die Hard – required 220 stitches after he was scalped by a lion. Hedren uses Neil as an oversized pillow while catching up on the news. Now aged 84, she still keeps lions . The film will be re-released 34 years after it debuted in 1981 and will be shown at a handful of US cinemas . No lions were harmed during the making of the film, however. Drafthouse Films partnered with Olive Films to re-release the film, which will be available on numerous platforms later in the summer, and be released on Blu-ray this summer. 'It was amazing to live through that,' James Marshall says of the experience. 'I should have died many times. But I kind of want to do it again.'

Roar, the film that took 11 years to create and was originally released in cinemas 1981 is being re-released at some cinemas in the US in April . Film features Noel Marshall, his real-life partner Tippi Hedren and their kids, James Marshall and Melanie Griffith . Family lived alongside 150 untamed animals in order to make movie . 'Dad was a f**king **hole to do that to his family,' says James in a new interview . Injuries to the crew included a broken leg, gangrene and large wounds, with James needing six men to pull a lion off him at one point .

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When Hillary Clinton steps off her road-trip van on Tuesday at a rural Iowa community college, she might not be greeted by cheering throngs. Daily Mail Online spoke to students at Kirkwood Community College's regional center in Jones County, where the former secretary of state will hold her first low-key campaign event. The outlook isn't sunny for the kickoff of her 'listening tour': Of the ten students interviewed in the school's public lounge, only two would speak kindly of Mrs. Clinton. 'She's going to push some emotional thing on us,' predicted student Hallie Corum in between classes. 'What else is she supposed to do?' 'She's going to be, like, talking s**t.' 'TALKING S**T': Hillary Clinton launched her presidential campaign on Sunday and hit the road in a van, en route to a skeptical bunch of community college students in Monticello, Iowa . Corey Jones said he suspects that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want immigration reform because it would result in a new generation of grateful Democratic voters – and he plans to ask her about it on Tuesday . Kirkwood Community College's outpost in rural Monticello serves hundreds of students, including some who are still high school juniors and seniors . Corum declined to be photographed, flashing an impish grin. Corey Jones, a graphic design student, is among those chosen to question Mrs. Clinton in a roundtable setting on Tuesday. He said his teachers chose him to join a group of 'from 6 to 8' students whowill participate because 'I pay attention to politics,' something his friends around a table agreed with. 'I didn't know Hillary Clinton was running,' one young woman said. 'Is she running? Go ask Corey. He's up on all that stuff.' Jones said he plans to ask Hillary about illegal immigration. 'It's – well, Immigration reform,' he told Daily Mail Online. 'You know, Obama's plan was to make the illegal immigrants legal.' 'She's part of all that. And some people think – well, I think maybe – it's just a tactic to have more Democratic votes' from millions of grateful new citizens. Jones, like Corum, will vote in his first presidential election next year. He said Clinton is holding her first campaign event at a community college 'because she's trying to appeal to youth, to young voters.' 'She announced it on YouTube. That's targeted at people my age, right?' Clinton set off on a 1,000-mile road trip Sunday in her home town of Chappaqua, New York, and headed to Iowa – where the nation's first primary caucuses will start the machinery that chooses major parties' presidential candidate. She announced Sunday afternoon that she was officially in the race. A female student who declined to be named speculated about Clinton's motives for taking ground transportation instead of a jet aircraft. 'Can you imagine if she stepped off a private jet in Des Moines or Iowa City and walked down a set of steps in realy expensive shoes and a thousand-dollar outfit?' she asked. 'That would be, um, a really bad idea. I like the van better. Is it a minivan? God, I hope it's not a minivan.' Future chef Ross Vander Peut said gay marriage is a 'deal-breaker' for him but worries that Hillary Clinton 'seems like, kinda like a control freak' Monticello, Iowa is a sleepy farm town whose main street is lined with shops sporting signs that look like relics from the mid-twentieth century . Most students in Monday's random sample chose not to talk about Mrs. Clinton. All of the will be old enough to vote next year for the first time in their lives. Three said they didn't have an opinion about the Democratic front-runner. One looked up, shook her head, and put a pair of earbuds on. Two more said they would rather remain silent. 'You know, it's that "If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all" deal,' a young woman offered from behind her tablet computer. Moments later a group of young men walked down a hallway mimicking Bill Clinton's infamous 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman' press conference – and laughing uproariously. One who would talk is Bri Parks, a speech and psychology student who wants to be an FBI profiler because she likes 'trying to figure out how the human brain works.' Clinton can work to earn her vote, Parks said. 'If I heard her opinions and liked her ideas, I would support her.' But 'I hope people don't vote for her just because she's a woman.' Asked for the nicest thing she could say about Mrs. Clinton, Parks said 'she's not going at this saying, "Look, I'm a woman, so vote for me." She's not using her sex to prove a point.' 'She's looking at herself as a politician, not as a woman.' Students like these gathered in a Kirkwood Community College lounge and spoke with Daily Mail Online before and after classes on Monday . Bri Parks, a Kirkwood Community College student, said she hopes Americans don't vote for Hillary Clinton 'just because she's a woman' 'I don't think we should be putting people in extremely high political positions because of race, sex, or whatever,' Parks explained. 'Then you're doing things just because of what people look like.' Kirkwood serves between 22,000 and 26,000 students taking college-credit courses at sites in seven Iowa counties, according to a school official. The Monticello outpost is canceling many classes on Tuesday, making some students scratch their heads since 'this is the smallest part of Kirkwood,' as one pointed out. 'They could have had it somewhere else.' As it is, Kirkwood's students who do have class will have to dodge Secret Service agents and TV news cameras to get through the lobby. Some of them are recent high school graduates while others are finishing their 11th- and 12th-grade years collecting college credits one day per week. Ross Vander Peut, a self-described future chef, is one of the youngest. He's 16, a high-school junior, but will turn 18 just before the election. Vander Peut described himself as a libertarian – 'I like government to leave me alone,' he said – and gay marriage is 'a deal-breaker.' 'Equal rights, homosexual rights, it's one thing I will not sway on,' he told Daily Mail Online. 'If you are against gay marriage, you've lost my vote. There's nothing you can do to change it.' He hedged on Hillary, saying she 'seems like, kinda like a control freak.' 'But she also seems very strong-willed and determined. When she wants something done she probably does it herself.'

Daily Mail Online spoke to ten students at Kirkwood Community College's satellite campus in rural Iowa where Hillary Clinton will be Tuesday . One student is among those picked by teachers to question the former secretary of state . He wants her to comment on his suspicion about immigration reform – that Democrats are pushing the policy because they need new loyal voters . Another predicted that 'she's going to be, like, talking s**t' and would 'push some emotional thing on us' A third said Clinton 'seems like, kinda like a control freak' One more said 'I hope people don't vote for her just because she's a woman' School has cancelled many classes Tuesday to accommodate Clinton, the Secret Service and the press hordes expected to show up .

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Koby Hodder, suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed in the school playground when he was 10 . A 10-year-old boy nearly died after suffering a cardiac arrest in the school playground. Koby Hodder's heart stopped for a staggering 12 minutes after he collapsed while running around with friends during the morning break. He was playing British Bulldog – a game in which children run from one side of a playing field to another without being caught by one of the ‘bulldogs’, who often employ forceful tactics to trap runners, including rugby tackling opponents to the ground. Teachers across the country have called for the game to be banned, claiming it is dangerous and leads to children becoming injured. In the middle of playing the game, Koby suffered a cardiac arrest. This is where the electrical activity of the heart becomes so chaotic that it stops pumping and quivers or ‘fibrillates’ instead. His heart suddenly stopped beating blood around his body and he collapsed and lost consciousness. The 10-year-old was later diagnosed with the same heart condition as footballer Fabrice Muamba, a former Bolton Wanderers player who collapsed after suffering a cardiac arrest during the first half of Bolton's FA Cup quarter-final against Tottenham in 2012. Mr Muamba was 'effectively dead' for 78 minutes and had to be shocked 15 times before his heart restarted. Teachers at Koby’s school in Doncaster, were able to give Koby CPR until paramedics arrived and saved his life. His father, Mark, 45, got a call from the school at around 11am on March 2, and was told to get to the school immediately. He said: 'I was working around the corner so I was able to get straight over there and when I saw Koby on the ground I knew he was dead. 'Teachers were giving him CPR but I could see he was grey and lifeless. I couldn't even go to him. I was devastated.' Luckily he was brought back to life when paramedics Lee Murphy and Martin Parkinson and emergency care assistant Freddie Stevens arrived, and were able to save him by giving Koby two shocks with a defibrillator. A cardiac arrest happens when the heart stops pumping blood around your body. The most common cause of a cardiac arrest is a life threatening abnormal heart rhythm called ventricular fibrillation (VF). Ventricular fibrillation happens when the electrical activity of your heart becomes so chaotic that the heart stops pumping and quivers or 'fibrillates' instead. Someone who is having a cardiac arrest will suddenly lose consciousness and will stop breathing or stop breathing normally. Unless immediately treated by CPR this always leads to death within minutes. It is possible to survive and recover from a cardiac arrest, with the right treatment. Ventrivular fibrillation - which causes an arrest - can sometimes be corrected by giving an electric shock through the chest wall, by using a device called a defibrillator. Source: British Heart Foundation . Koby, who turned 11 two weeks ago, was rushed to Doncaster Royal Infirmary, where he seemed to be making a recovery. Just as he seemed to be improving, he suffered another attack, and was transferred to Leeds General Infirmary Paediatric Intensive Care Unit. Mr Hodder, a builder and father-of-three, said: 'We were beside ourselves with worry. 'Koby is super-fit, he plays football three times a week and goes boxing two times a week. ‘How could this happen in someone so young?’ Koby’s mother, Joanne Hodder, 43, added: 'Can you imagine what we were going through? 'We didn't even have a clue what had happened to Koby. ‘We didn't think for a moment that he could have had a heart problem. 'I had dropped him off to school that morning and he was his happy little self. ‘We had no warning. Koby is a bit of a joker so when he collapsed even his friends thought he was messing around, until they noticed he wasn't breathing.' While Koby was in hospital doctors fitted him with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) to shock his heart back into rhythm should it ever stop again. Muamba, 26, was fitted with the same implant after his high profile collapse three years ago. Mr Hodder said: 'At the moment we don't know what has caused Koby to have a heart problem. It is baffling.' Koby, who is now 11, suffered a series of cardiac arrests, where the heart suddenly stops pumping blood around the body, and was treated in intensive care . Koby had a device fitted to his heart which will shock it back into beating if it ever stops again. He is pictured in hospital with boxer Josh Warrington . Mr and Mrs Hodder are due to have tests to see if Koby's heart condition is hereditary. His brother and sister, Joel, 27, and Courteney, 20, may also have to be tested. Mrs Hodder, said: 'I cannot thank each and every person who played a part in saving Koby's life and helped with his recovery, enough. 'Teachers, paramedics and hospital staff have all been amazing. 'As a parent it is your worst nightmare to receive a phone call like I did from school, when you sent your healthy 10-year-old child there fit and well that morning. 'Doctors have said that the fact that Koby was running around at the time of the attack may have helped him - because it meant his heart was pumping.' Koby knows he is lucky to be alive, but his dream of being a professional footballer has been taken from him. Koby had played with both Leeds United and Doncaster Rovers youth teams and dreamed of playing for his beloved Leeds United when he got older. Mr Hodder said: 'Doctors have said he can play with friends as long as he doesn't exert himself too much. ‘They've said that if he can exercise and talk at the same time then that's okay, but playing professionally is out of the question. Koby suffered from the same heart condition as Fabrice Muamba, a Bolton Wanderers football player who collapsed after a cardiac arrest during the first half of Bolton's FA Cup quarter-final against Tottenham . 'Maybe Koby would not have been a professional footballer but he is gutted, understandably.' Mrs Hodder said: 'When Koby feels down we tell him that he is very lucky to be here and that makes him feel better. 'But he is still recovering and sometimes he feels scared, but he is still getting used to his defibrillator. It's a big thing he has had to deal with. 'For his birthday he didn't want a sleepover as we had originally planned, instead we went for a day out to York. 'Koby has come a long way and even returned to school this month. 'He's had a fantastic recovery so far, which is all down to the fast response from the school staff and the paramedics. 'He's doing better than we could have ever imagined. I am so grateful we still have our little boy with us.' For more information visit the Cardiac Risk in the Young charity website.

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It's hard to know quite what motivated the Duke of York to rescue teenage sex slaves in India at the same time he faced damning allegations that he had slept with one in America. But one thing is for certain: it definitely took guts. With a remarkable initiative combining the unlikely bedfellows of fashion and compassion, it can be revealed that Prince Andrew has personally changed the fate of more than 100 vulnerable young women in Calcutta. Rescued from brothels and domestic servitude, child labour and human trafficking, the girls have been taught tailoring and silk printing through a charity called Key to Freedom. Moved: Prince Andrew during his visit to an Indian refuge in 2012, which inspired him to form the charity . Their kimonos, duster coats, pyjamas, scarves and make-up bags are sold online and on the British High Street by Topshop, with the proceeds paid back to the women as a salary. What makes this new mission all the more compelling is it has emerged just months after Andrew was mired in allegations that he had enjoyed an improper relationship with American ‘sex slave’ Virginia Roberts, who had been working for his former friend Jeffrey Epstein, an American billionaire. The claims, furiously denied by the Duke, have now been struck out of American court records, effectively clearing his name. He was inspired to launch Key to Freedom after visiting a girls’ refuge on an official trip to India. He came up with the idea less than an hour after leaving a home run by the Women’s Interlink Foundation and swiftly donated £10,000 seed capital to fund the first bales of silk. Speaking exclusively to The Mail on Sunday yesterday, the Duke said: ‘I was incredibly impressed with the work of the Women’s Interlink Foundation during my Diamond Jubilee visit to India in May 2012. ‘I could see that it would be possible to complement [founder and chairman] Aloka Mitra’s important work in supporting vulnerable young women to develop a skill to become economically active by helping find a route to market for their products. It is incredible to see what the team has achieved. Roberts had been working for Andrew's former friend Jeffrey Epstein, an American billionaire (pictured together above) ‘I am proud to have helped their products find a market and be sold in the United Kingdom. ‘Most importantly, this has helped the Women’s Interlink Foundation support more young people to develop skills, which is an important area of focus for my work.’ One of the young women who moved him so deeply was Anita, now 19. She was chosen to show the Duke how to block-print silk when he visited the refuge. In return, he left two copies of Little Red’s Summer Adventure, a book written by his former wife Sarah. The child of two tea garden labourers from northern Bengal, Anita was abducted aged 12 when she went to a travelling fair with friends. Lured to New Delhi with the promise of a job to help her support her family, she escaped only to find herself living as a ‘railway child’ at the city’s station. Illiterate and destitute, she had no way home until she was taken in by the WIF where she met the Duke on his trip. She was among the first girls to sign up to Key to Freedom and has so far earned almost 40,000 rupees – approximately £430 – supplying silk goods to Topshop. She has also been reunited with her family near Darjeeling. ‘We traced her parents but they were resistant to her coming home because they believed she had been prostituted,’ revealed Aloka. ‘Once we had told them her real story and that she’d learned English and Bengali and maths, and that she had a craft and was earning a living, they changed their mind.’ Anita said: ‘I am doing well now and so is my mother. She was sick and I have been able to pay for medical treatment for her. ‘I have earned almost 40,000 rupees through Key to Freedom and I have a skill which will help my future. I hope I keep getting orders for my work. I hope it won’t stop.’ Prince Andrew’s 25-year-old daughter, Princess Eugenie, and his former wife Sarah, Duchess of York, have both paid private visits to help support the charity, and it is understood they continue to play an active role in promoting the initiative. The Duke’s eldest daughter Beatrice, 26, was recently criticised for taking as many as nine holidays in the space of just a few months, although she is understood to have recently accepted a job at a private equity firm in New York. Eugenie also works in the city for an online auction house. Other workers with Key to Freedom include Taralika, 25, who was taken prisoner in a red light area after running away from home. ‘She was locked up in a brothel and beaten, and then starved for days for refusing to have sex,’ said Aloka. Profits: About £20,000 from Topshop sales has gone to the charity since it was set up with products sold in their UK stores . ‘Finally she escaped and found refuge in a youth club whose leaders called the police. She was, and still remains, mentally disturbed by her ordeal but she’s making excellent progress. She is happy and confident working as a tailor.’ Another Key to Freedom success story is Shila, 21, an epilepsy sufferer who is so traumatised by her past that she has never been able to explain how she came to be on the streets of Calcutta. Aloka said: ‘She now has a bank account like any other working woman. It has totally changed her life. ‘Poverty makes these women victims. They suffer ills because they have little or no capacity to earn. They live with abuse – mental, physical and sexual – just to be certain of food and shelter. ‘The Duke understood that and wanted to make a difference – as the father of two daughters I think the plight of the girls here resonated with him. ‘He wanted to given them their independence. Handmade: A silk Topshop kimono . ‘There was no talk about a project or a donation at the time of his visit. The only thing he asked me was, “What do you think it will take to rehabilitate these girls?” ‘I spoke to him about alternative income earning, a regular outlet to sell their work, and skills development to make their craft more marketable. His aides called less than an hour after he’d left and set up a meeting the same night. ‘He had already spoken to the Duchess of York about us and she expressed her wish to help out in whatever way she could. The name Key to Freedom was her idea.’ Aloka added: ‘While I understood that their heart was in the right place, I also wondered whether busy people like them would find time to give it more thought. ‘Not only did they find the time, they were incredibly enthusiastic and remain so today. ‘It was Prince Andrew’s skills at connecting businesses that linked us to Topshop. It’s nothing short of a miracle for us to have a market in the UK.’ Aloka came to London for talks with the Duke’s team at Buckingham Palace just three months after their initial meeting, and by summer 2013 Key to Freedom was up and running. It fulfilled its first order to Topshop, every piece individually signed by the woman who made it, in July 2013. Since then approximately 4,300 items have been sold. Yesterday, the High Street giant, which sent designer Penny McIvor to India to assist with colours, patterns and quality control, confirmed the original deal for four collections had been extended to include at least one more later this year. Topshop declined to discuss sales figures, but it is understood around £20,000 has so far been paid by the company, which makes no profit from the scheme, to the Prince Andrew Charitable Foundation. This then sends the money back to Key to Freedom in Calcutta. In addition, the charity supplied 750 goodie bags for one of Prince Andrew’s Pitch@Palace events for entrepreneurs last month, where 200 of its scarves were also on sale. The scheme is another of his business-to-business initiatives uniting start-ups and entrepreneurs with angel investors, venture capitalists and mentors. A Buckingham Palace source said that the Prince remained very supportive of the project and used every opportunity – such as Pitch@Palace – to promote it. ‘It’s been completely empowering for the girls here,’ said Aloka. ‘It’s about honour and dignity, and having control over their own future. ‘It means they can look ahead and put their past behind them.’

Prince Andrew has changed the fate of 100 vulnerable women in Calcutta . They were rescued from brothels, child labour and trafficking by charity . Key to Freedom was launched by the Duke after a trip to India in 2012 . He recently denied allegations he had slept with a sex slave in America . The accusations, made by Virginia Roberts, have been struck from court records .

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He rarely ever publicly criticizes his successor, Barack Obama. But on Saturday night, George W. Bush apparently lashed out at the President's foreign policy. Speaking at a closed-door meeting with Jewish donors in Las Vegas, the 68-year-old former leader suggested that Obama's plan to lift sanctions on Iran was not plausible - and comes too early. He noted that the country's government and President Hassan Rouhani appear to be caving in - and implied that America could lose leverage if it relaxes sanctions on Tehran anytime soon. And he said that the comprehensive nuclear deal - which is currently being negotiated by six global powers, including the US - would likely have a negative impact on US national security in the future. Scroll down for video . Rare remarks: Speaking at a meeting with Jewish donors in Las Vegas, George W Bush (pictured) suggested that President Barack Obama's plan to lift sanctions on Iran was not plausible - and comes too early . 'You think the Middle East is chaotic now? Imagine what it looks like for our grandchildren. That’s how Americans should view the deal,' Bush told donors at the Republican Jewish Coalition session. Bush's concerns are in stark contrast to Obama's belief that although the contents of the agreement - which were announced at the start of April - 'may not be optimal,' they are America's 'best bet'. In an interview with the New York Times, Obama remarked: 'This is our best bet by far to make sure Iran doesn’t get a nuclear weapon.' But he noted the deal could see 'real political difficulties'. Bush's administration initially began the diplomatic effort to confront the Iranian regime about its nuclear program. He also made attempts early in his administration to negotiate with North Korea. During his comments on Saturday, transcribed by an attendee at the event at the Venetian Hotel and obtained by Bloomberg, the former president told donors that he would not criticize Obama. He congratulated his successor on his ambition to degrade and destroy the Islamic State, which has taken over large swathes of Iraq and Syria and beheaded US journalists on video last year. Leaders: Bush, who rarely ever publicly criticizes Obama, noted that the Iranian government and President Hassan Rouhani appear to be caving in. Above, Bush, left, greets Obama in Selma, Alabama, in March . Terror group: Bush initially congratulated his successor on his aim to degrade and destroy the Islamic State. But he went on to imply that Obama has failed to keep his promises and is losing the war against the group . But he then went on to suggest that Obama had failed to follow through on his promises, saying that one of the key issues was that the Democrat did not develop a military strategy to defeat the terror group. 'In order to be an effective president ... when you say something you have to mean it,' he said, according to Bloomberg, implying that Obama is losing the war against ISIS. 'You gotta kill em.' Bush even reportedly touted his own success in capturing Islamic terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and countless others. In relation to Obama's decision to withdraw all American troops from Iraq in 2011, Bush cited Senator Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina, who has publicly criticized the President's foreign policy. He quoted him as saying: 'Pulling out of Iraq was a strategic blunder,' according to theNew York Times, which collected accounts of Bush's comments from around 12 people at the session. A dangerous last name? Bush apparently remarked that his brother, presidential candidate Jeb Bush (above) could encounter struggles in his campaign due to his last name because Americans do not like dynasties . Bush's comments followed an interview with CBS News last November in which he suggested that the draw down of troops in the war-torn country had allowed ISIS to flourish and recruit more militants. Speaking to news station in a two-part interview, the politician said he thought it was 'the right decision' to take military action in 2003 in a bid to oust Saddam Hussein. But he added: 'My regret is that…a violent group of people have risen up again…This is "Al-Qaeda plus"…they need to be defeated. And I hope we do…I hope the strategy works.' During Saturday's question-and-answer session, Bush also told anecdotes about his old friend, Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom he said had once told him that his dog was 'bigger, stronger and faster' than Bush's own. Bush considered the comparison to show Putin did not think in 'win-win' terms, he said. He also apparently remarked that his brother, presidential candidate Jeb Bush, could encounter struggles in his campaign due to his last name because Americans do not like dynasties. And he called Hillary Rodham Clinton 'formidable', but beatable, the Times reported. The session was attended by Republican donor Sheldon Adelson, who owns the Venetian hotel. It comes as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is due to meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in New York on Monday, according to a senior State Department official. Kerry, who will be participating in a nuclear non-proliferation conference that opens at the United Nations on Monday, will also apparently meet with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh. And he will spend time with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, the official said.

Bush, 68, implied Obama's plan to lift sanctions on Iran comes too early . He noted that Islamic country's government appears to be caving in . And he said that the deal would have a bad impact on US national security . Speech made to wealthy Jewish donors at Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas . Bush also suggested Obama is losing the war against the Islamic State . Said: 'When you say something you have to mean it - you gotta kill 'em' And he mentioned Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton and brother, Jeb Bush .

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Arsenal supremo Dick Law has flown to Argentina in an attempt to rubber-stamp the capture of Maxi Romero. The club's chief negotiator has jetted to South America to finalise a deal for the 16-year-old forward - who has been compared to Lionel Messi. The Gunners are in advanced talks with Velez Sarsfield over a £4.5million swoop for the teenage sensation. Arsenal are close to signing 16-year-old Maxi Romero from Velez Sarsfield for £4.5million . But the deal has been held up by red-tape over the make-up of Romero's ownership rights - and Law has travelled to Argentina to resolve the issues. Romero's agents and his club Velez both own stakes in the player, which is causing complications for Arsenal. The Premier League have strict rules regarding third-party ownership and the issue must be settled before he can play for the Gunners. Romero is expected to remain with Velez, on loan, for at least two more seasons before coming to England to begin his career with Arsenal. The youngster is yet to make his senior debut for Velez, but has trained regularly with the first team . The Argentine wonderkid has been dubbed the next Lionel Messi and would stay at Velez on loan .

Arsenal are in advanced talks with Velez Sarsfield over a £4.5million swoop . Maxi Romero, 16, has been compared to Barcelona star Lionel Messi . Deal has been held up by red-tape over the make-up of ownership rights . CLICK HERE for all the latest Arsenal news .

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(CNN)It's a girls' universe. On Wednesday, DC Entertainment, Warner Bros. and Mattel announced a partnership to launch DC Super Hero Girls, featuring familiar superheroes and supervillains as "relatable teens," according to a press release. (Like CNN, DC and Warner Bros. are units of Time Warner.) The characters involved include Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Batgirl, Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy, among others. Though initial reaction on social media appeared favorable -- "My daughter will be a big fan I think," wrote NerdGallagher -- praise wasn't universal. "Just let us into the old universes!" tweeted Kathleen E. Kennedy. And Jenna Busch, writing for Legion of Leia, was concerned the initiative was another way of keeping girls separate. "Targeting them as 'for girls only' is just another way to be exclusive," she wrote. "Look, I appreciate the effort, but drawing yet another line between men and women is not the way to go. So, where are you going to put these products in Target? On the pink side of the toy section or the blue side?" DC Super Hero Girls is aimed at girls ages 6-12 and will include online content, toys, books and TV specials. Mattel is the toy licensee and Random House Books for Young Readers will publish books based on the franchise. The first elements will roll out in the fall.

DC, partners introduce DC Super Hero Girls, intended for girls 6-12 . Reaction mostly favorable -- but some caveats .

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Millions of point of sales systems are vulnerable to security breaches as they are protected by the same default password - used by a global maker of payment devices for more than two decades, researches say. The password, 166816, is still being used by about 90 per cent of customers, researchers David Byrne and Charles Henderson disclosed on Wednesday during the annual RSA security conference in California. Henderson said that the unidentified vendor had been using the same default password since at least 1990, according to The Register. Researchers Charles Henderson (right) and David Byrne (left) said a global maker of cash registers has been using the same default password on the payment devices for more than two decades. This potentailly puts the devices at risk of being a target of a security breach . 'Nine out of 10 times when we see equipment from that manufacturer, 90 per cent of the time, this is the password,' he said. 'I actually saw this password really recently on a different manufacturer's device [by a customer] who thought the password was unique to them.' Hackers would need physical access to the payment devices, opening a panel of the device using a paperclip, to exploit it, according to The Register. This type of attack is uncommon and reportedly easy for malicious staff. For example, during the conference it was revealed that two individuals reportedly entered a major American retail store, unscrewed a server rack and walked out with the server leaving the store unable to process credit card payments, according to RT. While Henderson and Byrne did not name the vendor using the 166816 password, a Google search pointed to Verifone which connects around 27 million payment devices around the world, according to RT. On Thursday, Verifone said in a statement that all of its devices in the field came with the same default password, Z66831, according to CSO. The company also said the password can be found on the Internet with instructions for programming terminals. However, Verifone claimed sensitive payment information or personally identifiable information cannot be captured, even though the password has become known over the years. While Henderson and Byrne did not name the vendor, a Google search pointed to Verifone (file photo of one of the company's payment devices) The company said: 'What the password allows someone to do is to configure some settings on the terminal; all executables have to be file signed, and it is not possible to enter malware just by knowing passwords.' Its new products come with a 'pre-expired' password that has to be changed during installation set up, according to Verifone, and the company also said it encourages customers to change the default password, reported CSO. As retailers have increasingly battled security breaches in recent years, Target was at the center of the second-largest card breach at a U.S. retailer two years ago. An investigation found that hackers stole the personal information of at least 70million of Target's customers, including names, mailing addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses. Hackers are thought to have stolen the credit card details by breaking into Target's computer systems and installing data mining software on credit card machines. The software installed on 40,000 machines across Target's 1,797 stores read the information on a card's magnetic strip - including account number, sort code and CCV code - when it was swiped through the machine. All of the card details were then sent back to the hackers through the internet, before the theft was discovered after nearly three weeks. In another case of a security breach, in 2014, 56million debit and credit cards are estimated to have been breached in a data theft between April and September at Home Depot stores in the U.S. and Canada.

Researchers said during security conference that payment devices by unidentified global vendor came with password '166816' While researchers did not identify the vendor, Google search points to Verifone, which said its devices in the field come with password 'Z66831' Verifone claimed sensitive payment information or personally identifiable information cannot be captured .

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Hillary Clinton's family's charities are refiling at least five years of tax returns after an investigation revealed they had misreported tens of millions of dollars in donations from governments. The charities' errors generally took the form of under-reporting or over-reporting donations from foreign governments, or in other instances, omitted to break out government donations entirely when reporting revenue, the charities confirmed to Reuters, which uncovered the mistakes. Following the discovery, the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Health Access Initiative said they will be refiling multiple annual tax returns and may audit returns extending as far back as 15 years in case there have been other errors. The foundation and its donors have been under . intense scrutiny in recent weeks. Republican critics say the . foundation makes Clinton, who is seeking the 2016 Democratic . presidential nomination, vulnerable to undue influence. Her campaign team calls these claims 'absurd conspiracy . theories'. Following Reuters' report Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz called on the non-profit to return all of the money it received from foreign governments. Scroll down for video . Under scrutiny: Charities run by the family of Hillary Clinton (seen at Georgetown University on Wednesday) under- or over-reported millions of dollars in donations from foreign governments in their tax returns . The errors, which have not been previously reported, appear . on the form 990s that all non-profit organizations must file . annually with the Internal Revenue Service to maintain their . tax-exempt status. A charity must show copies of the forms to . anyone who wants to see them to understand how the charity . raises and spends money. The unsettled numbers on the tax returns are not evidence of . wrongdoing but tend to undermine the 990s role as a form of . public accountability, experts in charity law and transparency . advocates told Reuters. 'If those numbers keep changing - well, actually, we spent . this on this, not that on that - it really defeats the purpose,' said Bill Allison, a senior fellow at the Sunlight Foundation, a . government transparency advocacy group. For three years in a row beginning in 2010, the Clinton . Foundation reported to the IRS that it received zero in funds . from foreign and U.S. governments, a dramatic fall-off from the . tens of millions of dollars in foreign government contributions . reported in preceding years. Those entries were errors, according to the foundation: . several foreign governments continued to give tens of millions . of dollars toward the foundation's work on climate change and . economic development through this three-year period. Those governments were identified on the foundation's annually updated donor list, along with broad indications of how much each had cumulatively given since they began donating. 'We are prioritizing an external review to ensure the accuracy of the 990s from 2010, 2011 and 2012 and expect to refile when the review is completed,' Craig Minassian, a foundation spokesman, said in an email. The Clinton Foundation erroneously reported it had received no funds from governments for three years - even though it previously received millions. Pictured, Bill and Hillary speak about the charity last September . The decision to review the returns was made last month . following inquiries from Reuters, and the foundation has not . ruled out extending the review to tax returns extending back 15 . or so years. Minassian declined to comment on why the foundation had not . included the necessary break-down of government funding in its . 990 forms. He said it was rare to find an organization as . transparent as the foundation. 'No charity is required to disclose their donors,' he said. 'However, we voluntarily disclose our more than 300,000 donors . and post our audited financial statements on our website along . with the 990s for anyone to see.' Separately, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), the . foundation's flagship program, is refiling its form 990s for at . least two years, 2012 and 2013, CHAI spokeswoman Maura Daley . said, describing the incorrect government grant break-outs for . those two years as typographical errors. CHAI, which is best known for providing cheaper drugs for . tens of thousands of people with HIV around the world, began . filing separate tax returns in 2010, and has previously refiled . at least once both its 2010 and 2011 form 990s. Changes: In light of Hillary seeking the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, the foundation said it would only continue to receive donations from six countries that are already supporting ongoing projects . 'I’m #ReadyforHillary to return all the money she raised from foreign nations,' Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said on Twitter. 'Add your name if you are too,' he added, including a link to a Cruz for President petition asking for supporters' email addresses and zip codes . For both those . years, CHAI said its initial filings had over-reported . government grants by more than $100 million. Some experts in charity law and taxes said it was not . remarkable for a charity to refile an erroneous return once in a . while, but for a large, global charity to refile three or four . years in a row was highly unusual. 'I've never seen amendment activity like that,' said Bruce . Hopkins, a Kansas City lawyer who has specialized in charity law . for more than four decades, referring to the CHAI filings. Clinton stepped down from the foundation's board of . directors this month but her husband, Bill Clinton, and their . daughter, Chelsea Clinton, remain directors. The foundation said last week after Hillary Clinton became a . candidate that it would continue to accept funding from foreign . governments, but only from six countries that are already . supporting ongoing projects. CHAI will also continue to receive . foreign government funding, again with additional restrictions. Nick Merrill, Clinton's spokesman, has declined to answer . inquiries about the foundation and CHAI. Though Mrs. Clinton has abdicated her board seat, GOP rival Cruz has zeroed in on the Democratic presidential candidate in a tweets about the Clinton Foundation's tax headaches. 'I’m #ReadyforHillary to return all the money she raised from foreign nations,' he said, referencing a pro-Clinton organization that spent more than a year laying the groundwork for her eventual announcement. 'Add your name if you are too,' he added, including a link to a Cruz for President petition asking for supporters' email addresses and zip codes.

A Reuters investigation uncovered errors in tax returns filed by the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Health Access Initiative . For 3 years, the Clinton Foundation reported it had received nothing from foreign and U.S. governments - despite receiving millions previously . It will now refile its tax returns from 2010, 2011 and 2012 but has not ruled out reviewing tax returns extending back as many as 15 years . The Clinton Health Access Initiative is refiling forms from at least 2 years . Experts said it was not uncommon for charities to have to re-file but said it was unusual that a global charity would have to re-file for multiple years . Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz called on the non-profit to return all of the money it received from foreign governments .

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A series of unpublished love letters from Mexican artist Frida Kahlo to her lover Jose Bartoli are expected to fetch upwards of $120,000 when the passionate missives go up for auction later this . During her marriage to muralist Diego Rivera, Frida penned the letters to Jose, a Catalan artist whom she met while she was recovering from surgery in New York. Their steamy correspondence began shortly after she returned to Mexico following the trip and continued throughout their secret three-year romance. 'I don’t know how to write love letters. But I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you,' then-39-year-old Frida wrote in October of 1946. Scroll down for video . Secret romance: Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (pictured) wrote passionate love letters to Jose Bartoli from 1946 and 1949 while she was married to muralist Diego Rivera . Enduring love: A collection of 25 of the unpublished letters will be auctioned off at Doyle New York on April 15 . She continued: 'Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty… love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.' The letters, 25 of which are headed to auction at Doyle New York on April 15, were written in Spanish between August 1946 and November 1949 and saved by Jose until his death in 1995. The archive of passionate messages, which comprise more than 100 pages, were passed down through different generations his family until they reached the current owner. According to Frida Kahlo biographer Hayden Herrera, the artist told Jose to sign his letters as 'Sonja' so that Diego would think they were from a woman if he came across them. High price: The letters (pictured) are expected to fetch upwards of $120,000 dollars . Pet names: Frida signed her letters to Jose 'Mara', which biographer Hayden Herrera explained is probably short for 'Maravillosa', a name Jose would call her . Creative couple: Jose, a Catalan artist, can be seen sitting at an easel as he works on a painting . Handle with care: This letter from the archive shows a stain on the right hand corner of the paper . Famous works: In this letter, Frida refers to 'Tree of Hope', a painting she created shortly after she met Jose . Diego, a muralist and a notorious Lothario, who once had an affair with Frida's younger sister Cristina, endured Frida's love affairs with women, but her relationships with other men would drive him to bouts of crazed jealousy. Meanwhile, Frida inscribed her letters with the name 'Mara', which Hayden explained is probably short for 'Maravillosa', a name Jose would call her. The collection also includes an original drawing of a sleeping cat, pressed flowers, ribbon, beads and drafts of a few of Jose's responses. Frida's candid messages to her lover shed light on her important paintings, an unknown pregnancy and her relationship with Diego, as well as her adoration for her Jose. Full package: The letters also include an original drawing of a sleeping cat and drafts of a few of Jose's responses . Sketch artist: Frida sent Jose this drawing of a tree in reference to 'The Tree of Life' City living: Frida posed for this photo in front of a skyline. She and Jose met when she was recovering from surgery in a hospital in New York . Long distance love: Frida ended this letter to Jose with a kiss, leaving behind a lipstick print of her mouth . Their secret affair began when Frida, who was left a partial cripple after a 1925 bus accident, was recovering from a spinal fusion performed in June, 1946 at New York’s Hospital for Special Surgery. Frida's sister Cristina was the one to introduce her to Jose, who moved to New York after fighting in the Spanish Civil War. They fell in love during his visits to the hospital and continued their long-distance courtship after she returned to Mexico. After Frida sold her 1946 painting Tree of Hope, which was inspired by her recent surgery, she wrote to Jose about his words influenced her creation. 'I remembered your last words and I began to paint,' she explained. 'I worked all morning and when I finished eating I kept on painting until there was no more light. But afterward I felt so tired and everything hurt.' An artist's life: Frida was photographed holding this statue while she stood in front of a blue cement wall . Inspired work: Frida sketched this drawing of a sleeping cat and sent it to Jose . Added images: This letter featured a picture of a women sleeping in a bed while another walked away . Last words: Frida ends this letter by telling Jose that she loves him . Epic romance: In this letter Frida told Jose she loves him the way that he is . In the painting one version of Frida lies in a hospital bed, while another depiction of herself sits proudly while holding a flag. While painting the piece, Frida inscribed 'Tree of Hope Keep Firm' a line of a song that she and Jose both liked. According to Hayden, Frida wrote in several of her letters to Jose that she had missed her period, in a way that suggested she was in some ways hoping to have his baby despite knowing it was nearly impossible because of her spinal injury. 'If I were not in the condition I am in now and if it were a reality, nothing in my life would give me more joy. Can you imagine a little Bartoli or a Mara?' she wrote. New images: Frida posed in her house for this photo take by French photographer Gisèle Freund . Full of life: Frida can be seen standing in her garden in Mexico in this image shot by Gisèle . Meta moment: Frida Kahlo and Dr Juan Farill were photographed in her home in 1951. In his photo, they are standing in front of one of her works in which she pictured herself painting Dr Farill's portrait .

The Mexican painter penned the letters to fellow artist Jose Bartoli from 1946 and 1949 while she was married to muralist Diego Rivera . The 25 letters Jose had saved until his death in 1995 are headed to auction at Doyle New York on April 15 and expected sell upwards of $120,000 .

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